RT | March 30, 2016 Australia and Ukraine are about to agree delivery of uranium for Ukrainian nuclear power plants, according to Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. But experts question the safety of Ukraine’s plans to increase nuclear energy production. The contract will be signed before the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington. “Ahead of the […]
By Chris Busby | CounterPunch | March 18, 2016 Those who fear the effects of radiation always focus on cancer. But the most frightening and serious consequences of radiation are genetic. Cancer is just one small bleak reflection, a flash of cold light from a facet of the iceberg of genetic damage to life on […]
By Christopher Busby – RT – March 12, 2016 On the 5th Anniversary of the catastrophe, Prof Geraldine Thomas, the nuclear industry’s new public relations star, walked through the abandoned town of Ohkuma inside the Fukushima exclusion zone with BBC reporter Rupert Wingfield-Hayes. Thomas was described as “one of Britain’s leading experts on the health […]
Five years later and Fukushima is still leaking radioactivity into the Pacific ocean.
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EPA alarmed by uncontrolled exposure risk Sputnik – 23.02.2016 In November 2015, workers began excavating concrete drums filled with high-level radioactive nuclear waste that had been discarded after uranium fuel fabrication work in the 1960s. The site of the excavation, now a burial ground, is in the notorious town of Hanford, in the state of […]
The same nuclear plant has had two severe accidents with large releases of radioactivity in the past.
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By Joseph Mangano and Janette D. Sherman | CounterPunch | February 5, 2016 Is it possible for an epidemic to be invisible? Since 1991 the annual number of newly documented cases of thyroid cancer in the United States has skyrocketed from 12,400 to 62,450. It’s now the seventh most common type of cancer. Relatively little attention […]
By Karl Grossman | CounterPunch | February 1, 2016 The class action lawsuit—begun 20 years old—that charges Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) with contaminating neighborhoods adjacent to it will be moving ahead again in New York State Supreme Court this month. Court action is scheduled for the last week in February. Since it was first brought […]
By Joyce Nelson | CounterPunch | January 15, 2016 Opposition to the proposed nuclear waste facility by Lake Huron continues to grow. By the end of 2015, at least 182 communities (representing more than 22 million people) on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border have adopted resolutions opposing the plan by Ontario Power Generation to […]
