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Fukushima – China Syndrome — The Worst Case Scenario Is Happening

Fukushima China Syndrome The Worst Case Scenario

The China Syndrome -- The worst case scenario -- where nuclear fuel penetrates the earth and pollutes the groundwater is happening at Fukushima.

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16 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - August 21, 2011 at 11:02 pm

Japan Witheld Nuclear Meltdown Simulation Showing 18,000 Deaths And 55 Mile Dead Zone

Nuclear Meltdown Simulation From Complete Power Loss Event, Such As A Guided Missle Attack

Japan Withheld A Nuclear Meltdown Simulation Showing 18,000 Deaths From Acute Radiation Poisoning And 55 Mile Uninhabitable Radius Do To Fears It Would Damage The Nuclear Industry

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14 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - August 8, 2011 at 12:46 pm

Multiple Nuclear Whistleblowers Claim TVA Nuke Plant Officials Harassed And Threatened Them

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In a follow up on a CBS news investigation that revealed shocking problems at a Tennessee nuclear power plant,multiple whistle blowers say they have been harassed and threatened.

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2 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - July 21, 2011 at 2:27 am

Scandal: Japan Arrests People For Collecting Radioactive Rubble While Claiming No Radiation In The Area

Scandal - Japan Arrests People For Collecting Radioactive Rubble

As Japan insisted Fukushima was not leaking radiation into the surrounding environment in March, the government was arresting people over 60 kilometers from Fukushima for collecting radioactive rubble without a license, claiming the collection of radioactive material violated the Waste Disposal and Public Cleansing Law.

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8 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - July 9, 2011 at 6:13 pm

Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant Underwater- References of 10 Mile Mandatory Evacuation Area Scrubbed From News Sites

Fort Calhoun nuclear plant underwater - 10 mile radius evacuation ordered

The head of the NRC toured the Fort Calhoun Nuclear plant which is now underwater. A 10 mile evacuation around the plant has been ordered, but all references of the evacuation have been scrubbed from online news sites.

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104 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - June 28, 2011 at 11:57 pm

Flood Hits US Nuke Plant: Waters Breach Berm at Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station in Nebraska

Berm Protecting Nuclear Reactor Collapsed

Media outlets are now reporting, many hours after the fact, that the Fort Calhoun Nebraska Nuclear Power plant has been flooded after a berm protecting the reactor was breached earlier this morning.

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4 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - June 26, 2011 at 10:56 pm

Fukushima Nuclear Fuel Leaking Into Groundwater, Tepco Says Barrier Too Expensive, Will Hurt Stock Price

Tepco Stock Price More Important Than Ending Fukushima Disaster

Fukushima Nuclear Fuel Is Leaking Into The Groundwater And TEPCO Says Refuses To Build A Barrier To Stop Saying The Cost Is Too Expensive And Will Their Hurt Stock Price

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14 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - June 22, 2011 at 9:29 am

Fukushima Radiation Nears Chernobyl Spiking To 261,000,000 uSv/hr – Indicates Ongoing Nuclear Meltdown

Fukushima Reactor Radiation Levels Spike To 261 Sieverts Per Hour

Fukushima reactor 1 radiation levels spike to 261,000,000 microsieverts per hour, so high it is 100% lethal in less than 2 minutes, and just short of Chernobyl reactor levels.

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40 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - June 12, 2011 at 4:15 pm

Japan Confirms Nuclear Fuel Has Melted Through The Base Of The Fukushima Plant

Cracks In A Vent At Fukuhisma Nuclear Reactor 4 Where Radiation Is Leaking From The Plant

Japan confirms that molten nuclear fuel has melted through the base of 3 reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The findings of the report, which has been given to the International Atomic Energy Agency, were revealed by the Yomiuri newspaper, which described a "melt-through" as being "far worse than a core meltdown" and "the worst possibility in a nuclear accident."

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21 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - June 9, 2011 at 4:52 pm

Japan Admits “Worse Than Meltdown” — Nuclear “Melt-Through” In 3 Reactors

From nuclear meltdown to nuclear melt through

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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19 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - June 7, 2011 at 5:11 pm

TEPCO: Multiple 10-Centimeter Holes in #Fuksuhima Nuclear Reactor 2 Containment Vessel

TEPCO reports that there are multiple 10 centimeter holes in the Fukushima nuclear reactor 2 containment vessel.

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3 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - May 24, 2011 at 5:23 pm

US And IAEA Knew Fukushima Had Meltdown Within 3.5 Hours Since March And Hid It From The Public

US and IAEA officials knew Fukushima had nuclear meltdown since March

A new report reveals that US and IAEA officials knew since March that the Fukushima nuclear power plant suffered a nuclear meltdown with 3.5 hours of the earthquake and hid it from the public.

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6 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - at 3:19 am

Japan Confirms Complete Core Nuclear Meltdown In 3 Fukushima Reactors

Japan Confirms Complete Nuclear Meltdown At Three Fukushima Nuclear Reactors

Over two months after the earthquake and tsunami hit the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan finally admits that a complete core nuclear meltdown has occurred in three of the Fukushima nuclear reactors.

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24 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - May 17, 2011 at 4:47 pm

TEPCO: New Holes In Fukushima Nuclear Reactor 1 and 3 Discovered, Radiation Leaking Into Ocean

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In wake of the news that Japan has confirmed a nuclear meltdown at Fukushima nuclear reactor #1, TEPCO is now reporting the discovery of holes in the containment vessels at reactor 1 and reactor 3, which contains the plutonium mox fuel, both of which are leaking radiation into the ocean. The holes have reportedly been caused by molten lava from the nuclear meltdown at the power plant burning through the reactor walls

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20 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - May 13, 2011 at 1:17 pm

THREE Nuclear Containment Vessels Leaking in Japan … But U.S. Law Is Based on Assumption that It Is Impossible for Containment Vessels to Leak

THREE Nuclear Containment Vessels Leaking in Japan … But U.S. Law Is Based on Assumption that It Is Impossible for Containment Vessels to Leak

It is newsworthy that the operator of Japan's stricken nuclear plants is finally admitting that Fukushima reactor number 1 has melted down.But nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen says that the containment vessels for reactors 1, 2 and 3 are all leaking.

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2 comments - What do you think?  Posted by George Washington - at 12:43 pm

Hi-Res Photos PROVE Fukushima Explosion Sent Plutonium MOX Fuel Around The World

Hi-Res Photos PROVE Fukushima Explosion Sent Plutonium MOX Fuel Around The World

HI-Res photos prove that the Fukushima Nuclear reactor #3, which contained the MOX Plutonium fuel that is now raining down on the United States, blew up into pieces during the March explosion.

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11 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - April 24, 2011 at 6:08 am

Japan Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Radiation Levels Shoot to 100 Sieverts Per Hour

Fukushima Reactor 1 Radiation Levels Spike to 100 Sieverts Per Hour

Radiation levels At Japan Fukushima Nuclear Reactor 1 have spiked to 100 sieverts per hour, far above the 100% lethal dosage of 6 sieverts per hour, following and earthquake after shock and tsumani.

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19 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - April 9, 2011 at 2:58 pm

Watch Simulation Of 3 Million Gallons Of Dumped Radioactive Seawater Spread Through Pacific Ocean

How 3 million gallons of radioactive water dumped into the sea will spread through the Pacific Ocean

ASR, LTD has just sent me their seawater radiation plume simulation showing how the 3 million gallons of radioactive water TEPCO just dumped into the sea will spread through the Pacific Ocean.

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28 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - April 6, 2011 at 1:13 pm

Top US Nuclear Official: Japan Radiation May Already Be Over US

How Winds Could Carry Radiation From A Nuclear Meltdown In Japan To the US - 1

America is put on nuclear radiation alert as the top US nuclear official warns radiation from Japan's nuclear fallout may already be over the US.

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2 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - March 17, 2011 at 10:37 pm

Radioactive Water Used To Cool Japan Nuclear Reactors Flowing Into Sea

Massive Tsunami Hits Japan

With radioactive material from Japan's rogue nuclear plants into the wind journalists finally discuss the radioactive water flowing into the Pacific Ocean.

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