08:01 AM EST on December 1st, 2011 | 32 comments - (Comments are closed)

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

07:05 AM EST on December 1st, 2011 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)

Kyoto U. Prof: I always argued that containment is broken — Said melted fuel may already be 40 feet underground

Koide
06:08 AM EST on December 1st, 2011 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)

AP: New gov’t study rasies possibility of “structural damage to reactor’s foundation” — Erosion of concrete could be deeper than Tepco claims

01:27 AM EST on December 1st, 2011 | 44 comments - (Comments are closed)

NYT: “Increasingly grave scenarios” at Fukushima — Tepco admits melted fuel may be one foot away from crucial steel barrier — “An overly optimistic simulation” says Kyoto expert

12:14 AM EST on December 1st, 2011 | 96 comments - (Comments are closed)

“Concrete Attack by Corium” says rare English-language model in 200 page Tepco handout from Nov. 30 — “Time to Rupture”? (PHOTOS)

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08:22 PM EST on November 30th, 2011 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)

Reporter tries radiation cleanup: “I felt mentally exhausted and my muscles ached” after not such hard physical labor — 2 days later, rice from area declared contaminated

07:42 PM EST on November 30th, 2011 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

Study? No temperature readings for concrete floor — Outcome based on Tepco “projections” of decay heat & uses computer model from Westinghouse

04:37 PM EST on November 30th, 2011 | 45 comments - (Comments are closed)

*NEW Dec. 1 Yomiuri* Gov’t Study: Reactor pressure vessel may be “tilted” after corium melted through concrete floor up to 200 cm deep

03:53 PM EST on November 30th, 2011 | 19 comments - (Comments are closed)

AP reveals doubts by nuclear experts: “The fuel is no longer there” — Measuring temps of empty cores “meaningless” — “Nobody knows where and how hot the melted fuel really is”

03:12 PM EST on November 30th, 2011 | 19 comments - (Comments are closed)

NHK: “This is a very severe accident” — Nuclear fuel at Reactor No. 1 may have melted through 65 cm of concrete… Only 37 cm at thinnest point (PHOTOS)

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02:14 PM EST on November 30th, 2011 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)

Lab finds fish with cesium at 30 times gov’t limit — “It was first thought currents would swiftly dilute the radiation” (VIDEO)

Lab finds fish with cesium at 30 times gov’t limit — “It was first thought currents would swiftly dilute the radiation” (VIDEO)
10:48 AM EST on November 30th, 2011 | 47 comments - (Comments are closed)

Newly-surfaced Video: “For some time” NRC staff has contemplated that all reactor cores are ‘ex-vessel’ due to time without cooling

Newly-surfaced Video: “For some time” NRC staff has contemplated that all reactor cores are ‘ex-vessel’ due to time without cooling
10:09 AM EST on November 30th, 2011 | 17 comments - (Comments are closed)

US media only mentions report about melt-through at Reactor No. 1, not at No. 2 and 3

09:39 AM EST on November 30th, 2011 | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)

NHK: Over half of fuel has melted out at Reactors No. 2 and 3, says Tepco’s assumed worst scenario (VIDEO)

SOURCE: NHK
08:19 AM EST on November 30th, 2011 | 32 comments - (Comments are closed)

Mayor in Peru city says strontium in drinking water is making people homosexual

04:38 PM EST on November 29th, 2011 | 42 comments - (Comments are closed)

Asahi reports on recent plutonium detections — Better translation needed

04:00 PM EST on November 29th, 2011 | 19 comments - (Comments are closed)

Gov’t panel now studying whether “aging” played a factor in Fukushima meltdowns — Reveals steel in Japan reactor weaker than estimated (VIDEO)

01:25 PM EST on November 29th, 2011 | 38 comments - (Comments are closed)

Japan TV: “Truly terrible things emerged several years after the accident” at Chernobyl — 7,800 times more childhood thyroid cancer than average in town 70 km away — IAEA Exposed (VIDEO)

Japan TV: “Truly terrible things emerged several years after the accident” at Chernobyl — 7,800 times more childhood thyroid cancer than average in town 70 km away — IAEA Exposed (VIDEO)
09:36 AM EST on November 29th, 2011 | 19 comments - (Comments are closed)

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

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08:51 AM EST on November 29th, 2011 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)

Japan Times: “Dangerously high levels” of radiation detected in rice from Date — 60 km from Fukushima meltdowns

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12:00 AM EST on November 29th, 2011 | 40 comments - (Comments are closed)

Tokyo Prof. on NHK: Breach of containment at Reactor No. 2 “extremely grave”, calls for investigation — “Much more prominent” radiation spike after No. 2 trouble, yet Tepco now says NO explosion occurred (VIDEO)

kado_t
10:47 PM EST on November 28th, 2011 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)

30 microsieverts per hour in Nikko City, Tochigi — 150 km from Fukushima meltdowns (VIDEO)

30 microsieverts per hour in Nikko City, Tochigi — 150 km from Fukushima meltdowns! (VIDEO)
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