Water leaks from 14 points at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant’s facilities have been found, leading the operator to suspend the cooling of the spent fuel pool at its No. 4 reactor for two hours, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) was quoted by local media as reporting on Monday. The leakage is believed to have been caused by the freezing cold weather, and the leaked water included... 

Radiation readings from the EnviroReporter have revealed high levels of HOT particles in Michigan, possibly from the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Radiation levels after a storm in the area read 561% over normal background levels. Then, after a second storm, the levels were even higher, 6.5 times higher than normal accepted levels to be exact. Michael Collins, the founder of EnviroReporter recently... 

A peer-reviewed study published in the International Journal of Health Services estimates 14,000 excess deaths in the United States are linked to the radioactive fallout from the Fukushima nuclear reactors. The article by Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman is the first published in a medical journal. “This study of Fukushima health hazards is the first to be published in a scientific journal. It... 

Strontium 90 was measured in Yokohama, Kouhokuku. In the simplest put, it’s over. The amount was 195 Bq/kg, detected by a university staff teaching engineering, so the measurement is trustworthy. It has nothing to do with the historical world-wide nuclear test, because it was measured on the roof of and apartment, which was built only 5 years ago. Now the test result was sent to Yokohama city government. Yokohama... 

Yoichi Shimatsu, former editor of the Japan Times Sixteen tons and what you get is a nuclear catastrophe. The explosions that rocked the Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant were more powerful than the combustion of hydrogen gas, as claimed by the Tokyo Electric Power Company. The actual cause of the blasts, according to intelligence sources in Washington, was nuclear fission of. warhead cores illegally taken... 

A recent report says that US nuclear plants are in grave condition. With busted seals, broken nozzles and rusted pipes plaguing America’s nuclear power plants, a report released by The Associated Press today warns that the US is in danger of copycatting the catastrophe that ravaged the Fukushima facility in Japan. After a yearlong investigation, the AP has concluded that many of the nation’s facilities... 

TEPCO now sheepishly admits that nearly 60 tons of radioactive water leaked out of the crippled nuclear power plant. So far the only good news to accompany the Fukushima catastrophe has been that for all the fallout, the radiation has been mostly contained due to Northwesterly winds which have been blowing any radioactivity mostly out and into the Pacific (coupled with relatively little rainfall),... 

A view of the Fukushima nuclear power plant following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. For the first time since the outbreak of Japan’s nuclear crisis, workers have been able to enter the quake and tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi power plant. On Thursday, Japanese workers entered the reactor No.1 at the battered Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the facility’s operator Tokyo Electric... 

On April 26 the world remembered the Chernobyl disaster. The 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident came amid another nuclear tragedy, this time in Japan. What is the situation in Fukushima now, after over a month after the accident? Can we draw parallels with the Chernobyl disaster? Is there a future for nuclear energy after the accident? Vladimir Khrustalev, an expert on nuclear technology with... 

The risks associated with iodine-131 contamination in Europe are no longer “negligible,” according to CRIIRAD, a French research body on radioactivity. The NGO is advising pregnant women and infants against “risky behaviour,” such as consuming fresh milk or vegetables with large leaves. In response to thousands of inquiries from citizens concerned about fallout from the Fukushima... 

A tsunami warning has been issued for north-eastern Japan after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck off the east coast of Honshu. The tsunami is predicted to have a wave 1m (3ft) high. Those in the warning zone should move to high ground, Japanese TV said. The area was ravaged by an earthquake and tsunami last month which severely damaged the Fukushima nuclear plant. Thursday’s quake... 

Radioactive readings found in Japan seawater has reached millions of times higher than the legal limit, the operator of Fukushima’s damaged nuclear plant says. According to the findings, seawater samples taken from the water near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant’s No. 2 reactor several days ago were contaminated with radioactive iodine-131, seven and a half million times the legal limit,... 

Subcontractors are reportedly being offered up to £760 a day to brave high radiation levels. Workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant are being paid vast sums of money to brave high radiation levels – as experts warn that the race to save the facility has been lost. Subcontractors are reportedly being offered up to 100,000 yen a day (£760) – 20 times the going rate – but... 

A protester in protective mask holds a placard during an anti nuclear rally in Tokyo, Sunday, March 27, 2011. Leaked water in Unit 2 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant measured 10 million times higher than usual radioactivity levels when the reactor is operating normally, Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman Takashi Kurita told reporters in Tokyo. The placard has a message that reads "Don't spread... 

Radioactive Moss - Landmannalaugar, Iceland. Miniscule amounts of radioactive particles believed to have come from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant have been detected as far away as Iceland, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday. They stressed the tiny traces of iodine — measured by a network of international monitoring stations as they spread eastwards from Japan across the...