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Fukushima wants to know: Is radiation still a threat?
msnbc.com
Pepper says the risk to plant workers is greater than those living nearby. “There is no safe level,” he said. Pepper has spent the past 25 years studying nuclear plant workers in the United States. “The model which addresses radiation risk and cancer
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msnbc.com
Plutonium from Japan nuclear disaster not seen as major threat
Chicago Tribune
At the three sites examined, the levels were about double those attributed to residual fallout from above-ground nuclear tests conducted by the US and former Soviet Union at the dawn of the Cold War. Related First new US nuclear reactors in decades
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Japan’s 2011 nuclear calamity was preventable. But today’s standards wouldn’t
Globe and Mail
Regulators have assured the public that existing reactors in Canada and the United States are completely safe. However, the top US nuclear regulator, Gregory Jaczko, has gone as far as to suggest government safety officials are out of step with the
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Globe and Mail
Nuclear power back from the grave
Asia Times Online
Yet, while staggering amounts of radiation were released into the environment (the danger of new discharges lurks: even the plant director acknowledges that the reactors are “still rather fragile”), the global nuclear industry seems unfazed.
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Fukushima residents plagued by health fears of nuclear threat in their midst
The Guardian
Hundreds of thousands of children in the area have been living with similar restrictions since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s triple meltdown last March, sending radioactive particles over a wide area. The immediate threat of a
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The Guardian
Don’t put Iowa’s Farmers at Risk from Costly Nuclear Power
Blog for Iowa (blog)
Rather than giving preferential treatment to MidAmerican so that it can build nuclear reactors that put us all in danger, our government should support polices to develop a wide array of energy solutions that will help farmers become more energy
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After Japan, Experts Rethink Costs, Safety of Nuclear Power
Voice of America
March 09, 2012 After Japan, Experts Rethink Costs, Safety of Nuclear Power But China is still building a number of new reactors Rosanne Skirble In the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster in Japan a year ago, experts have been
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Fukushima plutonium levels said no threat
UPI.com
Researchers examining the area within a roughly 20-mile radius of the damaged plant found levels of radioactive plutonium were about double those from residual fallout from US and former Soviet Union above-ground nuclear tests at the dawn of the Cold
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How Safe Are U.S. Nuclear Reactors? Lessons from Fukushima
Scientific American
By David Biello | March 9, 2012 | 4 OLD CONSTRUCTION: The donut-shaped ring or torus known as a Mark I containment is shown here under construction in the 1960s at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Alabama. Image: Courtesy of TVA The meltdown
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Scientific American
Why we love living next to a nuclear power plant
The Guardian
as the cliché would have it, “in the shadow” of a nuclear plant, and most of the replies touch on the same themes: not just the low cost, but a very familiar view of most modern lives being beset with danger, annoyance and worry – noisy neighbours,
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The Guardian


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