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Nuclear Nightmare: Japanese Reactor Meltdown Could Propel `Death Cloud` to US West Coast

This deadly, life-threatening substance can move throughout an environment with little or no difficulty.

(CHICAGO) - Some Japanese officials have admitted that Tokyo Electric's Fukushima Dai-Ichi atomic reactor No. 1 may experience a total meltdown. That disaster would be followed by the release of a deadly radioactive death cloud that would drift over the Pacific and poison the people of the U.S. West Coast.

A worried Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency spokesman Yuji Kakizaki warned:“If the fuel rods are melting and this continues, a reactor meltdown is possible,” Kakizaki said.

Red Alert: Possible Nuclear Meltdown at Japanese Plant

It would be the first since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and the Three Mile Island incident in 1979.

(FUKUSHIMA Nuclear Power Plant) - Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Fukushima prefecture could be experiencing a meltdown, Kyodo and Jiji reported March 12.

Japan Earthquake: Damaged Japanese Nuclear Power Plants Stoke Nuclear Fears

Reactor Reax Top Stories for 11 March.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - As Japan suffered from the worst earthquake in the country's recent history Thursday afternoon, and a 23-foot tsunami ripped across the island nation carrying every possible thing in its path.

Attention turned to the country's multiple nuclear power facilities, with no real way of knowing if one of the world's most dramatic and deadly natural disasters, would in turn cause a malfunction within one of the nuclear reactors.

Benghazi Explosion - Tactical Nuke Use by Gaddafi Suspected

Were 'micro-nukes' in Israeli aid package to Gaddafi?

(CINCINNATTI ) - “A massive explosion that completely destroyed an area three times the size of a soccer field... photographers who arrived at the site of the explosion Saturday saw entire buildings, cars and trees flattened and smoldering as a result of the blast” - Associated Press

The explosion at the Rajma military base outside Benghazi; Libya’s second largest city leveled blocks, left fires burning through the night.

NASA: Small Nuclear War Could Reverse `Global Warming`

Many at NASA still subscribe to the idea of global warming, others point to the fact that the warming trend ended during 2007 and since then the Earth's climate has been gradually cooling.

(CHICAGO) - According to U.S. computer models a regional, limited nuclear war could set-off "unprecedented" worldwide cooling. Rainfall too might be affected.

This is the latest climate theory that owes much to the original promoter of nuclear winter, Dr. Carl Sagan. The pop-culture astronomer and astrophysicist who popularized the idea of a nuclear war thrusting the Earth into an extended Ice Age...

From Chicago to the World: Update About Mordechai Vanunu and a `Brief` History

"When tomorrow calls today into account, some of us want to say we stood up. We called out. We were not silent."~ Leonard Pitts, Jr.

(CHICAGO) - As of this this weekend, it has been five years since this reporter started covering the situation of Mordechai Vanunu who was imprisoned by Israel for blowing the whistle on Israel's nuclear weapon's program, Live on American Arab and Middle East Talk Radio.

On March 26, 2006, during one of my 7 trips to Jerusalem beginning in 2005, Vanunu told me: "Many journalists come here to the American Colony, from CNN and NY Times. They all want to cover my story, but their EDITORS say no..."

Editorial Backlash to Republican Budget Attack on EPA Health Protections

From the staff blog of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Again, the problem with the Republican proposal is that it does not go far enough. We don’t just want to lighten the weight of big government on our backs, we want to remove big government from our backs completely,

- AWR Hawkins, 'Big Government'

NRC/Major New Legal Challenges on Nuclear Waste

Agency's Lack of Long-Term Disposal Solution Requires New Environmental Review Process; NRC’s Assumptions About the Impacts of Waste Disposal are Obsolete.

( WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission faces two major new legal challenges to the agency’s 2010 findings that used nuclear reactor fuel and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) can be disposed of safely on a long-term basis.

New petitioners are asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to overturn two NRC rules that conclude that storage and disposal of spent (or used) nuclear reactor fuel and HLW generated by spent fuel reprocessing pose no significant safety or environmental concerns.

Truth Jihad Radio Interview - `Wikileaks on Steroids`

Hard talk about nuclear terrorism; audio editing by Edward Rynearson.

(CINCINNATI) - There are few more controversial figures than Dimitri Khalezov, former officer in the Soviet Union’s nuclear intelligence services.

Khalezov, staff writer for Veterans Today, an online journal that seldom ducks controversy, endures the better part of two hours, a combination of friendly questioning and inquisition, at the hands of Dr. Kevin Barrett and Gordon Duff.

March to Gaza - End the Egyptian Blockade of Gaza

The Plan: A march to the Rafah Crossing on MARCH 4th.

(GAZA) - To everyone who knows injustice, everyone who knows tyranny: we are all brothers and sisters with the people of Palestine. Let us act like it and let us march on Gaza on March 4th, 2011.

Let us amass in the greatest numbers possible, and let us march week after week if necessary, to make Rafah Crossing an open border.