Fukushima: don't forget

Fukushima nuclear disaster

The Fukushima nuclear disaster showed us once again that nuclear reactors are fundamentally dangerous. Not only do they cause significant damage to the environment, the health of populations and to national economies, the heavy financial cost of a meltdown is inevitably borne by the public, not by the companies that designed, built, and operated the plants. None of the world’s 436 nuclear reactors are immune to human errors, natural disasters, or any of the many other serious incidents that could cause a disaster. Millions of people who live near nuclear reactors are at risk.

The lives of hundreds of thousands of people continue to be affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, especially the 160,000 who fled their homes because of radioactive contamination, and continue to live in limbo without fair, just, and timely compensation. They have only a false hope of returning home, yet the Japanese government is eagerly pushing to restart reactors, against the will of its people, and without learning true lessons from Fukushima.

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Fukushima evacuation zone expanded

Blog entry by Jess Miller | 11 April, 2011 7 comments

Just hours after our field radiation team held a press conference calling for further evacuation around Fukushima, the Japanese government announced that it will extend the mandatory evacuation zone around the stricken nuclear ...

Call for further evacuation around Fukushima

Blog entry by Jess Miller | 11 April, 2011 12 comments

Our field radiation monitoring teams have wrapped up a second round of data collection outside of the exclusion zone that surrounds the stricken Fukushima nuclear complex: one investigating health threats and testing food and milk...

Daily news: 7.1 magnitude quake hits Japan; McKinsey advice is not effective in...

Blog entry by Gianluca R | 8 April, 2011

Top News: Greenpeace keeps on going its monitoring activity around Fukushima; Areva faces some issues in Germany; McKinsey advice is not effective in halting rainforest destruction. #Fukushima: German , Chinese and Philippine...

Field team finds high levels of contamination outside of Fukushima evacuation zone

Blog entry by Jess Miller | 6 April, 2011 24 comments

Our radiation monitoring teams have discovered high levels of contamination in crops grown on the outskirts of Minamisoma city in Japan. The data was collected from the gardens of Minamisoma city residents, and registered well over...

Daily News: €8 to each person in contaminated area, poorer nations demanded that...

Blog entry by Gianluca R | 6 April, 2011

Top news: TEPCO compensation rejected; Ukrainian food is till contaminated; poor nations ask for deeper carbon cuttings; Athabasca forest protection; the next global extinction. #Nuclear: The Japan Times Online and The...

Ocean dumping: Fukushima far from under control

Blog entry by Jess Miller | 5 April, 2011 5 comments

For weeks TEPCO and the Japanese government have tried to assure us that the crisis at Fukushima is stabilising and that the situation is under control. However, the recent decision to dump over 15,000 11,500 tonnes of highly ...

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