If you don’t know the latest on the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan, you’re not alone. While we’re subjected to non-stop coverage of Anthony Weiner or the Casey Anthony trial, one of the largest environmental disasters in human history is still radiating away, unabated and ignored, on the Japanese coast. If you’re not furious about Fukushima, it’s probably because you haven’t heard any of these stories…
Fukushima- The elephant in the room- AFACEAFACE, Jun 13, 2011- “Last week the Japanese government made startling announcements. Three of the five reactors experienced total meltdowns on March 11th, the day of the initial earthquake, and all three reactors have “melted through” leaky containment vessels, molten masses of melted fuel rods now fissioning on the basement floors of those reactors. The statement further confessed that levels of radiation released from the explosions were actually twice as high as initially reported, blaming the miscalculation on bad math…”
Fukushima: It’s much worse than you think- Dahr Jamail, 16 Jun 2011 12:50
Fairewinds Associates- Fairewinds Associates is a website run by Arnie Gunderson, a nuclear engineer who became an industry whistleblower and analyst. His coverage of Fukushima has been called “the best available”, and one article of particular interest to the West Coast is here.
ENENews- ENE Energy news was started to keep tabs on the Fukushima disaster, but now carries info on the Ft. Calhoun and Cooper reactors as well. (Didn’t know about them? They’re two reactors in Nebraska in danger of being washed away by the MidWest flooding.)
Japan admits 3 nuclear meltdowns– Democracy Now, June 10, 2011 (video)
Nuclear Nightmare Worsens- AFACEAFACE, Jun 21, 2011
Japan declares no-go zone around crippled Fukushima nuclear plant– THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Thursday, April 21st 2011, 4:00 AM
Nuclear meltdowns nearly made northern Japan uninhabitable- By David Worthington, June 7, 2011, 4:50 PM PDT
Japan Strains to Fix a Reactor Damaged Before Quake- HIROKO TABUCHI, NY Times, 6/17/11. Japan has been trying to repair the Monju reactor since “…a 3.3-ton device crashed into the reactor’s inner vessel, cutting off access to the plutonium and uranium fuel rods at its core.”
…and the media silence is not going unnoticed…
Deadly Silence on Fukushima– Vivian Norris, 05/ 9/11 05:05 AM ET. Analysis of the lack of media coverage
Fukushima meltdown – Caldicott says Japan may become uninhabitable – media silent. Independent Australian, Tuesday, 31 May 2011
