Tag Archives: U.S.

Navy Used Outdated Standards to Clean Up Radiation at Hunters Point Shipyard, New Report Finds via NBC

Posted on 2018/10/31 by yukimiyamotodepaul

A new report released Tuesday by a nuclear policy expert concluded the public’s health is at risk because the Navy is using radiation cleanup standards at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard that are weaker than required by law. Daniel Hirsch, … Continue reading →

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60,000 tons of dangerous radioactive waste sits on Great Lakes shores via Detroit Free Press

Posted on 2018/10/19 by yukimiyamotodepaul

THE EFFECTS OF A WORST-CASE SCENARIO — FROM A NATURAL DISASTER TO TERRORISM — COULD CAUSE UNTHINKABLE CONSEQUENCES FOR THE GREAT LAKES REGION. More than 60,000tons of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel is stored on the shores of four of … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Bomb Movie in Development With ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Producer via Variety

Posted on 2018/10/19 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Oscar-nominated “Hacksaw Ridge” producer David Permut has acquired the motion picture rights to Joel Dobson’s nuclear bomb thriller “The Goldsboro Broken Arrow.” Dobson’s book follows the formerly classified events that took place in 1961 when four pilots ejected out of … Continue reading →

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Failures of Congress Keep Nuclear Waste Scattered Across the US via Roll Call

Posted on 2018/10/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Government’s liability is $34 billion and growing as communities wait and wait some more In Zion, Illinois, 257 acres of prime lakefront property about 40 miles northwest of Chicago should be at the center of a redevelopment plan to revive … Continue reading →

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Washington County Nuclear Site Reactor Core Raised via USNews

Posted on 2018/10/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The reactor core at a University of Arkansas-owned nuclear test site has been raised and contained and will be transported to a final disposal site in Nevada in the coming weeks. […] Dean Wheeler, a spokesman at the Utah-based nuclear … Continue reading →

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The never-ending mess from America’s early nuclear tests via The Verge

Posted on 2018/10/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

An atomic bomb, a scandal, and the neighborhood next door The Hunters Point Shipyard in San Francisco is where ships irradiated by early nuclear testing in the Pacific were towed so they could be decontaminated. Now, people are trying to … Continue reading →

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Army Corps Of Engineers Set To Remove Nuclear Waste From Parks Twp. Site via CBS Pittsburgh

Posted on 2018/10/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

APOLLO (KDKA) – The Army Corps of Engineers recently secured a grant to finally cleanup nuclear waste materials at a long-debated site in Armstrong County. Now, there’s concern there’s far more material there than they’re prepared for. So what’s really … Continue reading →

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S. Korean activists demand Japan not dump Fukushima’s radioactive water into the sea via Yonhap News

Posted on 2018/10/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Yonhap) — South Korean environmental groups on Monday urged Japan to reverse its recent decision to release radioactive water that has accumulated in the Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea after treatment. Korea Radioactive Watch, the Korean … Continue reading →

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When the nuclear era ends: Struggling Zion, Ill., a lesson for Lacey Township via Atlantic City

Posted on 2018/10/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

More than 20 years after its nuclear plant closed, Zion, Illinois, is still dealing with the financial and community repercussions of its loss, says its mayor. Almost all of the $19 million in annual property taxes the dual-reactor plant paid … Continue reading →

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U.S. General Considered Nuclear Response in Vietnam War, Cables Show via The New York Times

Posted on 2018/10/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

WASHINGTON — In one of the darkest moments of the Vietnam War, the top American military commander in Saigon activated a plan in 1968 to move nuclear weapons to South Vietnam until he was overruled by President Lyndon B. Johnson, … Continue reading →

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