Post Tagged with: "radiation"

Nadezhda Kutepova

Anti-Nuclear Activists Face Crackdown in Russia for Exposing Cover-Up

When Russia’s FSB security service raided Fyodor Maryasov’s apartment in Siberia last year, the authorities seized his computer and a scathing report he had compiled about Rosatom, the Kremlin-owned nuclear corporation. Among other things, the authorities accused him of inciting hatred against nuclear industry employees, an unusual charge that carries a maximum sentence of five years behind bars. “They accused me of revealing state secrets in my report,” the 49-year-old environmental activist says. “But every single thing in it was taken from open sources.”

Video: Inside the Clean-up of Chernobyl, Workers Continue to Risk their Life

Video: Inside the Clean-up of Chernobyl, Workers Continue to Risk their Life

Chernobyl, Videos December 10, 2017 at 3:46 am 0 comments

Workers at the Chernobyl Power Plant are now facing some of the highest radiation levels ever while they put the finishing touches on a new decontamination structure for the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

Uranium Miners in Gabon Fight Areva Amid Deteriorating Health

Uranium Miners in Gabon Fight Areva Amid Deteriorating Health

Nuclear and Racism, Uranium Mining December 4, 2017 at 5:18 am 0 comments

The miners worked for an Areva subsidiary — the Compagnie des mines d’uranium de Franceville, better known by its abbreviation of COMUF.

Over 38 years, the mine extracted some 26,000 tonnes of uranium near Mounana, southeastern Gabon, before closing in 1999 after the global price of uranium fell and the seam of ore began to thin.

Nuclear Power in Space: A Nightmare That’s Becoming Reality in Trump Era

Nuclear Power in Space: A Nightmare That’s Becoming Reality in Trump Era

Nuclear Safety November 26, 2017 at 7:51 am 0 comments

Karl Grossman | Now with Trump as president and green lights given to industry after industry to do or continue to do deadly things, Trump and his band of scoundrels are pushing for the nuclear industry to bring its deadly product into the heavens.