Tag Archives: Namie

Japan’s Nuclear Refugees, Still Stuck in Limbo via The New York Times

Posted on 2013/10/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] While the continuing environmental disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant has grabbed world headlines — with hundreds of tons of contaminated water flowing into the Pacific Ocean daily — a human crisis has been quietly unfolding. Two and a … Continue reading →

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Fukushima town revealed in Google Street View two years after tsunami via the Guardian

Posted on 2013/03/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Mayor of Namie invites Google’s cameras in to stop world forgetting twin disasters of tsunami then nuclear meltdown […] Google Street View has published striking images of the devastation visited on Namie by the March 2011 tsunami and nuclear meltdown: … Continue reading →

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High radiation exposure level in Fukushima resident puzzles experts via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2012/11/20 by norma field

FUKUSHIMA–A Fukushima resident living well outside the no-entry zone set up after last year’s nuclear disaster was exposed to an unusually high level of radiation in the first four months after the crisis, prefectural officials said. The resident in the … Continue reading →

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Radioactive Cesium found in newly constructed housing in Namie Japan via Enformable

Posted on 2012/01/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The officials say high-levels of contamination was found at a 3-story apartment building in Nihonmatsu City that was completed last July.  The city checked the condo for radiation in December after regular monitoring found that children living there had been … Continue reading →

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82 millisieverts outside zone seen via The Japan Times Online

Posted on 2011/06/23 by norma field

Cumulative radiation outside the 20-km radius of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in the past three months has reached as high as 82 millisieverts, more than four times the limit of 20 millisieverts a year, a science … Continue reading →

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