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)
05:52 PM EST on August 15th, 2011 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)

Report: 400,000,000,000 neutrons released per square meter surface of spent fuel pools between March 13-20

12:01 PM EST on August 7th, 2011 | 135 comments - (Comments are closed)

Solar storms threaten nuke plants: Electric power outages could last “for years or even decades” — Risk significantly outweighs that of major earthquakes

05:20 PM EST on July 28th, 2011 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)

Cooling system for reactors and spent fuel pools stopped working three times over 16-day period at Alabama nuke plant

07:29 AM EST on June 16th, 2011 | 109 comments - (Comments are closed)

Sarcophagus to be built over reactor; TEPCO not sure if it will limit radiation emissions — Concrete structure around reactors will take several years

10:50 AM EST on June 10th, 2011 | 21 comments - (Comments are closed)

Inland Tsunami? Dam breaking could inundate nuke plant near Omaha — Equivalent of Fukushima’s tsunami (AUDIO)

06:30 AM EST on June 7th, 2011 | 33 comments - (Comments are closed)

“Very serious” possibility that pools of molten fuel in reactors could restart nuclear reactions

08:47 AM EST on June 4th, 2011 | 61 comments - (Comments are closed)

High iodine levels mean No. 3 reactor core or a spent fuel pool is “starting itself up” every once in a while, believes nuclear consultant

02:24 PM EST on June 2nd, 2011 | 48 comments - (Comments are closed)

Enlarged 50-mile evacuation zone by US was because of spent fuel pools, not reactor meltdowns: NRC official

The NRC also had “suspicions” about the conditions of the spent fuel pools, Borchardt said… Based on that assumption, he said, the NRC recommended that U.S. residents in Japan stay 80 km away

06:33 AM EST on June 2nd, 2011 | 57 comments - (Comments are closed)

Fears mount as radioactive water now just 10 inches from overflowing surface outside Reactor No. 3

12:56 AM EST on May 29th, 2011 | 95 comments - (Comments are closed)

Japan announces cooling systems restored at fuel pools No. 1-4, as breakdown of cooling occurs at No. 5 pool

07:17 PM EST on May 24th, 2011 | 41 comments - (Comments are closed)

NYT: Threat of catastrophic radioactive release from a spent fuel pool at Fukushima is dwarfed by risk posed by pools in U.S., study says

03:13 PM EST on May 22nd, 2011 | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)

TEPCO acknowledges ‘vapor’ is still being seen at Reactors No. 2, 3 and 4 spent fuel pools

02:30 PM EST on May 19th, 2011 | 58 comments - (Comments are closed)

“Water dropping down from above” in Reactor No. 2 — Steaming spent fuel pool blamed

Workers find pools of water at No.2, NHK, May 19, 2011

02:24 PM EST on April 14th, 2011 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

Iodine-131 in No. 4 spent fuel pool at 22,000 times above normal

Wall Street Journal, April 14, 2011

10:56 AM EST on April 8th, 2011 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

100 miles from Fukushima: Leak from spent fuel pools at two reactors after 7.4 quake — Cooling system temporarily stopped

05:27 AM EST on April 7th, 2011 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)

Plutonium likely ejected from fuel pools during explosions… up to “several miles” from reactor (VIDEO)

Plutonium likely ejected from fuel pools during explosions… up to “several miles” from reactor (VIDEO)
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

06:47 AM EST on April 6th, 2011 | Comments are closed

NY Times: Spent fuel pools in reactors “have lost their cooling systems” — Nuclear engineers now warning pools “could pose an even greater danger than the melted reactor cores”

U.S. Sees Array of New Threats at Japan’s Nuclear Plant, New York Times by James Glanz and William J. Broad, April 5, 2011

05:44 AM EST on March 30th, 2011 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

CBS says “toxic plutonium pools” discovered at Fukushima

02:15 PM EST on March 25th, 2011 | Comments are closed

“Highly radioactive water was later found leaking near ALL FOUR troubled reactor units” — From reactors or spent fuel pools?

Fresh coolant injected, high-radiation water leaks in nuke crisis, Kyodo, March 26, 2011 at 12:12 pm EDT

06:27 AM EST on March 22nd, 2011 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

COMMON spent fuel pool now being sprayed with water — Contains 6,375 spent fuel assemblies

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