Reactor Accidents Archives

May 2, 2016

Video of today's NIRS webinar, Chernobyl +30: A Look from the Inside, with Lucas Hixson. Mr. Hixson recently traveled to Ukraine and visited the Chernobyl site. He takes us from the moment reactor Unit 4 failed on April 26, the aftermath, and the ongoing mitigation work, up to his own recent experiences living with today’s workers at the site of one of the largest man-made radioactive releases on the planet. Slides only from presentation.

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April 16, 2016

New report from Green Cross: The Financial Costs of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster: A Review of the Literature

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April 15, 2016

"The Other Report on Chernobyl" (TORCH), commissioned by Rebecca Harms, Member of European Parliament for Chernobyl+20 conference.

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April 6, 2016

Audio file (mp3) of NIRS’ telebriefing featuring Fairewind Associates’ Arnie Gundersen and NIRS’ Mary Olson discussing their recent five-week trip to Japan on the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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March 26, 2016

Fairewinds Associates has posted the NRC assessment referred to in yesterday’s New York Times (see April 6 update below). Well worth reading. This assessment warned of possible new damage from further aftershocks.

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March 9, 2016

Video and statement by Green Action's Aileen Mioko Smith at march/rally celebrating the shutdown of two Takahama reactors by citizens who took the issue to court.

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March 9, 2016

New PSR/IPPNW Report: 10,000 cancers expected in Japan as a result of Fukushima meltdowns, ongoing radiation exposure.

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March 7, 2016

TORCH 2016. Update of 2006's The Other Report on Chernobyl, detailing the ongoing health effects of that nuclear disaster nearing its 30th anniversary. From Global 2000/Friends of the Earth, Austria.

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February 2, 2016

Citizens Nuclear Information Center (Tokyo) newsletter, including status of Fukshima accident and decommissioning activities five years later.

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September 14, 2015

Summing up the health effects of the Fukushima disaster. A brief, but extremely useful summary of the health effects, both physical and mental, from British scientist Dr. Ian Fairlie.

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Audio file (mp3) of NIRS’ telebriefing featuring Fairewind Associates’ Arnie Gundersen and NIRS’ Mary Olson discussing their recent five-week trip to Japan on the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. /wp-content/uploads/2016/04/telebrief_20160405_fukushima.mp3

Video and statement by Green Action's Aileen Mioko Smith at march/rally celebrating the shutdown of two Takahama reactors by citizens who took the issue to court.

Audio file (mp3) of NIRS’ telebriefing featuring Fairewind Associates’ Arnie Gundersen and NIRS’ Mary Olson discussing their recent five-week trip to Japan on the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.