Showing posts with label Nuclear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nuclear. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

WHO Report On Radiation Exposure From Fukushima Reactor Accident

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    # 6341     Today, a little more than a year after Japan’s catastrophic earthquake and tsunami, the World Health Organization ...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Fukushima Nuke Plant Remains In `Precarious State’

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    Photo credit IAEA # 6251   Unless we are directly affected by them, once a disaster moves off the front pages, we tend move on...
Friday, March 02, 2012

Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists: Fukushima Crisis in review

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    # 6189   It’s been nearly a year since the disastrous earthquake & subsequent tsunamis hit northern Japan, leaving a majo...
Wednesday, June 08, 2011

A Different Kind Of Nuclear Fallout

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    # 5613   Map credit- Wikipedia   The future of nuclear energy in Japan may be decided on a community-by-community basis...
Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Cutting Through The Fukushima Fog

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    # 5610 Photo credit IAEA   As I noted in The Fog Of Disaster Reporting , written less than 48 hours after the earthquake/...
Wednesday, June 01, 2011

IAEA Preliminary Assessment Of The Fukushima Disaster

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      # 5589   Last week IAEA nuclear experts from 12 countries ( Argentina, China, France, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Russia, So...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

IAEA To Send Fact Finding Mission To Fukushima

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  # 5558     The UN’s Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) will dispatch an expert fact-finding mission to Japan on May 24th to  make a ...
Monday, April 25, 2011

NSC: Fukushima Radiation Leak Underestimated

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    # 5519   Photo credit IAEA   Six weeks after the combination earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan and severely dam...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Fukushima: A 10-Year Decommissioning Plan

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      # 5492     Although a decade is a long time to deal with a crisis, compared to other estimates ( see ABC News Crews 'f...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Fukushima: Brief Fire, 6.4 Aftershock & Severity Level To Be Raised

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    # 5485     According to NHK World News Japan’s Nuclear Safety Agency today has decided to raise the severity level of the ...
Friday, April 08, 2011

Japan: IAEA Briefing April 8th

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    # 5477     In the wake of a 7.1 magnitude aftershock yesterday, the IAEA has issued a new briefing that includes status u...
Tuesday, April 05, 2011

NHK: Fukushima Leak `Appears To Be Lessening’

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        # 5464   Anything remotely resembling optimism on the damaged reactors at the Fukushima nuclear facility has been excee...

Fukushima: A Drone’s Eye View

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    # 5463   A Twitter tweet by @Tokyoreporter this morning has led me to a webpage containing 11 awesome high-res photographs ...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Fukushima: Radiation Levels Soar At Reactor # 2 ?

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    UPDATED: 0850 Hrs EDT 03/27/11   AP is now reporting that TEPCO officials are claiming the radiation readings reported ea...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

The IAEA Presentations Channel

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    # 5451     The International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) has selected Slideshare to host documentation, slide shows, and o...
Friday, March 25, 2011

Fukushima: Voluntary Evacuation Urged in 20km - 30km Radius Zone

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      # 5443     Voluntary evacuation urged in the red shaded zone. Graphic NHK World News         Chief Cabinet Se...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Fukushima IAEA Updates: March 24th

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    # 5441     The IAEA has posted as series of updates on the Fukushima nuclear reactors on their website and their Facebook ...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Fukushima: Monday Morning Roundup

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    # 5426     Radiation contamination fears, and smoke or steam emissions from two of the reactors at the Fukushima energy pla...

IAEA Update: The 6 Fukushima Reactors At A Glance

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    # 5425     With 6 separate reactors at the earthquake damaged Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan, and with each experiencing ...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Japan Cites `Some Progress’ In Nuke Crisis

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    # 5424     As I wrote a week ago in The Fog Of Disaster Reporting - trying to make sense of the situation on the ground du...