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.
“They targeted the most vulnerable in society. … They targeted children. They targeted pregnant women in Nashville. People who were ill in hospitals. They targeted wards of the state. And they targeted minority populations.”
A new examination of previously unreleased government documents, obtained by Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, has revealed that the U.S. government – in secret -- sprayed, injected and fed
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.
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,
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.
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
The NYPD has a secretive program that uses unmarked vans with X-ray machines designed to detect bombs. ProPublica tried to find out more about it, but the NYPD refused to answer for three years.
A state judge has ordered the New York City Police Department to release records on a secretive program that uses unmarked vans equipped with X-ray machines to detect bombs.
The ruling follows a nearly three-year legal battle by ProPublica, which had requested policeThe lab says it failed to follow proper procedures in making the switch and in its testing and packaging of highly acidic waste that contained lead.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Los Alamos National Laboratory says it made mistakes in packaging the waste that has been linked to a radiation leak at the government's underground nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico. In a letter released by state regulators Friday, lab officials say their internal probe of the handling of the toxic waste
It’s a risky experiment that could bring about unintended consequences, they warn.
Nuclear experts are casting doubt on Japan's plans to build a giant underground "ice wall" surrounding the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility in a bid to stop dangerous radiation leaks. The roughly $320 million ice wall would theoretically function like an underground dam to stop groundwater from seeping into the facility where it
