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Pollution, Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, May 29th, 2012,
Pacific bluefin tuna have been clocked swimming at speeds of 48km/h (30mph). This might help explain why bluefin carrying low levels of radiation believed to be from Fukushima were found off the coast of California so soon after the nuclear disaster in Japan. Though the reports are only surfacing now, 15 radioactive tuna were caught off of San Diego in August 2011, only around 4 months after the majority of radiation was released into the waters around Fukushima. The elevated levels of cesium-134 and cesium-137 found in the tuna are considered safe and are well below the Japanese and US…
Tags: bluefin, California, cesium, Fukushima, japan, radiation, radioactive, tuna
Politics, Pollution, May 4th, 2012,
Up to one thousand locations in England and Wales may be contaminated with radioactive waste from military bases and factories. According to a new UK government report, a quarter of these places have been already confirmed to be contaminated. These figures surprised the British people, all the more, because only in December 2011, the Ministry of Defence cleared about 15 landfills of nuclear waste in the entire country. It leads the experts to one of two conclusions: either the authorities hid the real number of contaminated areas, or they did not realise the scale of the problem themselves. “In…
Tags: contamination, nuclear waste, radioactive
Pollution, Wildlife & Flora, Apr 10th, 2012,
About a month after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, radioactive particles were detected in giant kelp samples off the California coast. The level 7 nuclear incident resulted from the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the region around Fukushima, Japan in March of 2011. In a recent study California State University marine biologists tested giant kelp up and down the coastline of the state, from Laguna Beach to Santa Cruz, and found radioactive iodine, suggesting that radiation that leaked from the damaged Fukushima reactors had reached California. Levels 250 times higher than previous measurements were found in…
Tags: California, Fukushima, iodine, japan, kelp, radiation, radioactive
Health, Politics, Pollution, Science & Technology, Nov 14th, 2010,
The Ukraine is launching a program of agricultural development in areas contaminated by radiation after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. According to newsru.com the Government claims that the forecasts for ground contamination were too pessimistic. Ukrainian scientists insist that their models specifically allow for the amount of radionuclides in different types of soil. They have worked out rehabilitation plans that involve the alternation of cultivated plants and the application of appropriate fertilizers. “These simple treatments can reduce the level of radioactive isotopes hundreds of times, even to the standards enforced in other European countries” – says Sergey…
Tags: chernobyl, contamination, plants, radioactive
Climate Change, Politics, Apr 28th, 2010,
Monday marked the 24th anniversary of the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine, considered the worst nuclear accident in history. Despite the severity of the disaster in 1986, Chernobyl continued to operate until it was finally decommissioned in December of 2000. Today, the event at Chernobyl still affects victims and their families; and casts a long shadow over the nuclear question. Modern nuclear power plants are no doubt safer, yet the fear of another disaster is understandable, especially when Chernobyl itself still contains a large amount of nuclear waste which needs to be dealt with. From…
Tags: apocalypse, chernobyl, deaths, disaster, exclusion zone, Kyshtym, Mayak, nuclear, plant, power, Pripyat, Prypiat, radiation, radioactive
Climate Change, Politics, Pollution, Jan 22nd, 2010,
On Wednesday the UK began repatriating nuclear waste by shipping 28 half-ton canisters to Japan. The canisters are the first shipment of a cache of 925 tons of foreign radioactive atomic waste that will be returned to various countries of origin from Sellafield nuclear processing site – formerly known as Windscale – in west Cumbria. Besides Japan – Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the Netherlands will also be receiving shipments of the stuff during the ten-year repatriation process, according to an article in the London Times. A Greenpeace spokesperson pointed out the dilemma of the radioactive waste situation in the UK:…
Tags: Britain, foreign, london, nuclear, nuclear power, nuclear waste, radioactive, radioactive waste, shipment, storage, Times, UK, waste
