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Japan to host nuclear safety conference in Fukushima
An international conference will be held in Japan’s Fukushima region
over the weekend to discuss nuclear safety following last year’s atomic
crisis, Tokyo said Thursday.
Mistakes found in all radiation projections
The Nuclear Regulation Authority said Thursday a thorough review
of its mistake-plagued projections for the spread of radiation turned up
errors in the data for every atomic power plant in Japan.
Tougher rules due for nuclear evacuations
A panel of the Nuclear Regulation Authority reached broad
agreement Thursday to set standards tougher than international guidelines
for triggering an evacuation order in the event of a nuclear disaster.
EPA Finds Excessive Radiation at Boeing Site
The site of a nuclear reactor in the Santa Susana Mountains that
partially melted down more than 50 years ago has soil radiation that
exceeds standard limits, according to new data released by the
Environmental Protection Agency.
American Academy of Pediatricians Endorses Cell Phone Safety
Legislation
The American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) which represents
“60,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists, and
pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety and well-being
of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults” has endorsed H.R.
6358, the Cell Phone Right to Know Act.
There’s noise pollution and then there’s distortion
Make no mistake — in New Orleans, we’ve always loved our
jazzmen…from Louis Armstrong to Professor Longhair to Winton
Marsalis to dozens of great stompers and shouters that you’ve probably
never heard of.
But I’ll tell you one kind of person we don’t stand for in the Crescent
City: A strawman.
This other day, a distinguished — or once-distinguished, anyway —
scholarly journal called the Oxford American published a major essay on