radioactive pollution Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 09 Mar 2017 12:36:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Asylum Seekers Forced to Work In Decontamination of Fukushima https://www.greenoptimistic.com/asylum-seekers-forced-work-decontamination-fukushima-20170309/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/asylum-seekers-forced-work-decontamination-fukushima-20170309/#respond Thu, 09 Mar 2017 12:36:50 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=63254 Two Bangladeshi asylum seekers, found shelter in Japan through a decontamination job in Fukushima with false promise, the news reported Wednesday. As the Fukushima nuclear plant suffered greatly from several meltdowns after the tsunami in 2011, contractors had trouble finding workers to decontaminate the radioactive top soil. The two men were actually running away from […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/asylum-seekers-forced-work-decontamination-fukushima-20170309/feed/ 0 63254 New Carbon-Based Wonder Material Soaks Radioactive Pollution from Water https://www.greenoptimistic.com/material-soaks-radioactive-pollutio-water-20170124/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/material-soaks-radioactive-pollutio-water-20170124/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2017 14:48:45 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=62455 In a recent collaborative study conducted between university researchers from Rice and Kazan, it was discovered that cleaning up the radioactive mess that we have created is a lot easier than was previously thought. The research found that by using two relatively inexpensive materials, a large percentage of radioactive contaminants could easily be removed from […]

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