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USS Reagan update and an interview with a dying sailor

Posted on Sunday 20 July 2014 by Rob Godfrey

Earlier this year the Asia-Pacific Journal published a detailed report called Mobilizing Nuclear Bias: The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and the Politics of Uncertainty, which amongst other things shows clear evidence, from the American Nuclear Regulatory Commission, that the USS Ronald … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Vermin

Posted on Friday 13 June 2014 by Rob Godfrey

If you want an idea of just how demented some members of the human race are you only have to look at all things nuclear. Last week the five senior members of the American Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) testified on … Continue reading →

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Reagan gets Irradiated

Posted on Friday 14 February 2014 by Rob Godfrey

The lawsuit filed by sailors on the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and its support ships has been covered by some mainstream media, albeit on the inside pages (even Fox News). I would venture that, despite the almost total media … Continue reading →

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Radioactive bananas

Posted on Wednesday 27 November 2013 by Rob Godfrey

This month, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) have started removing fuel rods from Fukushima reactor No.4 fuel pool. I’m not going to go into this too much, but I’ll just say that the No.4 fuel pool contains about 1500 … Continue reading →

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Let’s talk about plutonium

Posted on Wednesday 18 September 2013 by Rob Godfrey

The nightmare at Fukushima just keeps getting worse and worse. There are two reasons behind this failure to contain the disaster: firstly, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), who run the plant, are a management company, not an engineering company; … Continue reading →

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Fukushima and Fascism

Posted on Sunday 25 August 2013 by Rob Godfrey

There’s something going on in Japan, because earlier in the week the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) announced that 300 tonnes of highly radioactive water had leaked from a storage tank at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (here). This … Continue reading →

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Fukushima – on a wing and a prayer

Posted on Saturday 6 April 2013 by Rob Godfrey

Two weeks ago there was a power failure at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (here). The spent fuel pools of reactors 1, 2, 3 and 4 lost their cooling systems for more than 24 hours (apparently a radioactive rat … Continue reading →

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Fukushima spent fuel pool No.4

Posted on Wednesday 12 December 2012 by Rob Godfrey

The magnitude 7.3 earthquake that occured off the coast of Japan last Friday was widely reported. What wasn’t reported at all was the effect that this earthquake might have had on the already badly damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. I’m … Continue reading →

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Plutonium is good for you: or, happy astroturfing

Posted on Saturday 12 May 2012 by Rob Godfrey

This week the Guardian published an article (in CIF America) about Fukushima. The article, by Richard Schiffman, went over much the same ground as my recent post about Fukushima (see here). Of course in no time at all the astroturf … Continue reading →

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Fukushima: the possibility of a massive explosion

Posted on Tuesday 29 March 2011 by Rob Godfrey

Last Thursday, TEPCO mistakenly reported that radiation levels found in a puddle of water (that two plant workers had stepped in) were ten million times normal. They later corrected this and said the levels were ten thousand times normal. The … Continue reading →

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The world concentrates on other news as Japan begins to glow in the dark

Posted on Friday 25 March 2011 by Rob Godfrey

I wish I had some good news to report about the nuclear crisis in Japan; but alas: the last two weeks have been a slowly unfolding nightmare. Every day it’s got a little bit worse, and information from the Japanese … Continue reading →

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Japan: it looks like they’re going to have to go for the Chernobyl solution

Posted on Thursday 17 March 2011 by Rob Godfrey

ie, cover all the stricken reactors with sand, lead and boron, and then emtomb them. For four, and possibly, six reactors this will be a massive undertaking, costing billions of dollars. Hopefully it won’t come to this. Engineers have almost … Continue reading →

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Japan: all we need now is for Godzilla to come up out of the sea

Posted on Sunday 13 March 2011 by Rob Godfrey

Today, Sunday, there’s been much conflicting and confusing information about the Fukushima nuclear reactors, from both the plant operators, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), and the Japanese Government. What does seem certain is that the three reactors that were in … Continue reading →

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The Japanese earthquake and memories of Chernobyl

Posted on Friday 11 March 2011 by Rob Godfrey

The disaster caused by the earthquake today off the coast of north east Japan is quite breathtaking. To give some idea of the scale of things, news agencies are now saying that two trains have been ‘reported missing’. That’s two … Continue reading →

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