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An Ethical Meltdown in Japan: Prof Hiroaki Koide

An Ethical Meltdown in Japan: Prof Hiroaki Koide

Fukushima, Interviews July 10, 2011 at 5:40 pm 0 comments

While the Japanese government never admitted to this amount of contamination in Tokyo, Prof. Hiroaki Koide measured radiation levels there. He concludes that if Tokyo has been contaminated this much, then ‘areas within Fukushima prefecture must be seriously contaminated’. An old but very relevant interview of Prof. Hiroaki Koide canRead More

Nuclear or Broke: India's Dangerous Obsession with Nuclear Power

Nuclear or Broke: India’s Dangerous Obsession with Nuclear Power

India's Nuclear Expansion June 29, 2011 at 12:24 pm 0 comments

  India’s obsession with nuclear power is proving extremely damaging. It is time to switch to and participate in the renewables revolution.   PRAFUL BIDWAI   Cartoon courtesy: ANUMUKTI (www.anumukti.in)   ARE Indian diplomats, known for their negotiating skills and sense of timing, losing touch with reality? Going by theRead More

Three-Month Update of Fukushima Accident and the Flood of New Information Coming Out

Three-Month Update of Fukushima Accident and the Flood of New Information Coming Out

Fukushima June 23, 2011 at 2:58 pm 2 comments

Dr. Michio Kaku It has been over 3 months after the tragic accident in Fukushima, Japan, and a flood of new information has been coming out. 1. After months of stonewalling and low balling figures, the utility finally admitted what many US physicists already suspected, that there was most likelyRead More

Fukushima: suffering the stigma of nuclear crisis

Fukushima: suffering the stigma of nuclear crisis

Fukushima, Nuclear and Society June 22, 2011 at 5:31 pm 0 comments

    Cities in Fukushima prefecture struggle to cope with the stigma of becoming as synonymous with nuclear crisis as Chernobyl. Even areas that have lower radiation readings than many of the world’s major cities, are finding everything from their goods to their tourist spots — and even their peopleRead More