Emergency workers flee after radiation surges in nuke plant
Japan ordered emergency workers to withdraw from its stricken nuclear power complex early today amid a surge in radiation. The evacuation temporarily suspended efforts to cool overheating reactors. Japanese self-defence forces were preparing to pour water on to the quake-crippled No. 3 reactor from a helicopter to try to cool...
Boiling Fuel Pools at Japanese Nuclear Plant May Pose Bigger Threat Than Meltdown
Cooling Nuke Waste Nuclear material submerged in water for cooling Japan’s nuclear disaster continues to unfold this morning, and as workers at the Fukushima Daiichi continue to pump seawater into the crippled reactors there a new threat is emerging: the spent fuel rods in the cooling pools at each reactor. While reactors...
Doomsday Scenario Unfolding at Fukushima
Click to enlarge The slow motion events occurring at Japan's (or GE's) Fukushima reactor cannot be sugar-coated. It is a doomsday scenario unfolding. Nuclear reactors are not the same as coal/oil/gas electricity plants. Unlike conventional plants, they cannot be turned off. So while brave workers were tending to Units 1, 2 and...
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