Written by Foras Teamhrach
Japan Times / NHK – “Thousands of people formed human chains in Germany and France to protest the use of nuclear power on Sunday, the first anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disasters that crippled the Fukushima No. 1 atomic plant, while protesters also gathered at antinuclear rallies in New York and [...]
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Radio Japan – NHK, 29th January 2011 – “Scientists have found a 200-kilometre-long cliff on the seabed off Kii Peninsula, western Japan. They warn it could magnify the scale of tsunami in the event of a major earthquake. A team of researchers from University of Tokyo and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology [...]
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Japan Times: The government buried a worst-case scenario for the Fukushima nuclear crisis that was drafted last March and kept it under wraps until the end of last year, sources in the administration said Saturday. After the document was shown to a small, select group of senior government officials at the prime minister’s office [...]
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“Emails released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal the level of coordination between government departments and the nuclear industry during the Fukushima crisis.” The e-mails can be found on the Guardian site, follow the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2011/jun/30/email-nuclear-uk-government-fukushima?intcmp=239
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Guardian – “British government officials approached nuclear companies to draw up a co-ordinated public relations strategy to play down the Fukushima nuclear accident just two days after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and before the extent of the radiation leak was known. Internal emails seen by the Guardian show how the business [...]
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Japan Times – “On June 11, a dairy farmer in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, chalked a note on the wall of his cattle shed. "If only there wasn’t a nuclear power plant," the message read, in reference to the damaged Fukushima No. 1 plant just 45 km away, which had effectively ended his livelihood. The man [...]
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WSWS – “While Matsutaro Shoriki, the former war criminal, media magnate and head of the Japanese nuclear agency, lost US support and was frustrated in his bid to assume control of the Japanese government, his student and henchmen, Yasuhiro Nakasone, managed to continue his plans. Nakasone succeeded Shoriki to become head of the Science and [...]
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WSWS – Part I – “Following the Japanese earthquake and tsunami disaster of March 11, the meltdown of the nuclear reactor in Fukushima continues to alarm people all around the world. The world witnessed the events virtually live as one reactor building after another exploded and one of the planet’s most high-tech countries tried to [...]
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Japan Times – “Seventeen of the 47 prefectures have decided to promote solar power or are thinking of enhancing programs that already do so in light of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, a survey said Sunday. The survey, which was conducted from late May to early June and drew responses from all 47 prefectures, found [...]
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“Minute amounts of radioactive strontium have been detected in soil at 11 locations in Fukushima Prefecture, including the city of Fukushima 62 km from the crippled nuclear power plant, according to the science ministry. Strontium tends to accumulate in bones and is believed to cause bone cancer and leukemia. The Nuclear Safety Commission said [...]
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