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Locals baffled as elk rescued from RADIOACTIVE Chernobyl water after three days via Daily Star

Posted on 2018/09/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

AN elk is expected to survive after it was saved from a radioactive water tank at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant during a tense mission. The animal, which is part of the deer family, spent three days swimming around trying … Continue reading →

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From nuclear disaster to Chernobyl’s booming tourism via Al-jazeera

Posted on 2018/09/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Some 50,000 people visited the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, one of the most radioactive places on Earth, in 2017. […] Known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the towns and villages within a 30-kilometre radius around the destroyed reactor were evacuated of … Continue reading →

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‘Nuclear food referendum’: Taiwan’s softening of Fukushima ban under threat amid ballot calls via Food navigator asia

Posted on 2018/09/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Japan’s hopes that the Taiwan government will lift the current ban on foods from Fukushima and surrounding areas has hit another hurdle after Kuomintang, the Largest opposition party in Taiwan, submitted a referendum request on what has been dubbed ‘anti-nuclear … Continue reading →

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80% of local heads in nuke disaster areas say they can’t meet population goals: poll via The Mainichi

Posted on 2018/09/07 by nfield

TOKYO — About 80 percent of 45 administrative district heads inside six municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture with areas rendered difficult to live because of the March 2011 nuclear accident said it is impossible for enough evacuated residents to return to … Continue reading →

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[podcast] Reimagining Hiroshima and Nagasaki via New Books Network

Posted on 2018/09/05 by yukimiyamotodepaul

N.A.J. TAYLOR AND R. JACOBS, EDS. Reimagining Hiroshima and Nagasaki Nuclear Humanities in the Post-Cold War ROUTLEDGE 2017 N.A.J. Taylor and Robert Jacobs,’s edited volume Reimagining Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Nuclear Humanities in the Post-Cold War (Routledge, 2017) developed out of a … Continue reading →

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Wyoming to take over nuclear permitting via Gillette News Report

Posted on 2018/08/31 by yukimiyamotodepaul

LARAMIE — Wyoming is set to sign a deal Sept. 25 to take control of oversight of its own uranium production and begin regulatory authority in October. The move to take over nuclear regulatory control from the federal government has … Continue reading →

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Federal safety inspectors didn’t know about nuclear leak for years via The State

Posted on 2018/08/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BY SAMMY FRETWELL sfretwell@thestate.com COLUMBIA, SC The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says its safety inspectors did not know for six years that uranium had leaked from an atomic fuel factory on Bluff Road, a sprawling industrial plant under scrutiny for … Continue reading →

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Gov’t, TEPCO plan to dump treated water in sea angers Fukushima fishermen via The Mainichi

Posted on 2018/08/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TOKYO/IWAKI, Fukushima — In response to a Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) and Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plan to release water containing radioactive tritium even after being treated from the tsunami-stricken Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant into … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Safety Board Slams Energy Department Plan to Weaken Oversight via ProPublica

Posted on 2018/08/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The Trump administration defended an order that could be used to withhold information about nuclear facilities from a federal board, but its leader says the action is not consistent with the U.S. Atomic Energy Act. by Rebecca Moss, Santa Fe … Continue reading →

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IS FUKUSHIMA SAFE FOR SURFING? via Surfer

Posted on 2018/08/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

A LOOK AT FUKUSHIMA, 7 YEARS AFTER THE 2011 EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI AUGUST 28, 2018 BY ASHTYN DOUGLAS […] For 5-plus years following the event, tens of thousands of people have worked to decontaminate the plants and surrounding areas and … Continue reading →

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