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IOKIYAR: Possible 2012 GOP Presidential Hopeful ‘Pulls an Ann Coulter’ (Commits Voter Fraud)

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‘Very Grave And Serious’: More Analyses Suggesting Fukushima Disaster Reaching Chernobyl Levels

Rupture feared; Workers contaminated; Evacuations 'recommended'

PLUS: German study uses French data to corroborate findings from Austrian, U.S. scientists, suggesting Fukushima disaster should be reclassified as 'level 7' accident, on par with Chernobyl...

‘A Step at a Time, and a Few More Steps’: Disturbing Science Behind Calm at the Fukushima Nuke Plant

Progress, stabilization continues, as new data suggest 50% of the radioactive cesium released by Chernobyl may have already been released by Daiichi's crippled reactors...

My KPFK Interview with VOA Asia Bureau Chief Steve Herman: Latest out of Fukushima & Tokyo

'Neutron beams,' water 'panic,' black smoke and the responses from TEPCO, the government and the people of Japan, LIVE from Tokyo...

‘Razor-Thin Margins’ and Positive Progress: Tuesday at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

U.S. officials on U.S. nuke plants: '100 percent confidence'...

‘Closer to Bringing the Situation Under Control’: Sunday Night, Monday Morning at Fukushima

LATER UPDATE: Workers return to plant, resume attempts to restore electricity to Units 1 to 4 | LATE UPDATES: Gray smoke at Unit 3, workers 'temporarily evacuated' | Workers training to spray concrete to encase Unit 4...

Happy Anniversary! Fukushima May be Cooling, the Gulf May be Leaking, and a Bad Moon is Rising…

UPDATED TWICE: Pressure said rising again at nuclear reactor Unit 3, now stabilized after all...

‘Renewed Nuclear Chain Reaction Feared’: Friday Fears at Fukushima’s Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

Latest status of crippled reactors; Spent fuel rod danger; Fallout detected in S. California; Wind 'saving Japan's ass'; Coulter: Radiation is 'good for you'; Prime Minister's office tweets...

VIDEO: TEPCO Releases New Aerial Footage of Crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactors

Helicopter water drops, water cannon trucks reportedly having little success at lowering temperature, radiation levels at plant...

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