The Japan Atomic Industrial Forum reports that following the explosions at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, “damage is suspected to unit 2’s inner or primary containment vessel (PCV).”
Two more reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant are reported to have lost cooling functions, as technicians continue their struggle to contain what threatens to become a meltdown.
In a televised statement, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said radiation from the three stricken reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant has reached the danger zone. A fourth reactor is now aflame.
A third hydrogen explosion at the Fukushima nuclear plant is reported, destroying the outer building of reactor Number 2. All three damaged reactors at the site have now experienced explosions.
It is now clear that the second explosion at the Fukushima plant was at reactor 3—a source of special concern because it contains “mixed oxide” fuel, a highly toxic mixture of uranium and plutonium.
A second explosion is reported at Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, with four apparently killed and officials issuing contradictory statements on radiation levels.
Israeli cabinet minister Moshe Yaalon told thousands of mourners of the Itamar massacre victims: “The conflict is not about Israel’s borders, but a struggle for our existence.” Yet Itamar is outside Israel.
Officials admit that the explosion at the Fukushima reactor was sparked by an emergency release to avoid a meltdown. A second reactor at the complex has now lost coolant, and is at risk of overheating.
The Dalai Lama is stepping down as political leader of the Tibetan exile government, while Beijing passed a law mandating that the Tibetan leader be reincarnated within China.
Moammar Qaddafi is simultaneously playing the al-Qaeda card to rally US imperialism to his side and playing the US imperialism card to rally the Libyan people to his side.
Moammar Qaddafi defended his military’s right to put down the rebels by invoking Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip, and insisted he still has “very good relations with the United States.”
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