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Fukushima "As Serious As Chernobyl"
By Chris Busby

http://www.countercurrents.org/busby270311.htm

The International Atomic Energy Agency states that High levels of beta-gamma contamination have been measured between 16-58 km from the plant. Available results show contamination ranging from 0.2-0.9 MBq per square metre. According to IAEA up to 60km from Fukuhima the activity is more than twice the level of radiation during Chernobyl disaster


Updating Japan's Nuclear Disaster
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman270311.htm

Radiation keeps leaking and spreading, but it will be years before the real toll is known. Downplaying its gravity is scandalous


Japan And The Marshall Islands
In The Nuclear Age
By Glenn Alcalay

http://www.countercurrents.org/alcalay270311.htm

The unleashed isotopes of concern from the damaged Japanese reactors - Iodine-131, Cesium-137 , Strontium-90 and Plutonium-239 - are well known to the Marshall Islanders living downwind of the testing sites at Bikini and Enewetak atolls in the central Pacific, following sixty-seven A- and H-bombs exploded between 1946-58. In fact, it is precisely these isotopes that continue to haunt the 80,000 Marshallese fifty-three years after the last thermonuclear test in the megaton range shook their pristine coral atolls and contaminated their fragile marine ecosystems


US Stores Spent Nuclear Fuel Rods
At 4 Times Pool Capacity
By Rady Ananda

http://www.countercurrents.org/ananda270311.htm

Spent nuclear fuel in the United States comprises the largest concentration of radioactivity on the planet: 71,000 metric tons. Worse, since the Yucca Mountain waste repository has been scrapped due to its proximity to active faults , the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has allowed reactor operators to store four times more waste in the spent fuel pools than they're designed to handle


Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant:
A Threat To South India
By VT Padmanabhan

http://www.countercurrents.org/vtp270311.htm

150 million people live in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu in the peninsular India , 25 million more than that in Japan. A large portion of the land in this Spice Capital of the world will be severely contaminated if a Fukushima type event occurs in one of the eight 1000 MW(e) reactors being built/ planned in Kudankulam near Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu


US-Led Libyan Ground Assault Planned
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman270311A.htm

A protracted, destructive conflict is likely, including mass casualties so America can solidify its grip on the entire Mediterranean Basin, exploiting its resources and people freely


Imperialist War In Libya: Motives And Dynamics
By Maidul Islam

http://www.countercurrents.org/islam270311.htm

This war serves the strategic interests of imperialism and has long term strategic implications. When the Obama administration is calling for periodic withdrawal of forces from Iraq, it is at the same time finding a new territory in the Middle-East to maintain its military presence


5 Reasons Why Technology Can Never Be Neutral
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz270311.htm

Take-home message: Technology can never be neutral and industrial civilization can never be sustainable


Continuing Colonialism: World Bank Funds
Mining in Africa
By Cyril Mychalejko

http://www.countercurrents.org/mychalejko270311.htm

The private finance sector arm of the World Bank Group announced last month that it would invest $300 million to promote mining in Africa


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