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Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Tragedy beyond imagination is now unfolding in Japan.

(IWAKI, Japan) - CNN’s Anderson Cooper reported on AC 360 Tuesday night that 50 Japanese workers suspended operations at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Northeastern Honshu.

At the risks of their lives, workers had been attempting to control fires and flood the site with seawater and boric acid in an effort to prevent a meltdown of the nuclear rods.

From Hiroshima to Fukushima to US!

And one fine day the lion may just will lie down with The Lamb and man will indeed abolish nuclear everything and thus make war no more; and that will create the Kingdom of God on this tiny planet we call earth.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Japan's quake-damaged northeast has helped recall the fact that sixty-six years ago Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s razed villages and burning shells of buildings were MADE IN THE USA! Japan has 54 nuclear power plants and about one-third of its nationwide electricity comes from nuclear energy.

There are 104 nuclear power plants in the United States!

Renewable Energy Revisited

The debate over the relative merits of the nuclear industry will soon focus on alternative energy with renewed vigor.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The nuclear emergency in Japan continues to unfold, with six reactors in an unstable state due to cooling problems brought about by the earthquake and tsunami events last weekend.

The specter of a nuclear meltdown, with the possibility of nuclear contamination over a wide area of Japan at the very least, has re-ignited the debate about the safety of nuclear power.

Secret Plan Exposed to Use Surplus Weapons Plutonium in Washington State Nuclear Reactor

FOIA Documents Reveal Energy Northwest Plans Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Experiments While Seeking to Control Information Leaks to the Media.

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) - Department of Energy (DOE) documents released to Friends of the Earth reveal that the public utility Energy Northwest hopes to bring experimental radioactive plutonium fuel into Washington State for use in risky tests in a nuclear reactor not originally designed for that purpose.

The documents also reveal that the utility has sought to keep information secret the about the controversial and risky pursuit of use of surplus weapons plutonium as nuclear reactor fuel.

How to Survive Nuclear Fallout From Japan`s Reactor Meltdown

Highly radioactive dust-like particles will be carried on the prevailing winds for hundreds or thousands of miles.

(CHICAGO) - With six reactors failing in Japan and at least two undergoing partial meltdown, concern has been raised about a massive radioactive cloud escaping and sweeping over the West Coast of the U.S.

As the crisis continues and the Japan Islands are being rocked by hundreds of strong aftershocks, the probability of a Chernobyl-like disaster escalates. If such an event does occur what can you do to protect yourself and your family?

The Revenge of the Supermoon

With the ongoing nuclear reactor emergency in Japan because of the earthquake, we may have radioactive fallout heading for Oregon in the days ahead. It shall be an interesting week indeed.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Our lives are measured by the cadence of lunar clockwork as the Earth-Moon system spins in gravity's embrace. The primordial influence of the Moon has synchronized life itself, driving our biorhythms and reproductive cycles.

Marching across the night sky, it's pale luminance has inspired countless works of art, poetry, and music.

Nuclear Nightmare: Japanese Reactor Meltdown Could Propel `Death Cloud` to US West Coast

This deadly, life-threatening substance can move throughout an environment with little or no difficulty.

(CHICAGO) - Some Japanese officials have admitted that Tokyo Electric's Fukushima Dai-Ichi atomic reactor No. 1 may experience a total meltdown. That disaster would be followed by the release of a deadly radioactive death cloud that would drift over the Pacific and poison the people of the U.S. West Coast.

A worried Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency spokesman Yuji Kakizaki warned:“If the fuel rods are melting and this continues, a reactor meltdown is possible,” Kakizaki said.

Red Alert: Possible Nuclear Meltdown at Japanese Plant

It would be the first since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and the Three Mile Island incident in 1979.

(FUKUSHIMA Nuclear Power Plant) - Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Fukushima prefecture could be experiencing a meltdown, Kyodo and Jiji reported March 12.

Japan Earthquake: Damaged Japanese Nuclear Power Plants Stoke Nuclear Fears

Reactor Reax Top Stories for 11 March.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - As Japan suffered from the worst earthquake in the country's recent history Thursday afternoon, and a 23-foot tsunami ripped across the island nation carrying every possible thing in its path.

Attention turned to the country's multiple nuclear power facilities, with no real way of knowing if one of the world's most dramatic and deadly natural disasters, would in turn cause a malfunction within one of the nuclear reactors.

Benghazi Explosion - Tactical Nuke Use by Gaddafi Suspected

Were 'micro-nukes' in Israeli aid package to Gaddafi?

(CINCINNATTI ) - “A massive explosion that completely destroyed an area three times the size of a soccer field... photographers who arrived at the site of the explosion Saturday saw entire buildings, cars and trees flattened and smoldering as a result of the blast” - Associated Press

The explosion at the Rajma military base outside Benghazi; Libya’s second largest city leveled blocks, left fires burning through the night.