06:54 AM EST on April 20th, 2012 | 22 comments

Japan Gov’t: Monitoring shows relatively high radiation dose rate in Chiba ~200km from Fukushima; Tochigi, Gunma too — Necessary to continuously confirm accumulation and migration of radioactive substances

12:21 AM EST on March 5th, 2012 | 30 comments

ABC: Prime Minister Kan still worries about what would happen if area where people couldn’t live spread to 200 or 300 km — Leaked memo shows fears of radioactive cloud reaching Tokyo (AUDIO)

06:25 PM EST on March 4th, 2012 | 14 comments

Report: Gov’t hid radiation simulation because it was “very, very bad” -Japan professor — Showed serious contamination over wide area

12:13 AM EST on March 3rd, 2012 | 10 comments

Kyodo: Radiation forecast can “by no means” be released to public decided gov’t on Mar. 15 — Showed radioactive cloud could spread over Tokyo area

10:13 AM EST on February 15th, 2012 | 11 comments

UN document: "There would be a hazard around eastern part of Japan" — 60 hours of emissions blowing southwest over Tokyo forecasted last March

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06:58 PM EST on January 18th, 2012 | 38 comments

ABC: Official says Japan betrayed its own people over radiation dangers — Gov’t actions akin to murder — “We didn’t think of that” says Science Ministry (AUDIO)

06:52 AM EST on January 17th, 2012 | 9 comments

Bloomberg: US got SPEEDI radiation forecasts 10 days before Japan public — “Stop these word games” lawyer tells official — Gov’t had first claimed projections not accurate

06:30 PM EST on January 16th, 2012 | 44 comments

NHK: Japan gov’t gave SPEEDI radiation forecasts to US military, NOT own citizens

08:59 PM EST on December 29th, 2011 | 75 comments

Radiation forecasts withheld by gov’t: Releasing it “would cause unnecessary panic” — “Ministry DECIDED such data would be unavailable due to loss of power”

07:57 PM EST on December 29th, 2011 | 46 comments

Gov’t projections assumed ONE becquerel per hour was leaking from Fukushima — Actual rate reached at least 10 Quadrillion times higher

01:43 AM EST on November 16th, 2011 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

New contamination map shows Cesium-137 deposited over 900 km from Fukushima… Extends west of Hiroshima

05:07 AM EST on November 14th, 2011 | 24 comments - (Comments are closed)

Xenon known to cause dramatic increase in lung cancer — Bombards humans with very powerful x-rays — Turns into cesium — Xenon from Fukushima most ever, 2.5 times Chernobyl (VIDEO)

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06:32 PM EST on October 31st, 2011 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)

Radioactive Silver-110m detected at over 10,000 Bq/m² outside 30km evacuation zone (MAP)

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08:00 AM EST on October 27th, 2011 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)

Asahi: Western Tokyo may have been contaminated when radiation plume fell to ground after Reactor No. 2′s core was exposed, says Japan prof.

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10:12 AM EST on October 2nd, 2011 | 58 comments - (Comments are closed)

Gov’t: Plutonium dose at 27 microsieverts in Namiemachi — Will remain “for about 50 years” (MAP)

SOURCE: Daily Yomiuri
10:35 AM EST on October 1st, 2011 | 30 comments - (Comments are closed)

Strontium found 80 km from Fukushima plant — 15 Bq/m² of plutonium-239 and -240 in Minamisoma (MAP)

SOURCE: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
08:47 AM EST on September 28th, 2011 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)

Cesium contamination stretches to Japan’s west coast — Asahi: Over 30,000 Bq/m² in Nagano, 250 km from meltdowns (MAP)

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06:07 AM EST on September 28th, 2011 | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)

New Gov’t Radiation Map Released: “Many people dismayed” — Contamination 50 miles NW of Tokyo in Gunma “looks worse than feared” (MAPS)

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07:56 PM EST on September 22nd, 2011 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)

Gov’t: Clouds brought radioactive iodine southward after meltdowns, not only NW as was reported — Now trying to determine levels because of cancer risk (MAP & VIDEO)

Map as of June 14 (SOURCE: NHK)
07:56 PM EST on September 7th, 2011 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)

Atmc.jp now posting Fukushima radiation forecast maps from Swiss Meteorological Bureau — Latest shows particles traveling across Pacific (VIDEOS)

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