06:57 PM EST on January 16th, 2013 | 22 comments

Gundersen: “Discovery of neutron sources off site means Unit 3 fuel was broken by Unit 3 detonation” — “I said that 18 months ago, and it looks like the NRC agrees”

05:54 PM EST on January 16th, 2013 | 6 comments

‘Neutron sources’ found 1 mile from Fukushima plant after 3/11 — “Some fuel may have been injected from that spent fuel pool”

09:11 AM EST on May 13th, 2012 | 21 comments - (Comments are closed)

Gundersen’s Kansai Presentation: Pellets of nuclear fuel were scattered around Fukushima site — Pieces, not atoms, but pieces — Hydrogen will not create explosion seen at Unit No. 3 (VIDEO)

02:08 AM EST on March 9th, 2012 | 129 comments - (Comments are closed)

L.A. Times: Speculation that “supercritical fission event” occurred at Fukushima reactor irradiating plutonium, says nuclear expert — Explosion so massive investigators found fuel rod fragments a mile away

12:01 AM EST on March 9th, 2012 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)

Just-Published Study: Plutonium being found away from Fukushima is from nuclear fuel fragments blown out after explosions

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08:00 AM EST on March 7th, 2012 | 40 comments - (Comments are closed)

Gov’t Memo: “One or more of the building explosions ejected radioactive material around the site” at Fukushima

06:31 PM EST on March 5th, 2012 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)

4 Months Later: NRC says radiological material dispersed in ‘various forms’ around plant — Most likely from inside reactors — Isotopes indicative of core damage

01:24 PM EST on March 5th, 2012 | 37 comments - (Comments are closed)

Japan/US map showed 100 milliSv/hr “line” along the roadway west of reactor — “This stuff is spread everywhere”

10:58 AM EST on March 5th, 2012 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)

NRC: There’s got to be fission products or pellets in parking lot outside Fukushima plant

09:26 AM EST on March 5th, 2012 | 61 comments - (Comments are closed)

Top US nuke official in Japan: Take it slow “without just running the military in there to kill people” for us to feel better — Wait so it’s “without a lot of loss of life” — 300 millisieverts per hour OUTSIDE reactors before bulldozing ‘rubble’

06:36 AM EST on March 5th, 2012 | 59 comments - (Comments are closed)

“There is spent fuel and pellets and whatever all over the place around the plant” -NRC’s Top Man in Japan — Trying to clean it up, but dose still going to be incredible

12:07 PM EST on February 25th, 2012 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

NYTimes flashback: Broken pieces of nuclear fuel rods found outside Reactor No. 2, says nuke executive — Covered up by bulldozers

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06:04 PM EST on February 24th, 2012 | 129 comments - (Comments are closed)

Watch BBC Clip: US video suggests flakes of nuclear fuel were scattered around Fukushima reactors — Secret plans to evacuate citizens from Japan (VIDEO)

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01:00 PM EST on December 17th, 2011 | 112 comments - (Comments are closed)

Mag: Curium and plutonium outside Fukushima plant indicate nuclear explosion at Reactor No. 3 — Broken spent nuclear fuel rods may have been scattered

04:28 PM EST on November 11th, 2011 | 43 comments - (Comments are closed)

US nuke industry report: Explosions at Fukushima Units 1, 3, 4 may have caused inventory (nuclear rods) to be lost from spent fuel pools — “Debris” on ground near Unit 3 was extremely radioactive after blast

08:15 PM EST on August 22nd, 2011 | 77 comments - (Comments are closed)

Nuclear engineer: NRC now says reactors and containments have breached and released plutonium off-site — “Much worse” than if from spent fuel pools (VIDEO)

NRC: Most likely that chunks of radioactive materials “were from the reactor cores rather than spent fuel pools” — “Much worse” than if from SFPs, says nuclear engineer (VIDEO)
05:36 PM EST on August 18th, 2011 | 104 comments - (Comments are closed)

Report: Nuclear fuel fragments found over a mile away were “ejected from the reactor cores in those explosions” not spent fuel pools, according to NRC (VIDEO)

Report: Nuclear fuel fragments found over a mile away were “ejected from the reactor cores in those explosions”, according to NRC (VIDEO)
09:33 PM EST on April 7th, 2011 | Comments are closed

NYTimes: Broken pieces of nuclear fuel rods found outside Fukushima Reactor No. 2, says nuke executive — Covered up by bulldozers

08:59 AM EST on April 6th, 2011 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)

NYTimes on “Ejection of Nuclear Material”: Confidential US doc suggests pieces of fuel blown up to a mile away — Some between two units bulldozed over