Japan downplayed Chernobyl concerns at G-7 for energy policy’s sake: declassified documents

Japan downplayed Chernobyl concerns at G-7 for energy policy’s sake: declassified documents

Eager to maintain its energy policy in the wake of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, Japan made sure concerns about nuclear technology were downplayed at the 12th Group of Seven summit it chaired in Tokyo days after the disaster, according to Japanese diplomatic records declassified Wednesday.

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TEPCO Puts Salt in the Wound of Fukushima

TEPCO Puts Salt in the Wound of Fukushima

Listen as Fairewinds’ Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen explains why TEPCO’s workers injected saltwater into Fukushima’s failing reactors, what happens when salt water meets steel, and what forces come into play after saltwater is used to cool down an atomic reactor in this Fairewinds Audio Update.

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Radioactive Floods Recontaminate Japan

Radioactive Floods Recontaminate Japan

Tokyo Electric Power Company, the operator and owner of the triple meltdown site Fukushima Daiichi, admitted that drainage pumps at Fukushima failed and radioactive water once again poured into the Pacific. But what about the extraordinary amount of radioactive cesium, strontium, and other isotopes spread hundreds of miles from the nuclear catastrophe site yet to be cleaned up and now displaced by the flood into newly contaminated villages?

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