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Post-Fukushima Japan’s Energy Market
In a few weeks it will be the one year anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster, which had all but soured the Japanese public’s appetite for nuclear energy. What once supplied 25...
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Review of the BBC’s This World: ‘Inside the Meltdown’
The BBC documentary, Inside the Meltdown, on the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant is oddly powerful in its depiction of the savage destructive nature of the environment as it battered and...
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Conference Report: “Humanity and Humanitarianism in Crisis”
After many months of following and writing about the triple disasters in Fukushima, Japan- the earthquake, the tsunami, and the meltdown of the nuclear power plants—I was pleased to discover a...
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2012 “Are You Serious?” Awards
Every year it is important to recognize news stories and newsmakers that fall under the category of “Are you serious?” Here are the awards for 2012 as recognized by Dispatches From The Edge. Dr....
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Amidst Japan’s 3/11 Anniversary, Dubious Progress at Rebuilding
The anniversary of Japan’s 3/11 is approaching. “3/11” is what the Japanese call the series of disasters which struck northern Japan in March of 2011; the earthquake, tsunami, and the Fukushima...
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Contamination of USS Ronald Reagan During Fukushima Response Underreported
As was reported in 2011, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was exposed to radiation contamination from Fukushima during its earthquake/tsunami rescue operations—“Operation...
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A Sane and Sober Look at the USS Reagan Radiation Contamination Incident
From Radiation – Exposure and its treatment: A modern handbook, “During the Manhattan Project, a squad of infantry soldiers without protection dug foxholes a quarter mile from one of the Alamogordo...
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Radiation and the USS Ronald Reagan
The USS Ronald Reagan is in the news because several dozen crewmembers of the Reagan are trying to sue TEPCO, the Tokyo Electric Power Corporation, for concealing the radiation release and thereby...
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Japan’s Nuclear Gypsies: The Homeless, Jobless and Fukushima
The cleanup efforts in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in northern Japan have revealed the plight of the Japanese unemployed, marginally employed day laborers and the homeless. They are called...
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Five Years of Forgetting: The Fukushima Disaster and Nuclear Amnesia
“People’s understanding of disasters will continue to be constructed by media. How media members frame the presence of risk and the nature of disasters matters.” – Celine Marie Pascale, American...
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Fukushima 2016: Photo Exhibitions
Two photographic exhibitions documenting Japan’s Fukushima disaster have been mounted this spring at New York’s Asia Society and Japan Society. Although these exhibits depict the same events, the...
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‘Nuclear Nation’: Surviving Fukushima. A Review
Although Nuclear Nation has been described as a hard hitting expose of the nuclear power industry, to my mind the overwhelming feeling is much more subtle. The film creates melancholy and sadness,...
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“The Stone Age Didn’t End Because We Ran out of Stones”
Nobuo Tanaka currently serves as Chairman of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation in Japan. Previously he served as Global Associate for Energy Security and Sustainability at the Institute of Energy...
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Conference Report: “Humanity and Humanitarianism in Crisis”
After many months of following and writing about the triple disasters in Fukushima, Japan- the earthquake, the tsunami, and the meltdown of the nuclear power plants—I was pleased to discover a...
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2012 ‘Are You Serious?’ Awards
Each year, columnist Conn Hallinan gives awards to individuals, companies, and governments that make reading the news a daily adventure. These are the awards for the past year.
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Japan’s 3/11: Dubious Progress at Rebuilding
The anniversary of Japan’s 3/11 is approaching. “3/11” is what the Japanese call the series of disasters which struck northern Japan in March of 2011; the earthquake, tsunami, and the Fukushima Daiichi...
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Contamination of USS Ronald Reagan During Fukushima Response Underreported
Underreported at the time, the USS Ronald Reagan in responding to the Fukushima nuclear disaster was exposed to significant amounts of radiation.
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A Sane and Sober Look at the USS Reagan Radiation Contamination Incident
Brian Hanley examines the science behind the claims by sailors of the USS Ronald Reagan that they were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation during the response to the Fukushima disaster in 2011.
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Japan’s Nuclear Gypsies: The Homeless, Jobless and Fukushima
The cleanup efforts in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in northern Japan have revealed the plight of the Japanese unemployed, marginally employed day laborers and the homeless. They are called...
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Five Years of Forgetting: The Fukushima Disaster and Nuclear Amnesia
“People’s understanding of disasters will continue to be constructed by media. How media members frame the presence of risk and the nature of disasters matters.” – Celine Marie Pascale, American...
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