Tag Archives: health

Ottawa Riverkeeper calls out gaps in Chalk River nuclear site plan via CBC News

Posted on 2017/08/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Riverkeeper joins naysayers of new waste disposal site A new nuclear waste disposal site along the Ottawa River could have devastating consequences, according a report released by Ottawa Riverkeeper.  The environmental watchdog says it pored over reports to the site commissioners regarding … Continue reading →

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U.S. WON WORLD WAR II BY BOMBING JAPAN AND THEN MAKING ITS OWN SOLDIERS SICK FROM NUCLEAR CLEANUP DUTY via Newsweek

Posted on 2017/08/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Newsweek published this story under the headline of “A-Bomb Veterans: A Plea for Help” on November 26, 1979. Due to World War II Veterans denouncing emerging neo-Nazi groups, Newsweek is republishing the story. “Nobody told us anything about radiation,” says 59-year-old Harry Coppola, who … Continue reading →

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Highly radioactive water leak at Fukushima No. 1 nuke plant via The Mainichi

Posted on 2017/08/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Highly radioactive water has leaked from the disaster-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) announced on Aug. 17. The estimated 50 milliliters of contaminated water remained inside the station dike, and there was no leakage to … Continue reading →

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Recycling Radioactive Scrap Metal – What Could Go Wrong? via Radiation Free Lakeland

Posted on 2017/08/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Last weeks headline in the Whitehaven News “New business will recycle spare food” sounds like a very good thing. Only read a little further and all is not what it seems. “Recycle Lives” is a scrap buying and reprocessing business … Continue reading →

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Researchers want to use shrimp shells to extract uranium from the ocean via CNBC

Posted on 2017/08/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] Discovered in 1789 by the German chemist Martin Klaproth, uranium is today used in nuclear power plants around the world. From Canada to Kazakhstan, mines are extracting it on a large scale. In the United States, bright minds have … Continue reading →

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MICHIO KAKU ON FUKUSHIMA 2017: ‘NUCLEAR FISSION IS A FAUSTIAN BARGAIN’ [OPINION] via Inquisitr

Posted on 2017/08/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Michio Kaku, a string theory physicist, gave his evaluation of the current state of containment at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. The area was hit with a magnitude nine earthquake followed by a massive tsunami in 2011. Now, … Continue reading →

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Helping LANL Workers Access Free Medical Care via Los Alamos Daily Post

Posted on 2017/08/16 by nfield

Working at a facility like Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Sandia National Laboratories brings a lot of benefits and career satisfaction. These facilities support our regional economy and provide fulfilling career opportunities that would not be available in our … Continue reading →

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U.S. Department of Defense to Conduct Studies of Pluristem’s PLX-R18 in a New ARS Project for Use Before Radiation Exposure via Nasdaq

Posted on 2017/08/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The DOD studies seek to test the effectiveness of PLX-R18 as a novel medical countermeasure for Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS) prior to and within 24 hours of exposure to high levels of radiation The DOD studies will be conducted in … Continue reading →

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News of the Atom: August 13 2017 via Harry Shearer

Posted on 2017/08/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

News of the Atom–missing contaminated cars from Fukushima; Idaho; radiation clean-up cost; nuclear waste shipment;  Listen to the program at News of the Atom: August 13 2017 Related articles:  原発汚染車４６０台が外部へ　一部中古車市場へ　約１９０台を回収 via 東京新聞 福島第一原発内の自家用車 汚染の約１９０台が敷地外に via NHK News Web

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Survival Expo features gas masks and Geiger counters via WGNO

Posted on 2017/08/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] At a “Survival Fair” at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner, vendors filled tables with many of the items you’d find at a gun show:  bullet-proof vests, ammunition, even silencers made out of cans of gun-cleaning solvent. But times being … Continue reading →

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