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WaPo: NRC directs quake-hit North Anna nuke plant to inspect supports for Reactor Pressure Vessel — No “significant” problems?

Busby: On-going fission is occurring at Fukushima — Either a recent “enriched uranium fission” or an “explosive criticality”

German radiation professor warns of possible nuclear explosion at Fukushima

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Bianca Jagger tells Japan’s UK Ambassador: “Efforts must be focused on ending the ongoing fires” at Fukushima plant — Asks gov’t do all it can to limit radiation exposure

“Please share — Save children”: 21.44 µSv/h measured at Koriyama school as students walk by — 60 km from meltdowns (VIDEO)

“Please share — Save children”: 21.44 µSv/h measured at Koriyama school as students walk by — 60 km from meltdowns (VIDEO)

Major TV Host: Someday this nuclear stuff is going to drive me nuts enough that I’m going to send cocaine-laden divorce papers to nuke plant in hopes of provoking outrage (VIDEO)

Reactor No. 3 at 620 mSv/hr after ‘decontamination’

NEW: High radioactivity found all around school in Ryugasaki, 30 km from Tokyo — Over a dozen hotspots detected near face level

“Occupy” Movement Hits Japan — Women camping in front of gov’t building in Tokyo calling for end to nuclear #occupyjapan #METI

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Disposal of quake debris begins in Tokyo — To be burned in Koto — Radiation fears among residents — Will continue for years — Over 1 Billion pounds

Tepco: Possible that radioactive iodine was in gas sample collected at Reactor No. 2′s inlet filter

SOURCE: Yomiuri

“Nowhere is safe”: Cesium levels in Yokohama mushrooms reached almost 3,000 Bq/kg — Already eaten by hundreds of children under 12 — 250km from meltdowns

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Bloomberg: Mexico abandons plans to build 10 nuke plants — Fukushima causing nations around world to reconsider energy future

Mainichi: Fukushima cows stuck in piles of excrement over two feet deep — “They sometimes shake their massive bodies as if trying to wiggle free” (PHOTO)

SOURCE: Mainichi

MIT Newspaper: U.S. had plans for 30+ new reactors — Now just one under construction, and its future is uncertain

6 uSv/h outside busy shopping mall in Tokyo suburb of Kashiwa (VIDEO)

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CNN: Tepco’s claim of ‘spontaneous’ fission is an “improbable phenomenon” says nuke professor — Strange that such a “rare” event was detected almost immediately after sampling began?

Japan Times: It is now a “grave situation” at Fukushima — “Plutonium fission” mentioned for first time — “Criticality is very likely to have occurred”

Ch. 4 UK: Now there are concerns that Fukushima is worse than authorities believe — New fission “shows there are still considerable problems” says top nuke expert

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Cesium-137 hotspot detected in Seoul, South Korea — Emitting 1,000% normal background radiation — 1,200 km from Fukushima

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Japan unveils plan to develop massive gov’t “backup city” 300 miles west of Tokyo — Room for 200,000 staff — May be built at Itami Airport

Tweet: Hospital worker leaks information about recent increase in acute leukemia — Tokyo area?

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