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The never-ending mess from America’s early nuclear tests via The Verge

Posted on 2018/10/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

An atomic bomb, a scandal, and the neighborhood next door The Hunters Point Shipyard in San Francisco is where ships irradiated by early nuclear testing in the Pacific were towed so they could be decontaminated. Now, people are trying to … Continue reading →

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Army Corps Of Engineers Set To Remove Nuclear Waste From Parks Twp. Site via CBS Pittsburgh

Posted on 2018/10/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

APOLLO (KDKA) – The Army Corps of Engineers recently secured a grant to finally cleanup nuclear waste materials at a long-debated site in Armstrong County. Now, there’s concern there’s far more material there than they’re prepared for. So what’s really … Continue reading →

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EDITORIAL: TEPCO bungles it again in dealing with Fukushima tainted water via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2018/10/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] On Sept. 28, the utility acknowledged that about 80 percent of the water in storage tanks for ALPS-treated water on the plant premises exceeded government standards for radioactive materials. TEPCO previously claimed that the ALPS system could remove all … Continue reading →

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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi visits organic farm in Japan’s Fukushima Pref. via Kyodo News

Posted on 2018/10/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

FUKUSHIMA, Japan — Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, currently in Japan for a regional summit, visited Fukushima Prefecture on Sunday to tour a farm that employs workers with various disabilities. Some rural areas of Myanmar face a serious shortage … Continue reading →

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Nuclear experts to test water, fish around Fukushima plant via Japan Today

Posted on 2018/10/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BERLIN  The International Atomic Energy Agency says it will test seawater, marine sediment and fish around Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant this month. The Vienna-based agency said Friday that the tests aim to “support the quality assurance of radioactivity data … Continue reading →

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Radiation? Chemicals? No big deal, says the Trump administration via The Washington Post

Posted on 2018/10/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] New regulations floated by the Environmental Protection Agency are set to increase Americans’ exposure to radiation — because, according to scientific theory now in favor with the Trump administration, radiation is not bad for us. It may even be … Continue reading →

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Seoul to Express Concern over Tokyo’s Plan to Release Fukushima Plant Water via KBS World Radio

Posted on 2018/10/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

South Korea plans to deliver its concern over media reports the Japanese government is mulling releasing treated water from a nuclear plant damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.  An official of Seoul’s Foreign Ministry revealed the plan to … Continue reading →

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Activists call for halt to ‘nuclear mud’ dumping off Wales via The Guardian

Posted on 2018/10/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Campaigners say sediment has not been tested properly and may do ‘irreversible harm’ Steven Morris An eclectic group of activists including scientists, surfers and a member of the Welsh band Super Furry Animals is attempting to halt the dumping of … Continue reading →

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Lower Price of Fukushima Rice Shifts Demand to Commercial Sector via Nippon.com

Posted on 2018/10/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

As individual consumers turned away from the once-prized Fukushima rice after the 2011 nuclear disaster, the drop in price brought an uptake in purchasing from the commercial sector. […] Agriculture in Fukushima suffered a heavy blow immediately after the disaster … Continue reading →

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Hidden danger: Radioactive dust is found in communities around nuclear weapons sites via Los Angeles Times

Posted on 2018/09/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

At the dawn of the nuclear age, the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration placed the nation’s major nuclear weapons production and research facilities in large, isolated reservations to shield them from foreign spies — and to protect the American public from … Continue reading →

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