The main nuclear reactor that suffered damage from the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
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Does Japan export food that is unsafe to eat in Japan?
This claim states that some of the foodstuff that leaves Japan is deemed unsafe there because of the radioactivity levels, and is exported to places with more lax restrictions, like the United States.
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Did Fukushima cause babies on the US West Coast to be more at risk from hypothyroidism?
A recent paper entitled Elevated airborne beta levels in Pacific/West Coast US States and trends in hypothyroidism among newborns after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown has been published and the ...
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Have people died of cancer from the Fukushima daiichi nuclear accident?
A Japanese person wrote in her diary today that her English tutor told her that a lot of people in Japan have got cancer due to the Fukushima daiichi nuclear accident, and were already dead last year ...
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Could Fukushima daiichi cause the health problems suffered by the USS Ronald Reagan crew?
I came across the Huffington post article Fukushima And The Navy: Sailors Sue Japan Nuclear Plant Owner, Saying Disaster Made Them Sick. It's talking about a lawsuit against the operators of Fukushima ...
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Is Fukushima reactor No. 4 on the verge of catastrophic failure that will destroy the world?
I was sent an email with a copied/pasted version of this NaturalNews article which contains the following quote (emphasis original):
Concerned about the 2012 U.S. presidential election? Worried ...
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Were members of the yakuza amongst the Fukushima 50?
Tomohiko Suzuki, author of the book The Yakuza and the Nuclear Industry, claims that several members of the Fukushima 50, workers who stayed behind to work on the Fukushima dai-ichi nuclear reactor ...
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Was stable iodine distributed post-Fukushima by the Japanese government?
In Canadian Medical Association Journal: Japanese Response to Fukushima Even Worse than Communist Russian Response to Chernobyl … “The Japanese Government Was Lying Through Its Teeth”, there are a lot ...
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Is the Fukushima disaster causing an increase in infant mortality on the west coast of North America?
Here we've got a claim that infant mortality in select US cities on the west coast has increased by 35% since the nuclear meltdown. This claim is based on two data points:
4 weeks ending March ...
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Is Japan's nuclear disaster “on par” with Chernobyl?
Many news organizations (e.g. CNN, Huffington Post, etc) are referring to the Japan incident as something as severe as Chernobyl, i.e. a nuclear event with International Atomic Energy Agency rating ...
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Has public faith in nuclear power decreased significantly after the Fukushima accident?
There seems to be a consensus in the media the the events in Fukushima have significantly decreased the public's approval of nuclear energy.
See for example this article by the Telegraph.
Is there ...
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Is there any real benefit in the everyday use of surgical masks to protect oneself from radiation?
A lot of pictures from Japan showing radiation testing with patients wearing surgical masks. The impression one gets is that they must think it is protecting them, in some way.
Is this a legitimate ...
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Can a “second Chernobyl” happen at the nuclear reactors damaged by the tsunami in Japan?
In the media, you hear predictions that the events in the damaged nuclear power plants could be "the next Chernobyl", but this sounds like hyperbole to me. Are the events at those nuclear reactors ...
