5/12/2011 | Japan to abandon nuclear plans and embrace renewable energy - who's next?

Source: Greenpeace
Date: May 12, 2011 at 12:53
by: Jan Beránek

On May 10^th, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan made an incredible announcement – prompted by the ongoing Fukushima nuclear crisis, Japan, the world’s 3^rd largest economy, is dropping plans to double its nuclear power capacity and the construction of 14 new nuclear plants, and will instead “start from scratch” with its energy policy, by developing wind, solar and biomass energy sources.
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5/12/2011 | Greenpeace says high radiation in Japan seaweed

Source: AFP
Date: May 12, 2011

TOKYO — Environmental activist group Greenpeace said Thursday it had detected radiation far above legal limits in seaweed samples taken from the ocean off Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.
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5/12/2011 | Media Shrugs at Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown and Exposed Fuel Rods

Source: Infowars.com
Date: May 12, 2011
by: Paul Joseph Watson


Despite the bombshell revelation that fuel rods at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant have been fully exposed since the early days of the disaster, that reactor number 1 is officially in meltdown, along with news that reactor 4 is on the verge of collapse, the corporate media is largely disinterested in the story amidst continued fearmongering about terror attacks and endless coverage of the Bin Laden carnival act.
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5/12/2011 | Japanese women in NY, London run charity projects for disaster victims

Source: Japan Today
Date: Thursday 12th May, 10:39 AM JST

OSAKA — Groups of Japanese women living in New York and London are putting efforts into charity projects for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan.
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