Radioactive Cesium-137 From Fukushima is in California Wine

Remember when WHO officials said the particles of radioactive fallout making their way to the United States following the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan were no big deal?

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Following the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan - which left Japanese residents contending with toxic water and radioactive wild boars, World Health Organization (WHO) officials said that particles of radioactive fallout which made its way to the Western United States and elsewhere was no biggie and didn't pose a health

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Fukushima Passes Chernobyl as Worst Nuclear Disaster in History: Does Anyone Care?

The continued cover-up of the Fukushima impacts in Japan is likely due to the widespread contamination of soil, vegetation, and water prolific enough that it would lead to evacuations so massive in scope they could collapse Japan’s economy, the third largest in the world.

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By Whitney Webb
A dome-shaped rooftop covers key equipment at Unit 3 reactor of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant ahead of a fuel removal from its storage pool in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeast Japan, Jan. 25, 2018. (AP/Mari Yamaguchi)

TOKYO – According to peace and environmental justice watchdog NukeWatch, the Fukushima disaster has overtaken Chernobyl as the worst nuclear disaster in human history. Writing in CounterPunch, John LaForge, co-director of NukeWatch, noted that the meltdown at the Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan in 2011 is now believed to have released between

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Fukushima Fallout: the Irradiated Sailors of the USS Ronald Reagan

American sailors on the USS Ronald Reagan were exposed to radiation from Fukushima. Many are sick. Some have died. Why can’t they get justice?

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By Linda Pentz Gunter
U.S. Navy crew members mop up the flight deck to remove radioactive contamination from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN76), March 23, 2011 in the Pacific Ocean off the Japanese coast after 10 days of rescue missions to transport supplies to survivors in an earthquake- and tsunami-devastated area. (AP/Eugene Hoshiko)

Coverage of the USS Ronald Reagan has been astoundingly limited, wrote Der Spiegel in a February 2015 story. Since then, nothing much has changed. The German magazine was referring to the saga of the American Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier whose crew pitched in to help victims of the March 11, 2011 Tsunami and earthquake in Japan,

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2 Robots Crippled By Record Levels Of Radiation Leaking At Fukushima Daiichi

Two robots sent to survey the true extent of a recently discovered breach at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant have been crippled by record levels of radiation emanating from the breach.

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By Whitney Webb
A member of the media tour group wearing a protective suit and a mask looks at the No. 3 reactor building at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016. (Toru Hanai/AP)

TOKYO --- While media attention has largely drifted away from the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in the years since the disaster, a recent and disturbing development has once again made Fukushima difficult if not impossible to ignore. On Feb. 2, Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, quietly released a statement

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Fukushima Wasteland: Drone Footage Shows Terrifying Abandoned Nuclear Zone

The public is realizing just how vast the Japanese wasteland truly is.

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(ZEROHEDGE) While the world has had decades of opportunities to observe nature slowly reclaiming the consequences of human civilization, particularly at the site of the original nuclear disaster, Chernobyl, there has been far less media coverage for obvious reasons, of that other nuclear disaster, Fukushima, where as we reported last night, one

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How Hemp Can Clean Up Radiation From the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Hemp plants were shown to be effective in cleaning the soil around the site of Russia’s Chernobyl nuclear disaster and were even considered for use near Fukushima.

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By MintPress News Desk
A field of industrial hemp. With the proliferation of legalization, hemp has garnered renewed interest from both the scientific community and from industry.

The cannabis plant has myriad uses, from paper, fabric and even fuel that can be created from industrial hemp, to the many health conditions which benefit from medical marijuana. Here’s one more benefit to add to the list: removing toxic metals and even radiation from soil. The process of using plants to clean polluted soil is called

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