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U.S. plaintiffs involved in Fukushima disaster relief seek $1 billion in damages over nuclear meltdowns via The Japan Times

Posted on 2018/03/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

About 200 U.S. residents have filed a lawsuit against Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. and a U.S. firm, seeking at least $1 billion (about ¥106 billion) to cover medical expenses related to radiation exposure suffered during the 2011 Fukushima … Continue reading →

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7 Years on, Sailors Exposed to Fukushima Radiation Seek Their Day in Court via The Nation

Posted on 2018/03/17 by nfield

By Gregg Levine   Special investigation: US military personnel are sick and dying, and want the nuclear plant’s designers and owners to take responsibility. […] The Reagan—along with two dozen other US Navy vessels—was part of Operation Tomodachi (Japanese for “friends”), … Continue reading →

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Court orders Japan government to pay new Fukushima damages via Straits Times

Posted on 2018/03/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TOKYO (AFP) – A Japanese court on Thursday (March 15) ordered the government to pay one million dollars in new damages over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, ruling it should have predicted and avoided the meltdown. The Kyoto district court … Continue reading →

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Fukushima looks to ease blanket radiation checks on rice starting in 2020 via The Japan Times

Posted on 2018/03/03 by yukimiyamotodepaul

FUKUSHIMA – Fukushima Prefecture will begin scaling back its blanket radiation checks on rice as early as 2020 amid growing signs the safety fears sparked by the March 2011 nuclear crisis are disappearing, it has been learned. All rice will … Continue reading →

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Greenpeace investigation shows Fukushima radiation risks to last into next century via Greenpeace

Posted on 2018/03/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Tokyo, Japan –  A comprehensive survey by Greenpeace Japan in the towns of Iitate and Namie in Fukushima prefecture, including the exclusion zone, revealed radiation levels up to 100 times higher than the international limit for public exposure.[1][2] The high … Continue reading →

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New evidence of nuclear fuel releases found at Fukushima via Manchester

Posted on 2018/02/28 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Uranium and other radioactive materials, such as caesium and technetium, have been found in tiny particles released from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors. This could mean the environmental impact from the fallout may last much longer than previously expected … Continue reading →

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Fukushima plant reactor gets new roof cover via NHK World

Posted on 2018/02/21 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have finished installing a new roof covering for the No.3 reactor building. The work started last August to set up a dome-shaped cover. It is part of preparations for removing nuclear … Continue reading →

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Media reports de-romanticize the cleanup work on the Fukushima nuclear power plant via The Japan Times

Posted on 2018/02/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BY PHILIP BRASOR […] Some have become famous. The public would not know much about the situation without Kazuto Tatsuta’s manga series, “Ichiefu” (or “1F” — shorthand for “Fukushima No. 1”), the writings of former letter carrier and cleanup worker … Continue reading →

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Rock Challenge 2018: who won this year’s event at the Bournemouth Pavilion via Daily Echo

Posted on 2018/02/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

THE winners of this year’s Rock Challenge have been crowned. Eight schools from across Dorset and Somerset took part in the annual Be Your Best Rock Challenge which took place at the Bournemouth’s Pavilion Theatre on Thursday night. Hundreds of … Continue reading →

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Tokyo court orders Tepco to pay $10 million in damages over 2011 disaster: media via Reuters

Posted on 2018/02/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TOKYO (Reuters) – A Tokyo court on Wednesday ordered Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) to pay around 1.1 billion yen ($10 million) to a group of Fukushima residents, local media reported, nearly seven years after the company’s reactor meltdowns in northeastern … Continue reading →

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