By Faisal Raza Khan6 March 2012 ISLAMABAD – Hydrogen fluoride emissions from brick kilns have been found to damage trees and crops in new studies conducted by an international team of scientists in the Peshawar area of northern Pakistan. Peshawar has 450 brick kilns and hydrogen fluoride is also released by factories making aluminium, ceramics, […]
By William Pesek 6 Mar 2012 A year after an earthquake in Japan touched off the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl, here’s the question on my mind: Who’s going to jail? The news media are asking the obvious and safe questions ahead of March 11: How well did the government respond? Whither the devastated northeast? […]
6 March 2012 (BBC) – A fire that killed two workers and destroyed a gas exploration rig off Nigeria’s south-east coast has gone out after 46 days, Chevron has said. It stopped burning by itself after rock fragments within the underground natural gas well sealed off the leak. The US oil and gas firm, which […]
The key to cooling damaged nuclear plants now poses a major radioactive worry and storage challenge. By PHRED DVORAK, with Mitsuru Obe29 February 2012 OKUMA, Japan – Nearly a year after the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami sparked triple meltdowns at reactors here, the taming of Fukushima Daiichi has become in large part a […]
Watch Inside Japan’s Nuclear Meltdown on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. Frontline interviews workers and citizens who recall events in the first nine days of the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. Inside Japan’s nuclear meltdowns Technorati Tags: Fukushima,Japan,pollution,infrastructure failure
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 3 March 2012 Kyodo News reports (3/3/2012), nearly one year later: ＳＰＥＥＤＩ予測「公表できない」 文科省文書に記載 SPEEDI simulation “cannot be made public”, according to a document by Ministry of Education and Science 東京電力福島第１原発事故５日目の昨年３月１５日、緊急時迅速放射能影響予測ネットワークシステム（ＳＰＥＥＤＩ）による放射性物質の拡散予測について、当時の高木義明文部科学相ら政務三役や文科省幹部が協議し「一般にはとても公表できない内容と判断」と記した内部文書が作成されていたことが２日、同省関係者への取材で分かった。 It was revealed on 2 March 2012 by speaking with the people involved at the Ministry of Education and Science that an internal memo […]
By AKIKO OKAZAKI / Staff Writer29 February 2012 A mind-boggling 40,000 trillion becquerels of radioactive cesium, or twice the amount previously thought, may have spewed from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant after the March 11 disaster, scientists say. Michio Aoyama, a senior researcher at the Meteorological Research Institute, released the finding at […]
By Emma Amaize and Sam Oyadongha2 March 2012 Forty-eight days after the January 16, Chevron Nigeria Limited, rig gas explosion in Bayelsa State, natives of Koluama I, Koluama II, Tamazo, Ebidouama and other communities in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state are now living in fear of being submerged because of the effects […]
By INGFEI CHEN27 February 2012 MONTEREY, California – On a fog-shrouded morning in Monterey Bay, wildlife researchers are out to capture a southern sea otter named Blanca — part of a three-year project to learn why her species, hunted to near extinction a century ago, is still in trouble here despite decades of efforts to […]
CNN’s Kyung Lah travels to the 12-mile exclusion zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant nearly a year after the quake. Fukushima’s animals abandoned and left to die Technorati Tags: Fukushima,Japan,infrastructure failure,pollution
