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Fukushima’s Nuclear Reactor Fuel Is “Missing”
Fukushima’s Nuclear Reactor Fuel Is “Missing” In the same week as Japan unveils its Pacific-Rim-esque anti-tsunami wall public works project, andJapanese government auditors say the operator of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant has wasted more than a third of the 190 billion yen ($1.6 billion) in taxpayer money allocated for cleaning up the plant after it was destroyed […]
Fukushima disaster: Radiation levels posing cancer risks on fourth anniversary of earthquake
Fukushima disaster: Radiation levels posing cancer risks on fourth anniversary of earthquake Four years ago today Japan was hit with a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and massive tsunami that caused widespread destruction, leaving almost 22,000 people dead or missing and triggering a crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The triple nuclear meltdown was the world’s […]
TEPCO Admits Delaying Report Of Major Radiation Leak Into The Pacific Ocean For 10 Months
TEPCO Admits Delaying Report Of Major Radiation Leak Into The Pacific Ocean For 10 Months While faith in Japanese ‘economics’ is starting to falter (borne out by the split in the BoJ and endless macro data disappointments), trust in TEPCO and its governmental operators must be about to hit a new record low. Having promised and […]
Fukushima: Playing With Nuclear Fire
Fukushima: Playing With Nuclear Fire Three years after the Tohoku earthquake in Japan, citizens and the international community are left wondering if Japan really does have the situation in Fukushima under control…“TEPCO’s own engineers are clueless… nobody knows how much [radiation] is washing into the ocean.” …click on the above link to view the video… […]
Shape Shifting Robot To Inspect Damaged Fukushima Reactor
Shape Shifting Robot To Inspect Damaged Fukushima Reactor Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which suffered three reactor meltdowns from an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, can’t be decommissioned until its ruined reactors are inspected. But because of deadly radiation, no human can get close to the facility to survey the damage. So the Japanese […]
‘Uncertain Radiological Threat’: US Navy Sailors Search for Justice after Fukushima Mission
‘Uncertain Radiological Threat’: US Navy Sailors Search for Justice after Fukushima Mission On March 11, 2011, the American aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reaganreceived orders to change course and head for the east coast of Japan, which had just been devastated by a tsunami. The Ronald Reagan had been on its way to South Korea when the order reached it […]
Fukushima Children Thyroid Cancer Rate Continues To Rise | Zero Hedge
Fukushima Children Thyroid Cancer Rate Continues To Rise | Zero Hedge. Fukushima prefecture has been conducting regular checkups of over 360,000 people who were in Fukushima in March 2011 and were age 18 or under when the nuclear crisis struck.As WSJ reported in August, a study by researchers in Fukushima prefecture found 57 minors in the prefecture have […]
8 Countries With Nuclear Power Plants Most At Risk Of Tsunamis
8 Countries With Nuclear Power Plants Most At Risk Of Tsunamis. The tsunami that destroyed a nuclear reactor at Fukushima, Japan, caused a major re-think of nuclear power, which up to the accident in 2011, had been considered a relatively safe, clean form of electricity generation. The tsunami that followed shortly after a 9.0 mega-quake […]
California Could Suffer a Fukushima-Style Meltdown Washington’s Blog
California Could Suffer a Fukushima-Style Meltdown Washington’s Blog. U.S. Ignoring Earthquake Risks to Nuclear Plants Scientists warned that an earthquake could take out Fukushima. The Japanese ignored the warning. (The Fukushima reactors were damaged by the earthquake before the tsunami hit, because the design of the reactors was defective.) But that couldn’t happen in the U.S. … right? Well, the engineers who […]
Japan Reacts to Worsening Fukushima Disaster By … Reopening Nuclear Plant Next to Active Volcano Which Is About to Blow Washington’s Blog
Japan Reacts to Worsening Fukushima Disaster By … Reopening Nuclear Plant Next to Active Volcano Which Is About to Blow Washington’s Blog. D’oh! Scientists warned that an earthquake could take out Fukushima. The Japanese ignored the warning … and even tore down the natural seawall which protected Fukushima from tidal waves. Fukushima is getting worse. And see this and this. Have the […]
