Archive for March 21st, 2011

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 03/21/2011 Today the majority of the world was celebrating the fact that TEPCO managed to restore the power supply to the radioactive power plant. And in an attempt to present the next straw man nuclear experts the world over began to focus on such secondary aspects of the explosion as... »

By: Michael S Rozeff Market Oracle Mar 20, 2011 The U.N. intervention in Libya is a major political event. The U.N. is intervening inside a country that has not aggressed against another country. Whether or not this is the first time that this has happened, it is surely an important and clear-cut instance of... »

By: Ron Holland Market Oracle Mar 20, 2011 One has needed a score card to keep up with the twists and turns of the situation in Libya and what will follow over the weekend is still unclear. My point is while we wish the people of Libya and their color revolution victory over crazy... »

HeraldScotland.com Monday 21 March 2011 JAPANESE engineers have conceded that burying a crippled nuclear plant in sand and concrete may be the only way to prevent a catastrophic radiation release. However, rather than resort to the method used to seal Chernobyl in 1986, they still hope to end the crisis by fixing a power... »

by Keith Harmon Snow Global Research March 21, 2011 Reporting about the nuclear crises in Japan and around the world is notoriously ambiguous. Western media are downplaying the threat of radiation in what amounts to an Alice in Wonderland fable of disinformation straight out of the rabbit hole. Worried about profits and the the... »

Joe Weisenthal and Gus Lubin BusinessInsider.com Mar. 21, 2011 THE LATEST: Radioactivity fears are growing, with evidence of contamination in milk, vegetables and fish. High quantities of radioactive cesium and iodine were detected in nearby seawater, according to Kyodo. At least cooling operations are making some progress. Concrete is being poured into the dangerous... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 03/21/2011 It’s another day, which means the probability of a Mohamed El-Erian op-ed is 99%. However, while in the past we may have ridiculed these now almost daily missives which lead many an LP to wonder just which media double of the real El-Erian is managing Pimco’s $1.4 trillion in... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 03/21/2011 Even as the market has now apparently fully priced in Fukushima, the bad news continue coming: •TOKYO ELECTRIC RADIOACTIVITY FOUND CONFIRMS FUEL DAMAGE: NHK •TOKYO ELECTRIC DETECTS 5 TYPES OF RADIOACTIVITY, NHK SAYS No surprise there: by now everyone is well aware that the fuel rods are if not... »

UK Daily Mail March 21, 2011 Smoke seen rising from area which housed core of spent nuclear fuel in reactor Number 3 Power restored at all six reactors, but coolers have to be checked for damage before they can be switched on Electricity could be used to pump more water to cool overheated reactors... »

Tyler Durden Zero Hedge March 21, 2011 Well, in tried and true fashion, it took Japan a week to confirm what everyone else had been certain had occurred over a week earlier. According to the Asahi Shinbun, with a translation courtesy of Ex-Skf, we finally know that the “nuclear fuel rods in the pressure... »