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Fukushima Day 104 Lady Gaga promotes Japan as safe destination while US Nuclear plants in High water

The United Nations nuclear agency’s decision to hold talks about the Fukushima disaster behind closed doors this week ignores the “blindingly obvious” need for greater transparency, said a former official in the U.K. atomic industry. Fukushima Failures Kept Behind Closed Doors - Bloomberg

Fukushima entombed: Nuclear firm reveal how it plans to put a covering shield over reactor to stop leaks Read more: Fukushima entombed: Nuclear firm reveal how it plans to put a covering shield over reactor to stop leaks | Mail Online

IT was supposed to be a lifetime highlight, but the wedding plans of a bride-to-be from Fukushima have turned into a nightmare thanks to the new post-crisis phenomenon of radiation discrimination. The woman, whose name is not yet known, had booked a photographer for her wedding this month and...

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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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...

Radioactive water accumulating in Japan’s crippled Fukushima plant may start overflowing from service trenches in five days, potentially increasing the contamination from the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. Link Removed - Invalid URL Electric Power Co. has been manually pumping water...

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...

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...

TEPCO claim that two workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant may have exceeded the government’s radiation exposure limit, adding to the health concerns of those working to stabilise the facility. The government and TEPCO have come under fire for not disclosing enough information about...

The confirmation of core meltdowns hitting reactors 1 through 3, accompanied by breaches to the critical pressure vessels that hold the nuclear fuel, has led officials to believe that "there will be a major delay to work" to contain the situation, one official said. Tepco, the plant's...