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Fukushima radiation kills bees – and Trees across North America

By   /  May 6, 2013  /  Environment, News, World  /  No Comments

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By Sadia Arshad | The Canadian Trees in public gardens across the Northern American continent are dying. It has been discovered right across Canada from Vancouver to Halifax. The flowers are also getting discoloured as originally reported by an article in `chemtrailsinourskies.wordpress.com/tag/trees-plants-bees-dying-from-Fukushima-radiation’. Even the pollinating bees are dying. Joe Giambrone has written in his article, [...]

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Fukushima: California rainwater manifests radiation poison symptoms

By   /  April 28, 2013  /  Environment, World  /  No Comments

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By Tanveer | The Canadian The Fukushima Nuclear disaster changed people’s perspective of nuclear energy. It even forced some countries to stop pursuing Nuclear Energy, like in the case of Italy. It reminded the people of the infamous Chernobyl incident. The tragedy also inspired many social activists in countries like India to protest against the [...]

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Fukushima’s ‘contaminated’ rice still in storage two years on

By   /  April 25, 2013  /  In Other News, World  /  No Comments

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By Tetsuya Kasai | AjwAsahi Officials are still struggling to dispose of some 17,000 tons of contaminated rice produced in Fukushima Prefecture after the nuclear disaster there two years ago. Most of the rice, called “kakurimai” (rice separated for disposal), was produced in 2011. The central government wants to incinerate the rice, but disposal facility [...]

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Fukushima nuclear plant cleanup may take more than 40 years: IAEA

By   /  April 24, 2013  /  Environment, News, World  /  No Comments

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AP | The Japan Times A U.N. nuclear watchdog team said Japan may need longer than the projected 40 years to decommission the Fukushima power plant and urged Tepco to improve stability at the facility. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency team, Juan Carlos Lentijo, said Monday that damage at the nuclear plant [...]

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Radioactive mud in Fukushima school pools tops 100,000 becquerels

By   /  April 22, 2013  /  Environment, News, World  /  1 Comment

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By Masakazu Honda  | AjwAsahi Radioactive cesium levels exceeding 100,000 becquerels per kilogram were measured in mud accumulated at the bottom of swimming pools at two high schools in and around Fukushima city. Mud in the pool of a third high school in Minami-Soma, which is closer to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, [...]

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Plutonium found outside of containment in marine soil at Fukushima Daiichi

By   /  April 15, 2013  /  Environment, News, World  /  No Comments

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ENN TEPCO has been forced to take drastic measures to deal with the continual contamination of the Pacific Ocean from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.  To quell the transfer of contaminated marine soil, the utility worked to cover the ocean floor in the port with concrete. They later discovered that the fish life [...]

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Fukushima plant abandoning leaky underground pools

By   /  April 10, 2013  /  Environment, World  /  No Comments

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AFP | Khaleej Times The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant said Wednesday it will abandon seven underground reservoirs storing radioactive water after three of them sprang leaks. The contaminated water will be transferred to more reliable containers on the ground, possibly by early June, to avoid risks of further leaks, Tokyo Electric [...]

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Fukushima operator may run out of space for radioactive water

By   /  April 9, 2013  /  Environment, News, World  /  No Comments

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By RT This file picture taken on May 26, 2012 shows the unit 3 reactor building of the Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s (Tepco) Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. (AFP Photo) Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has revealed that it may not have enough space to store the contaminated [...]

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New radioactive water leak reported at Fukushima plant

By   /  April 7, 2013  /  Breaking News, Environment  /  No Comments

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The Yomiuri Shimbun | Japan News A second discovery of leakage at an underground storage pool at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant shows the challenges in storing an increasing amount of water contaminated with radioactive substances. TEPCO announced Saturday night that radioactive substances had been detected in the soil [...]

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120 Tons of Radioactive Water Leak from Fukushima

By   /  April 6, 2013  /  Environment, World  /  No Comments

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RiaN About 120 tons of radioactive water leaked from the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northern Japan, the plant’s operator said on Saturday. The water came from one of the seven underground reservoir tanks storing water for cooling Fukushima’s reactors, the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said in a statement. TEPCO did not [...]

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Fukushima Radioactive Fallout in California and Alaska: Health Impacts on American Children

By   /  April 3, 2013  /  Health, World  /  No Comments

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By John Upton | Global Research Fallout from that Fukushima meltdow? It’s not just the Japanese who are suffering, though their plight is obviously the worst. Radioactive isotopes blasted from the failed reactors may have given kids born in Hawaii and along the American West Coast health disorders which, if left untreated, can lead to permanent mental and physical handicaps. [...]

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Japan may be facing cancer time bomb two years after Fukushima

By   /  March 28, 2013  /  Environment, World  /  No Comments

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By Ida Torres | JDP It has been two years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan and caused the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant – the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. As the people begin to rebuild, signs of a cancer outbreak from the radiation of the troubled nuclear power station are [...]

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