Tag Archives: Inequality

Legislators review once-secret report on nuclear project via The Sacramento Bee

Posted on 2017/09/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Executives of the two utilities that abandoned a nuclear power project in South Carolina are testifying before a legislative panel investigating the debacle. […]   State-owned Santee Cooper and South Carolina Electric & Gas hired Bechtel Corp. in … Continue reading →

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Bangladesh to sign UN nuclear prohibition treaty via Dhaka Tribune

Posted on 2017/09/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Bangladesh will sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons recently adopted by the United Nations in the next session of the UN General Assembly. The cabinet approved a proposal to this end at its regular meeting at 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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The school beneath the wave: the unimaginable tragedy of Japan’s tsunami via The Guardian

Posted on 2017/08/24 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The earthquake that struck Japan on Friday 11 March 2011 was the fourth most powerful in the history of seismology. It knocked the Earth six and a half inches off its axis; it moved Japan four metres closer to America. … Continue reading →

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Municipalities near nuclear plants want say over restarts via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2017/08/21 by yukimiyamotodepaul

More than half of municipalities within a 30-kilometer radius of nuclear power plants insist their approval must be sought for restarts, but only 6 percent of local governments that host such facilities agree. The finding that 53 percent of municipalities … Continue reading →

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Trump’s N. Korea WARGASM! Will It Come? A Different Perspective w/Space4Peace’s Bruce Gagon & Bo Jacobs in Hiroshima – NH #321 via Nuclear Hotseat

Posted on 2017/08/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

This Week’s Featured Interviews – North Korea Close-up: Bruce Gagnon is the secretary/coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.  He provides the history of US/N. Korea relations, a context for understanding what the countries are threatening, … Continue reading →

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Japan officially gave U.S. consent to bring in nuclear weapons ahead of Okinawa reversion accord: document via The Japan Times

Posted on 2017/08/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Foreign Ministry envoy gave consent ahead of Okinawa reversion pact WASHINGTON – A recently declassified U.S. document confirms that Japan gave the United States its official consent to bring nuclear weapons to Okinawa shortly before the 1969 bilateral accord that … Continue reading →

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Unheeded warnings, repeated mistakes put workers’ health at risk at Idaho nuclear lab via Idaho Statesman

Posted on 2017/08/13 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Ted Lewis knew the plutonium plates at the government lab where he worked could leak potentially lethal radioactive dust. He had seen it occur in the 1970s, when he was helping load some of those plates into a nuclear reactor … Continue reading →

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Israeli Nuclear Scientists Strike, Halt Sensitive Work; Cabinet to Order Them Back via Haaretz

Posted on 2017/08/13 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The move comes after physicists and chemists operating the Dimona Nuclear reactor started a slowdown 6 months ago over new contract In an exceptional move, the cabinet is expected to approve new emergency regulations on Sunday, allowing a court to … Continue reading →

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Fukushima town aims to partially lift evacuation order by 2022 via The Mainichi

Posted on 2017/08/03 by yukimiyamotodepaul

FUTABA, Fukushima — Town authorities here look to partially lift the evacuation order for the town’s so-called “difficult-to-return” zone with high radiation levels emanating from the Fukushima nuclear disaster by sometime around the spring of 2022, town officials disclosed on … Continue reading →

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