Fukushima

228 Republicans Blasted for Brief Urging Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade

"Every single politician who signed this amicus brief is actively working to strip away our fundamental freedoms and endanger pregnant people and families across the country."

Jessica Corbett · Jul 29, 2021

Clouds are seen above the U.S. Supreme Court building on May 17, 2021

Revealing 'Extreme and Regressive Strategy,' Mississippi Asks SCOTUS to Overturn Roe

Andrea Germanos · Jul 23, 2021

Progressives Demand Probe After Revelations About FBI Investigation of Kavanaugh

Jessica Corbett · Jul 22, 2021

The Perils of "Minority Rule"

Steven Hill · Jul 16, 2021

Dreamers, Advocates Call for Urgent Action by Congress After Judge Rules DACA Illegal

Brett Wilkins · Jul 16, 2021

Fukushima Reactor Cleanup Delayed by Five Years as Japanese Public Demands End to Nuclear Energy

The delay comes days after Japan's government proposed releasing contaminated water from the plant into the ocean.

Julia Conley · Dec 30, 2019

'What Corporate Impunity Looks Like': Court Acquits Tepco Executives for Role in Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

"I had braced myself that we might not get a clean victory, but this is too awful."

Jake Johnson · Sep 19, 2019

Japan's New Environmental Minister Calls for Closing Down All Nuclear Reactors to Prevent Another Disaster Like Fukushima

"We will be doomed if we allow another nuclear accident to occur."

Jessica Corbett · Sep 12, 2019

Plan to Release Radioactive Fukushima Wastewater Into Pacific Ocean Panned by Critics

"Another reason to not build nuclear power plants."

Julia Conley · Sep 10, 2019

The False Promise of Nuclear Power

We must free ourselves from the false hope that a technology designed for ultimate destruction could be transmogrified into ultimate life-enhancement.

Robert Jay Lifton · Jul 30, 2019

The Quake to Make Los Angeles a Radioactive Dead Zone

Nothing significant has been done to improve safety at two coastal reactors upwind of ten million people that are surrounded by earthquake faults in a tsunami zone like the one where the four Fukushima reactors have already exploded

Harvey Wasserman · Jul 11, 2019

Japanese Prosecutors Demand 5 Years in Prison for Executives Facing Trial for Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

"It was easy to safeguard the plant against tsunami, but they kept operating the plant heedlessly."

Jessica Corbett · Dec 27, 2018

Local Fury and Health Concerns as Japan Plans to Dump a Million Tons of Radioactive Fukushima Water Into Ocean

One nuclear specialist argued that the Japanese government's reported plan "cannot be considered an action without risk to the marine environment and human health"

Jake Johnson · Oct 18, 2018