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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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France Is Still Cleaning Up Marie Curie’s Nuclear Waste via Bloomberg Business Week

Posted on 2019/08/28 by yukimiyamotodepaul

 Her lab outside Paris, dubbed Chernobyl on the Seine, is still radioactive nearly a century after her death.By Tara Patel In 1933 nuclear physicist Marie Curie had outgrown her lab in the Latin Quarter in central Paris. To give her the … Continue reading →

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Fukushima: an ongoing disaster via Red Flag

Posted on 2019/07/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Jack Crawford15 July 2019 In March – on the eighth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster – Time magazine published an article with the headline: “Want to Stop Climate Change? Then It’s Time to Fall Back in Love with Nuclear Energy”. … Continue reading →

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Three arrested for ‘forced decontamination work’ via NHK World

Posted on 2019/06/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Tokyo police have arrested three men on suspicion of snatching a man to make him do decontamination work in Fukushima Prefecture. Jiro Yonekura and two others are accused of abducting the 24-year-old victim and confining him in March. Investigators say … Continue reading →

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Olympics: Report reveals alleged labor issues at 2020 building sites via Kyodo News

Posted on 2019/05/30 by nfield

TOKYO- A report released by a global union federation on Wednesday demanded better conditions for laborers working on the construction of Tokyo Games facilities after several “alarming” alleged labor violations were uncovered. The report from the Building and Wood Workers’ … Continue reading →

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Chernobyl vs. Fukushima: Which Nuclear Meltdown Was the Bigger Disaster? via Live Science

Posted on 2019/05/24 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer  The new HBO series “Chernobyl” dramatizes the accident and horrific aftermath of a nuclear meltdown that rocked the Ukraine in 1986. Twenty-five years later, another nuclear catastrophe would unfold in Japan, after the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake and subsequent … Continue reading →

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Tepco cautioned about employing foreign workers at Fukushima nuclear plant under new visa system via The Japan Times

Posted on 2019/05/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The government on Tuesday urged the operator of the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant to carefully examine the firm’s plan to have non-Japanese work at the complex under a new visa program, citing difficulties in managing long-term health risks. … Continue reading →

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Contamination events force project shut down at Hanford nuclear site via King 5 News

Posted on 2019/05/18 by nfield

By Susannah Frame Two contamination events have happened at the Hanford nuclear site in eastern Washington while employees of government contractor CH2M Hill were working on the most radioactive building on the reservation. Building 324, located near the Columbia River … Continue reading →

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Tepco tests halting water injection into crippled reactor at Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant via The Japan Times

Posted on 2019/05/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

FUKUSHIMA – The operator of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant conducted a test Monday temporarily halting the water being injected into one of the reactors that suffered a core meltdown in the wake of the 2011 accident. Through the … Continue reading →

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