Monday, April 18, 2011

Fukushima links

I've been following the Fukushima tragedy and have accumulated a number of GREAT sources of information - here goes:

FireDogLake - hands down, THE BEST coverage and analysis...Scarecrow & Lobster have been posting great stuff, as has the rest of the crew:
http://firedoglake.com/japan-earthquake-coverage/

Union of Concerned Scientists:
http://ucsusa.org/

UCS powerpoint slideshow of what happened at Fukushima:
http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documen...ma-Tragedy.pps

Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen has been posting brief videos w/his analysis, which explain things in plain English:
http://www.fairewinds.com/

An interview w/Gundersen, published Friday, 4.15.11:
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/n...down-chernobyl

Low Level Radiation Campaign (they study the health effects of ionizing radiation):
http://www.llrc.org/index.html

Two Japanese journalists take a drive into the evacuation zone (radiation dosimeters are on the dash)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp9iJ...layer_embedded

Nuclear Information & Resource Service has coverage here:
http://nirs.org/

and protective measures from radioactivity here:
http://nirs.org/fukushima/radcombined.htm

Real-time volunteer monitoring of radiation in US:
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/

And another radiation monitoring map:
http://www.blackcatsystems.com/RadMap/

Bellona is an international environmental NGO:
http://www.bellona.org/subjects/nucl...ldown-in-japan

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