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Fasting for Fukushima on Third Anniversary

The disaster that has struck Fukushima has much about it that’s unique. But it’s just the tip of the radioactive iceberg that is the global atomic reactor industry.

(WASHINGTON DC EcoWatch) - Fasting can be a way of mourning, of cleansing, of meditation, of focus. Tuesday, March 11, the third anniversary of the beginning of the disaster at Fukushima, we will abstain from food from dawn to dusk. Our purpose is tied to the atomic disaster that continues to threaten life on Earth.

The three melt-downs, four explosions, scattered fuel rods and continual gusher of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean at Fukushima have torn a deadly hole in the fabric of our ability to survive on this planet.

Reactor Reax Top Stories - Paying in Advance for Nothing at All

"Reactor Reax" is featured on www.NuclearBailout.org, a Web site maintained by Physicians for Social Responsibility.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Today in Reactor Reax, Crain's Chicago Business reports, "If Exelon's nuclear plants are losing money, the company has only itself to blame. Exelon chose a business strategy that worked well for a while but turned south as market conditions changed..."

Three years after, Quake or tsunami? Panels at odds over cause of Fukushima nuclear disaster. Obama budget puts SC's MOX fuel project on ice, these stories and more...

Fukushima 3rd Anniversary/Lessons Unlearned?

Updated Fukushima Civilian panel report highlights largely unaddressed "Human Factors" as important as earthquake and tsunami in 2011 Reactor Disaster

(CHICAGO AND TOKYO) - An extensively updated and expanded version of the Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident report published in English by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) has been released.

It cautions that Japan has not yet fully learned the lessons of the Fukushima reactor disaster, particularly the several ways in which the “human factor” played a major role paving the way for the crisis and worsening its aftermath.

Why the Obama Administration Will Not Admit that Fukushima Radiation is Poisoning Americans

Why isn’t GE being held accountable?

(TORONTO) - We all know that the radiation from the stricken Fukushima plant has spread around the globe and is poisoning people worldwide. We all know that the West Coast of the United States is being polluted with radioactive debris and that the oceans, the beaches that border them, and even the air is becoming more polluted by radioactivity as time goes on.

You have to ask yourself why the government won’t admit this. It’s not like a disaster half a world away is their fault, is it?

NATO War Crimes In Libya: Deformities of Newborns Because of Depleted Uranium Bombs

Just like in West Bank and Fallujah, western forces kill and contaminate simultaneously. There is no doubt that NATO/US broke every agreement imposed by the Geneva Convention.

(TRIPOLI Lybian Free Press) - Regarding this depleted uranium report below, we brought in the first sophisticated radiation detectors with us on our fact finding commission in May of 2011.

Libyans knew that depleted uranium was being used by NATO in their bombing raids and they were very concerned.

Reactor Reax Top Stories - Taxpayers Finance Nuclear Plants

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(WASHINGTON, DC) - This week in Reactor Reax, Washington Post asks, "Why is the Obama administration using taxpayer money to back a nuclear plant that's already being built?"

In Taxpayers Fund Nuclear Plants, National Review states, "... government-subsidized funding comes shortly after a series of three blows to the nuclear industry.

The Power of Parliamentarians in Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

Address by Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C., to Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, "Climbing the Mountain" Conference, Washington, D.C., February 26, 2014

(WASHINGTON, DC) - At first glance, the elimination of nuclear weapons appears to be a hopeless case.

The Conference on Disarmament in Geneva has been paralyzed for many years.

Punishing Iranians on Netanyahu`s Orders

Who is the biggest threat to peace in the Middle East? And why does Congress not impose sanctions on Israel?

(RICHMOND) - The CIA repeatedly warned President Reagan that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein was using outlawed mustard gas and nerve agents against Iran.

But Reagan continued providing Saddam Hussein with intelligence and even materials for chemical weapons.

Excessive Radiation Levels Detected at New Mexico Waste Site

Radiation leak detected at WIPP near Carlsbad; these and other reports from Citizens for Legitimate Government.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - 'We're in shutdown mode.' - DOE spokesman 16 Feb 2014 Underground sensors have detected excessive radiation levels inside a nuclear waste storage site deep below New Mexico's desert.

The facility, located in southeastern New Mexico near Carlsbad, is designed as a repository for so-called transuranic waste...

Reactor Reax Top Stories - The Unavoidable Economics of Nuclear Power

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(WASHINGTON, DC) - This week in Reactor Reax, a nuclear expert explains how another Fukushima-like accident could happen, in the US. Another article examines the unavoidable economics of nuclear power.

Henri Proglio tells reporters the EDF needs nuclear power rate increase for survival.