Fukushima One Year On: Many Revelations, Few Surprises
Satellite image of Fukushima Daiichi showing damage on 3/14/11. (photo: digitalglobe) One year on, perhaps the most surprising thing about the Fukushima crisis is that nothing is really that...
View ArticleAs World Honors Fukushima Victims, NRC Gives Them a One-Fingered Salute
Sign from Fukushima commemoration and anti-nuclear power rally, Union Square Park, NYC, 3/11/12. (photo: G. Levine) Nearly a week after the first anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that...
View ArticleLooking Back at Our Nuclear Future
The Los Angeles Times heralds the nuclear age in January 1957. (photo via wikipedia) On March 11, communities around the world commemorated the first year of the still-evolving Fukushima Daiichi...
View ArticleSomething Fishy: CRS Report Downplays Fukushima’s Effect on US Marine...
(photo: JanneM via flickr) Late Thursday, the United States Coast Guard reported that they had successfully scuttled the Ryou-Un Maru, the Japanese “Ghost Ship” that had drifted into US waters after...
View ArticleFukushima Nuclear Disaster “Man-Made” Reports Japanese Panel; Quake Damaged...
Aerial view of the Oi Nuclear Power Plant, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. (photo: Japan Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport via Wikipedia) The massive disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear...
View ArticleMade in Japan? Fukushima Crisis Is Nuclear, Not Cultural
(photo: Steve Snodgrass/flickr) Since the release of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Committee’s official report last week, much has been made of how it implicates Japanese culture as one of...
View ArticleNew Fukushima Video Shows Disorganized Response, Organized Deception
A frame from early in the newly released Fukushima video. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant when the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck...
View ArticleSeventy Years of Nuclear Fission: Short on Confidence; Long on Waste
From here to eternity: a small plaque on the campus of the University of Chicago commemorates the site of Fermi's first atomic pile--and the start of the world's nuclear waste problem. (Photo: Nathan...
View ArticleFukushima Plus Two: Still the Beginning?
An IAEA inspector examines the remains of reactor 3 at Fukushima Daiichi (5/27/11) I was up working in what were in my part of the world the early morning hours of March 11, 2011, when I heard over the...
View ArticleFukushima Two Years Later: Many Questions, One Clear Answer
Fukushima's threats to health and the environment continue. (graphic: Surian Soosay via flickr) You can’t say you have all the answers if you haven’t asked all the questions. So, at a conference on the...
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