By Yuriy Humber and Stuart Biggs 30 May 2011 Radioactive soil in pockets of areas near Japan’s crippled nuclear plant have reached the same level as Chernobyl, where a “dead zone” remains 25 years after the reactor in the former Soviet Union exploded. Soil samples in areas outside the 20-kilometer (12 miles) exclusion zone around […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera30 May 2011 Radioactive pollution is now detected in snow and freshwater fish. And Japan’s Kan administration still pushes for nuclear power, not just for the Japanese but for the up-and-coming countries in Asia and the rest of the world. From Mainichi Shinbun Japanese (5/30/2011; link, emphasis added): 山岳愛好家らで作る「高山（たかやま）の原生林を守る会」は２９日、福島市周辺の山岳地帯から採取した雪の放射線量分析結果を公表した。標高１５００メー トル以下を中心に高濃度の放射性セシウムが検出され、最高は箕輪山東斜面の１３３８メートル地点で１キロ当たり２９６８ベクレルだった。市内の阿武隈川の ヤマメなど川魚からは国の暫定規制値（１キロ当たり５００ベクレル）を上回るセシウムが検出され、雪解け水の流入が原因とみられるという。 On May 29, […]
May 30 (Xinhua) – Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) and the Japanese government officials said Monday that two of the utility firm’s employees who have been working at the crippled Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant in northeast Japan may have been exposed to radiation exceeding the legal limit of 250 millisieverts. The two male workers […]
TOKYO, May 29 (MarketWatch) – Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501.TO) is coming to the view that it will be impossible to stabilize the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant by the end of this year, possibly affecting the timing for the government to consider the return of evacuees to their homes near the […]
By Geoff Brumfiel26 May 2011 As more details leak out about the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, it’s become clear that something else is leaking—radioactive water from the cores of three damaged reactors. Leaks have been a persistent problem at the plant since it was struck by an earthquake and tsunami on 11 March. […]
ISLAMABAD, May 29 (PakTribune) – Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday said Pakistan suffered a loss of Rs855 billion ($10 billion USD) to the economy due to the worst floods last year. “The worst affected sector was agriculture that suffered loss of around Rs429 billion, followed by housing (Rs135 billion), Transport and Communications […]
NOAA’s Eye-Opening Time-Lapse Video of April’s Deadly Tornadoes Major Tornado Outbreak Impacts Southeast U.S. – April 26, 2011 Technorati Tags: North America,global warming,climate change,infrastructure failure
By Chisa Fujioka and Kevin Krolicki; Editing by Tomasz Janowski and Nick Macfie27 May 2011 (Reuters) – Japan will pay schools near the quake-ravaged Fukushima nuclear power plant to remove radioactive top soil and set a lower radiation exposure limit for schoolchildren after a growing outcry over health risks. The Education Ministry triggered protests in […]
By Wang Qian (China Daily)28 May 2011 BEIJING – The Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydropower project, might lose the battle against the worst drought to hit Central China in 50 years if no rains fall by mid-June. “If the drought continues and there is no rainfall before June 10, the dam will lose […]
View Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace team in a larger map By arevamirpal::laprimavera27 May 2011 Radioactive materials in concentration that was up to several hundreds of times the normal level were detected from the soil on the ocean floor in the 300-kilometer strip along the coast from Kesennuma City in Miyagi Prefecture to Choshi […]
