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USS Reagan update and an interview with a dying sailor
Earlier this year the Asia-Pacific Journal published a detailed report called Mobilizing Nuclear Bias: The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and the Politics of Uncertainty, which amongst other things shows clear evidence, from the American Nuclear Regulatory Commission, that the USS Ronald … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Bonner, Fukushima Daiichi, Fukushima disaster, Libbe HaLevy, meltdowns at Fukushima, Navy report on USS Reagan, NRC, Nuclear Hotseat blog, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Operation Tomadachi, Puget Sound Naval Ship Yard, radiation levels in Pacific ocean, sailors with radiation sickness, Steve Simmons, TEPCO, Theodore Holcomb, Tokyo Electric Power Company, US Navy, USS George Washington, USS Reagan sailors' lawsuit, USS Ronald Reagan
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Reagan gets Irradiated
The lawsuit filed by sailors on the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and its support ships has been covered by some mainstream media, albeit on the inside pages (even Fox News). I would venture that, despite the almost total media … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Bonner, Fukushima Daiichi, Fukushima disaster, Libbe HaLevy, meltdowns at Fukushima, Nuclear Hotseat blog, Operation Tomadachi, Puget Sound Naval Ship Yard, radiation levels in Pacific ocean, sailors with radiation sickness, TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power Company, US Navy, USS George Washington, USS Reagan sailors' lawsuit, USS Ronald Reagan
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Radioactive bananas
This month, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) have started removing fuel rods from Fukushima reactor No.4 fuel pool. I’m not going to go into this too much, but I’ll just say that the No.4 fuel pool contains about 1500 … Continue reading
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Tagged beta emitters, beta rays, cesium, cesium 137, fission reactor, Fukushima Daiichi, Fukushima disaster, Fukushima symposium, Helen Caldicott Foundation, Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident, meltdowns at Fukushima, nuclear fire at Japan spent fuel pool, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Steven Starr, TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power Company, Unit 4 fuel pool
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Let’s talk about plutonium
The nightmare at Fukushima just keeps getting worse and worse. There are two reasons behind this failure to contain the disaster: firstly, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), who run the plant, are a management company, not an engineering company; … Continue reading
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Tagged alpha emitters, alpha rays, beta emitters, beta rays, cesium, cesium 137, fission reactor, Fukushima Daiichi, most deadly substance on Earth, Plutonium, plutonium 239, plutonium 240, plutonium isotopes, radiation in the Pacific Ocean, Ralph Nader, TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power Company, uranium 235
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Fukushima and Fascism
There’s something going on in Japan, because earlier in the week the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) announced that 300 tonnes of highly radioactive water had leaked from a storage tank at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (here). This … Continue reading
Fukushima – on a wing and a prayer
Two weeks ago there was a power failure at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (here). The spent fuel pools of reactors 1, 2, 3 and 4 lost their cooling systems for more than 24 hours (apparently a radioactive rat … Continue reading
Fukushima spent fuel pool No.4
The magnitude 7.3 earthquake that occured off the coast of Japan last Friday was widely reported. What wasn’t reported at all was the effect that this earthquake might have had on the already badly damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. I’m … Continue reading
Plutonium is good for you: or, happy astroturfing
This week the Guardian published an article (in CIF America) about Fukushima. The article, by Richard Schiffman, went over much the same ground as my recent post about Fukushima (see here). Of course in no time at all the astroturf … Continue reading
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Tagged astroturfing, CIF America, climate change, corruption in the 21st century, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Fukushima, Fukushima Daiichi, Germany nuclear power plants, Guardian newspaper, oil companies astroturf campaigns, Plutonium is good for you, Richard Schiffman, Robert Alvarez, Senator Ron Wyden, Siemens, Steve Skutnik, TEPCO, The Energy Collective, Tokyo Electric Power Company
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Fukushima: the possibility of a massive explosion
Last Thursday, TEPCO mistakenly reported that radiation levels found in a puddle of water (that two plant workers had stepped in) were ten million times normal. They later corrected this and said the levels were ten thousand times normal. The … Continue reading
The world concentrates on other news as Japan begins to glow in the dark
I wish I had some good news to report about the nuclear crisis in Japan; but alas: the last two weeks have been a slowly unfolding nightmare. Every day it’s got a little bit worse, and information from the Japanese … Continue reading
Japan: it looks like they’re going to have to go for the Chernobyl solution
ie, cover all the stricken reactors with sand, lead and boron, and then emtomb them. For four, and possibly, six reactors this will be a massive undertaking, costing billions of dollars. Hopefully it won’t come to this. Engineers have almost … Continue reading
Japan: all we need now is for Godzilla to come up out of the sea
Today, Sunday, there’s been much conflicting and confusing information about the Fukushima nuclear reactors, from both the plant operators, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), and the Japanese Government. What does seem certain is that the three reactors that were in … Continue reading
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Tagged Fukushima Daiichi, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accidents, Fukushima Daini, Japan earthquake 2011, Japan Nuclear Fuels (JNF) enrichment facility Rokkasho Muri, Japan nuclear power, Onagawa power plant, TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power Company
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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