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Fukushima Class Action Federal Lawsuit Filed in Boston Against General Electric — Fukushima 311 Watchdogs

GE sued for Fukushima disaster Lawsuit alleges unsafe design, cost cutting Japanese property owners and businesses near the Fukushima nuclear plant that melted down after a devastating 2011 tsunami filed a $500 million class-action lawsuit against General Electric for negligently designing the doomed plant. The lawsuit, filed yesterday in federal court in Boston, claims the […]

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November 23, 2017 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Tepco Says The Fukushima Cleanup ‘Is Progressing’, But at a Painstaking Pace

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Last July 2017 Tepco’s remotely piloted robots transmitted view of what could be melted radioactive fuel inside Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant’s destroyed reactors — actually Tepco wants to believe that it is melted radioactive fuel but has not been able to get it confirmed since then.

The Fukushima Cleanup Is Progressing, But at a Painstaking Pace

Earlier this year, remotely piloted robots transmitted what officials believe was a direct view of melted radioactive fuel inside Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant’s destroyed reactors—a major discovery, but one that took a long and painful six years to achieve. In the meantime, the program to clean up the destroyed reactors has seen numerous setbacks and concerns, including delays on Japanese electrical utility Tepco’s timetable to begin removing the highly radioactive fuel and continued leakage of small amounts of radioactive substances.

Japanese officials are now hoping that they can convince a skeptical public that…

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November 23, 2017 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Coal industry’s final insult to humanity: It’s killing our sperm — RenewEconomy

Taiwanese study finds that men exposed to higher levels of air pollution have poorer quality sperm. Add that to climate impacts and lung disease of fossil fuels.

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November 23, 2017 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Solar & Wind cheaper than Coal. #StopAdani #Qldvotes #CoralnotCoal — jpratt27

New study reaches a stunning conclusion about the cost of solar and wind energy Building new renewables is now cheaper than just running old coal and nuclear plants. Nov 20, 2017, 11:34 am CREDIT: Patrick Pleul/dpa via AP file In one of the fastest and most astonishing turnarounds in the history of energy, building and […]

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November 23, 2017 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized | Leave a comment