By Gavin Allen / The Daily Mail / January 11, 2012 / The Doomsday Clock moved one minute closer to midnight after scientists agreed that a global cataclysm was more likely today. The clock, which last moved in January 2010, is a universally recognized …
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by James Corbett / FukushimaUpdate.com / January 6, 2012 Two new valuable information resources on Fukushima have emerged in recent weeks to help people keep an even closer eye on what is happening at the plant and in the area. Firstly, there is an inc…
Continue reading‘Criminal event’ at Fukushima calls for deeper investigation / RT / December 27, 2011 / An inquiry into the Fukushima disaster has revealed the plant operators failed to respond properly to the situation. Christopher Busby, an expert with the Europ…
Continue readingTepco is told to weigh temporary state control / Japan Times / December 28, 2011 / Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Yukio Edano told Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Toshio Nishizawa on Tuesday to consider putting the utility under temporary g…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / December 20, 2011 / And that’s during the 14 weeks right after the Fukushima I Nuke Plant accident that is “over” now. From a PR Newswire press release that appeared on MarketWatch/Wall Street Journal (12/19/2011): WASHIN…
Continue readingvia BBC News / December 16, 2011 / The crippled nuclear reactors at Japan’s Fukushima power plant have finally been stabilised, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has announced. An earthquake and tsunami in March knocked out vital cooling systems, tri…
Continue readingvia GoddardsJournal / December 11, 2011 / Studies cited in order presented: National Academy of Sciences Low-Dose Radiation Report: http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11340&page=R1 Data table used: http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=1…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / December 6, 2011 / The Ministry of Health and Labor, one of whose mandates is to protect consumers, quoted from Asahi Shinbun (12/6/2011), in a typical bureaucratic convolution: ?????????????????????…
Continue readingby Theodore Rockwell / American Spectator / December 6, 2011 / The front-page story in the Washington Post on Sunday November 20 vividly portrayed the horrors of the evacuated zones around Fukushima with unforgettable imagery. A natural reaction is to …
Continue readingvia RT / December 6, 2011 / Experts warn Japan faces more danger from radioactive particles in consumer food, after reports of a new toxic water leak from the Fukushima nuclear plant. Some 45 tons of radioactive toxic water has reportedly leaked out …
Continue readingIn meltdown, Japan dodged even bigger disaster / CBS News / Dec. 2, 2011 h/t ENEnews.com
Continue readingNo CANDU Would a Canadian reactor have staved off the Fukushima nuclear disaster? by Andrew Horvat / Literary Review of Canada / September 1, 2011 / On March 14, 2011, three days after a 16 metre tsunami knocked out the cooling systems of four of six …
Continue readingvia AlJazeera / November 29, 2011 / RELATED: Aqua Chernobyl French Study on Fukushima Ocean Contamination (English Translation) Fukushima: Towards the Formation of a Radioactive Graveyard in the Pacific Ocean?
Continue readingvia NHK / November 30, 2011 / The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has announced the results of an analysis on the state of melted fuel in the plant’s Number 1 unit. The Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, and sev…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / November 29, 2011 / They will power-wash the trees and call it “decontamination”. At least in this video, they put down the tarp under the tree. NHK News on 11/28/2011 has a clip that shows exactly the same “decon” …
Continue readingvia ENEnews.com / November 27, 2011 / The week began with several high-profile attacks on Christopher Busby, visiting professor at the University of Ulster’s school of biomedical sciences and scientific secretary of the European Committee on Radiatio…
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Continue readingBy Gavin Blair / Christian Science Monitor / November 23, 2011 / Polls show the public turning against nuclear energy after Japan’s Fukushima disaster. But low coverage of protests and powerful business and political interests have complicated ef…
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Continue readingvia LifeBoxCompany.com Many people have written me and asked more or less the same question: “What would you do to help heal the Japanese landscape around the failing nuclear reactors?” The enormity and unprecedented nature of this combined natural…
Continue readingvia Enformable.com / November 11 , 2011 / Without the revival of Fukushima Prefecture there will be no restoration of trust and confidence in Japan. In reviving the prefecture it is vital that we hear the opinion of a large number of Fukushima resident…
Continue readingvia Fairewinds.com / November 17, 2011 / Hydrogen buildup at Fukushima? What does it mean & why does it happen? from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. TEPCO recently discovered hydrogen buildups within the containment buildings in Fukushima Units 1, …
Continue readingExperts on iodine in Europe: Something very unpleasant has happened — Either serious accident or reactor emergency required venting radioactive substances / via ENEnews.com / November 17, 2011 / ANALYSIS: European radiation safety agencies detect tra…
Continue readingFukushima-Diary.com / November 15, 2011 / Although there are so many people to suffer from nosebleeds, diarrhea, fatigue or coughing,it has been denied, bashed, and labeled as harmful rumor. A twitter user made a map to put each low dose symptom into J…
Continue readingFukushima-Diary.com / November 15, 2011 / Fukushima is the sea version of Chernobyl Chernobyl had radiation drift in the jet stream in the sky. Fukushima leaks radiation into the sea. I therefore think the core problem is not the contamination of Japan…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / November 14, 2011 / Reactor 4: A young worker standing to listen to Goshi Hosono, Minister in charge of the accident, speak: Both photos were taken by the AP photographer David Guttenfelder. For more high impact photos, go to cryptome.org …
Continue readingex-SKF / November 12, 2011 / A woman in a public forum asked a question to the two panelists: Why did my friend die? The event was held in Sapporo City on November 6, 2011. Her friend was a member of the special rescue unit of the Fire Department (prob…
Continue readingFukushima’s Radiant Media Junket / BagNews / November 12, 2011 / Oh, are there photos from yesterday’s Fukushima media junket orchestrated by TEPCO and the Japanese Government. (The NYT ran 14 pics, The Daily Mail used 18, CBS ran 31.) Getty photog…
Continue readingvia Euronews: RELATED: Fukushima plant workers’ base of operations opened to media – Mainichi Daily Fukushima plant opened to journalists – NHK
Continue readingFukushima and Its Impact Upon the Westinghouse-Toshiba Designed AP1000 Atomic Power Plant / Fairewinds.com / November 11, 2011 / Fukushima and Its Impact Upon the Westinghouse-Toshiba Designed AP1000 Atomic Power Plant from Fairewinds Associates on Vim…
Continue readingvia YouTube: EDF fined €1.5m for spying on Greenpeace / The Guardian / November 10, 2011 France’s state energy firm EDF has been fined €1.5m by a Paris court for spying on Greenpeace. Its head of nuclear production security in 2006, Pascal Du…
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Continue readingex-SKF / November 9, 2011 / Tokyo Shinbun (11/7/2011) reports: ? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????…
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 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…
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 readingvia EuroNews: Related: 8000 Japanese Yen from each person in Japan to support Tepco – Fukushima-Diary.com
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 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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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 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 readingby David McNeill / Japan Focus / October 25, 2011 / In autumn last year, Shoji Katsuzo (75) was quietly farming rice, vegetables and a small herd of cattle in the picturesque village of Iitate. Today, he lives in a two-room temporary house 35 kilometer…
Continue readingby Geoff Brumfiel / Nature / October 25, 2011 / Global data on Fukushima challenge Japanese estimates The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March released far more radiation than the Japanese government has claimed. So concludes a stud…
Continue readingJason Bartashius / The Japan Times / October 25, 2011 / Dear Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, After the disasters of March 11 occurred, I was reminded of Akira Kurosawa’s 1990 movie, “Dreams.” The film includes one episode, “Mount…
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