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The Discharge of Fukushima’s Radioactive Water could be a Precedent for Similar Actions

Climate Change and Nuclear Power, Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Power, Fukushima, Latest, Nuclear and water, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Waste, Radiation and Health September 7, 2023 at 9:40 pm 0 comments

Pinar Demircan The author, Pınar Demircan (Ph.D. in sociology) is an independent researcher, Nukleersiz.org Coordinator and nuclear editor at Yesil Gazete. Her earlier articles on our website can be accessed here. The Discharge of Fukushima’s Radioactive Water could be a Precedent for Similar Actions [1] Underlying the disregard for objectionsRead More

“A River is Not a Radioactive Sewer”: Dr. Gordon Edwards on Radioactive Water Dumping in the Pacific Ocean, Hudson River

Asia, Documents, Editor's choice, Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Power, Fukushima, Latest, Nuclear America, Nuclear and water, Nuclear Anthropocene, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Waste, Radiation and Health September 3, 2023 at 1:29 am 0 comments

A River is Not a Radioactive Sewer Dr. Gordon Edwards | Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility Media conference presentation, New York State, August 23 2023, Re: Plans to dump radioactive wastewater into the Hudson River In 2017, I was invited to give a talk on the shores of the HudsonRead More

Nuclear Safety Regimes and India: What the Silence on the latest Fukushima Crisis Tells Us

Anthropocene, Asia, Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Power, Fukushima, India's Nuclear Expansion, International, International Solidarity, Nuclear and non-humans, Nuclear and water, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste January 25, 2021 at 9:32 pm 0 comments

Sonali Huria| The Leaflet THE new year has begun on a grim note with a toxic gas leak at the Rourkela Steel Plant in Odisha on 6 January, which claimed the lives of four contractual workers. This is the latest in a disconcerting string of industrial accidents in India over the last fewRead More

Workers at a school ground in Namie Town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. In March 2017 the Japanese government opened this area of Namie for people to return. Greenpeace radiation surveys in October 2018, showed high levels of contamination in the forests surrounding this school. Over 70,000 workers have been employed in recent years in Fuksuhima. United Nations Special Rapporteurs on human rights warned in 2018 of the urgent situation for workers, including homeless, who were reportedly being exploited by hundreds of sub contractors. This area of Iitate was opened by the government in March 2017, but still radiation levels remain high in areas of Iitate and above government decontamination targets.

Japan fails Fukushima victims: TEPCO executives found not guilty

Fukushima, Nuclear Accidents September 20, 2019 at 6:08 am 0 comments

The legal system of Japan has once again failed to stand up for the rights of tens of thousands of citizens impacted by the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Greenpeace said today. The Tokyo District Court prosecutors, in the only criminal case brought by thousands of Fukushima and other Japanese citizens,(1) ruled that former CEO Tsunehisa Katsumata, and two former Executive Vice Presidents, Sakae Muto and Ichiro Takekuro, were not guilty in failing to take action that could have prevented the nuclear accident.