By arevamirpal::laprimavera 22 June 2012 (UPDATE) Video of TV Asahi program reporting the protest in the latest post. ========================================= Well well. People in Japan did it the old-fashion way to attract media attention (not that they did it to attract attention, but…). Every single media in Japan ignored the protest on June 15 with 11,000 […]
By HIROKO TABUCHI19 June 2012 TOKYO – The United States shared detailed radiation measurements with Japan in the early days of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster that the Japanese government did not make public or use in conducting evacuations, officials acknowledged on Tuesday. Lacking information about the direction of airborne particles, some evacuees fled, […]
[More protest videos here. h/t Ex-SKF] By ERIC JOHNSTON, Staff writer17 June 2012 OSAKA – The decision to restart two reactors at the Oi nuclear plant has sparked international concern, with antinuclear activists and politicians in many countries sending letters of protest and holding rallies outside Japanese embassies and consulates over the past week. Politicians […]
By Kyung Lah, CNN11 June 2012 The executives of the Japanese utility that owns the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and a number of the country’s government officials should go to jail, according to a complaint filed by more than 1,000 local residents on Monday. A total of 1,324 people lodged the unusual criminal complaint […]
By ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer28 May 2012 Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan’s crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away – the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance. “We were […]
By HIROKO TABUCHI and MATTHEW L. WALD26 May 2012 TOKYO – What passes for normal at the Fukushima Daiichi plant today would have caused shudders among even the most sanguine of experts before an earthquake and tsunami set off the world’s second most serious nuclear crisis after Chernobyl. Fourteen months after the accident, a pool […]
By Michel Rose, with additional reporting by Gus Trompiz and Muriel Boselli; editing by Jason Neely24 May 2012 PARIS (Reuters) – China spurred a jump in global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to their highest ever recorded level in 2011, offsetting falls in the United States and Europe, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday. […]
BONN, Germany, 24 May 2012 (AP) – U.N. climate talks ran into gridlock Thursday as a widening rift between rich and poor countries risked undoing some advances made last year in the decades-long effort to control carbon emissions that scientists say are overheating the planet. As so often in the slow-moving negotiations, the session in […]
By Stephanie Nebehay and Tom Miles; Editing by Andrew Osborn23 May 2012 GENEVA (Reuters) – Spikes in radiation caused by the Fukushima nuclear accident were below cancer-causing levels in almost all of Japan and neighbouring countries had levels similar to normal background radiation, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. In a preliminary report using […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 23 May 2012 First, young mothers with small children (photo from @mama_jp). The sign says, “Adults should protect the future of children. We’re against disaster debris burning. Protect Kyushu for Japan.” Professor Yukio Hayakawa’s tweet was: “Mothers in Kitakyushu, have they all gone nuts?” On his May 23 blog, he proclaimed, “This day […]
