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    VIDEO Fukushima: the Gift That Keeps on Melting

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    Greenpeace urges Japan to evacuate town's children

    TOKYO — Greenpeace called on Japan on Thursday to evacuate children and pregnant women from a town about 60 kilometres (40 miles) from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant because of high radiation. The environmental and anti-nuclear group said its own data from Fukushima town roughly matched...
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    "Fukushima Melt" A delicious new chocolate

    "Fukushima Melt" A delicious new chocolate that doesn't melt in the mouth. This chocolate melts in the box before you even open it. A new nuclear powered chocolate that will melt through the bottom of the box and any flimsy shelving and will creep across the floor and deliver the chocolate to...
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    'Melt-through' at Fukushima? / Govt report to IAEA suggests situation worse than meltdown

    Nuclear fuel in three reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has possibly melted through pressure vessels and accumulated at the bottom of outer containment vessels, according to a government report obtained Tuesday by The Yomiuri Shimbun. A "melt-through"--when melted nuclear fuel...
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    Fukushima escalates to worse-case possibility

    For the first time Japan has suggested the situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant has gone beyond a meltdown. Japan says that nuclear fuel in three reactors has possibly melted through the pressure vessels and accumulated in the outer containment vessels. Japanese media report this...
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    Japan nuclear crisis:Kamikaze Pensioners seek work at Fukushima

    A group of more than 200 Japanese pensioners is volunteering to tackle the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power station. The "Skilled Veterans Corps", as they call themselves, is made up of retired engineers and other professionals, all over the age of sixty. One of the group, Yasuteru...
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    TEPCO begins live video stream from Fukushima | Live Cam from Fukushima

    TEPCO : •Ÿ“‡‘æˆêŒ´Žq—Í”­“d￾Š | Live video feed from Fukushima ! In relation to multiple devices via ※, rather than the actual time (30 seconds) video is delivered late. Bad weather or strong backlighting ※, etc. If the screen is at night there. Equipment maintenance and a failure ※ There...
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    Fukushima meltdown – Caldicott says Japan may become uninhabitable – media silent

    Dr Helen Caldicott says that the Fukushima nuclear disaster has the potential to make Japan “uninhabitable”, yet the mainstream media in Australia continue to ignore the crisis. Managing editor David Donovan reports. Yesterday – the same day Germany announced it would close all its nuclear...
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    Typhoon Songda hits southern Japan

    As the typhoon made its way towards Kyushu on Sunday morning, Japan's Meteorological Agency issued a mudslide warning for Kagoshima, where recent volcanic eruptions left the ground weak and prone to such events. Kagoshima received 121mm of rain on Saturday. A little further south, Naze had a...
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    Typhoon Strengthens, May Hit Fukushima

    Typhoon Songda strengthened to a supertyphoon after battering the Philippines and headed for Japan on a track that may pass over the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant by May 30, a U.S. monitoring center said. Songda’s winds increased to 241 kilometers (150 miles) per hour from 213 kph...
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    VIDEO Fukushima Tepco WORKERS reveal REAL work conditions & FRAUD

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    Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan 'unready for typhoon' | Typhoon heading for Fukushima !

    Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is not fully prepared for heavy rain and winds of a typhoon heading towards the country, officials admit. Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), which runs the plant, said some reactor buildings were uncovered, prompting fears the storm may carry radioactive...
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    VIDEO Fukushima Worse Then Ever Imagined

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    AP Exclusive: Fukushima tsunami plan a single page

    TOKYO (AP) — Japanese nuclear regulators trusted that the reactors at Fukushima Dai-ichi were safe from the worst waves an earthquake could muster based on a single-page memo from the plant operator nearly a decade ago. In the Dec. 19, 2001 document — one double-sized page obtained by The...
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    U.S. regulator saw serious Fukushima fuel damage soon after disaster

    NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- A senior official of the U.S. nuclear regulatory agency said Thursday he had believed there was a "strong likelihood" of serious core damage and core melt in reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant in the days after the March disaster in Japan. "There were numerous...
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    Geiger counters sell out in Japan

    The hot, new, must-have item in Japan is not the latest smartphone or computer pad, but a geiger counter - a device that measures radiation. After the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant this week confirmed meltdowns in three of the facility's reactors, geiger counters have sold out in...
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    Is Fukushima now ten Chernobyls into the sea?

    New readings show levels of radioisotopes found up to 30 kilometers offshore from the on-going crisis at Fukushima are ten times higher than those measured in the Baltic and Black Seas during Chernobyl. "When it comes to the oceans, says Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceonographer at the Woods...
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    Fukushima No. 1 eyed as site for nuke fuel graveyard (May 27th)

    Fukushima No. 1 eyed as site for nuke fuel graveyard Bloomberg The Atomic Energy Society of Japan is discussing a plan to make the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant a storage site for radioactive waste from the crippled station. Building a repository would cost several trillion yen, Muneo...
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    VIDEO Tepco admits further meltdowns at Fukushima !

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