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02/16/2018 / By David Williams

More melted fuel found at Fukushima 7 years later: Underwater robot captures images that prove at least some of the fuel breached the core

It has been seven years since the worst industrial disaster in all of human history happened in Fukushima, yet its devastating effects are still being felt to this day. As a matter of fact, experts have just discovered that more melted fuel can be found at the site, and that it may take a long […]

02/13/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Is Doomsday upon us? Scientists have set the clock to “two minutes to midnight” over global nuclear threat

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) has moved the “Doomsday Clock” 30 seconds closer to midnight, leaving us only two minutes away from global Armageddon. The decision to move the hands of this hypothetical timepiece was made last January 25 amidst growing concern of a nuclear attack — particularly between North Korea and the […]

10/05/2017 / By Russel Davis

China fears North Korean’s nuclear tests will cause a landslide or eruption as tremors shake sacred volcano nearby

China has closed its 70-square-mile Changbaishan National Nature Reserve amidst fears that neighboring country’s North Korea’s series of nuclear tests will trigger a devastating landslide or volcano eruption. Experts cautioned that tremors and underground disturbances recorded at the Punggye-ri testing site located near Mount Paektu, a widely regarded sacred volcano that borders both China and North Korea, may […]

11/02/2016 / By fukushima

Fukushima frozen in time: How the uninhabitable exclusion zone remains untouched, five years after tsunami caused Japanese nuclear plant disaster

Five years after a tsunami shut down the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan, these haunting images show how the towns inside the exclusion zone have been frozen in time. Article by Chris Summers In March 2011 an earthquake measuring 8.9 triggered a tsunami off the coast of north-eastern Japan, leading to an explosion at the […]

07/25/2016 / By fukushima

Radiation levels in seabed off Fukushima ‘100s of times’ higher than prior to disaster – Greenpeace

The amount of radioactive substances in seabed off Fukushima is hundreds of times higher than before the disaster, a report issued by Greenpeace reveals. The figures mean that there is absolutely “no return to normal after nuclear catastrophe” in the area. (Article by rt.com) On Thursday, the environmental group released a report addressing the results […]

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