Busby: Fukushima Explosion Was Nuclear

British scientist Christopher Busby, a researcher on the negative health effects of ionizing radiation, told Russia Today that one of the explosions at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan was a nuclear explosion, not a hydrogen explosion as widely reported in the media. Busby said the explosion at Chernobyl in 1986 was also a […]

Something Odd Is Happening at Reactor Number 4

NHK reports: The operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is carefully monitoring the situation at the Number 4 spent fuel pool, where the water temperature is rising despite increased injections of cooling water. Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, says it will inject 210 tons of water into the pool on Monday, […]

Radiation Expert: “Sr-90 and Uranium and Particulates Will Be Building Up in the USA and Europe … For Now I Think It Prudent To Stop Drinking Milk”

Preface: I take very seriously any warning about consuming a product which is important for the local economy. But when a respected radiation expert issues this type of warning, I have to pass it on. I wrote to radiation expert Dr. Chris Busby to ask him if he thought people living outside of Japan should […]

TEPCO finds radioactive concrete emitting 900,000 microsieverts per hour of nuclear radiation

The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says that concrete debris emitting a high level of radiation has been found near the Number 3 reactor. Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, says its workers detected radioactivity of 900 millisieverts per hour being emitted from a 30-by-30 centimeter concrete fragment, 5 centimeters thick, […]

Short Life Expectancy for BP Whistleblowers?

Mysterious deaths have befallen at least 9 whistleblowers reportedly connected to the gulf oil spill. The investigation, if it can properly be so called, of the unsolved murder of the former high ranking Pentagon official and presidential advisor John P. Wheeler III, who was also an expert on chemical and biological weapons, may be taking […]

Japanese government considers underground wall to contain Fukushima radiation

The Japanese government is considering building an underground barrier near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to prevent radioactive material from spreading far from the plant via soil and groundwater, a senior government official said. Sumio Mabuchi, a special adviser to the prime minister, revealed the plan Friday at the Japan National Press Club […]

BP’s Secret Deepwater Blowout

Greg Palast has a report on another offshore oil drilling accident by BP during oil exploration in Azerbaijan – BP’s Secret Deepwater Blowout. Only 17 months before BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig suffered a deadly blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP deepwater oil platform also blew out. You’ve heard and seen much about the […]

Land of rising food anxieties

Most Japanese cannot remember the last time they had to think deeply about where their next meal would come from. Only the eldest of Japanese with memories of food rations and scarcity from World War II and its aftermath would possess experience from which to draw. But that has changed since the triple disaster of […]

The Fukushima Disaster and Other Irreproducible Experiments

The situation at the Fukushima nuclear reactors has evolved to one of chronic catastrophe or, more optimistically, feed and bleed followed by dialysis. For the viewer at home, the long-awaited debut of picture-taking robots inside the reactor buildings nicely complements the airborne fleet of drones that have been providing grist for armchair forensics experts everywhere. […]

Solar SuperStorm Could Result in Worldwide Nuclear Meltdown

Dear Sir, You are one of the most serious voices out there…. Nobody has written about this connection… Solar SuperStorm => breakdown worldwide grid system => Worldwide Meltdown Nuclear Reactors…. Is it possible to let this go worldwide? Enclosed the basic articles… Coming Solar Storms Could Slam US into Third Depression http://www.opednews.com/articles/Coming-sun-storms-could-sl-by-Terrence-Aym-100630-446.html Cloud computing at […]

Organic Farmers Sue Monsanto In Battle For Future of Food

Another chapter in the ongoing David-and-Goliath-esque saga between organic farmers and the Monsanto Company kicked off recently with a lawsuit filed in federal court. The suit, titled Organic Seed Growers & Trade Association, et al. v. Monsanto, is an effort by a group of family farms, seed businesses and organic growers associations to both protect […]

Fukushima Radiation Nightmare May Last Indefinitely

The Associated Press reports today that radiation has spiked in a water tank in Unit 2. Robots also report that radiation is so high elsewhere at the stricken plant that it is too dangerous for workers to be sent in. “Even I had expected high radioactivity in those areas. I’m sure (plant operator Tokyo Electric […]

Oil shortages and environmental decline could create ‘global quagmire’: military report

The planet is running out of oil and heading toward a future that could trap Canada in a violent spiral of decline in the economy and the environment, a special research unit within the Canadian military is predicting. This “global quagmire” is one of four possible future scenarios advanced by the six members of the […]

TEPCO Expects to End Fukushima Nuclear Crisis as Early as October

Tokyo Electric Power Co. set out a plan to end the crisis at its tsunami-hit Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant, the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, within six months. The utility known as Tepco expects a sustained drop in radiation levels at the plant within three months, the company said in a statement released at a […]

Fukushima Exposure Levels Going Up Everywhere

“Radiation is continuing to leak out of the reactors, the situation is not stable at all, radiation continues to leak,” says Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York and top graduate of Harvard. “We are looking at a ticking timebomb. It appears stable but the slightest disturbance, a […]

The Road to Fukushima: The Nuclear Industry’s Wrong Turn

Nuclear researchers knew long ago that reactor designs now in wide use had already been bested in safety by another design. Why did the industry turn its back on that design? Imagine a nuclear reactor that runs on fuel that could power civilization for millennia; cannot melt down; resists weapons proliferation; can be built on […]

No, Japan’s Nuclear Reactors Are Not “Stable”

“It’s only stable in the sense that you’re dangling from a cliff hanging by your fingernails. And as the time goes by, each fingernail starts to crack. That’s the situation now.” The Japanese government and Tepco claim that the nuclear reactors are “stable” and that radiation releases have subsided to low levels. But world renowned […]

U.N. Decries Stagnant Funding For Population Goals

As the international community readies to cope with a rising world population of some seven billion people by the middle of this year, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns that financial assistance for population-related activities has made no visible gains since 2008. A strong upward trend – with 10.40 billion dollars in 2008 – stalled in […]

Radioactivity in the ocean: Diluted, but far from harmless

With contaminated water from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear complex continuing to pour into the Pacific, scientists are concerned about how that radioactivity might affect marine life. Although the ocean’s capacity to dilute radiation is huge, signs are that nuclear isotopes are already moving up the local food chain. Over the past half-century, the world has […]

Japanese Nuclear Disaster On Par With Chernobyl

he nuclear disaster in Japan continues to go from bad to worse (though no doubt the nuclear power zealots will continue to insist its “safe” and our only hope, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary), with the latest earthquake reigniting reactor 4 at Fukushima – Sinister seven: what Japan’s new nuclear crisis […]

Fire Breaks Out At Fukushima Reactor 4

Time to upgrade Fukushima from 7 to 7¼? From Reuters: “A fire broke out at Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operator Tokyo Electric and Power (TEPCO) said on Tuesday, although flames and smoke were no longer visible. A worker saw fire at a building near the No.4 reactor at around 6:38 a.m. (21:38 […]

Pour Evian on Your Radishes

“It is also slowly dawning on the Japanese that radioactivity is not something that can be scrubbed away with soapy water. It has a Midas touch. Everything it contacts becomes fiendishly toxic. So every drop of water, concrete, foam, rubber glove, fire hose, or anything else that comes into Fukushima’s arc becomes a lethal assassin.” […]

Will the world’s population bubble burst?

Some of the most brilliant scientists on Earth will grapple with the biggest problem facing the planet while in Scotland this week. Edd McCracken looks at the human race’s chances of survival The story of the human species’ future begins with an island on the edge of the world. St Matthew Island is a nondescript […]

Japan bans planting rice in radioactive soil

Fears of radiation spread to rice as the planting season began in Japan, prompting the government to ban its cultivation in contaminated soil as fallout leaking from a tsunami-damaged nuclear plant dealt another blow to the national diet. Vegetables and milk were the first foods that sparked concerns about the safety of Japanese agriculture after […]

Report From Fukushima

The invitation to accompany the scientists on a private fact-finding mission to Fukushima was irresistible. The scientists and engineers who gathered that day, had, for decades, harboured misgivings over reactor safety design and policies and were active in the ongoing debate over the future of nuclear energy in Japan. “There is a dire need for […]

World population could peak at 11 billion instead of 9.4 billion

The UN predicts that we will reach 9.1 billion in 2050, then the peak will occur around 2070 at 9.4 billion. But it is so far ahead and the margin of uncertainty is huge. We could easily end up with 1 or 2 billion more, or less. NBF predicts a higher population because of better […]

India Halts All Food Imports From Japan After Fukushima Fish Found With Excess Radioactivity

India said Tuesday it will suspend food imports from Japan for about three months to prevent food contaminated with radioactive substances leaked from the crisis-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant from entering the country, Press Trust of India news agency reported. Specific food items subject to the suspension were not immediately disclosed, but marine products and […]

The Errors of Malthus

When the world’s population was several million fewer than the total number of Indians in the world today, Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus predicted that unchecked population growth would lead to famine, starvation and high rates of death. As countries release their updated population numbers—the United States did so in December, India did so last month, […]

Fukushima Fallout

1) A full scale meltdown at Fukushima-Daichi is underway spewing radiation into the surrounding air, water, soil, and sea. A change in wind direction is all that it will take to make Tokyo uninhabitable for the next hundred years. But the media is focusing on? The start of baseball season, Snooki Polizzi, and pretty much […]

Blue Flashing Light Seen Over Fukushima Plant

Dominic Di-Natale has the latest from Japan where international nuclear experts believe melted fuel is causing a chain reaction at the Fukushima plant.

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