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Chart your own evacuation from the nuclear accident near you

Physicians for Social Responsibility provides these interactive evacuation maps. Type in your zip code and see how far the evacuation radius spreads from a nuclear power plant in your region. The maps also show how many people would need to be evacuated, driving home the unfeasibilty of these plans. And while the USA still only considers a 10-mile radius evacuation zone, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission advised the Japanese to evacuate out to 50 miles from the Fukushima accident. Why the double-standard?

A loss to our community as Rudi Nussbaum passes

It is with great sadness that we learn of the death of Dr. Rudi Nussbaum, who died in Holland after a fall. Rudi was an avowed pacifist and Holocaust survivor and an expert on the health effects of radiation exposure. As his longtime friend, Lloyd Marbet writes: "His work as a Professor Emeritus of Physics and Environmental Science at Portland State University was instrumental in raising alarm over the health effects of radiation exposure.  He wrote numerous papers on this subject and participated in gathering valuable information on workers and civilians that were exposed to radiation at Hanford and in surrounding communities, for which he became a vocal advocate for environmental justice. He helped bring the famous epidemiologist, Alice Stewart, to Portland, and promoted her life story. You can watch a short video interview with Rudi below.

"Uncanny Terrain," a documentary about organic farmers facing Japan's nuclear crisis

"Uncanny Terrain" is a documentary in progress, about organic farmers facing Japan's nuclear catastrophe. A Chicago-based, Japanese American film making team will spend up to a year in the radioactively contaminated regions of northeast Japan downwind of the devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which is still releasing radioactive steam onto the winds nearly five months after the radioactive catastrophe began. Fukushima and neighboring prefectures are famous for their small, family-run, independent organic farms. Husband and wife team Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski have already captured powerful video testimonies, and are requesting monetary donations to enable them to continue their work.

Update on August 2, 2011 by admin

A map of radioactive contamination downwind of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, done by U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration aerial monitoringThe Mainichi Daily News reports that the Japanese federal government will be mapping the concentration of radioactive contamination downwind of the still leaking Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe, focusing especially on farmland in Fukushima Prefecture.

Japanese support PM's call to do away with nuclear power: poll

"More than two-thirds of Japanese support Prime Minister Naoto Kan's call to do away with nuclear power, a media poll showed on Sunday, underscoring growing opposition to atomic energy in the wake of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant." Reuters