Fukushima

Jeune fille posant une lanterne sur le fleuve Ōta pour les âmes des victimes du bombardement d’Hiroshima. A l’arrière-plan, le dôme de Genbaku, mémorial de la paix d’Hiroshima (K. Mayama/EPA)

RT | May 24, 2016 The Fukushima clean-up team remains in the dark about the exact locations of 600 tons of melted radioactive fuel from three devastated nuclear reactors, the chief of decommissioning told the ABC’s Foreign Correspondent program in an exclusive interview. The company hopes to locate and start removing the missing fuel from […]

Japan’s Abe administration is pushing very hard to decontaminate land, roads, and buildings throughout Fukushima Prefecture, 105 cities, towns, and villages. Thousands of workers collect toxic material into enormous black one-ton bags, thereby accumulating gigantic geometric structures of bags throughout the landscape, looking evermore like the foreground of iconic ancient temples.

Portland pesticides, medical errors and unhealthy headlines + this day in history w/Haymarket affair and our song of the day by Japancakes on your Morning Monarchy for May 4, 2016.

Fairewinds Chief Engineer, Arnie Gundersen discusses fractures of Japans earthquake zone, the tsunami warnings, and the issues within the nuclear industry with BBS Radio host Rick Chicago. Recorded May 3, 2016 on The People Speak Radio Show on bbsradio.com

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RT | April 28, 2016 An ice wall being built at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant won’t completely prevent groundwater from flowing inside the facility and leaking out into the earth as radioactive water, according to a chief architect of the project. Chief architect Yuichi Okamura told AP that gaps in the wall and rainfall […]

By John Laforge | CounterPunch | April 22, 2016 April 26 is the 30th anniversary of the reactor meltdown and radiation disaster at Chernobyl in Ukraine, which brings to mind cesium. Thirty years is how long it takes for half a given amount of cesium-137 — dispersed in huge quantities from Chernobyl (and Fukushima) — […]

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Despite the complete world mainstream media blackout regarding the 2011 Daiichi nuclear reactor meltdown at Fukushima, Japan, a few stories are getting out into the public domain which provide some indication of the radioactive contamination in and around the quarantine zone. 

At the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, scientists are running out of space for the plant’s enormous amounts of irradiated water. The radioactive water is being stored in thousands of tanks, and contains tritium, a substance that is hazardous to health. About 300 tons need to be pumped into the plant every day to keep its reactors cool.
Tritium can be removed from water in laboratories, but such an effort would be preposterously expensive, so scientists have another idea in mind: dumping the nuclear waste into the ocean.