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Jan Beranek, who is with a team of Greenpeace activists investigating the fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, says Japanese are encouraged to return to their normal lives unaware of the dangers they face in the contaminated area. "I personally find it very disturbing, because on the one...

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it has detected high levels of a radioactive substance that tends to accumulate in human bones. Tokyo Electric Power Company says it took soil samples on May 9th at 3 locations about 500 meters from the No.1 and No.2 reactors 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...

The day after the Chernobyl nuclear crisis anniversary, amid what scientists call a monster government and industry cover-up of Fukushima's "off the scale" radiation impact on people in North America and beyond, when Link Removedwent down Tuesday, progressive websites reported it as news...

Posted April 9th, 2011 by Link Removed due to 404 Error All 6 units of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station have been shut down. Unit 1 (Shut down)-Explosive sound and white smoke were confirmed after the big quake occurred at 3:36 pm on March 12th. It was assumed to be hydrogen...

The lack of information in Japan at this stage is amazing: - We get some meaningless aggregates of radioactivity but no breakdown which would help understand what exactly is happening. - We hear about the "fight" to stop the "leak" to the sea but nothing about the pool at reactor number 4. We...

We have at least three sources who believe that there is evidence of recriticality at Fukushima. What's troubling is that it is uncontrolled criticality. For those who don't know, this means the fission process is starting and stopping at random. Blue flashes of light have been witnessed at...

According to an article by Agence France Presse on April 1,"Radon, a company set up in Moscow to monitor radioactivity and dispose of radioactive waste in central Russia, has been detecting traces of iodine and strontium isotopes since last week, deputy director Oleg Polsky said." ["Moscow...

On March 23, Dr. Link Removed - Invalid URL a Research Scientist at the Monterey Institute of International Studies saw a report by Kyodo news agency that caught his eye. It reported that Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) had observed a neutron beam about 1.5 km away from the plant. Bursts of...

The Guardian reports that Japanese engineers have "lost the race" to prevent a nuclear meltdown. Apparently reactor number 2 has melted through its containment vessel, onto the concrete floor underneath. According to the expert quoted in the piece, the fuel will now run out like lava, "and that...