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Over a Year Later, Fukushima's Radiation Is Still Fatal [Fukushima]
What a difference a year makes: none. Reactor #2 at Fukushima Daichi is still leaking enough radiation to kill you.More »
Inside Footage from Fukushima's Deepest Crisis [Video]
PBS' FRONTLINE cringe-inducing documentary, Japan's Nuclear Meltdown, takes you about as far inside Fukushima's rupturing, quake-paralyzed nuclear plant as you want to get. We've pulled together the most jarring moments here, where Japanese workers struggled to prevent a disaster from exploding ...
Fukushima Crisis Awakes After Reactor Heats Up Mysteriously [Video]
Just when you thought it was over, the temperature at reactor number 2 at Fukushima's nuclear plant has soared 26.7 degrees Celsius in the last few hours. Worse: they don't know why the temperature is increasing after being stabilized for so long.More »
Disturbing Evidence of Recent Nuclear Reactions Found at Fukushima [Japan]
Japan is hoping to have the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant safely shuttered by the end of the year, but a little radioactive wrench just got dropped: inspectors have discovered evidence of very recent fission. That's bad news.More »
Magnitude 6.6 Earthquake Hits Japan (Updated) [Japan]
Japan's been struck with another earthquake, right smack in its center. Details are scant, but the immediate worry is if damage has rippled outward to already damaged and internally sensitive nuclear plants bruised by March's quake.More »
Why Earthquakes Are So Hard To Predict [Earthquake]
In an article originally published March 14th, New Scientist explains why earthquakes are so hard to predict, how seismologists have tried to foretell quakes in the past, and what promising approaches may lead to successful prediction in the future.More »
Toxic Nuclear Sludge Found 60 Miles Away from Fukushima Reactor [Fukushima]
More proof that March's crisis persists: the Japanese government's found deadly cesium isotopes near the Fukushima district courthouse—that's over 60 miles from the plant. What's worse, the radioactive gunk contained over 20 times the "safe limit" of cesium.More »
This MMA Badass Braved the Fukushima Evacuation Zone Just to Feed Stray Dogs [Fukushima]
Enson Inoue is a 5 foot 10, 210 pound, MMA heavyweight championship-winning, black belt-wearing, thrower of fists, knees, and other jabbing appendages. He also loves dogs enough that he risked massive radiation to help abandoned animals. This guy is good.More »
Fukushima Plant Now Leaking Highest Radiation Levels Since Tsunami [Fukushima]
In case you forgot, one of the worst disasters since the advent of nuclear energy is still underway. And although the initial shock has worn off, the radiation levels sure haven't: TEPCO measured 10,000 millisieverts/hour—that's fatal.More »
Japanese Nuclear Emergency Director: You Have No Right to a Radiation-Free Life [Video]
This footage, from a recent meeting of indignant Japanese citizens and feckless Japanese government types should be a little shocking. Sadly, it's just more of the same—ineptitude and inaction. Buy denying the right to avoiding radiation? OK, shocking.More »
