A former manager of the San Onofre nuclear plant is suing his former employer Southern California Edison for wrongfully terminating him in retaliation for his efforts to reveal safety violations. Paul Diaz, the whistleblower says that Southern California Edison was warned by nuclear regulators in March of 2010 that shortcuts in safety were taking...

Radiation from the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan, has now been measured in New England rainwater and drinking water. Reservoirs around Massachusetts which make up most of the drinking water in the state are being tested. Experts emphasize that radiation levels are small and that there is no health risk. The fact that we...

The Japanese authorities have upgraded the severity of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant and have mentioned the possibility that they may have to encase the plant in concrete to prevent further radiation release, just as was done in Chernobyl. This would mean that the region around the plants would be unlivable...

I worry when I hear that the U.S. is sending in military advisors to help with the nuclear reactor disaster in Japan. Someone with real know how and no mental reservation would be best, not often the notable characteristic, perhaps with the exception of our elite special ops units. What is needed in Japan...

According to U.S. diplomatic papers released by Wikileaks, the nuclear disaster might have been avoided if the government had acted on safety warnings from the International Atomic Energy Commission in 2008. In another cable released the government was seend to have hidden past nuclear accidents. The cables reveal a government afraid to interfere with...

Experts on nuclear radiation differ on the threat to Japanese citizens and the potential for the spread of radiation beyond Japan. One veteran of the nuclear industry, Arnold Gunderson of Fairwinds Associates, was quoted yesterday in the GlobalPost (www.globalpost.com) as saying the probability of a large scale release of radiation is about 50-50 and...

Radiation from the nuclear power plants that were damaged by the earthquake and tsunami could reach Tokyo according to The Union of Concerned Scientists, who made the announcement late Tuesday. They say the Japanese government should extend the evacuation zone immediately around the Fukushima Daiichi power station.

The National Nuclear Safety Administration, charged with protecting America from radiation risks is sending a team of U.S. supercomputer experts to Japan to assess the radiation risks posed by the nuclear crisis there. The agency has activated the National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center which is staffed by nuclear scientists, meteorologists and computer scientists to...

In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper on June 29th, Allegiance Capitol Corporation V.P. Fred McCallister said that BP is deliberately sinking oil with the toxic chemical disbursant Corexit, to hide the size of the oil spill. By sinking the oil before it can be collected, BP won't have to pay fines on it....