As Japan tries to cleanup radiation contamination, some question whether it's ...

It‘s the moment when the alarms on the Geiger counters all start going off at once that it sinks in.

The bus is going inside the 12 mile ring around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that just about everyone has been evacuated from. Up the coast, the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011 destroyed entire towns and left mountains of wreckage. But here, in the fallout zone of the tsunami-caused triple nuclear meltdown, the devastation is invisible.

Outside the windows of our bus, we pass abandoned fields and towns that used to be crowded with people but are now empty except for left-behind animals. Inside, the passengers are completely covered in Tyvek suits, nothing exposed.

Commander: “National supply problem” looming for Tyvek protection ...

(Starts @ 8:30 in)

Some essential resources that we begin to address future as we move forward, it may not be intuitive to you, but interesting, I think.

We use about two million of Tyvek day. These are the shirts of the light we use to clean beaches.

It may have a problem with those national supply sooner or later ...

And we'll be looking at the source and how we deal with that.

Not yet ready to go to waste: Facility takes hazardous supplies to keep them ...

1. ALBANY — Usually someone wouldn't be allowed into a computer chip factory without putting on a silly-looking Tyvek bunny suit to keep contaminants like human hair from ruining the manufacturing process. But on Tuesday, officials at the University at
2. Dressed in a Tyvek suit, Shawna Trarbach, a waste reduction and recycling specialist, looks over donated items Wednesday at the Lawrence-Douglas County Household Hazardous Waste facility. The program takes a variety of products city officials want to
3. "For Obama and Cuomo, no bunny suits," by Larry Rulison, Albany Times-Union. Tyvek "bunny suits" were notably absent when President Barack Obama and Gov. Andrew Cuomo took a short tour of a clean room at a computer chip factor at Albany College of
4. All the workers operating the gargantuan white Wirtgen asphalt grinder, also called a milling machine, which growled eastward, grinding up the pavement and shooting it into a rolling dumptruck, wore white Tyvek haz-mat suits and dust masks with lurid
5. From there we enter a passageway, where so-called “level 3″ researchers will have to put on scrubs, a full-body Tyvek suit, and a filtration hood — which I try on for size. For me at this moment, because the filtration system isn't pumping any air in