March 21, 2011

The nuclear power plants in Japan after the March 11 , 2011 earthquakes could become a major nuclear disaster.
Keep watching this page for updates and insights by Raymond Rouse on the issues from a nuke scientist's point of view.

Continuing Updates:

IAEA Status of Fukushima

INES Leaflet on Nuclear Accidents

Continuing Updates on Earthquakes around the world

September 30, 2011
New Fukushima Daiichi Video Plus Weekly Update
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review

September 29, 2011
TEPCO says temperature of No. 2 reactor has dropped below 100 degrees C
Japan needs to consider nature-based solutions in rebuilding efforts: IUCN
For nuclear power industry, Fukushima was just bump in road

September 28, 2011
Gov't faced with decontaminating millions of cubic meters of soil in 4 prefectures
Fukushima City announces 2-year decontamination plan

September 27, 2011
U.N. agency to aid Fukushima decontamination
Local assembly wants Hamaoka nuclear plant permanently shut down
Fukushima Desolation Worst Since Nagasaki as Residents Flee
Labour conference: Jack Dromey says UK nuclear 'safe'

September 26, 2011
Demonstrators challenge gov't to build nuclear plant in Tokyo
Radiation found in rice from Fukushima Pref; more tests planned

September 23, 2011
Ban urges better safety, security at nuclear plants

September 22, 2011
Chubu Electric starts building 18-meter seawall to protect Hamaoka nuclear plant
Typhoon batters Japan but nuclear plant safe; M5.3 quake strikes Ibaraki

September 21, 2011
Workers race to protect nuclear plant from typhoon
TEPCO says up to 500 tons of groundwater flowing into Fukushima nuclear plant

September 20, 2011
Hosono tells IAEA that Japan will have 'safer nuclear future'
Thousands march against nuclear power in Tokyo
Evacuees visit homes in Fukushima no-go zone

September 19, 2011
Slow work

September 16, 2011
Japan to build floating wind farm near Fukushima nuclear plant
Second Fukushima plant unlikely to reopen: Edano

September 15, 2011
M6.2 earthquake hits northeast Japan; no tsunami warning

September 14, 2011
International Atomic Energy Agency Adopst Post-Fukushima Safety Plan

September 13, 2011
Noda says Japan will restart nuclear reactors, but review energy policy

September 12, 2011
Japan's nuclear disaster - six months on
U.N. agency tackles post-Fukushima nuclear safety

September 9, 2011
New Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima nuclear plant
Quake shakes nuclear zone
Gov't lifts restrictions on power use in and around Tokyo

September 8, 2011
Noda visits crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant
Teijin creates radiation-detecting plastic
Have your say: Where should the massive amount of radioactive debris, soil and nuclear waste
from the area around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant be stored?

September 7, 2011
A Guide to Radiation Hazard Evaluation, Applied to Fukushima Recovery Workers- By Bobby R. Scott, Ph.D.
Where should the massive amount of radioactive debris, soil and nuclear waste from the area around the Fushuma Daiichi nuclear power plant be stored?

September 6, 2011
Japan to seek IAEA advice before restarting reactors
Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel winner urge Japan to abandon nuclear power

September 4, 2011
Enson Inoue reveals covert trip to Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

September 2, 2011
Inside the Fukushima exclusion zone
Solitary holdout refuses to leave Fukushima nuclear zone
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant weekly review part 1
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant weekly review part 2

September 1, 2011
TEPCO to pay compensation to Fukushima evacuees from October
The Vulcan Report: Fukushima is continually blasting all of us with high levels of Cesium
-Why do some websites misrepresent the truth?

August 2011 Updates

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June 2011 Updates

April 27 - May 31, 2011 Updates

April 18 - 26, 2011 Updates

April 10 - 17, 2011 Updates

April 2 - 9, 2011 Updates

March 27 - April 1, 2011 Updates

March 11 - 26, 2011 Updates