BBC News/Asia-Pacific Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has said his government is in a state of maximum alert over the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Plutonium has been detected in soil at the facility and highly radioactive water has leaked from… more »

Cr Note: Neutron beams are like essentially X-rays on steroids and would seem to indicate cracks in the structure of the various reactors involved, which ain't good. Companies have spent billions in order to create neutron beams for both study and HD x-r… more »