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March 2012

Published on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 by Institute for Policy Studies

Why Fukushima Is a Greater Disaster than Chernobyl and a Warning Sign for the US

The radioactive inventory of all the irradiated nuclear fuel stored in spent fuel pools at Fukushima is far greater and even more problematic than the molten cores.

Global Research, April 9, 2012

by Washington's Blog

Week in Review: Militarization of Africa, Censorship on Fallujah and Stealth Bailouts

Global Research, March 29, 2012
TruthOut.org Video Presentation

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Radiation Levels at Fukushima Have Reached Their Highest Point Yet

Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:50 By Jim Javinsky, Thom Hartmann | News Report
Global Research, January 26, 2012

"Red flags for heightened risk

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Radiation Levels at Fukushima Have Reached Their Highest Point Yet

Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:50 By Jim Javinsky, Hartmann | News Report
Global Research, January 26, 2012

'Use of a failed and dangerous technology' expanding

- Common Dreams staff

Scientists issue call for safeguards to prevent another nuclear disaster

- Common Dreams staff

 

No. 2 Reactor Temperature Up to 82C

- Common Dreams staff

- Common Dreams staff
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Live Twitter Feed: Earthquake, Tsunami, Nuclear Emergency Devastates Japan

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The Ten Steps or Stages to a True Representative Government

February 3,2012

 

French Scientists: Childhood Leukemia Spikes Near Nuclear Reactors

by: John LaForge, Truthout | News Analysis

 

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Science with a Skew: The Nuclear Power Industry After Chernobyl and Fukushima

by: Gayle Greene, The Asia-Pacific Journal | News Analysis

 

 

July 27, 2011

 

Fukushima's Owner Adds Insult to Injury - Claims Radioactive Fallout Isn't Theirs

by: John LaForge, Truthout | News Analysis

 

Chris Noland
January 23, 2012
 
Arnie Gundersen
July 27, 2011
 

Aftershocking: Frontline’s Fukushima Documentary a Lazy Apologia for the Nuclear Industry

by: Gregg Levine, Capitoilette | Op-Ed
 

DemocracyNow.org

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Magnitude 5.7 - NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

2012 January 12 03:20:49 UTC

Deciphering Japan's "Safe Haven" Status

by: Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co. | Op-Ed

One of the plant's nuclear reactors was close to being breached as fuel rods bore through its concrete floor, says Tepco

by Justin McCurry in Tokyo

 

 

Science with a Skew: The Nuclear Power Industry After Chernobyl and Fukushima

by: Gayle Greene, The Asia-Pacific Journal | News Analysis
 
     
Fuel Likely Leaking Out Of Containment Vessel
Global Research, August 3, 2011
by David McNeill in Tokyo and Jake Adelstein

25 years on: Chernobyl still leaking radiation

Yanukovich renews calls for funding for new containment shell over reactor

 
Remembering the Sacrifice of Brave Nuclear Workers
Global Research, June 18, 2011

 

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Global Research, June 20, 2011
 
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Scientific experts believe Japan's nuclear disaster to be far worse than governments are revealing to the public.

by Dahr Jamail
 

 

 

New E-Book from Global Research Publishers
by Nick Carey, Margarita Antidze and John Ruwitch
Japan Admits 3 Nuclear Meltdowns, More Radiation Leaked into Sea; U.S. Nuclear Waste Poses Deadly Risks
NYTimes: Japan's Nuclear Opponents Proven Right / Officials Ignored or Hid Dangers
 
 

 

by Chikako Mogi and Risa Maeda

 

 

 

 

 

 

by Vivian Norris

 

 

More Fires In Fukushima at Reactor 3

May 7th 2011

 

Fairewinds Associates

 

by Peter Behr
What Caused the High Cl-38 Radioactivity in the Fukushima Daiichi Reactor #1

Ventilation equipment being connected to try to absorb radiation in Japanese power plant damaged by earthquake and tsunami

Dying for TEPCO? Fukushima's Nuclear Contract Workers
Friday 29 April 2011
by: Paul Jobin, The Asia-Pacific Journal

25 years on: Chernobyl still leaking radiation

Yanukovich renews calls for funding for new containment shell over reactor

Twenty-Five Years After Chernobyl Disaster, History Repeats Itself

Statement of Allison Fisher, Outreach Director, Public Citizen’s Energy Program

Remarks on the 25th anniversary of the Nuclear Meltdown at Chernobyl, Ukraine.

Anti-Nuclear Actions Planned Across US to Commemorate Chernobyl and Fukushima Disasters

Protests, Rallies and Other Events Planned in at Least 16 States

Fukushima: Monitoring the Invisible
Tuesday 26 April 2011
by: Marguerite Kahrl and Kathleen Sullivan, Truthout
Radiation exposure: a quick guide to what each level means
by Tim Kelly and David Dolan
The Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) did the math: If Fukushima's Reactor No. 4 operated for 35 years and produced 30 tons of irradiated fuel per year and each ton is equivalent to 24 times the amount of cesium-137 produced by the Hiroshima bomb, then each fuel pool could contain on the order of 24,000 times the amount of cesium-137 produced by the Hiroshima bomb, if all the produced irradiated fuel remains in the fuel pool.

Nuclear stupidity No. 1: the Fukushima reactor buildings are square (not circular) and had to absorb the force of the tsunami wave straight on. Stupidity No. 2: six reactors clustered too close together. Stupidity No. 3: no shoreline protection against a tsunami. Stupidity No. 4: reactors sited on earthquake faults. Stupidity No. 5: assumptions and calculations proving that the reactor, prior to its construction, could withstand anything that nature threw at it. Stupidity No. 6: it didn't begin in Japan: the industry, with all its corruptions, false assumptions and technological hubris, was born in secrecy in the United States of America.

Stupidity No. 125: spent fuel pools are packed too tightly, as is well-established by industry documents, for economic reasons, discarding safety concerns. Stupidity No. 458: the Spent Fuel Pools at Fukushima are suspended up high inside the reactor buildings secondary containment -- the same buildings whose roofs are blowing off! Are we to believe that the massive explosions that were captured on film, and others that were not, did not damage these elevated time bombs?

How many stupidities do we need to admit before we admit that it can happen in the United States and Europe and Canada too? Imagine those courageous Japanese nuclear workers at Fukushima -- sacrificing their lives! -- trying to save their families, Japan and the rest of us from our unprecedented stupidity!

During World War II they were called kamikazis and we have always portrayed them as terrorists: they were soldiers and pilots sacrificing their lives for the sake of their nation. Well, these heroic men and women sacrificing themselves at Fukushima have my deepest respect................ Read More:
by Ben Berkowitz and Roberta Rampton

 

Beyond Boston and Media Reform for 2012: Supposed “End of Times” Should Marshal a New Beginning for Media Democracy in Action

 

Radiation Detected in Milk, Air and Water - Is America Safe?
Tuesday 12 April 2011
by: Mike Ludwig, Truthout
 

 

U.S.-Japan security treaty fatally delayed nuclear workers' fight against meltdown

 

by Jeff McMahon

Normon Solomon: "You Can't Really Trust the Media"

PART II
Millions Without Power After Japan Aftershock
Friday 8 April 2011
by: Hiroko Tabuchi and Andrew Pollack, The New York Times
by Scott Malone

 

by David Mark and Mark Willacy

 

US Sees Array of New Threats at Japan's Nuclear Plant
Wednesday 6 April 2011
by: James Glanz and William J. Broad, The New York Times
Bury the Nuclear Renaissance Once and for All
Tuesday 5 April 2011

Experts warn that any detectable level of radiation is "too much".

by Dahr Jamail

 

by Sue Sturgis

 

 

Unlearned lessons from Chernobyl and Fukushima

Do we collectively care about our planet, our home, this Earth, or don't we? When the economic bottom line rules decision-making, losses elsewhere can be staggering.

Photo gallery: Aftermath of the meltdown at Chernobyl

Floods, earthquakes, landslides: 2011 is a year of disasters. Bill McKibben asks: are we to blame? Plus, survivors tell their tales

Waking Up to a Nuclear Nightmare

Monday 4 April 2011
by: Barbara Rose Johnston, Truthout

 

Absorbent yet to soak up radioactive water at Fukushima plant

News, scientific analysis and photo essays of Japanese disaster

by Kit on March 22, 2011

Information wars
How will governments deal with the information revolution?
Last Modified: 29 Mar 2011 14:50

 

Radioactive Water From Japan's Fukushima Plant Is Leaking Into Sea

"We are not in a position where we can be optimistic."

by Ian Sample, Science correspondent
by Mari Yamaguchi and Yuri Kageyama
by Tom Burnett
"Prescription for Survival": A Debate on the Future of Nuclear Energy Between Anti-Coal Advocate George Monbiot and Anti-Nuclear Activist Dr. Helen Caldicott “Serious Danger of a Full Core Meltdown”: Update on Japan’s Nuclear Catastrophe

 

by Faye Flam
The Nuclear Myth Melts Down
Tomgram: Chip Ward,

 

China Can’t Wait to Get Back to Nuclear Power

Posted on Mar 23, 2011
by Mike Elk

America's Nuclear Entanglement, From Eisenhower to Obama: Cutting the Gordian Knot

by Karyn Poupee

Japan's Nuclear Kamikazes: A Morality Tale of Energy Madness

Live Twitter Feed: Earthquake, Tsunami, Nuclear Emergency Devastates Japan
Lifting the Veil of Nuclear Catastrophe and cover-up
Irradiated Zone: Don’t Go There!
Missing in the Japan Catastrophe -- Thinking the Unthinkable

In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of "Safe"?

From Hiroshima to Fukushima

Nuclear Rods Melting Inside Three Fukushima Reactors, Japan Admits Learning From Japan's Nuclear Disaster

Al Jazeera English - Live Stream

Covering Breaking Events in Libya, Japan and Elsewhere

Click Here for  Live broadcast of Geiger Counter Readings Around the World
 
71,000 people in the city next to the Fukushima nuclear plant "We've Been Left to Die"
Lifting the Veil of Nuclear Catastrophe and cover-up

 

 
Japan Meltdown Updates Click Here for Real Time Radiation Animations of World Wide and Specific Region Radiation Fallout from Japan
 
Unfolding Nuclear Catastrophe: America on Radiation Alert

The devastating Japanese quake and its outcome could generate a political tsunami here in the United States.

Japan Disaster
Prominent Japanese Environmentalist Keibo Oiwa Urges Global Movement to End Nuclear Power and Confront the “Crazy System Based on Greed, Anger and Ignorance”
by Linda Sieg and Chisa Fujioka
Understanding the Concern About Spent Fuel Pools
West Coast USA Danger IF Japan Nuclear Reactor Meltdown Jet-Stream Animation, Japan to USA, Fallout?
by grtv

Explosion at Japanese Nuclear Plant

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Helen Caldicott will be in Montreal on the 18th of March.

You are cordially invited to attend her Public lecture organized by Global Research and the Montreal antiwar collective Échec à la Guerre

Centre Saint Pierre 7.00 pm.

For details on the conference click here

Fear and Doubt Spew From Damaged Nuclear Facility (Updates)

Posted on Mar 12, 2011

By Derek Lazzaro

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