Radioactive fallout from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear accident has awakened debate about nuclear power's invisible emissions, and familiar camps have assembled along familiar lines:
Critics of nuclear power are outraged by radioactive isotopes…
April 2011
[UPDATED 4/28: with information from FDA. Altered sentences in italics.]
A radioactive isotope of strontium has been detected in American milk for the first time since Japan's nuclear disaster—in a sample from Hilo, Hawaii—the Environmental…
University of Chicago Panel Doubts Future of Nuclear Power in U.S.
Safer nuclear reactors have been available for years, but the energy market prefers less expensive conventional designs, a nuclear energy expert from Argonne National Laboratory said…
[UPDATED with comment from FDA, at bottom, and EPA's MCL for Cesium-137]
Since the Environmental Protection Agency began detecting radiation in rainwater and milk at levels above its maximum contaminant level, government officials have been…
The biotechnology firm Monsanto stands just one FDA approval away from growing soybeans that have been genetically modified to produce those omega-3 fatty acids that doctors are always recommending.
That FDA approval is expected this year, according…
[UPDATED 4/11 with comment from FDA, in italics]
Milk from Little Rock and drinking water from Philadelphia contained the highest levels of Iodine-131 from Japan yet detected by the Environmental Protection Agency, according to data released by EPA…
• Unusual Reading At Chatanooga Nuclear Plant
• Milk Contamination At EPA Maximum
• Highest Levels Yet In Boise Rainwater
[UPDATED with FDA's Derived Intervention Level, EPA's MCL for Cesium-137]
Radiation from Japan has been detected in drinking…
The United Nations' new climate chief issued a stinging response today to U.S. threats to abandon the 15-year effort to forge an international agreement on climate change.
The UN is the only venue capable of executing such an agreement, argued…
The Environmental Protection Agency recommends reverse osmosis water treatment to remove radioactive isotopes that emit beta-particle radiation. But iodine-131, a beta emitter, is typically present in water as a dissolved gas, and reverse osmosis is…
Although five Transocean executives will donate their safety bonuses—a total of $250,000—to families of 11 workers killed in the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the executives retain other awards associated with the 86-day oil spill in the Gulf of…
