Tag Archives: Radiation exposure

Germany launches new search for permanent nuclear waste disposal site via DW

Posted on 2020/09/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Germany has named 90 locations that could safely house containers of radioactive nuclear waste permanently. The controversy over what to do with waste from the country’s nuclear power plants has been long and divisive. Germany formally launched its new search … Continue reading →

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Combating corrosion in the world’s aging nuclear reactors via c&en

Posted on 2020/09/21 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Researchers hope to extend reactor lifetimes with advanced methods and materials that guard against degradation caused by harsh conditions by Mitch Jacoby Forty years of hard labor in punishing conditions sounds like an interminable sentence. Imagine finding out near the end … Continue reading →

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A message from the most bombed nation on earth via Aljazeera

Posted on 2020/09/05 by yukimiyamotodepaul

More than 900 nuclear tests were conducted on Shoshone territory in the US. Residents still live with the consequences. by Ian Zabarte 29 Aug 2020 You never know what is killing you when it is done in secret. I watched … Continue reading →

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Moms creating change | EPA starts process of removing waste from West Lake Landfill via Channel 5

Posted on 2020/08/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

“It makes us hopeful that eventually this will be what it should have been,” said Dawn Chapman one of the women who rallied for the cleanup ST. LOUIS — A radioactive landfill in north St. Louis County has posed a … Continue reading →

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2020(1)Tokyo Olympics: Radiation Exposure and Ecological Justice via Boston University School of Theology

Posted on 2020/08/26 by nfield

March 25, 2020 A discussion of the Tokyo Olympics and radiation exposure with Marco Kaltofen of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Norma Field, professor emerita of the University of Chicago, organized by Eun Young Cho, MA student, Faith and Ecological Justice … Continue reading →

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‘Fallout’ Tells The Story Of The Journalist Who Exposed The ‘Hiroshima Cover-Up’ via NPR

Posted on 2020/08/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

When the U.S military dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, the American government portrayed the weapons as equivalent to large conventional bombs — and dismissed Japanese reports of radiation sickness as propaganda. … Continue reading →

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Daughters of the bomb: my reckoning with Hiroshima, 75 years later via The Guardian

Posted on 2020/08/05 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Erika Hayasaki for Narratively On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors – and traces connections from Malcolm X to the fight to end nuclear war I keep a … Continue reading →

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“Fukushima Ain’t Got Time for Olympic Games” via Fairwinds

Posted on 2020/08/03 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Foreword By Maggie Gundersen […] Prologue & Personal Essay By Norma Field A TV set was introduced into our household in 1957. That’s how I date my first encounter with the atomic bomb—not the mushroom cloud, but a grainy black-and-white … Continue reading →

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Fukushima may have scattered plutonium widely via Physics World

Posted on 2020/07/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Tiny fragments of plutonium may have been carried more than 200 km by caesium particles released following the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan in 2011. So says an international group of scientists that has made detailed … Continue reading →

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Iran Confirms Damaged Nuclear Site Was Centrifuge Facility via Military.com ( AP)

Posted on 2020/07/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Sunday confirmed that a damaged building at the underground Natanz nuclear site was a new centrifuge assembly center, the official IRNA news agency reported. Iranian officials had previously sought to downplay the fire, which erupted early … Continue reading →

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