Contaminated wastewater at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant will be released into the ocean “in around two years,” the Japanese government has announced, despite calls from China and South Korea urging against the move. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced the move in Tokyo on Tuesday morning local time. He had previously called the release “unavoidable,” […]
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Japanese government says it WILL release irradiated water from Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea
April 13th, 2021 Awake Goy
Fukushima Fallout: the Irradiated Sailors of the USS Ronald Reagan
March 8th, 2018 Awake Goy
Coverage of the USS Ronald Reagan has been astoundingly limited, wrote Der Spiegel in a February 2015 story. Since then, nothing much has changed. The German magazine was referring to the saga of the American Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier whose crew pitched in to help victims of the March 11, 2011 Tsunami and earthquake in Japan, then […]
Abandoned by the US, Fukushima-irradiated service members get help from former Japanese Prime Minister
July 21st, 2017 Awake Goy
It was a rescue mission, but one that years later turned the tables on victim and rescuer. Abandoned by their own government, American servicemembers who came to the aid of Japanese disaster victims will now benefit from a fund set up for them by a former prime minister. Following a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and […]