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- Fukushima Fallout Reaches San Francisco http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26593/ 74 comments
- Tepco refusing to pay fallout-hit municipalities for most decontamination work: Tokyo Electric Power Co. has only covered 2% of the ¥76.1 billion that municipalities have spent on decontamination work since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in 2011, according to Environment Ministry officials. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/30/national/tepco-refusing-pay-fallout-hit-municipalities-decontamination-work/#.vrnlafyudu4 3 comments worldnews
- Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Verdict Leads to Angry Fallout: Japan's parliament called the 2011 meltdown a "man-made disaster." There had been ample warning of the risks and nothing done. But the court let the well-connected execs walk. https://www.thedailybeast.com/fukushima-japan-nuclear-disaster-verdict-leads-to-angry-fallout 8 comments worldnews
- Fallout from radioactive Fukushima rising in west coast waters http://o.canada.com/news/fallout-from-radioactive-fukushima-rising-in-west-coast-waters 9 comments worldnews
- CNN: Fukushima fallout ‘grossly underestimated’ says new Japan study — “Radioactive poison… contaminating the North Pacific Ocean” http://enenews.com/cnn-fukushima-fallout-grossly-underestimated-says-new-japan-study-radioactive-poison-spewed-out-and-is-contaminating-the-north-pacific-ocean-tepco-admits-its-impossible-to-know 18 comments worldnews
- Fukushima fallout: Radiation could kill in 20 minutes http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/20233284/fukushima-radiation-can-kill-in-20-minutes/ 12 comments worldnews
- A new study of the effects of tiny quantities of radioactive fallout from Fukushima on the health of babies born in California shows a significant excess of hypothyroidism caused by the radioactive contamination travelling 5,000 miles across the Pacific. http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/19/fukushima-fallout-damaged-the-thyroids-of-california-babies/ 32 comments worldnews
- Studying Water off Fukushima: "After the meltdown, many scientists estimated that most of the fallout ended up in the Pacific Ocean." http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/newsline/nuclearwatch/20130524.html 3 comments worldnews
- Fukushima: Massive Leaks and Radioactive Fallout Continuing On a Daily Basis … For Years On End http://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-massive-leaks-and-radioactive-fallout-continuing-on-a-daily-basis-for-years-on-end/5330096 4 comments politics
- Much of Fukushima's Fallout is Gone with the Wind - Cancer risks from nuclear disaster concentrated in a few radiation hotspots. World Health Organization's report suggests few health impacts. But small, yet significant, increases in cancers in populations in hotspots. http://www.nature.com/news/much-of-fukushima-s-fallout-was-gone-with-the-wind-1.12528 42 comments science
- Scientists find mutant butterflies exposed to Fukushima fallout. Radiation from Japanese nuclear plant disaster deemed responsible for more than 50% mutation rate in nearby insects. http://www.tecca.com/news/2012/08/14/fukushima-radiation-mutant-butterflies/ 510 comments science
- Few people know that the Pacific Northwest got whacked hard by fallout from the Fukushima disaster with radiation rates hundreds of thousands of times higher than normal background radiation. The damage from this is not something that the corporate media or the government is talking about. http://archive.org/details/scm-30754-drhelencaldicottwhatwelearnedf 16 comments politics
- Fukushima soil fallout far short of Chernobyl. "In terms of soil contamination, the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant is only about an eighth as severe as the meltdown at the Chernobyl plant." http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120314x1.html 7 comments worldnews
- Researchers working in the irradiated zone around the disabled Fukushima nuclear plant say bird populations there have begun to dwindle, in what may be a chilling harbinger of the impact of radioactive fallout on local life. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2012/0203/1224311175735.html 9 comments worldnews
- Fukushima Fallout: Thousands Protest Against Nuclear Power in Japan https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/14-2 4 comments worldnews
- Corporate news "priorities": MSNBC Covers Yemen Protest, but Not Wall Street Occupation. More time has been spent by MSNBC reporting the fallout of Brad Pitt's comments on his marriage to Jennifer Aniston than has been spent on the fallout from the three nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima. http://www.legitgov.org/msnbc-covers-yemen-protest-not-wall-street-occupation 20 comments politics
- Head of Radioisotope Center at University of Tokyo, Prof. Kodama, testifies on how serious Fukushima fallout really is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlf4gOvzxYc 13 comments worldnews
- Nuclear physicist Arnie Gunderson gives an update on Fukushima. Radiation is decreasing but will continue to be dangerously high for several generations. Black rain (radioactive fallout) is the likely explanation for contaminated beef. This is a highly informative report. http://www.fairewinds.com/content/x-japanese-nuclear-regulator-blames-radioactive-animal-feed-black-rain 3 comments reddit.com
- Does anyone know of a website or report counting the fukushima fallout ground ACCUMULATIONS that are happening in the USA west coast? (not daily particles dispersions like link shows but ACCUMULATIONS) http://transport.nilu.no/browser/fpv_fuku?fpp=conccol_xe-133_;region=dmanc1 8 comments politics
- "Academic researchers worldwide, including veterans of research on the Chernobyl accident, are poring over releases of data on population exposure rates to radioactive fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster. But they are finding that making any sense of the data is proving very difficult." http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2011/04/fukushima_update_data_data_eve.html 4 comments worldnews
- Fukushima plants have 10X the nuclear fuel that Chernobyl had, and fallout is reaching similar levels seen in the 1986 disaster. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20285-fukushima-radioactive-fallout-nears-chernobyl-levels.html 118 comments worldnews
- A French radiation research group is recommending that pregnant and nursing women and small children in Europe limit consumption of fresh milk and cheese and leafy vegetables in order to reduce exposure to radioactive fallout from the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster. http://michiganmessenger.com/48140/group-recommends-steps-to-limit-fallout-exposure 7 comments worldnews
- Fukushima Fallout - 45 tons of radioactive wastewater just leaked into the Pacific Ocean; baby formula firm recalled 400,000 cans when radiation found; rescuers can finally enter no-go zone & get animals; 2 rainfalls in March dispersed radioactive iodine, tellurium, & cesium now in soils. http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/12/fukushima-fallout-0 25 comments worldnews