The Japanese were kept in the dark from the start of the Fukushima disaster about high radiation levels and their dangers to health, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. In order to proclaim the Fukushima area 'safe', the Government increased exposure limits to twenty times the international norm. Soon, many Fukushima refugees will be forced to return home to endure damaging levels of radiation.
… | 20th February 2016 News Nuclear Energy Japan Health fukushima-2-cut.jpg The Japanese were kept in the dark from the start … for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP) in Japan. As such, one might have expected a …
As we remember the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki this month 71 years ago, we have largely forgotten the racist propaganda that made it possible, writes LINDA PENZ GUNTER. We have likewise sanitised history to exclude the voices of African Americans who loudly protested the use of nuclear weapons, connecting them to American colonialism abroad and racism at home.
… Why Japan? The racism of the Hiroshima and … | 17th August 2016 Activism Nuclear WMD War Japan USA Society Media Politics Books japanese-cut.jpg As we remember the bombing of …
Nuclear power is a uniquely hazardous technology that can destroy entire nations, Japan's prime minister at the time of the Fukushima nuclear disaster has warned British MPs. The lessons of from such catastrophes must be heeded in other countries that believe that nuclear fission can be harnessed safely, writes Linda Pentz Gunter - or they, and the world, will reap the whirlwind.
… | 12th February 2016 News Nuclear Energy Japan Health kan-tv-cut.jpg Nuclear power is a … technology that can destroy entire nations, Japan's prime minister at the time of the … and Naoto Kan who was prime minister of Japan when the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear …
The NRC routinely fails to enforce its own safety codes at nuclear power plants, writes Linda Pentz Gunter - putting all of us at risk from accidents. It's the US's most extreme example of regulatory capture, rivalling Japan's 'nuclear village' of crony agencies and feeble regulation that led to the Fukushima disaster. How long can it be before the US experiences another nuclear catastrophe?
… | 2nd August 2016 News Nuclear Regulation USA Japan Corporations Politics … example of regulatory capture, rivalling Japan's 'nuclear village' of crony agencies … clone - ten days into the 11th March 2011 Japan nuclear disaster. Luckily, the owners …
Evolutionary biologist Timothy Mousseau and his colleagues have published 90 studies that prove beyond all doubt the deleterious genetic and developmental effects on wildlife of exposure to radiation from both the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. But all that peer-reviewed science has done little to dampen the 'official' perception of Chernobyl's silent forests as a thriving nature reserve.
… Radiation Energy Health Natural World Ukraine Japan red_forest_hill-cut.jpg Evolutionary … of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdowns in Japan. But none of this work has received … , he said. At least in that region, Japan could be headed toward a Silent Spring . …
Theresa May's Tory government pushes forward with its nuclear white elephants. But one Cumbria couple persist in exposing the dangers of new nukes and old. Now Martin Forwood and Janine Allis-Smith of Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment have won the 2017 Nuclear-Free Future Award, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
… Fukishima-Daiichi nuclear disaster hit in Japan, the myopic British government — and others around the world, including even Japan — continued to promote nuclear … for Resistance, and Hiromichi Umebayashi, Japan, for Solutions. Jochen Stay of Germany …
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.
… News Nuclear Energy Radiation Health Society Japan meiji-demo-cut.jpg Five years after the … Aoki, like almost 160,000 of her fellow Japanese citizens, was one of those forced … Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies in Japan, speaking at the same London conference …
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.
… | 24th May 2016 Comment Nuclear WMD USA Japan Politics obama-nuclear-summit-cut.jpg … atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Now, almost 71 years since that moment, … only if it includes an apology from the Japanese for the barbarities committed against …
Thirty-five years ago today the USA had its worst ever civilian nuclear accident with a reactor meltdown at Three Mile Island. Linda Pentz Gunter reports on the lies and cover ups about the true scale of the radiation release and its impacts on human health.
… and that the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan will yield no fatalities. Given what we …
ITER, the elusive and multi-million dollar fusion fantasy, was yet another nuclear chimera introduced at the Paris COP21 climate talks as a 'solution' to our climate crisis, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. But the idea is pure fantasy: long before it can be made to work, if it ever can, it will have been made obsolete by harnessing the power of our giant fusion reactor in the sky: the Sun.
… Soviet Union, but the European Union and Japan. Today there are 35 countries in the …
Last week a new billionaires club strode into COP21 in Paris promising big money for 'clean energy': the Breakthrough Energy Coalition. But most of its members are nuclear obsessives, writes Linda Pentz Gunter, from Bill Gates to Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. And what the the world needs is not 'patient investment' into nuclear research, but impatient investment into renewables deployment.
… Hohn's TCI hedge fund invested in J-Power, a Japanese utility company whose assets included nuclear power stations. In 2008, the Japanese government barred TCI from increasing … and there is one clear nuclear opponent in Japan's Masayoshi Son, founder, chairman and …