Tag Archives: nuclear waste
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 […]
Radiation leak in WA compounded by sequester
Six newly confirmed leaking tanks of radioactive waste was added evidence that even after decades of work and billions of dollars in taxpayer sacrifice, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation’s risks remain unresolved. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/us/struggling-hanford-site-awaits-new-cuts.html?ref=us Plutonium production for the nation’s bomb arsenal was elevated to industrial scale for years in the rolling scrub country of south-central Washington and […]
Dirty Babylon 