Corporate Crime Reporter | June 7, 2016 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has unveiled a plan allowing radioactive contamination in drinking water at concentrations vastly greater than the levels permitted by the Safe Drinking Water Act for long periods following release of nuclear materials. The new guidance would permit radiation exposures equivalent to 250 chest […]
RT | May 25, 2016 Conflicting with a prior industry study, a new analysis claims 96 nuclear facilities in the US are less safe than reported, citing risks such as terrorism and sabotage. The study says there remain lessons to be learned from the Fukushima disaster. Neglect of the risks posed by used reactor fuel, […]
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 […]
© Wikipedia/ Maxim Gavrilyuk Sputnik – 21.05.2016 Washington is promoting commercial interests of the energy corporation Westinghouse in Europe, creating risks for European nuclear power plants, an article in Forbes read. For example, in 2015, two of the Westinghouse-made fuel assemblies at the South Ukraine nuclear power plant (NPP) were found to be leaking. Since […]
RT | May 15, 2016 The US Environmental Protection Agency chalked elevated gamma radiation levels around America’s largest nuclear waste storage facility, the Hanford site, up to natural causes, but RT’s Alexey Yaroshevsky has found a few inconsistencies in its claims. RT has reported extensively on the situation at Washington State’s Hanford Nuclear storage facility […]
teleSUR | May 3, 2016 Relatives of Berta Caceres, Indigenous and environmental leader murdered in Honduras March 3, reaffirmed their distrust of the public prosecutor after having been excluded from the investigation, regarding the arrest of four suspects Monday. “They excluded us from the investigation process from the beginning, we have no way of knowing […]
RT | April 30, 2016 Twenty workers at the The Hanford Site nuclear facility in Washington state were sent for medical evaluations after inhaling chemical vapors in the vicinity of a leaking nuclear waste tank which was being transferred, according to US Energy Department officials. Hanford tank workers were performing routine tasks at the vast […]
By Robert Jacobs | CounterPunch | April 29, 2016 There is a dangerous radiological threat to the West Coast of the United States that puts the health of millions of Americans at risk. It includes dangers to public health, dangers to the food supply, and dangers to future generations from long-lived radionuclides, including some of […]
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 […]
