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Fukushima Nuclear Plant: 70-Fold Radiation Spike
“Another radioactive water leak in the sea has been detected at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the facility’s operator TEPCO announced. Contamination levels in the gutter reportedly spiked up 70 times over regular readings” RT reported today. The levels of contamination were between 50 and 70 times higher than Fukushima’s already elevated radioactive status, and … Continue reading
Disaster Risk Reduction And Resilience As Structural Reform In Abenomics
By Andrew DeWit In the waning days of 2014, by far the hottest year humans have ever measured,1 Bloomberg News warned that the foreign investors who control roughly 70% of volume traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange “have had just about enough of Abenomics.” Decrying that there is no Japanese Facebook or Google, and that … Continue reading
