17 Mar Nuclear Hotseat: Fukushima Five Years Later Articles and Interviews
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17 Mar I Have Seen the Dragon
I have seen the DragonThrough clenched lids and arms pressed tight.I have felt its hot breath on my backAnd listened to the rumble of its voice.I have looked upon its breath,Glowing Amethyst, red and purple,Climbing towards the stratosphereTo deposit its venom downwind.I have waited in fear...
11 Mar Fukushima, Five Years On
Today is the 5th anniversary of the triple disaster at Fukushima - the earthquake, tsunami and triple nuclear melt-through caused over 15,000 deaths that day and displaced over 160,000 people. In the aftermath, many thousands more have died or will die of cancer or suicide....
11 Mar Nuclear News
Today is the 5th anniversary of the triple disaster at Fukushima - the earthquake, tsunami and triple nuclear melt-through caused over 15,000 deaths that day and displaced over 160,000 people. In the aftermath, many thousands more have died or will die of cancer or suicide. ...
11 Mar Mary Olson of the Nuclear Information Resource Center and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates tour Japan five years after the meltdowns.
As the fifth anniversary of the onset of the continuing Fukushima nuclear disaster approaches, Mary Olson, director of NIRS Southeast office in Asheville, NC and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates are on a five-week speaking/listening tour of Japan. Safe Energy is posting Olson’s “tour diary”,...
11 Mar Radioactive Leak at Indian Point Nuclear Plant Shows ‘We Are Flirting With Catastrophe’
http://ecowatch.com/2016/02/17/indian-point-leak/ New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called for Indian Point nuclear power plant to be shut down after officials discovered that a radioactive material known as tritium was leaking into the groundwater. On Feb. 6, Cuomo ordered an investigation into the leak after Entergy, the company that operates the...
11 Mar 7 Top NRC Experts Break Ranks to Warn of Critical Danger at Aging Nuke Plants
http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/09/nrc-experts-warn-dangers-nuclear/ Seven top Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) experts have taken the brave rare step of publicly filing an independent finding warning that nearly every U.S. atomic reactor has a generic safety flaw that could spark a disaster. The warning mocks the latest industry push to keep America’s...
11 Mar 5 Years After Fukushima, ‘No End in Sight’ to Ecological Fallout
http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/05/5-years-after-fukushima/ On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered a tsunami, which in turn produced equipment failures and the release of radioactive material at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. The disaster is the single largest release of radioactivity into the ocean and...
11 Mar Beyond Nuclear warns U.S. is unprotected from Fukushima-style nuclear disaster 5 years after meltdowns in Japan
Beyond Nuclear, in a press release today, decried the absence of reasonable plans to prevent and protect against a nuclear disaster in the U.S., five years after the March 11, 2011 triple meltdowns began at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. More than 32 million Japanese have been...
11 Mar Fukushima Should Have Served as Wake-Up Call for U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Elliott Negin, Union of Concerned Scientists | March 10, 2016 10:38 am | Comments http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/10/fukushima-wake-up-call-nrc/ On March 11, 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and 50-foot tsunami triggered meltdowns at three of six nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan. It was the one...