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Plutonium and Politics
Kyodo News is a respected nonprofit agency based in Tokyo, and it distributes news to just about all newspapers and tv networks in Japan. It’s interesting to compare Kyodo News latest status report on the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi plant … Continue reading
Japan: where the wind blows and spent fuel
If I hear another ‘expert’ on the tv news channels say that Fukushima is not as bad as Chernobyl I shall scream. For godsake there’s been multiple explosions, hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated from the vicinity of … Continue reading
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Tagged Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi, Japan, Japanese earthquake 2011, Kyshtym disaster, nuclear plant at Mayak
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Disaster in Japan: even Hollywood could not come up with something worse than this
Earlier today there was a massive explosion at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant (officially known as Fukushima I), which completely destroyed the already heavily damaged hall of reactor No.1. One of the unusual things about this was that it … Continue reading
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Tagged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, Fukushima I, Japan, Japanese earthquake 2011
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The Japanese earthquake and memories of Chernobyl
The disaster caused by the earthquake today off the coast of north east Japan is quite breathtaking. To give some idea of the scale of things, news agencies are now saying that two trains have been ‘reported missing’. That’s two … Continue reading