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No charges for TEPCO in Fukushima meltdown disaster
Japanese prosecutors have decided not to indict former officials of Tokyo Electric Power, the operator of the tsunami-stricken nuclear power plant at Fukushima, over their roles in the accident there in March 2011, Japan’s public broadcaster reported Monday. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/world/asia/japan-no-indictments-over-fukushima-accident.html?ref=world Naoto Kan, who was prime minister at the time of the accident, will also not be […]
Fukushima on the verge of irreparably polluting the Pacific
The Japanese nuclear energy watchdog raised the incident level from one to three on the international scale that measures the severity of atomic accidents. This was an acknowledgement that the power station was in its greatest crisis since the reactors melted down after the tsunami in 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23779561 Some nuclear experts are concerned that the […]
Fukushima will leak radiation into the sea forever
The Japanese prime minister directed his government on Wednesday to step in to help stabilize the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, after continuing radiation leaks exposed the failure of the plant’s operator to contain the problem more than two years after a triple meltdown. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/world/asia/fukushima-nuclear-plant-radiation-leaks.html?hp&_r=0 Some 300 tons, or about 75,000 gallons, of contaminated groundwater […]
Nuclear risk from Fukushima grows
Toxic water has leaked from an underground storage pool at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, the plant’s operator said Sunday, two days after it reported a much larger leak from a similar storage pool. three liters, or just over three quarts, of water was believed to have leaked from the No. 3 pool, where highly […]
Dirty Babylon 