Category: RADIATION
Fukushima Meltdown Occurred 16 Hours After Quake
(Mainichi Japan) Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) admitted for the first time on May 15 that most of the fuel in one of its nuclear reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant had melted only about 16 hours after the March 11 earthquake struck a wide swath of northeastern Japan and triggered a [...]
Fukushima-Level 7
Workers at Japan’s tsunami-stricken nuclear power complex discovered a small fire near a reactor building Tuesday but it was extinguished quickly, the plant’s operator said. The setback was a further sign that the crisis at the plant has not abated, and came amid reports that Japanese nuclear regulators were raising the severity of the [...]
VIDEO-Reporter Drives To Fukushima To Measure Radiation
(Thomas Dishaw) Zinbo Tetsuo from Jimbo.TV braves the deadly radiation to give viewers a actual reading from the RAD meters and unseen visuals of the greatest disaster man has ever seen.
13 More Cities Detect Radiation In The Drinking Water
(Jeff McMahon) Radiation from Japan has been detected in drinking water in 13 more American cities, and cesium-137 has been found in American milk—in Montpelier, Vermont—for the first time since the Japan nuclear disaster began, according to data released by the Environmental Protection Agency late Friday. Milk samples from Phoenix and Los Angeles contained iodine-131 [...]
Baltimore Sun Buries Important Radiation Story In The Dining Sectioning
(Thomas Dishaw) Today we give it up to the Baltimore Sun for burying important information on radiation levels in Pennsylvania rainwater. This article was published on March 27 2011 in the dining reviews blog. Elevated radiation levels in Pennsylvania rainwater Elevated levels of radiation in Pennyslvania’s rainwater? “These detections were expected and the levels detected [...]
