Fukushima

Rad Chick: Where’s the CORIUM? Chernobyl to Fukushima

I want to emphasize what I have said before: We are very close to an Extinction Level Event. We have nuclear power reactors very close to earthquake fault lines that are long over due for major eruptions. We could have 20 Fukushima size meltdowns. We have 2 nuclear power plants near fault lines in California and more than half a dozen in the area near the New Madrid fault line. In 1811-1812 America had 4 major quakes near New Madrid, Missouri. That area is long overdue. The southern California section of the San Andreas fault line has not erupted in over 300 years.

Rad Chick: Where’s the CORIUM? Chernobyl to Fukushima

I want to emphasize what I have said before: We are very close to an Extinction Level Event. We have nuclear power reactors very close to earthquake fault lines that are long over due for major eruptions. We could have 20 Fukushima size meltdowns. We have 2 nuclear power plants near fault lines in California and more than half a dozen in the area near the New Madrid fault line. In 1811-1812 America had 4 major quakes near New Madrid, Missouri. That area is long overdue. The southern California section of the San Andreas fault line has not erupted in over 300 years.

Anti-nuclear protests in Taiwan draw tens of thousands

DW | March 8, 2014

Tens of thousands have marched in anti-nuclear protests across Taiwan, calling on the government to phase out nuclear energy. The protest comes ahead of the third anniversary of the Fukishima disaster.
Anti-nuclear protesters in Taiwan held four rallies across the country on Saturday, urging the government both to stop construction of a new nuclear power plant and to abandon nuclear power altogether.

Fukushima Three Years On

By JANETTE D. SHERMAN, MD and JOSEPH MANGANO | CounterPunch | March 4, 2014

The third anniversary of the Fukushima meltdown will occur on March 11th.
The news is that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and major Japanese corporations want to re-open the 50 other nuclear power plants that closed when Fukushima blew up, calling them a friendly economic source of cheap power.  Will this end up with business as usual?

Cutting through Fukushima Fog: Radiation in U.S.?

Governments cite “national security” concerns and “official secrets” as their justification for withholding information from the public. Corporations rationalize their secrecy behind concerns about “patent infringement,” shielding their trademarked “proprietary” secrets from competitors. But most of the time, such obfuscation is really derived from the time-honored villains of systemic corruption and what is politely known as CYA in military and bureaucratic slang.
Which brings us to Fukushima.