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On the Radar: NFL draft, earthquake drill, space update

 

NFL draft: The National Football League holds its draft of college players Thursday night, with Auburn quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton the favorite to be picked No. 1 overall by the Carolina Panthers. In his mock draft, SI.com's Don Banks says the Panthers, who earned the top pick with a league-worst 2-14 record [...]

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Fukushima Japan Nuclear Radiation Levels Spike Highest Yet — 1,120,000 Microsieverts per Hour

Fukushima Radiation Levels Spike To Highest Yet

Radiation levels at the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan spike to the highest levels yet hitting 1,120,000 microsieverts per hour. The huge spike means that TEPCO may have to find a new plan to finally entomb the reactor to stop the radiation leak, a plan which experts say may not stop the radiation leak anyway.

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Flooding No. 1 reactor halted after causing drop in pressure that could “spark a hydrogen-oxygen explosion”

 

Japan Nuclear Operator Postpones Plan To Flood Reactor Vessel, Dow Jones, April 28, 2011: A plan to flood the containment vessel of one of the reactors at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex to better cool off its nuclear core...

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High Levels Of Japan Nuclear Radiation Forseen Over Next Year In Areas Not Being Evacuated.asf

 

I uploaded a YouTube video: Full Story: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/04/28/japan-forsees-high-radiation-year-areas-evacuated-20732/ Japan is not evacuating areas where forecasts show cumulative radiation doses over the cour...

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Did industry-government collusion contribute to Japan’s nuclear disaster?

 

By William SaletanPosted Thursday, April 28, 2011, at 8:26 AM ET As Japan struggles to regain control of its Fukushima Daiichi power plant, there's lots of talk about which technical safeguards the plant lacked and which should be required in future .....

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Nuclear Power, Radioactive Fallout And The Issue Of Informed Consent

 

Image by Getty Images Europe via @daylife Radioactive fallout from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear accident has awakened debate about nuclear power’s invisible emissions, and familiar camps have assemble...

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Radiation Readings at Fukushima rise to their HIGHEST level

 

Radiation readings rise to their highest levels ever since this disaster began. 47 days of continuous poisonings. 47 days of radiation in the ocean, on the ground, in the air, contaminating everything. 47 days of government/business/msm ...Penny for...

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Greenpeace says Japan restricting its radiation tests

 

TOKYO - GREENPEACE said on Thursday Japan had blocked it from testing seawater and marine life for radiation from a stricken nuclear plant in territorial waters that extend 20km offshore. Its Rainbow Warrior flagship had arrived in Tokyo, ...See all st...

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NASA Warns Super Solar Storms Forecasted For 2012 Could Kill 1 Billion

 

NASA has forecasted super solar storms for 2012 and is sounding the alarm it could knock out the Earth’s entire electrical grid and kill 1 billion people. If proper precautions aren’t taken it could lead to nuclear meltdowns arou...

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Citizens Demand Explanations For Mysterious Deaths Of 45 Japan Fukushima Evacuees

 

Japanese citizens are demanding explanations for 45 mysterious deaths of hospital workers and patients over the course of the last month. Patients and workers were in the area when the Fukushima #3 nuclear reactor exploded and since ...

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Latest Fukushima Nuclear Radiation Forecasts Show Radioactive Iodine And Cesium Over Majority Of US

 

The latest Norwegian Institute for Air Research Fukushima nuclear radiation forecasts show radioactive Iodine And Cesium over the Majority of the United States. VIDEO — Cesium Radiation Forecast For US VIDEO —...

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Chernoby: An Accident With Catastrophic Consequences

 

On April 26th, 1986, 26 Years ago to the day the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown occurred marking today as the anniversary of worst nuclear accident on earth before Fukushima. Here is an interactive infographic, complete with a 3D simul...

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Is a Rogue Computer Virus Shutting Down Nuclear Plants Worldwide?

 

The Stuxnet computer virus used to attack Iranian Nuclear Power Plants may have gone rogue and could be shutting down nuclear power plants around the world. It is now common knowledge that the U.S. and Israel developed the ...

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High radiation levels in food near damaged Japanese plant

 

Tokyo - Authorities have detected high levels of radiation in fish and spinach produced near the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in north-eastern Japan, a news report said Thursday. On Tuesday, 2600 to 3200 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive ...

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Northerntruthseeker: The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: More Evidence …

 

After the Earthquake and Tsunami that hit Japan on March 11th, 2011, there has been much supposition that the cause of the shutdown of the safety systems at Fukushima that eventually has led to the meltdown of at least three reactors ...Northerntruthse...

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Is a Rogue Computer Virus Shutting Down Nuclear Plants Worldwide …

 

By the accounts of a number of computer scientists, nuclear enrichment experts and former officials, the covert race to create Stuxnet was a joint project between the Americans and the Israelis, with some help, knowing or unknowing, ...Washington's Blo...

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Fukushima: Why you can’t just Cap it with Concrete.. « Climate …

 

Fukushima: Why you can't just Cap it with Concrete.. April 27, 2011. Why you can 't just pour concrete on the reactors and walk away, why the health risks may be much larger than reported, and why the exclusion zone is not nearly large ...Climate De...

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Twister cuts power to Virginia nuclear plant – Weather – msnbc.com

 

The U.S. nuclear safety regulator said Monday it was monitoring a Virginia nuclear power plant operated by Dominion Resources after a tornado cut its ...www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42645004/ns/weather/ ...

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Fukushima radiation levels 15000% higher than first reported

 

By Ian Brockwell (about the author) Page 1 of 1 page(s) Japan has admitted that radiation levels from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant reactors are much higher than originally reported. It seems that someone "accidentally' put the ...S...

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Woman at Fukushima Nuclear Plant Received Excess Level of Radiation

 

By OSHA GRAY DAVIDSON A woman working at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant (FDI) was exposed to radiation three times higher than the legal limit, according to a statement today by the plant operators. The woman worked at FDI ...

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Fukushima Could Have Been Worse…And WILL Be

 

Fukushima Daiichi is releasing 154 teraBecquerels of radionuclide particulate matter a day. Almost all of the reports repeat the statement that Fukushima...www.rense.com/general93/fut.htm ...

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Tepco to Start Decontaminating Water at Fukushima Nuclear Plant in June

 

By Tsuyoshi Inajima - Thu Apr 28 03:10:17 GMT 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to begin decontaminating water flooding its crippled Fukushima Dai- Ichi nuclear power plant in June, to allow more workers to get access to damaged equipment needed for ...

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Areva System for Cleaning Fukushima Water Blamed for Leukemia …

 

The process a French firm will use to clean Fukushima's radioactive water has been blamed for a leukemia cluster in France and for polluted beaches and irradiated waters from the English Channel to the Arctic Sea. ...COTO Report - http://coto2.wordpres...

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Fukushima watch 2011-04-27

 

Tepco is preparing for a “wet tomb” for unit 1 and 3 of Fukushima 1. It stepped up its water injection for unit 1 from 6 m3/h to 14 m3/h today to test for leaks . It is using robots to visually inspect the inside of the reactors for ...Joe Wein's b...

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TEPCO Can Not Rule Out Meltdown At Fukushima Reactor | zero hedge

 

From Kyodo: TEPCO Can Not Rule Out Meltdown At Fukushima Reactor. Surely this is bullish for lead, over and above the massive surge in demand for the metal ...www.zerohedge.com/.../tepco-can-not-rule-out-meltdown-fuk... ...

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California Plutonium 43 Times, Hawaii 11 Times Highest Levels In 20 Years In Wake Of Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

 

An absolutely viral post is circulating Japanese websites right now expanding on my post about plutonium and strontium being detected in the US from the Fukushima nuclear reactor. The author says new EPA radiation data shows the le...

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Schools in Japan disaster zone remove radiation-tainted soil

 

The city of Koriyama in Fukushima prefecture was the first municipality to start getting rid of the contaminated topsoil since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, Jiji Press reported. ...See al...

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High radiation levels in fish, vegetables near Japan stricken plant

 

Tokyo - Authorities detected high levels of radiation in fish and spinach produced near the damaged nuclear power plant in north-eastern Japan, a news report said Thursday. On Tuesday, 2600 to 3200 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive caesium was ......

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Japan consumer lenders warn of massive losses on payback claims

 

TOKYO, April 28 (Reuters) - Japanese consumer lenders Acom , Promise and Aiful forecast combined losses of about $4 billion on Thursday for the year ended March 31, walloped by mounting claims for reimbursement of overcharged interest. ...See all stori...

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Female worker at nuke plant suffers radiation dose exceeding limit

 

TOKYO, April 28 (Kyodo) - Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday that one of its female employees was exposed to radiation doses far above the legal limit at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant -- the latest revelation of lax ...See a...

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Japan Laughs In The Face Of S&P

 

japan S&P downgraded Japan's debt outlook due to costs related to reconstruction . Once again, nobody cared about a trivial S&P call. Yields on JGB went nowhere. The Nikkei had a huge night. It was reminiscent of the aftermath of the US ...Clusterst...

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Japan data paint grim post-quake picture

 

By Michael Kitchen, MarketWatch LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — A wide range of Japanese economic data released Thursday confirmed a deep hit from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, although the figures also contained a few bright spots....

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The Effects of Low-dose Radiation

 

In 1990, the International Journal of Radiological Biology published a paper by M. Mine and his team of Japanese researchers entitled “Apparently beneficial effect of low to intermediate doses of A-Bomb radiation on human life-span. ...See all storie...

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Tsunami Towns Risk Becoming ‘Empty Monuments’ Unless Japan Can Create Jobs

 

“The problems faced by the people in those disaster- ravaged areas are a microcosm of the problems being faced by all of Japan,” Jun Iio, a senior member of Japan's Reconstruction Design Council, said this week. “We have a tremendous challenge to...

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Anti-Nuclear Rally in Japan on Chernobyl Anniversary

 

The anniversary was especially significant for Japan this year, as a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck the country last month, smashing TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. One protester expressed concern over the safety of other ...S...

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Fukushima and Chernobyl: The Art of the Cover-up – James Corbett

 

The Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear disasters are quite different from a technological point of view as there are considerable differences between the causes of the catastrophes in each case and, furthermore, the equipment at the two devastated nucl...

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Radiation News 4-28-11

 

(PrisonPlanet) – Eyewitness in Illinois Reports High Radiation Levels on Forsythia Bush – Read More Here (FemenLiveJournal) – Images: Russians protest Nuclear Power in the Nude – Image Link Here (JapanToday) – Big tank may be put under...

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Top Mexican Drug Lord: I Trafficked Cocaine For The U.S. Government

 

Paul Joseph Watson | Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla was “logistical coordinator” for narco-gang behind purchase of CIA torture jet that wrecked with four tons of cocaine. ...

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How Wall Street Thieves, Led by Goldman Sachs, Took Down the Global Economy — Their Outsized Influence Must be Stopped

 

'For all the damning evidence you’ll ever need about Wall Street corruption, take a look at the recent report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, “Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: An Anatomy of a Financial C...

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Fukushima Radiation: A Soft-Kill Operation

 

Ethan Jacobs, J.D. | The Fukushima radiation leak is a soft-kill operation against the people and ecosystem of the Northern Hemisphere. ...

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‘BBC Linked to al-Qaeda Extremists’

 

'The BBC has been involved in a “possible propaganda media network” for al-Qaeda based on newly revealed documents that show the company's staff were in contact with extremists. The Daily Telegraph said it has accessed the US files ...

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BP Stonewalling Compensation to Gulf Residents

 

'On April 23, a New York Times editorial headlined, "Quick Help for the Gulf," mocking grave environmental damage as well as affected communities and residents in typical Times cavalier fashion, saying: BP's April 21 announced "$1 billion down pay...

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Pregnant Teacher Harassed By TSA On Easter Sunday Tells Her Story

 

The Intel Hub April 26th, 2011 The Transportation Security Agency has a long history of harassing innocent, peaceful Americas. From 6 year girls to the elderly, the TSA, an agency that has never arrested a terrorist...

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Miss America Susie Castillo Sexually Assaulted TSA Style

 

The Intel Hub April 27th, 2011 Susie Castillo, the 2003 Miss America, has been sexually assaulted by TSA Agents. In what can ONLY be described as sexual assault, Susie fell victim to a  TSA “screener” who fondled her v...

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Obama Forced To Release ‘Alleged’ Birth Certificate

 

The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas April 27, 2011 Note: All indications point to this being a major set up and possibly fake. The ISSUE IS OBAMA’S CIA CONNECTIONS. This is a classic psi op. The corporate media...

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“Gross Miscarriage of Radiation Science,” In Fukushima As Strontium Found In Hawaii Milk

 

The Intel Hub By Alex Thomas April 27th, 2011 In a time when very few experts speak out against the official line, nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen has been an outspoken critic of the cover up of the Fukushima nuclear...

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Air Readings In Texas WAY Off Charts, Officials Blame NO Rain, Texas Power Outages Cover Up

 

NotForSale2NWO April 26th, 2011 TCEQ: Air monitor readings in Texas City were off the charts after power outages http://www.khou.com/news/BP-loses-power-issues-shelter-in-place-al...

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Tornadoes Rock Alabama and Georgia, One of Largest Tornado Outbreaks In History

 

The Intel Hub – Live Coverage of the Devastating Tornadoes that have Rocked The South THE AFTERMATH: Staff accounts of the Tuscaloosa tornado Mayor confirms more...

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“Gross Miscarriage of Radiation Science,” In Fukushima As Strontium Found In Hawaii Milk

“Gross Miscarriage of Radiation Science,” In Fukushima As Strontium Found In Hawaii Milk

Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen tells Russia Today that Japanese officials have taken part in a gross miscarriage of radiation science by not evacuating citizens in Japan from areas devastated with high levels of radiation from the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant as Forbes reports radioactive strontium has been found in Hawaii milk.

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Mile-Wide Tornado Rips Through Alabama (Videos)

 

The Tuscaloosa News reports:A large, violent tornado has come through Tuscaloosa. It was reported to be a mile wide, and came from the southwest. Here are 3 videos of the giant twister:

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