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Fukushima gov. asks S.Korea to lift travel alert

DailyYomiuri Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato asked South Korea on Wednesday to remove its travel warning to the prefecture that was imposed after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Sato made the request at a meeting with [...]

Extreme Radioactive Black Substance Discovered 5km From Tokyo

DBKP A mysterious black substance five times more radioactive than the Chernobyl-Belarus mandatory evacuation zone was discovered 4 kilometers from the center of Tokyo, the Hirai Station. The mystery radioactive black substance discovered close to [...]

Aftershocks along Fukushima may take over 100 years to subside

Mainichi It may take at least 100 years before aftershocks from the March 11, 2011 quake along the boundaries of Fukushima and Ibaraki prefectures subside, a recent study reveals. The study, compiled by Shinji Toda, an [...]

Cesium spikes in Tokyo Bay samples

Jun Hongo JapanTimes Sludge samples taken at the mouths of two major rivers emptying into Tokyo Bay showed radioactive cesium contamination linked to the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant crisis grew by 1.5 to 13 times [...]

China, Japan, S. Korea warn N. Korea over nuclear test

Tuoitrenews China, Japan and South Korea said a fresh nuclear test by North Korea would be unacceptable, according to South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak on Sunday. “Our three countries agreed that we will not accept further [...]

Fukushima: Hot Particles and Measurement of Radioactivity

Fairewinds’ Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen and Boston Chemical Data Corporation’s Founder Marco Kaltofen have an in-depth conversation regarding the challenges of measuring radiation exposures to people around the globe. Kaltofen explains the scientific methodology involved in [...]

Active fault may lie directly beneath Mount Fuji

JapanTimes An active fault as long as 30 km may lie directly beneath Mount Fuji, a team of researchers has said in a recent survey report. The possible fault was detected through a simulated earthquake conducted [...]

Japanese scientists eye mysterious ‘Planet X’

PakalertPress Scientists at a Japanese university said Thursday they believed another planet up to two-thirds the size of the Earth was orbiting in the far reaches of the solar system. The researchers at Kobe University in western [...]

Fears increase of big earthquake near Tokyo in the next four years

PRI A prominent Japanese seismologist rattled some nerves when he declared there was a 70 percent chance of a major earthquake in or around Tokyo in the next four years. Government scientists had proclaimed a similar [...]

Hiroaki Koide: “Adults in Japan Should Eat Contaminated Food” to Atone for the Sins of Having Allowed Nuke Power

ex-skf.blogspot During the press conference in New York after the lecture on the status of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident and radiation contamination in Japan, Dr. Koide of Kyoto University repeated his mantra (or curse, to [...]

Energy crisis looms: Japan closes last reactor

RT Japan is set to shut down its last operational nuclear plant following last year’s Fukushima meltdown disaster. However, with a giant energy quota to fill and no viable substitute, many predict a nuclear-free future will [...]

Underwater volcanic eruption reported near Japanese Iwo Jima Islands

ExtinctionProtocol An underwater volcanic eruption may have occurred near Iwoto Island (Iwo Jima), the Japan Meteorological Agency has said. The Maritime Self-Defense Force confirmed a change in the color of the water northeast of Iwoto–about 1,250 [...]

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