TEPCO: The Cat's On The Roof
Remember that old joke about the guy who went on vacation and left his brother home to watch his cat? The cat fell off the roof and died. When the brother called to ask how his cat was, his friend said, "I'm sorry to tell you that your cat just
Fukushima Reactor Radiation Levels Too High For Workers To Go Inside
I can't keep the stories straight anymore. Japanese officials are now confirming the partial meltdown they so recently denied:
TOKYO — A pair of thin robots on treads sent to explore buildings inside Japan's crippled nuclear reactor came back
Japan Raises Nuclear Disaster Level To 7, Same As Chernobyl
Not mentioned in this Washington Post story is the news that there is now a fire in the No. 4 reactor at the site. German TV is reporting there is now partial meltdown in the open air, and the Japanese people are taking one shock after
TEPCO Attempt To Plug Leak With Absorbent Material Fails To Stop Radioactive Water
So this didn't work, either. And now experts says it could take as long as a year to get the Fukushima nuclear reactor under control:
Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s attempt to clog a cracked pit with a mixture of sawdust, newspaper and plastic
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair: Nuclear Situation Worse Than Japanese Admit
This is very, very bad news for the people of Japan and those living in areas where radiation may be carried:
The United States expressed increasing alarm Wednesday about the the threat posed by Japan's nuclear crisis, with its top nuclear
Workers Pulled From Plant, Radiation Levels Are Too Dangerously High
The skeleton crew of workers has now been evacuated from the Fukushima nuclear plant because radiation levels are so dangerously high:
New assessments of the explosion at Unit 2 of Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant
Workers Withdrawn From Japanese Plant Due To Radiation Levels
This story is still evolving tonight and it appears they've got some of the employees coming back in there, but this doesn't bode well for those workers if that's true.
Japan suspends work at stricken nuclear plant:
FUKUSHIMA, Japan —
New Blast At Fukushima #2 Reactor As Japan Faces Potential Nuclear Disaster
And the news out of Japan just keeps getting worse. This is just heartbreaking.
Japan Faces Potential Nuclear Disaster as Radiation Levels Rise:
Japan’s nuclear crisis verged toward catastrophe on Tuesday, after an explosion at one crippled
Some Experts Cast Doubt On Official Version Of Radiation Leakage - And Safety
Via Truthout, Greg Palast informs us that TEPCO, the Japanese power company, has a long history of safety violations and coverups -- and they're coming to the Gulf of Mexico to build a nuclear power plant! Can this nightmare get any worse?
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Second Explosion At Reactor #3 At Japan's Fukushima Plant
From CNN -- Explosion rocks another Japanese nuclear reactor building:
Fresh white smoke rose again Monday from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, caused by an explosion at a building tied to the facility's No. 3 reactor.
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