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Rising Tritium Could Trigger Huge Fukushima Blasts via rense.com

Posted on 2013/07/25 by norma field

By Yoichi Shimatsu YOTSUKURA, FUKUSHIMA ­ The rising level of tritium measured in kelp samples south of the Fukushima 1 nuclear site is an indicator of intensifying nuclear reactions deep in the soil below the cracked reactors. Following the meltdowns … Continue reading →

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68 Years Ago: The Nuclear Age Is Born—Amid Secrecy, Cover-up and Radiation Threat Read more: 68 Years Ago: The Nuclear Age Is Born—Amid Secrecy, Cover-up and Radiation Threat via The Nation

Posted on 2013/07/16 by norma field

While most people trace the dawn of the nuclear era to August 6, 1945, and the dropping of the atomic bomb over the center of Hiroshima, it really began three weeks earlier, in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, with … Continue reading →

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Humans Used for Radiation Experiments: A Shameful Chapter in US History via City Watch

Posted on 2013/05/03 by norma field

EXPOSE REVISITED – This year marks the 20th anniversary of the declassification of top-secret studies, the “Human Radiation Experiments,” done over a period of 30 years, in which the US conducted radiation experiments on as many as 20,000 vulnerable US … Continue reading →

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Thyroid gland tests on kids in Nagasaki to be compared with Fukushima findings via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2012/11/20 by norma field

The Environment Ministry has begun thyroid gland tests on children in faraway Nagasaki Prefecture as part of efforts to gauge the effects of radiation fallout from last year’s nuclear disaster. Those children will serve as a control group for kids … Continue reading →

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Chernobyl Cleanup Workers Had Significantly Increased Risk of Leukemia via UCSF

Posted on 2012/11/12 by norma field

Findings May Help Estimate Cancer Risk from Low-Dose Exposures like CT Scans A 20-year study following 110,645 workers who helped clean up after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident in the former Soviet territory of Ukraine shows that the … Continue reading →

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Nagasaki marks anniversary of atomic bomb attack via Asian Correspondence.com

Posted on 2012/08/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

… Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue said the accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, which was struck by a tsunami last March, has revealed the risk of nuclear technology. Taue urged Japan to map out concrete plans to achieve a nuclear-free … Continue reading →

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Japanese PM Pledges Less Dependence On Nuclear Energy via RTT News

Posted on 2012/08/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Thursday reiterated his government’s commitment to reducing the country’s dependence on nuclear energy in the wake of last year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster.Addressing a gathering that assembled in Nagasaki on the occasion of the 67th … Continue reading →

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Hanford: America’s Nuclear Nightmare　via Reader Supported News

Posted on 2012/01/26 by norma field

Seven decades after scientists came here during World War II to create plutonium for the first atomic bomb, a new generation is struggling with an even more daunting task: cleaning up the radioactive mess. The U.S. government is building a … Continue reading →

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