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TOKYO: Highly-toxic plutonium has been found in soil in five separate locations at the crippled Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in northeast Japan, the facility's operator said Tuesday, which has caused global concern about the growing severity of the crisis at the leaking plant. Owner and...

So now the Japanese have told us they made a mistake in calculating the actual amount of radioactivity being spewed out into the enviroment . So when they dumped all that , low level radioactive water into the, Pacific are they sure it was low level ? If they can make a mistake once I am sure...

The former president and chairman of Sony, Norio Ohga, who was credited with developing the compact disc, has died aged 81, the company has said. Ohga, who led the company from 1982 to 1995, died of multiple organ failure in the Japanese capital, Tokyo. Sony's...

Japan admits daily radioactive release from Fukushima at 154 trillion Becquerels, many times higher than previously announced — Nuclear commission blames calculation error Link Removed - Invalid URL

"The Japanese government has moved to crack down on independent reportage and criticism of the government's policies in the wake of the disaster by deciding what citizens may or may not talk about in public. A new project team has been created by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and...

As best we know it, the shocking truth is that preventable disasters keep proliferating life destroying contamination globally. Yet news about them is suppressed, so few people everywhere are unaware how calamitously they’re being harmed. As a result, distinguished environmental researcher, Dr...

Link Removed Japan's cabinet approved on Friday almost $50 billion of spending for post-earthquake rebuilding, a downpayment on the country's biggest public works effort in six decades. The emergency budget of 4 trillion yen ($48.5 billion), which is likely be followed by more...

Link Removed - Invalid URL Link Removed - Invalid URL Magnitude 4.7 - NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPANPRAY FOR THESE PEOPLE NOT ONLY QUAKES A VOLCANO ERUPTED THERE TODAY ALSOUSGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching...

Radiation levels have risen dramatically in seawater near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, sparking fears of a new leak, according to the country's government. The announcement came ahead of a fresh 5.9-magnitude earthquake that hit the Kanto region, in the eastern part of the...

The news out of Japan has not been good this week. Officials there raised the severity rating of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to the highest level, while the plant continues to dump radiation into the air and water and radiation is found in milk and drinking water in...

Saturday, April 16, 2011 Fukushima 16 April 2011 Well our friends the Japanese have screwed the pooch again. They forgot to turn on the water. "The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan emitted a new burst of radioactive material this week after a bungled cooling effort apparently...

! - The Japanese government is trying to calm fears about radiation levels and food safety in the region around the heavily damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility, even as it has raised the severity rating of the crisis to the highest possible level. "Radiation is continuing to leak...

TOKYO — Japanese officials struggled through the day on Tuesday to explain why it had taken them a month to disclose large-scale releases of radioactive material in mid-March at a crippled nuclear power plant, as the government and an electric utility disagreed on the extent of continuing...

TOKYO (AP) — The government set its first radiation safety standards for fish Tuesday after Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant reported radioactive contamination in nearby seawater measuring at several million times the legal limit. The plant operator insisted that the radiation will rapidly...

Discharges from the plant may be even higher than admitted. JAPAN HAS raised its assessment of the Fukushima plant accident to the same level as history’s worst nuclear crisis, admitting that “large volumes” of radioactive substances are being released in the surrounding area. The decision...

MSFT Down With Everybody Else Markets are trading in the negative on Alcoa's disappointing earnings and news of that the deepening nuclear crisis in Japan has reached Chernobyl levels. More...