Open Intelligence / Energy

At 45:00 in Gregory Jaczko, Former Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: There's very risk significant activities happening in the next several months with the attempt to remove fuel from the Unit 4 spent fuel pool. That's a very significant activity, and it's also unprecedented. There's significant structural damage to the Unit 4 spent fuel pool. New structures had to be created. They're going to have to lift significant debris from the pools. These are all very, very unprecedented activities.

Fukushima Mother's Plea to U.N.: Children and adults are suffering tremendously - Sharp increase in bloody urine, bone pain, more - Doctor says many have similar symptoms with unknown causes - Family's health deteriorated all at once, recovered soon after moving

Censored Japan gov't scientist reveals much more radioactive material is leaking into Pacific from Fukushima than claimed by Tepco - It's getting released outside of port's barrier, directly into ocean - Officials refused to allow publication of study on sea contamination (PHOTO)

Japan Times: Now 400 tons a day of toxic water is estimated to be entering Pacific from Fukushima plant; 100 more tons per day than what Tepco had claimed - Asahi: Leakage of radioactive material "becoming serious"

New Book: Nuclear explosion may have occurred at Fukushima Unit 3 after 'supercritical condition' - Sudden increase in plutonium, uranium recorded by U.S. at several EPA stations

NHK 'News Flash': Tepco admits not working on plan to stop Fukushima radioactive leaks flowing into ocean - Barriers to block massive groundwater contamination 'on hold' - Prime Minister and Tepco still cling to lie that it's staying in port

'Unusually high' radioactivity detected in Fukushima groundwater by ocean outside Reactors 1 & 2 - High-level strontium contamination 'spreading' underground"

Textbook: Fukushima disaster contaminated the territory of Japan, Sea of Japan, Korean Peninsula - Up to 8 orders of magnitude above global fallout background off prefecture's coast

FDA bans import of food, seafood from 19 perfectures in Japan over radiation

[...] 238Pu/239+240Pu activity ratios (0.33-2.2) higher than that of global fallout (0.026) were detected at five sites, indicating a possible distribution of Pu related to the accident northwest of the FDNPP. Similarly, using the alpha counting technique, a field survey was made soon after the accident in some heavily contaminated areas outside the 20 km exclusion zone, as well as in Okuma Town adjacent to the plant. The anomaly of the 238Pu/239+240Pu activity ratios (0.059-2.60) indicated the presence of trace amounts of Pu isotopes originating from the accident in soils from Iitate Village and Okuma Town. […]