Japan and Asia Articles

2011-04-28 Fukushima Japan Nuclear Radiation Levels Spike Highest Yet — 1,120,000 Microsieverts per Hour "...TEPCO announced that it may not be able to follow through with the 9 month plan to stop the radiation leaking from the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan."
2011-04-28 TEPCO claims explosion at No. 4 spent fuel pool may have prevented rods from melting down by ENENEWS
Blast may have helped cool rods, The Yomiuri Shimbun, April 29, 2011:

A hydrogen gas explosion at the No. 4 reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on March 15 may have helped prevent spent fuel rods from melting down [...]
It seems that shocks from the explosion damaged a water gate and caused water to flow into the pool from a neighboring part of the facility, TEPCO said.
The explosion, which the company assumes was caused by hydrogen gas, was so strong that the outer walls of the reactor building collapsed.
At the time of the explosion, the spent fuel rods had been overheating. If that had continued, the company said, the rods might have melted, spewing a far larger quantity of radioactive materials into the air than actually happened. [...]

2011-04-30 Explosion at Fukushima (video)

North America and Europe Articles

2011-04-24 URGENT: Japan now admits Fukushima at 154 trillion Bq's/Day and West coast Radiation forecast, Part.2 (video).
2011-04-25 New type of Fukushima forecast shows radioactive Cesium, Iodine over large sections of U.S. and Canada (VIDEOS), enenews.com.
2011-04-25 Inventory of Fukushima Fission Products (in Italian) PDF
2011-04-27 California Plutonium 43 Times, Hawaii 11 Times Highest Levels In 20 Years In Wake Of Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, blog.alexanderhiggins.com.
2011-04-29 Radioactive Jet Streams by Dr. Mark Sircus, activistpost.com.