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Did radioactive iodine in Florida's atmosphere originate at troubled Japan nuclear plant? listen
03/28/11 wire reports including APWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Japan, earthquake, tsunami, nuclear power, radiation, Japan earthquake, Fukushima, plutonium, iodine
Power company officials say plutonium has been detected in the soil outside of the stricken Japanese nuclear complex.
Tokyo Electric Power Company says in a statement that the plutonium was discovered today in five locations around the plant, which has been leaking radiation for nearly two weeks. They say the amounts were very small and were not a risk to public health. But the U.S. EPA says “[internal exposure to plutonium is an extremely serious health hazard](http://www.epa.gov/rpdweb00...
Be the first to commentRadiation in Tokyo water too much for infants listen
03/23/11 wire reports including APWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Japan, earthquake, tsunami, nuclear power, radiation, Japan earthquake, Fukushima
Japan's police agency says more than 9,500 people are dead after an earthquake and tsunami, and 16,000 are missing, although those tallies are likely to overlap.
The country’s government says the economic costs of the catastrophic March 11th earthquake and tsunami could reach $309 billion.
Tokyo's utility company says black smoke has been seen emerging from Unit 3 of the crippled nuclear plant in northeastern Japan, prompting a new evacuation of the complex. Workers have been temporaril...
Be the first to commentOfficials try to deflect new fears of radiation from Japan's damaged nuclear plant listen
03/21/11 wire reports including APWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Japan, earthquake, tsunami, nuclear power, radiation, Japan earthquake, Fukushima
The director of operations of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Bill Borchardt, says there is no current breach in containment at 3 reactors in Japan's crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex.
Be the first to comment"All 3 units appear to be in a stable condition, the seawater injection being used to keep the reactors cool. Containment integrity for all 3 units is currently maintained. We do not expect the releases of radioactive material that have occurred in Japan to have any effect on the health an...
Spent fuel rods exposed at Fukushima though power could soon be restored listen
03/16/11 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Japan, earthquake, tsunami, nuclear power, radiation, Japan earthquake, Fukushima
The operator of Japan's tsunami-crippled nuclear plant says it has almost completed a new power line that could restore electricity to the complex and solve the crisis that has threatened a meltdown.
Meanwhile, Japan has more than doubled the maximum radiation dose allowed for nuclear workers.
Despite the increase, surging radiation levels forced emergency workers to temporarily withdraw from the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant today, losing time in their struggle to cool over...
Be the first to commentFukushima nuclear crisis continues as radioactivity released from fire listen
03/15/11 wire reports including APWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Japan, earthquake, tsunami, nuclear power, radiation, Japan earthquake, Fukushima
A U.S. nuclear industry official says there is evidence that the primary containment structure at one of the stricken Japanese reactors has been breached, raising the risk of further release of radioactive material.
That’s because of rising radiation levels near the suppression pool at the Number 2 reactor at Fukushima Dai-ichi.
At another reactor, Number 4, a fire in a storage pond for spent fuel released radioactivity "directly into the atmosphere." The fire was extinguished and radi...
Be the first to commentCrisis continues at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan listen
03/14/11 wire reports including APWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Japan, earthquake, tsunami, nuclear power, radiation, Japan earthquake, Rick Scott, Fukushima
The crisis continues at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan.
"The water level did start to fall and the fuel rods were exposed above the water. This situation did continue for a while."
A drop in water levels left uranium rods completely exposed today. And although the water was restored, the rods are again exposed after a second episode. That increases the risk that radiation will spread, and that there may eventually be a meltdown.
Through an interpreter on Japan’s NHK TV, chief...
3 commentsJapanese earthquake causes radiation concerns at nuclear reactor listen
03/11/11 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Japan, earthquake, tsunami, nuclear power, radiation, Japan earthquake
Authorities in Japanese are releasing slightly radioactive vapor in order to ease pressure at a nuclear reactor whose cooling system failed following today’s earthquake.
Japan’s nuclear safety agency says the massive 8.9 earthquake caused a power outage. That increased pressure to one-and-a-half times normal inside one of six boiling water reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant
Japanese Cabinet Minister Yukio Edano was translated on Al Jazeera English.
Be the first to comment"So the emergency shut down h...
Many are skeptical of Haiti election listen
12/03/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Haiti, earthquake, elections, Jean Bertrand-Aristide
The London Telegraph reported today that between two and three thousand Haitians protested the results of Sunday’s presidential election in the capitol of Port Au Prince. Some of the twelve presidential candidates were reportedly among the protestors. A United Nations peacekeeping official has meanwhile warned that the international community would pull its support from the country if it did not accept the results of the election. Preliminary results are expected to be out Tuesday. This wee...
2 commentsHaitian Ambassador holds town hall meeting listen
02/19/10 Rob PiccirilloWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Haitian Relief, Haitian Ambassador Raymond Joseph, earthquake, Town Hall Meeting
Last night, the Haitian Ambassador to the U.S., Raymond Joseph, spoke at the University Area Community Development Center in Tampa. The town hall meeting was held to discuss the current state of Port-au-Prince, Haitian relief efforts and the future of the country.
Ambassador Joseph urged a room of concerned Haitian and American citizens to have mercy on Haitian leadership for the way they responded to the earthquake that leveled Port-au-Prince last month.
Joseph assured the audience...
Be the first to commentRelief efforts underway after Haitian quake. listen
01/14/10 Joshua Lee HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, earthquake, relief
Yesterday members of Tampa’s Haitian community coordinated relief efforts for Tuesday’s deadly earthquake in Haiti. Although contact is not yet established with the quake victims, local groups are planning their next steps.
In recent years, Haiti has endured four hurricanes, a political coup de’tat, and a [severe corrosion of basic inf...
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