Fracking Truck Sets Off Radiation Alarm at Pennsylvania Landfill
By Aaron Wallechinsky, Noel Brinkerhoff | AllGov A truck carrying fracking leftovers surprised operators of a Pennsylvania landfill when it set off a radiation alarm. The truck loaded with shale drill cuttings contained radium 226, which was emitting gamma rays at 10 times the level allowed at the hazardous waste landfill in South Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Officials [...]
Read More →Emergency shutdown at Bulgarian nuclear plant – No radiation leak danger, say officials
The Sofia Globe A turbo-generator at the fifth unit of Bulgaria’s Kozloduy nuclear power station was shut down on April 14 after a leak was found in the cooling system, but there was no danger of a radiation leak and readings around the plant were normal, a statement by Kozloduy on April 15 said. The [...]
Read More →Inhuman Radiation Experiments
By John LaForge | Counter Punch This year marks the 20th anniversary of the declassification of top secret studies, done over a period of 60 years, in which the US conducted 2,000 radiation experiments on as many as 20,000 vulnerable US citizens.[i] Victims included civilians, prison inmates, federal workers, hospital patients, pregnant women, infants, developmentally disabled [...]
Read More →Space travel may raise risk of colon cancer
NewsTrack A new study led by two Indian researchers has claimed that space travel could increase the risk of colon cancer. An earlier study had shown that mice exposed to a type of high-energy radiation prevalent in space, called 56Fe radiation, had developed tumours in their intestines. A second study by the same group of [...]
Read More →Moon’s radiation damaging for humans, electronics
ZeeNews The radiation environment near the Moon could be damaging to humans and electronics on future missions, it has been revealed. To characterize this potentially hazardous environment, the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER) on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, which orbits at 50 kilometers (31 miles) above the Moon’s surface, [...]
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 →Mobile radiation leads to DNA damage
The widespread use of cellphones, from businessman to streetside vendor, has helped the mobile phone industry flourish in India in spite of various reports published on the ill-effects of mobile and tower radiation, and sometimes radiation even causing DNA mutation.
Read More →Toshiba develops equipment to clean up radiation using dry ice particles
AjwAsahi Toshiba Corp. has shown off heavy machinery it developed to clean up radioactive materials using dry ice particles. It sprays dry ice particles by remote control to remove radioactive materials from the floor and walls inside reactor buildings. The equipment will be tested at the Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant from Feb. 18. [...]
Read More →Pentagon Coverup: U.S. Yokosuka Naval Base Evacuated Following Fukushima Disaster
“U.S. military is still keeping quiet about” it — Women and children ordered to evacuate base 300 kilometers from Fukushima when radiation alarms went off after 3/11
Read More →NASA testing method to turn space trash into radiation shielding
By Mark Whittington | Examiner Recycling in not just a green lifestyle in space, but a necessity since transporting things to and from Earth tends to be expensive. NASA’s International Space Station recycles air and water as much as possible. Now NASA has developed a way to recycle solid waste, according to a Jan. 7, 2013 story in Space.com. [...]
Read More →Deep-Space Travel Could Contribute to Alzheimer’s Disease
By Cassie Ryan | The Epoch Times Exposure to cosmic radiation during future long-term missions to Mars and other distant destinations might lead to an earlier onset of Alzheimer’s disease in astronauts, according to a new U.S. study. Before leaving Earth, astronauts are protected from radioactive particles by our planet’s magnetic field. Outside Earth’s orbit, [...]
Read More →US Navy sailors sue Japan for lying about Fukushima radiation
RT American sailors have filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government for allegedly lying about the health risks they faced while assisting in rescue efforts after last year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster. Crewmembers from the USS Ronald Reagan filed a lawsuit in Federal Court in San Diego, California this week in an attempt to hold Japan [...]
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