Last week another inspection was conducted inside unit 2 at Fukushima Daiichi. This new work looked inside the reactor pedestal area. The space is below the reactor vessel yet within the containment vessel. This is the third time in the…
Last week another inspection was conducted inside unit 2 at Fukushima Daiichi. This new work looked inside the reactor pedestal area. The space is below the reactor vessel yet within the containment vessel. This is the third time in the…
Fukushima’s ongoing and UNPRECEDENTED RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION of the ocean and the general dispersal of industrial pollutants by the Japan’s terrible 2011 tsunami ARE STRANGELY ABSENT from most all news coverage of marine welfare. Yet, ALL THE SCIENTIFIC DATA available, including…
Adam Broinowski, visiting research fellow at The Australian National University, 2017 (h/t Fukushima 311 Watchdogs) (emphasis added): Faced with the post-3.11 reality of government (and corporate) policy that protects economic and security interests over public health and well-being, the majority…
University of Hawaii at Mānoa, 2017: In the Wake of Fukushima: Radiocesium Inventories of Selected North Pacific Fish Thirteen commonly consumed types of fish caught in the North Pacific and locally available in Hawaii were analyzed using gamma spectroscopy to…
Seattle Times, Oct 9, 2017 (emphasis added): Scientists survey Pacific Northwest salmon each year. For the first time, some nets are coming up empty — Scientists have been hauling survey nets through the ocean off the coasts of Washington and…
Arnie Gundersen, former nuclear engineer (emphasis added), Feb 2, 2017: “When I went to school, the saying was ‘dilution is the solution to pollution,’ and that’s what the Japanese believe. If they dump [radioactive water from Fukushima Daiichi] on their…
Another robot has died in the depths of one of Fukushima’s nuclear reactors, as attempts to locate and remove melted radioactive fuel continue. This is the second robot in two weeks to meet its end in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear…
A cleaning robot at Fukushima nuclear power plant has had to be pulled out before completing its mission after its camera experienced glitches. It’s believed the high-tech device was affected by high radiation as it examined the inside of the…
Worst environmental disaster in human history Radiation inside one of the damaged reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power facility has reached an “unimaginable” level according to experts. Because so much nuclear material from Fukushima escaped into the Pacific Ocean, there…