By Lisa Egan On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake in Japan and the tsunami that followed disabled the power supply and cooling of three Fukushima Daiichi reactors, causing a nuclear accident. The disaster – commonly known as ” Fukushima” – was the most significant nuclear incident…
By Alex Pietrowski Some seven years after the disaster at Fukushima, there is a new crisis at Fukushima, and TEPCO, the energy company responsible for the failed nuclear plant, has issued a statement warning of lethal levels of radiation now detected at the plant. TEPCO…
By Anti-Media Team The Japanese utility Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has received approval to operate reactors for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima meltdown. On Wednesday, the Nuclear Regulation Authority said TEPCO’s two reactors in northern Japan met new and stricter safety standards. The authority unanimously approved the…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor We live in a post-Fukushima world and it’s about to get worse… Sometimes it’s easy to blot out from our minds that the March 2011 Fukushima catastrophe that occurred when a major tsunami flooded Tepco’s nuclear cooling reactors following an earthquake was the worst radioactive…
By Whitney Webb Operators of the Fukushima nuclear power plant have identified a gaping hole in a reactor containment vessel, which has resulted in a drastic spike in radiation levels. Nearly six years after the initial explosion caused a catastrophic meltdown at the Daiichi nuclear…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck in Japan today triggering a tsunami warning where waves as high as 3 meters could crash the coast at any moment. There are already reports of one meter waves in some areas. Residents in and around…
By Dr. Mark Sircus Are you taking your iodine? Everyone should be supplementing with iodine but if you live on the west coast of the United States, Canada or Mexico you better be taking your iodine and your children should be taking their iodine because:…
By Alex Pietrowski The most important ecological crisis of the world has ever seen has been underway since March 11th, 2011, yet there is nary a mention of it in the corporate media, and no political body in the world is championing its resolution. Widespread Denial…
By Brianna Acuesta The American people have been distracted to keep them from hearing about the 3 nuclear disasters occurring on the East Coast. The debate over which bathroom transgender people can use has been taking over the Internet and our social conversations for weeks…
By Dr. Mark Sircus Tritium is a mildly radioactive isotope of hydrogen, the most common element in the universe. While most elements consist of a combination of protons, neutrons, and electrons, normal hydrogen atoms lack neutrons. Tritium is unique in owning one proton and two…
By Sayer Ji, GreenMed Info A shocking new report defies the chronically underestimated impacts of the Fukushima’s triple meltdown on the risk of cancer in exposed populations, which does not just include Japan, but arguably the entire world. A new report from Fairewinds Energy Education (FEE), “Cancer…
By Catherine J. Frompovich What an overbearing question to ask! But increasingly, it’s becoming necessary to question the media and, in particular, federal agencies. Whatever public relations spin both offer usually are prefaced with such hollow intentions as helping citizens or saving us money. When…
By Catherine J. Frompovich “Thirteen species of salmon and steelhead are listed as endangered or threatened in the Columbia River basin.” [6] That wonderfully healthful fish known for its precious fatty acids, salmon, is endangered by the very waters in which thousands return to spawn…
by Neenah Payne The Fukushima Solutions World Conference will take place on March 22-23 at the University of Texas at Austin. The goal is to come up with a solution to counter the unprecedented Fukushima disaster. The first day will feature experts in nuclear issues…
Former Top U.S. Nuclear Official: Fukushima is “ultimately unprecedented” – Its “legacy of contamination is very different from any other radiological disaster” in history. by Neenah Payne The Fukushima Radiation Protection site at: http://www.fukushima-shield.info/ is designed to provide an understanding of the risks posed to…
By Dr. Mark Sircus Nuclear tests, such as Operation Redwing in 1956, deposited radioactive plutonium and cesium in the atmosphere. Photo via National Nuclear Security Administration/Wikimedia Recently the long silence around Fukushima and the dangers of the radiation emanating from there is hitting the mainstream….
by Joe Martino When it comes to environmental disasters, the nuclear fallout at Fukushima has to be amongst the worst that has happened in the past few decades. Gary Stamper, a writer for Falling into Consciousness, has put together a great resource of information that…
