12:03 PM EDT on January 3rd, 2012 | 5 comments

IEEE: Fukushima gives credence to anti-nuclear argument — Clear that nuke power will decrease in coming decades — Will not positively contribute to reducing greenhouse gases

10:59 AM EDT on January 3rd, 2012 | 20 comments

Japan Times: Boiling antinuclear sentiment may lead to all of nation’s reactors being idled

02:44 PM EDT on December 23rd, 2011 | 39 comments

Mainichi: Gov’t claim of cold shutdown conditions is “meaningless” — Like when Japan Army’s retreat in WWII was called a ‘shift in position’

07:06 AM EDT on December 22nd, 2011 | 27 comments

Nuclear Expert: 1,000,000 cancers from Fukushima in Japan over next 20 years — First thyroid, then lung, organ, brain, leukemia (VIDEO)

Nuclear expert forecasts 1,000,000 cancers from Fukushima in Japan — First thyroid, then lung, organ, brain, leukemia (VIDEO)
09:59 PM EDT on December 21st, 2011 | 12 comments

Chernobyl Consultant: Fukushima decommissioning more complex since more melted fuel — Level of devastation remains unknown

08:55 PM EDT on December 21st, 2011 | 38 comments

Experts: Contamination from Fukushima worse than Chernobyl — Many people say 2051 goal “unrealistic” given scale of catastrophe… “Will I be alive when it’s completed?”

Experts: Contamination from Fukushima worse than Chernobyl — Many people say 2051 goal “unrealistic” given scale of catastrophe… “Will I be alive when it’s completed?”
07:12 PM EDT on December 21st, 2011 | 36 comments

Japan Lawyer: Repeated calls for arresting Tepco officials — People “bewildered” after 40-year Fukushima plan announced

12:26 PM EDT on December 16th, 2011 | 54 comments

LA Times: Fukushima reactors to be encased in concrete — “Critics say that continuing harm is being caused by the plant”

09:00 AM EDT on December 15th, 2011 | 20 comments

Now 40 years to ‘decommission’ Fukushima reactors, says gov’t timetable revealed by NHK — Pushed back 10 years (VIDEO)

03:30 PM EDT on December 7th, 2011 | 14 comments

NYT: Gov’t not leveling with public about seriousness of radiation predicament, suggests Tokyo Prof. — Forested areas may be clear-cut and literally scrapped clean

08:01 AM EDT on December 1st, 2011 | 32 comments

NYT experts: “Danger of a wider radiation leak” — Cooling system may not work for fuel melted into concrete — Tepco “not worried”

09:36 AM EDT on November 29th, 2011 | 19 comments

Kyoto U. engineer: Disposing of contaminated soil would surpass the capacity of all disposal sites in Japan (PHOTO)

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01:34 PM EDT on November 25th, 2011 | 23 comments

Mainichi: Decontamination workers not showing up, worried about health — Went from 33 companies down to 2 — Radiation levels persisting — Expected to take much longer

12:53 PM EDT on November 19th, 2011 | 28 comments

Top Japan Official: There have been various discussions on location of melted fuel — We ‘think’ we are able to cool fuel inside primary containers and pressure vessels

11:55 AM EDT on November 19th, 2011 | 23 comments

Yomiuri: Unknown how much nuclear fuel has melted through Fukushima reactors and ‘dispersed’ — Questionable to assess that as nearly a ‘cold shutdown’

09:55 AM EDT on November 18th, 2011 | 21 comments

Japan to use military troops for decontamination? Koide: “It is impossible to decontaminate — Region’s land itself has been contaminated — It is impossible to move the land”

01:47 PM EDT on November 16th, 2011 | 24 comments

Radiation now triple May levels in Soma City’s Niida River, double for Mano River

08:54 AM EDT on November 16th, 2011 | 8 comments

26 houses ‘decontaminated’, only 4 were reduced to target — Official: “Radiation levels will not drop as easily as expected”

08:07 AM EDT on November 10th, 2011 | 24 comments

“It is not much fun being part of a medical experiment” says worker — Fukushima a center of radiation ‘safety’ research?

01:33 PM EDT on November 7th, 2011 | 21 comments

Significant rise in cancer risk within 5 years after exposure to ‘low-dose’ radiation — 12% increase after 40 millisieverts

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