Japanese lawyers Monday appealed a ruling clearing three energy firm bosses of professional negligence in the only criminal trial stemming from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown, a court official said. The three men were senior officials at Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, and had faced up to five […]
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 […]
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 […]
USS Reagan Crew Can Sue TEPCO Over Fukushima Nuclear Disaster…
A federal appeals court has ruled that members of the US Navy can now, in a US court, pursue their lawsuit which alleges that they were exposed to radiation while providing aid after the nuclear crisis in Fukushima, Japan. On Thursday, the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled in favor of […]