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Japan: Thyroid Abnormalities Found in Children Downwind from Fukushima
2013-03-10 20:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A doctor conducts a thyroid test during a rehearsal in October before the start of a Fukushima prefectural government program. Photo: Asahi Shimbun Thyroid abnormalities have now been confirmed among tens of thousands of children downwind from Fukushima. They are the first clear sign of an unfolding radioactive tragedy that demands this industry be buried forever. Two years after Fukushima exploded, three still-smoldering reactors remind us that the nuclear power industry repeatedly told the...
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Thousands in Japan anti-nuclear protest two years after Fukushima
2013-03-10 11:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Thousands of protesters marched in the Japanese capital on Sunday calling on the government to shun nuclear power, a day before the second anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that triggered the world's worst atomic disaster in 25 years. Japan is still coming to terms with the disaster that ravaged its northeastern region two years ago - the earthquake and tsunami killed more than 15,000 people. Several thousand people are still unaccounted for. "It's becoming more and more important for...
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Japan: Every Day Is a Fukushima Memorial
2013-03-10 10:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Japan prepares to mark the second anniversary of the Mar. 11 triple disaster -- an earthquake, tsunami and a critical nuclear reactor accident -- with much soul searching across the country. For Yukiko Takada from Otsuki-cho, a scenic fishing town in Iwate prefecture that was turned into rubble in a few hours on that fateful day, the upcoming memorial Monday will simply be another day. "For me, as it is like for the survivors who experienced the horrible tragedy, everyday remains a memorial,...
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Two Years After Fukushima, Japan's Nuclear Lobby Bounces Back
2013-03-08 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The crowds of anti-nuclear protesters have dwindled since Japan's "Summer of Discontent" last year, and a new government is keen to revive the country's atomic energy industry, but Morishi Izumita says he is not about to throw in the towel. "We can't give up. I'm here every week," said 64-year-old Izumita, one of hundreds gathered outside the prime minister's office one Friday nearly two years after a huge earthquake and tsunami triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986...
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Japan: Fukushima two years on: the largest nuclear decommissioning finally begins
2013-03-06 18:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Radiation levels in the abandoned communities near Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have fallen 40% in the past year. Inside the wrecked facility, construction workers rush to complete state-of-the-art equipment that will remove dozens of dangerous radioactive nuclides from cooling water. Soon, a steel shield will be driven into the seabed to prevent contamination from the plant from leaking into the Pacific Ocean. Almost two years after a deadly tsunami crashed into the plant, crippling...
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