Notes:

2012:  Children swim at Fukushima beach as ocean opened for first time since 3/11

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August 1, 2011

Hundreds of tons of very highly radioactive water found in another building at Fukushima plant

 August 1, 2013

Revealed: The deeper they check underneath Fukushima plant, the higher contamination levels get — Now sampling over 40 feet below surface

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 August 2, 2011

New indoor radiation dose record at Fukushima — 5 sieverts per hour detected at Reactor No. 1 — May be higher as it exceeded capacity of measuring device

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 August 3, 2013

NHK: “Contaminated underground water may have moved aboveground” at Fukushima plant — Asahi: Immediate concern it’s “spilling” into Pacific

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 August 4, 2011

Fukushima children go to Vatican, promise Pope they will “never lose their smiles, which are a source of hope”

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August 5, 2011

Jacques Cousteau: Nuclear power the gravest danger to humanity — ‘No Nukes’ concert stars reunite for Sunday show near San Francisco (Crosby Stills & Nash, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Doobie Bros.)

 August 5, 2013

BBC: Flow of radioactive water into Pacific could ‘accelerate rapidly’ now that barrier is breached at Fukushima plant — Tepco clearly in ‘deep trouble’

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 August 6, 2013

BBC: Water crisis at Fukushima has only just begun — “Plant sits smack in the middle of an underground aquifer” — It’s rapidly being overwhelmed deep beneath ground

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 August 7, 2013

NYTimes: 400 tons of highly radioactive water going into Pacific each day from Fukushima plant, says Tepco — Top Nuclear Regulator: This is a crisis

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August 8, 2011

Nationwide TV in Japan: Toxicity of plutonium “not very different than salt” — “So safe you can drink it”

August 8, 2012

Off the Chart: University researchers film while measuring radiation levels in evacuation zone — “‘Over’ means it’s beyond the capacity of the measuring device”

 August 8, 2013

Nuclear Official: Growing alarm at Fukushima’s out of control radioactive leaks… Emergency is accelerating due to “faster-than-expected swelling” underground — TV: Tepco now paving over surface with asphalt

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 Auguswt 9, 2013

Watch: Young kids play in ocean nearby leaking Fukushima plant — “Real cause for concern” over radiation levels in sand

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 August 10, 2011

New data shows Fukushima Daini nuke plant prepared to vent steam from all four reactors — Feared that containment vessels might be damaged by pressure

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 August 11, 2013

Tepco: We’ve known for 2 years that massive amount of water flows under Fukushima plant — Official “unable to explain” why they kept secret

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 August 12, 2013

Radiation Expert: Enormous amount of contamination flowing from Fukushima will probably imperil entire Pacific Ocean — Threatens other countries, food chain — Absolutely can reach U.S. and Canadian shores

Over 15 quadrillion becquerels of radioactive substances suspected in trench that Tepco now admits is leaking into groundwater at Fukushima

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August 13, 2011

Asahi: “Horrifying” that Fukushima meltdown equivalent to almost 30 times the radiation released by atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

 August 13, 2013

NHK: Groundwater levels continue rising at Fukushima plant — Gov’t warns Tepco about typhoons — “We can’t do anything” if rainfall overwhelms pump — Contaminated water could overflow and move “extremely fast” into Pacific

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 August 15, 2011

Neptunium-239 found in soil about 40 km from meltdown — “Several thousand becquerels” — Similar to levels detected at front gate of Fukushima plant

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 August 16, 2013

Asahi: Radioactive cesium in Fukushima water now 8 times higher than when disaster began

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August 17, 2011

Workers say ground under Fukushima plant is cracking and radioactive steam is coming up — Melted core may be moving out of building

 August 17, 2013

CBS News: Young kids playing at beaches “far too close” to Fukushima nuclear plant — Father: I do worry about radiation, but data says it’s ‘safe’ just 22 miles from leaking reactors

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 August 18, 2011

10 trillion becquerels per hour of radiation currently being released from Fukushima plant:

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 August 19, 2012

WSJ: The great tragedy of Fukushima is that Japan shut down all its nuclear reactors -UC Berkeley Professor

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August 20, 2012

Report: Concern work not being done at Reactors 1-3 — Perhaps much longer than 50 years just to contain radiation

 August 20, 2013

Expert: Land under Fukushima reactor buildings at risk of turning into liquid — Area near sea could become like mud

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 August 21, 2011

Japan gov’t to finally admit indefinite forced depopulation of large zones around Fukushima plant

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August 22, 2011

Nuclear engineer: NRC now says reactors and containments have breached and released plutonium off-site — “Much worse” than if from spent fuel pools

August 22, 2012

Japan Nuclear Professor: Fukushima smoke stacks releasing radiation on a daily basis

 August 22, 2013

BBC: Fukushima “much worse than we’ve been led to believe, much worse” says nuclear expert — Contaminated water is leaking out all over site

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August 24, 2012

6-year-old playing on radioactive waste dump 20km north of Fukushima Daiichi

 August 24, 2013

“Ultimate, worst-case scenario” underway at Fukushima? New York Times: Experts suspect intense contamination is seeping out from under melted-down reactors and into Pacific — Will surpass even the leaks from disaster’s early days

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 August 25, 2011

Bloomberg: ‘Hot Spots’ Spreading — Gov’t to check radiation up to 460 km from meltdowns

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August 26, 2011

US nuke agency confirms “initial explosions at Fukushima were very likely ejections of core material”

Japan gov’t: Fukushima cesium equal to 168 Hiroshima nuclear bombs

 August 26, 2013

Nuclear Engineer: Estimated 276 quadrillion Bq of Cs-137 entered Fukushima basements — Triple Chernobyl total release — A portion “has already made its way to aquifer, whence it can easily flow into sea”

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 August 27, 2013

“Big Problem”: Cracked floors in Fukushima reactors leaking into groundwater that’s rising and rising and rising due to Tepco wall — “Can no longer be stopped from getting in ocean” — “Worse than that… buildings now on mushy land”

‘The Coming Fallout’: Experts now fear massive reservoir of Fukushima contamination about to reach Pacific Ocean — “Slow, seeping buildup of a second catastrophe” — Workers can’t say when or how they can stop flow

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 August 28, 2013

UPI: Fukushima plume to reach U.S. West Coast in months; Measurable increase in radioactive material — Study: Prolonged exposure for California lasting 10 years; Hits Hawaii early 2014… may already be surrounded

Underground water just 4 inches from surface by Fukushima reactor — AP: Groundwater closer to surface than Tepco told officials investigating tank leak

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August 29, 2011

Independent: Why Fukushima is worse than Chernobyl; “Now the truth is coming out” — 72,000 times worse than Hiroshima & 1 million+ cancer deaths, says professor

 August 29, 2013

NHK: There was a melt-through so Fukushima fuel is definitely down with the groundwater, and that’s flowing into Pacific — Americans need to watch, it gets international very quickly — May already be at West Coast — No ‘immediate’ risk

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August 30, 2012

Underground cesium near Fukushima reactors increases the deeper samples get — Other locations tested are much different, with higher radioactivity on top

 August 30, 2013

“Very clear and present danger”: New push to dump radioactive Fukushima water in Pacific — Or boil it in large kettle and release steam into atmosphere for many years — Or do both says UC Berkeley professor

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 August 31, 2013

TV: “Simulation shows ENTIRE Pacific being polluted by radioactive water in just 6 years” after start of Fukushima crisis — “Experts now fear it may become a scary reality”

BBC website links to report claiming ocean is ‘boiling’ in front of Fukushima Daiichi