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The Shroud of Fukushima

Posted in Nuclear, Radiation, tagged ENTOMB, Fukushima, Radiation, Tokyo Electric Power Company on June 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »

According to the London Telegraph, Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) has announced that they will start construction of a shroud over the No. 1 reactor at the ill-fated Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant where a hydrogen explosion destroyed the walls and roof of the reactor building on March 12, the day after the cooling system was [...]

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“Jumpers” (ジャンパー) wanted

Posted in Nuclear, Radiation, tagged Fukushima, Job posting, Nuclear, Radiation, TEPCO on April 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Wanted: Short term, possibly long term position that pays thousands of dollars for up to an hour of work requiring little training working in perilously radioactive environments. A Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) official said this week that the company has tasks fit for “jumpers” (ジャンパー) — workers so called because they “jump” into highly [...]

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Radiation in Houston’s Tap Water Compounded by TCEQ ‘lowballing’ radiation scores in drinking water throughout Texas

Posted in Radiation, tagged houston, Radiation, TCEQ, Water Quality on November 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »

In a three part story, KHOU-TV reports on a four-month investigation into radioactive contaminants in the Houston area drinking water. Revelations that came to light shows hundreds of water providers around the Gulf Coast region are providing their customers with drinking water that contains radioactive contaminants that raise health risks, according to state lab results [...]

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A Look at Uranium Mining

Posted in Energy, Nuclear, Toxics, tagged Areva, cancer, Energy, Heavy Metals, Leaching, Mines, Mining, Navajo, Nuclear, Power, Public Eye Award, Radiation, Radon, Southwest, Uranium on July 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Proponents of nuclear power do a lot to paint it as an environmentally friendly, cheap fuel source. It is not, and we at Public Citizen work hard to dispel these kinds of myths. We have said a lot about how expensive a major nuclear undertaking can be (San Antonio is on verge of dumping several [...]

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