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    High concentration of radioactive water found in Fukushima's No. 4 reactor

    A concentration of radioactive water in the basement of the No. 4 reactor's turbine building at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant became abnormally high, reaching a maximum of 250 times normal monthly levels, according to Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) on April 26. Radioactive...
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    Japan earmarks first $50 billion for post-quake rebuild

    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...
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    Fukushima could exceed Chernobyl

    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...
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    Fukushima watch 2011-04-11Posted: 11 Apr 2011 03:37

    reports that Tepco is using remote-controlled bulldozers and power shovels for clearing rubble around the wrecked reactor. While it’s good news that Tepco finally can perform some cleanup work without putting workers at risk, the bad news is how necessary such equipment may be. The New York...
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    Fukushima Daiichi Radioactive Seawater Model, Spent Fuel Rods DID Explode Into Atmosphere

    ASR Limited, a marine consulting and research firm has released a radioactive seawater model that seems to confirm that radiation will spread throughout the pacific ocean. Remember, US and Japanese officials have gone on the record with their belief that radiation in the Pacific will not hurt...
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    VIDEO As of midnight April 10th Japan time, here's the news update:

    Thanks to RubiconDecision - USA Unit #1 appears to be extremely radioactive based on data parameters for the dry well (over 100 Sv/h) and the suppression pool (12 Sv/h). While the D/W is off the charts, all other data points indicate some kind of operation is occurring. The fuel rods in #1...
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    Closing Ranks: The NRC, the Nuclear Industry, and TEPCo. Are Limiting the Flow of Information

    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...
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    Japan detects leaks at Onagawa plant

    Link Removed Water leaks have been found at Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi prefecture in Japan after a new 7.4-magnitude earthquake jolted the northeastern area. Tohoku Electric, the operator of the plant, said on Friday that water leaked out of the spent fuel pools of reactors number 1and 2...
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    Is Japan hiding atomic bomb processing in Fukushima?

    Confused and often conflicting reports out of Fukushima 1 nuclear plant cannot be solely the result of tsunami-caused breakdowns, bungling or miscommunication. Inexplicable delays and half-baked explanations from Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and...
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    We have at least three sources who believe that there is evidence of recriticality at Fukushima

    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...
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    Japanese Fish Dangerously Contaminated By Fukushima

    With measurements of iodine 131 and the much worse cesium 134 isotopes detected at 7.5 and two million times past their “regulated levels” and contaminated water pouring into the Pacific Ocean, this was inevitable: the fish are contaminated too. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reports that...
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    Tepco makes first compensation payments

    Tokyo Electric Power, operator of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station, has made its first financial payments to towns around the damaged plant, though the disbursements – Y20m ($237,000) each to 10 municipalities – amount to only fraction of its expected liabilities. Tepco, on Tuesday, described...
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    Sawdust and Radioactive Water Dumps: The Increasingly Desperate Options at Fukushima

    Sawdust. It's not the first thing most people would choose to put between themselves and highly contaminated radioactive water. But a mixture of sawdust — ogakuzu in Japanese — with chemicals and shredded newspaper is precisely what nuclear safety authorities and power plant officials turned to...
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    Lying about the level of raidation in water dumped in ocean

    Japan: TEPCO to release 11,500 tons of nuclear radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean declaring the water to be dumped contains only low levels of radioactivity. In reality the water about to be dumped is highly radioactive as I point out below. Breaking from Kyodo News: TOKYO, April 4, Kyodo...
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    Water Preventing Concrete From Hardening

    TOKYO, April 3 (Reuters) - Japanese officials grappling on Sunday to end the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl were focusing on a crack in a concrete pit that was leaking radiation into the ocean from a crippled reactor. Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said it had found a crack in...
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    VIDEO Radioactive water is leaking into the sea from a 20-centimetre (8-inch) crack

    Radioactive water is leaking into the sea from a 20-centimetre (8-inch) crack in a containment pit at Japan's quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator Tepco has said. The crack under reactor 2 may be the source of recent radiation in coastal waters, Tepco officials said. Tepco is...
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    Has Fukushima's Reactor No. 1 Gone Critical?

    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...
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    [JAPAN] Up to 1,000 bodies left untouched within Fukushima no-go zone

    The International Atomic Energy Agency weighed in on the simmering nuclear crisis with alarming radiation data, but the government said Thursday it has no plans for now to expand the current evacuation zone. The international nuclear watchdog said Wednesday in Geneva it detected about 2...
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    Japan may have lost race to save nuclear reactor

    Link Removed Tokyo. The radioactive core in a reactor at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant appears to have melted through the bottom of its containment vessel and on to a concrete floor, experts say, raising fears of a major release of radiation at the site, the Guardian reported. The...
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    Workers at stricken nuclear plant endure tough conditions

    FUKUSHIMA — Each of the employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co and other workers engaged in containing damage at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is given 30 survival food crackers and a 180 milliliter pack of vegetable juice for breakfast after getting up just before 6 a.m...
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