06 Mar Robots dying due to radiation at Fukushima
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/robots-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-dying-probe-clean-up-tepco-toshiba-reactor-nuclear-radiation-a7612396.html...
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 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...
11 Mar American Public Still at Risk from U.S. Fukushima-style Nuclear Disaster Five Years after Japan’s Triple Meltdowns
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Paul Gunter,301.523.0201 Cindy Folkers,240.354.4314 Kevin Kamps,240.462.3216 American Public Still at Risk from U.S. Fukushima-style Nuclear Disaster Five Years after Japan’s Triple Meltdowns TAKOMA PARK, MD, March 10, 2016 — Beyond Nuclear, a leading U.S. anti-nuclear watchdog group on reactor oversight, health impacts and...
19 Jan Tepco Turns to ‘Toy Story’ Claw to Inspire Fukushima Cleanup
Tepco Turns to 'Toy Story' Claw to Inspire Fukushima Cleanup Stephen Stapczynski sstapczynski Emi Urabe Tokyo Electric Power Co. and partner Toshiba Corp. have a new twist in mind to pluck out the debris and spent fuel in one of the buildings...