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Greater than Expected Damage Seen at Japan Reactor

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By MARI YAMAGUCHI – “TOKYO (AP) — One of the reactor cores at Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant has been damaged more severely than originally thought, officials said Thursday, in a serious setback for efforts to stabilize the radiation-leaking complex.

The new findings followed repairs to monitoring equipment, which also showed that the water level in the core of Unit 1 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant is much lower than previously thought, totally exposing remaining fuel rods and pointing to a greater-than-expected leak in the chamber.”  Read more.


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DAMAGED JAPANESE POWER STATION HAS NEW RADIOACTIVE LEAK – “(AGI) Tokyo – Reactor 3 at the damaged Fukushima nuclear power station is leaking, a TEPCo spokesman announced. It is not confirmed whether the radioactive water has gone from the holding tank into the ocean. TEPCO, the company that manages the power station, is conducting tests. A similar leak happened last month at Reactor 2 and was plugged with a mixture.” Source.

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‘Unnerving’ Rumble in Virginia Beach a Mystery, NASA Says May Be Possible Meteor

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By Kristin Davis, Lauren King, Meredith Kruse – “We may only ever know it as The Night the Earth Rattled.

The seconds-long reverberation at approximately 7:20 p.m. Tuesday sent neighbors to porches, piqued slumbering pets and launched a thousand theories. But nobody can say for sure what it was – not police or seismologists or meteorologists or NASA or Oceana Naval Air Station or the Virginia National Guard.

‘No clue,’ said Scott Mohr, a spokesman for Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story.

People reported feeling it from Suffolk to Newport News to the Eastern Shore and beyond. The intensity of the grumble was perhaps greatest in Virginia Beach, where five calls came in to 911 and firefighters set out in search of the source of an explosion.

None was found, said Lori Stiles, communications operations manager for the city. She felt it, too, from her home in Dam Neck, a sensation like that of an approaching storm that caused the house to creak.”  Read more.

Meteor likely caused mysterious boom – “VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) – Virginia Beach is a city full of sound. Waves crash at the Oceanfront and fighter jets scream overhead. However, a boom Tuesday night caught hundreds of normally unfazed residents from Virginia Beach to the Eastern Shore completely off-guard. ‘It shook my house,’ said one man.” Read more.

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