High Levels Of Radioactive Cesium In Ashes FROM REGULAR HOUSEHOLD GARBAGE At Tokyo Trash Burning Plant

WAKE UP JAPAN! - #Radiation in Japan: Radioactive Cesium from Ashes from Household Garbage at Waste Disposal Plant in Edogawa-Ku, Tokyo (EX-SKF, June 27, 2011): Not a water purification plant or at a waste water treatment plant, but a plant that burns regular, household garbage in eastern Tokyo was found with a high level of [...] continue reading latest news

Fukushima: Radioactive Water Decontamination Restart Not In Sight, Water Storage Facilities To Overflow Around July 5th

- Resumption of decontamination system not in sight (NHK, June 25, 2011): The operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has still not resumed operations of a system to decontaminate highly radioactive water. Tokyo Electric Power Company had planned to start decontaminating and recycling the water by July 17th to cool the reactors. [...] continue reading latest news

Prof. Hiroaki Koide of Kyoto University: Molten Cores Gone Through Bottom Of Containers, Sinking Into The Earth – We Have To Build Subterranean Dam To Prevent Groundwater Contaminated With Radioactive Materials From Leaking Into The Ocean

… but the project is in limbo because of opposition from TEPCO. See also: - The Massive Fukushima Media Cover-Up – ‘There Has Been Massive Entry Of Radiation Into The Groundwater In Fukushima And That Will Simply Spread Throughout The Water Table In The Area Of Northern Japan’ (Video) - Preventing radiation contamination more important [...] continue reading latest news

TEPCO’s Live Cam Shows Giant Cloud Engulfing Entire Fukushima Nuclear Plant – ‘Something Bad Is Happening There That We Aren’t Told Of’ (Video)

- #Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Live Camera Shows Huge Smoke/Steam Enveloping the Reactor Buildings (EX-SKF, June 13, 2011) Steady streams of smoke/steam out of the Reactors 3 and 4 suddenly started to engulf the entire reactor complex at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. It is the TEPCO’s live camera footage after 12AM JST on June [...] continue reading latest news

Fukushima Workers’ Exposure Tops 650 Millisieverts (Internal Exposure Accounts For More Than 80% Of The Figures)

- Fukushima workers’ exposure tops 650mSV (NHK, June 10, 2011): Detailed tests have found that 2 workers who were exposed to radiation at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant received doses of more than twice the government-mandated emergency limit. The men in their 30s and 40s were each found in early June to have been exposed [...] continue reading latest news

Heartbreaking Evacuations As Fukushima’s Nuclear Fallout Spreads – Thousands Living Just Outside The No-Go Zone Are Now Packing Up And Evacuating

- Heartbreaking evacuations as Fukushima’s nuclear fallout spreads (ABC NEWS, Tuesday, June 7, 2011): BRENDAN TREMBATH: Japan has doubled its estimate of the amount of radiation spewed out by the Fukushima nuclear plant in the week after the crisis began. It comes after confirmation that plutonium has been found outside the facility for the first [...] continue reading latest news

Japan: Green Tea Exports Banned Due To High Levels Of Radioactive Cesium

The Japanese government has banned shipments of green tea leaves in four regions after high levels of radioactive caesium were found. Workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant are shielded with tarps  Photo: AP A swathe of Japan’s tea making regions including parts of Tochigi, Chiba and Kanagawa prefecture as well as the whole of Ibaraki [...] continue reading latest news

Independent Scientist Leuren Moret On The Horrendous Events At Fukushima And The Ever Present Dangers Of Nuclear Energy

Leuren Moret, PhD Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:52:00 — 78.7MB) | Embed The basis of this conversation is the horrendous events at Fukushima and the ever present dangers of nuclear energy. The positive note behind it all is that when we bond together, we can turn these disasters into opportunities and [...] continue reading latest news