{"id":10111,"date":"2013-07-04T11:59:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T18:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?page_id=10111"},"modified":"2013-07-04T12:27:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T19:27:01","slug":"special-coverage-japan-quake-tsunami-fukushima-nuclear-power-plant-emergency","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?page_id=10111","title":{"rendered":"SPECIAL COVERAGE: Japan Quake, Tsunami, Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Emergency…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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6\/4\/11:<\/b> Fukushima Radiation at Highest Level Since Crisis Began<\/i><\/b><\/a>
\nGermany announces plan to dismantle all nukes by 2022…<\/p>\n

5\/13\/11:<\/b> ‘Serious Problems’ Found in U.S.<\/u> Nuclear Backup Systems<\/b><\/i><\/a>
\nRadiation believed leaking through hole in bottom of containment vessel…<\/p>\n

5\/12\/11:<\/b> TEPCO Admits Unit 1 Reactor ‘Meltdown’, Fuel Rods Exposed<\/b><\/i><\/a>
\nRadiation believed leaking through hole in bottom of containment vessel…<\/p>\n

3\/30\/11:<\/b> AUDIO: Brad on KPFK w\/ Fukushima News and More…<\/b><\/i><\/a>
\nJoined by the lovely Desi Doyen of the Green News Report…<\/i><\/p>\n

3\/29\/11:<\/b> ‘Maximum Alert’: Crisis Continues, TEPCO Prez Hospitalized<\/b><\/i><\/a>
\nPLUS: A glimpse at living conditions for the heroic plant workers…<\/p>\n

3\/29\/11:<\/b> ‘Green News Report’ – Special Coverage: Japan Fallout<\/b><\/i><\/a>
\nFukushima’s nuke disaster leads to political shift in Germany; Congressional concerns about US nuke evacuation plans…<\/p>\n

3\/27\/11:<\/b> TEPCO ‘Very Sorry’: Radiation Spikes, Work Remains Perilous<\/b><\/i><\/a>
\nPlant operator apologizes, again; AP reports they ‘all but disregarded 3,000 years of geological history’ in designing safe-guards’…<\/p>\n

3\/27\/11:<\/b> Sign of Hope on Japan’s Long Road to Recovery<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

3\/25\/11:<\/b> ‘Grave And Serious’: More Comparison to Chernobyl Levels<\/b><\/i><\/a>
\nRupture feared; Workers contaminated; New evacs ‘recommended’…
\nPLUS:<\/b> 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…<\/i><\/p>\n

3\/25\/11:<\/b> Brad on ‘Randi Rhodes Show’ on Disaster, US ‘Fallout’<\/b><\/a>
\nBreaking developments and speculation on the supposed ‘nuclear renaissance’ previously scheduled for the US…<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

3\/22\/11:<\/b> ‘Green News Report’ – Special Coverage: Nuclear Crisis<\/b><\/a>
\nFukushima on edge; Japan’s wind farms to the rescue; New US nuke reviews; PLUS:<\/i> Oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico… <\/p>\n

3\/20\/11:<\/b> ‘Closer to Bringing Situation Under Control’: Sun & Mon<\/i><\/b><\/a>
\nStabilization precarious; UPDATED: Gray smoke forces evacuation…<\/p>\n

3\/19\/11:<\/b> Some Reactors ‘Stabilized’ as War Breaks Out Elsewhere<\/b><\/a>
\nPLUS: Radiation detected in food, water; New Gulf oil slick discovered; War protesters arrested; Slow news week continues…<\/p>\n

3\/18\/11:<\/b> ‘Renewed Nuclear Chain Reaction Feared’: Friday Fukushima<\/b><\/i><\/a>
\nSpent fuel rod danger; Fallout detected in S. California; Wind ‘saving Japan’s ass’; Coulter: Radiation ‘good for you’; PM’s office tweets…<\/p>\n

3\/17\/11:<\/b> Brad Interviews Palast: TEPCO Plans for New Nukes in TX<\/b><\/a>
\nGovt fraud investigator on “bankrupt, corrupt, criminal” nuke companies…<\/p>\n

3\/17\/11:<\/b> ‘Green News Report’ – Special Coverage: Crisis in Japan<\/b><\/a>
\nCompounding natural, humanitarian and spiraling nuclear disasters – desperate measures to hold off a nightmare…<\/p>\n

3\/17\/11:<\/b> VIDEO: Close-up Aerial Footage of Crippled Plant<\/b><\/a>
\nTEPCO offers most detailed view yet of ravaged Fukushima reactors…<\/p>\n

3\/16\/11:<\/b> Desperation: Helicopters Drop Water On Hot Nuke Reactors<\/b><\/i><\/a>
\nDef Minister: ‘We could not delay further’; Four risky drops on Unit 3; Water said in Unit 4 fuel pool; Water cannon trucks next | VIDEO…<\/i><\/p>\n

3\/16\/11:<\/b> Dozens of Countries, Not U.S., Tell Citizens to Leave Tokyo<\/b><\/a>
\nUK, Germany, France more worried than us. Who ya gonna believe?…<\/p>\n

3\/15\/11:<\/b> SMOKE BILLOWS FROM FUKUSHIMA’S REACTOR 3<\/b><\/i><\/a>
\nWorkers evacuated as radiation levels rose quickly<\/i>; Govt’s chief spokesperson says smoke believed to be radioactive steam…<\/p>\n

3\/15\/11:<\/b> ‘Green News Report’: Japan on Brink of Nuclear Disaster<\/b><\/a>
\nNatural, humanitarian and now man-made disaster, as 50 nuclear plant workers stand in the way of nuclear meltdown…<\/p>\n

3\/14\/11:<\/b>
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\nPM: RADIATION DANGER, EVACS WIDENED, ‘STAY CALM’<\/b><\/i><\/a>
\nExplosions at Reactors 2 & 4; Fuels Rods at Unit 2 ‘Half Exposed’;
All but 50 workers evacuated from plant…<\/p>\n

3\/13\/11:<\/b>
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\nEXPLOSION AT FUKUSHIMA’S NUKE REACTOR UNIT 3<\/b><\/i><\/a>
\nU.S. 7th Fleet repositioned after exposure to radioactive cloud
\nSunday live blogging 2nd EXPLOSION at Fukushima…<\/i><\/p>\n

3\/13\/11:<\/b> VIDEO: From Within the Tsunami, a Town Engulfed<\/b><\/a>
\nWatch as a town disappears in minutes…<\/p>\n

3\/12\/11:<\/b>
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\nEXPLOSION ROCKS FUKUSHIMA NUKE REACTOR UNIT 1<\/b><\/i><\/a>
\nCooling System Fails at Unit 3 | Govt: ‘Partial Meltdown’ Under Way
\nSaturday day, night live blog following 1st EXPLOSION at Fukushima…<\/i>
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3\/11\/11:<\/b> NUCLEAR EMERGENCIES AT 5 REACTORS<\/i><\/b><\/a>
\nFriday day, night live blog until EXPLOSION at Fukushima reactor…<\/i>
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3\/11\/11:<\/b> ‘Big Government Tyranny’ Saved Countless Lives<\/b><\/a>
\nStrict building codes in Japan likely impossible now here…<\/p>\n

3\/11\/11:<\/b> 8.9 QUAKE, TSUNAMI STRIKES JAPAN – VIDEO<\/i><\/b><\/a>
\nUnprecedented disaster strikes, towns washed away in seconds…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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