September 21st, 2011 at 10:18 PM

Radiation levels around Fukushima plant now over 400 times higher than announced by TEPCO

SOURCE: atmc.jp
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September 21st, 2011 at 07:31 PM

Professor: Fukushima certainly worse than Chernobyl — Similar quantities of radioactivity released, but more people affected in Japan disaster (VIDEO)

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September 21st, 2011 at 06:29 PM

Japan nuke expert: Melted fuel rods estimated to be 12 meters underground Reactors No. 1-3 — To be 100 feet deep in a year (AUDIO)

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September 21st, 2011 at 08:15 AM

Report: Radiation level spiking around Tokyo as typhoon nears Fukushima plant (CHART)

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September 21st, 2011 at 07:01 AM

Over 20 microsieverts per hour radiation dose now being measured in Futaba (MAP)

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September 21st, 2011 at 03:17 AM

Mainichi: “It remains unclear where the melted fuel is situated” — “Temperatures of the pressure vessels alone are far from convincing”

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September 20th, 2011 at 05:35 PM

Report: 75% of Fukushima’s 300,000 children going to schools so contaminated they would be radiation control areas in nuclear plants (VIDEO)

Report: 75% of Fukushima’s 300,000 children going to schools so contaminated they would be radiation control areas in nuclear plants (VIDEO)
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September 20th, 2011 at 08:52 AM

Japan lawmaker: Plutonium certainly went deep within basement of Reactor No. 3 — Anyone’s guess where it’s at now

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September 20th, 2011 at 07:14 AM

Strong typhoon headed for leaking nuke plant — Over 1 million Japanese told to evacuate — Due at Fukushima in 48 hours

SOURCE: Japan Meteorological Agency
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September 20th, 2011 at 06:41 AM

Kyodo: Groundwater now flowing into Fukushima reactor buildings via cracks in walls — Up to 500 tons a day

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September 20th, 2011 at 05:06 AM

Gundersen’s Latest: 60 holes in bottom of Fukushima-type reactors make core melt-through easier — Fuel only had to get through a thin pipe, not inches of steel (VIDEO)

Gundersen’s Latest: 60 holes in bottom of Fukushima-type reactors make core melt-through easier — Fuel only had to get through a thin pipe, not inches of steel (VIDEO)
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September 19th, 2011 at 01:19 PM

I think there was a recriticality where melted fuel started a chain reaction again: UCSD researcher — Largest amount of radioactive materials released since April

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September 19th, 2011 at 08:55 AM

Reuters: 60,000 people at protest in Tokyo demanding end to nuclear power (PHOTOS)

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September 19th, 2011 at 07:30 AM

Japan cut in two? Prime Minister Kan: 30 million in Tokyo faced evacuation scenario — “I wasn’t sure whether Japan could continue to function as a state”

One of those assessments said everyone residing within 200 to 250 km of the plant — an zone that would encompass half to all of Tokyo and cut clear across Honshu to the Sea of Japan — would have to be evacuated.

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September 18th, 2011 at 11:47 AM

Experts: Possibility of evacuating parts of Tokyo can no longer be ignored — Fukushima ‘worse’ than Chernobyl (VIDEO)

Experts: Possibility of evacuating parts of Tokyo can no longer be ignored — Fukushima ‘worse’ than Chernobyl (VIDEO)
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September 17th, 2011 at 04:35 PM

Insurers say difficult to renew contract for Fukushima Daiichi as radioactive substances still leaking out — Would complicate matters “if another emergency unfolds”

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September 16th, 2011 at 06:07 PM

Series of quakes hit near Japan disaster zone — Magnitude 6.6 followed by 6.2

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September 16th, 2011 at 07:41 AM

Japan Gov’t: Reactors at Fuksuhima Dai-Ni nuclear plant will be decommissioned

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September 16th, 2011 at 05:48 AM

AP: Danica Patrick “worried about the radiation levels in the food and water” during trip to race 93 miles from Fukushima meltdowns

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September 15th, 2011 at 12:01 AM

U. of Tokyo analysis: Mystery explosion at Reactor No. 4 caused by radiation dissolving water in boiling spent fuel pool — Contradicts TEPCO’s assumption

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