By Michael Winter, USA TODAY

Update at 7:21 p.m. ET: Residents within a 2-mile radius of the Fukushima No. 2 plant have been ordered to evacuate, the government has announced.

Here's the utility's latest update on the troubles at its overheating nuclear plants.

Update at 6:36 p.m. ET: The Japanese government has declared a nuclear emergency at the Fukushima No. 2 power plant (Daini). An emergency also exists at plant No. 1 (Daiichi).

Original post: The cooling system has failed for three reactors at the Fukushima No. 2 nuclear plant, about seven miles from its quake-crippled companion, the Tokyo Electric Power Co. now says.

The utility, which operates both Fukushima plants, notified the government Saturday morning that the failsafe system at the No. 2 plant stopped working as the coolant water topped the boiling point, the Kyodo news service reports.

SOURCE: USA Today

Huge Blast at Japan Nuclear Power Plant
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March 12th, 2011
Huge Blast at Japan Nuclear Power Plant

A powerful explosion has hit a nuclear power station in north-eastern Japan which was badly damaged in Friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami.

A building housing a reactor was destroyed, but the authorities said the reactor itself was intact inside its steel container.

The Japanese government has sought to play down fears of a meltdown at the Fukushima plant.

It says radiation levels around the stricken plant have now fallen.

A huge rescue and relief operation is under way in the region after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami, which are thought to have killed more than 1,000 people.

Tokyo Electric Power said four of its workers had been injured in Saturday's blast at Fukushima, 250km (155 miles) north of Tokyo, but that their injuries were not life-threatening.

An evacuation zone around the damaged nuclear plant has been extended to 20km (12.4 miles) from 10km, and a state of emergency declared.

An estimated 200,000 people have been evacuated from the area, the International Atomic Energy Authority says.

SOURCE: BBC

• Three workers treated for radiation sickness after explosion in reactor building
• Authorities evacuate thousands of people from 12-mile radius of plant
• People offered iodine to help protect against radiation exposure
• Plant's cooling systems damaged by powerful earthquake

The building housing one of Fukushima Dai-ichi's reactors was destroyed in the blast and a cloud of white smoke could be seen pouring from it.

Four workers suffered fractures in the explosion, and three were treated for the symptoms of radiation sickness.

The Japanese government said the metal container sheltering the nuclear reactor was not damaged by the explosion.

Spokesman Yukio Edano said the radiation around the plant had begun to decrease and that pressure inside the reactor was also going down.

The plant's cooling system had been damaged after the 9-magnitude earthquake struck yesterday and there were fears it could go into meltdown.

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Footage on Japanese TV showed that the walls of the building had completely collapsed, leaving only a skeletal metal frame standing.

SOURCE: Daily Mail

Mar 13, 2011
Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant 

The Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant (女川原子力発電所, Onagawa genshiryoku hatsudensho?, Onagawa NPP) is a nuclear power plant in Onagawa in the Oshika District and Ishinomaki city, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It is managed by the Tohoku Electric Power Company. It was the most quickly constructed nuclear power plant in the world.

The Onagawa-3 unit was the most modern reactor in all of Japan at the time of its construction. It was used as a prototype for the Higashidori Nuclear Power Plant.

The plant conforms fully to ISO 14001, a set of international environmental management standards. The plant's waste heat water leaves 7 degrees Celsius higher than it came in and is released 10 meters under the surface of the water, in order to reduce adverse effects on the environment.

All the reactors were constructed by Toshiba.

Unit 1

Since November 11, 2006 this unit has been shut down due to the result of a test.

Unit 2

• May 2006 it was confirmed that a pipe was leaking due to debris damage.
• June 7, 2006 Difficulties with pressure control prompted further inspections.
• July 7, 2006 METI and the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency determined that the plant's performance was not satisfactory.

• July 7, 2006 Due to pipe integrity concerns the reactor was shut down.
• November 25, 2006 Following repairs the reactor was restarted
• March 11, 2011 2011 Sendai earthquake damaged the turbines after a fire broke out and was shut down.

The Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant was affected by the 2005 Miyagi earthquake and recorded vibrations above what the plant was designed for. Analysis after the event, however, found no damage to the reactor systems. Some people reported seeing smoke come from the plant after the earthquake and reported it, thinking that it indicated an accident, but the smoke was actually produced by the backup diesel generators.

A fire from the turbine section of the plant following the 2011 Sendai earthquake was reported by Kyodo News.

On March 13 2011 levels of radiation on site reached 21μSv/hour, a level at which Tohoku Electric Power Company were mandated to declare state of emergency, and they did so at 12:50, declaring the lowest-level such state. Within 10 minutes the level had dropped to 10μSv/hour. The company claimed this was due to radiation from the Fukushima I nuclear accidents and not from the plant itself.

SOURCE: Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.N.'s nuclear agency, said earlier that Japan had declared a state of emergency at the Onagawa nuclear power plant. An investigation into the source of the over-the-limit radioactivity at the Onagawa power plant turned up a natural source: wind. The Onagawa nuclear power plant has three reactors.

Authorities now say that the increased nuclear radiation around the Onagawa power plant is due to radioactive material blown from the neartby Fukushima Power Plant, which had one reactor unit explode on Saturday. The explosion appears to have been caused by a buildup of hydrogen gas in the containment unit around the reactor vessel. The reactor itself was not damaged, authorities say.

Meanwhile, on Sunday, officials have announced that a second reactor at the Fukushima power plant is in danger of experiencing a similar explosion. Unit 3 is the latest of the reactors to be in danger. It was Unit 1 that exploded on Sunday.

Experts have added that favorable winds will protect other nations from contamination. Winds will blow any radiation to the Pacific, in such a way as to avoid other nations, experts said.

SOURCE: Michael Santo

The Pentagon was expected to announce that the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, which is sailing in the Pacific, passed through a radioactive cloud from stricken nuclear reactors in Japan, causing crew members on deck to receive a month’s worth of radiation in about an hour, government officials said Sunday.

The officials added that American helicopters flying missions about 60 miles north of the damaged reactors became coated with particulate radiation that had to be washed off.

There was no indication that any of the military personnel had experienced ill effects from the exposure. (Everyone is exposed to a small amount of natural background radiation.)

But the episodes showed that the prevailing winds were picking up radioactive material from crippled reactors in northeastern Japan. Ever since an earthquake struck Japan on Friday, the authorities worldwide have been laying plans to map where radioactive plumes might blow and determine what, if any, danger they could pose to people.

Blogs were churning with alarm. But officials insisted that unless the quake-damaged nuclear plants deteriorated into full meltdown, any radiation that reached the United States would be too weak to do any harm.

Washington had “hypothetical plots” for worst-case plume dispersal within hours of the start of the crisis, a senior official said Sunday. The aim, the official added, was “more to help Japan” than the United States, since few experts foresaw high levels of radiation reaching the West Coast.

For now, the prevailing winds over Japan were blowing eastward across the Pacific. If they continue to do so, international stations for radioactive tracking at Wake or Midway Islands might detect radiation later this week, said Annika Thunborg, a spokeswoman for an arm of the United Nations in Vienna that monitors the planet for spikes in radioactivity.

“At this point, we have not picked up anything” in detectors midway between Japan and Hawaii, Ms. Thunborg said in an interview on Sunday. “We’re talking a couple of days — nothing before Tuesday — in terms of picking something up.”

Agencies involved in the tracking efforts include the World Meteorological Organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, which runs a global network of more than 60 stations that sniff the air for radiation spikes.

In the United States, the Departments of Defense and Energy maintain large facilities and cadres of specialists for tracking airborne releases of radiation, both civilian and military.

On Sunday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it expected no “harmful levels of radioactivity” to move on the winds to Hawaii, Alaska or the West Coast from the reactors in Japan, “given the thousands of miles between the two countries.”

In interviews, some private nuclear experts called a windborne threat unlikely. Others urged caution.

“We’re all worrying about it,” said Robert Alvarez, a nuclear expert who, from 1993 to 1999, was a policy adviser to the secretary of energy, who runs the nation’s nuclear complex.

“It’s going to be very important,” he added, “for the Japanese and U.S. authorities to inform the public about the nature of the plumes and any need for precautionary measures.”

The plume issue has arisen before. In 1986, radiation spewing from the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine was spread around the globe on winds and reached the West Coast in 10 days. It was judged more of a curiosity than a threat.

Since then, scientists have refined their abilities to monitor such atmospheric releases. The advances are rooted in the development of new networks of radiation detectors, flotillas of imaging satellites and the advent of supercomputers that can model the subtle complexities of the wind to draw up advanced forecasts.

With the Japanese crisis, popular apprehension has also soared.

“Concern has been raised about a massive radioactive cloud escaping and sweeping over the West Coast,” said a recent blog, recommending whole grains and health foods for fighting radiation poisoning.

On another blog, someone asked, “Should I take iodine now?” That referred to pills that can prevent poisoning from the atmospheric release of iodine-131, a radioactive byproduct of nuclear plants that the Japanese authorities have identified as escaping into the atmosphere.

While federal officials expected little danger in the United States from Japanese plumes, they were taking no chances. On Sunday, Energy Department officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the agency was working on three fronts.

One main player is the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Officials said they had activated its National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center, which draws on meteorologists, nuclear scientists and computer scientists to forecast plume dispersal.

Separately, energy officials said the agency was readying plans to deploy two-person monitoring and sampling teams, if necessary. The teams would travel to consulates, military installations and Navy ships to sample the air in a coordinated effort to improve plume tracking.

Finally, the department was preparing what it calls its Aerial Measuring System. Its detectors and analytical equipment can be mounted on a variety of aircraft. Officials said the equipment and monitoring team are staged out of the department’s Remote Sensing Laboratory at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, and are on two-hour call.

“We’re on top of this,” a department official said.

David E. Sanger contributed reporting from Washington.

SOURCE: NEW YORK TIMES

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Ok I am not as good providing well written and explained posts as Zorgon or TheRedneck so bear with me..

The Big picture as I see it 

I am going to ignore the reactors themselves for a bit and talk about the storage of the spent fuel rods and possible fire of same...

In Japan the spent fuel rods are stored mainly at the plant, with a portion sent to another plant to reprocess... without posting the diagrams that have been posted many times before... spent fuel is stored within the reactor building in a swimming pool-like concrete structure near the top of the reactor vessel.

This spent fuel must be kept underwater to prevent severe releases of radioactivity, among other reasons. A meltdown or even a fire could occur if there is a loss of coolant from the spent fuel pool. The water in the spent fuel pool and the roof of the reactor building are the main barriers to release of radioactivity from the spent fuel pool.
Source

Hydrogen is generated in a nuclear reactor if the fuel in the reactor loses its cover of cooling water. The tubes that contain the fuel pellets are made of a zirconium alloy. Zirconium reacts with steam to produce zirconium oxide and hydrogen gas. Moreover, the reaction is exothermic – that is, it releases a great deal of heat, and hence creates a positive feedback that aggravates the problem and raises the temperature. 
The same phenomenon can occur in a spent fuel pool in case of a loss of cooling water.
Source

The Fukushima Daiichi plant has seven pools for spent fuel rods.  Six of these are (or were) located at the top of six reactor buildings.  One “common pool” is at ground level in a separate building.  Each “reactor top” pool holds 3450 fuel rod assemblies.  The common pool holds 6291 fuel rod assemblies.  [The common pool has windows on one wall which were almost certainly destroyed by the tsunami.]  Each assembly holds sixty-three fuel rods.  This means the Fukushima Daiichi plant may contain over 600,000 spent fuel rods
Source

Japanese commercial nuclear power plants began operation in 1970. Currently there are 53 nuclear power plants in operation. To date close to 20,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel has been generated by Japan's nuclear power program

The quantity of fission products (spent nuclear fuel) produced each year at a full-sized commercial nuclear power plants is massive. A total of approximately 50,000 times the fission products of the Hiroshima bomb are created by Japanese nuclear power plants each year, and this for the most part is cumulative, in other words the material remains radioactive. Most of this waste is being temporarily stored at nuclear power plant sites and must remain segregated from the natural environment
Source

If a fire were to break out at the Millstone Reactor Unit 3 spent fuel pond in Connecticut, it would result in a three-fold increase in background exposures. This level triggers the NRC’s evacuation requirement, and could render about 29,000 square miles of land , according to Thompson. Connecticut covers only about 5,000 square miles; an accident at Millstone could severely affect Long Island and even New York City

A 1997 report for the NRC by Brookhaven National Laboratory also found that a severe pool fire could render about 188 square miles uninhabitable, cause as many as 28,000 cancer fatalities, and cost $59 billion in damage. (The Brookhaven study relied on a different standard of uninhabitability than Thompson.) While estimates vary, “the use of a little imagination,” says Thompson, “shows that a pool fire would be a regional and national disaster of historic proportions.”
Source

Several events could cause a loss of pool water, including leakage, evaporation, siphoning, pumping, aircraft impact, earthquake, accidental or deliberate drop of a fuel transport cask, reactor failure, or an explosion inside or outside the pool building. Industry officials maintain that personnel would have sufficient time to provide an alternative cooling system before the spent fuel caught fire. But if the water level dropped to just a few feet above the spent fuel, the radiation doses in the pool building would be lethal.
Source

The consequences of severe spent fuel pool accidents at closed U.S. reactors were studied by the Brookhaven National Laboratory in a 1997 report prepared for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. According to the results, the damages resulting from such accidents for U.S. Boiling Water Reactors could range from $700 million to $546 billion, which would be between roughly $900 million and $700 billion in today’s dollars. The lower figures would apply if there were just one old spent fuel set present in the pool to a full pool in which the spent fuel has been re-racked to maximize storage. Other variables would be whether there was any freshly discharged spent fuel in the pool, which would greatly increase the radioactivity releases. The estimated latent cancer deaths over the years and decades following the accident was estimated at between 1,300 and 31,900 within 50 kilometers (30 miles) of the plant and between 1,900 and 138,000 within a radius of 500 kilometers (300 miles) from the plant.

The range of consequences in Japan would be somewhat different from those outlined in the Brookhaven report, since the consequences depend on population density within 50 and 500 kilometers of the plant, the re-racking policy, and several other variables. It should also be noted that Daiichi Unit 1 is about half the power rating of most U.S. reactors, so that the amount of radioactivity in the pool would be about half the typical amount, all other things being equal. But the Brookhaven study can be taken as a general indicator that the scale of the damage could be vast in the most severe case.
Source

“That would be like Chernobyl on steroids,” said Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer at Fairewinds Associates and a member of the public oversight panel for the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, which is identical to the Fukushima Daiichi unit 1
Washington Post

But wait a minute... we have important things in that area that have to be tended to and monitered right? Another nuke plant nearby right? And a plant at Onagwa that is already showing trouble... we can's just up and leave. Anyone remember the Tokai plant? It is a small reconversion plant with a little fame already.

The Tokaimura nuclear accident (東海村JCO臨界事故, Tōkai-mura JCO-rinkai-jiko?, "Tōkai Village JCO Criticality Accident") was at the time Japan's worst civilian nuclear radiation accident. It took place on 30 September 1999 at a uranium reprocessing facility located in the village of Tōkai, Naka District, Ibaraki. The accident occurred in a very small fuel preparation plant operated by JCO (formerly Japan Nuclear Fuel Conversion Co.), a subsidiary of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co
Wikipedia

The Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant (六ヶ所村核燃料再処理施設, Rokkasho Kakunenryō Saishori Shisetsu?) is a nuclear reprocessing plant with an annual capacity of 800 tons of uranium or 8 tons of plutonium
Wikipedia

Rokkasho-mura has the world largest cooling pool (Fig. 4). Spent nuclear fuel transported to the reprocessing plant is stored here and it is ultimately expected to hold 3000 tons of spent fuel
Source

Other safety problems have plagued Rokkasho. Last year, the cooling system of its spent nuclear fuel storage pool temporarily failed. The ventilation system in the fuel storage building had problems. Last month, the fuel pool, which at that point contained more than 1,000 nuclear fuel assemblies, leaked coolant from a loose valve; it took workers more than 15 hours to identify and fix the problem
Source

March 16, 2011

(AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News)

In this photo taken Wednesday, March 16, 2011 and released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News Friday, smoke billows from wrecked unit 3 at Japan's crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture.

(AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News)

In this photo taken Wednesday, March 16, 2011 and released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News Friday, smoke billows from wrecked unit 4 at Japan's crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture.

The Japanese government has in its possession video footage of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant taken by a U.S. military reconnaissance drone, but has yet to release the footage to the public, sources have revealed.

The footage taken from an RQ-4 Global Hawk drone was passed on to the Japanese government with permission for public release from the U.S. Air Force. U.S. military sources said that the decision to release the footage -- or not -- was up to the Japanese government.

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is equipped with a high-performance camera that, according to the U.S. Air Force, takes "footage so clear that even automobile license plates are visible." Nearly real-time footage of the internal state of the power station is said to be captured, which is likely to assist experts in analyzing the situation.

The U.S. Air Force has been flying the state-of-the-art UAV based in Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, over quake- and tsunami-ravaged areas since March 12 -- a day after a massive quake and tsunami struck eastern Japan -- in response to a request from the Japanese government.

Because Japanese Self-Defense Force aircraft have trouble flying over the stricken Fukushima power plant due to large amounts of radioactive materials detected in the air, the Global Hawk has been filming the area around the clock. Footage is transmitted via satellite to a U.S. Air Force base in California, and is also supplied to the Japanese government. The Japanese government, however, has yet to disclose the footage, which is being analyzed by nuclear power experts and others at the California base.

Click here for the original Japanese story

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• Japan thinking about evacuating Tokyo over radiation and earthquake fears
• Transport of MOX fuel from Europe to Japan
• 102-year-old man in Japan's nuclear fall-out zone kills himself rather than leave home
• Dog-lovers brave Fukushima nuclear danger zone to save abandoned pets
• U.S. sends water storage tanks, trailer to Fukushima nuclear plant
• Radiation surges above 4's fuel pool
• Fukushima: confusion or secret work to create bomb?
• Apr 15, 2011
• A wary drive up to the gate of Fukushima
• Preliminary study assesses potential impact of seismic event at Los Alamos
• Radioactive Japanese cars seized in Russia's Far East
• Apr 16, 2011
• Government considering plan to dismantle TEPCO
• HAZARDS OF BOILING WATER REACTORS IN THE UNITED STATES
• Accumulated radiation tops 17,000 microsieverts in Fukushima's Namie
• Radioactivity rises in sea off Japan nuclear plant
• Apr 17, 2011
• Smoke rises from control panel at TEPCO nuclear plant in Niigata
• Smoke rises from Japan nuclear plant
• New TEPCO footage shows smoke/steam rising from reactor buildings - (AERIAL VIDEOS)
• U.S. offers unmanned chopper to help remove Fukushima spent fuel
• TEPCO ignored tsunami warnings for years
• Apr 18, 2011
• Japan Nuclear Safety Commission members arrive in Fukushima 37 days after quake
• Japan bars officials from utility jobs
• Nuclear refugees facing years in exile
• Japan Agency Admits Fuel Melt at Fukushima N-Plant
• Repurposed iRobot Military 'PackBots' Enter Damaged Japanese Nuclear Plant
• Radiation Poses Barrier to Repair Work at Plant
• Radiation Expert: “Sr-90 and Uranium and Particulates Will Be Building Up in the USA and Europe
• Fukushima Residents Seek Answers Amid Mixed Signals From Media, TEPCO and Government. Report from the Radiation Exclusion Zone
• Apr 19, 2011
• Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant must be shut down
• Japan ex-official to quit Tepco post
• Fukushima - an ongoing nuclear disaster - Eye witness report
• Mumbai - 1 Dead in shooting in Jaitapur N-plant protest
• Japan postpones triathlon competition over radiation risk
• Arnie Gundersen Update 18/04/11: Reactor Conditions, Fuel Pool "No Fission", Fish Not Monitored - Video
• Mysterious Trades in a Big Block of Tokyo Electric Shares Draw Regulators’ Interest
• Cabot Pledges $500,000 in Contributions to Japan-Relief Efforts
• UPDATE 1-UN chief urges "global re-think" on nuclear safety
• Ukraine raises $785m to seal Chernobyl under new 'shell'
• Radiation levels keep repair workers at bay
• Radiation at No. 2 spent fuel pool 30,000,000 times above normal & 15,000 times more than troubled No. 4 pool
• Apr 20. 2011
• Nuke plant meltdown warning went unheeded
• Agency admits 'melting' of N-fuel
• Small amounts of radioactive iodine found in breast milk
• Increase of the risk of the submergence and flood during the spring tide associated with the ground sink caused by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake - JMA - Japanese Meteorological Agency advisory briefing
• Cesium-134 in Northern California topsoil more than double previous test
• U.S. Engineers Cite Lengthy Cleanup in Japan
• 福島第一原子力発電所　２号機の原子炉建屋内をPackbotで撮影  - Video
• Fukushima Residents Seek Answers Amid Mixed Signals From Media, TEPCO and Government. Report from the Radiation Exclusion Zone
• Apr 21, 2011
• Workers at nuke plant complain about handling of radiation exposure data
• Nuke authorities vague about radiation exposure limits for emergency workers
• Anger Greets Kan in Fukushima Trip
• Chemist: I Can Clean Fukushima Water Faster
• Aomori business groups ask TEPCO, others to resume building nuke plants
• Radioactive iodine found in breast milk of Japanese mothers
• Health ministry urged to check breast milk after nuclear accident
• Russian lands polluted by Chornobyl accident halve over 25 years
• Nearly 70% of Ukrainians do not want new nuclear power units – poll
• S. Korea bans sand eel imports from Fukushima
• Nuclear dilemma: adequate insurance too expensive
• Japan PM declares no-go zone around nuclear plant
• Gillard brings gifts to meeting with Kan
• Transcript of doorstop interview - Tokyo
• Japan to check radiation risk to breast milk
• Japan Lifts Shipment Ban on More Fukushima Milk
• Apr 22, 2011
• Japanese government censors Fukushima reports that contradict official story
• Groundless rumors add to burdens of Fukushima evacuees
• Japan braces for quake, typhoon risks amid ongoing nuclear crisis
• Apr 23, 2011
• Maps on radiation levels around crippled nuke plant to be compiled - (Mainichi Japan) April 23, 2011
• Reactor Team Let Pressure Soar
• Fukushima waste storage pool critical
• Seven-Eleven To Buy More Rice From Battered Tohoku
• TEPCO discloses radiation map
• Apr 24, 2011
• How to Read a Geiger Counter
• Helicopters still radioactive after decontamination
• Movers turn away evacuees / People told to relocate get cold shoulder from moving firms
• Apr 25, 2011
• Atmospheric radiation leak underestimated
• Gov't endorses TEPCO's estimates on radioactive leak into sea
• Chernobyl recovery officer criticises Japan's efforts at Fukushima
• Apr 26, 2011
• High concentration of radioactive water found in Fukushima's No. 4 reactor
• TEPCO president to resign over scandal
• Japan farmers rally against nuclear plant company
• Fukushima farmers protest near TEPCO headquarters
• Apr 29, 2011
• Weather chief draws flak over plea not to release radiation forecasts
• May 03, 2011
• Rainbow Warrior begins sampling off Fukushima
• Japan Kept Secret on Fukushima Radiation Measurements 
• May 04, 2011
• Seabed radiation 100-1,000 times normal level off Fukushima plant - Kyodo News
  
• Seabed radiation 100-1,000 times normal level off Fukushima plant - Mainichi News
• TEPCO neglected radiation checks in building where two women absorbed high doses - Mainichi News
• Japan’s Fukushima Power Station Now Beyond Anyone’s Ability To Control
• May 06, 2011
• Japan PM to ask Chubu to halt all ops at Hamaoka nuclear plant
• UPDATE 3-Japan PM calls for halt of Hamaoka nuclear plant
• Kan calls for halt of Hamaoka nuclear plant
• Hamaoka plant sits in Tokai quake focal zone
• Jul 02, 2011
• TEPCO: Nuclear fuel pool cooled to stable level
  
• Nov 06, 2013
• Fuel Assembly Removal to Start on November 18, 2013 From #Fukushima I Nuke Plant Reactor 4 SFP
• Mar 13, 2016
• 16 US ships that aided in Operation Tomodachi still contaminated with radiation
  
• Jun 07, 2016
• Japanese woman breaks silence on Fukushima-related cancer - CBS News -  June 7, 2016, 5:46 AM
• Jun 21, 2016
• Fukushima TEPCO Power Co. of Japan nuclear meltdown apologizes ...  - June 21, 2016, 8:28 AM
• Sep 07, 2016
• Sick U.S. sailors and Marines who blame radiation get support from Japan's ex-leader - Navy Times
• Jun 22, 2017
• Court: Sailors can sue in US over Japanese nuclear disaster - Navy Times
• Jun 23, 2017
• US sailors who 'fell sick from Fukushima radiation' allowed to sue Japan, nuclear plant operator
• Mar 07, 2018
• Fukushima Fallout: the Irradiated Sailors of the USS Ronald Reagan
• 7 Years on, Sailors Exposed to Fukushima Radiation Seek Their Day in Court
• Injustice At Sea: the Irradiated Sailors of the USS Reagan

• Papers:
• Conditions of Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 1 - （As of 18:00 March 23rd, 2011）
• Daily Dose Table for Fixed Point Network in Canada and Mobile Radiation Survey in British Columbia and the Northwest Territories - [PDF][Archived]
• EPA RadNet Precipitation Concentration Measurement Data Mar 31, 2011 - [PDF]
• Fukushima Dai-ichi Monitoring points - [PDF][Archived]
• Gemessene Dosisleistungen an auswahlten Messpunkten Fukushima Daiichi - Daten des Betreibers TEPCO - [PDF][Archived]
• Nuclear Waste Disposal Crisis - 1996. Chapter 8  Spent Fuel Pool Safety Issues - [PDF][Archived]
• Post-Tsunami Situation at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan: Facts, Analysis, and Some Potential Outcomes - [PDF][Archived]
• Radiation Control in the Core Shroud Replacement Project of Fukushima-Daiichi NPS Unit #2 - [PDF][Archived]
• TEPCO Counter Measures and Risks - [PDF][Archived]
• TEPCO Diagram of Countermeasures - [PDF][Archived]
• TEPCO Roadmap Towards Restoration - [PDF][Archived]
• Tohoku-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake - Apr 15, 2011 - [PDF][Archived]
• What about the spent fuel? - By Robert Alvarez - [PDF][Archived]

• Resources:
• IAEA - Fukushima Nuclear Accident Update Log - International Atomic Energy Agency
  
• RadNet Map View
  

• Video Reports on Nuclear Emergency
• March 11, 2011
• Japan Declares "Nuclear Emergency Situation - Al Jazeera Mar 11, 2011
• Japan Declares Nuclear Emergency at Plant, Releasing Radioactive Steam Vapor - Mar 11, 2011
• Japan Declares Nuclear Emergency As Power Plants Fail - RT - Mar 11, 2011
• Possible Nuclear Power Plant Meltdown In Japan - Fox news - Mar 11, 2011
• March 12, 2011
• Cover-up Is Going On In Tokyo & Washington - CCTV - Mar 12, 2011
• 福 島第一原発 爆発の瞬間 Explosion at Fukushima nuclear plant - 2011.03.12. 15:36頃発生
• 福 島第一原発１号機、爆発後の写真
• Video: Japan nuclear plant Fukushima Big explosion LIVE 2011 - Mar 12, 2011
• 2011 年3月11日　東北地方太平洋沖地震 - Earthquake off northeastern Taiheiyou still photo collection
• March 13 2011
• Emergency at Onagawa nuclear plant, radiation 700 times over normal - RT - Mar 13, 2011
• Second Reactor At Fukushima Cooling System fails Japan Government Warns Of Possible Melt Down - Mar 13, 2011
• Emergency At Second Japan Nuclear Site - Mar 13, 2011
• Second Explosion: Reactor #3 (NHK) - Mar 13, 2011
• Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Explosion (Raw Footage) & winds directions[HD] - by Newoaknl - Mar 13, 2011
• Japan Tohoku Earthquake NEWS FLASH hydrogen explosion - HD - Mar 13, 2011 
• March 14, 2011
• Japan-New reactor blast -Fukushima N-plant hydrogen explosion reactor3 - 14 March 2011
• Cold comfort for 300,000 left homeless by quake - March 14, 2011 - 3:27PM
• Fukushima Reactor Intact After Hydrogen Explosion; Meltdown Still Possible - By Tsuyoshi Inajima, Yuji Okada and Shigeru Sato - Mar 14, 2011 12:00 AM PT
• Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant Reactor 3 explosion on March 14, 2011
• March 18, 2011
  
• Tsunami of Tohoku Earthquake Before Wrecking the Coast - Ship riding over the wave

April 06, 2011
東日本大震災に係るインターネット上の流言飛語への適切な対応に関する電気通信事業者関係団体に対する要請
Affiliate Request to telecom operators on the appropriate response to the false rumors on the Internet pertaining to East earthquake

http://www.soumu.go.jp/menu_news/s-news/01kiban08_01000023.html

http://www.soumu.go.jp/main_content/000110048.pdf

Tepco radiation site map
http://www.houseoffoust.com/fukushima/fuku_plant_radmap.jpg

Civil Society Gaining Ground Following Quake
by Suvendrini Kakuchi
ipsnews.net/newsTVE.asp?idnews=55342

Periodic health checkups mulled for Fukushima residents
mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/archive/news/2011/04/24/20110424p2g00m0dm010000c.html
or
www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/periodic-health-checkups-likely-for-fukushima-residents

Primordial fear: why radiation is so scary
AFP
Sun, Apr 24, 2011
by Marlowe Hood
news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/World/Story/A1Story20110424-275285.html

Monday, April 25, 2011
Nuclear Agency: No Highly Radioactive Water Leaking from Crippled Plant
e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110425D25JF075.htm

BP Confirms Shipping Unit Has Added Radiation Clause To Contracts
By Max Lin
Published April 25, 2011| Dow Jones Newswires
www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2011/04/25/bp-confirms-shipping-unit-added-radiation-clause-contracts/

2011/04/25 15:31 KST
(LEAD) S. Korean minister stresses nuclear safety
english.yonhapnews.co.kr/business/2011/04/25/50/0501000000AEN20110425005000320F.HTML

Anti-nuclear plant candidates secure some seats in local elections
mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110425p2g00m0dm006000c.html
www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/anti-nuclear-plant-candidates-secure-some-seats-in-local-elections

Agence France Presse - Japan launches new mass search for bodies
By Hiroshi Hiyama (AFP)
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jxrImuL4ZvSIR9BRo95B8mXPt2PA

Step up fight against harmful rumors about Japan goods
(From The Yomiuri Shimbun, April 24, 2011)
(Apr. 25, 2011)
www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/editorial/T110424001843.htm

Times-Picayune - N.O. lawyer travels the world to save disaster-struck pets
She rescues dogs left behind in Japan
Monday, April 25, 2011
By Katy Reckdahl
Staff writer
www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-35/130371240685560.xml&coll=1

TEPCO to halve executive pay amid Fukushima nuclear reactor crisis (VIDEO)
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/japan/110425/executive-pay-japan-tsunami-earthquake-chernobyl-nuclear-reactor-video

How did Japan's nuclear industry become so arrogant?
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/perspectives/news/20110425p2a00m0na006000c.html

[url=http://www.houseoffoust.com/fukushima/blueprint.html]Blueprint for Unit 1[/url]

[url=http://fukushimafaq.wikispaces.com/3D+and+Autocad+Rendering+%26+Analysis]3D rendering of Units 2-5[/url]

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf79.html

Japanese Waste and MOX Shipments from Europe - Appendix 1
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf39.html

Nuclear Power Plants and Earthquakes
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf18.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/world/asia/27collusion.html?pagewanted=4

Radiation Readings in Fukushima Reactor Rise to Highest Since Crisis Began
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-27/tokyo-water-radiation-falls-to-zero-for-first-time-since-crisis.html

Fukushima Prefecture starts taking custody of pets left in 20-km no-entry zone
(Mainichi Japan) April 29, 2011
mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20110429p2a00m0na003000c.html

45 children still in town where high levels of radiation have been detected
(Mainichi Japan) April 29, 2011
mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110429p2a00m0na007000c.html

2011/04/28 16:21 KST
S. Korea finds no radioactive materials in air, rain
english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2011/04/28/87/0302000000AEN20110428009900320F.HTML

Friday, April 29, 2011
Tepco Chief Holds Out Hope For Compensation Exemption
e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110428D28JFA17.htm

explosive disassembly of supercritical reactor core
http://books.google.com/books?id=nwYAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42

Japan prime minister's nuclear adviser resigns
Posted: 29 April 2011 2001 hrs
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1125750/1/.html

Saturday, April 30, 2011
Panel to probe nuke accident
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110430a5.html

Kyodo News International - Weather chief draws flak over plea not to release radiation forecasts
Friday, April 29, 2011 1:08 PM
www.istockanalyst.com/business/news/5100280/weather-chief-draws-flak-over-plea-not-to-release-radiation-forecasts

Gov't panel releases 2 of over 2,000 radiation dispersal estimates
(Mainichi Japan) April 19, 2011
mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110419p2g00m0dm007000c.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL1kcB1ClBk
New Site observation by the packbot in the nuclear reactor building of Unit 1 29 April 2011

Seabed radiation 100-1,000 times normal level off Fukushima plant

TOKYO, May 3, Kyodo

Radiation readings have risen to 100-1,000 times the normal level on the Pacific seabed near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the operator said Tuesday.

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/05/89167.html
 

Police to compile DNA database in 3 tsunami-hit prefectures
(Mainichi Japan) May 3, 2011
mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20110503p2g00m0dm014000c.html

Miyagi Panel Member Wants Solar Power for All Rebuilt Homes
 

Jiji Press Ticker Service
May 2, 2011
www.electroiq.com/index/display/pv-wire-news-display/1409565253.html

Japan nuclear plant operations (Japan Atomic to shut unit)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/06/nuclear-japan-status-idUSL3E7G61IV20110506