radiation

6 Years Later … Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Far From Over

6 Years Later … Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Far From Over

By Yuko Yoneda Six years ago, more than 15,000 people perished and tens of thousands of people’s lives changed forever. Northeastern Japan was hit by a massive earthquake, followed by an enormous tsunami that wiped out coastal towns one after another. In the days that followed came the horrifying news: the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors […]

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    6 Years Later … Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Far From Over

    6 Years Later … Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Far From Over

    By Yuko Yoneda Six years ago, more than 15,000 people perished and tens of thousands of people’s lives changed forever. Northeastern Japan was hit by a massive earthquake, followed by an enormous tsunami that wiped out coastal towns one after another. In the days that followed came the horrifying news: the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors […]

    Radiation Level at Fukushima Is So High It Killed Two Robots

    Radiation Level at Fukushima Is So High It Killed Two Robots

    By Whitney Webb While media attention has largely drifted away from the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in the years since the disaster, a recent and disturbing development has once again made Fukushima difficult if not impossible to ignore. On Feb. 2, Tokyo Electric Power Company or TEPCO, quietly released a […]

    Radiation Along Fukushima Rivers Up to 200 Times Higher Than Pacific Ocean Seabed

    Radiation Along Fukushima Rivers Up to 200 Times Higher Than Pacific Ocean Seabed

    Radioactive contamination in the seabed off the Fukushima coast is hundreds of times above pre-2011 levels, while contamination in local rivers is up to 200 times higher than ocean sediment, according to results from Greenpeace Japan survey work released Thursday. “The extremely high levels of radioactivity we found along the river systems highlights the enormity […]