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
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
BILLIONS of dead fish now washing up in Alaska from radiation-polluted Pacific Ocean
Something smells fishy in Alaska’s waters. Hundreds of dead fish were found dead on Front Beach in downtown Alaska last Tuesday. In addition, high temperatures and low river levels are killing salmon in Matanuska and Susitna valleys.(1, 2) These reports coincide with a number of dead whales, birds and fish being found in the Aleutian Read More
TEPCO continues to use deadly environmental contaminant “hydrazine” at Fukushima site
Recent roadmap reports from the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) reveal that the noxious chemical hydrazine is still in use at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Hydrazine was used originally in 2011 to keep reactors, and storage pools for spent fuel from the reactors, from corroding. Japan developed its own rules for reporting on the Read More
Fukushima food is smuggled into Taiwan despite ban to protect citizens from radiation
Taiwanese and Japanese officials are trying to work out a memorandum of understanding (MOU) after banned food products from the Fukushima disaster were discovered in Taiwan.(1) A tsunami slammed the coast of Japan in 2011, decimating three nuclear reactors and severely damaging a fourth reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi site. Hundreds of thousands of tons Read More
Livestock offspring contaminated by Fukushima radiation
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake sparked a tsunami off the coast of Japan that left the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in ruins. Thousands of animals were abandoned and exposed to toxic levels of radiation from the power plant. A growing body of empirical studies after the disaster shows that the radiation Read More