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Fukushima: an ongoing disaster via Red Flag

Jack Crawford15 July 2019 In March – on the eighth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster – Time magazine published an article with the headline: “Want to Stop Climate Change? Then It’s Time to Fall Back in Love with Nuclear Energy”. … Continue reading

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The truth about Chernobyl? I saw it with my own eyes… via The Guardian

By Kim Willsher There is a line in the television series Chernobyl that comes as no surprise to those of us who reported on the 1986 nuclear disaster in what was the Soviet Union – but that still has the power to … Continue reading

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Chernobyl vs. Fukushima: Which Nuclear Meltdown Was the Bigger Disaster? via Live Science

By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer  The new HBO series “Chernobyl” dramatizes the accident and horrific aftermath of a nuclear meltdown that rocked the Ukraine in 1986. Twenty-five years later, another nuclear catastrophe would unfold in Japan, after the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake and subsequent … Continue reading

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Despite Energy Department Outreach, Radiation Fears Remain In Piketon via WOSU Public Radio

By NICK EVANS In Waverly, a YMCA gym is lined with poster boards set up on easels. Glen Broughton stands in the middle, looking over a huge three-dimensional map of the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant. “Our camper sets right here, … Continue reading

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Feds say San Onofre nuclear fuel transfers can resume via San Francisco Chronicle

SAN ONOFRE, Calif. (AP) — Federal regulators are allowing operators of a closed Southern California nuclear power plant to resume transferring nuclear waste to a storage facility. The San Diego Union-Tribune says the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Tuesday gave … Continue reading

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Traces of carcinogen found at school leads to concerns about nuclear waste facility via ABC6

AVERLY, Ohio — The Pike County Health Department is calling on the US Department of Energy to suspend all activities related to the construction of a nuclear waste disposal facility. That comes after they found traces of “a known carcinogen” at … Continue reading

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A Gripping History of the Nuclear Disaster at Chernobyl via Undark

In “Midnight in Chernobyl,” Adam Higginbotham offers a thorough and readable account of one awful night in the Ukraine and its consequences. BY Henry Fountain […] A new book offers perhaps the clearest, and fullest, look at the catastrophe yet. Adam … Continue reading

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Ken Watanabe to star in ‘Fukushima 50’ film on disaster workers via The Mainichi

TOKYO — Actor Ken Watanabe will star in the “Fukushima 50” film depicting workers at the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station who struggled with the 2011 meltdowns that is set to be released next year. The original story comes … Continue reading

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New Mexico Is Divided Over The ‘Perfect Site’ To Store Nation’s Nuclear Waste via NPR

NATHAN ROTT Thirty-five miles out of Carlsbad, in the pancake-flat desert of southeast New Mexico, there’s a patch of scrub-covered dirt that may offer a fix — albeit temporarily — to one of the nation’s most vexing and expensive environmental … Continue reading

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Nuclear challenge: How Japan has boosted food exports from disaster hit Fukushima – exclusive government interview via FoodNavigator-Asia

Japanese authorities have been engaging both tourists and foreign governments in a double-pronged strategy to promote food products produced in areas that were hardest hit by the nuclear disaster in 2011, according to a senior government official. FoodNavigator-Asia recently spoke … Continue reading

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