Western Australian authorities are scrambling to find a missing radioactive capsule that is a fraction of the size of a 10c coin, conceding it was not found missing until more than two weeks after it left a Rio Tinto mine site.
The 8mm by 6mm capsule is a 19-becquerel caesium 137 ceramic...
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From the depths of a shipment of scrap metal, a radioactive signal.
While false alerts can sometimes be triggered, this one was not one of them.
Metal bars embedded with uranium had made the 3,700-mile journey to London from Pakistan, via Muscat in Oman.
Had it not been intercepted by Border...
The Tokyo Electric Power Co. TEPCO hopes to put a makeshift roof over the reactor 3 turbine building at the Link Removed in preparation for Typhoon Ma-on.
The roof would cover a hole caused by a hydrogen blast in March after an earthquake and tsunami hit the plant. A hose from the reactor to a...
Except that one can not but feel discouraged by reading this litany of errors, mistakes, lies, but also complaints, denunciations, the efforts of citizens rejected the audacity of Association pro-nuclear state that everything is perfect …
At least we have something to meet all these pro-nucs...
"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...
TOKYO
The Japanese utility battling to bring its radiation-spewing nuclear reactor under control said Sunday that 1,500 more tons of radioactive water are being moved into temporary storage -- the latest attempt to prevent a massive spill of contaminated water into the environment.
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TOKYO —
Tokyo Electric Power Co said Friday radioactive water accumulated at its crippled nuclear power plant may overflow to the outside if heavy rain falls by June 15, fanning fears that radiation could further pollute the ocean and soil. The plant operator plans to start activating new...
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...
So far the only good news to accompany the Fukushima catastrophe has been that for all the fallout, the radiation has been mostly contained due to Northwesterly winds which have been blowing any radioactivity mostly out and into the Pacific (coupled with relatively little rainfall), as well as...
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...