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Tarapur Atomic Power Project Real TRUTH Revealed by Villagers

Tarapur Atomic Power Project Real TRUTH Revealed by  Palghar Villager Villagers [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvMykTE3G0g&feature=em-share_video_user] India’s Arabian Sea coast is home to the 1400 MW Tarapur Power Station near Mumbai, India’s largest operational nuclear plant that in 2011 was also identified by a… Continue Reading →

The Naked Truth About Nuclear Accident Insurance

By Miles Benson, Link TV MAY 8, 2013, 12:00 PM Going without insurance is described as “going naked” in insurance industry lingo. Going without insurance for the worst hazards in the nuclear power industry is business as usual. One need not… Continue Reading →

Lawsuit seeks evacuation of Fukushima children

  Sunday April 14, 2013 1:15 AM By YURI KAGEYAMA The Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Their demand: The right to live free of radiation. The plaintiffs who started the legal battle: 14 children. A Japanese appeals court is expected… Continue Reading →

The Long, Tragic Trail of Failed General Electric Nuclear Plants

FROM THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST TO FUKUSHIMA: Newly found court documents from long ago are raising fresh questions about the safety of nuclear reactors made by General Electric. The documents shed new light on old, unresolved safety problems at GE reactors that still… Continue Reading →

Tug-of-War Over Nuclear Future

  Suvendrini Kakuchi TOKYO, Mar 26 (IPS)  – Pushed and pulled in opposite directions, the future of Japan’s energy plans in the wake of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant two years ago is emerging as a… Continue Reading →

Why Japan sticks to its nukes, totally applicable to India as well !

ANALYSIS: A clear majority of Japanese people (73 percent, according to a recent poll) opposes the country’s use of nuclear power. But politically, that sentiment has not changed anything. By Chico Harlan The Washington Post Two years after the meltdowns at… Continue Reading →

Fukushima is not Chernobyl ? Think Again ! #Sundayreading

Safety and Accidents, at dianuke.org Sarah Phillips Sarah D. Phillips is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is author of Women’s Social Activism in the New Ukraine: Development and the Politics of Differentiation (2008, Indiana U Press)… Continue Reading →

Movies made after Japan’s nuclear disaster tell stories of its forgotten victims #Sundayreading

Japanese police wearing protective radiation suits search for the bodies of victims of the March 2011 tsunami in the Odaka area of Minami Soma, inside the deserted evacuation zone established for the 20-kilometre radius around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power… Continue Reading →

WHO downplays the health impacts of Fukushima nuclear disaster, a ‘PR Spin’

Published on Thursday, February 28, 2013 by Common Dreams Greenpeace says report ‘shockingly downplays’ increased cancer risk for thousands of Japanese – Jon Queally, staff writer A new study released by the World Health Organization says that women, and especially female infants, exposed… Continue Reading →

New Centralized Nuclear Plants: Still an Investment Worth Making?

(Image credit: Getty Images Europe via @daylife) Just a few years ago, the US nuclear renaissance seemed at hand.  It probably shouldn’t have been.  Cost overruns from Finland to France to the US were already becoming manifest, government guarantees were in doubt, and shale… Continue Reading →

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