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It’s Official: Fukushima Hit With Full-Blown Nuclear Meltdown
The flow of bad news (and radiation) out of Fukushima’s reactors has diminished to a trickle over the past several weeks, as rescue work has proceeded. Not today. TEPCO’s admitted for the first time that Fukushima experienced a full meltdown.
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TEPCO Starts Pumping Radioactive Water From Fukushima
The dicey task of extracting tens of thousands of litres of water – two million times as radioactive as the stuff poured into the Pacific – has begun. It’s unclear where exactly this water is headed, but removing it is crucial.
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Huge Robots Are Clearing The Fukishima Power Plant Debris
TEPCO started using large remote-controlled excavation vehicles to clear the debris around the Fukishima plants this past weekend, including power shovels and bulldozers. The work is being controlled by operators in lead-covered operating rooms using cameras mounted on the robots and around the area.
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Workers Pumping Fukushima Full Of Nitrogen To Prevent Explosion
The volatile mix of seawater and melting fuel rods is producing hydrogen and oxygen gas – the stuff that blew the lids off Fukushima twice last month. To avert another disastrous hydrogen explosion, workers are blowing intert nitorgen gas inside.