Tag Archives: Safety

Grand Canyon tourists exposed for years to radiation in museum building, safety manager says via USA Today

Posted on 2019/02/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Dennis Wagner, Arizona Republic For nearly two decades at the Grand Canyon in Arizona, tourists, employees, and children on tours passed by three paint buckets stored in the national park’s museum collection building, unaware that they were being exposed to radiation. Although … Continue reading →

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Tour brings foreigners to areas devastated by nuclear accident via Japan Today

Posted on 2019/02/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TOKYO There is growing interest among foreign tourists for a tour in English to former evacuation zones in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima where a devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 triggered a nuclear disaster. “More people are … Continue reading →

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Nuclear-waste bunker decision to likely to fall to next federal government via The Guardian

Posted on 2019/02/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TORONTO — The much-delayed and politically fraught decision on a proposed multibillion-dollar nuclear-waste storage bunker near Lake Huron now appears certain to fall to Canada’s next government. Environment Minister Catherine McKenna paused the process in August 2017 — the latest in … Continue reading →

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Midnight in Chernobyl: Electrifying account of 1986 nuclear disaster examining the build-up and fallout via Independent

Posted on 2019/02/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

History: Midnight in Chernobyl Adam Higginbotham Bantam Press, 560 pages, hardback, €24 Eamon Delaney I remember it well. I was sitting on a rush-hour bus in Dublin when a fellow student held up the front of the Evening Herald. “What … Continue reading →

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North Dakota Senate approves nuclear waste storage bill via GrandforksHerald

Posted on 2019/02/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Amy Dalrymple / Bismarck Tribune BISMARCK — A bill related to high-level radioactive waste received support on Friday, Feb. 15, in the North Dakota Senate. Senate Bill 2037 sets up a framework for how the state would respond if … Continue reading →

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Memories of Fukushima crisis rapidly fading, warn civic groups via Japan Today

Posted on 2019/02/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TOKYO The memories of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster have been rapidly fading in Japan, making it difficult to grasp what is actually happening in the area, civic groups warn. […] “Eight years after the incident, Fukushima is paid less … Continue reading →

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TEPCO sat by idly on reports of fires, glitches at nuclear plants via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2019/02/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Tokyo Electric Power Co. ignored reports on fires and other problems from its nuclear power plants and didn’t even bother to share the information in-house or consider precautionary measures, the nuclear watchdog revealed. The Nuclear Regulation Authority decided Feb. 13 … Continue reading →

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TEPCO begins probe to make 1st contact with nuke debris at Fukushima plant via The Mainichi

Posted on 2019/02/13 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TOKYO — A probe to make the first contact with nuclear fuel debris inside the No. 2 reactor at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in the northeastern prefecture of Fukushima started on Feb. 13, the plant’s operator Tokyo … Continue reading →

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Tepco to deploy robot for first contact with melted fuel from Fukushima No. 1 nuclear disaster via The Japan Times

Posted on 2019/02/12 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The owner of the wrecked Fukushima No. 1 power plant is trying this week to touch melted fuel at the bottom of the plant for the first time since the disaster almost eight years ago, a tiny but key step … Continue reading →

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Update old definitions about nuclear waste to speed safe cleanup via The Seattle Times

Posted on 2019/02/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

How can we expect to effectively address this problem if we aren’t even willing to accurately define it? The U.S. Department of Energy recently released new estimates for the cost of cleaning up the Hanford nuclear site in central Washington … Continue reading →

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