Tag Archives: Hiroshima/Nagasaki

Proliferation of Toxic Technologies: Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons via Global Research

Posted on 2017/05/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Speaking a few months after the disaster at Fukushima, Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami said, “Nuclear power plants, which were supposed to be efficient, offer us a vision of hell.” He spoke about how the nuclear power industry insisted that this was an … Continue reading →

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Workers begin to fill collapsed radioactive tunnel at Hanford via The Seattle Times

Posted on 2017/05/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Work has begun to fill the 400-square-foot hole in a tunnel at the Hanford nuclear reservation. The tunnel contains eight railcars filled with radioactive waste, but officials said there was no indication of a radioactive release and no workers were … Continue reading →

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Rock Canyon Poets show nuclear power’s cost in ‘Nuclear Impact Utah’ via Daily Herald

Posted on 2017/05/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The new poetry anthology “Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands” is pretty massive: nearly 500 pages long, with pieces from 163 poets from 16 nations. “If you think about it, there are only nine nations in the world in … Continue reading →

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Nuclear deals: Beware the corporates and the governments who cosy up to them via Mail and Guardian

Posted on 2017/04/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Until I met its victims, my response to nuclear power plants was simplistic and ill-informed. Whether nuclear power was safe and clean, I was an agnostic, given the opinions of scientists on both sides of the argument. A recent visit … Continue reading →

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Funds sought to save ‘Hiroshima Panels’ paintings from insects via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2017/04/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

HIGASHI-MATSUYAMA, Saitama Prefecture–The celebrated “Hiroshima Panels” series of artworks, inspired by eyewitness accounts of the atomic bombing carnage, have suffered serious insect damage and need a new facility to prevent further deterioration. The paintings were drawn by Iri Maruki (1901-1995) … Continue reading →

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The hero who averted nuclear catastrophe via The Irish Times

Posted on 2017/04/11 by nfield

The tsunami that hit Japan six years ago almost caused another Chernobyl in Fukushima. Journalist Rob Gilhooly was there and has written a book about the aftermath […] This culminated in the book Yoshida’s Dilemma: One Man’s Struggle to Avert … Continue reading →

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Atomic bomb survivor blasts Japan for skipping UN talks via Nikkei Asian Review

Posted on 2017/03/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Call for ban on nukes falls on deaf ears as nuclear-armed states boycott UNITED NATIONS — Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor Setsuko Thurlow condemned the Japanese government for its “inability to fully commit” to a U.N. conference to negotiate a treaty … Continue reading →

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Japan goes along with U.S. in shunning U.N. talks on nuclear ban via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2017/03/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Japan has opted out of the first U.N. talks on establishing a treaty to ban nuclear weapons, betraying its pledge to serve as a “bridge” between the nuclear powers and non-nuclear countries. Taking the podium at the meeting that began … Continue reading →

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Photos: See Japan’s nuclear legacy — from Fukushima to Hiroshima via PRI

Posted on 2017/03/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Ari Beser is a photographer from Baltimore, but his family history connects him to Japan. His grandfather, Jacob Beser, helped drop nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Listen to the story of Beser’s friendship with Keiko Ogura, a Hiroshima survivor.) … Continue reading →

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Noted Hiroshima hibakusha Dr. Shuntaro Hida dies at 100 via The Japan Times

Posted on 2017/03/21 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Shuntaro Hida, a former Imperial Japanese Army doctor who survived the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II and treated survivors, died Monday, sources close to him said. He was 100. Hailing from Gifu Prefecture, Hida became a … Continue reading →

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