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Fukushima Rad News 4/16/13:Plutonium 238 Detected Offshore Of Daiichi; 7.8 Mag Quake Strikes Iran

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Published on 16 Apr 2013

M7.8 quake hits Iran-Pakistan border area
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Iran near its border with Pakistan at 10:44 UTC on Tuesday.
The epicenter of the quake is estimated to be about 86 kilometers east-south-east of Khash, a town in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan Province.
The US Geological Survey first estimated the focus at a depth of 15.2 kilometers, but later changed it to 82 kilometers.
Details on the damage are not known. Iranian TV says at least 40 people were killed.
The tremor was felt in wide areas, including New Delhi in India, about 1,500 kilometers from the epicenter, and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, 700 kilometers away.

Iran Quake Shows Recklessness of Nuclear Program
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04…

TEPCO moves irradiated water to ground tanks
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun moving contaminated water from leaking underground storage pools to tanks above ground.
Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, plans to move most of the contaminated water to tanks above ground after a series of leaks were found in some of the 7 underground storage pools.

Osaka court rejects demand to halt nuclear reactor
A Japanese court has rejected a suit by local residents demanding 2 nuclear power reactors in central Japan be turned off. The court said the reactors are safe.
The No. 3 and 4 reactors at the Ohi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture are the only 2 online in Japan following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

French activists protest on nuclear fuel to Japan
Dozens of French activists have staged a protest ahead of a nuclear fuel shipment to Japan.
The shipping was halted after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident forced most of Japan’s nuclear plants to shutdown.

Terror attack suspected over Boston blasts
Two explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon have killed at least 3 people and wounded more than 100 others.
Media outlets say the blasts occurred at around 2:50 PM on Monday and hit runners and spectators. The finish line is in Boston’s city center.

Multiple nuclear plants now on ‘Heightened Awareness’ after Boston Marathon bombings — Reactors in New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts affected
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OP-ED: Inhuman Radiation Experiments
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the declassification of top-secret studies, the “Human Radiation Experiments,” done over a period of 30 years, in which the US conducted radiation experiments on as many as 20,000 vulnerable US citizens.
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/60253

Environmental groups go to court over Ontario’s Darlington nuclear station
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/enviro…

New U.S. Nuclear Waste Policy May Be Illegal: GAO
In January The U.S. Department of Energy adopted a new policy for the storage of nuclear waste, embarking on a plan to build two new interim storage sites and a new permanent storage facility. On Thursday, a General Accounting Office official told Congress this policy may be illegal.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmah…

Nuke evacuation plans make little sense
http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20…

{ Plutonium Findings }
http://fukushimaupdates.info/plutoniu…

Was Fukushima Daiichi Unit-3 producing Rocket Fuel?
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/forum/218…

April 17, 2013 - Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized