Tag Archives: Inequality

Fukushima ‘voluntary’ evacuees to lose housing support via The Straits Times

Posted on 2017/01/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TOKYO (AFP) – Thousands of Japanese evacuees from Fukushima should keep getting free housing, supporters said on Tuesday (Jan 17), as the local government readies to yank support offered after the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Some 27,000 so-called voluntary … Continue reading →

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Court denies disclosure of Tepco officials’ testimony about Fukushima disaster via The Japan Times

Posted on 2016/12/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The Tokyo District Court has dismissed an appeal by Tepco shareholders calling for disclosure of a government panel’s records of questioning of executives over the March 2011 crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. “The decision accepted all … Continue reading →

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Frank Rosen: Union Organizer, Political Activist, Civil Libertarian via Dissent News Wire

Posted on 2016/12/11 by nfield

Frank Rosen, longtime labor leader, political activist, and member of the Defending Dissent Foundation board, died November 28, 2016 in Chicago where he spent most of his life. He was 91.  Rosen took part in many of the seminal moments … Continue reading →

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Australian nuclear waste dump divides tiny outback town via Aljazeera

Posted on 2016/12/01 by norma field

  Hawker, South Australia – The towering mountains of the Flinders Ranges stand imposingly against the hundreds-of-kilometres-long stretch of flat, desolate country. While the mountains are named after the British explorer who trekked them in the early 19th century, the indigenous … Continue reading →

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Protesters take to the streets to ‘Say No’ to an SA nuclear dump via The Advertiser

Posted on 2016/11/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

CHANTING “dump the dump”, Anti-Nuclear Coalition supporters took to the streets on Monday outside the University College London campus on Victoria Square. Protesting both the proposed nuclear waste storage facility and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Symposium, activists on Monday described … Continue reading →

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Nuclear worker: ‘Retaliation is very real at Hanford’ via King5

Posted on 2016/07/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Whistle-blower Dave Lee, a veteran instrument technician at the site, said after he made repeated attempts to bring attention to an unsafe condition at Hanford, he was harassed, isolated, and made to clean closets instead of his regular duties fixing … Continue reading →

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Nuclear weapons contractors repeatedly stifle whistleblowers, auditors say via The Center for Public Integrity

Posted on 2016/07/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The Energy Department lets its private contractors police themselves, producing “chilled work environments” in which employees who find wrongdoing have no useful path for complaints At laboratories and factories where American nuclear weapons are designed and built, and at the … Continue reading →

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The lonely struggle of India’s anti-nuclear protesters via The Guardian

Posted on 2016/06/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Women are leading protests in Tamil Nadu state against a power plant – yet few people in India know the village they’re from, let alone support their cause Behind the Lourdes Matha church in Idinthakarai, a fishing village at the … Continue reading →

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Ex-TEPCO Bosses to be Indicted for Negligence in Fukushima Meltdowns via Voice of America

Posted on 2016/02/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Japan’s first criminal charges in connection with the meltdown of nuclear reactors in 2011 will be filed imminently, a lawyer in charge of the case told reporters Friday. Indictments against three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) are … Continue reading →

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‘A CITY LOST IN THE DESERT’: A visit to the Sahara’s uranium capital via Business Insider

Posted on 2016/02/24 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Niger’s uranium industry is ‘an island’ For decades, the uranium industry has been an island within one of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries, a place which ranks nearly last on the Human Development Index and which will see … Continue reading →

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