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Japan Nuclear Meltdown: French minister: ‘Let’s not beat about the bush, they’ve essentially lost control’ – Radiation Levels Stop Military Helicopters From Dumping Water

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“Potassium iodide pills, which deal with the consequences of radiation, were changing hands for £300, instead of a few pounds.” In other news: – Japan nuclear crisis: radiation levels stop helicopter from dumping water (Telegraph) – France says Japan lost control, French should leave (Reuters) Destroyed: Damage after the earthquake and tsunami at Fukushima Daiichi … Read more

Japan Radioactivity Forecast System Down

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– Radioactivity forecast system down (NHK): A computer system that forecasts the spread of radioactivity has not been working due to malfunctioning monitoring posts around a troubled nuclear power plant in quake-hit Fukushima Prefecture. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says it does not know when the system will be back in operation. The system, … Read more

Japan Nuclear Meltdown: It’s Much, Much Worse Than It Looks (Thanks To The Stupidity of Nuclear Engineers!)

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Don’t miss: – Israeli Nuclear Expert Accuses Japan Of Downplaying Danger Nuclear Calamity: ‘If there is fallout of plutonium oxide, a most toxic substance that they use in the reactor that exploded, no one will be able to set foot on the site for thousands of years’ Flashback: – Japan’s Deadly Game of Nuclear Roulette … Read more

Israeli Nuclear Expert Accuses Japan Of Downplaying Danger Nuclear Calamity: ‘If there is fallout of plutonium oxide, a most toxic substance that they use in the reactor that exploded, no one will be able to set foot on the site for thousands of years’

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Third blast at Fukushima Daiichi plant Tel Aviv – An Israeli nuclear expert has accused Japan of downplaying the danger of a nuclear calamity in the region of its quake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant. ‘If there is fallout of plutonium oxide, a most toxic substance that they use in the reactor that exploded, no one will … Read more

Japan Nuclear Meltdown: Officials: Nuclear leaks now dangerous, situation nearing severity of Chernobyl – Tokyo residents flee – America on radiation alert: Experts warn fallout may reach US – US Military warns on radiation risk – IAEA: Main vessel of reactor plant may be damaged – Now Worse Than A Meltdown

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Third explosion rocks the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant – Japan officials: Stay indoors, nuclear leaks now dangerous (Christian Science Monitor): Japan officials told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that ‘radioactivity is being released directly into the atmosphere’ after a fire broke out in a storage pond for spent fuel at nuclear reactor damaged by … Read more

Japan: Panic Buying, Evacuations In Tokyo, Power Supply Shortages To Continue For Months

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– Panic Buying Adds To Shortages After Japan Quake (NPR): Canned goods, batteries, bread and bottled water have vanished from store shelves and long lines of cars circle gas stations, as Japan grapples with a new risk set off by last week’s earthquake, tsunami and ensuing nuclear crisis: panic-buying. Far outside the disaster zone, stores … Read more

Japan Markets: Nikkei Plunges 11%, Plummets 20% in 2 Days, Hedge Funds Lead Worst 2-Day Stock Rout Since ’87

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– Japanese Market Plummets 20% in 2 Days on Radiation Threat (Business Insider): The Nikkei slid 14% last night (3/15/11), and recovered 3% to end net 11% down for the day after the Japanese government banned brokerages from selling. This was after a 6% down day on 3/14 and a poor prior week. Both the … Read more

Japan In Meltdown: THIRD Reactor Blast Hits Nuclear Plant – Confirmed: Radiation ‘Has Been Released Into The Atmosphere’

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Fight for control: A third explosion rocks the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant last night where engineers are struggling to avoid a nuclear catastrophe – Japan earthquake and tsunami: Meltdown as 3rd reactor blast hits nuclear plant (Daily Mail): Radiation leaking directly into the air from stricken Fukushima nuclear plant Explosion at Number Two reactor follows … Read more

Japan Nuclear Meltdown: Japan braces for potential radiation catastrophe – Radiation hits dangerous levels at Japan plant control room – Japan’s PM warns of dangerous radiation levels

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– Japan braces for potential radiation catastrophe (Reuters): (Reuters) – Japan faced a potential catastrophe on Tuesday after a quake-crippled nuclear power plant exploded and sent low levels of radiation floating toward Tokyo, prompting some people to flee the capital and others to stock up on essential supplies. Prime Minister Naoto Kan urged people within … Read more

Japan PM Naoto Kan to Tokyo Electric Power Company: ‘What the hell’s going on?’ (Kyodo – Reuters)

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– Japan PM to nuclear power firm: “What the hell’s going on?” -Kyodo (Reuters): (Reuters) – Japan’s prime minister was furious with the power firm at the centre of the nuclear crisis for taking so long to inform his office about a blast at a stricken reactor plant, demanding “What the hell is going on?”. … Read more

Japan Nuclear Meltdown: Tokyo Radiation Levels 23 Times Normal: Officials – Residents Warned To Stay Inside After Radiation Level Soar Near Japanese Nuclear Plant

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The Japanese government knew that the reactors were in partial meltdown right after the Tsunami hit, says the former editor of the Japan Times. Watch these two videos to learn more: – Japan: Full Core Meltdown Will Send Radiation Over United States – Japan And US Try To Coverup Nuclear Catastrophe You cannot trust the … Read more

Japan Aftershock Map – 405 Aftershocks So Far – Aftershocks Will Likely Include At Least One Measuring 8 And 10 Of Magnitude 7, Says JPL Geophysicist Andrea Donnellan

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For Japan, it’s nowhere near over, at least if the Pasadena Jet Propulsion Laboratory (creator of such brainiac things as the Mars rovers) is correct. While Japan has experienced numerous magnitude 5 and 6 aftershocks (405 in total to be precise), the big ones are still to come: “Japan’s largest quake on record, which hurled … Read more

Japanese Nuclear Crisis Escalates After Third Nuclear Reactor Went Into Meltdown

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Update: – Fears of meltdown with fuel rods ‘fully exposed’ at Japan reactor (Sydney Morning Herald) A satellite photo of the Fukushima Daiichi plant showed the damage done to reactors 1 and 3, where there was an explosion on Monday – Meltdown alert at Japan reactor (BBC NEWS): Technicians are battling to stabilise a third … Read more

Japanese Official: 2 Nuclear Reactors May Be In Meltdown

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See also: – Meltdown Threat: Nuclear Expert John Large Says Japan Is ‘Preparing For Worst Case Scenario’ (ITN NEWS) “The bottom line is that we just don’t know what’s going to happen in the next couple of days and, frankly, neither do the people who run the system,” added Dr. Ira Helfand, a member of … Read more

Japanese Official: Meltdown May Be Occurring At Nuclear Plant – IAEA: Japan May Hand Out Iodine Near Nuclear Plants – US Nuclear Experts Worry About Possible Japan Reactor Meltdown

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– Japan nuclear blast could be more deadly than Chernobyl, experts fear (Ha’aretz) – Another Japan nuclear reactor fails (Los Angeles Times): A third reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 plant loses its emergency cooling capacity, bringing to six the number of reactors that have failed at the two Fukushima nuclear power plants since the … Read more

Japan Earthquake: Tens Of Thousands Missing As Full Devastation Emerges

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Tens of thousands were unaccounted for and whole towns wiped off the map as the full horror of Japan’s “super-earthquake” began to emerge on Saturday. A soldier carries an elderly woman to an evacuation shelter in Kesennuma Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES Fears were compounded by a massive explosion on Saturday morning at a nuclear reactor, 160 miles … Read more

Japan: Winds Will Blow Radiation To Pacific

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FAVOURABLE winds will blow pollution from a Japanese nuclear plant out over the Pacific Ocean, the French Nuclear Safety Authority said. “The wind direction for the time being seems to point the (nuclear) pollution towards the Pacific,” Andre-Claude Lacoste said after the blast at the Fukushima No. 1 plant in the north of the country. … Read more

Japan: Radiation Levels Surge Outside Two Nuclear Plants After 8.9 Magnitude Earthquake

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Video: Here TOKYO, Japan – Japanese government officials say there was shaking and a trail of white smoke at a nuclear plant in the area devastated by a massive earthquake. Fukushima Prefecture official Masato Abe says the cause is still under investigation, and it was unclear whether there was an explosion. Another official said the … Read more

Japan Fears Nuclear Plant Meltdown, Admits Partial Core Exposure Just Before Explosion

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Blast reported at nuclear plant amid worries that quake-hit reactor can no longer cool radioactive substances. Radiation has leaked from a Japanese nuclear reactor and authorities say there is a possibility of a meltdown at a plant about 250km north of the capital, Tokyo. But the government insisted on Saturday that radiation levels have reduced since pressure built rapidly last … Read more

Taiwan: Agency Forecasts 10 Percent Chance of Radioactive Fallout Hitting Taiwan

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The chances of radioactive fallout from two Japanese nuclear power plants crippled by Friday’s massive earthquake are not high, the Cabinet-level Atomic Energy Council said yesterday in a statement. If two plants in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture release large amounts of radiation, the probability of it reaching Taiwan is only 10 percent, the council predicted. The … Read more

US Soldier: The Enemy Is At Home

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Bush and Blair knew that the war was illegal and that Iraq did not have any WMD’s! – Tony Blair Was Warned By All 27 Senior Government Lawyers That Iraq War Was Illegal – Dutch Inquiry: Iraq War Was Illegal, Had ‘No Basis In International Law’ – US and UK knew that Iraq Didn’t Have … Read more