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Chernobyl Is Still The Worst Nuclear Accident for Public Health

Edit Time Magazine 26 Apr 2016
The 1986 Chernobyl and 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant accidents both share the notorious distinction of attaining the highest accident rating on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) scale of nuclear accidents ... Chernobyl and Fukushima earned it because both involved core meltdowns that released significant amounts of radioactivity to their surroundings ... At Fukushima, in contrast, there was much less iodine-131 exposure....

Japan to raise nuke safety check competency per IAEA review

Edit Indian Express 26 Apr 2016
The Nuclear Regulation Authority announced the plans Monday in response to an IAEA evaluation of Japan’s nuclear safety regulations since the 2011 Fukushima disaster ... Three reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant suffered meltdowns in March 2011 following a massive earthquake and tsunami....

Japan's Worst Quake Since Fukushima Seen Delaying Nuclear Starts

Edit Bloomberg 26 Apr 2016
Japan’s biggest earthquake in five years may slow a government plan to restart the country’s atomic fleet that was shuttered amid safety concerns after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that caused the triple meltdown at Fukushima ... It has also revived an effort to halt the plants’ operations ... 1 and 2 reactors, which were the first to restart under post-Fukushima safety rules last year, should be shut ... ....

Chernobyl's legacy 30 years on

Edit BBC News 26 Apr 2016
Media captionBBC Rewind looks at what was done to stop further damage ... "We have an awful lot of palliative cancers and tumours ... Even after the accident at the nuclear plant at Fukushima, Japan in 2011, Chernobyl retains the unfortunate infamy of being known as the world's worst ever civil nuclear disaster ... Before the events in Fukushima, Vince Novak was "absolutely convinced" that a nuclear accident on a similar scale was not possible ... ....

Central Bankers Stimulate End for Nuclear That Evaded Activists

Edit Bloomberg 26 Apr 2016
Central banks may accomplish what a generation of anti-nuclear activists have failed to do. Force operators to finally almost 150 plants now sitting in limbo across the globe ... That event, followed 25 years later by meltdown at the Fukushima plant in Japan, undercut nuclear as a power generator as low-cost options like natural gas and renewable energies became increasingly available ... Twenty-four U.S ... Nuclear Regulatory Commission ... ....

Ashes to ashes, dust to side chicks

Edit Vox 26 Apr 2016
Ted Cruz and John Kasich will do anything (read. nothing) to stop Trump; Syria's truce is wobbly at best; a steady (reading) diet of Lemonade. Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind. TOP NEWS This is not how a pact works. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) ... [Vox / Andrew Prokop] ... And he's not ... MISCELLANEOUS Are you a reformed yakuza looking to make a fresh start? Then check out Yukako Fukushima's prosthetic pinky finger business ... ....

Forget Fukushima: Chernobyl still holds record as worst nuclear accident for public health (GUMC - Georgetown University Medical Center)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
April 25, 2016 -- The 1986 Chernobyl and 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant accidents both share the notorious distinction of attaining the highest accident rating on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) scale of nuclear accidents ... Chernobyl and Fukushima earned it because both involved core meltdowns that released significant amounts of radioactivity to their surroundings....
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Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Nuclear Energy's Half Life Crisis in Changed Climate

Edit Voa News 25 Apr 2016
Thirty years after the meltdown of a flawed Soviet reactor in Ukraine and five years since the disaster at Japan's tsunami-swamped Fukushima-1 plant, the global nuclear power industry remains in flux ... Fukushima After the Fukushima disaster – with an ongoing cleanup that could take ... “It's the condition that created the Fukushima disaster,” said Ulrich....

Ukraine conflict brings fears of another nuclear disaster

Edit International Business Times 25 Apr 2016
War in the east and new concerns raised by the Fukushima disaster presents a dangerous future for Ukraine ... ....

The Medical Implications of the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

Edit GlobalResearch 25 Apr 2016
The following text by renowned scientist and medical doctor on the impacts of the Chernobyl will be followed by an analysis of the medial implications of the Fukushima disaster The only on-site medical and epidemiological data gathered after Chernobyl was… ... ....

At Chernobyl and Fukushima, Radioactivity Has Seriously Harmed Wildlife

Edit US News 25 Apr 2016
Studies at Chernobyl and Fukushima show that radiation has harmed animals, birds and insects and reduced biodiversity at both nuclear sites ... ....

Situation of storing and treatment of accumulated water including highly concentrated radioactive materials at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (249th Release) (TEPCO - Tokyo Electric Power Company Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
On June 9, 2011, we received an instruction document, 'Installment of treatment facility and storing facility of water including highly concentrated radioactive materials at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station ......

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus V.Makei meets the Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
(Source ... 25-04-2016 ... The parties discussed aspects of Belarusian-Japanese cooperation in the field of rehabilitation of population and territories affected by the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and the accident at the NPP «Fukushima-1» in 2011 ... Original Document ... (noodl. 33236487) ....
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