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Nuclear News from Japan

Nuclear News from Japan

Centre for Research on Globalization Cancer Risk From Fukushima Found in Japanese Infants <br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy Infants who were in the Japanese region most affected by radiation after the 2011 tsunami have a slightly elevated lifetime risk of some cancers, according to the World Health Organization. Baby girls in the region have the greatest relative risk increase – 70 percent for thyroid cancer – the agency said in a 168-page health risk assessment. But the agency cautioned that's on top a small baseline lifetime risk of 0.75 percent, so that the absolute increase in cases of thyroid cancer is expected to be small. Read this story on www.medpagetoday.com. The assessment also says that male infants exposed at the highest level – between 12 and 25 millisieverts – have about a 7 percent relative risk increase in the lifetime risk of leukemia and that female infants have about a 6 percent increase in the lifetime risk of breast cancer.

Amateur Riot « Download VideoDownload Audio Dispatch #2 of Stop the Flows focuses on the burgeoning anti-nuke movement in Japan, following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Truth be told I had larger plans for this dispatch. But with time and resources lacking, I could only scratch the surface of not just the anti-nuke movement, but of the anarchist and activist scene in Japan. This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 27th, 2011 at 9:01 am and is poested under Stop the Flows, the fuckin show category. A history of the black bloc – Part 1 This week: 1. Food Fight! This week: 1. Organizing Revolt This Week: 1. The War on Christmas Trees This week: 1. Front End Loader Dreams This Week: 1. 19 COPs won’t do 2.

Public Intelligence Report: Fukushima's radiation damaged more souls than bodies March 11 is the second anniversary of the great quake and tsunamiThe cancer risk rose only slightly in very small areas near the reactors, the WHO saysYoung men, who battled the plant disaster, may see a rise in thyroid cancerPeople exposed as children have a slightly elevated risk of certain cancers in their lifetimes (CNN) -- Two years ago, an 8.9-magnitude earthquake generated a tsunami of historic proportions that waylaid Japan's northeast coastline, including a nuclear power plant. As Fukushima Daiichi unraveled in global public view with fire, explosions and radioactive emissions for weeks, people living nearby were exposed to radiation and trauma. The trauma was worse, the World Health Organization said in a report released Thursday on the health effects of the "Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami." New video shows Japan nuclear disaster How to prevent another Fukushima What caused the Fukushima disaster The woman powering Japan's nuclear hopes post-Fukushima Stories of hardship

What Fukushima accident did to the ocean A huge Buddha statue looks over the bay in 2011 in the tsunami-devastated city of Kamaishi, Japan. Fukushima disaster led to largest accidental release of radioactivity into oceanKen Buesseler says the levels detected in the ocean water are not of concern to human healthHe says there is concern that levels of radioactivity in fish are not decreasingBuesseler: Levels that will reach U.S. West Coast in 2013-14 are not high enough to harm humans Editor's note: Ken Buesseler is a Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who has studied marine radioactivity since Chernobyl in 1986 and led an international research cruise off Japan in June 2011. (CNN) -- One year ago, a series of events began with an earthquake off the cost of Japan that culminated in the largest accidental release of radioactivity into the ocean in history. One year later, we have to ask, what do we know about Fukushima's impact on the ocean and levels of radioactive contaminants in water and fish?

Foreign Policy In Focus | International Affairs, Peace, Justice, and Environment Media Silent on Fukushima Radiation Impact in US Sometimes big news stories can only be seen by the shadows they cast. You would think that it should be easy to find detailed updates on the Fukushima disaster's impact on our fishing industry, milk production, global radiation distribution patterns, etc. You would be mistaken. The massive media coverage following the initial disaster has fallen nearly silent. In July of last year there were major stories about Fukushima and the plum of radiation reaching across the Pacific Ocean towards North America. "As hair falls out of a Fukushima victim's head, a new German study reports that North America's West Coast will be the area most contaminated by Fukushima cesium of all regions in Pacific in 10 years, an "order-of-magnitude higher" than waters off Japan, according to a new German study followed by a former New York Times journalist going inside the no-entry zone and reporting radiation levels over 10 times higher than Tepco's data." The article was accompanied by this scary graphic:

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