November 17th, 2019 | by Cynthia Shahan
How does one renew an area devastated by nuclear waste? I think of brilliant Kirusowa's film Dreams. One of the dreams depicts the horror and abyss after the fallout of a nuclear accident.
Indeed, in real life, there are farmlands in Japan that are ruined, land that cannot be cultivated anymore. The Nikkei Asian Review reports mountainous areas where population outflows continue
March 9th, 2018 | by James Ayre
The "ice wall" that Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) put in place a few years ago, with the intent of stopping water seepage into the basements of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, isn't functioning as advertised
October 31st, 2017 | by James Ayre
Radioactive material from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster is accumulating in the sands and brackish groundwater beneath beaches up to 60 miles away from the nuclear power plant itself, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on October
October 23rd, 2017 | by Matthew Klippenstein
We started this episode talking about the LMX-161 e-motorcycle, then got into Shell EV charging stations, Big Oil, natural gas, ad-supported EV charging stations, and the benefits of low-energy-density renewables
October 15th, 2017 | by James Ayre
As a result of a class action lawsuit brought against Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) and the government of Japan — the largest such class action lawsuit to date that relates to the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima — a district court in the prefecture has ruled that both Tepco and the government are liable for damages ... totaling only around 500 million yen ($4.44 million)
February 15th, 2017 | by James Ayre
We haven't reported on the Fukushima nuclear disaster in a while, so it seems worth providing an update here. The short form? Plans to remove spent nuclear fuel have been delayed again, this time until fiscal year 2018 at the earliest; new fuel leaks continue to be discovered; cleanup cost estimates continue to rise; 300 tons of radioactive water are still pouring into the Pacific Ocean every day; and cleanup robots are still being destroyed by extremely high radiation levels
March 8th, 2016 | by Joshua S Hill
Five years on from one of the worst nuclear disasters in human history, Greenpeace and Stanford University have published reports [&hellip
February 26th, 2016 | by Joshua S Hill
Nearly five years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Greenpeace has launched a high-tech investigation into the radiation effects of the [&hellip
September 6th, 2013 | by James Ayre
The slow death-march of the Fukushima nuclear disaster continues onwards — new reports have revealed that radiation levels over eighteen [&hellip
