09:57 PM EST on March 8th, 2012 | 53 comments - (Comments are closed)

Peroxides formed by seawater and melted fuel — “Even more likely to react with elements in core” — “Not clear exactly what kinds of chemicals were released” — Different than freshwater — Is this why officials ordered halt to pumping in seawater?

08:22 PM EST on March 8th, 2012 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)

Nature Study: Long-term plutonium dose assessment needed after Fukushima — Concerns about Americium-241 also — Deposition south of plant, not only northwest

12:46 PM EST on March 8th, 2012 | 65 comments - (Comments are closed)

NBC’s Richard Engel on Fukushima: “Only time I’d seen a place on Earth that had been rendered uninhabitable for a long period” — “It has been excised from the planet” — How do you remove billions of invisible radioactive particles that are everywhere? (VIDEO)

12:04 PM EST on March 8th, 2012 | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)

Kyodo: Plutonium detected at multiple locations outside 20km zone — Up to 35 Bq/kg of Pu-241

09:16 AM EST on March 8th, 2012 | 52 comments - (Comments are closed)

NBC Special: A snow that would never melt began falling — Each flake bringing down cesium on city of 300,000 people 60km from meltdowns (VIDEO)

07:23 AM EST on March 8th, 2012 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

Worker falls ill at Fukushima Daini — We confirmed no radioactive materials were adhered to the body -Tepco

04:49 AM EST on March 8th, 2012 | 28 comments - (Comments are closed)

Leading Japan newspaper comes out against nuclear power: “The illusion of nuclear power safety has been torn out by the root”

03:23 AM EST on March 8th, 2012 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)

Kyodo: No one knows what’s actually happening inside three reactors one year later — “Still great uncertainty over the situation”

01:19 AM EST on March 8th, 2012 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)

Kyodo: Family suffered nausea, diarrhea after meltdowns 60km away, Mother very worried — “We think it’s a human rights problem and grave violation” says expert