5/19/2011 | Touted upgrades like Browns Ferry's failed in Japan

Source: The Tennessean
Date: Thursday May 19, 2011

Safety improvements long in place at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant had been touted as able to protect it from the explosions that tore up a Japanese plant of the same design, but Japanese officials said this week they had upgraded too.
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5/19/2011 | Nuclear Physicist: Most Of The Plutonium MOX Fuel Nuclear Fallout Likely To Drop On The U.S As US Plutonium Levels At 20 Year Highs

Source: Alexander Higgins Blog
Date: May 19, 2011 at 4:23 pm
by: Alexander Higgins

As plutonium and uranium concentrations in the US hit their highest levels in 20 years a top nuclear physicists says most of the plutonium MOX nuclear fallout from Fukushima will drop on the United States.

In an interview with the Huffington Post, Nuclear Engineer Akira Tokuhiro, says most of the plutonium mox fuel nuclear fallout from the Fukushima nuclear power plant will likely drop on the United States.

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5/19/2011 | Details of Japan Earthquake Explain Its Extraordinary Strength and Unexpectedness

The first scientific analyses of the deadly event confirm its power and suggest what might happen next

Source: Scientific American
Date: May 19, 2011
by: By David Biello

On March 11, the seafloor 130 kilometers off Japan's eastern coast slipped more than 20 meters beneath the crust that makes up the Pacific plate, pulling the island nation as much as 4.3 meters closer to California and its coast 66 centimeters down.
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5/19/2011 | Many U.S. Nuclear Plants Ill-Prepared to Handle Simultaneous Threats

The U.S. government finds that many U.S. nuclear plants would fail to face multiple challenges at the same time as happened at Fukushima Daiichi

Source: Scientific American
Date: May 19, 2011
by: Peter Behr and ClimateWire

On April 26, Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff did a safety "walkdown" of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on southern California's coast, part of NRC inspections of all U.S. reactors that were triggered by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in Japan.
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5/19/2011 | Viewpoint: Possible future scenarios for Tokyo Electric

Source: BBC News
Date: 19 May 2011 Last updated at 12:07 ET
by: Penn Bowers, CLSA Asia Pacific

Just as the conditions at the Fukushima nuclear plant are fluid, so are Tokyo Electric's financial prospects.
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5/19/2011 | Radioactivity In The Oceans After Fukushima Disaster

Source: Irish Weather Online
Date: Thu May 19, 1:43 pm
by: MARK DUNPHY

Among the casualties of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan was the country’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. A result of the loss of electricity, overheating at the power plant led to significant releases of iodine, cesium and other radioisotopes to the environment.
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5/19/2011 | Japan’s Fukushima Reactor May Have Leaked Radiation Before Tsunami Struck

Source: Bloomberg
Date: May 19, 2011 5:21 AM CT
by: By Yuji Okada, Tsuyoshi Inajima and Shunichi Ozasa

A radiation alarm went off at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima nuclear power plant before the tsunami hit on March 11, suggesting that contrary to earlier assumptions the reactors were damaged by the earthquake that spawned the wall of water.
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5/19/2011 | Workers enter No.3 reactor

Source: NHK World
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2011 12:47 +0900 (JST)

Workers have entered the Number 3 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant for the first time since a hydrogen explosion 3 days after the March 11th quake and tsunami.
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5/19/2011 | Workers enter building of reactor 2

Source: The Japan Times
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2011

Kyodo

Workers trying to restore the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Wednesday entered the building of the troubled No. 2 reactor for the first time since it suffered an explosion in the early days of the nuclear crisis.
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