by Lisa Grossman / New Scientist / November 8, 2011 / The Tokyo Electric Power Company in Japan plans to revise its criteria for determining if a damaged nuclear power plant is poised to start a dangerous, “critical” chain reaction of fissi…
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Continue readingTEPCO to monitor xenon at Fukushima plant / NHK / November 10, 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Company or TEPCO says that it will install devices to detect radioactive xenon and determine any occurrence of nuclear criticality. Radioactive xenon was detected …
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Continue readingSmaller increase in children’s weight in Fukushima / NHK / November 7, 2011 A survey shows that some children in Fukushima Prefecture have smaller average weight gains this year compared to the year before. A pediatrician says the results indicat…
Continue readingTEPCO begins removing cesium from spent fuel pool / NHK / November 7, 2011 / The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun removing radioactive cesium from water in the spent fuel pool of one of the damaged reactors. Tokyo Electri…
Continue readingby Lucas W Hixson / Enformable.com / November 4, 2011 / Much recent discussion has occurred regarding the recent developments at Reactor 2.If sustained criticality is occurring inside (or outside) of the containment, then there is constant danger of cr…
Continue readingvia TalkingStickTV: Interview with Marco Kaltofen, PE, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, about his research studying airborne radioactive particles from Fukushima and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Related Articles/Videos: Radiation Exposure to the Po…
Continue readingex-SKF / November 6, 2011 / Loose ends of small news and “baseless rumors” at the end of the weekend. Links are mostly in Japanese. Sorry English readers… The case of the high-radiation supermarket in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo: The contracto…
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The Nuclear Fuel Cycle is the Achilles heal of the nuclear industry. From uranium mining to the deadly spent fuel of reactors, here’s the news that never makes the national news for a reason. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin includes a lot of Department of Energy news.
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The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingvia YouTube / October 28, 2011 / Women from Fukushima hold a three day sit-in in Tokyo calling for the permanent evacuation of at-risk children in areas of high radiation – and also the permanent shut down of nuclear reactors currently switched o…
Continue readingGerman nuclear professor: Fukushima like a mini atomic bomb? / ENEnews.com / November 6, 2011 / Source: Bild.de Translation by: BreadAndButter Date: Nov. 5, 2011 In view of reports of an uncontrolled nuclear fission reactor accident in Japan’s Fukush…
Continue readingvia EuroNews: Related: 8000 Japanese Yen from each person in Japan to support Tepco – Fukushima-Diary.com
Continue readingTokyo Governor to Tokyo Residents Who Protest Against Disaster Debris from Iwate: “Shut Up” / ex-SKF / November 4, 2011 Now that the radioactive disaster debris from Iwate Prefecture is a fait accompli and ready to be crushed and burned and…
Continue readingSimply Info / November 4, 2011 / Lucas W Hixson may have uncovered a major abuse of the public trust by the NRC. In late March 2011 the NRC issued a directive that allowed the nuclear industry lobbyist group NEI to supply radiation monitoring data to t…
Continue readingCNN: Tepco’s claim of ‘spontaneous’ fission is an “improbable phenomenon” says nuke professor / ENEnews.com / November 4, 2011 “A rare type of radioactive decay, not a renewed chain reaction, appears to have produced the radioactive xenon g…
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Continue readingby Lucas W Hixson / Enformable.com / November 3, 2011 / We have all been watching this closely, when you watch this video the crane on the right between Reactor 2 and Reactor 3 turns, and the cable descends tojust around the hole area.
Continue readingBy Minoru Matsutani / Japan Times / November 3, 2011 / Experts just don’t know the effect on humans below 100 millisieverts The March 11 nuclear accident at the Fukushima No. 1 plant has transformed what used to be a long-standing academic debate…
Continue readingTEPCO Retracts Criticality Call / NHK / November 3, 2011 The operator of the Fukushima nuclear power plant has retracted an earlier assessment that a continuous nuclear reaction, or a criticality, could have taken place in the damaged Number 2 reactor….
Continue readingReactor 2 may have reached criticality – a state of self-sustaining nuclear fission / Enformable.com / November 2, 2011 / Officials of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) pumped water mixed with boric acid into the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 n…
Continue readingMore on Xenon Detection in Reactor 2 (TEPCO’s Press Conference) / ex-SKF / November 1, 2011 / Xenon was detected in the order of 10^-5 (ten to the power of minus 5) per cubic centimeter, says TEPCO’s Matsumoto in the press conference that i…
Continue readingvia Enformable.com / November 1, 2011 / [Editor’s Note: Please check the original post at Enformable.com for live updates on this breaking story. CLICK HERE for the original post.] VIDEO: LIVE VIDEO OF SITE: Possibly Related: Tepco Detects Nuclear Fiss…
Continue readingvia Fairewinds.com / October 31, 2011 / Scientist Marco Kaltofen Presents Data Confirming Hot Particles from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. Washington, DC – October 31, 2011 – Today Scientist Marco Kaltofen of Worchester Polytechnic Institute …
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Who didn’t protest their daily,
childhood wake-up call,
“Get up, you’ll be late for school!”
We like our sleep.
Deep, deep sleep.
Wake us from it, and face our protest.
But protest, is what we do.
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Continue readingCabinet official drinks glass of ground water from Fukushima plant to prove safety / Mainichi Daily News / November 1, 2011 / A Cabinet official looking to prove the safety of purified ground water from beneath the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant put his…
Continue readingby Mary-Charlotte Domandi / HuffingtonPost / October 31, 2011 / …or, “How to spend $6 billion, create 600 jobs, and prop up the most unproductive sector of the military industrial complex for another generation.” Despite President Oba…
Continue readingby Tamil Nadu / IBNLive.In.com / October 31, 2011 / CHENNAI: The protest fast against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) continued for the 14th day Monday in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu, an activist said. “Around 400 people from …
Continue readingStudy: Fukushima storage pool was vulnerable to aftershocks – AJW by The Asahi Shimbun Study: Fukushima storage pool was vulnerable to aftershocks Previous ArticleResponse overwhelming for Fukushima decontamination workshops Next ArticleIAEA: Cleanup of low contaminated areas will be ineffectual October … Continue reading
Japan’s Nuclear Accident Investigation Board Triples in Size As Additional Consultants Added | Scoop.it Japan Government unwilling to construct temporary facility to accept radioactive soil in Fukushima Prefecture until 2015 Japan Government unwilling to construct temporary facility to accept radioactive … Continue reading
via CorbettReport.com: In today’s Fukushima Update we highlight an editorial on the IAEA by “Nuclear Free by 2045″; note a new video interview with Aileen Mioko Smith; and go over all of today’s latest Fukushima news and updates.
Continue readingvia houseoffoust.com / October 31, 2011 [Note: A very rough translation into English of the IRSN French study on Fukushima ocean discharges. The original document in French can be found here.] Summary of knowledge on the impact on the marine environmen…
Continue readingJapan Gov’t on Containing Radiation: “We don’t have experience in this field” / ENEnews.com / October 31, 2011 / KORIYAMA, Oct. 31 — “Japan still is struggling to figure out how to clean up the mess, exacerbating fears about health risks an…
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Continue readingnf2045.blogspot.com / October 29, 2011 / A review of the Summary Report of the Preliminary findings of the IAEA Mission on Remediation of Large Contaminated Areas off-site the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP I first became familiar with the nature of IAEA repor…
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
The Nuclear Fuel Cycle is the Achilles heal of the nuclear industry. From uranium mining to the deadly spent fuel of reactors, here’s the news that never makes the national news for a reason. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin includes a lot of Department of Energy news.
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingDan Hirsch, Nuclear expert speaking to the People of San Clemente,
Could Fukushima happen here?
The answer is yes.
Special thanks to Ace Hoffman for this very important video!
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Continue readingJ-Gov Reserves More For Compensation Then Decontamination / Enformable.com / October 29, 2011 Oct 29 (Reuters) – Japanese officials in towns around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant reacted guardedly to plans announced on Saturday to build facilit…
Continue readingvia YouTube: Uploaded by linktv on Oct 28, 2011 Earth Focus: Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott discusses with Earth Focus correspondent Miles Benson what the Fukushima disaster really means for the health and futur…
Continue readingvia YouTube / October 24, 2011 / from SaveFukushimaAnimals.com: There were many animals left behind around the Fukushima nuclear electric plants when the disaster struck. The Japanese government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company basically threw away…
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Continue readingTEPCO seeks 1 tril. yen for N-compensation / Daily Yomiuri / October 30, 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Co. filed an application Friday with a government-backed body for about 1 trillion yen in funds to finance compensation payments in connection with the n…
Continue readingby Glenn “Rhino” Griffith / Santa Barbara Independent / October 27, 2011 On October 5, I had the opportunity to tour Diablo. You will be glad to know that any worries you might have about Diablo are unfounded and silly, and you really shoul…
Continue readingAbnormal smoke from reactor 2 / Fukushima-Diary.com / October 27, 2011 Being abnormal is normal for Fukushima. Reactor 2 was emitting extraordinary smoke and steam on 10/22/2011 at 17:24.(JST) In the video below,it starts spreading at 1:05. When it sta…
Continue readingvia CorbettReport.com: In today’s Fukushima Update we examine some new data on radiation testing and preview a paper that will be delivered next week on radiation exposures in Japan. We also go over all of the latest articles on the Fukushima crisis …
Continue readingEnformable.com / October 26, 2011 / Masato Muto works for Tokyo Electric Power Co. in a rented one-story building in Fukushima Prefecture, where only a clock and a calendar hang on the office walls, and most days, only angry people come through the fro…
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