Wind direction forecast was concealed after the explosion of reactor 1 / Fukushima-Diary.com / November 17, 2011 / Immediately after reactor 1 had its hydrogen explosion on 3/12/2011, the wind direction forecast of meteorological bureau was concealed. …
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Smartphone geiger counter developed / Daily Yomiuri / November 16, 2011 A manufacturer in Otamamura, Fukushima Prefecture, has developed a geiger counter that allows users to display radiation readings on a smartphone. Sanwa Corp. was to release the pr…
Continue readingParts of Japan too radioactive to farm, say int’l researchers / JapanToday.com / November 15, 2011 / Farmland in parts of Japan is no longer safe because of high levels of radiation in the soil, scientists have warned, as the country struggles to…
Continue readingTaking thyroid tests to the children in Fukushima / NHK / November 14, 2011 / Doctors in Fukushima Prefecture are hitting the road to improve children’s’ access to thyroid tests in an effort to spot possible health problems associated with …
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 readingGov’t updates radiation maps with data on six new prefectures / Mainichi Daily / November 12, 2011 The government has released soil radiation maps covering a much broader swath of Japan than previous releases, covering six new prefectures. The ne…
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…
Continue readingCanadian Collaborative for Radiation Awareness & Monitoring “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” (Margaret Mead) What is the Canadian Collaborative…
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 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 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…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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…
Continue readingMust Read: Asahi Shinbun “Trap of Prometheus” Series Part 1 – Men in Protective Clothing (9, 10) “500 Microsieverts/Hr Radiation” / ex-SKF / October 24, 2011 / (Installment 1, Installments 2 and 3, Installments 4 and 5, In…
Continue readingJapan Official: No need to evacuate people in city of 400,000 near Tokyo / ENEnews.com / October 24, 2011 / Anonymous Local Official: “The numbers we found last week were way above what we could imagine” “In the latest sign that radioactive mater…
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