Source: yourHoustonNews.com
Date: Saturday, May 28, 2011 10:23 pm
by: James Ridgway Jr.
Two public drinking water systems in Montgomery County have been reported as being contaminated with radiation.
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Note: What the above article fails to mention is that radioactive isotopes are often found in the same mines where fluoride is extracted. It is possible that uranium or other radioactive isotopes are making their way in to the drinking water as a contaminant in the same bags of fluoride which are dumped in to the water supply for the (dubious) purpose of strengthening teeth. Many, including scientists, feel that fluoride is dangerous to one's health and should not be added to drinking water in the first place.
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Saturday, May 28, 2011
5/29/2011 | Typhoon Songda Weakens, Set to Miss Fukushima, Agency Says
Source: Bloomberg
Date: Masumi Suga
by: Masumi Suga
Typhoon Songda is weakening and expected to pass to the south of Japan, avoiding the crippled nuclear plant in Fukushima prefecture.
The eye of the storm was located about 260 kilometers (160 miles) south-southwest of Ashizurimisaki, part of Japan’s Kochi prefecture, and moving northeast at 55 kilometers per hour as of 9:50 a.m., the Japan Meteorological Agency said on its website. Wind speeds may decrease to 83 kilometers per hour by 9 p.m. from 108 kilometers per hour at 9:50 a.m., it said.
Forecasts last week projected the possibility that the storm may pass over the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant, which spewed radiation after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems and left three of six reactor buildings with no roofs after explosions.
To contact the reporter on this story: Masumi Suga in Tokyo at msuga@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Ian Rowley at irowley2@bloomberg.net; Paul Tighe at ptighe@bloomberg.net
Date: Masumi Suga
by: Masumi Suga
Typhoon Songda is weakening and expected to pass to the south of Japan, avoiding the crippled nuclear plant in Fukushima prefecture.
The eye of the storm was located about 260 kilometers (160 miles) south-southwest of Ashizurimisaki, part of Japan’s Kochi prefecture, and moving northeast at 55 kilometers per hour as of 9:50 a.m., the Japan Meteorological Agency said on its website. Wind speeds may decrease to 83 kilometers per hour by 9 p.m. from 108 kilometers per hour at 9:50 a.m., it said.
Forecasts last week projected the possibility that the storm may pass over the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant, which spewed radiation after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems and left three of six reactor buildings with no roofs after explosions.
To contact the reporter on this story: Masumi Suga in Tokyo at msuga@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Ian Rowley at irowley2@bloomberg.net; Paul Tighe at ptighe@bloomberg.net
5/28/2011 | Foul-smelling fish and seaweed plague survivors of earthquake and tsunami
Source: The Mainichi Daily News
Date: May 28, 2011
OTSUCHI, Iwate -- Mountains of rotting, foul-smelling fish and seaweed are causing March 11 disaster survivors here and in fishing communities all along Japan's northeast coast serious headaches.
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Date: May 28, 2011
OTSUCHI, Iwate -- Mountains of rotting, foul-smelling fish and seaweed are causing March 11 disaster survivors here and in fishing communities all along Japan's northeast coast serious headaches.
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5/28/2011 | Cooling facility stops at Fukushima No. 5 nuclear reactor
Source: Reuters
Date: Sat May 28, 2011 10:43pm EDT
(Reuters) - The system to cool the nuclear reactor and fuel pool has stopped at the No. 5 unit of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant in northeastern Japan, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power said Sunday.
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Date: Sat May 28, 2011 10:43pm EDT
(Reuters) - The system to cool the nuclear reactor and fuel pool has stopped at the No. 5 unit of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant in northeastern Japan, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power said Sunday.
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5/28/2011 | Fukushima: How Many Chernobyls Is It?
Source: VT (Veterans Today)
Date: 5/28/2011
by: Bob Nichols
Dr Scampa’s Lethal Doses Count Increases Dramatically
(San Francisco) – The world’s second big nuclear disaster occurred at Chernobyl Reactor No. 4 in the Ukraine on Apr 26, 1986. Simply tagged as “Chernobyl,” it is what the next big and well known nuke disaster, after the American Three Mile Island, on March 28, 1979 came to be called. “Chernobyl” ejected 30% of one 192-ton, three-month old reactor core. That’s 57.6 radioactive tons thrown into the air by fire and explosions.
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Date: 5/28/2011
by: Bob Nichols
Dr Scampa’s Lethal Doses Count Increases Dramatically
(San Francisco) – The world’s second big nuclear disaster occurred at Chernobyl Reactor No. 4 in the Ukraine on Apr 26, 1986. Simply tagged as “Chernobyl,” it is what the next big and well known nuke disaster, after the American Three Mile Island, on March 28, 1979 came to be called. “Chernobyl” ejected 30% of one 192-ton, three-month old reactor core. That’s 57.6 radioactive tons thrown into the air by fire and explosions.
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5/29/2011 JST | New role for robots in Japan
Source: The Japan Times
Date: Sunday, May 29, 2011
Japan has long been a leader in developing industrial and therapeutic robots, with Sony's AIBO dog first sold in 1999 and the therapeutic robot seal Paro in use in hospitals and nursing homes in Japan and abroad.
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Date: Sunday, May 29, 2011
Japan has long been a leader in developing industrial and therapeutic robots, with Sony's AIBO dog first sold in 1999 and the therapeutic robot seal Paro in use in hospitals and nursing homes in Japan and abroad.
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5/29/2011 JST | As nuke workers wait, tainted water climbs
Source: The Japan Times
Date: Sunday, May 29, 2011
by: KAZUAKI NAGATA
While Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to set up a water treatment facility in mid-June to decontaminate the thousands of tons of radioactive water being generated at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, the utility must also find a safe place to store it before it leaks into the ground or finds its way to the sea.
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Date: Sunday, May 29, 2011
by: KAZUAKI NAGATA
While Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to set up a water treatment facility in mid-June to decontaminate the thousands of tons of radioactive water being generated at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, the utility must also find a safe place to store it before it leaks into the ground or finds its way to the sea.
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5/29/2011 JST | Experiment to decontaminate farmland begins in Fukushima
Source: Japan Today
Date: Sunday 29th May, 06:45 AM JST
FUKUSHIMA — An experiment to remove radioactive materials from farmland by growing plants and using a mineral began Saturday in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture.
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Date: Sunday 29th May, 06:45 AM JST
FUKUSHIMA — An experiment to remove radioactive materials from farmland by growing plants and using a mineral began Saturday in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture.
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5/29/2011 JST | Most radiation monitors temporarily broke in disaster-hit areas
Source: Japan Today
Date: Sunday 29th May, 06:33 AM JST
TOKYO — Most radiation monitoring systems in Fukushima, Miyagi and Ibaraki prefectures broke down temporarily after the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami, causing local authorities to be unable to use them to get a grasp of the ensuing nuclear crisis, according to prefectural officials.
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Date: Sunday 29th May, 06:33 AM JST
TOKYO — Most radiation monitoring systems in Fukushima, Miyagi and Ibaraki prefectures broke down temporarily after the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami, causing local authorities to be unable to use them to get a grasp of the ensuing nuclear crisis, according to prefectural officials.
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5/28/2011 JST | Radioactive materials found off Miyagi and Ibaraki
Source: NHK World
Date: Saturday, May 28, 2011 22:21 +0900 (JST)
Japan's science ministry has detected extraordinarily high levels of radioactive cesium in seafloor samples collected off Miyagi and Ibaraki Prefectures.
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Date: Saturday, May 28, 2011 22:21 +0900 (JST)
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5/28/2011 JST | Crippled nuclear plant not prepared for heavy rain, wind
Source: Japan Today
Date: Saturday 28th May, 10:31 AM JST
FUKUSHIMA — The crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is not fully prepared for heavy rain and strong winds forecast due to a powerful typhoon moving Saturday toward disaster-affected areas of northeastern Japan, according to the plant’s operator Tokyo Electric Power Co.
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Date: Saturday 28th May, 10:31 AM JST
FUKUSHIMA — The crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is not fully prepared for heavy rain and strong winds forecast due to a powerful typhoon moving Saturday toward disaster-affected areas of northeastern Japan, according to the plant’s operator Tokyo Electric Power Co.
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5/27/2011 | Typhoon Strengthens, May Hit Fukushima Nuke Plant
Source: Bloomberg
Date: 5/27/2011
by: Aaron Sheldrick and Tsuyoshi Inajima
Typhoon Songda strengthened to a supertyphoon after battering the Philippines and headed for Japan on a track that may pass over the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant by May 30, a U.S. monitoring center said.
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Date: 5/27/2011
by: Aaron Sheldrick and Tsuyoshi Inajima
Typhoon Songda strengthened to a supertyphoon after battering the Philippines and headed for Japan on a track that may pass over the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant by May 30, a U.S. monitoring center said.
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