April 6, 2011 The Environmental Protection Agency has detected very low levels of radiation from Japan's damaged nuclear power plant in drinking water in two U.S. cities -- Richland, Wash., and Boise, Idaho. "These levels are very, very low, trace, minuscule amounts according to Jonathan Edwards, Director of Radiation Protection Division with the EPA. This isn't the first radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant detected in Boise.
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March 17, 2011 What will the long-term solution be here?? How will they keep these reactors from a total meltdown?
"The dumping was intended both to help cool the reactor and to replenish water in a pool holding spent fuel rods, Toyama said. The plant's owner, Tokyo Electric Power Co., said earlier that the pool was nearly
March 16, 2011 Top Story Podcast 3/16/11: First hour: Teens and sexting - Just let them do it? Second hour: State of the City, potassium iodide pills flying off the shelves.
First hour: Teens who "sext." Just let them do it? Or should there be serious consequ
March 16, 2011 Sales of iodine pills have soared in the United States amidst concerns of radiation fallout from Japan's nuclear crisis. From the Guardian:
The fires and explosions at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have prompted a massive increase in the sale of anti-radiation tablets in the US and Canada – despite health officials and a prominent UK scientist dismissing it as unnecessary.
March 16, 2011 A Uof I nuclear engineer says the situation in Japan could very well hault the nuclear energy program here in the U.S. for a while. Several experts say the Japanese authorities are underplaying the severity of the incident there, particularly on a scale called INES used to rank nuclear incidents. The Japanese have so far rated the accident a four on a one-to-seven scale, but that rating was issued on Saturday and since then the situation has worsened dramatically.
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