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Greenpeace condemns Japanese government panel’s draft proposal to discharge radioactive water
This proposal poses the least financial cost to Japan but the most immediate threat to the environment and highlights the government’s complete failure to consider safer alternatives.
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J-Village still contaminated – major uncertainties over decontamination and Olympic torch route
Radioactive contamination still remains in the parking lot and the nearby forests at J-Village sports complex in Fukushima prefecture, according to Greenpeace Japan’s most recent survey.
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High-level radiation hot spots found at J-Village, starting point of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay
High-level radiation hot spots have been found at the sports complex where the 2020 Tokyo Olympic torch relays will begin.
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‘Cattenom Nine’: Activists face jail for sounding the alarm bell on nuclear safety
On 12 October 2017, eight people sneaked inside the grounds of the Cattenom nuclear plant in France. Without much difficulty, they reached the foot of a spent fuel pool.
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Fukushima tragedy: The day of black snow
"I was kicked out of my hometown for doing nothing wrong. It was heartbreaking. Now, Iitate is polluted, and some of my neighbours have died."
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From Hiroshima to now, can nuclear ever be peaceful?
Japan - the only country that has come under a nuclear attack during war and suffered one of the worst nuclear accidents in history - should abandon nuclear power.
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The ‘Chernobyl’ mini-series has finished, but the real life catastrophe never ends
For many of us, the Chornobyl catastrophe is not history. The disaster itself continues, and its effects can still be felt today.
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Japanese government misleading UN on impact of Fukushima fallout on children, decontamination workers
Tokyo, Japan - The Japanese government is deliberately misleading United Nations human rights bodies and experts over the ongoing nuclear crisis in areas of Fukushima.
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Nuclear power and the collapse of society
On March 1 1954, on Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands, the US military detonated the world’s first lithium-deuteride hydrogen bomb, a thousand times more powerful than the Hiroshima and…