The main nuclear reactor that suffered damage from the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
The main nuclear reactor that suffered damage from the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
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Is Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster "on par" with Chernobyl?
Many news organizations (e.g. CNN, Huffington Post, etc) are referring to the Japan incident as something as severe as Chernobyl, i.e. a nuclear event with International Atomic Energy Agency rating "7". I'm skeptical of this equivalence because the…
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Is Fukushima reactor No. 4 on the verge of catastrophic failure that will destroy the world?
I was sent an email with a copied/pasted version of this NaturalNews article which contains the following quote (emphasis original):
Concerned about the 2012 U.S. presidential election? Worried about GMOs? Fluoride? Vaccines? Secret prisons? None…
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Can a "second Chernobyl" happen at the nuclear reactors damaged by the tsunami in Japan?
In the media, you hear predictions that the events in the damaged nuclear power plants could be "the next Chernobyl", but this sounds like hyperbole to me. Are the events at those nuclear reactors comparable to Chernobyl? And what are the most…
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Is there any real benefit in the everyday use of surgical masks to protect oneself from radiation?
A lot of pictures from Japan showing radiation testing with patients wearing surgical masks. The impression one gets is that they must think it is protecting them, in some way.
Is this a legitimate use of the surgical mask? How about when one just…
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Is the Fukushima disaster causing an increase in infant mortality on the west coast of North America?
Here we've got a claim that infant mortality in select US cities on the west coast has increased by 35% since the nuclear meltdown. This claim is based on two data points:
4 weeks ending March 19, 2011 - 37 deaths (avg. 9.25 per week)
10 weeks…
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Does this video show Fukushima Daiichi radiation in San Francisco?
On December 23, 2013, a man who goes by the YouTube username KillYour0TV took a Geiger counter to Pacifica State Beach in San Francisco and detected disturbing levels of radiation as he approached the ocean. The video has gone viral. He…
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Have people died of cancer from the Fukushima daiichi nuclear accident?
A Japanese person wrote in her diary today that her English tutor told her that a lot of people in Japan have got cancer due to the Fukushima daiichi nuclear accident, and were already dead last year (2012) because of it.
Is this the case?
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Could Fukushima daiichi cause the health problems suffered by the USS Ronald Reagan crew?
I came across the Huffington post article Fukushima And The Navy: Sailors Sue Japan Nuclear Plant Owner, Saying Disaster Made Them Sick. It's talking about a lawsuit against the operators of Fukushima Daiichi by the crew of the USS Ronald…
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Was stable iodine distributed post-Fukushima by the Japanese government?
In Canadian Medical Association Journal: Japanese Response to Fukushima Even Worse than Communist Russian Response to Chernobyl … “The Japanese Government Was Lying Through Its Teeth”, there are a lot of claims that the Fukushima dai-ichi incident…
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Have 1,822 people died in Fukushima as a result of the nuclear accident?
The news is showing photos of people protesting against the restarting of nuclear power plants in Japan. This photograph is making the rounds:
Have 1,822 people really died in Fukushima as a result of the nuclear accident? Where does this number…
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Has public faith in nuclear power decreased significantly after the Fukushima accident?
There seems to be a consensus in the media the the events in Fukushima have significantly decreased the public's approval of nuclear energy.
See for example this article by the Telegraph.
Is there any evidence to back this up or is this just…
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Has first cancer case been directly confirmed to Fukushima cleanup?
Slashdot reports First Cancer Case Confirmed From Fukushima Cleanup:
Following on from reports of elevated levels of child cancer and 1,600 civilians deaths from the evacuation, this is the first time that one of the 44,000 people involved in the…
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Are child thyroid cancer rates around Fukushima 20—50x higher?
According to Researcher: Children's cancer linked to Fukushima radiation
By YURI KAGEYAMA Oct. 8, 2015 4:25 AM EDT
A new study says children living near the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer at a rate 20 to 50…
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Did the isolation condensors fail at Fukushima Daiichi? Was human error involved?
The reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan were overflowed by a tsunami following the Tohaku earthquake of 2011. Consequently, a power outage at the station disabled the cooling system, which lead to core melts in three…
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Did Fukushima cause babies on the US West Coast to be more at risk from hypothyroidism?
A recent paper entitled Elevated airborne beta levels in Pacific/West Coast US States and trends in hypothyroidism among newborns after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown has been published and the abstract says:
The number of congenital hypothyroid…
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