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11/11/2011 Mystery Radiation Detected ‘Across Europe’
11/11/2011 Mystery Radiation Detected ‘Across Europe’ by Lee Ferran: The hunt is on for the source of low level radiation detected in the atmosphere “across Europe” over the past weeks, nuclear officials said today. Trace amounts of iodine-131, a type of radiation created during the operation of nuclear reactors or in the detonation of a nuclear weapon, were detected as early as three weeks ago by Austrian authorities and then two weeks ago by the Czech Republic’s State Office for Nuclear Safety. Today the International Atomic Energy Agency released a statement revealing similar detections had been made “in other locations across Europe.”... Read More
Posted in environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Nuclear power, radioactive waste, uranium mining
Tagged Common Dreams, Czech Republic State Office for Nuclear Safety, Fukushima, Fukushima Daiichi, IAEA, Japan, nuclear fuel, nuclear plants, radiation, thyroid
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10/25/2011 Fallout forensics hike radiation toll: Global data on Fukushima challenge Japanese estimates
The Fukushima accident led to mass evacuations from nearby towns such as Minamisoma. AP Photo/S. Ponomarev: 10/25/2011 Fallout forensics hike radiation toll Published online: Global data on Fukushima challenge Japanese estimates. The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March released far more radiation than the Japanese government has claimed. So concludes a study that combines radioactivity data from across the globe to estimate the scale and fate of emissions from the shattered plant.... Read More
Posted in cancer, Climate Change, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Nuclear power, radioactive waste, uranium mining, Water
Tagged David Cyranoski, earthquake, Fukushima Daiichi, Japan, nuclear accident, Rina Nozawa, spent fuel, Tokyo, tsunami radiation
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10/8/2011 The Economist: Radiation in Japan Hot spots and blind spots – The mounting human costs of Japan’s nuclear disaster
10/8/2011 The Economist: Radiation in Japan Hot spots and blind spots – The mounting human costs of Japan’s nuclear disaster: CREST the hill into the village of Iitate, and the reading on a radiation dosimeter surges eightfold—even with the car windows shut. “Don’t worry, I’ve been coming here for months and I’m still alive,” chuckles Chohei Sato, chief of the village council, as he rolls down the window and inhales cheerfully. He pulls off the road, gets out of the car and buries the dosimeter in the grass. The reading doubles again.... Read More
Posted in cancer, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Nuclear power, radioactive waste, uranium mining, Water
Tagged Fukushima, Fukushima Daiichi, hot spots, Japan, Mr. Sato, nuclear disaster, nuclear power, Oxford University, plutonium, radiation, The Economist, Tokyo, Tokyo Electric Power, uranium contamination
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10/10/2011 NY Times: After Fukushima, Does Nuclear Power Have a Future?
10/10/2011 NY Times: After Fukushima, Does Nuclear Power Have a Future? By STEPHANIE COOKE: A couple of months after the catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant March 11, an American nuclear expert posed an interesting question. “The post-Fukushima public sentiment is surprisingly low-key isn’t it? What a difference between this event and TMI or Chernobyl,” he wrote in an e-mail, using an abbreviation for the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. “What do you think is going on? Why so quiet?”... Read More
Posted in cancer, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Nuclear power, radioactive waste, uranium mining, Water
Tagged Chernobyl, France, Fukushima, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Germany, injury to water, Japan, New York Times, nuclear energy, nuclear power, South Korea, Three Mile Island, United Kingdom, United States, uranium contamination
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8/28/2011 Extremely High First Year Radiation Doses Predicted by Japanese Government in some areas
8/28/2011 Extremely High First Year Radiation Doses Predicted by Japanese Government in some areasby Gordon Edwards: Background: Deposits of radioactive fallout from Fukushima are highly variable, depending on weather conditions, precipitation, and nature of the releases — which include not only gases and vapours, but also “hot particles”, sometimes called “nuclear fuel fleas”, which are tiny but solid radioactive “cinders” from the disintegrated fuel elements. For those who may not know, MEXT is Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology. A note about the numbers: In Canada, the maximum extra radiation exposure allowed (by regulation) for a member of the public is 1 mSv per year. In the nuclear industry, any worker who is exposed to 1 mSv or more per year must receive special training. In North America, the maximum occupational exposure for an atomic worker is 50 mSv per year. In Germany, the maximum occupational exposure for an atomic worker is 20 mSv per year. ... Read More
8/8/2011 NY Times: Japan Held Nuclear Data, Leaving Evacuees in Peril
8/8/2011 NY Times: Japan Held Nuclear Data, Leaving Evacuees in Peril 
By NORIMITSU ONISHI and MARTIN FACKLER: FUKUSHIMA, Japan — The day after a giant tsunami set off the continuing disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, thousands of residents at the nearby town of Namie gathered to evacuate. Given no guidance from Tokyo, town officials led the residents north, believing that winter winds would be blowing south and carrying away any radioactive emissions. For three nights, while hydrogen explosions at four of the reactors spewed radiation into the air, they stayed in a district called Tsushima where the children played outside and some parents used water from a mountain stream to prepare rice. ... Read More
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Tagged Fukushima, Fukushima Daiichi, government accountability, Japan, New York Times, nuclear disaster, radiation, radioactive releases, TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power Company, Toyko
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Asia Pacific Journal Japan Focus: The Truth About Nuclear Power: Japanese Nuclear Engineer Calls for Abolition
Asia Pacific Journal Japan Focus: The Truth About Nuclear Power: Japanese Nuclear Engineer Calls for Abolition by Koide Hiroaki: Introduction and translation by Sakai Yasuyuki and Norimatsu Satoko: Introduction: Koide Hiroaki began his career as a nuclear engineer forty years ago drawn to the promise of nuclear power. Quickly, however, he recognized the flaws in Japan’s nuclear power program and emerged as among the best informed of Japan’s nuclear power critic. His cogent public critique of the nuclear village earned him an honourable form of purgatory as a permanent assistant professor at Kyoto University. Koide would pay a price in career terms, continuing his painstaking research on radio nuclide measurement at Kyoto University’s Research Reactor Institute (KURRI) in the shadows. Until 3.11.... Read More
Reuters: UN slams Fukushima safety measures before tsunami
France 24: 24/7: REUTERS: UN slams Fukushima safety measures before tsunami: A report from the UN’s atomic energy agency criticised Japanese regulators Sunday for failing to assess and review steps taken at Fukushima after 2002 to protect against tsunamis. The report indicates several shortcomings before the March 11 tsunami. Japanese nuclear regulators failed to review and approve steps taken after 2002 to protect against tsunamis at the Fukushima plant and these proved insufficient to prevent the tidal wave disaster three months ago, a U.N. report showed. A detailed assessment by experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency – the first outside review of Japan’s nuclear crisis – suggested several shortcomings both before and after a tidal wave crippled the power station three months ago. 
But it also praised the way workers on the ground dealt with the situation at Fukushima Daiichi after the massive earthquake and huge tsunami devastated its reactors on March 11, triggering the world’s worst nuclear catastrophe in a quarter of a century.... Read More
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Tagged Fukushima, IAFA, International Atomic Energy Agency, Japan, nuclear energy, nuclear regulator, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, tusnami, United Nations
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France 24 International News 24/7: Protesters rally in Fukushima against nuclear power
France 24 International News 24/7: Protesters rally in Fukushima against nuclear power By News Wires: AFP – An estimated 1,700 people rallied in the capital of Japan’s Fukushima region, home to a crippled atomic power plant, on Sunday, calling for an end to nuclear energy, local media reported. “Abolish all the nuclear power plants!” and “Give radiation-free Fukushima back to us,” the demonstrators chanted as they marched in Fukushima City, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the nuclear plant. The rally, joined by residents evacuated from areas outside the Fukushima Daiichi plant, was organised by the Japan Congress Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs as part of its longtime campaign against nuclear weapons.... Read More