CANADIAN NEWS BROADCAST ON FALLOUT - US minimal radiation?This will be the last update until tomorrow morning. Please take the time to read this article on the amount of spent fuel rods that were stored at the Fukushima nuclear power plant and what their implications could mean. Also take the time to look at this powerpoint:
Spent Fuel Rods Stored On TOP Of Containment Vessel - NPR Graphic
- Govt: radiation spike likely from No.2 reactor
- SURGEON GENERAL says good to be prepared in USA?
- Fuel rod fire at Fukushima reactor “would be like Chernobyl on steroids
Update: 12:22pm PST – VIA Steve Herman of Voice of America: “Australia says 2 of its rescuers in Fukushima-ken exposed to low levels of radiation. Their base of ops 100km from nuke plant.”
Update: 12:19pm PST – Multiple twitter reports indicate that it has started snowing in the Fukushima area.
Update: 11:59pm PST – Helicopters are reportedly planning on dropping water onto reactor #3. France has asked their people to leave Tokyo for France or to the south in Japan. The Daini plant, the second nuclear plant in the Fukushima region is reporting fluctuating temperatures.
Update: 10:57pm PST – CNN’s live blog is reporting that workers have returned to the nuclear power plant. Remember the power plant in question has a long history of cover ups. This is an openly admitted fact.
Update: 10:46pm PST -Japanese Officials have decided to accept forum help. The fact that workers have had to suspend operations shows that this situation has turned VERY serious. Reporters on CNN seem eerily scared. Japan is expected to ask the U.S. military for help.
“The workers cannot carry out even minimal work at the plant now,” Edano said. “Because of the radiation risk we are on standby,” reported The Associated Press.
- America on radiation alert: Japan faces world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl as experts warn fallout may reach U.S.
- Agency: Damaged container may be causing smoke, radiation spike
- Japan suspends work at stricken nuclear plant
- Workers ordered to leave Japan nuke plant
Fukushima Workers Withdraw After Radiation Spikes
BBC
A rise in radiation levels at Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has forced workers to suspend operations, a government spokesman says.
He was speaking after smoke was seen rising from reactor three. Earlier, a blaze struck reactor four for the second time in two days.
Friday’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami, which killed thousands, damaged the plant’s cooling functions.
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