Italy’s referendum closed voting at 10 p.m. (Japan time) on the 13th. It looks like Italy will abolish nuclear generation.
According to the Italian Interior Ministry, they’ve counted 2% of the votes so far, and 94% is against nuclear power plants. Media in Italy is also reporting that 90% is…
Fukushima prefecture found more than 1 micro sievert per hour of radiation in the grounds of 372 schools (elementary, junior high and high schools), which is about 22% of all schools in the prefecture. Local governments will be removing the contaminated top soil from those schools as soon as…
Prime Minister Kan called for a discussion to promote the adoption of renewable energy. Four experts of renewable energy attended this discussion, including Mr. Takeshi Okada - former football coach of Japan National team who has been active in environmental issues, and Mr. Masayoshi Son -…
A NGO (non-governmental organization), Japan Platform, has decided to call for an additional donations, because it is projected that the funding will run out by the end of this year.
“Japan Platform is an international emergency humanitarian aid organization which offers more effective and…
Secret Squirrel has discovered that Canada has a Canadian Radiological Monitoring Network(the CRMN,as they call it, they,the politicians),the people of Canada call it something else, useless,utterly and completely, useless.It monitors radiation levels about nuclear plants in Canada, but it also is…
German coalition has agreed to abolish all nuclear power reactors by 2022, after reviewing the nuclear energy policy in the special meeting in a wake of Fukushima Daiichi’s nuclear accident.
Germany currently has 17 reactors. 8 of them which are currently halted (7 of them, all old models, are…
She now has her own dosimeter. It shows radiation outside her home is 13 microsieverts per hour – 200 times the level in Tokyo and equivalent to having a chest x-ray every four or five hours.
(Source: azspot)
International Atomic Energy Agency inspection team members visited the unit 3 reactor building of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (NYT)
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With the help of volunteers, Social Welfare Council of Minami Sanriku town has exhibited more than 10,000 cleaned pictures and other momentums found among debris at an old building of Iriya Junior High School on the 28th in an attempt to return them to the owners. The items filled the hallways and…
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.hbisystems.GeigerCounter
This here’s a useful tool created by one “HBI Systems” for monitoring the radiation levels in your area- It talks to the nearest EPA monitoring stations and provides the ambient radiation on a digital Geiger counter.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that it is only ONE DOLLAR.
Amplify’d from www.propublica.orgU.S. officials say the nation’s health system is ill-prepared to cope with a catastrophic release of radiation, despite years of focus on the possibility of a terrorist “dirty bomb” or an improvised nuclear device attack.
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