The organisation set up to verify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) has a global network of air samplers that monitor and trace the origin of around a dozen radionuclides, the radioactive elements released by atomic bomb blasts – and nuclea
By DAVID JOLLY and HIROKO TABUCHI Published: March 25, 2011 TOKYO — Japan’s effort to contain the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant suffered a setback, an official said on Friday, citing evidence that the reactor vessel of the No. 3 unit may
Here are 43 of some of the latest articles, reports, etc. about the JAPAN nuclear crisis from around the world...the situation seems to be critical with a possible nuclear meltdown already having occurred and further earthquakes in Northern Japan even tod
Sunday morning at 7am GMT+2 Chris Hogg BBC News, TokyoThere are now problems at the number three reactor - the concern is that it is overheating. They're trying to pump sea water through it at the moment. ... the plant's Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) said
the deformation in a 3.3-metric-ton cylinder now stuck in the Monju reactor vessel in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, on Nov. 9. A major test of the reactor, shut down since a 1995 sodium leak, was planned for July 2011 -- already 1.5 months behind schedule. H
William Pentland, Forbes, Mar. 11 2011 - 7:23 pm Image by Hyougushi via Flickr The United States military and other nations are scrambling to support the government of Japan’s efforts to avoid a nuclear meltdown at a nuclear facility affected by the massi
Frigyes Reisch påpekar att att de japanska myndigheterna har ljugit om Fukushimaolyckan. Den bör klassas som 7, inte som 4, på olycksskalan. Det beror på de enorma ekonomiska intressena. Världens kärnkraftsindustri är japansk.
Dan Plesch and Harald Heubaum, 13 March 2011 : "Last week, the world’s attention was suddenly torn from Libya to the developing nuclear crisis in Japan. But the events in Libya and Japan have one thing in common. Each case serves as a powerful reminder o