Tag: nuclear
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50 Reasons Why We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima
[This is the first in a two part series] Fukushima’s missing melted cores and radioactive gushers continue to fester in secret. Japan’s harsh dictatorial censorship has been matched by a global corporate media blackout aimed—successfully—at keeping Fukushima out of the public eye. But that doesn’t keep the actual radiation out of our ecosystem, our markets…
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Filling in the Gaps on Fukushima Radiation and Its Effects on Fish
An Internet search turns up an astounding number of pages about radiation from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdown that followed an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. But it’s difficult to find credible information. One reason is that government monitoring of radiation and its effects on fish stocks appears to be limited. According…
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So Long, Pete & Toshi Seeger, It’s Been Amazingly Great to Know You …
Toshi and Pete Seeger defy description except through the sheer joy and honor it was to know them, however briefly. Their list of accomplishments will fill many printed pages, which all pale next to the simple core beauty of the lives they led. They showed us it’s possible to live lives that somehow balance political…
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World’s Poorest Suffer From Radioactive Sickness as Areva Mines for Uranium
More than 60 percent of Niger’s population lives on less than $1 per day, and even more have no electricity. Still, French company Areva keeps contaminating those residents and their environment while mining away for uranium—one of the few resources the world’s poorest country still has. Areva has operated in northern Niger for four decades, according…
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Number of U.S. Sailors Devastated by Fukushima Radiation Continues to Climb
U.S. sailors irradiated while delivering humanitarian help near the stricken Fukushima nuke say their health has been devastated. So many have come forward that the progress of their federal class action lawsuit has been delayed. Bay area lawyer Charles Bonner says a re-filing will wait until early February to accommodate a constant influx of sailors…