Newest Headlines: FROM ENENEWS enenews.com “No Comment”: Residents close to troubled Calif. nuke plant ask for officials start cancer study and install radiation detectors — Also: Radioactive leak in Minn., Protests about Georgia nuke undertaking, Brazil to delay reactors… Much more Yomiuri: Melted fuel may have “cracked owing to some shock” or “dropped down and altered shape” at Reactor No. 2, top to current temperature spike -Tepco US University: Reduced-amount radiation appears to have had instant results on bird populations in Fukushima Pref. — Areas surveyed are mostly nevertheless open up to human occupation — Worse than predicted — A lot more pronounced than Chernobyl Japan Professor: twenty five instances much more Fukushima fallout detected in Tokyo Bay mud than optimum level identified in nearby lake after nuclear bomb explosions — Cesium stream in rivers will not peak for another 1-2 years shiga Asahi: Reactor No. 2 temperature stays substantial regardless of Tepco’s stabilization effort — Was again up to 72°C Tokyo Professor: Each organism in Fukushima Prefecture is contaminated with radiation — 1373000 Bq/kg detected in worm feces sixty km from meltdowns Kyoto Professor: Areas in Reactor No. 2 may possibly be above 100°C — Gasoline almost certainly as melted as mud, growing water injection might move it about — Cannot see within for years (Movie) Japan Occasions: “Substantial amounts of slurry, a mixture of sand and h2o, have been geared up to consist of radioactive materials as a last vacation resort” Guardian on Chilly Shutdown: Top official conceded they have ‘no …
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Image by U.S. Pacific Fleet
YOKOSUKA, Japan (Feb. one, 2012) Rear Adm. Richard D. Berkey, Deputy Main of Staff for Fleet Servicing, U.S. Pacific Fleet, tours the nuclear-driven aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73). Berkey formerly served as main engineer aboard George Washington. George Washington is the Navy’s only entire-time forward-deployed aircraft carrier making certain protection and balance in the western Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Navy Picture by Mass Conversation Expert 3rd Class Sean P. La Marr/Introduced)