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The Fukushima Tragedy Resurfaces
The Fukushima Tragedy Resurfaces by Mel Gurtov 761 words Releasing the Water Just as all Americans remember 9/11, Japanese remember 3/11, the day in 2011 that an earthquake and tsunami overwhelmed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, destroying a town, poisoning a wide area around it, and raising questions about nuclear safety in much the
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Taking Life For Granted
Taking Life For Granted by Robert C. Koehler 1001 words Realizing that I’ve been taking something for granted — one grain of infinity — is never an abstraction. It generally happens by whack and wallop. Oh yeah, the knee. The knee. It’s kind of important. A crucial part of the realization process is acknowledgment. Maybe
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Tepco’s License to Kill: Dispersal of Radioactive Waste as Disaster Response
Tepco’s License to Kill: Dispersal of Radioactive Waste as Disaster Response by John LaForge 652 words Japan is set to start pumping millions of gallons of radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean this week from Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s (Tepco’s) devastated triple reactor meltdown site at Fukushima. This deliberate contamination of the public commons is