THE COLUMN / Fumihiko Yoshida: Nuclear plants must not turn into radiological …
1 nuclear power plant triggered by the March 11 massive earthquake and tsunami, he was asked to give an interview with the US cable TV news channel CNN. While reports of radioactive leaks were making headlines, he thought how best to describe what was ...
News 2 investigates violations at SC nuclear power plants
News 2's Cleve Bryan takes a look at the safety of our nuclear facilities in Meltdown: A News 2 Special Report. (more) Could an earthquake like the one in Japan cause a nuclear tragedy here in South Carolina? By Cleve Bryan All of them were meltdowns ....
Tepco Postpones Daring Plan to Tame Nuclear Plant
By MITSURU OBE TOKYO—Officials postponed a plan to ramp up efforts to cool nuclear fuel at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex amid concerns that the use of thousands of additional metric tons of water could result in dangerous leaks. ...S...
NRC Chief Questions Blackout Plans For US Plants
by AP The nation's top nuclear regulator cast doubt Thursday on whether reactors in the US are prepared for the type of days-long power outage that struck a nuclear power plant in Japan. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has only required plants in ......
FT.com / Asia-Pacific – S&P sounds fresh alarm on Japan debt
Rating agency cuts outlook to 'negative' on rebuild costs.www.ft.com/.../7680b850-7080-11e0-bea7-00144feabdc0.ht... ...
Japan to set up independent panel to probe into nuke accident
TOKYO, April 28 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Thursday he planned to set up an independent panel around mid- May to probe into the causes of the accident at the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant. Kan said "the myth of the safety ....
Strontium-89 from Japan found in Big Island milk
By William Cole The state Health Department confirmed today that strontium-89 from Japan's nuclear release was detected in Big Island dairy milk after a nationwide high level of cesium also was found in the same April 4 testing. ...See all stories on t...
S&P Cuts Japan’s Sovereign Rating Outlook
There were only two currencies that ended the day lower, which were the Japanese yen (JPY) and Brazilian real (BRL). The yen lost about 0.75% yesterday as S&P cut Japan's sovereign rating outlook. While it's just the outlook and not an actual rating .....
Big Tank May Be Set Up Under Fukushima Plant To Store Tainte …
Prime Minister Naoto Kan is considering setting up a big underground tank in the compound of the radiation-spewing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to prevent contaminated water from spilling into the sea, a fishery official said ...Care2 News Network -...
IAEA: Fukushima Nuclear Accident Update Log: White (Radioactive …
Fukushima Nuclear Accident Update Log (IAEA): Updates of 27 April 2011. White smoke continues to be emitted from Units 2 and 3. No more white smoke was seen coming from Unit 4 as of 21:30 UTC on 25 April. Tags: Environment, Global News, ...Infinite ...
Inside the Drone Missions to Fukushima
By Alexis Madrigal The team of people on the asphalt road near Fukushima were outfitted in protective gear. They wore Tyvex suits and three pairs of gloves. Their ankles and wrists were taped, and their hoods were taped around the respirators through ....
Fukushima information line to close
The Federal Health Office is on Saturday shutting its information line on the nuclear catastrophe in Japan. The telephone line was set up on March 16 to deal with urgent questions from the public, five days after Japan's northeastern coast was struck ....
Fukushima schools remove topsoil from playgrounds
School authorities in Fukushima started removing the topsoil from playgrounds on Wednesday. The soil was exposed to radiation leaks from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor plant. School authorities decided to remove the surface soil because ...
Green: The Latest from the N.R.C. on Fukushima and More
By MATTHEW L. WALD The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has not yet said what changes it will order at American reactors in response to the Fukushima disaster, but at a briefing on Thursday morning, some clues emerged about areas that might require ...See...
Helen Caldicott Explains Fukushima Threat
Finding someone with the insight and knowledge and as important, with the guts, to state what's really happening as a result of the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, has unfortunately become an equally disastrous media event. ...See all stories...
Helen Caldicott Explains Fukushima Threat
Finding someone with the insight and knowledge and as important, with the guts, to state what's really happening as a result of the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, has unfortunately become an equally disastrous media event. ...See all stories...
Homeland Security Watch » Echoes of Deepwater in Fukushima
Much of the analysis of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, both the tick-tock of events at the plant itself and the re-evaluation of nuclear reactor safety and response plans here in the U.S., has treated the subject as if it was an isolated ...Homeland Sec...
Storms Knock Out 3 Nuclear Reactors in Alabama … No Leak, But a Reminder of Nuclear Vulnerability
Reuters reports: Severe storms and tornadoes moving through the U.S. Southeast dealt a severe blow to the Tennessee Valley Authority on Wednesday, causing three nuclear reactors in Alabama to shut and knocking out 11 high-volt...
Fukushima Japan Nuclear Radiation Levels Spike Highest Yet — 1,120,000 Microsieverts per Hour
Radiation levels detected at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan rise to the highest levels yet hitting 1.2 sieverts per hour as TEPCO announced that it may not be able to follow through with the 9 month plan to stop the radia...
High Levels Of Radiation Reported At Perry Nuclear Power Plant In Ohio
The Intel Hub By Alex Thomas April 27th, 2011 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a supposed government oversight agency that is actually funded by the nuclear industry itself, has started a special i...
The Map Room: Mapping Long-Term Radiation Exposure at Fukushima
The U.S. National Nuclear Safety Administration has produced a map (as part of a presentation) showing the estimated first-year, long-term radiation dose in ...www.maproomblog.com/.../mapping_long-term_radiation_ex... ...
Radiation detected in Fukushima fish, spinach
PTI | 09:04 PM,Apr 28,2011 As TEPCO workers struggled to stabilise the radiation-leaking plant, the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry said that the industrial output stood at 82.9 against the base of 100. This was a drop of 15.3 per cent from the .....
WA state pulls back on radiation testing
COM STAFF Radiation from Japan has been so miniscule in Washington that health officials announced Thursday that they're ending regular rainwater tests and reducing daily air tests for radioactive material. The state Department of Health had started .....
Marine radiation monitoring blocked by Japanese government
Normally I work for Greenpeace Netherlands as a nuclear campaigner, but my radiation expertise was needed on board to guarantee the safety of the crew. Now we are getting closer to Fukushima, the Japanese government has begun obstructing...
Radiation Readings in Fukushima Reactor Rise to Highest Since …
Radiation Readings in Fukushima Reactor Rise to Highest Since Crisis Began -- Tepco plan to flood containment vessel of reactor No. 1 with more water to speed emergency cooling efforts announced yesterday 'may not be possible now' 27 Apr ...Citizens...
First Energy and NRC investigate radiation exposure
Akron-based FirstEnergy says it thinks human error by contractors working on the Perry Nuclear Power plant led to higher-than-normal radiation readings Friday. Four workers were exposed and evacuated when their personal alarms detected t...
Radiation level of 1120 millisieverts per hour detected in damaged …
A high radiation level of 1120 millisieverts per hour was detected within the damaged No. 1 reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant when robots photographed the area on April 26, it has been learned. ...PROS - http://nucpros.com/ ...
TEPCO claims explosion at No. 4 spent fuel pool may have prevented rods from melting down
Blast may have helped cool rods, The Yomiuri Shimbun, April 29, 2011: A hydrogen gas explosion at the No. 4 reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on March 15 may have helped prevent spent fuel rods from melting down [...] ...
URGENT HELP NEEDED: Charlie Veitch Arrested at 5pm This Evening by the Thought Police
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Radiation levels now ‘nondetectable’ in Idaho drinking water
By :EXPRESS STAFF The state's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) reported this week that radiation levels are now nondetectable in drinking water throughout Idaho. Samples of drinking water from municipal water systems around the state showed no...
Obama’s Birth Certificate – #1 Most Important Issue Facing Us
The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas © 2011. All Rights Reserved. April 28, 2011 “No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not [...]
LimeWire Facing Billion-Dollar Damages Trial
The Recording Industry Association of America’s trial against LimeWire starts next Tuesday. It’s the nation’s first copyright-infringement lawsuit against a file sharing software maker since the Supreme Court’s 2005 Grokster...
Raw milk near San Francisco shows 158.8 pCi/l of Iodine-132 — UC Berkeley says result is due to background interference
UC Berkeley Milk Sampling Results, University of California, Berkeley Department of Nuclear Engineering: Collected on April 20: I132 @ 5.874 Bq/l (or 158.8 pCi/l) The UC Berekeley results log notes: [...] Similar to the recent water results...
Largest Earthquake Drill In America History As Great Central U.S. ShakeOut Begins Along New Madrid Seismic Zone
The Intel Hub By Alex Thomas April 28th, 2011 In what has been labeled the largest earthquake drill in American history, the Great Central U.S. ShakeOut began today across 11 states. 3 million people will particip...
Gallup Poll Shows that More Americans Believe the U.S. is in a Depression than is Growing … Are They Right?
Reuters reports today:The April 20-23 Gallup survey of 1,013 U.S. adults found that only 27 percent said the economy is growing. Twenty-nine percent said the economy is in a depression and 26 percent said it is in a recession, with another 16 percen...
Report: Cesium levels around Chernobyl have not declined as anticipated (VIDEO)
Physicians for Social Responsibility Press Conference 4/26/11, InstPolicyStudies, April 26, 2011: On Tuesday April 26, 2011, Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) held a joint press conference with Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Massachus...
Supreme Court rules that companies can block class-action lawsuits (30 flags)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday handed businesses such as ATandT Inc a major victory by upholding the use of arbitration for customer disputes rather... ...
Wikileaks Reveals Arms Smuggling in Honduras
Tegucigalpa - Grenades and light anti-tank weapons supplied by the United States to the Honduran Armed Forces (FAH) were seized from drug traffickers in Mexico and Colombia,... ...
Unfollowed: How a (Possible) Social Network Spy Came Undone
A screengrab shows @PrimorisEra’s now-deleted Twitter account. It started out with a leggy, bikini-clad avatar. She said she was a missile expert — the “1st Lady of Missiles,” in fact — but sometimes suggested she ...
What about Clinton’s birth certificate? Bush’s? Ford’s? Kennedy’s?
The controversy over President Barack Obama’s citizenship sharply divided America before the White House decided to release his long-form birth certificate Wednesday. Some remain unconvinced he's a U.S. citizen. To many, the issue had already been settled. A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll last month indicated that three out of four Americans believe Obama was probably [...]
Storms obliterate parts of South
Hundreds of people are dead after massive storms tore through several southern states. These videos show some of the worst damage. Tuscaloosa, Alabama, may have been hit the hardest. Cars are totaled and homes have been stripped of their roofs or reduced to debris. Piles of rubble are unrecognizable as homes and massive trees are [...]
‘Empire Man’ Elmer Lynn Hauldren dies at 89
The man behind the memorable radio and TV jingle "5-8-8, 2-300, Empire!" has passed away. Elmer Lynn Hauldren died Tuesday at his Evanston, Illinois, home, according to his family, the Chicago Tribune reports. He was 89. On Wednesday, the flooring company acknowledged the impact of his nearly 40-year career. “Lynn was truly passionate about the [...]
White House Appoints New USGCRP Director To Chemically Poison the Populace?
The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas © 2011. All Rights Reserved. April 28, 2011 As you might know The Intel Hub released a major article entitled “Secret Presidential Chemtrail Budget Uncovered, Congress Exceeds Billions To Spray Populace Like Roaches – The Budget Obama Did Not Want You To Know About” earlier this year, proving conclusively the government [...]
Live blog: Storms kill 184 in Alabama, 272 across South
[Updated at 3:20 p.m. ET] U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday called the loss of life from storms in the American Southeast "heartbreaking," and said that the "federal government will do everything we can to help (people affected by the deadly storms) recover." We are "ready to help in any possible way," he said. iReport: [...]
Gotta Watch: ‘Birthers’ here to stay
Even as the president jokingly proclaimed he was carrying an ID to prove his citizenship, it seems the "birther" movement just won't let up. These are the latest fiery interviews that seem to be fueling the movement. 'Blowhard and a phony' – Those are some strong words for Donald Trump from New York Times journalist [...]
A Great Nothing Sweeps the Land
The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas © 2011. All Rights Reserved April 28, 2011 Deadly tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, land hurricanes, random violent storms, flash floods, and radiation have swept the land. No longer is there a rock to hide under. Now crabs, whales and other sea life are being found gathering in masse in Antarctica. Could this [...]
Thursday’s most intriguing people
Mario Testino In 1997, the Peruvian fashion photographer snapped Princess Diana in various gowns at her home in Kensington Palace. The gowns were to be sold at a charity auction, and the photos were to be part of the program. Diana, who did not know Testino personally, was so enchanted by his work that she [...]
Japan Forsees High Radiation Over The Next Year In Areas Not Evacuated
The government of Japan has revealed that civilians living in areas not being evacuated are expected to receive radiation doses over 23 times higher than levels annual legal limits but will not be evacuating those areas. They have also announced they are removing annual radiation limits for nuclear power plant workers.
Thursday’s live video events
Watch CNN.com Live for continuing coverage of the devastating storms that struck the Southeast United States. Today's programming highlights... Continuing coverage - Severe weather hits Southeast 11:00 am ET - NASA spaceflight briefing - What will human spaceflight consist of in a post-shuttle environment? NASA hopes to answer those questions when it unveils the four [...]
