By David Ropeik / BigThink.com / November 23, 2011 / To most journalists, a good story is defined in large measure by how much attention it will get. A story that makes page one, or leads the newscast, is better than one buried inside the newspaper or …
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By Gavin Blair / Christian Science Monitor / November 23, 2011 / Polls show the public turning against nuclear energy after Japan’s Fukushima disaster. But low coverage of protests and powerful business and political interests have complicated ef…
Continue readingvia LifeBoxCompany.com Many people have written me and asked more or less the same question: “What would you do to help heal the Japanese landscape around the failing nuclear reactors?” The enormity and unprecedented nature of this combined natural…
Continue readingnf2045.blogspot.com / November 13, 2011 / Experts then, experts today. Is it any different today as we see many medical specialists telling us that international standards for radiation exposure are needlessly much too low? Just relax, breathe it all i…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / November 14, 2011 / Reactor 4: A young worker standing to listen to Goshi Hosono, Minister in charge of the accident, speak: Both photos were taken by the AP photographer David Guttenfelder. For more high impact photos, go to cryptome.org …
Continue readingby Lucas W Hixson / Enformable.com / November 4, 2011 / Much recent discussion has occurred regarding the recent developments at Reactor 2.If sustained criticality is occurring inside (or outside) of the containment, then there is constant danger of cr…
Continue readingex-SKF / November 6, 2011 / Loose ends of small news and “baseless rumors” at the end of the weekend. Links are mostly in Japanese. Sorry English readers… The case of the high-radiation supermarket in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo: The contracto…
Continue readingBy Minoru Matsutani / Japan Times / November 3, 2011 / Experts just don’t know the effect on humans below 100 millisieverts The March 11 nuclear accident at the Fukushima No. 1 plant has transformed what used to be a long-standing academic debate…
Continue readingby Mary-Charlotte Domandi / HuffingtonPost / October 31, 2011 / …or, “How to spend $6 billion, create 600 jobs, and prop up the most unproductive sector of the military industrial complex for another generation.” Despite President Oba…
Continue readingnf2045.blogspot.com / October 29, 2011 / A review of the Summary Report of the Preliminary findings of the IAEA Mission on Remediation of Large Contaminated Areas off-site the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP I first became familiar with the nature of IAEA repor…
Continue readingby Glenn “Rhino” Griffith / Santa Barbara Independent / October 27, 2011 On October 5, I had the opportunity to tour Diablo. You will be glad to know that any worries you might have about Diablo are unfounded and silly, and you really shoul…
Continue readingby David McNeill / Japan Focus / October 25, 2011 / In autumn last year, Shoji Katsuzo (75) was quietly farming rice, vegetables and a small herd of cattle in the picturesque village of Iitate. Today, he lives in a two-room temporary house 35 kilometer…
Continue readingJason Bartashius / The Japan Times / October 25, 2011 / Dear Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, After the disasters of March 11 occurred, I was reminded of Akira Kurosawa’s 1990 movie, “Dreams.” The film includes one episode, “Mount…
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