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For the first time in 4 decades Japan has shut down all it’s Nuclear reactors making it’s power production nuclear free. After last year’s March 11 quake and tsunami set off meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, no reactor halted for checkups has been restarted amid public worries about the safety of nuclear technology. Thousands of Japanese marched to celebrate ... Read More »

The radiation leak from the damaged Nuclear Power Plants in Japan is really having a global effect now. Very low levels of nuclear radiation have been detected in a sample milk from Washington state. The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) have confirmed this. But they assured the consumers not to worry as the radiation ... Read More »

Workers at a nuclear power plant in northern Japan battered by twin catastrophes appear to have given up on saving one reactor, as their efforts seemed to shift to preventing a nuclear meltdown, one U.S. expert said. An explosion, blamed on a buildup of hydrogen, tore the roof off the outer containment building of Unit 1 on Saturday at the ... Read More »