How to rise from the ashes of a nuclear fallout
Seeing our world peppered in nuclear ash is inevitable — at least, this is what the folks at the American Chemical Society seem to believe. Rather than release a video explaining how we can prevent nuclear fallout, the agency released a video explaining how we can cope with it, instead. Still, in the event of a nuclear catastrophe, it Read More
Nearly a million cancer diagnoses to follow post-Fukushima disaster, according to new study
A recent report published in the Fairewinds Energy Education (FEE), titled “Cancer on the Rise in Post-Fukushima Japan,” estimates there will be about a million cancer diagnoses in Japan due to the Fukushima disaster. According to the new report, given the data collected by esteemed Japanese medical professionals and the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), there will be Read More
Magnitude 5.5 earthquake rocks Fukushima Prefecture
History repeats itself. A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck the Fukushima and Miyagi Prefectures at 3:04 p.m. on Wednesday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.(1) In 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake launched a tsunami that blasted the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. It was the worst nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl catastrophe in 1986. Cleaning up the Read More
Redacted government emails reveal Fukushima radiation may cause thyroid cancer rates to spike in U.S.
Censored and redacted government emails reveal that U.S. policymakers were worried that radiation from the Fukushima disaster could cause a spike in thyroid cancer rates among Americans. Despite this revelation, the federal government remains silent on the matter, and the mainstream media continues to downplay the severity of the catastrophe. Since a tsunami laid waste 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
United States threatened with its own mini-Fukushima disaster
Leaders in a St. Louis suburb are pleading with Obama Administration officials to clean up a radioactive land fill that has the potential to be engulfed in flames.(1) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been trying to do so something about the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton, MO, for the past 25 years. Barium sulfate Read More
Former TEPCO executives face mandatory indictment for Fukushima disaster
The Tokyo No. 5 Committee for the Inquest of Prosecution announced last July that former Tokyo Electric Power Co. Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, as well as two other former company executives, should be indicted for his role in the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. The will of the people trumped the prosecutor’s decision not to indict the men. Read More
Fukushima disaster sparks rise in suicide and spontaneous abortion rates
An estimated 2,000 people died during the Fukushima evacuation process in 2011. More than four years later, the Fukushima power plant is still claiming lives. Reports reveal that the disaster has been linked to a spike in suicide rates and spontaneous abortions. According to a Japanese Cabinet Office report, approximately 56 suicides between 2011 and Read More
Fukushima Accident
Following a major earthquake, a 15-metre tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three Fukushima Daiichi reactors, causing a nuclear accident on 11 March 2011. All three cores largely melted in the first three days. The accident was rated 7 on the INES scale, due to high radioactive releases over days 4 to 6, Read More