Radiation News

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

6/8/2011 | Despite Radiation, Some Japanese Villagers Stay Put

Source: NPR
Date: June 8, 2011
by: by Louisa Lim

Japan has doubled its estimate for the amount of radiation leaked by the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, but the process of evacuating the zone around the plant has not been smooth.
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6/9/2011 JST | Survey: strontium widespread in Fukushima

Source: NHK World
Date: Thursday, June 09, 2011 06:02 +0900 (JST)

Soil samples from around Fukushima Prefecture have revealed concentrations of radioactive strontium.
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6/8/2011 | [TEPCO] Press Release (Jun 08,2011) Oil leakage to the sea confirmed around the water discharge canal of Unit 3 and 4, Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station

Source: TEPCO
Date: 6/8/2011

On June 8th, 2011, during the patrol of emergency underground tanks of 
High-voltage Start-up Transformer^*, when discharging storage water in the 
tank, approximately at 6:10 pm a TEPCO employee has found and confirmed oil 
leakage to the sea around the water discharge canal of Unit 3 and 4, 
Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station. We reported the issue to Futaba 
Wide-area Fire Headquarters and Fukushima Coastguard Office.

Currently we stopped discharging the storage water. And we put oil 
adsorption mattress to prevent oil spreading and preparing installing oil 
fences.

The cause of the leakage and its details such as volume and status are 
under investigation.

*High-voltage Start-up Transformer
A transformer supplying offsite power into the power station when start-up 
and shut-down of the plant.

Oil discharge found around water discharge canal of Unit 3,4

Appendix: Oil leakage found around water discharge canal of Unit 3, 4(PDF 153KB)

6/8/2011 | Radioactive Sewage Piling Up All Over Eastern Japan With No Plan For Disposal

Source: Alexander Higgins Blog
Date: June 8, 2011 at 3:50 am
by: Alexander Higgins

Extremely radioactive sewage sludge is piling up at facilities in prefectures all over Japan as Government officials have remained silent for weeks about a plan to deal with the crisis.

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6/8/2011 | Tepco release of tainted water halted

Source: The Japan Times
Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Fisheries Agency nixes No. 2 facility discharge
Kyodo

A plan by Tepco to release water containing traces of radioactive materials from the Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant into the Pacific has been halted by stiff opposition from the Fisheries Agency, sources said Wednesday.
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6/8/2011 | Blackout hits Fukushima nuclear plant's Nos. 1, 2 units

Source: Kyodo News via Japan Today
Date: Wednesday 08th June, 06:59 PM JST

TOKYO — The crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant suffered power outages at its Nos. 1 and 2 reactors temporarily Wednesday, with lights in the units’ central control room being cut off and the transmission of radiation data being partially halted.

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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

6/8/2011 JST | Bangladeshis donate 10% of monthly pay to Japan's quake victims

Source: Kyodo News via Japan Today
Date: Wednesday 08th June, 07:00 AM JST

MIYAZAKI — A group of Bangladeshis has contributed 10% of their monthly pay to raise funds for Japan’s earthquake victims, saying it is their way of giving back thanks to Japan which has frequently helped the South Asian country in times of natural disasters. The donation of about 60,000 yen has been sent to a group supporting the disabled in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, one of the areas hardest hit by the March quake and tsunami, with words of encouragement.
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6/8/2011 JST | 'Melt-through' at Fukushima? / Govt report to IAEA suggests situation worse than meltdown

Source: Daily Yomiuri
Date: Jun. 8, 2011 JST
by: The Yomiuri Shimbun

Nuclear fuel in three reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has possibly melted through pressure vessels and accumulated at the bottom of outer containment vessels, according to a government report obtained Tuesday by The Yomiuri Shimbun.
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6/6/2011 | Radiation’s Unknowns Weigh on Japan

Source: New York Times
Date: June 6, 2011
by: MATTHEW L. WALD

As officials in Japan agonize over what constitutes a safe radiation dose for people who live near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, the state of the science has been a daunting problem.
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6/7/2011 | Countries seek nuclear stress tests after Japan crisis

Source: Reuters
Date: Tue Jun 7, 2011 10:26am EDT
by: Leigh Thomas

Paris

(Reuters) - Government ministers and officials from nearly 30 nuclear energy producing countries called on Tuesday for safety tests on all reactors, after the disaster at Japan's Fukushima plant sparked concern over standards.
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6/7/2011 | Japan Plans ‘Fundamental’ Changes in Nuclear Rules, Independent Regulator

Source: Bloomberg
Date: Jun 7, 2011 7:31 PM CT
by: Yuji Okada and Peter Langan

Japan plans a “fundamental revision” of its nuclear safety rules and will create an independent regulator to prevent a repeat of the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi atomic power station.
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6/7/2011 | Japan Admits “Worse Than Meltdown” — Nuclear “Melt-Through” In 3 Reactors

Source: Alexander Higgins Blog
Date: June 7, 2011 at 5:11 pm

Worse than Nuclear Meltdown – In a report prepared for the UN Japan says they believe that Fukushima fuel rods have melted through the bottom for three reactors.
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Older Radiation News

Date	Source	Headline
4/29/2011	Japan Times	Tepco, and state, responsible: Kan No player exempt from nuclear crisis redress burden, as government promoted atomic power
4/29/2011	Japan Times	Tohoku bullet trains fully resume
4/29/201109:15 -0400	Zero Hedge	TEPCO Releases Video Of Spent Fuel Rod Pool At Reactor 4
4/29/2011 06:59AM JST	Japan Today	Mitsubishi Heavy develops forklift with radiation-proof cabin
4/29/2011 06:14AM JST	Japan Today	Japan to launch nuclear accident investigation panel in mid-May: Kan
4/28/2011	Truth Frequency News	US Government Takes Down HAARP Website to Conceal Evidence of US Weather Modification and Earthquake Inducing Warfare
4/28/2011	Russia Today	VIDEO: Fukushima - gross miscarriage of radiation science
4/28/2011	EX-SKF Blog	#Fukushima I Nuke Plant: A Rare Ground-Level Video Footage
4/28/2011	IAEA.org	Fukushima Nuclear Accident Update Log
4/28/2011	NIKKEI.com	Japan Nuclear Operator Postpones Plan To Flood Reactor Vessel
4/28/2011	EX-SKF Blog	Chubu Electric Wants to Restart Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant in July
4/28/2011	Washington's Blog	Storms Knock Out 3 Nuclear Reactors in Alabama ... No Leak, But a Reminder of Nuclear Vulnerability
4/28/2011	Kyodo News	FOCUS: Chinese journalists change image of Japan after covering March disaster
4/28/2011 11:33AM EDT	Reuters	Japanese to mark long holiday with volunteer work, not travel
4/28/2011	The Japan Times	Tepco woman took three times radiation limit
4/28/2011	The Japan Times	Fukushima city removing schools' topsoil
4/27/2011 03:50 PM JST	Japan Today	Big tank may be put under nuclear plant to store tainted water
4/27/2011	Prisonplanet.com	Eyewitness in Illinois Reports High Radiation Levels on Forsythia Bush
4/26/2011	Fairewinds Associates	VIDEO: Gundersen Postulates Unit 3 Explosion May Have Been Prompt Criticality in Fuel Pool
4/26/2011	EX-SKF Blog	#Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Contamination Map (Survey Map) by TEPCO
4/26/2011	EX-SKF Blog	#Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Reactor 4 Spent Fuel Pool May Be Leaking
4/26/2011	Washington's Blog	Is a Rogue Computer Virus Shutting Down Nuclear Plants Worldwide?
4/25/2011	Washington's Blog	Something Odd Is Happening at Reactor Number 4
4/24/2011 03:20 PM JST	Japan Today	Vets to enter evacuation zone to deal with abandoned animals
4/24/2011 02:21 PM JST	Japan Today	Gov't to launch massive 2-day search for quake bodies
4/24/2011 06:20 AM JST	Japan Today	Workers locked in battle at nuclear plant; exposure to radiation rising
4/23/2011	Japan Today	Is U.S. military relief effort Operation Tomodachi really about friendship?
4/23/2011	Reuters	China, S. Korea rebuff Japan on import restrictions after quake
4/23/2011	Lewis Whitefield Hixson	Hi-res photographic proof reactor core exploded at unit 3
4/23/2011	Propheticseer.com	VIDEO: Radioactive America! What the Mainstream media is NOT TELLING YOU!
4/23/2011	EX-SKF Blog	#Fukushima I Nuke Plant: "Radiation Contamination Map" of the Plant Exists, But TEPCO Hasn't Released It to Public
4/23/2011	EX-SKF Blog	#Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Control Over the Independent Press Getting Tighter
4/23/2011	EX-SKF Blog	#Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Unintended "Water Entombment" of Reactor 1
4/22/2011	Reuters	Japan earmarks first $50 billion for post-quake rebuild
4/22/2011	PressTV	Japan's radiation 20,000 times limit
4/22/2011	Next Big Future	China’s nuclear plans could resume by August
4/22/2011 10:06 AM JST	Japan Today	Gov't seals off no-go zone around nuclear plant
4/22/2011 07:00 AM JST	Japan Today	Aomori business groups ask TEPCO, others to resume building nuclear plants
4/21/2011	Bloomberg	Tepco to Build Wall for Nuclear Plant After Fukushima Disaster
4/21/2011	Bloomberg	Tepco Must End ‘Whack-a-Mole,’ Cover Fukushima Reactors as Typhoons Loom
4/21/2011	Lucas Whitefield Hixson	EPA RADnet Reports Show Plutonium in US since March 18th
4/21/2011	The Intel Hub	Dr. Steven Wing And Arnie Gundersen Discuss Global Radiation Exposure and Consequences
4/21/2011	Alexander Higgins Blog	Japan Nuclear Radiation Detected In Drinking Water In 20 US Cities
4/21/2011	Scientific American	The Japan nuclear crisis at Fukushima: A video summary
4/21/2011	Wired Science	Op-Ed: Psychiatric Disorder Could Complicate Japan Quake Recovery
4/21/2011	Washington's Blog	"The Risk of a Nuclear Catastrophe ... Could Total Trillions of Dollars and Even BANKRUPT A COUNTRY"
4/21/2011	The Japan Times	Kan to make 20-km no-entry zone binding Holdout households face ouster; some evacuees may get short visits
4/21/2011	Japan Today	Co-op sells banned spinach to consumers in eastern Japan
4/21/2011	The Japan Times	Carrier returns to Yokosuka as concerns ease
4/21/2011	Japan Today	Toshiba's U.S. partner withdraws from Texas nuclear power project
4/21/2011	The Japan Times	21 mini FM stations helping survivors
4/21/2011	Washington's Blog	It's Not Just Alternative Energy Versus Fossil Fuels or Nuclear - Energy Has to Become DECENTRALIZED
4/20/2011	ZeroHedge	TEPCO Releases First Robot-Captured Video From Inside Reactors 2 And 3
4/20/2011	The Japan Times	Pneumonia cases rise in Tohoku
4/19/2011 09:46 PM	ENENEWS	JUST IN: Unpublished radiation forecast showed much larger Cesium-137 cloud over North America (VIDEO)
4/20/2011 09:40 AM JST	Japan Today	Nuclear plant workers at risk of depression, death from overwork: doctor
4/20/2011 07:15 AM JST	Japan Today	Gov't may hike power charges to help cover damages payments
4/20/2011 07:10 AM JST	Japan Today	Tsukuba demanded evacuees show radiation certificates
4/20/2011 (Kyodo Time)	Japan Times	Powder to remove radiation developed
4/19/2011	CRYPTOME	Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Photos 10
4/19/2011	Washington's Blog	FDA Refuses to Test Fish for Radioactivity ... Government Pretends Radioactive Fish Is Safe
4/19/2011	NHK World (English)	TEPCO to check if plutonium leaked to seabed
4/19/2011	Bloomberg	Areva to Deliver Water-Treatment Unit to Tepco's Crippled Fukushima Plant
4/19/2011	NHK World (English)	Death toll in Japan disaster exceeds 14,000
4/19/2011	Japan Today	TEPCO starts moving highly radioactive water to storage facility
4/19/2011	Reuters	WRAPUP 1-With much at stake, Japan voices confidence in US debt after S&P move
4/19/2011	Bloomberg	Tepco Robots Find High Radiation Levels in Reactor Buildings
4/18/2011	Associated Press	Radiation near Japan reactors too high for workers
4/18/2011	Reuters	Japan "eyes sales tax rise" to pay for post-quake rebuild
4/18/2011	The Intel Hub	US Nuclear Plant Without Power After Being Hit By Tornado
4/18/2011	Washington's Blog	Nuclear Overseers Are "Fake" Agencies Funded and Controlled by the Nuclear Power Industry
4/16/2011	Bloomberg	Noda Says Quake, Tsunami Reconstruction Will Help Japan's Economy Recover
4/16/2011	Truth Frequency News	(VIDEO) What the Japan Earthquake Sounded Like Under the Water
4/15/2011	Reuters	Calls grow for Japan PM to quit in wake of quake
4/15/2011	Japan Today	TEPCO to pay Y1 mil in provisional damages to 50,000 households
4/15/2011	Global Security Newswire	Japan Plant Fuel Melted Partway Through Reactors: Report
4/15/2011	The Intel Hub	Dr. Mark Sircus: Running For Our Lives
4/15/2011	Scientific American	Dose Detectives: Device Analyzes Radiation Exposure through Teeth and Nails [Slide Show]
4/14/2011	Washington's Blog	U.S. Providing Inadequate Radiation Readings to the Public
4/14/2011	Washington's Blog	What Foods Are Highest in Antioxidants? Some Inexpensive Foods Are Higher In Antioxidants than the Newest Pricey "Superfoods"
4/14/2011	Associated Press	Japanese risk radiation to rescue stranded dogs
4/14/2011	Truth Frequency News	(VIDEO) 400,000 to develop cancer in 200 km radius of Fukushima
4/14/2011	Press TV	Japan hit by more nuclear crisis
4/14/2011	Japan Today	Workers struggle to remove highly toxic water at nuclear plant
4/14/2011	The American Dream	Much Of Northern Japan Uninhabitable Due To Nuclear Radiation?
4/14/2011	Sofia News Agency	Japan Mulls to Move Capital over Disaster Worries
4/13/2011	Fairewinds Associates	Fukushima Accident Severity Level Raised to '7': Gundersen Discusses Lack of US Radiation Monitoring Data
4/13/2011	The Intel Hub	Record Levels of Fukushima Japan Nuclear Radiation Detected In Pacific Ocean Will Be Carried Toward US
4/13/2011	Zero Hedge	TEPCO Confirms Reactor 4 Spent Fuel Pool Is Now An Uncontrolled, Open Air Fission Process
4/13/2011	Washington's Blog	No, Japan's Nuclear Reactors Are Not "Stable"
4/12/2011	Washington's Blog	A U.S. Nuclear Accident Could Be a Lot Worse than Japan
4/12/2011 (4/13/2011 Kyodo)	Kyodo News	Workers start removing toxic water in level 7-rated nuke crisis
4/12/2011	PrisonPlanet.com	Fukushima Introduces Deadly Strontium Into Environment
4/12/2011	Zero Hedge	Fukushima Vs Chernobyl - Compare And Contrast
4/12/2011 11:16pm EDT	Reuters	TEPCO wary of Fukushima radiation leak exceeding Chernobyl
4/11/2011	CRYPTOME	Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Photos 6
4/11/2011	Russia Today	Radioactive Japanese cars detained in Russia’s Far East
4/11/2011 3:50 PM	Energy News	Japan raises Fukushima to Level 7, same as Chernobyl
4/11/2011	Russia Today	Radiation caught on tape: RT talks to Fukushima zone stalker
4/11/2011	The Intel Hub	Japan Nuclear Radiation In Hawaii Milk At LEAST 600% Above Federal Drinking Water Limits
4/11/2011 10:02AM BST	The Telegraph	Japan earthquake: Fukushima nuclear plant evacuated following aftershock
4/9/2011	Forbes	Radiation Detected In Drinking Water In 13 More US Cities, Cesium-137 In Vermont Milk
4/9/2011	The Independent	Japan to pump radioactive water into sea until Sunday
4/8/2011	Washington's Blog	Japan's Nuclear Meltdown, the Economic Meltdown, and the Gulf Oil Meltdown All Happened for the SAME REASON
4/8/2011	Bloomberg	Sony, Nikon Plants Knocked Out by Aftershock, Delaying Recovery
4/8/2011	PrisonPlanet.com	Inside report from Fukushima nuclear reactor evacuation zone
4/8/2011	Alexander Higgins Blog	Japan Nuclear Radiation Found In Food Being Bought In California Stores
4/7/2011	ZeroHedge	Water Leak Found At Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant
4/7/2011	Washington's Blog	South Koreans Wear Masks Out of Fear of Radiation from Japan
4/7/2011	PrisonPlanet.com	Onagawa Nuclear Plant Loses Power After Earthquake
4/7/2011	The Intel Hub	“Blinding”Blue Light/ Flash Seen During Earthquake In Japan, Nuclear Plant Loses Power
4/7/2011	Natural News	Fukushima dumping of radioactive water into Pacific Ocean violates international law
4/6/2011	Alexander Higgins Blog	True Horrors Of Japan Nuclear Disaster Revealed In Confidential Leaked Government Document
4/6/2011	Truth Frequency News	Great, now our oceans are sewers…
4/6/2011	The Intel Hub	Fukushima Daiichi Radioactive Seawater Model, Spent Fuel Rods DID Explode Into Atmosphere
4/6/2011	Japan Today	TEPCO to inject nitrogen into No. 1 reactor to prevent explosion
4/5/2011 14:02	Activist Post	America and EU Agree: Raise Radiation Levels for Food
4/5/2011 14:02	Financial Times	Tepco seals leak at nuclear plant
4/5/2011	The New York Times	U.S. Sees Array of New Threats at Japan’s Nuclear Plant
4/5/2011	The Economic Times	Imported food items from Japan banned due to radiation fears
4/5/2011 5:58 AM	Business Insider	Japan Finds Toxic Fish, As Ocean Radiation Soars To 7.5 Million Times Legal Limit
4/5/2011	Kyodo News	11,500 TONS of radioctive water dumped in to ocean by TEPCO
4/4/2011	Prisonplanet.com	UNBELIEVABLE: Fukushima Workers Trying To Plug Radiation Leaks With Bits Of Newspaper, Garbage Bags, Diaper Like Material
4/4/2011	IMVA	End of Week Three
4/3/2011	The Intel Hub	Rainwater in California Measured 181 Times The Acceptable Limit For Drinking Water
4/2/2011	Washington's Blog	Update on Japan's Nuclear Crisis
4/2/2011	Bearishtrader's Trading Blog	Valuable Information for Dietary Protection From Radioactivity
3/28/2011	Activist Post	EPA to Help Mainstream Media Obscure The Truth About Radiation Exposure to Americans
3/17/2011	RogueGovernment.com	Japanese Nuclear Disaster Being Used To Justify The Elimination Of Nuclear Power To Ensure Supremacy Of Space Based Weapons
3/15/2011	UK Mail Online	America on radiation alert: Japan faces world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl as experts warn fallout may reach U.S.
3/14/2011	Bearishtrader's Trading Blog	Japan Earthquake Causes Fukashima Nuclear Reactor Explosion: Potassium Iodide Recommended by Some
3/11/2011	The Intel Hub	Massive 8.9 Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Japan: Tsunami Warning In 20 Countries
3/11/2011	Bloomberg	Japanese Quake Forces Evacuation Near Nuclear Reactor; Oil Refinery Burns

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