Tag Archives: Radiation exposure

COVID-19 Pandemic Multiplies Worries For Residents Living Near West Lake Landfill via Environmental Echo

Posted on 2020/12/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Don Corrigan Fear. Anxiety. Heartbreak. Those are words used by residents living near the radioactive West lake Landfill in North St. Louis County. Residents say their fear, their anxiety and their heartbreaks have multiplied in the 2020 pandemic because of weakened … Continue reading →

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Poisoned Beauty：inside the former closed town next to one of Russia’s largest nuclear power plants via Russia Z

Posted on 2020/11/27 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The Soviet Union’s quest to split the atom was ideology-intensive. In Moscow, dedicated “isotope shops” showcased a brave new tech-driven world to members of the public. Young, beautiful physicists carefully explained the benefits of atoms and isotopes in real life applications … Continue reading →

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Fukushima’s Radioactive Wastewater Dilemma via Hakai Magazine

Posted on 2020/11/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

What to do with hundreds of thousands of tonnes of contaminated water? by  Amorina Kingdon The word “Fukushima” has become known globally as shorthand for a nuclear disaster that happened at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on the coast of … Continue reading →

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Forests affected by Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident via NHK World Japan

Posted on 2020/11/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Idehara Seitaro Forestry was once a thriving industry in Fukushima – until the 2011 nuclear disaster struck. More than 70 percent of the prefecture is covered with trees, but large areas have been abandoned or neglected. “It’s regrettable. I didn’t even imagine … Continue reading →

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75 Years Later, Victims of Nuclear Bomb Tests on U.S. Soil Still Seek Justice via TruthOut

Posted on 2020/11/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BY Satya Vatti, Globetrotter / Independent Media Institute “They thought the world was coming to an end,” Genoveva Peralta Purcella explains. On July 16, 1945, the first-ever nuclear bomb was tested in New Mexico, in the Southwestern United States. The detonation was … Continue reading →

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Plutonium: How Nuclear Power’s Dream Fuel Became a Nightmare via Arms Control Association

Posted on 2020/10/31 by yukimiyamotodepaul

November 2020 Nailing the Coffin of Civilian Plutonium Plutonium: How Nuclear Power’s Dream Fuel Became a NightmareBy Frank von Hippel,Masafumi Takubo, andJungmin KangSpringer Press198pp. Reviewed by Thomas Countryman […] The earliest rationale for using plutonium as a nuclear fuel rested … Continue reading →

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Now that nuclear weapons are illegal, the Pacific demands truth on decades of testing via The Guardian

Posted on 2020/10/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Dimity Hawkins With a 50th nation ratifying it, the treaty outlawing nuclear weapons for all countries will come into force in 90 days […] For many across the Pacific region, this is a momentous achievement and one that has been long … Continue reading →

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DNA analysis to determine genetic impact of A-bomb victims to families via The Mainichi

Posted on 2020/10/25 by yukimiyamotodepaul

HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) — Hundreds of Japanese atomic bomb survivors, known as hibakusha, and their children are planning to undergo genome analysis to determine whether exposure to the radiation from the 1945 blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki has impacted health further … Continue reading →

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‘Radium Girls’ Review: When Work Takes a Toxic Turn via The New York Times

Posted on 2020/10/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

This narrative debut by the directors Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler tells the true story of the factory girls who suffered from misleading information about radium. By Kristen Yoonsoo Kim In the 1920s, when radium was advertised as a luminous … Continue reading →

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Texas Governor Urges Trump to Oppose Nuclear Waste Plans via Courthouse News Service

Posted on 2020/10/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TRAVIS BUBENIK (CN) — Texas Governor Greg Abbott has come out against two rival plans to ship highly radioactive waste from the nation’s nuclear power plants to sites on the Texas-New Mexico border, saying either plan would be unsafe and … Continue reading →

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