EnviroNews: Editorial: 5 Yrs. Later, TEPCO Finally Admits It Lied To The World About Fukushima Meltdowns

EnviroNews: Editorial: 5 Yrs. Later, TEPCO Finally Admits It Lied To The World About Fukushima Meltdowns

(EnviroNews World News) — Fukushima Prefecture, Japan — EDITORIAL: THE TRUTH: Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) knew within hours following the 3/11/11 tsunami that a full-scale, multi-reactor nuclear meltdown was underway. THE LIE: TEPCO waited nearly two months to inform the public.

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CounterPunch: The Great Fukushima Cover-Up

CounterPunch: The Great Fukushima Cover-Up

Dr. Tetsunari Iida is the founder and executive director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP) in Japan. As such, one might have expected a recent presentation he gave in the UK within the hallowed halls of the House of Commons, to have focused on Japan’s capacity to replace the electricity once generated by its now mainly shuttered nuclear power plants, with renewable energy.

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Pressenza: The bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of terrorism

Pressenza: The bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of terrorism

The dropping of two atomic bombs that detonated over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 6th and 9th of August 1945 caused the immediate deaths of 200,000 people besides those injured, the destroyed families, the ecological disaster and the humiliation of an entire people.

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Ashai Shimbun: City to investigate NRA's conclusion that radioactive rice unrelated to Fukushima plant work

Ashai Shimbun: City to investigate NRA's conclusion that radioactive rice unrelated to Fukushima plant work

MINAMI-SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Addressing cover-up suspicions, the city assembly here will investigate how the Nuclear Regulation Authority concluded that work at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant was not the cause of radioactive contamination of rice paddies.

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NBC Los Angeles: LA's Nuclear Secret

NBC Los Angeles: LA's Nuclear Secret

Tucked away in the hills above the San Fernando and Simi valleys was a 2,800-acre laboratory with a mission that was a mystery to the thousands of people who lived in its shadow. In a place called Area IV of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL), there was a secret collaboration between the U.S. government and private companies to test the limits of nuclear power.

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CounterPunch: Nuclear Power Kills! the Real Reason the NRC Canceled Its Nuclear Site Cancer Study

CounterPunch: Nuclear Power Kills! the Real Reason the NRC Canceled Its Nuclear Site Cancer Study

After spending some $1.5 million and more than five years on developing strategies to answer the question of increases of cancer near nuclear facilities, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) last week reported that they would not continue with the process. They would knock it on the head [1].

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NaturalNews: Third US Navy sailor dies after being exposed to Fukushima radiation

NaturalNews: Third US Navy sailor dies after being exposed to Fukushima radiation

(NaturalNews) At least three of the U.S. Navy sailors exposed to radiation from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan have now died from mysterious illnesses, according to Charles Bonner, an attorney representing approximately 250 of the sailors in a class action lawsuit against companies involved in running the Fukushima plant.

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Mining Awareness: Burying Dangerous Radioactive Waste in Texas- LLW Another Dilute & Deceive Scam

Mining Awareness: Burying Dangerous Radioactive Waste in Texas- LLW Another Dilute & Deceive Scam

Low Level Waste is a misnomer. The same dangerous, long-lived radionuclides are included, they just put less per weight, making it another dilute to deceive scam. Instead of diluting with water and air, like for the nuclear reactor emissions, they dilute with other waste. And, even then the NRC has a web site typo allowing more concentration: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2014/09/04/the-dangerous-us-nrc-typo-making-low-level-radioactive-waste-more-radioactive-than-allowed-at-wipp/

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