The world ahead
Well i must say it has been an interesting week….rather busy and hence the lack of posts on this site. But, i assure you that as the weekend approaches, i will post more info about…
Monthly Archives: June 2011
TEPCO: Stopping melt-through fuel from contaminating groundwater will cost too much, hurt company stock price
Original story from The Mainichi Daily News According to a recent report inThe Mainichi Daily News, TEPCO officials claim that installing proper containment vessels to prevent meltedfuelfrom seeping into ground water will cost too much, and…
Tepco struggles to contain crisis – Financially
From Gulf News Bloomberg Published: 00:00 June 26, 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Company may sell assets, reduce pension benefits and eliminate jobs to shore up finances as it struggles to contain the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl…
Australias radiation test on cars scientifically negligent
Longshore & Shipping news 24th June 2011 A leading anti-nuclear figure has cast doubts over the integrity of radiation screening in Port Kembla, saying the tests were grossly inadequate. Dr Helen Caldicott made the comments…
Sunflowers to clean radioactive soil in Japan. Really? NO!!
Story by APF June 24th 2011 TOKYO — Campaigners in Japan are asking people to grow sunflowers, said to help decontaminate radioactive soil, in response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster that followed March’s massive quake…
Unsafe at Any Dose – Dr Helen Caldicott
Original post by Dr. Helen Caldicott May 1st 2011 Click here for the video Six weeks ago, when I first heard about the reactor damage at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, I knew the…
Thom Hartmann: Second Japan Nuke…more dangerous than Fukushima?
This is a latest report on The Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor — a long-troubled national project — has been in a precarious state of shutdown since a 3.3-ton device crashed into the reactor’s inner vessel, cutting…
Fall out – 60 minutes Australia report on Fukushima
Story by 60 Minutes Australia June 19, 2011 The crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is still leaking. And judging from the experience at Chernobyl, recovery won’t be measured in years. More like centuries. Watch the video…
Fears of radioactive cars arriving in Australia
By Joe Hildebrand From: The Daily Telegraph June 21, 2011 10:49 am A boatload of 800 cars arriving in Sydney from Japan will be tested for radiation by the nuclear watchdog after other Japanese vehicles were found to…
What is radioactivity?
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Flights cancelled as ash cloud returns
ABC news 21 June 2011 The Chilean volcanic ash cloud is again wreaking havoc on air travel around the country, forcing the cancellation of flights in Adelaide, Canberra and Sydney. Thousands of air passengers will…
Japan strains to fix another reactor
iroko Tabuchi The New York Times Friday, June 17, 2011 TSURUGA, Japan — Three hundred miles southwest of Fukushima, at a nuclear reactor perched on the slopes of this rustic peninsula, engineers are engaged in…
Radioactive caesium in sewage sludge in Fukushima Since May 2011
Highly radioactive caesium was detected in sewage sludge and molten slag–a sandy substance created by incinerating sewage sludge–at sewage treatment facilities in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, the Fukushima prefectural government said. Airborne radiation levels around the…
Fukushima: It's much worse than you think
Dahr Jamail Last Modified: 16 Jun 2011 12:50 Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind,” Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Al Jazeera. Japan’s 9.0 earthquake on March…
Nuclear Explosions Since 1945
A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 – by Isao Hashimoto Uploaded by aConcernedHuman on Oct 24, 2010 Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions…
Obama on the nuclear disaster
President Barack Obama said Thursday U.S. officials do not expect harmful levels of radiation to reach the West Coast of the continental U.S., Hawaii or Alaska. (March 17) In retrospect, i have not seen much…
Steam pours out of fukushima reactor
Three months after the fukushima disaster has begun, large amount of steam engulfing the whole of the nuclear reactor site. As you will see in this video footage from the tepco webcam which was on…
People working 136m from Fukushima reactor 1
I was watching the tepco webcam situatuated near the fukushima plants that went into meltdown not long after march 11th 2011 and was absoluteley amazed and mezmerised by 5 people working near the site. I…
Fukushima farmer kills self over Nuclear plant
The Yomiuri Shimbun – June 15th 2011 Fukushima – A cattle farmer in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, who hanged himself left an apparent suicide message that read, “I wish there wasn’t a nuclear plant [in this…
Fukushima live stream from TBS/Jnn
I found this link recently and it does seem to be in real time – eg live…..i’ll keep you posted at to the outcome or this thought. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=ZIa6yble2gk&vq=medium#t=2680 It’s a bit hard to tell at…
Fukushima reactors live stream from tepco – looped?
I was looking at this link the other day, it seems to me that it is a looped, or a series of loops and not actually a live stream of what is going on in…
Fukushima – The Elephant in the Room
OpEdNews The crisis at the Fukushima Daichi plant rages on with no resolution in sight and a cold shutdown now projected to be years away. Until last week there was an apparent media blackout on the…