#FukuFighters International Weekly News Round Up 12.27.2019

Photo by Teppei Sato

The end of the year doesn't mean the end of the #Fukushima news, far from it!  Find out more about the forever problem for yourself, step-by-step:

 

STEP 1 EDUCATE & SAFEGUARD

The debate about what to do with the thousands of gallons of radioactive waste water stored at #Fukushima Daiichi has gone on for years but the ones in charge are edging ever closer to dumping OR evaporation, neither of which is acceptable:

https://apnews.com/e60f93b7f7de2ff7b5b015fb5167dd9b

But there may be a new way to remove some of the radionuclides using shock vibrations, let’s hope it’s put to use there soon:

https://newatlas.com/science/nuclear-reactor-contaminants-removal-waste-water/

STEP 2 EVACUATE #FUKUSHIMA NOW

They’ve been testing beef from #Fukushima Prefecture for radiation since the nuclear disaster began but now they’re cutting back on blanket tests in favor of random ones.  Do you still want to take the risk by eating it?

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201912240049.html

STEP 3 CONTROL & CONTAIN

TEPCO doesn’t have a plan but rather a roadmap to cleaning up the #FukushimaDaiichi plant site and it’s ever-changing from now until eternity apparently:

https://www.news4jax.com/business/2019/12/27/japan-revises-fukushima-cleanup-plan-delays-key-steps/?outputType=amp

STEP 4 NUCLEAR POWER IS OVER

India’s official view on nuclear energy and its false “safety culture” dangerously mirrors that of Japan’s before #Fukushima happened.  Don’t believe me?  Read this study for yourself and you’ll see:

https://www.academia.edu/37281277/The_Fukushima_Disaster_and_the_Framing_of_Nuclear_Energy_in_India?email_work_card=view-paper

HEY #FUKUFIGHTERS!

Most people never heard the story of Sister Megan Rice and her Plowshares associates who went to jail protesting nuclear bomb building but to me, it’s one of the most important ones in  anti-nuclear history.  Hear the amazing tale from Sister Megan herself in this week’s episode of the Nuclear Hotseat Podcast with Libbe HaLevy:

http://nuclearhotseat.com/2019/12/24/anti-nuclear-peace-nun-sister-megan-rice-of-plowshares/

#FukuFighters International Weekly News Round Up 12.20.2019

幸せな休日!

This holiday season, give the gift of knowledge because the flow of #FukushimaNews is never ending!  Drop these links in your circle's stockings, step-by-step:

 

STEP 1 EDUCATE & SAFEGUARD

TEPCO pays minimal damages in lawsuit to victims of the #FukushimaNuclearDisaster as once again, the nuclear bad guys circle the wagons:

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20191218/p2a/00m/0na/006000c

STEP 2 EVACUATE #FUKUSHIMA NOW

When a New Yorker reporter recently went to #Fukushima to ask if nuclear energy has a future, she found that the reality of the people living there speaks for itself (please note the author of the article is an Abe Fellowship recipient so policy conflict of interest risk exists):

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/is-nuclear-power-worth-the-risk

STEP 3 CONTROL & CONTAIN

Soil remediation as a result of #FukushimaRadiation shows that we in science- project-on-a-macro-level territory:

https://phys.org/news/2019-12-fukushima-lessons-extraordinary-case-soil.html

STEP 4 NUCLEAR POWER IS OVER

It's the beginning of the end of the nuclear era in Switzerland as they make good on their pledge to take all their reactors offline begins:

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-nuclearpower/switzerland-switches-off-nuclear-plant-as-it-begins-exit-from-atomic-power-idUKKBN1YO19J

HEY #FUKUFIGHTERS!

If you missed my #FukuFriday show last week, you missed out on all the presents I gave!  I’ll make it up to you with this one - SUBSCRIBE to Robert Cherwink’s The OCNuke Daily info blog.  It’s free and loaded with tons of global articles about #Fukushima and beyond:

https://paper.li/r_cherwink/1333508288?edition_id=80a91810-2268-11ea-a9ac-0cc47a0d164b#/

#FukuFighters International Weekly News Round Up 12.13.2019

Photo by Teppei Sato

As the year comes to a close, it's time to reflect on how we're going to shut every nuclear plant down in order to avoid ANOTHER #Fukushima/Chernobyl/Three Mile Island event.  Luckily there's a path to follow, step-by-step:

 

STEP 1 EDUCATE & SAFEGUARD

Blame for the aftermath of the #FukushimaNuclearDisaster has shifted from TEPCO to the J-Gov as courts find the response partially responsible for the bungle job:

https://stockdailydish.com/fukushima-japan-court-finds-government-liable-for-nuclear-disaster/

STEP 2 EVACUATE #FUKUSHIMA NOW

As we creep ever closer to the start of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, the real stories of recovery aren’t being told but rather washed over in the rush to gold:

https://www.foxsports.com/olympics/story/tokyo-being-billed-as-recovery-olympics-but-not-for-all-121319

STEP 3 CONTROL & CONTAIN

TEPCO Mangles A Fuel Rod At Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 6 - but don’t worry, they’ve got it under control there, right?

http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=17818

STEP 4 NUCLEAR POWER IS OVER

Whenever the nuclear power industry is ready to get serious about the waste issue, it would be a welcome reprieve from the excuses we’ve gotten during the entirety of the atomic age:

https://www.dw.com/en/what-happens-to-nuclear-waste-from-power-plants/a-51216359

HEY #FUKUFIGHTERS!

If you haven’t been over to our website’s Helpful Links section lately, now is the time to get caught up!  The most comprehensive list of #Fukushima related sites on the web is available 24/7 for your resource needs:

http://www.operationsavetheearth.com/helpful-links/

#FukuFighters International Weekly News Round Up 12.06.2019

Photo by Teppei Sato

Less than a year away from the start of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo and radiation fears show up in real time.  Read all about it and much more step-by-step:

STEP 1 EDUCATE & SAFEGUARD

Falsification of documentation about the #FukushimaNuclearDisaster took place according to the Nuclear Regulatory Agency in Japan, shady much TEPCO?

http://www.ourplanet-tv.org/?q=node/2450

STEP 2 EVACUATE #FUKUSHIMA NOW

Greenpeace Japan finds radiation in areas around the start of the Olympic torch relay so TEPCO has to clean it up.  I wonder how many more times this is going to happen before #Tokyo2020?

http://news.trust.org/item/20191204065654-n7xs5/

STEP 3 CONTROL & CONTAIN

Reactor 1 containment is in question after TEPCO released new photos showing how all the paint on the unit melted off in 2011:

https://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=17803

And robots in Reactor 2 show that high radiation is going to force TEPCO to rethink using robotics to help with the clean up process altogether:

https://insiderfinancial.net/extremely-high-radiation-breaks-down-fukushima-clean-up-robot-at-damaged-nuclear-reactor.html

STEP 4 NUCLEAR POWER IS OVER

In case you were looking for clarification, Pope Francis is AGAINST nuclear power unless safety can be fully guaranteed.  Since that’s technically impossible, you do the math:

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20191127/p2g/00m/0in/004000c

HEY #FUKUFIGHTERS!

Like ‘hibakusha’ survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the stories told by the next generation of #Fukushima survivors will resonate for decades to come.  It’s up to us to support those storytellers like this high schooler with a vision in Japan:

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/751/

#FukuFighters International Weekly News Round Up 11.29.2019

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The Pope's visit to Japan this week had an anti-nuclear tone which struck a chord with the people but not the nuclear power industry!  Read all about their latest shenanigans this week for yourself, step-by-step:

 

STEP 1 EDUCATE & SAFEGUARD

Nuclear energy providers in Japan picked up a win this week with a pre-start approval for the Onagawa plant that like #FukushimaDaiichi in 2011 was damaged by the tsunami (they still need local support from residents so don’t bet on it going down easy!):

https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKBN1Y10IR

STEP 2 EVACUATE #FUKUSHIMA NOW

Despite claims of safety, the Olympic Committee in Japan has to figure out if they should serve #Fukushima food stuffs at the Games next year in Tokyo or not:

https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-grapples-with-serving-fukushima-food-at-olympics?

STEP 3 CONTROL & CONTAIN

Each reactor that melted down at #FukushimaDaiichi has it’s own unique set of long-term problems that all began with how things went down during the early days of the disaster.  Case in point - Reactor 2’s venting issues: 

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20191129_01/

STEP 4 NUCLEAR POWER IS OVER

Mainstream media is always quick to point out how China is so pro-nuke all the time but the reality is they are shifting (like everybody else) to renewable energy solutions more:

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/11/15/chinas-nuclear-operator-to-develop-1-gw-solar-field/

HEY #FUKUFIGHTERS!

If you’re on Twitter then you know that’s where a lot of #FukuFighters put out frontline information about the #FukushimaNuclearDisaster all the time.  I always say it’s best to go to the direct sources if you can and now with translatable content, it’s easier than ever to get a fully formed picture of the reality there in Japan versus the cover up version.  Click the link below and follow OurPlanetTV in Japan to be in the know each and every week:

https://twitter.com/OurPlanetTV