120 Tons of Radioactive Water Leak from Fukushima
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 [...]
Read More →Fukushima Radioactive Fallout in California and Alaska: Health Impacts on American Children
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. [...]
Read More →Japan may be facing cancer time bomb two years after Fukushima
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 [...]
Read More →Fukushima cleanup contractors told workers to lie about pay in ‘surprise’ inspections
By Miki Aoki and Tamiyuki Kihara | AjwAsahi Contractors were tipped off about “surprise” inspections of decontamination work around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, giving them time to order workers to lie about hazard pay they weren’t receiving, The Asahi Shimbun learned. One company official warned that failure to mislead the inspectors could cause every [...]
Read More →Power Blackout Interrupts Cooling at Fukushima Nuclear Plant
ENS-Newswire A power blackout occurred Monday at Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, knocking out the system that cools four pools of water holding spent fuel rods. Operator Tokyo Electric Power Company, TEPCO, said the blackout took place just before 7 pm Monday. On Tuesday, TEPCO restored cooling systems for spent fuel pools at [...]
Read More →While a New Record of Radioactivity has been found in Fukushima fish, Cesium may still be Leaking from damaged Nuclear power plant
By Mario A. | Set You Free News A new all-time high radiation level has been detected in a fish near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, The Asahi Shimbun reports. A fat greenling, Hexagrammos otakii, a high-end delicacy in Japanese cuisine, was found to contain radioactive cesium 7,400 times the government’s food safety standard. [...]
Read More →At Least 40 Years to Dismantle Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Plant
Prensa Latina Japan faces costs between 1 and 2.5 billion dollars to dismantle the Fukushima plant, according to documents of the Citizen Center for Nuclear Information, based in Tokyo. According to information provided to the press, that figure includes the decontamination work, cleaning and compensation, which should last no less than 40 years since the [...]
Read More →Fukushima forests found to be radioactive
Al Jazeera Two years after the triple calamities of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster ravaged Japan’s northeastern Pacific coast, forests that cover 70 percent of the Fukushima Prefecture have been found to contain high concentrations of radioactive cesium. With traces revealed not only in the fallen leaves and soil, but in the trees themselves, the findings suggest that radiation has permanently [...]
Read More →Residents concerned on effects of thyroid doses in Fukushima
By Yuri Oiwa and Teruhiko Nose | AjwAsahi Although studies have shown that most local residents were likely not exposed to cancer-causing doses of radiation from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the great fear remains the long-term effects of exposure to radioactive iodine. Little is known about the health effects of their exposure to radioactive [...]
Read More →63 workers exposed to higher radiation than logged in their records
By Toshio Tada and Jun Sato | AjwAsahi Dozens of workers at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant were exposed to radiation levels higher than those registered in their personal records, according to a health ministry investigation. Misleading information was kept in at least 63 cases. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has [...]
Read More →Powerful Lies: The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster And The Radioactive Effects On Human Health
By Richard Wilcox | Activist Post Even one atom of uranium undergoing alpha decay has the potential for creating a fatal cancer. – Paul Zimmerman, A Primer in the Art of Deception (1; p. 53) When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly [...]
Read More →Almost half of Fukushima kids have thyroid abnormalities
VOR A recent medical survey by the Fukushima Prefecture has revealed almost half of 94,975 local children had thyroid ultrasound abnormalities. According to the report, hyroid ultrasound abnormalities were found in 44.2 % of all children sampled, while 10 of 186 are suspected of having developed thyroid cancer as a result of exposure to radiation. [...]
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