Could Fukushima Happen Here?
We all live in the shadow of Fukushima. Together with Three-Mile Island and Chernobyl, the March 2011 disaster in Japan completes the holy trinity of modern nuclear horror. For the last fiv [...]
We all live in the shadow of Fukushima. Together with Three-Mile Island and Chernobyl, the March 2011 disaster in Japan completes the holy trinity of modern nuclear horror. For the last fiv [...]
There’s an old saying “disasters bring out the best in people,” but Fukushima 3/11 of March 11, 2011 has put an exclamation point on cynicism rather than heartfelt concern. (Article by Robe [...]
A major international review of the state of the oceans 5 years after the Fukushima disaster shows that radiation levels are decreasing rapidly except in the harbour area close to the nucle [...]
It’s not a secret that radiation pollution is hard to contain. The United States Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, began releasing data detailing the continuing rise of radiati [...]
The crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has seen improvements over the past three years but it will continue to be a difficult project during its decades-long decommissioning, the [...]
The utility that ran the Fukushima nuclear plant acknowledged Tuesday its delayed disclosure of the meltdowns at three reactors was tantamount to a cover-up and apologized for it. (Article [...]
The operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant said Tuesday a power outage halted some systems but that no problems were detected in the cooling of the three melted-down r [...]
For years, alternative news outlets have been claiming that TEPCO was covering up important details surrounding the Fukushima nuclear disaster. For the longest time, they were treated like [...]
New research shows that most of the radioactive fallout which landed on downtown Tokyo a few days after the Fukushima accident was concentrated and deposited in non-soluble glass microparti [...]
Toxic sludge continues to spew from the Fukushima power plant more than five years after the catastrophe, but it’s not just radiation that is haunting the Prefecture. Taxi drivers wor [...]