Fukushima 3rd Anniversary; Technical Report – Plant Conditions

Conditions at the plant have remained a challenge and appear they will be in the future. TEPCO started off on

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Fukushima 3rd Anniversary; Technical Report – Water

Contaminated water issues dominated TEPCO’s work and reporting out of the plant. The ALPS system intended to remove some of

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Strontium 90 Readings From Citizen Collected Fukushima Samples

Some Fukushima contamination samples collected by citizens in Japan have been tested for strontium 90. Marco Kaltofan from the Dept.

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Fukushima Is Here! Contamination Found Off Vancouver Coast

Scientists from the Bedford Institute of Oceanography have found levels of cesium in sea water off the Vancouver Canada coast that

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Fukushima Daiichi; Abusing Workers & Avoiding Liability

Examples of the continued abuse of workers hired to work at the nuclear disaster site continued in the last year.

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Fukushima Daiichi Exposures Found To Be Worse Than Claimed

After pressure from the Health Ministry, TEPCO recalculated the thyroid doses of some workers. These totaled to 1,973 workers who received

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放射能は人々を見えない存在にする ロバート・ジェイコブズ | Radiation Makes People Invisible – Japanese Version

放射能は人々を見えない存在にする ロバート・ジェイコブズ A version in English IS available here:  http://Wp.Me/p1zinA-3bv 放射能は人々を見えない存在にする。放射線を浴びる、つまり被ばくすると、健康に害が及ぶこ とは知られている。高い放射線量を浴びた場合は、死にいたることさえある。しかし、放射能が及 ぼす影響はそれだけではない。被ばくした人たちは、そして健康障害はないが被ばくした恐れがあ る人たちでさえも、人生が大きく変えられてしまう。彼らは「二級市民」とみなされ、家族、地域 コミュニティ、ふるさと、昔ながらの食生活、受け継がれてきた知恵までもが奪われてしまう。残 された人生を、ふるさとに戻りたい、普通の生活に戻りたいと願いながら過ごすことになる。そし て、自分たちは犠牲者となったこと、自分たちが幸せな暮らしを送れるかどうかは政府や地域社会 の関心の的ではないことを少しずつ悟るのである。 核技術の社会的、文化的側面を研究する歴史家として、筆者は何年にもわたって世界中の被ばく 地域をめぐり、調査を行ってきた。こうした地域の人たちの多くが被ばくした原因は、核実験、

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Living With Radiation In Japan

Local food coops that carefully select and test their food have become a go-to source for people concerned about contamination

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Nuclear Establishment Takes Over Fukushima Medical University

More agreements have been inked between Fukushima Medical University and the international nuclear mafia. Fukushima Medical University has signed an

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Fukushima & The Controversy Of The Pacific

There were big concerns thrown around about the situation in the Pacific related to Fukushima in the last year. Oceanographers

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23 Tbq Water Leak At Fukushima Caused By Multiple Human Errors

100 tons of water leaked from a contaminated water tank at Fukushima Daiichi after workers incorrectly aligned valves. They then

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Fukushima Brings New Awareness Of Contaminated Food Worldwide

The concerns about food contamination from Fukushima has also increased awareness of the lingering problems of world wide food contamination

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High Levels Of Radiation Found In Fukushima Unit 3 Turbine Building

TEPCO released radiation readings for water inside the unit 3 turbine building this week. The readings were from December 2013.

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Citizen Activists Key To Understanding Fukushima Impact

People around Japan are still conducting efforts to understand their environment and to act as a 3rd party accuracy check

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New Independent Fukushima Food Contamination Results

People in Japan early on realized they needed to take things into their own hands if they wanted to know

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Fukushima Unit 3 Concrete Reactor Cover Damaged

TEPCO has admitted that the concrete reactor well cover on unit 3 has been damaged. They floated two possible causes.

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Fukushima Nuclear Migrants; In Their Own Words

A high school student from Ibaraki explains her family’s journey to evacuated from the regions around the Fukushima disaster. This

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More Record High Radiation Readings At Fukushima Daiichi

After the recent admission of record high strontium 90 readings being found at the sea front at Fukushima Daiichi, more

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Citizens Step In Where Government Has Failed Fukushima Children

The town of Kawauchi has been trying to encourage residents to return to the town on the edge of the

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Fukushima; Efforts To Erase Human Rights

In June of 2013 UNSCEAR released a report declaring the human health impacts from Fukushima to be almost non-existent. The

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Fukushima Unit 4; 308 Fuel Assemblies Removed

308 assemblies have been removed from the unit 4 spent fuel pool. The assemblies were transferred to the common pool

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Fukushima Fish Tales; US Fish Marketing Deceptive To Consumers

This article is a good example of the motivations and biases in play related to Fukushima food contamination in North

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75 Suspected Thyroid Cancers In Fukushima Children, Not Normal

The number of children found with confirmed or suspected thyroid cancers continues to grow. The newest numbers out of the

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5 MILLION bq/liter Strontium 90 Found In Well At Fukushima Daiichi

TEPCO released readings for two seafront wells that have not been published before. Wells 1-2 and 1-3 were not on

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