Fukushima
02/22/2017 / By Vicki Batts
Fukushima could poison the planet for the next 1,000 years
Radiation levels inside of a damaged nuclear reactor at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant have reached alarming heights. Recent readings from nuclear reactor 2 indicate that the radiation inside is hundreds of times higher now than ever before — six years after the fateful nuclear catastrophe in 2011. Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) the facility’s operator, […]
07/05/2016 / By Vicki Batts
Radiation from Fukushima has tainted US milk, water supplies
It’s not a secret that radiation pollution is hard to contain. The United States Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, began releasing data detailing the continuing rise of radiation contamination in our own food supply following Fukushima. Milk and water samples from across the U.S. have been testing positive for a number of different radioactive elements […]
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