Fukushima Chiefs: The Technology Needed To Decommission China-Syndromed Reactors Doesn’t Exist … Maybe In 200 Years? Updated 4/9/2015 Preface: As you read this post, please keep in mind: The reactors didn’t just suffer a melt down, or even a China syndrome type melt-through, but a series of melt OUTS. Scientists have no idea where…
Two Months Later: Tsunami Devastated Japan May 9, 2011 | 0 Two months ago this week, on March 11, the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern Japan. As of today, nearly 15,000 deaths have been confirmed, and more than 10,000 remain listed as missing. In some coastal communities, where the ground has sunk lower than…
A HERO OF THE FUKUSHIMA 50 Fukushima Plant Worker’s Blog Post By Erik Hayden 10:23 AM ET As the world watches the precarious developments at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear plant, the small band of Tokyo Electric Power Company workers frantically trying to contain the radiation leakage have been hailed as heroes. Today the New…
Lethal active Merapi volcano erupted Wednesday, after spewing lava and smoke for more than a week. The volcano’s first blast came a day after a major earthquake hit the country, triggering a tsunami and killing hundreds.