SPECIAL COVERAGE: Japan Quake, Tsunami, Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Emergency…

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6/4/11: Fukushima Radiation at Highest Level Since Crisis Began
Germany announces plan to dismantle all nukes by 2022…

5/13/11: ‘Serious Problems’ Found in U.S. Nuclear Backup Systems
Radiation believed leaking through hole in bottom of containment vessel…

5/12/11: TEPCO Admits Unit 1 Reactor ‘Meltdown’, Fuel Rods Exposed
Radiation believed leaking through hole in bottom of containment vessel…

3/30/11: AUDIO: Brad on KPFK w/ Fukushima News and More…
Joined by the lovely Desi Doyen of the Green News Report…

3/29/11: ‘Maximum Alert’: Crisis Continues, TEPCO Prez Hospitalized
PLUS: A glimpse at living conditions for the heroic plant workers…

3/29/11: ‘Green News Report’ – Special Coverage: Japan Fallout
Fukushima’s nuke disaster leads to political shift in Germany; Congressional concerns about US nuke evacuation plans…

3/27/11: TEPCO ‘Very Sorry’: Radiation Spikes, Work Remains Perilous
Plant operator apologizes, again; AP reports they ‘all but disregarded 3,000 years of geological history’ in designing safe-guards’…

3/27/11: Sign of Hope on Japan’s Long Road to Recovery

3/25/11: ‘Grave And Serious’: More Comparison to Chernobyl Levels
Rupture feared; Workers contaminated; New evacs ‘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…

3/25/11: Brad on ‘Randi Rhodes Show’ on Disaster, US ‘Fallout’
Breaking developments and speculation on the supposed ‘nuclear renaissance’ previously scheduled for the US…

3/24/11: ‘Step at a Time & a Few More Steps’: Disturbing New Science
Stabilization continues, as new data suggests 50% of radioactive cesium released by Chernobyl already released by Daiichi’s reactors…

3/24/11: ‘Green News Report’- Special Coverage: Japan Disaster
Death toll rising; Tap water warning lifted in Tokyo, spreading elsewhere; Radiation hospitalizes workers; Support for nukes drops in US; PLUS: Struggling to maintaining tradition amidst disaster…

3/23/11: Brad’s KPFK Intvw w/ VOA’s Steve Herman in Tokyo
‘Neutron beams’, water ‘panic’, black smoke and the public responses from TEPCO, the government and the people of Japan, LIVE from Tokyo…

3/23/11: Setbacks: Black Smoke, Evacuations, Tokyo Tap Water
‘Panic’ reported as stores run dry of bottled water after government says iodine in metropolitan water unsafe for infants…

3/22/11: ‘Razor-Thin Margins’, Positive Progress at Fukushima
Control room re-opened as some power returns, workers attempt to restore cooling systems; U.S. NRC offers mixed signals…

3/22/11: ‘Green News Report’ – Special Coverage: Nuclear Crisis
Fukushima on edge; Japan’s wind farms to the rescue; New US nuke reviews; PLUS: Oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico…

3/20/11: ‘Closer to Bringing Situation Under Control’: Sun & Mon
Stabilization precarious; UPDATED: Gray smoke forces evacuation…

3/19/11: Some Reactors ‘Stabilized’ as War Breaks Out Elsewhere
PLUS: Radiation detected in food, water; New Gulf oil slick discovered; War protesters arrested; Slow news week continues…

3/18/11: ‘Renewed Nuclear Chain Reaction Feared’: Friday Fukushima
Spent fuel rod danger; Fallout detected in S. California; Wind ‘saving Japan’s ass’; Coulter: Radiation ‘good for you’; PM’s office tweets…

3/17/11: Brad Interviews Palast: TEPCO Plans for New Nukes in TX
Govt fraud investigator on “bankrupt, corrupt, criminal” nuke companies…

3/17/11: ‘Green News Report’ – Special Coverage: Crisis in Japan
Compounding natural, humanitarian and spiraling nuclear disasters – desperate measures to hold off a nightmare…

3/17/11: VIDEO: Close-up Aerial Footage of Crippled Plant
TEPCO offers most detailed view yet of ravaged Fukushima reactors…

3/16/11: Desperation: Helicopters Drop Water On Hot Nuke Reactors
Def Minister: ‘We could not delay further’; Four risky drops on Unit 3; Water said in Unit 4 fuel pool; Water cannon trucks next | VIDEO…

3/16/11: Dozens of Countries, Not U.S., Tell Citizens to Leave Tokyo
UK, Germany, France more worried than us. Who ya gonna believe?…

3/15/11: SMOKE BILLOWS FROM FUKUSHIMA’S REACTOR 3
Workers evacuated as radiation levels rose quickly; Govt’s chief spokesperson says smoke believed to be radioactive steam…

3/15/11: ‘Green News Report’: Japan on Brink of Nuclear Disaster
Natural, humanitarian and now man-made disaster, as 50 nuclear plant workers stand in the way of nuclear meltdown…

3/14/11:


PM: RADIATION DANGER, EVACS WIDENED, ‘STAY CALM’

Explosions at Reactors 2 & 4; Fuels Rods at Unit 2 ‘Half Exposed’;
All but 50 workers evacuated from plant…

3/13/11:

EXPLOSION AT FUKUSHIMA’S NUKE REACTOR UNIT 3

U.S. 7th Fleet repositioned after exposure to radioactive cloud
Sunday live blogging 2nd EXPLOSION at Fukushima…

3/13/11: VIDEO: From Within the Tsunami, a Town Engulfed
Watch as a town disappears in minutes…

3/12/11:


EXPLOSION ROCKS FUKUSHIMA NUKE REACTOR UNIT 1

Cooling System Fails at Unit 3 | Govt: ‘Partial Meltdown’ Under Way
Saturday day, night live blog following 1st EXPLOSION at Fukushima…

3/11/11: NUCLEAR EMERGENCIES AT 5 REACTORS
Friday day, night live blog until EXPLOSION at Fukushima reactor…

3/11/11: ‘Big Government Tyranny’ Saved Countless Lives
Strict building codes in Japan likely impossible now here…

3/11/11: 8.9 QUAKE, TSUNAMI STRIKES JAPAN – VIDEO
Unprecedented disaster strikes, towns washed away in seconds…

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