Japan Govt./TEPCO Say Solution to Pollution is Dilution, as Plan to Dump Fukushima Wastewater to Pacific Moves Ahead

(EnviroNews World News) — Fukushima Prefecture, Japan — Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has formally endorsed a controversial plan by TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) — the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant — to start dumping more than a million tons of radioactive wastewater from the…

China Says it’s Created a ‘Particle Beam Cannon’ That Will Transmute Nuclear Waste and Create Energy

(EnviroNews World News) — Chinese scientists have reportedly completed the prototype for a “particle beam cannon” being touted as a technological breakthrough that will recycle the dangerous radioactive waste produced by nuclear reactors. The technology is said to enable a new kind of reactor that will recycle spent…

TEPCO Mulling Another Massive Radioactive Release from Fukushima to the Pacific Ocean

(EnviroNews World News) Fukushima Prefecture, Japan — From the air, it’s been said that the areas directly surrounding the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant resemble a multi-colored “giant integrated circuit board.” That’s because more than 1,100 various and sundry tanks, housing radioactive water from the ongoing nuclear crisis,…