fukushima
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This Huge Wind Turbine Floating On Water Is Fukushima’s Energy Solution
A mere 20km from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will soon sit a 190m, 1360-tonne windmill atop a 4500-tonne podium. It will be the biggest floating wind turbine on Earth, and it could usher in a new age of green energy for a region largely fed up with nuclear energy.
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Fukushima Is Teaching Us How Radioactivity Spreads
After the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, scientists began a massive effort to monitor radioactive contamination of food grown nearby. And one good thing did come out of it — we learned how radioactivity moves through the ecosystem.
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Take A Tour Of The Most Radioactive Places On Earth
People do some pretty dumb things for YouTube videos. Derek Muller does them for the sake of science, though. The host of Veritasium, a YouTube channel about science, recently visited the most radioactive places on Earth for a TV show about how Uranium and radioactivity affected the modern world. And he lived to tell about…
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Fukushima’s Giant Ice Wall Can’t Get Cold Enough To Freeze
Remember how Japan decided to build that crazy ice wall to contain the Fukushima nuclear plant’s radioactive water leaks? Well, its construction is behind schedule — because its engineers can’t achieve temperatures low enough to freeze the ice.