Radiation spreads throughout Japan – Government to survey half of nation for soil contamination – National lifetime radiation exposure limit raised to 100 mSv

By arevamirpal::laprimavera27 July 2011 Afraid of a “chaos” in the harvest season, perhaps? After more than 4 months since the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident started, the Japanese government must be feeling it safe to admit to a far wider contamination by radioactive fallout. The Ministry of Education and Science announced that it will […]

Will women in Japan wear the ‘Chernobyl necklace’?

By Christina Maria Paschyn27 April 2011 Natalia Manzurova was a 35-year-old nuclear engineer in Russia when she was assigned to be part of the clean-up crew at the Chernobyl power plant in northern Ukraine, site of the worst nuclear accident in history. Despite her training, Manzurova did not fully comprehend the dangers. On a preliminary […]

A young man sacrificing his future to shut down crippled Fukushima nuclear plant

By David McNeill26 July 2011 Atsushi Watanabe (not his real name) is an ordinary Japanese man in his 20s, about average height and solidly built, with the slightly bemused expression of the natural sceptic. Among the crowds in Tokyo, in his casual all-black clothes, he could be an off-duty postman or a construction worker. But […]

Radioactive emissions from Fukushima nuclear plant estimated at one billion becquerels per hour

By arevamirpal::laprimavera 19 July 2011 That’s an amazing reduction from the maximum emission of 2,000 terabecquerels per hour on March 15, it is actually one-2 millionth of the maximum, says TEPCO in the Reference No. 2 of the progress report on the “roadmap” to God knows where. Is this number, 1 billion becquerels per hour […]

Video: Simulation of Fukushima-type reactor meltdown and melt-through

By arevamirpal::laprimavera 22 July 2011 This animation was created by the Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization, a government corporation under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (which regulates the nuclear industry), to train Senior Specialists for Nuclear Emergency Preparedness on the severe accident of loss of cooling, using a Mark-1 Boiling Water Reactor. It […]

Fukushima cleanup recruits ‘nuclear gypsies’ from across Japan

By Justin McCurry in Iwaki-Yumoto, www.guardian.co.uk13 July 2011 The sun has only just risen in Iwaki-Yumoto when groups of men in white T-shirts and light blue cargo pants emerge blinking into the sunlight, swapping the comfort of their air-conditioned rooms for the fierce humidity of a Japanese summer. Four months on from the start of […]

Radioactive beef from over 500 cattle ‘sold in around Tokyo’

Reporting by Risa Maeda, editing by Jane Baird18 July 2011 TOKYO (Reuters) – More than 500 beef cattle that ate feed contaminated by radioactive material from Fukushima have already shipped to other parts of Japan, an initial result of inspections on the area’s farms showed Monday. Separately, Yomiuri newspaper said Japan’s central government is expected […]

Workers toil under intense heat at crippled Fukushima nuclear plant

July 16 (Press Trust Of India) – Workers are struggling under intense heat at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant with as many as 31 people having fallen sick complaining of apparent symptoms of heat stroke, according to Tokyo Electric Power Co. While the utility, which operates the plant, has taken steps to ease […]

Fukushima to decontaminate entire city – Effort to take up to 20 years

July 14 (Yomiuri Shimbun) – The Fukushima municipal government likely will decontaminate the city’s entire area in response to the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to city government sources. Fukushima is the second municipality in Fukushima Prefecture that plans to decontaminate the entire area under its jurisdiction. The first […]

Cows fed hay with radioactive cesium at 250 times legal limit

July 11 (NHK) – Radioactive cesium far exceeding the legal limit has been detected in hay that was fed to cattle at a farm in Fukushima Prefecture. The prefecture has been investigating why the cattle were contaminated with the radioactive substance. On Sunday, officials took samples of feed and well water at the farm located […]

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