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10/13/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Legacy of Chernobyl: Boar shot in Sweden found to have 10 TIMES the accepted amount of radiation, 30 years after disaster

On April 26, 1986, a disastrous accident at the power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine led to the release of more radiation into the atmosphere than the nuclear bomb released over Hiroshima, Japan in the Second World War. A routine test gone wrong resulted in what has been called the worst power plant accident in history […]

09/28/2016 / By fukushima

Japan Performs Tsunami Debris Cleanup off Fukushima 1st Time Since Nuclear Disaster

This time, those grant-fattened scientists are making people poor! Article by rt.com Local fisheries have begun a debris cleanup near the Fukushima plant for the first time since the tsunami-triggered nuclear disaster. However a plan to start trial fishing next year may face a setback as a nearly-completed ice wall is failing to halt water […]

09/26/2016 / By fukushima

Fallout Vacation: Chernobyl and Fukushima Become Tourist Attractions

While the majority of tourists usually prefer to spend their vacations at upmarket resorts or snapping pictures of iconic landmarks, there’s also no shortage of people who willingly travel into some of the most foreboding corners of the world, including the radioactive wastes of Chernobyl and Fukushima. Article by SputnikNews.com The words ‘Chernobyl’ and ‘Fukushima’ […]

09/21/2016 / By fukushima

Another Chernobyl or Fukushima risk plausible: Experts

Catastrophic nuclear accidents like Chernobyl disaster in the US that took place in 1986 and the more recent Japan’s Fukushima disasters in 2011 may not be relics of the past. But the risk of such disasters are still more likely to occur once or twice per century, a study has warned. Article by IANS The study found […]

09/19/2016 / By fukushima

Risk of another Chernobyl or Fukushima type accident plausible, experts say

Researchers at the University of Sussex, in England, and ETH Zurich, in Switzerland, have analysed more than 200 nuclear accidents, and – estimating and controlling for effects of industry responses to previous disasters – provide a grim assessment of the risk of nuclear power. Article by phys.org Their worrying conclusion is that, while nuclear accidents […]

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