Channel NewsAsia: Abe's Fukushima 'under control' pledge to secure Olympics was a lie - former PM

Channel NewsAsia: Abe's Fukushima 'under control' pledge to secure Olympics was a lie - former PM

TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's promise that the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant was "under control" in his successful pitch three years ago for Tokyo to host the 2020 Olympic Games "was a lie", former premier Junichiro Koizumi said on Wednesday.

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TEPCO Puts Salt in the Wound of Fukushima

TEPCO Puts Salt in the Wound of Fukushima

Listen as Fairewinds’ Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen explains why TEPCO’s workers injected saltwater into Fukushima’s failing reactors, what happens when salt water meets steel, and what forces come into play after saltwater is used to cool down an atomic reactor in this Fairewinds Audio Update.

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Radioactive Floods Recontaminate Japan

Radioactive Floods Recontaminate Japan

Tokyo Electric Power Company, the operator and owner of the triple meltdown site Fukushima Daiichi, admitted that drainage pumps at Fukushima failed and radioactive water once again poured into the Pacific. But what about the extraordinary amount of radioactive cesium, strontium, and other isotopes spread hundreds of miles from the nuclear catastrophe site yet to be cleaned up and now displaced by the flood into newly contaminated villages?

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World Uranium Symposium 2015 Fukushima Workshop

World Uranium Symposium 2015 Fukushima Workshop

Attended by more than 300 delegates from 20 countries that produce uranium for nuclear power and weapons, the symposium brought together experts who are calling on governments throughout the world to end all uranium mining. In this speech about the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster, Arnie introduces new scientific evidence to prove high radiation exposures in Japan.

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