Posted by seumasach on May 11, 2011
11th May, 2011
The 22-strong ethics commission set up by Chancellor Angela Merkel to debate the pros and cons of nuclear energy in Germany seems likely to recommend that all nuclear power stations in the country be taken from the grid within the next decade – at the latest.
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Posted by seumasach on May 10, 2011
8th May, 2011
The first map of ground surface contamination within 80 kilometers of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant shows radiation levels higher in some municipalities than those in the mandatory relocation zone around the Chernobyl plant.
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Posted by seumasach on May 10, 2011
Vivian Norris
9th May, 2011
I received the following email a few days ago from a Russian nuclear physicist friend who is an expert on the kinds of gases being released at Fukushima. Here is what he wrote:
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Posted by seumasach on May 8, 2011
8th May, 2011
Several thousand Japanese anti-nuclear protesters marched in the rain yesterday, welcoming a call from the prime minister to shut down a plant in central Japan and urging him to close more to avoid another nuclear crisis.
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Posted by seumasach on April 30, 2011
29th April, 2011
TOKYO—A prominent Japanese radiation safety specialist has resigned his governmental advisory post in protest over what he calls “inexcusable” standards for school children in Fukushima Prefecture. The Yomiuri Online news web site reported in Japanese this evening that Toshiso Kosako, a radiation safety expert at the University of Tokyo, feels the standards are too lenient and that his advice has been ignored.
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Posted by seumasach on April 27, 2011
Makiko Segawa
26th April, 2011
In Tokyo, on April 6, a group of freelance journalists centered on Uesugi Takashi, 43, held a media session with dozens of DPJ lawmakers, including former Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio, to question the performance of the media in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.
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Posted by seumasach on April 4, 2011
3rd April, 2011
Officials at UC Berkeley have tested rain water that turned out to be 181 times the limit for drinking water. This is happening at the same time that our FAKE corporate media is telling the sheeple that there is absolutely nothing to worry about.
Read full article here
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Posted by seumasach on April 4, 2011
John Vidal
1st April, 2011
Every day there are more setbacks to solving the Japanese nuclear crisis and it’s pretty clear that the industry and governments are telling us little; have no idea how long it will take to control; or what the real risk of cumulative contamination may be.
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Posted by seumasach on April 2, 2011
Chris Busby
Scientific Secretary
European Committee on Radiation Risk
19th March, 2011
Read report here
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