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05/24/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Fukushima is running out of storage tanks for radioactive water … Where will they dump it now?

The fallout from one of the worst nuclear disasters in history is likely about to get far worse, with Japanese news media reporting that the storage capacity for collecting radioactive water at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is close to reaching its limit. The power plant was first commissioned in 1971, and was one […]

09/13/2017 / By Tracey Watson

More radioactive material to be released into the Pacific Ocean from the failed Fukushima power plant

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was one of the 15 largest nuclear power stations in the world, until it sustained massive damage when Japan was hit first by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, and then a massive tsunami, on March 11, 2011. Almost 16,000 people died in the disaster, and another 160,000 lost their homes […]

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