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Protective gear shortage hits Fukushima workers via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2020/04/06 by nfield

The shortage of protective gear caused by the coronavirus pandemic has hit the workers at the meltdown-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, where they’ve needed them daily for years to guard against radiation. Shipments temporarily stopped coming in, although … Continue reading →

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US allowing longer shifts at nuclear plants in pandemic via Pantagraph

Posted on 2020/04/05 by nfield

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. nuclear plants will be allowed to keep workers on longer shifts to deal with staffing problems in the coronavirus pandemic, raising worries among watchdogs and some families living near reactors that employee exhaustion will increase the … Continue reading →

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America’s Radioactive Secret　via Rolling Stone

Posted on 2020/01/21 by nfield

Justin Nobel In the popular imagination, radioactivity conjures images of nuclear meltdowns, but radiation is emitted from many common natural substances, usually presenting a fairly minor risk. Many industry representatives like to say the radioactivity in brine is so insignificant … Continue reading →

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Some Hanford radiation exposure records could harm workers and taxpayers, report says via Tri-City Herald

Posted on 2020/01/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BY ANNETTE CARY Recordkeeping at Hanford could be improved to track worker radiation exposure, including to ensure fair compensation for workers who develop cancer, according to an inspection report of the Department of Energy Office of Inspector General. Issues in … Continue reading →

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Labor Department rules TVA cooked up cause to fire nuclear whistleblower via Knox News

Posted on 2020/01/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Jamie Satterfield, Knoxville News Sentinel The U.S. Department of Labor says the Tennessee Valley Authority fired a nuclear engineer who blew the whistle on safety concerns and lied about it. The Labor Department is ordering TVA to give Beth Wetzel … Continue reading →

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State report: LANL lost track of 250 barrels of nuke waste via Santa Fe New Mexican

Posted on 2019/12/11 by nfield

The contractor that’s been in charge of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s operations for the past year lost track of 250 barrels of waste, while the company heading the legacy cleanup mislabeled and improperly stored waste containers and took months to … Continue reading →

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Fukushima Workers Battle Leukemia – and Bureaucracy via Unseen Japan

Posted on 2019/11/13 by nfield

By Hiro Ugaya Editor’s Note The March 2011 tsunami, and the subsequent meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, has had a devastating impact on Japan. Eight years later, and most journalists – in Japan and abroad … Continue reading →

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An update from Fukushima, and the challenges that remain there via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2019/11/12 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Tatsujiro Suzuki, […] Technical challenges. The most difficult challenge is, of course, the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi reactors. It would take too long to describe all of the technical challenges of the decommissioning operations, but two recent events are instructive … Continue reading →

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Labour’s ‘nuclear is renewable’ claim is an insult to dead uranium miners via David Toke’s Green Energy Blog

Posted on 2019/10/24 by nfield

[…] In a ‘boiler room’ coup Labour seems to be secretly plotting to re-launch the new nuclear build programme by renaming nuclear power as ‘renewable’. Their ‘expert report’ argues that the current level of nuclear generation needs to be maintained, … Continue reading →

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Vietnamese trainees sue Fukushima firm over decontamination work via Japan Today

Posted on 2019/09/04 by nfield

[…] According to Zentouitsu Workers Union, a Tokyo-based labor union that supports foreign trainees, Hiwada made the plaintiffs conduct decontamination work in the cities of Koriyma and Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture between 2016 and 2018. The Vietnamese, who arrived in … Continue reading →

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