Abandoned Fukushima animals at risk as winter approaches
More than 120,000 people abandoned the Fukushima Prefecture after a tsunami struck the coast of Japan and caused three nuclear reactors to melt to their core. Although thousands of people were evacuated, thousands of animals were abandoned in the process. Now, many of these animals are at risk as winter lurks around the corner. (1) Read More
Japan trying to serve Fukushima tainted food to foreigners
The 2011 tsunami that rocked the coast of Japan damaged the country’s agricultural industry as much as the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Since then, the Japanese government has been desperately trying to mend public relations about the safety of its food products. The Tokyo Power Electric Company (TEPCO) and the Japanese government claim that they Read More
A little radiation never hurt anyone, right?
The Fukushima Diaiichi meltdown was the the worst nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl in 1986, but you wouldn’t know that by listening to the mainstream media. They’ve tried to downplay the severity of the disaster, going so far to state that animals thrive in polluted environments and that “a little radiation never hurt anyone.” These remarks Read More
Can marijuana save the Fukushima Prefecture?
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has been desperately seeking ways to clean up toxic radiation spewing from the Fukushima Daiichi site. Now, a natural plant may be able to save the nuclear power plant: cannabis. Using plants to clean up toxic soil is known as phytoremediation. Two members of the mustard seed family are Read More
MUST SEE: Photojournalist documents worst areas affected by Fukushima radiation
In a remarkable essay, Polish photojournalist Arkadiusz Podniesiński documents his journey into the toxic pits of the Fukushima Exclusion Zone. His essay, tersely titled “Fukushima” gives readers a glimpse into how areas surrounding the Fukushima nuclear power plant have changed, and in some cases not changed, since the tsunami laid waste to the facility in Read More
Fukushima Prefecture tearing families apart; local mothers faced with impossible choice to stay or leave
The meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant is tearing families apart. More than four years after the catastrophe, mothers in the Fukushima Prefecture are faced with a moral dilemma to stay or leave. One of the main concerns of mothers who live at the Fukushima Prefecture constantly is the threat of radiation and how it may hurt their children’s Read More
Fukushima disaster could have been prevented, according to new study; TEPCO shortsightedness to blame
The most tragic disasters are those that could have been avoided. According to a recent study, one of the worst nuclear accidents in human history, the Fukushima disaster, was not an inevitable corollary of nature, but a consequence of human negligence and insufficient pre-tsunami planning. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the company responsible for Read More
Typhoon Etau floods Fukushima site; thousands evacuated
Japan has a history clouded by natural disasters. The city of Nahara was evacuated in 2011, after a tsunami laid waste to three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. On September 11, 2015, Nahara’s evacuation notice was lifted. The timing could not have been worse. That same day, drainage pumps at the Read More
Toxic trash bags from Fukushima plant washed away by flood waters
Typhoon Etau has caused widespread flooding in Japan. While flood waters did not engulf the Fukushima power plant, they did sweep away 82 plastic bags containing radioactive grass and soil from the Daiichi site.(1) The plastic bags had been stored at the Iitate village before the flood waters took a hold of them. Approximately 30 Read More
Fukushima’s radiation has finally arrived: U.S. mainland now covered with ‘invisible blanket of death’
It has always been postulated that the radioactive cesium-137 particles from the leaking nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, would find its way to the United States. Has this day now finally come? Just this last month, whales have been found washed up and dead on shores along the West Coast. Birds and fish are Read More