How to rise from the ashes of a nuclear fallout
Seeing our world peppered in nuclear ash is inevitable — at least, this is what the folks at the American Chemical Society seem to believe. Rather than release a video explaining how we can prevent nuclear fallout, the agency released a video explaining how we can cope with it, instead. Still, in the event of a nuclear catastrophe, it Read More
Magnitude 5.5 earthquake rocks Fukushima Prefecture
History repeats itself. A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck the Fukushima and Miyagi Prefectures at 3:04 p.m. on Wednesday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.(1) In 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake launched a tsunami that blasted the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. It was the worst nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl catastrophe in 1986. Cleaning up the Read More
United States threatened with its own mini-Fukushima disaster
Leaders in a St. Louis suburb are pleading with Obama Administration officials to clean up a radioactive land fill that has the potential to be engulfed in flames.(1) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been trying to do so something about the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton, MO, for the past 25 years. Barium sulfate Read More
Fukushima disaster sparks rise in suicide and spontaneous abortion rates
An estimated 2,000 people died during the Fukushima evacuation process in 2011. More than four years later, the Fukushima power plant is still claiming lives. Reports reveal that the disaster has been linked to a spike in suicide rates and spontaneous abortions. According to a Japanese Cabinet Office report, approximately 56 suicides between 2011 and Read More
