Tag Archives: Russia/Ukraine/Chernobyl

Lapland reindeer herders still carrying radiation from Cold War nuclear tests via YLE

Posted on 2017/04/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority is measuring radiation among people in Ivalo, northern Lapland this week. Measurements have been taken there since the 1960s, which is when radiation figures skyrocketed due to Soviet and US nuclear testing. […] According … Continue reading →

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Former Chernobyl Neighbors Diagnosed with Rare Cancer Years Later, in NYC via Live Science

Posted on 2017/04/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

WASHINGTON — When 10 people in New York City developed a very rare form of eye cancer over just a four-year period, doctors were puzzled. The cancer, called vitreoretinal lymphoma, had been diagnosed in the U.S. only a handful of … Continue reading →

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Exposed: Soviet cover-up of nuclear fallout worse than Chernobyl via New Scientist

Posted on 2017/03/28 by yukimiyamotodepaul

It was a nuclear disaster four times worse than Chernobyl in terms of the number of cases of acute radiation sickness, but Moscow’s complicity in covering up its effects on people’s health has remained secret until now. We knew that … Continue reading →

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Russia ‘covered up nuclear disaster FOUR TIMES worse than Chernobyl’ secret, report claims via Mirror

Posted on 2017/03/24 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Children are still being born today with defects resulting from the fallout from a Soviet nuclear weapons test in Kazakhstan A newly unearthed secret report claims Russia covered up a nuclear disaster four times worse than Chernobyl, it has been … Continue reading →

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Number of nuclear energy supporters growing in Belarus via Belarus News

Posted on 2017/03/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

MINSK, 1 March (BelTA) – The number of supporters of nuclear energy development in Belarus has reached 49.8%, Yelena Martishchenkova, a researcher at the Department of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus … Continue reading →

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Japan says Fukushima residents can return home, despite NGO report warning of high radiation level via Fox News World

Posted on 2017/02/24 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Almost six years after he was forced to leave his home following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the Japanese government informed Toru Anzai that it was safe for him to return to the small agricultural village of Iitate. Anzai and the … Continue reading →

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A Preventable Nuclear Threat You Most Likely Don’t Know About　via National Geographic

Posted on 2017/02/23 by nfield

Vilnius, Lithuania–A tiny European country at the edge of the western world worries that it is in the path of what could be the next Chernobyl-level disaster. The government of Lithuania fears a Russian nuclear reactor under construction in its … Continue reading →

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LETTER: A link between cancer rates and nuclear plants? via The Mercury

Posted on 2017/02/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Since the two nuclear reactors at Limerick began operating in the 1980s, the question of whether toxic radiation releases affected local cancer rates has persisted. The latest official statistics raise a red flag: among children and young adults, who are … Continue reading →

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Poroshenko: Ukraine increasing nuclear share to 60% via World Nuclear News

Posted on 2017/02/19 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Nuclear energy’s share of Ukraine’s electricity mix is “rapidly approaching” 60%, President Petro Poroshenko said at a meeting of the country’s National Security and Defence Council yesterday, according to a statement on the presidential website. The president did not give … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Hotseat #292: Chernobyl/Fukushima Mutations – Mousseau + Small Modular Reactors w/Don Safer via Nuclear Hotseat

Posted on 2017/01/25 by yukimiyamotodepaul

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Evolutionary biologist Dr. Timothy Mousseau on his on his groundbreaking, on-the-ground research at Chernobyl and Fukushima on the mutations showing up in a wide variety of species.  A Nuclear Hotseat special encore presentation. Don Safer of the … Continue reading →

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