Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Kenya said Friday it has quarantined a ship that has been reported to be carrying radioactive materials for fear of poisoning citizens. Mutahi Kagwe, cabinet secretary for health said that the ship Seago Piraeus Voy 1475 B/L214735979 container emission threatens the health and lives of …
Read More »Radioactive hybrid pigs reportedly discovered in Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster zone
Tokyo, Japan | Xinhua | Radioactive wild hybrid pigs have emerged near the Fukushima nuclear disaster zone in eastern Japan which suffered a nuclear catastrophe in 2011, according to recent news reports. In a study published Wednesday by the Royal Society journal, the new radioactive swine hybrid was created when wild …
Read More »Storage of nuclear waste a ‘global crisis’: report
Paris, France | AFP | Nuclear waste is piling up around the world even as countries struggle to dispose of spent fuel that will remain highly toxic for many thousands of years, Greenpeace detailed in a report Wednesday. An analysis of waste storage facilities in seven countries with nuclear power revealed …
Read More »Thieves steal radioactive material in Mexico again
Monterrey, Mexico | AFP | Mexican authorities issued an alert Wednesday after thieves stole a piece of academic research equipment containing potentially dangerous radioactive material — at least the seventh such incident here since 2013. The thieves grabbed the nuclear densometer from the back of a truck in a shopping …
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