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#Fukushima: Massive Leaks and Radioactive Fallout Continuing On a Daily Basis…For Years On End

Posted on April 7, 2013 by CorbettApril 7, 2013

via Washington’s Blog / April 6, 2013 / Is Fukushima Leaking … Or Are the the Reactors Wholly Uncontained? You may have heard that TEPCO – the operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plants – announced a large leak of radioactive w…

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, leak, News, ocean contamination

TEPCO admits it deserves blame for Fukushima nuclear meltdown

Posted on April 2, 2013 by CorbettApril 2, 2013

by John Hofilena / via Japan Daily Press / April 1, 2013 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has come out and publicly said on Friday that it deserves a majority of the blame for the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a very strong statement about the company?…

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New study: Fukushima meltdown correlates to hypothyroidism in American infants

Posted on April 2, 2013 by CorbettApril 2, 2013

by John Upton / Grist.org / April 1, 2013 / Fallout from that Fukushima meltdown thing a couple years back? It’s not just the Japanese who are suffering, though their plight is obviously the worst. Radioactive isotopes blasted from the failed reactor…

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Posted in children, Featured, Fukushima, health effects, News

Thyroid conditions in Fukushima similar to other areas

Posted on April 2, 2013 by CorbettApril 2, 2013

via The Tokyo Times / April 1, 2013 / Thyroid conditions among the young population in three Japanese prefectures – Aomori, Yamanashi and Nagasaki – are almost the same as in Fukushima Prefecture, according to a survey by the Environment Ministry. …

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, health effects, Science

Photo of Electrocuted (and Very Dead) Mouse That Caused the #Fukushima Blackout

Posted on March 28, 2013 by CorbettMarch 28, 2013

via ex-SKF / March 28, 2013 / Remember that power outage? TEPCO released the result of their investigation on March 25, 2013. The mouse has a mark in the stomach from an electric shock. From TEPCO’s Photos and Videos Library, 3/25/2013, “Pr…

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Posted in blackout, Featured, Fukushima, News

The #Fukushima Legacy: unforeseen health problems

Posted on March 28, 2013 by CorbettMarch 28, 2013

via euronews / March 28, 2013 / The death rate of elderly people evacuated from old people’s facilities around the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant has tripled, according to research. The University of Tokyo tracked 328 senior evacuees and found 75 ha…

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Study tour reveals nuke crisis hit Fukushima products now radioactive free

Posted on March 28, 2013 by CorbettMarch 28, 2013

via Zeenews / March 28, 2013 / The nuclear disaster that hit Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture over two years ago, forcing the evacuation of over 160,000 residents, appears now to be gradually receding into the past, with key officials saying that dai…

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Mollusks disappearing from Fukushima shores

Posted on March 27, 2013 by CorbettMarch 27, 2013

By Tomoyuki Yamamoto / The Asahi Shimbun / March 27, 2013 / A type of mollusk has disappeared from an area that stretches 30 kilometers along Fukushima Prefecture and includes the site of the crippled nuclear power plant, researchers said. But they cou…

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Posted in environmental effects, Featured, Fukushima, Science

Cancer time bomb two years after Fukushima

Posted on March 27, 2013 by CorbettMarch 27, 2013

by Ida Torres / Japan Daily Press / March 27, 2013 / It has been two years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan and caused the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant – the world’s worst nuclear disaster si…

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Fukushima’s Latest Near Disaster Was Caused By a Hungry Rat

Posted on March 23, 2013 by CorbettMarch 23, 2013

by Ashley Feinberg / Gizmodo / March 21, 2013 While there’s no doubt that the nuclear crisis in Fukushima back in 2011 could have been avoided, a recent discovery suggests that this week’s extended blackout was entirely out of their hands. …

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Posted in blackout, Featured, Fukushima, News

Alone in the Zone

Posted on March 13, 2013 by CorbettMarch 13, 2013

via YouTube / March 10, 2013 / Surviving solo in the Fukushima evacuation zone. For English subtitles, click “CC” button at the bottom of the video player. Two years since the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant went into full meltdown, a…

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Posted in evacuation zone, Featured, Fukushima, refugees, video

2 Year Anniversary of Fukushima: The Accident Is NOT Contained

Posted on March 11, 2013 by CorbettMarch 11, 2013

via Washington’s Blog / March 11, 2013 / Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen said today that the containment vessel at Fukushima reactor 2 has a large crack in it. Reactors 1, 2 and 3 all exploded. BBC reports today: They know very little about what??…

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Posted in Editorials, Featured, Fukushima, reactor 1, reactor 2, reactor 3

Fukushia Nuclear Nightmare: Cleanup Could Take Decades

Posted on March 11, 2013 by CorbettMarch 11, 2013

by Lennox Samuels / The Daily Beast / March 11, 2013 / The rice fields along Prefectural Road Route 12 leading to Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are brown and hard. Trucks and SUVs drive past Usuishi Elementary School—perched silently on a hi…

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1000?s protest nuclear energy in Tokyo on Fukushima anniversary

Posted on March 11, 2013 by CorbettMarch 11, 2013

By Anne Sewell / DigitalJournal.com / March 10, 2013 / In the run up to the second anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that caused the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, tens of thousands have taken to the streets of Tokyo in prote…

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Fukushima 50 member shares his story

Posted on March 4, 2013 by CorbettMarch 4, 2013

by David McNeill / via The Independent / March 2, 2013 / They displayed a bravery few can comprehend, yet very little is known  about the men who stayed behind to save Japan’s stricken nuclear plant. In a rare interview, David McNeill meets Atsufumi…

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Posted in Editorials, Featured, Fukushima

WHO Report on Risk Assessment from #Fukushima

Posted on February 28, 2013 by CorbettFebruary 28, 2013

via ex-SKF / February 28, 2013 / WHO says “no observable increases in cancer rates above baseline rates are anticipated” inside and outside Japan. Greenpeace is crying foul, NHK quotes experts saying WHO is overly cautious and exaggerating …

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, health effects, report, Science, who

Fukushima No. 1 water cleaner to be tested

Posted on February 25, 2013 by CorbettFebruary 25, 2013

via The Japan Times / February 23, 2013 / A panel of experts under the Nuclear Regulation Authority has conditionally approved the trial of a new device to remove radioactive substances from tainted water at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear complex. The adv…

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Posted in decontamination, Featured, Fukushima, News, radioactive waste, reactor 1

Atomic divorce: Fukushima disaster survivors suffering marital discord

Posted on February 25, 2013 by CorbettFebruary 25, 2013

by Ida Torres / via The Japan Daily Press / February 25, 2013 / Almost two years have passed since the gigantic earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan that killed nearly 20,000 people and caused the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 25 years. A…

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, News, refugees

Fukushima victims required to pay back TEPCO compensation

Posted on February 20, 2013 by CorbettFebruary 20, 2013

via ABC Australia / February 19, 2013 / Nearly two years after the meltdowns at Fukushima a report by Greenpeace has revealed companies that helped design and build the reactors are not required to pay any compensation and are in fact profiting from th…

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Posted in compensation, Featured, Fukushima, News, TEPCO

Two More Fukushima Youths Diagnosed With Thyroid Cancer

Posted on February 14, 2013 by CorbettFebruary 14, 2013

By Adam Westlake / The Japan Daily Press / February 13, 2013 The Fukushima Prefectural government has revealed that two more people, both aged 18 or younger when the Fukushima nuclear crisis broke out in March 2011, have been diagnosed with having thyr…

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Posted in children, Featured, Fukushima, health effects, News

TEPCO President Denies Company-Wide Conspiracy to Thwart Diet Investigation

Posted on February 14, 2013 by CorbettFebruary 14, 2013

by Hideaki Kimura / via The Asahi Shimbun / February 12, 2013 Naomi Hirose, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., denied an organization-wide effort to interfere with a Diet investigation into the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, saying one official …

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Posted in cover-up, Featured, Fukushima, investigation, jgov, News, TEPCO

TEPCO Ready to Remove Huge Truss from Reactor 3 Spent Fuel Pool

Posted on February 7, 2013 by CorbettFebruary 7, 2013

via ex-SKF / February 4, 2013 / These days, it almost feels as if the last sane place remaining in Japan is actually Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, where they have actual jobs to do and they are at it every single day mostly because they have no othe…

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, News, reactor 3

Report: Nuclear safety chief questioned over Fukushima disaster

Posted on February 7, 2013 by CorbettFebruary 7, 2013

via The Globe and Mail / February 3, 2013 / Japanese police have questioned a former head of the nuclear safety body regarding possible criminal charges over the Fukushima nuclear crisis, news reports said Sunday. Prosecutors have interviewed Haruki Ma…

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Posted in criminal charges, Featured, Fukushima, News, nuclear safety

Fish with 2,500 times legal limit for radiation caught near Fukushima plant

Posted on January 20, 2013 by CorbettJanuary 20, 2013

by Cherrie Lou Bullones / The Japan Daily Press / January 21, 2013 / A murasoi fish, comparable to a rockfish, was found at a port in the area of the now-closed Fukushima nuclear power plant, which contained 254,000 becquerels per kilogram of cesium, a…

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Posted in Featured, fish, food safety, Fukushima, News, radiation testing

Fukushima debris hits Hawaii

Posted on January 20, 2013 by CorbettJanuary 20, 2013

via RT.com / January 18, 2013 / Debris set adrift by the 2011 Japanese tsunami has made its way to Hawaii, triggering concerns over the unknown effects of the radiation it may carry from the meltdown of the Fukushima reactor. Debris has washed ashore t…

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Posted in debris, Featured, Fukushima, News

Fukushima radiation fears are linked to increase in obesity among children

Posted on December 28, 2012 by CorbettDecember 28, 2012

by Justin McCurry / via The Guardian / December 27, 2012 / Lingering fears of radiation have turned children from Fukushima into the most obese in Japan, according to a government study, as parents and schools continue to restrict the amount of time th…

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The facts on Fukushima’s fish

Posted on December 28, 2012 by CorbettDecember 28, 2012

via The Japan Times / December 26, 2012 / The catastrophe at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant not only affected people directly in Fukushima Prefecture but also harmed the local economy. Sales of products from the prefectu…

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Posted in Editorials, Featured, fish, food safety, Fukushima

Fukushima Debris to Keep Hitting the Pacific Coast This Winter

Posted on December 28, 2012 by CorbettDecember 28, 2012

by Mario Aguilar / via Gizmodo / December 27, 2012 / Authorities expect more debris from the March 2011 Japanese Tsunami to wash up on the Pacific Coast this winter. Seasonal changes in ocean currents and North Pacific winds will push the 1.5 million t…

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Posted in debris, Featured, Fukushima, News

Fukushima Status Update (Infographic)

Posted on December 23, 2012 by CorbettDecember 23, 2012

via The Asahi Shimbun / December 14, 2012 /

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, News, reactor 1, reactor 2, reactor 3, reactor 4

“New Nuke Plants Possible in a Safe Location”, Says LDP’s Abe

Posted on December 20, 2012 by CorbettDecember 20, 2012

via ex-SKF / December 19, 2012 / Japan is trying its best to pretend that the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident has been a minor inconvenience that no amount of newly printed money cannot overcome. After all, this is the country that has perfect…

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, jgov, News, nuclear industry

Tepco trying to repair liner of No. 3 Spent Fuel Pool?

Posted on December 20, 2012 by CorbettDecember 20, 2012

via ENEnews.com / December 19, 2012 / Follow-up to: Tepco to try and remove steel debris on top of fuel racks in No. 3 pool — Concern about liner? (PHOTOS) Tepco’s December 19, 2012 Handout (Japanese Only): http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-n…

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, News, reactor 3

TEPCO unable to locate source of leak in Fukushima reactor

Posted on December 13, 2012 by CorbettDecember 13, 2012

via The Asahi Shimbun / December 12, 2012 / The operator of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is grappling to locate the source of a leak of highly radioactive water in the crippled No. 2 reactor, and will continue trying to pinpoint the cause ne…

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, News, reactor 2

Fukushima safety scientists paid by nuclear operators

Posted on December 9, 2012 by CorbettDecember 9, 2012

via The New Zealand Herald / December 7, 2012 / Influential Japanese scientists who help set national radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country’s nuclear plant operators to attend overseas meetings of the world&#8…

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Posted in cover-up, Featured, Fukushima, News, nuclear industry, report

IAEA, Fukushima Prefecture to set up joint decontamination program

Posted on December 9, 2012 by CorbettDecember 9, 2012

By Takashi Kida / via The Asahi Shimbun / December 7, 2012 / The International Atomic Energy Agency said it will set up a joint program on decontamination next year with the Fukushima prefectural government as efforts continue at the crippled Fukushima…

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Posted in decontamination, Featured, Fukushima, iaea, jgov, News

Strong earthquake hits Japan, Fukushima plant safe

Posted on December 7, 2012 by CorbettDecember 7, 2012

via IndiaToday / December 7, 2012 / A strong earthquake struck on Friday off the coast of northeastern Japan in the same region that was hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. Authorities issued a warning of a possible tsunami. The Japa…

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Posted in earthquakes, Featured, Fukushima, News

Slight Rise in Pressure in Reactor 1 of Fukushima Daini After M7.3 Earthquake

Posted on December 7, 2012 by CorbettDecember 7, 2012

via ex-SKF / December 7, 2012 / Update on the Magnitude 7.3 outer-rise earthquake on December 7 off Miyagi Prefecture. (Yesterday’s report is here.) It looks something may have happened at Fukushima II Nuclear Power Plant. According to TEPCO, the…

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Posted in earthquake damage, earthquakes, Featured, Fukushima, fukushima daini, News

Toshiba to deploy dog-like robot at Fukushima

Posted on November 26, 2012 by CorbettNovember 26, 2012

via Business Recorder / November 25, 2012 / Japanese nuclear reactor maker Toshiba on November 21 unveiled a remote-controlled robot resembling a headless dog that they hope will be used at the battered Fukushima power plant. The tetrapod, which weighs…

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WHO forecasts no significant increase in cancer patients in Fukushima

Posted on November 26, 2012 by CorbettNovember 26, 2012

by Yuri Oiwa / The Asahi Shimbun / November 25, 2012 / Cases of cancer caused by radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident will not increase significantly, although the risk facing infants near the plant has risen, a draft report by the World Healt…

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Worries over highly radioactive fish prompt study

Posted on November 13, 2012 by CorbettNovember 13, 2012

By Hiroshi Ishizuka / The Asahi Shimbun / November 13, 2012 / Persistently high radioactivity in some fish caught close to the Fukushima nuclear plant has sparked a government investigation into the physiological basis for contamination and why radiati…

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Posted in Featured, fish, Fukushima, News, radiation testing

Fault under Japan nuclear plant ‘may be active’

Posted on November 13, 2012 by CorbettNovember 13, 2012

By Shingo Ito / AFP / November 12, 2012 / Japan’s only working nuclear power plant sits on what may be a seismic fault in the earth’s crust, a geologist has warned, saying it is “very silly” to allow it to continue operating. Mi…

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Fukushima $137 Billion Cost Has Tepco Seeking More Aid

Posted on November 13, 2012 by CorbettNovember 13, 2012

By Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yasumasa Song / via Bloomberg / November 7, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. asked the government for more aid after estimating it may need at least 11 trillion yen ($137 billion) to cover costs from last year’s nuclear disaste…

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, jgov, News, TEPCO

Fukushima residents dissatisfied with children’s thyroid cancer screenings

Posted on November 7, 2012 by CorbettNovember 7, 2012

by Ida Torres / via The Japan Daily Press / November 7, 2012 / A briefing session was held November 4 for the residents of Koriyama in the Fukushima prefecture regarding thyroid cancer screenings for children. The tests were being conducted for childre…

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Posted in children, Featured, Fukushima, health effects, News

Nuclear watchdog admits additional errors in radiation forecast maps

Posted on November 7, 2012 by CorbettNovember 7, 2012

via The Asahi Shimbun / November 7, 2012 / Japan’s new nuclear industry watchdog acknowledged additional errors in its maps for the expected spread of radioactive substances from a serious nuclear accident, further exasperating local governments …

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, jgov, News, nuclear regulators, radiation dispersion map

IAEA Chief: Nuclear Power Safer Despite Fukushima Accident

Posted on November 7, 2012 by CorbettNovember 7, 2012

via RTT News / November 6, 2012 / A year after reporting on the devastation caused by the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told the world body’s Member-States that nuclear power is saf…

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, iaea, News, nuclear regulators

Second mass complaint coming over Fukushima disaster

Posted on November 4, 2012 by CorbettNovember 4, 2012

By Masakazu Honda / The Asahi Shimbun / November 2, 2012 / More than 10,000 people from across Japan are seeking criminal charges against officials of Japan’s government and the utility that operates the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, after…

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Atomic industry bankrolls Japan’s nuclear watchdog

Posted on November 4, 2012 by CorbettNovember 4, 2012

via RT.com / November 4, 2012 / Members of Japan’s nuclear watchdog who are charged with drafting nuclear safety rules have received sizable funds from the atomic industry. The reports raise concerns that regulations may be diluted after last year’…

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, News, nuclear industry, nuclear regulators

Fukushima’s Returning Residents

Posted on October 25, 2012 by CorbettOctober 25, 2012

via GreenPeaceVideo As the Japanese government is allowing residents to return, environmental organisation Greenpeace continues to monitor radiation levels in the nuclear disaster stricken area of Fukushima.

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, radiation testing, refugees, video

Fukushima fish ‘may be inedible for a decade’

Posted on October 25, 2012 by CorbettOctober 25, 2012

by Fiona Harvey / The Guardian / October 25, 2012 / Fish from the waters around the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan could be too radioactive to eat for a decade to come, as samples show that radioactivity levels remain elevated and show little sign of…

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Posted in Featured, fish, food supply, Fukushima, News, ocean contamination

HAL robot suit modified to take on nuclear plants

Posted on October 21, 2012 by CorbettOctober 21, 2012

By Tim Hornyak / cnet.com / October 19, 2012 / You’re sweating in your bulky radiation suit, your dosimeter is freaking you out, and you’re trying to close a valve that might just save a large portion of the population from some very nasty …

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, fukushima workers, News

Ground under Fukushima Unit 4 sinking, structure on verge of complete collapse

Posted on October 21, 2012 by CorbettOctober 21, 2012

by Ethan A. Huff / NaturalNews.com / October 16, 2012 / Though the mainstream media has long since abandoned the issue, the precarious situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in Japan is only continuing to worsen, according to a promi…

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, News, reactor 4

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