Tag Archives: Safety

HOW A NUCLEAR STALEMATE LEFT RADIOACTIVE WASTE STRANDED ON A CALIFORNIA BEACH via The Verge

Posted on 2018/08/28 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Nuclear waste is all dressed up with nowhere to go By Rachel Becker@RA_Becks When I got to the San Onofre State Beach about 60 miles north of San Diego, the red sun of fire season was sandwiched on the horizon … Continue reading →

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Free temporary housing for Fukushima evacuees to mostly end in March ’20 via The Mainichi

Posted on 2018/08/28 by yukimiyamotodepaul

FUKUSHIMA — The government of Fukushima Prefecture in northeastern Japan has announced it will terminate in March 2020 the provision of free temporary housing to most of the evacuees from areas in four towns and villages rendered difficult to live … Continue reading →

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Taiwan to hold referendum on lifting Fukushima food ban in November via

Posted on 2018/08/28 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TAIPEI — Taiwan’s largest opposition party Kuomintang has announced that it has collected some 470,000 signatures supporting a referendum on whether to lift a ban on the import of food products from five Japanese prefectures, including Fukushima, imposed after the … Continue reading →

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Former worker’s book: TEPCO unfit to operate nuclear plants via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2018/08/27 by yukimiyamotodepaul

KASHIWAZAKI, Niigata Prefecture–Toru Hasuike, who worked at Tokyo Electric Power Co. for 32 years, has published another book that he says shows his former employer should be declared “ineligible” to operate nuclear power plants. “Kokuhatsu” (Accusation), a 250-page book released … Continue reading →

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Fukui disaster drill for simultaneous atomic accidents ends via The Japan Times

Posted on 2018/08/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

FUKUI – A nuclear disaster drill for simultaneous accidents at the Oi and Takahama nuclear power plants in Fukui Prefecture ended Sunday after mobilizing 21,000 people. […] The drill involved about 21,000 people including residents and officials from the Cabinet … Continue reading →

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Trespasser on former nuclear power station jailed via BBC News

Posted on 2018/08/24 by yukimiyamotodepaul

An amateur photographer who caused a decommissioned nuclear power station to be put on lockdown has been jailed for six months. Convicted robber Nicolas Bates, 29, scaled a 6ft-high fence at Trawsfynydd in Snowdonia, which shut down in 1991. Some … Continue reading →

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Aboriginal group ‘just want to be included’ in vote on proposed nuclear waste dump in SA via abc news

Posted on 2018/08/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The Human Rights Commission has been asked to decide whether an Aboriginal group should have a say on the location of a proposed nuclear waste dump in regional South Australia. A community vote on the proposed dump on the Eyre … Continue reading →

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Educational road show teaches public about shipping nuclear waste via The Grand Island Independent

Posted on 2018/08/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Waste produced from nuclear energy could begin to be shipped again from the Argonne National Laboratory this fall, and the Grand Island area is along the transportation route. Shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M., were … Continue reading →

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«There is no reason for any state to have a nuclear-powered missile» via The Barents Observer

Posted on 2018/08/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Russia’s missing reactor-powered cruise missile in the Barents Sea obviously causes concerns, says Norway’s Environment Minister, Ola Elvestuen.   […]   Norway and Russia share the stocks of cod in the Barents Sea, a multi-billion business and important for tens … Continue reading →

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Fukushima to maintain radiation monitoring budget via NHK World Japan

Posted on 2018/08/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Japan’s nuclear regulatory body has reversed a plan to remove some of the radiation monitoring posts in Fukushima Prefecture. […] About 3,000 monitoring posts were set up across the prefecture after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in … Continue reading →

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