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  • Thirty Years and Counting : Radioactive News from Three Mile Island


    The Rag BlogAuthority Authority: 552
    Three Mile Island. Graphic from The Infrastructurist.The new nuke media machine:Fluff, lies and radiation from TMIBy Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / November 25, 2009Yet another "perfectly safe" release at Three Mile Island has irradiated yet another puff of hype about alleged "green" support for new reactors.The ...
    7 hours ago
  • Peter Gleick: What the Frack? Poisoning our Water in the Name of Energy Profits


    Circle of Blue | WaterNewsAuthority Authority: 546
    Image courtesy US Geological Survey Produced water brine pit in Oklahoma oil and gas field from hyrdaulic facturing, or fracking. Here is your word for the day: Fracking or fraccing. [No, fellow Battlestar Galactica fans, this is a different use of the word "frack," although for some, the sentiment is the same.] ...
    15 hours ago
  • Chinese Drywall Problem


    Geology NewsAuthority Authority: 516
    Between 2005 and 2007 the housing boom and hurricane rebuilding caused a shortage of drywall in some southern US states. To meet the demand drywall was imported from China and used in many homes. Now some of that drywall is causing corrosion of metal objects in these homes and residents are concerned that [...]
    1 day ago
  • Two executed over melamine milk scandal


    Australian Food NewsAuthority Authority: 513
    Two men were executed in China yesterday for their involvement in China’s contaminated milk scandal that killed six babies and made 300,000 ill, according to reports.The men had been sentenced to death earlier this year by a court in the northern city of Shijiazhuang for producing and selling toxic ingredients that ...
    1 day ago
  • Study finds coal-bed methane production could foul water in Moffat County


    Colorado IndependentAuthority Authority: 676
    A study being conducted by the Colorado Geological Survey (CGS) shows the very real potential for groundwater contamination by coal-bed methane production in the Sand Wash Basin area of Moffat County, according to the Craig Daily Press . An unadorned coal bed Coal-bed methane production involves ...
    1 day ago
  • Three Mile Island Cats Have 9 Lives, Too?


    Fire EarthAuthority Authority: 137
    Or will it be third time unlucky for the TMI puss?Radiation leak at TMI, home of the worst U.S. nuclear power disaster: No threat to public health and safety Those of us who are old enough to remember the 1979 near complete core meltdown at Unit 2 of  TMI, or smart enough to have carefully [...]
    2 days ago
  • Three Mile Islands Leak: Cause Under Investigation


    Thaindian NewsAuthority Authority: 726
    By Meena KarPennsylvania, Nov. 23, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The news of the leak in the “Three Miles Island nuclear reactors” in Pennsylvania created panic among people and the authorities decided to evacuate the place completely, for preventing any loss of life. According to the sources, over one hundred and fifty people ...
    2 days ago
  • New model can track movement of radioactive fall-out after nuclear explosion


    Thaindian NewsAuthority Authority: 726
    Washington, November 23 (ANI): A scientist has developed models that can track the movement of radioactive fall-out carried by the wind after a nuclear explosion.The models have been developed by Adam Wachtor - a student who worked with physicist Fernando Grinstein at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, ...
    2 days ago
  • Three Mile Island


    MastiFunda.comAuthority Authority: 152
    Three Mile Island, three mile island nuclear plant updates:- A small amount of radiation has been detected in a reactor building at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in central Pennsylvania. Officials say about 150 employees were sent home after the radiation was detected Saturday afternoon, but that there ...
    3 days ago
  • Small amount of contamination found at Pa. nuclear plant


    Thaindian NewsAuthority Authority: 726
    LONDONDERRY TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA (BNO NEWS) — More than one-hundred employees working inside the shutdown Three Mile Island Unit 1 containment building were sent home on Saturday after a small amount of contamination was found inside, officials said on Sunday.About 150 employees were inside when the airborne ...
    3 days ago
  • 5 companies to pay for Newtown Creek cleanup


    Queens CrapAuthority Authority: 598
    From the Daily News : Five polluters are on the hook for a proposed Superfund cleanup of Newtown Creek, federal officials said. The corporations - oil companies Exxon Mobil, Chevron and BP; gas company National Grid, and mining company Phelps Dodge - are working on a deal to pay for the investigation phase of the ...
    4 days ago
  • Court Rules Army Must Give Community Meaningful Information on Training Impacts


    Climate of Our FutureAuthority Authority: 115
    Marine contamination, cultural sites at Makua at stakeNovember 19, 2009  Honolulu, HI – Yesterday, U.S. District Chief Judge Susan Oki Mollway ruled that the Army is obliged to give the community meaningful information on how military training at Makua Military Reservation (”MMR”) on O’ahu could damage ...
    4 days ago
  • H1N1 vs Plague, You Loose The Final Solution Video


    Ahrcanum "ahR-Kah-noom" > secret secretsAuthority Authority: 132
    As H1N1 Swine Flu cases and death numbers continue to rise, comes this video- The Final Solution.  Is the black plague coming? Lots of good conspiratorial stuff to turn your antenna.  Links provided at video source-   http://ukraineplague.blogspot.com/200… DEATHS AND INFECTED ...
    4 days ago
  • SCAD student creates waterless sand-removal system using Astroturf and bamboo


    Green DiaryAuthority Authority: 444
    Designed by Casper Krouse, a senior industrial design student at the Savannah College of Art and Design, the system (pictured above) uses collected rainwater, a mat of bamboo poles and AstroTurf. The design-work is the part of a project that asks students to suggest ways to reduce the water usage and wastage on the ...
    4 days ago
  • The Cove: a critically important documentary available soon on DVD


    RTSea Blog: keeping an eye on NatureAuthority Authority: 123
    While on my most recent location assignment, I had the pleasure of being on board and spending time with Simon Hutchins and Greg Mooney, two important members of the Ocean Preservation Society which is one of the key organizations behind the powerful documentary, The Cove . The Cove, which documents Japans ...
    5 days ago
  • Ukraine Flu Shutdown Over as Flu Numbers Rise


    Ahrcanum "ahR-Kah-noom" > secret secretsAuthority Authority: 132
    As the government on Nov. 19 announced an end to a three-week national shutdown of universities and schools, panic over the flu epidemic subsided somewhat in Ukraine. Health authorities said they doubted whether a new, deadly strain of the virus existed in Ukraine. They also said the fatality rate is in line with ...
    5 days ago
  • Ukraine H1N1 Swine Flu Mutation or Plague?


    Ahrcanum "ahR-Kah-noom" > secret secretsAuthority Authority: 132
    H1N1 Swine Flu is Mutating in the Ukraine, the The World Health Organization and others noted researchers have confirmed.  Do you really believe them? In an official statement, the WHO insists that there is no reason to be overly concerned by this mutation and that everyone should still run out and get injected ...
    5 days ago
  • Bhopal gas tragedy survivors protest at Dow Chemical’s office


    Thaindian NewsAuthority Authority: 726
    Noida, Nov 19 (IANS) Demanding that Dow Chemicals pay for cleaning up the toxic contamination due to the Bhopal gas tragedy, more than 300 survivors of the disaster staged a protest outside the company’s office in this Uttar Pradesh suburb of Delhi Thursday.The protesters gathered outside the company’s office at ...
    6 days ago
  • Arsenic in Bangladesh Groundwater


    Geology NewsAuthority Authority: 516
    Arsenic contamination is a problem in countries worldwide, but the situation is particularly bad in Bangladesh. Millions of people there are affected by groundwater that is tainted with arsenic.
    1 week ago
  • Eat, Drink, and Be Wary! Meeting Nov. 19


    Surviving the Middle Class CrashAuthority Authority: 118
    Who’s growing our food?  What’s in it? Why it isn’t safe!  These are the issues that will be discussed at the following place and time:Venice Center for Peace and Justice (at the Venice United Methodist Church) 2210 Lincoln Blvd, Venice, CA 90291 (1 blk. north of Venice Blvd) Thursday, November 19 7 [...]
    1 week ago

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