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UPDATE 12:45 pm, Friday, Urgent international sign-on petition sponsored by 168 Japanese organizations to expand Fukushima evacuation zone and take other necessary measures to protect the people of Japan. Sign here.
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UPDATE, 11:30 am, Friday, New video shows that Unit 4 fuel pool is exposed to the air and contains little or no water. Nuclear engineer Arnie Gunderson of Fairewinds Associates explains the video and its implications.
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Rep. Ed Markey introduces new nuclear safety bill calling for moratorium on new reactor licensing and license renewals until safety lessons of Fukushima are implemented. Markey statement and text of bill.
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UPDATE, 3:30 pm, Tuesday, The Guardian (U.K.) is reporting that “Richard Lahey, who was head of safety research for boiling-water reactors at General Electric when the company installed the units at Fukushima, told the Guardian workers at the site appeared to have "lost the race" to save the reactor, but said there was no danger…
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Yet another major report that provides a path to a 100% renewable energy future before mid-century. This one is from the Institute for Policy Research and Development in London, led by two U.S. university professors.
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New public opinion poll. More than half want moratorium on new reactors in U.S. 3/4 oppose taxpayer loan guarantees for new reactors.
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Link to video of press conference in Japan by Citizens' Nuclear Information Center (in Japanese with English translation),
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UPDATE, 5:30 pm, Saturday, Reuters is reporting that Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 has lost cooling capability: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/12/us-japan-quake-nuclearcooling-idUSTRE72B3GI20110312. This is of particular concern since, unlike all of the other reactors in trouble, Unit 3 has been using plutonium-based MOX (mixed oxide) fuel since September 10, 2010. Consequences of an accident at a MOX-powered reactor would be even more severe than at a more typical uranium-powered reactor.
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Greenpeace video of campaign to stop shipment of plutonium-based MOX fuel to Fukushima in 1999. Updated to point out that anti-nuclear activists kept MOX out of the Fukushima reactors for more than ten years. If they hadn't done that, the situation at Fukushima would be even worse.
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