The 2011 Fukushima catastrophe is an ongoing disaster whose end only gets more remote as time passes. The government is desperate to get evacuees back into their homes for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, but the problems on the ground, and in the breached reactor vessels, are only getting more serious and costly, as unbelievable volumes of radiation contaminate land, air and ocean.
… relations campaign of disinformation and denial is under way, to brainwash the Japanese … is now under control and OK. Systematic denial of the radiation risks for the people's …
German pesticide manufacturer Bayer attempts to discredit rigorous peer-reviewed study showing its products caused a Japan fishery to collapse.
… is similar to campaigns by climate change denialists, where single anomalous events such … Bayer in much the same way as climate change denial has been to the fossil fuel industry. … consequences of a trophic cascade due to denial of chemical pollution. For decades from …
Five years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster began to unfold, the searing psychological effects are still being felt among the 160,000 refugees who fled the fallout, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. But now there's growing pressure to return to contaminated areas declared 'safe' in efforts to whitewash the disaster's impacts. Why the rush? To clear the way for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, complete with events in Fukushima City.
… event In a blatant example of the depth of denial about the true extent of the disaster, …
President Obama should overcome political constraints in Hiroshima this week to say 'sorry' for the nuclear bombs, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. Even more important, he must change his stance on nuclear weapons - abandoning the US's $1 trillion WMD modernization program and lifting the threat of world-destroying nuclear conflict.
… therefore, to those who stand firm in the denial of the US wrongs at Hiroshima and …
A telephone transcript released under the Freedom of Information Act shows: the US Navy knew that the USS Ronald Reagan took major radiation hits from the Fukushima atomic power plant after its '3/11' meltdowns and explosions.
… site continue to worsen. Despite its denials, Tepco recently admitted it had …
Following the atomic bombs exploded over Japan in 1945 a second crime against humanity took place, writes Chris Busby: the deliberate falsification of science to hide the dangers of ionising radiation, perpetrated to quell public opposition to a new age of nuclear bombs and energy. The fraud continues to this day, but finally the truth is winning out.
… Most recently we see the Hiroshima-based denials in the case of thyroid cancer in …