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Fukushima worker exposed to small amount of radiation, Tepco says via Reuters

Posted on 2017/09/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TOKYO (Reuters) – A worker dismantling tanks at Japan’s wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was found to have been exposed to a small amount of radiation during a routine safety check on Friday, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) … Continue reading →

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CSI: Nuclear via Forbes

Posted on 2017/09/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] Whether it’s a nuclear weapon, a radiological dispersion device (RDD or dirty bomb) or a radiation exposure device (RED), they all involve radioactive materials that emit radiation at some point in their life history. It’s this radiation, or the … Continue reading →

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MEPs to raise alarm on Fukushima food imports via euobserver

Posted on 2017/09/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Members of the European Parliament’s food safety committee will vote on a text on Thursday (7 September), raising the alarm over a European Commission proposal to partly relax controls on food imports from Fukushima, Japan, which suffered a nuclear disaster … Continue reading →

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福島県外の除染土処分議論　検討チームが初会合 via 日本経済新聞

Posted on 2017/09/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

環境省は４日、東京電力福島第１原子力発電所事故に伴う福島県以外の東北・関東地方の除染で生じた土の処分方法を議論するために、有識者による検討チームの初会合を都内で開いた。 （略） 国は岩手、宮城、茨城、栃木、群馬、埼玉、千葉の７県の計56市町村について、国の財政支援で除染する「汚染状況重点調査地域」に指定。除染は終了したが、土の処分先が決まらず現場で一時保管が続いている。 公園や学校などの除染現場や仮置き場で保管している除染土は、今年３月末時点で計約33万立方メートルに上る。〔共同〕 全文は福島県外の除染土処分議論　検討チームが初会合

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EPA updates public on cleanup plans for West Lake Landfill via St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Posted on 2017/09/03 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] The EPA originally aimed to have a decision on a cleanup plan for the radiologically contaminated site identified by the end of 2016. On Thursday, EPA officials, joined in Bridgeton by representatives of other state and federal agencies involved … Continue reading →

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Battling nuclear demons: Mental health issues haunt those who were the first line of defense after 3/11 via The Japan Times

Posted on 2017/09/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] According to lead researcher Shigemura, 29.5 percent of workers at the plant subsequently displayed symptoms of high post-traumatic stress responses (PTSR), including flashbacks and avoidance of reminders of the terrifying events they went through. Around 1 in 5 Tepco … Continue reading →

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Dying Navy Sailors Push for Trial on Fukushima Meltdown via Court House News

Posted on 2017/09/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

SAN DIEGO (CN) – Representing cancer-ridden Navy service members who say they were exposed to radiation on a humanitarian mission in Fukushima, former Sen. John Edwards urged a federal judge Thursday to set a date for trial. Over a decade … Continue reading →

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Video: Returning to Fukushima via France 24

Posted on 2017/09/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan triggered the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, in 1986. Just like in the Soviet Union, thousands of people were evacuated around the disaster zone. But unlike the … Continue reading →

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Fukushima from Within via The New York Review of Books

Posted on 2017/08/31 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Kazuto Tatsuta’s Ichi-F: A Worker’s Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant occupies a unique position in the history of comics. It is probably the first work of journalistic comics in the world to supersede its prose counterparts as … Continue reading →

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Removal of nuclear fuel from Fukushima plant to proceed as planned via Nikkei Asian Review

Posted on 2017/08/31 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Work to begin in 2021 to remove highly radioactive debris from disabled reactors TOKYO — Work to remove melted nuclear fuel from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will proceed as scheduled, starting in 2021, the government said Thursday. According to … Continue reading →

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