Radiation In Our Food: US Receives Steady Flow Of Radiation From Fukushima (FOX News)

In Canada: - Canada: Private Testing Companies, Government Agencies, And Universities Refuse To Test Soil For Radiation An if you know about the health effects of INTERNAL emitters vs. external radiation then you better avoid as much radioactive particles as possible. “Radiation exposure is increased by a factor of a trillion. Inhaling even the tiniest [...] continue reading world news

New Mexico Wildfires Force Evacuation At Los Alamos Nuclear Labratory

A wildfire looms in the hills above Los Alamos National Labs Sunday. - New Mexico wildfires force evacuation at Los Alamos nuclear labratory (NY Daily News, June 27, 2011): Raging wildfires in New Mexico forced the evacuation of the famed nuclear lab at Los Alamos Monday, though officials insist that radioactive material is secure. Fires [...] continue reading world 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 world news

Two Feet Of Water Already Made Its Way To Several Areas Of The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant

Although the Fort Calhoun plant is surrounded by an eight foot tall and 16 foot wide protective berm, two feet of water have already made its way to several areas of the Fort Calhoun plant, but authorities say there is no immediate danger at either plant. - Sirens Blare as Flooding Hits North Dakota (ABC [...] continue reading world news

Fukushima = Chernobyl x 18.51 – Fukushima Water 144 Times As Radioactive As Anticipated – Water Treatment System Halted

18.51 = 144 x 720,000 : 5,600,000 - Contaminated Water Processing at #Fukushima: The Water Was Simply Too “Hot” (EX-SKF, June 19, 2011): for the system to handle, TEPCO found out. From Asahi Shinbun (1:02PM JST 6/20/2011): ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? TEPCO investigated the contaminated water treatment system that was halted [when the radiation on the Kurion's subsystem [...] continue reading world 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 world news

Fukushima: It’s Much Worse Than You Think – ‘It Is The Biggest Industrial Catastrophe In The History Of Mankind’

- Fukushima: It’s much worse than you think (Al Jazeera, June 16, 2011): Scientific experts believe Japan’s nuclear disaster to be far worse than governments are revealing to the public. “Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind,” Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Al Jazeera. Japan’s 9.0 [...] continue reading world 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 world news

Fukushima: Radioactive Strontium Up To 240 Times Legal Concentration Detected In Seawater

- High level of strontium found at Fukushima plant (Japan Times/Kyodo News, June 13, 2011): Radioactive strontium up to 240 times the legal concentration limit has been detected in seawater samples collected near an intake at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday. The utility said the substance was also [...] continue reading world 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 world 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 world news

Chile: Puyehue Volcano Erupts, Prompting Mass Evacuation

- Puyehue volcano in Chile erupts, prompting mass evacuation (Guardian, June 5 2011): Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes after a volcano which has been dormant for decades started erupting in southern Chile. Large columns of smoke reached more than six miles from the crater of the Puyehue volcano, which lies about [...] continue reading world news

Japan’s Nuclear Safety Commission Ready to Loosen Already-Loose Radiation Safety Limits for Food

- #Fukushima I Nuke Accident: Japan’s Nuclear Safety Commission Ready to Loosen Already-Loose Radiation Safety Limit for Foods (EX-SKF, June 3, 2011): The Nuclear Safety Commission headed by Haruki “Detarame (‘Falsehood’; his cute nickname by the irate Japanese citizens)” Madarame has proposed that the Japanese government loosen the provisional safety limits for foods, as the [...] continue reading world news

Japan: Two Drugs To Help Expel Plutonium From The Body To Be Approved In July

- #Radiation in Japan: 2 Drugs to Help Expel Plutonium from Body to Be Approved in July: It seems like an oblique way for the Japanese government to admit plutonium (and other transuranium elements such as americium and curium) has been released from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant and dispersed in wide enough areas to [...] continue reading world 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 world news