Tag Archives: Safety

Sailors Fight to Keep Fukushima Radiation Case in US via CNS

Posted on 2018/01/05 by yukimiyamotodepaul

SAN DIEGO (CN) – Former Senator John Edwards and his co-counsel on Thursday asked a federal judge not to transfer to Japan a class action by hundreds of U.S. sailors exposed to radiation in the Fukushima nuclear disaster. An initial … Continue reading →

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Short-term thinking of UK nuclear policy via The Guardian

Posted on 2018/01/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Sue Roaf writes that evacuation plans for Hinkley Point would have to involve at least a million people; while Diarmuid Foley says that, in the modern world, the route to weapons-grade material is not taken through the civilian nuclear fuel … Continue reading →

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NRC: Forked River muck near Oyster Creek is not dangerously radioactive via app

Posted on 2018/01/03 by yukimiyamotodepaul

LACEY – To the east of the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant, the muck from the bottom of the Forked River lies drying out. It is the result of a project long desired by Forked River residents, one that reopens dangerously shallow … Continue reading →

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Start The New Year With Newly Declassified Nuclear Test Footage via Motherboard

Posted on 2018/01/03 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Decades-old films show the sheer power of nuclear warheads. Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory posted hundreds of declassified nuclear test footage on the organization’s YouTube channel over the past few months, with a new batch of 62 videos … Continue reading →

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Opposition CDP bringing nuclear energy debate back to the Diet via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2018/01/03 by yukimiyamotodepaul

In a direct challenge to the Abe administration, the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan plans to submit a bill that would abandon nuclear power and promote renewables as a basic energy policy. The bill is expected to reinvigorate … Continue reading →

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Wylfa’s nuclear waste removal delayed by machinery snags via BBC News

Posted on 2018/01/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The removal of all nuclear waste from Anglesey’s Wylfa power station will take almost a year longer than planned. The decommissioning process at the site, which closed in December 2015, has been hit by delays following problems with machinery. About … Continue reading →

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China proposes talks aimed at easing Fukushima-linked food import ban via The Japan Times

Posted on 2018/01/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

China has proposed talks with Japan on whether to ease or lift an import ban on food from 10 prefectures imposed after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan-China diplomatic sources said Sunday. The Chinese side offered to set up a … Continue reading →

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Would You Play Ball at Fukushima? via The New York Times

Posted on 2017/12/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] “We are looked at like Chernobyl,” said Saito Nobuyuki, who was born in Fukushima and now owns Sportsland, a sporting goods store here. “It’s difficult to change.” Akinori Iwamura is among those hoping to rehabilitate Fukushima’s name. […] Immediately … Continue reading →

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Ukraine to get loan from U.S. for nuclear waste storage facility via New China

Posted on 2017/12/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

KIEV, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) — Ukraine will get a loan of 250 million U.S. dollars from the U.S. institutions for a construction of a facility for nuclear waste near the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the Ukrainian government said on … Continue reading →

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Home checks for radioactivity finished. 240 Hanford workers also want body checks via Tri-City Herald

Posted on 2017/12/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Surveys of the homes of seven Hanford nuclear reservation workers were completed Thursday, with no radioactive contamination found, according to the Department of Energy. Specks of radioactive contamination have been on seven workers’ cars or pickups this week. At least … Continue reading →

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