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Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for April 20th – April 23rd, 2012 Filed under: Environment News Visit the original post at: Environment News © admin for Eco Friendly, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Feed enhanced by Be…

by ROBERT ALVAREZ In the aftermath of the world’s worst nuclear power disaster, the news media is just beginning to grasp that the dangers to Japan and the rest of the world posed by the Fukushima-Dai-Ichi site are far from over. After repeated warni…

« Is Fukushima’s Doomsday Machine About to Blow? » By Mike Whitney « Mounting troubles at Japan’s hobbled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant now pose a real threat to human survival. If the area in which Unit 4 is struck by another 7.0 magnitude earth…

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U.S. NRC Blog What’s So Hard(ened) About Vents? by Moderator The idea of “containment venting” has been front and center in discussions about the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear accident and what the NRC wants plants to do to improve their vents. But …

… public opposition to atomic power in light of the nuclear disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No.1 power plant.Source : Japan TimesExplore : Asia, Components, Japan, Power Supplies, World

The torus suppression chamber of Fukushima Daiichi 2 appears to be intact, ending speculation that it ruptured during the height of the accident sequence.Source : World Nuclear NewsExplore : Asia, Japan, World

Tokyo, April 24: After the deadly earthquake and tsunami in Japan, airborne radiation levels from the Fukushima nuclear power plant are expected to remain at or close to dangerous levels at least until 2022, according to a government report. – Indiatal…

Spent reactor fuel, containing roughly 85 times more long-lived radioactivity than released at Chernobyl, still sits in pools vulnerable to earthquakes. More than a year after the Fukushima nuclear power disaster began, the news media is just beginning…

The Fukushima Daiichi disaster in March of 2011 delivered a third blow to Japan after a horrendous earthquake and tsunami. In the wake of this disaster, the world found itself reexamining the role of nuclear energy, resulting in many nations severely c…

… responsibility, especially when free, non hazardous alternatives exist? Should Chernobyl, Fukushima, Three Mile disasters give us pause in developing nuclear plants as Europe is phasing them out? Is it important that rising health problems; asthma,…

Audit Confirms EPA Radiation Monitors Broken During Fukushima CrisisSource : Michele Kearney’s Nuclear WireExplore : Asia, Japan, World

… plans fail. It isn’t just the oil spills. We’re more than a year into a slow motion disaster in Fukushima . And while these are, of course, a failure of regulation, they’re also a failure of corporate power. I don’t know what the solution i…

A Look At Investing In Nuclear Power A Year After Fukushima Seeking Alpha March of 2011 saw the Fukushima tragedy in Japan, in which natural disasters contributed to a nuclear meltdown. In this article I would like to take a look at the impact of the F…

Liquid Fluoride Thorium Power: Pros and Cons Triple Pundit Supporters claim that it sufficiently addresses the numerous issues that have made nuclear a less attractive, if not outright frightening option. Proven risks of dangerous meltdowns (eg Fukushi…