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Hundreds sue makers of Fukushima nuclear plant
2014-01-30 19:16:53| Energy - Topix.net
Lawyers for the plaintiffs said that the lawsuit, filed at Tokyo District Court, is a landmark challenge of current regulations that give manufacturers immunity from liability in nuclear accidents.
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Fukushima is an ongoing warning to the world on nuclear energy
2014-01-16 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: "I write these facts as dispassionately as I can in the hope that they will act as a warning to the world," wrote the journalist Wilfred Burchett from Hiroshima. His story, headlined, "The Atomic Plague" appeared in the London Daily Express on 5 September 1945. Burchett violated the US military blockade of Hiroshima, and was the first Western journalist to visit that devastated city. He wrote: "Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and...
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Fukushima Radiation (Still) Poses No California Risk
2014-01-15 15:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Im catching up with an incredibly helpful, and sadly necessary, article by Tony Barboza in the Los Angeles Times explaining why theres no scientific basis for the persistent stream of fear mongering about a radiation threat in American seafood and along California coasts from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant calamity. Heres the introduction: Radiation detected off the U.S. West Coast from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan has declined since the 2011 tsunami disaster and...
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Japan: Toll of U.S. Sailors Devastated by Fukushima Radiation Continues to Climb
2014-01-11 17:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The roll call of U.S. sailors who say their health was devastated when they were irradiated while delivering humanitarian help near the stricken Fukushima nuke is continuing to soar. So many have come forward that the progress of their federal class action lawsuit has been delayed. Bay area lawyer Charles Bonner says a re-filing will wait until early February to accommodate a constant influx of sailors from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and other American ships. U.S. sailors irradiated...
Japan to Recreate Fukushima Meltdown for Analysis
2014-01-10 21:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: It`s been almost three years since the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, but the Japan Atomic Energy Agency is still trying to figure out what went wrong. The agency`s latest effort will be to recreate the meltdown in a controlled setting in order to analyze the event and better prepare for future incidents. According to The Yomiuri Shimbun, the experiment will include melting a miniature version of one of the Fukushima Daiichi energy plant`s 4.5-meter rods inside a stainless-steel capsule. Neutrons...
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