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06/05/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

CONFIRMED: Three Mile Island nuclear accident found to have significantly increased thyroid cancer in surrounding counties due to radioactive Iodine-131

When a partial meltdown struck the Three Mile Island nuclear generating station near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in March 1979, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission tried to downplay the incident. Much like the officials involved in the Fukushima meltdown, they said at the time that the radiation released into the environment was only in small amounts […]

11/11/2015 / By Greg White

Cancer rates at Fukushima worse than Chernobyl

The Fukushima Daiichi meltdown was the worst nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl. While the Chernobyl disaster was worse than the Fukushima disaster in several respects, recent evidence suggests cancer rates from the latter debacle trump the former. Just this month, the Japanese government made its first admission that radiation exposure caused a worker to develop cancer, following […]

11/04/2015 / By Greg White

Surgery could be a death sentence for cancer-afflicted children in Fukushima — more so than the cancer itself

Opinions about the threat of cancer-causing radiation have communities divided in the Fukushima Prefecture. Conflicting reports have led to an onslaught of diverging viewpoints. The stakes are high, and no one knows what to believe in anymore. After a tsunami demolished three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi site, a plume of radioactive debris was […]

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