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09/14/2018 / By Mike Adams

Hurricane Florence achieves DIRECT HIT on Brunswick nuclear power plant in Southport, NC… pray for our safety

UPDATE: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has now declared an emergency at the Brunswick nuclear power facility due to extreme flooding. The facility is running a “hot shutdown” sequence, and all personnel are currently blocked from accessing or entering the structure. This has been declared an emergency “hazardous event” by the NRC. See full details […]

09/11/2018 / By Mike Adams

Fukushima in America? Twelve nuclear power plants are in the path of Hurricane Florence… flooding, storm surge threaten cooling operations

ALERT: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has now declared an emergency at the Brunswick nuclear power facility due to extreme flooding. The facility is running a “hot shutdown” sequence, and all personnel are currently blocked from accessing or entering the structure. This has been declared an emergency “hazardous event” by the NRC. See full details […]

06/14/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Radioactive water being stored at the Fukushima power plant approaches the limit; Japanese officials still have no plan to dispose of it

There’s almost no more room for anymore storage tanks at the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) nuclear reactor site in Fukushima, Japan, which means that very soon there won’t be any way to dispose of the ever-growing amount of treated water, also known as tritium water, that continues to accumulate within the disaster area. Neither […]

05/24/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Fukushima is running out of storage tanks for radioactive water … Where will they dump it now?

The fallout from one of the worst nuclear disasters in history is likely about to get far worse, with Japanese news media reporting that the storage capacity for collecting radioactive water at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is close to reaching its limit. The power plant was first commissioned in 1971, and was one […]

02/16/2018 / By David Williams

More melted fuel found at Fukushima 7 years later: Underwater robot captures images that prove at least some of the fuel breached the core

It has been seven years since the worst industrial disaster in all of human history happened in Fukushima, yet its devastating effects are still being felt to this day. As a matter of fact, experts have just discovered that more melted fuel can be found at the site, and that it may take a long […]

02/12/2018 / By David Williams

Review of nuclear damage from Hiroshima, Fukushima focuses on dangers of nuclear radiation and the need to ban such weapons

As the whole world continues to cope with the realities brought forth by nuclear power and nuclear weapons, one review of the nuclear damage inflicted upon the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki puts the spotlight on just how dangerous they truly are. Written by Eiichiro Ochiai, a Japanese researcher from the University of Tokyo, and […]

12/22/2017 / By Russel Davis

Radioactivity still lingering in the Pacific Ocean from nuclear bomb tests more than 50 years ago

A study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment revealed that radioactivity remains persistent in the lagoons of remote Marshall Island atolls in the Pacific Ocean where the United States carried out a total of 66 nuclear weapon tests between the 1940s and 1950s. A team of researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) noted that while levels […]

10/13/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Legacy of Chernobyl: Boar shot in Sweden found to have 10 TIMES the accepted amount of radiation, 30 years after disaster

On April 26, 1986, a disastrous accident at the power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine led to the release of more radiation into the atmosphere than the nuclear bomb released over Hiroshima, Japan in the Second World War. A routine test gone wrong resulted in what has been called the worst power plant accident in history […]

10/12/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Radioactive material from Fukushima discovered in the sand and groundwater beneath the beach, releasing cesium into the ocean

A new study that was published on Monday, October 2 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showed that scientists were able to discover a place where radioactive material from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant mishap had gravitated to – in sands and brackish groundwater near beaches that reached up to 60 […]

10/08/2017 / By Russel Davis

Blunder at Fukushima: Mistake may have contaminated groundwater with radioactive waste

Officials at Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) have cautioned that contaminated water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactors might have leaked since April following faulty water gauge settings that have lowered groundwater levels nearby. According to the company, the settings on six of the many wells located around the reactors were up to three feet below the requirement. Groundwater levels in […]

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