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The Legal Case Against Japan’s Fukushima Wastewater Decision, https://thediplomat.com/2021/05/the-legal-case-against-japans-fukushima-wastewater-decision/ The proposed discharge of wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean would violate Japan’s legal and environmental obligations. By Xiuxiu Zhang, Jeffrey Thaler, and Danning Zhu, May 21, 2021   Since the devastating March 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, which damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 1.25 million…

May 21, 2021 In this Oct. 12, 2017, photo, the ever-growing amount of contaminated, treated but still slightly radioactive, water is stored in about 900 huge tanks, including those seen in this photo taken during a plant tour at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture. Credit: Pablo M. Diez/Pool Photo via AP Advertisement Since the devastating March 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, which damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 1.25 million tons of seawater have been pumped through the damaged nuclear units to prevent the melted fuel rods in three d...

NationofChange Where does all the radioactive fracking waste go? A year-long investigation finds a major West Texas disposal site with a patchy record is also importing radioactive oilfield waste from abroad. Image Credit: George Etheredge/Rolling Stone On May 8, 2017, a drum of radioactive oilfield waste from Australia arrived at a remote West Texas disposal site operated by local oil and gas environmental services company, Lotus LLC. This drum of waste entered the United States aboard a Singapore Airlines cargo jet, appropriately packaged in a steel drum. According to files ...

February 22, 2021, 7:09 pm The Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (FISHMA) has suspended shipments of a fish called “Kurosoy” that was landed on February 22 in an experimental fishery off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture. This is the first time in about two years that radioactive materials exceeding the standard have been detected in the fishery off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture, and in February of last year, the shipping restrictions were lifted for all fish species. According to the Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, on the 2...

IMAGINE an atom: like a miniature solar system with the nucleus in the centre and electrons orbiting around like planets.  Although the picture is familiar, analogies like this can mislead. New research published in Science last week by a team largely based in Darmstadt, Germany, emphasises that the atom is far stranger than our simple images. We still have much to learn about its inner citadel: the nucleus.  The discovery of the atomic nucleus is a little over a century old. Earlier ideas about the atoms imagined them like tiny billiard balls.  Then, in the early 20th century, the atom wa...