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Daily News: Fukushima nuclear disaster upgraded to Chernobyl level, Morrisons...

Blog entry by Kamila P | 12 April, 2011

Top news: Fukushima now rated as INES 7, like Chernobyl says Japan’s nuclear agency; Greenpeace organizes anti-nuclear protests in Spain and Turkey; New Zealand government deploys military against peaceful Greenpeace protest;...

Daily News: Plutonium found outside of the Fukushima power plant, and Homer Simpson...

Blog entry by Kamila P | 29 March, 2011 4 comments

Top News: Plutonium found in soil at Fukushima; Greenpeace urges evacuation of the village of Iitate; “radiation expert” Homer Simpson is censored; the world is  “mysteriously windier”. Greenpeace Radiation Monitoring Team...

From our radiation sampling team in Japan

Blog entry by Brian Fitzgerald | 26 March, 2011 39 comments

Jacob Namminga , one of our radiation safety advisors, spoke to me via Skype about today's sampling trip in a rural area of Japan, to the north west of the Fukushima nuclear plant. We'll be reporting the details of our findings  once...

Daily News: On fire and water

Blog entry by Alexa P | 22 March, 2011

Top news: Smoke rises from Fukushima; Greenpeace marks World Water Day; Google takes on climate change skeptics; deforestation continues in China; deepwater oil exploration approved in the Gulf of Mexico; Norway rejects oil drilling...

Update: Fire burns at reactor 3 and food contamination concerns rise

Blog entry by Jess Miller | 21 March, 2011 7 comments

The Fukushima/Daiichi nuclear crisis continues, marked by confusion and a lack of information and transparency. Today, our team of nuclear experts and monitors followed reports of grey smoke coming out of the spent fuel pool of the...

Daily News: On nuclear protests and contaminated food

Blog entry by Alexa P | 21 March, 2011

Top news: anti-nuclear protests across the world; tourist trips to Chernobyl; increased radioactivity in milk and spinach near Fukushima; British government proposes cuts to new solar plants. © DigitalGlobe The damaged...

Pressure at reactor 3 stable, concerns over radioactive food rising

Blog entry by Jess Miller | 20 March, 2011 2 comments

Earlier today, we told you about a build up in pressure at reactor #3 that could result in the venting of radioactive air and steam into the atmosphere. According to reports from NISA, that release was not necessary and didn’t happen.

Building pressure at reactor 3 increasingly dangerous, fuel pool cooling slowly...

Blog entry by Jess Miller | 20 March, 2011 3 comments

Possibility of major releases from reactor #3, wind currently blowing inland Pressure inside the reactor’s steel containment is still rising. Tepco increased cooling efforts but has been unable to stop the increasing pressure which...

Video: Questions and answers on the Fukushima nulclear crisis

Blog entry by Andrew Davies | 19 March, 2011 10 comments

Yesterday, we sat one of our (extremely busy) nuclear issue experts down and asked him a few of the top questions people have been asking us.  If you don't fiind the answer you're looking for here, try our extensive Q and A...

Fukushima update: Race to submerge damaged nuclear fuel

Blog entry by Andrew Davies | 19 March, 2011 4 comments

French nuclear agency warns of significant long term contamination, as workers race to cover overheating nuclear fuel with water before the wind shifts. Our fears of the radioactive releases being very significant have been supported...

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