By: Stuart Jeanne Bramhall
The New York Academy of Medicine celebrated the second anniversary of Fukushima’s nuclear disaster with a two day Fukushima Symposium on March 11th and 12th. Sponsored by the Helen Caldicott Foundation and Physicians for Social Responsibility, the event consisted of presentations from a broad range of physician and non-physician researchers specialized in the effects of nuclear radiation on the environment and human health.
Small amounts of radiation have been detected in monitoring holes around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Saturday.
by JENNIFER LANCE
Despite assurances by the US government, many of us living on the West Coast were very concerned after the fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster. We stocked up on seaweed and potassium iodine. We gavekelp to our pets.
By MICHAEL SMITH
Infants who were in the Japanese region most affected by radiation after the 2011 tsunami have a slightly elevated lifetime risk of some cancers, according to the World Health Organization.
Following disturbing findings of thyroid growths in children of Fukushima prefecture, Japan’s Environment Ministry this week began thyroid gland tests on children in Nagasaki prefecture, across the central island of Honshu to the south.
By Phil Stewart
The Pentagon on Wednesday posted a website mapping the amount of radiation to which the tens of thousands of Americans in Japan at the time of last year’s earthquake and nuclear disaster were exposed and said none of the doses posed health risks.
TOKYO, Aug. 21 – Radioactivity ‘at record levels and’ was found in the waters of the Pacific Ocean off the Fukushima nuclear plant:
TOKYO, Aug. 6 – recalled the tragedy of Hiroshima atomic bomb dropped by the U.S. on August 6, 1945, renewing, 67 years after the event that provoked ‘the death of hundreds of thousands of people, the call to eliminate nuclear weapons .
TOKYO – A human chain to protest the government’s decision to reactivate two reactors was held in Tokyo. Thousands of people joined the protest, which is just the latest in a series of events organized to demand the abandonment of nuclear power in a country still traumatized by the disaster of central Fukushima.
Investigative report, ‘Nuclear incident result of a’ short circuit ‘between the government, authority and operator Tepco’
TOKYO – The Fukushima nuclear accident suffers “clearly the human factor” and was the result of a sort of short circuit “between the government, authority and operator Tepco” to “the lack of governance between them.” And ‘what emerges from the report of the independent investigative panel parliament.
By: Anthony Gucciardi
Fukushima plant operators are now admitting that the Fukushima radiation levels emitted from the disaster exceeds almost two and a half times the initial ‘estimate’ produced by Japanese safety regulators. The announcement comes after independent researchers exposed the true amount of radiation leaked from the plant back in October of 2011. The study revealed that significantly more radioactive caesium was released into the atmosphere as a result of the Fukushima explosion than many nuclear experts previously told the public.
TOKYO – On this night, for the first time in 42 years, Japan will no longer – at least for the foreseeable future – electricity generated by the atom in the wake of the serious crisis in central Fukushima. The Hokkaido Electric Power, a utility island north of Hokkaido, turn off the unit No. 3 of the structure of Tomari, the last active about 54 scattered in the archipelago, with the procedure which will start from 17:00 local time (10 : 00 in Italy) and ends with the block total expected at 23:00.
Radioactive Wave From Japan Headed Towards United States, Full of Extremely High Levels of Radiation. Over the last year the threat of radiation hitting the United States from the Fukushima nuclear disaster has gone from a conspiracy theory, to a possibility, to a flat out fact.Now, scientists with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute have confirmed that a wave of highly radioactive waste is headed directly for the US west coast.In a segment on the Big Picture with Thom Hartmann, Kevin Kamps, of the group Beyond Nuclear, joined the show to discuss the dangers of radiation in Japan, the United States, and the world.
At least 12 tons of radioactive water leaked from the nuclear plant in Fukushima, hit by the earthquake and tsunami of March last year, and a part of this – according to a statement by the Tokyo Electric Power Co-Tepco, the owner of ‘ system – has probably spilled into the ocean.
The loss discovered this morning according to the reconstruction provided by the Japanese newspaper ‘Mainichi Daily News’ was located in a pipeline and a desalination plant after the closure of the valves leak stopped within half an hour.According to experts of Tepco water leaking radioactivity would have more than 100,000 becquerels per cubic centimeter, where Japanese law sets a limit of 0.04 becquerels per cubic centimeter.What today is not the first incident of this kind. Last month there was a similar incident, during which leaked 120 tons of radioactive water, 80 of which are based on the reconstruction provided by TEPCO are over the ocean.
The Japanese Government has decided to December the state of cold stop for the central Fukushima, which means that the temperature inside the reactor is maintained at below 100 degrees Celsius. However, this is only the first step towards stabilization of systems: according to TEPCO will take at least ten years before poOrmai is a curse: Fukushima Passion lives another day. And being around Easter can not be more apt. This was announced by Tepco itself, but even if the incident happened at the same nuclear power plant, the nature of the problems is very different. This time to worry is a pipe that connects the desalination plant which is cooled with the control unit to the storage tank.
