“We can’t postpone a decision on the plan to deal with the… processed water, to prevent delays in the decommission work of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant”…
Japan May Be Forced to Dump Radioactive Fukushima Water Into the Pacific…
Radioactive water from Japan’s destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant may have to be dumped into the ocean, the country’s energy minister reportedly said Tuesday, igniting concern and anger from nuclear safety experts and Japan’s neighbors in the region. The electric utility overseeing the crippled power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company, or Tepco, is running out […]
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and Its Tragic Aftermath…
The three meltdowns and at least four big core explosions at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant’s six American-designed Daiichi reactors in March 2011 still constitute the world’s worst nuclear nightmare so far, surpassing even the Chernobyl #4 reactor’s explosion and meltdown of April 1986. While Chernobyl’s disaster was very quickly contained albeit at the cost of […]
Worse Than Chernobyl: Parts of Marshall Islands Have Radiation ‘Higher’ Than Catastrophic ’86 Disaster…
A series of studies have concluded that the radiation levels in parts of the Marshall Islands, where nuclear weapons were tested more than 60 years ago, is “higher than Chernobyl.” The studies, published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, demonstrate that the concentration of nuclear isotopes on some of the […]
River of Radiation: Life in the Area of the World’s 3rd-Worst Nuclear Disaster…
Before Fukushima and Chernobyl, the worst-ever nuclear disaster was a massive leak from a plant in the eastern Urals. RT went to see how people live in areas affected by the fallout from the USSR’s risky rush to the nuclear bomb. Chernobyl and Fukushima are the two names that are most likely to come to […]
Despite Denials, Study Claims 2017’s Mysterious Radioactive Cloud Did Come from Russia…
Radioactive Fukushima Debris Picked Up by Remote-Controlled Robot for First Time…
A remote-controlled robot sent into the bowels of a melted nuclear reactor at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant has made picked up pebble-sized chunks of radioactive debris for the first time. On Wednesday, operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) sent a remote-controlled probe to the bottom of the plant’s No. 2 reactor and lifted five small pieces of radioactive debris two […]
Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Room Dripping with Radiation Unsealed 7 Years After Tsunami…
The room in the Fukushima nuclear disaster zone controlled the power plant’s crippled third and fourth reactors. Shockingly, it has radiation levels more than 160 times higher than the Tokyo average. Stepping inside, the first journalists to enter since the 2011 meltdown found it frozen in time. It comes just months after shocking photos emerged […]
Japan Plans to Flush Fukushima Water ‘Containing Radioactive Material Above Permitted Levels’ Into the Pacific Ocean…
Water that the Japanese government is planning to release into the Pacific Ocean from the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant contains radioactive material well above legally permitted levels, according to the plant’s operator and documents seen by The Telegraph. The government is running out of space to store contaminated water that has come into contact […]
Injustice At Sea: the Irradiated Sailors of the USS Reagan…
“Coverage of the USS Ronald Reagan has been astoundingly limited,” wrote Der Spiegel in a February 2015 story. Since then, nothing much has changed. The German magazine was referring to the saga of the American Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier whose crew pitched in to help victims of the March 11, 2011 Tsunami and earthquake in […]