Tag Archives: Safety

IAEA and Tokai University Expand Cooperation on Nuclear Safety Education via IAEA

Posted on 2018/05/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The IAEA and Japan’s Tokai University have entered an  agreement to expand their cooperation in nuclear education to strengthen nuclear safety.  Juan Carlos Lentijo, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security and Tokai … Continue reading →

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Nuclear power plant to be decommissioned via Daily News-Miner

Posted on 2018/05/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

FAIRBANKS — An Army Corp of Engineers team is planning the formal decommissioning of the only nuclear power plant ever built in Alaska, Fort Greely’s SM-1A plant. The SM-1A plant provided steam and electricity to the Army post near Delta … Continue reading →

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Fukushima nuclear disaster from a foreign perspective: German film was shot inside exclusion zone via Post Magazine

Posted on 2018/05/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Greetings from Fukushima, a movie on the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan, was shot on location, with the director Doris Dörrie even carrying a Geiger counter to monitor radiation levels There have been numerous responses … Continue reading →

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Marshallese poet draws attention to nuclear dome via RadioNZ

Posted on 2018/05/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

A Marshall Islands poet has highlighted climate change, nuclear destruction and waste in a poem about a dome on Runit Island. After the second World War, the US tested 67 nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands and dumped its nuclear … Continue reading →

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Campaigners slam £1m incentive to store nuclear waste via The Guardian

Posted on 2018/05/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Compensation offered to encourage local communities to allow test boreholes is described as ‘completely inadequate’ MPs from both major parties have attacked the government’s latest incentive to entice communities into volunteering to host Britain’s first deep underground store for nuclear … Continue reading →

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Here are some sources of soil pollution you may not know　via Down to Earth

Posted on 2018/05/11 by nfield

A report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations synthesised all the available scientific research on soil pollution and brought to the fore certain lesser know sources that have been polluting the soil for years now. … Continue reading →

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Seismologist testifies Fukushima nuclear disaster preventable via The Mainichi

Posted on 2018/05/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TOKYO — A seismologist has testified during the trial of three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), operator of the tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant, that the nuclear crisis could have been prevented if proper countermeasures had been taken. […] … Continue reading →

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Radioactive jewellery recalled in Switzerland via Swiss Info

Posted on 2018/05/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

A Swiss company has sold esoteric “negative-ion” jewellery containing high levels of uranium and thorium. The Federal Office of Public Health has written to people who have bought the jewellery, telling them to send it to the health office.  Health … Continue reading →

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Kiwis fear cancer after working near leaky US nuclear reactor in Antarctica via Stuff

Posted on 2018/05/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

New Zealand soldiers who served in Antarctica in the 1960s-1970s fear they may get cancer because an American nuclear power plant at McMurdo Station leaked. US servicemen have already died. Will Harvie reports. Paul Williscroft was a cargo handler with … Continue reading →

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Plan to entomb nuclear reactor breaks promise to Manitobans, watchdog group says via CBC

Posted on 2018/05/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories says plan offers least amount of risk A watchdog group says a plan to entomb the old nuclear reactor at Pinawa, Man., could pose a risk to people and the environment. “This plan that they’ve come up … Continue reading →

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