JAPAN'S tsunami-stricken nuclear power plant is leaking highly radioactive water into the sea from a newly discovered area of damage. The Fukushima plant has been spewing radioactivity since March 11, when a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami knocked out power, disabling cooling systems and allowing radiation to seep out of the overheating reactors. The water was last night seeping from a recently found crack in a maintenance pit on the edge of the nuclear site into the Pacific Ocean.
POLLUTANT levels are going to be analysed to find out if coal- fired power stations are posing a hidden cancer risk to residents of a Lincolnshire town. West Lindsey District Council agreed to carry out the investigation after concerns were expressed about radiation levels from fly ash, produced by burning coal.
A WISE elderly Hull lady said: "Isn't there a lot of cancer? I blame Chernobyl. It made me think. I know radioactive wild boar has been confirmed in Germany and questions have been asked in the Australian parliament about radio activity in animals. It's been stated that Scottish sheep only got the all-clear last year and doubts are in Wales and Cumbria.
JAPAN'S tsunami-stricken nuclear power plant is leaking highly radioactive water into the sea from a newly discovered area of damage. The Fukushima plant, pictured, has been spewing radioactivity since March 11, when a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami knocked out power, disabling cooling systems and allowing radiation to seep out of the overheating reactors.
EXTREMELY low levels of radioactive iodine from the tsunami-hit Japanese nuclear plant have been detected in parts of the UK, the Health Protection Agency said yesterday. The agency said there was no public health risk posed by the iodine, as the radiation dose received from inhaling air with the levels recorded in the past few days would be minuscule and much less than the annual background dose.
In 1209 or thereabouts a small group of scholars fled from the already flourishing University of Oxford and journeyed across England to Cambridge. Seven hundred and fifty-five years later, in 1964, my 19-yearold self made the even longer journey from Kendal, the little northern town where I was born and brought up. I took the train, pulled by an asthmatic steam engine, and changed at Bletchley for the Oxford and Cambridge line. I travelled with a large cabin trunk and even larger hopes and dreams. No one is quite sure why (or indeed, to be honest, exactly when) that original group of scholars left Oxford. Or why they chose Cambridge, with its flat and dreary landscape and vile climate of damp, fog and cold.
HIGHLY radioactive particles have been found on a Scottish beach, environmental experts warned last night. The 'high-activity' radiation was found at Dalgety Bay beach in Fife and are 'cause for concern', the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said.
A report that claims there is no increased risk of leukaemia to small children living close to nuclear power stations has been criticised by a radioactivity expert. Dr Ian Fairlie, an independent consultant on radioactivity in the environment, branded the findings by a Government advisory committee as "poor science".
Extremely low levels of radioactive iodine from the tsunami-hit Japanese nuclear plant have been detected in parts of the UK, the Health Protection Agency said yesterday. A statement from the HPA said the "minutest traces of iodine" were being seen in the UK, with low levels detected at monitoring stations in Oxfordshire and Glasgow. The agency said there was no public health risk posed by the iodine, as the radiation dose received from inhaling air with the levels recorded in the past few days would be minuscule and much less than the annual background dose.
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