April 2, 2011, 12:09pm BERLIN (AP) – For a look at just how long radioactivity can hang around, consider Germany’s wild boars. A quarter century after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union carried a cloud of radiation across Europe, these animals are radioactive enough that people are urged not to eat them. And […]
This video was taken 24 March 2011 and shows Fukushima nuclear plant reactor No. 4. The camera is mounted on the tip of the crane used for discharging concrete pump into the building. Inside reactor 4 Fukushima Technorati Tags: Fukushima,pollution,infrastructure failure,Asia
By NEAL KARLINSKY, WENDY BRUNDIGE and LEEZEL TANGLAO1 April 2011 Some Japanese plant workers, including former employees who are now miles away from the damaged nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, say they are concerned about the health of their colleagues and the availability of equipment to keep them safe from the leaked radiation. […]
In this March 24, 2011 aerial photo taken by a small unmanned drone and released by AIR PHOTO SERVICE, damaged Unit 3 of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is seen in Okumamachi, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. Air Photo Service Co. Ltd., Japan Photos shown are half-size of the originals. The 10 originals full-size: […]
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL and WILLIAM J. BROADPublished: March 28, 2011 The announcement by Japan’s Agency for Natural Resources and Energy that high levels of radioactive cesium have been detected in seawater near the crippled nuclear reactors raises the prospect that radiation could enter the food chain. Cesium 137 levels were 20 times the normal level […]
[Background: The fossil fuel industries, notably the Koch brothers, are assaulting the U.S. political system with unprecedented quantities of money. The Republican party has been targeted for infiltration by the industry’s front organization, the Tea Party. Although the Tea Party comprises a small percentage of the G.O.P., the party’s leadership has been forced to pander […]
Contact: Tierra Curry (928) 522-3681, Center for Biological Diversity22 March 2011 KNOXVILLE, Tenn.— The Obama administration denied Endangered Species Act protection Monday to the Berry Cave salamander, a rare Tennessee amphibian that government scientists say needs federal protection to keep it from going extinct. The Berry Cave salamander is known from only nine locations in […]
By Leigh Coleman and Steve Gorman; editing by Jerry Norton25 March 2011 BILOXI, Mississippi (Reuters) – The U.S. government is keeping a tight lid on its probe into scores of unexplained dolphin deaths along the Gulf Coast, possibly connected to last year’s BP oil spill, causing tension with some independent marine scientists. Wildlife biologists contracted […]
By Kenichi Iwasaki and Tsuyoshi Shimoji, Asahi Shimbun30 March 2011 The prolonged crisis at the quake-stricken nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture is increasingly wearing down front-line workers, as the exhausting and dangerous work shows no signs of letting up. Companies supplying the workers say safety fears have grown, particularly since three workers were exposed […]
By Kenneth S. Deffeyes29 March 2011 One of my former students, Joel Achenbach, has a book being released this week about the BP blowout. (A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea.) His e-mail a week ago asked whether there were parallels between the BP Macondo blowout and the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima. My […]
