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Chiba Mayors Request Radioactive Waste Storage 8th Time

December 23, 2018December 23, 2018 Nancy Foust 0 Comments Chiba, contamination, environment, fallout, fukushima, soil

Mayors from five cities in Chiba prefecture requested for an 8th time that the central government deal with high level

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SimplyInfo.org Report: Fukushima Microparticles, An Unrecognized Threat

September 7, 2018September 6, 2018 Nancy Foust 0 Comments black sand, black stuff, contamination, deaths, exposure, fallout, fukushima, glass spheres, illness, micro, particles, radiation

In the years since the initial disaster there have been disparities between the official radiation exposure estimates and the subsequent

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Fukushima Contaminated Potato Chips Found In Japan

December 20, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, food, fukushima, japan, potato chips

A citizen food testing project found Fukushima related radioactive contamination in a bag of Japanese potato chips. The chips were

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Highly Radioactive Fukushima Town Reopens

June 13, 2016June 13, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, evacuation, evacuees, fukushima, katsurao, reopening, town, zone

The town of Katsurao currently has radiation levels of 20-50 mSv/year, with some areas above the 50 mSv/year level. 20

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Fukushima Pacific Contamination Will Show Back Up In Japan 2-3 Years

May 11, 2016May 10, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments cesium 137, contamination, current, fukushima, japan, pacific

Oceanographer Michio Aoyama presented an estimate at an international conference recently showing that the cesium 137 contamination in the Pacific will

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WHOI Erases Fukushima Pacific Contamination Data

November 10, 2015November 11, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, fukushima, InForm, Our radioactive ocean, pacific, WHOI

**Update and additional information added at the end of the post** The Woods Hole “Our Radioactive Ocean” project has erased

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Fukushima Contamination Found In Tap Water; New Report

October 30, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments cesium, contamination, drinking, fukushima, japan, tap water

The report for July to September of 2015 again found traces of Fukushima contamination in tap water in certain cities

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New Analysis Shows Fukushima Unit 3 Released High Concentration Of Contamination

October 23, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, fukushima, JAEA, March 15, releases, unit 3

Yomiuri Shimbun is reporting a new analysis by Japan Atomic Energy Agency that shows Fukushima unit 3 may have released

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Municipal Drinking Water In Japan Still Show Traces Of Fukushima Contamination

September 30, 2015September 28, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments 2015, cesium, contamination, drinking water, fukushima, japan

A recent Health Ministry report showed that a number of Japanese cities were still finding traces of Fukushima related contamination

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Last Of Fukushima Daiichi Steel Wall Closed

September 29, 2015September 28, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments closed, contamination, daiichi, fukushima, piling, port, sea wall, steel

The last portion of the steel piling wall installed in the sea front of Fukushima Daiichi has been closed. On

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Fukushima Unit 1 Discharge Canal Contamination Rising

July 29, 2015July 29, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, discharge canal, fukushima

A report released on July 26th showed that contamination levels in the unit 1 discharge canal at the end closer

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Japanese Companies In Taiwan Fukushima Food Scandal Banned From Importing

July 29, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, export, food, fukushima, import, japan, scandal, taiwan

Taiwan has announced that those companies that falsified origin labels to bypass importation regulations on Japanese foods will be banned

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Fukushima Contamination Hits US & Canada, Readings Near Peak Estimate Range

April 6, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, Data, fukushima, pacific, US

Woods Hole announced some recent findings of Fukushima identified radioactive contamination found offshore in the US and Canada. The test

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Fukushima Sea Soil Radiation Readings Released

March 12, 2015March 12, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, fukushima, japan, pacific, sea, sediment, soil, tohoku

Japan’s NRA has released a series of sea soil and sediment readings taken off the eastern coast of Japan. The

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TEPCO Begins Concreting Unit 4 Trench At Fukushima Daiichi

February 16, 2015February 15, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments concrete, contamination, fukushima, pipe, sea, seawater, trench, unit 4

TEPCO has begun concreting in the seawater piping trench for unit 4 at Fukushima Daiichi. The work has been on

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New Study Finds Fukushima Food Contamination Underestimates Strontium 90

February 4, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, food, fukushima, strontium 90

A new study in the journal Environmental Science & Technology looked at governmental food testing in Japan. The study reviewed

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Fukushima Daiichi Seafront Well Radiation Skyrockets

January 13, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, daiichi, fukushima, seafront

Well number 1-12 experienced an over 50 times increase in radiation this week. The well sits between the unit 1

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Greenpeace Survey Finds Unsafe Radiation Levels In Fukushima

November 13, 2014November 13, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, fukushima, greenpeace, survey

A new Greenpeace radiation survey done in Fukushima prefecture, outside the evacuation zone, showed unsafe levels of radiation. Various locations

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Fukushima Mushrooms Still As High As 102,900 Bq/Kg

November 12, 2014November 11, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments cesium, contamination, food, fukushima, Minamisoma, mushrooms

I report from late September showed that mushrooms cultivated for home consumption were still very high in cesium contamination. Mushrooms

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Fukushima Contaminated Food Was Found In US Right After The Meltdowns

November 11, 2014November 10, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, food, fukushima, pacific, US

A presentation given at a recent American Chemical Society meeting outlined the discovery of Fukushima radioactive contamination in food soon

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TEPCO Publishes Arrogant Press Release To The US On Fukushima

November 11, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, fukushima, pacific, press release, TEPCO, US

As news came out about yet another finding of Fukushima radioactive contamination offshore of North America, TEPCO published a rather

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Fukushima Contamination Found 150km Off Eureka California

November 10, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments california, contamination, fukushima, pacific ocean

Woods Hole’s radiation mapping program has found Fukushima identified cesium 150km off the shore of Eureka California. A press release

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Fukushima; Radiation Spike In Unit 1 Discharge Canal

October 29, 2014October 29, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, daiichi, discharge canal, fukushima, unit 1

TEPCO hasn’t released radiation readings for the set of discharge canals for well over a year. This location has been

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What May Be Causing The New Reactor Building Leak At Fukushima Daiichi

October 28, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, daiichi, fukushima, groundwater, subdrain pit, unit 2

TEPCO admitted last week that some subdrain pit wells at the Fukushima Daiichi plant showed a large increase in contamination.

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Radioactive Spike In Norwegian Reindeer & Sheep

October 25, 2014October 23, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments cesium, chernobyl, contamination, norway, reindeer, sheep

Annual testing of sheep and reindeer for cesium 137 contamination found an abrupt spike this year. Ongoing testing still finds

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Vongfong Aftermath At Fukushima Daiichi; Leaks & Rising Radiation

October 15, 2014October 15, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, Fukushima Daiichi, leak, vongfong

Vongfong passed over Fukushima Daiichi as a fairly sedate tropical storm. This didn’t leave the plant completely unscathed. We reported

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New Radiation Spike At Fukushima Daiichi

October 13, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, Fukushima Daiichi, groundwater, pacific, sea

Cesium levels in well 1-6 near the port jumped on today’s readings. Readings taken at 9:44am JST October 13 (before

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Fukushima Unit 3 Dust Disperal Hints At Accident Events

September 23, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, fukushima, reactor, unit 3

TEPCO’s report on contaminated dust dispersal that ended up contaminating rice fields north of the damaged nuclear site may indicate

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Fukushima Daiichi Sea Releases Updated To 157 Billion Bq Per Day

August 27, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, daiichi, fukushima, pacific, sea releases

Yesterday we reported on TEPCO’s admission of ongoing daily sea releases of contaminated water to the Pacific. The TEPCO rep

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Fukushima Monkeys May Show Radiation Damage

July 25, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments blood, cesium, contamination, counts, fukushima, snow monkey, white

A new study of Japanese snow monkeys shows that they may be suffering from damage from radiation exposure. Researchers found

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Minamisoma Never Informed Of New Contamination From Fukushima Daiichi

July 15, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, minimisoma, rice

The rice fields were contaminated in August of 2013, the Agriculture Ministry didn’t inform TEPCO until March 2014 and never

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TEPCO Contaminated Nearby Town During Unit 3 Demolition

July 14, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, dust, fukushima, Minamisoma, rice, unit 3

TEPCO has admitted to re-contaminating the area around Minamisoma after being confronted by the agriculture ministry. Rice in Minamisoma was

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TEPCO Admits Deep Groundwater Contamination & Leak To Sea

June 26, 2014June 26, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, deep layer, groundwater, pacific, TEPCO, water

TEPCO has been doing further groundwater investigations at the plant including testing for contamination at various depths to understand what

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High Radiation Found On Seabed South Of Fukushima Daiichi

June 16, 2014June 16, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, fukushima, NRA, pacific, sea bed

Contaminated soil on the sea floor was found a few kilometers south of Fukushima Daiichi. The samples were collected in

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US Pacific Kelp; Fukushima Radiation Testing Results

May 8, 2014May 8, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, food, fukushima, kelp, ocean, pacific, US

Kelp Watch has released their first batch of testing results. The program is a mash up of university, national lab

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Fukushima Groundwater Wells Contaminated From Leaking Tanks

April 23, 2014April 23, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments bypass, contamination, fish, fukushima, pacific, tanks

This was bound to happen and TEPCO had to have known this at the time they pushed for permission to

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Fukushima Cesium Found On Vancouver Beach

March 13, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments beach, cesiium, contamination, fukushima, vancouver

The Vancouver Sun is reporting that cesium 134, an identifier of the Fukushima nuclear disaster was detected on a local

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Researchers Confirm “Black Substance” Is Fukushima Reactor Fuel

March 8, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments black stuff, black substance, contamination, fallout, fuel, japan

In a peer reviewed paper released this week by the journal Environmental Science & Technology, a Japanese team of researchers

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Fukushima Is Here! Contamination Found Off Vancouver Coast

February 25, 2014April 1, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, food, fukushima, pacific

Scientists from the Bedford Institute of Oceanography have found levels of cesium in sea water off the Vancouver Canada coast that

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Living With Radiation In Japan

February 21, 2014February 20, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, food, fukushima, japan, radiation, travel

Local food coops that carefully select and test their food have become a go-to source for people concerned about contamination

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