The entire St. Louis metropolitan region would be threatened with radioactive smoke if the fire at the Bridgeton Landfill were ever to reach the nuclear waste in the nearby West Lake Landfill. stlouis.cbslocal.com

The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is preparing to remove 400 tons of highly irradiated spent fuel from a damaged reactor building, a dangerous operation that has never been attempted before on this scale. uk.reuters.com

A radiation expert says that the enormous amount of contamination flowing from Fukushima will probably imperil entire Pacific Ocean. Youtube.com

The Unit 3 reactor at Connecticut’s Millstone nuclear plant shut down unexpectedly Friday after the water level dropped in a steam generator. nuclearstreet.com