Parents blame elementary school’s cell tower after 4th student gets cancer
California parents are demanding an elementary school remove their on-campus cell tower after four students and three teachers were diagnosed with cancer in just three...
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Radiation level in tuna off Oregon coast tripled after Fukushima disaster
While the state of Oregon gears up to test its shores for radioactive contamination from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear...
Fukushima cleanup suspended after worker’s death
The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, TEPCO, suspended the cleanup at the facility after one of...
Radiation leaks force transfer of nuclear waste from New Mexico to Texas
The cause of the radiation leaks at the United States’ first nuclear waste repository are still under investigation, but in the meantime government officials have...
Forests Around Chernobyl Aren’t Decaying Properly
By Rachel Nuwer Nearly 30 years have passed since the Chernobyl plant exploded and caused an unprecedented nuclear...
Radiation scare, but no signs of leak: Halifax officials
Firefighters responded to a radiation scare aboard a ship at the port of Halifax on Thursday night, but...
More airborne radiation confirmed near New Mexico nuclear site
About one week after a leak resulted in record levels of radiation near the United States’ first nuclear waste depository, more airborne radiation has been...
Thyroid cancer cases soar; is it overdiagnosed?
By LINDSEY TANNER A dramatic rise in thyroid cancer has resulted from overdiagnosis and treatment of tumors too...
Is radiation behind the dramatic increase of birth defects in Washington?
As state and federal officials document the alarming rise of deadly birth defects in rural Washington, health experts...
New Mexico nuclear waste site has ‘radiological event’
Officials are monitoring the levels of airborne radiation at the deep underground facility in southeastern New Mexico where...
TEPCO reveals record cesium level in Fukushima No. 1 well
A record high level of radioactive cesium has been found in groundwater beneath the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, it operator TEPCO revealed....
Fukushima radiation levels underestimated by five times – TEPCO
TEPCO has revised the readings on the radioactivity levels at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant well to...
TEPCO fears 3-cm hole in Fukushima reactor No.2
The suppression pool of the Fukushima Daiichi Unit No. 2 reactor may have a 3-centimeter hole in it,...
Canadians buying potassium iodide in bulk over fears of Fukushima radiation
Health officials in the coastal Canadian province of British Columbia are cautioning residents not to try and qualm fears of radioactive contamination by ingesting mass...
‘Massive’ low-flying helicopter to test radiation levels in Baltimore
The US Department of Homeland Security has deployed a helicopter to fly over Baltimore, Maryland to measure radiation...
Fish testing at 124 times over radiation limit caught off Fukushima
Fish with deadly levels of radioactive cesium have been caught just off the coast of Fukushima prefecture, as...
Fukushima radiation reaches 8 times govt standards
Nuclear radiation at the boundaries of the stricken Fukushima power plant has now reached 8 times government safety guidelines, TEPCO has said. The firm has...
Radiation in the Snow…
I can legitimately say, don’t eat the snow. Alert level is 100CPM. Today we are at 81.4CPM and...
Ukrainian town dismantles cell sites over cancer fears
A town council in Ukraine had local cell sites removed, leaving the place with almost no mobile communications....
Doctors Report Thousands Of Japanese People With Nose Bleeds From Radiation
When is the Japanese government going to start telling the truth?!? Thousands in Japan reported to be suffering...
Fukushima leak is 20,000 times radioactive than Tepco claimed
(Emphasis Added): New spill at No. 1 laid to typhoon miscalculation Authorities are still groping for a solution to the water crisis at the crippled...
First Study on 4G/LTE Cell-Phone Radiation Shows it Affects Brain Activity
New peer-reviewed research finds that 30 minutes’ exposure to LTE [4G] cellphone radiation affects brain activity on both...
TEPCO ‘finds crack’ in Fukushima’s water tank after huge sea leak
Workers from Japan’s TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi plant have located a crack in the bottom of a tank that...
Wrecked Fukushima power plant to become training base
Fukushima nuclear plant will be turned into a training base, said TEPCO, according to Japanese media. The company also discovered loose bolts in a storage...