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Fukushima Daiichi’s Little Known Hydrazine Problem

July 13, 2015July 12, 2015 Editor 0 Comments Fukushima Daiichi, hydrazine, leaks

Recent Roadmap reports on activity at the plant have shown that hydrazine is still in use. The chemical was used

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SimplyInfo.org; Fukushima News Roundup, July 12, 2015

July 12, 2015July 12, 2015 Editor 0 Comments fukushima, news, roundup

NRA has begun work to consider BWR (boiling water reactors) for potential restarts. The initial push for restarts has

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Fukushima Unit 3 Decommissioning Plan Released

July 8, 2015July 7, 2015 Editor 0 Comments building, crane, decommissioning, fukushima, nuclear, removal, spent fuel pool, unit 3

TEPCO released significant new information about the plan and progress for dealing with unit 3’s spent fuel pool. The report

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Naraha Reopening Delay Exposes Complex Problems With Returning Evacuees

July 7, 2015February 15, 2016 Editor 0 Comments decontamination, evacuees, naraha, return

The government announced a delay in reopening the town of Naraha near Fukushima Daiichi. The reopening would be delayed a few

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Sendai Nears Restart, Mihama May Be Down For Good

July 6, 2015 Editor 0 Comments japan, Mihama, nuclear, restarts, sendai

Workers began installing fuel in the unit 1 reactor at the Sendai nuclear plant in Japan last week. They expect

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Fukushima Evacuees Facing Harder Access To Housing

June 30, 2015June 29, 2015 Editor 0 Comments access, compensation, evacuee, fukushima, housing, public housing

Back in 2011 PM Kan told Fukushima evacuees they could go home very soon. This was probably not what he

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Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 Prepares For Containment Inspection

June 29, 2015June 30, 2015 Editor 0 Comments Containment, crd rail, daiichi, fukushima, inspection, unit 2

A newly released document shows progress in the effort to inspect inside unit 2’s containment. At unit 1 they went

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Fukushima Daiichi Reactors Torus Structures In Need Of Reinforcement

June 25, 2015 Editor 0 Comments Containment, daiichi, flooding, fukushima, IRID, pcv, reinforcement, suppression chamber, torus, toshiba

IRID published a call for proposals mid June related to research and development into a way to reinforce the torus structures

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Fukushima Daiichi Tank Dismantling Explained

June 24, 2015June 23, 2015 Editor 0 Comments bolt together tanks, daiichi, fukushima, removal, storage

TEPCO provided more information about how they will go about taking down the many bolt together tanks at the disaster

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Fukushima Daiichi Has More Defective Hoses

June 23, 2015June 23, 2015 Editor 0 Comments daiichi, failure, fukushima, hose, kanaflex

After a recent leak from a Kanaflex hose at Fukushima Daiichi, TEPCO inspected other similar hoses at the plant. They

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New Problems & Challenges Plague Fukushima

June 23, 2015February 15, 2016 Editor 0 Comments daiichi, decontamination, evacuation, evacuees, fukushima, naraha, roadmap, soil bags, thyroid

As June wanes we find more delays, more problems and new admissions about the extent of the disaster. TEPCO introduced

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Contaminated Fukushima Food; Charges In Taiwan, Japan Asks China To Ease Restrictions

June 22, 2015June 22, 2015 Editor 0 Comments arrests, china, food, imports, japan, restrictions, taiwan

Two men have been charged in Taiwan related to the importing of banned foods from Japan. The illegal importing of

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New Contaminated Japanese Tea Found In Taiwan

June 22, 2015 Editor 0 Comments cesium, contaminated, food, japan, taiwan, tea, Testing

Taiwan’s FDA published some new radiation testing results in the last week. On June 16, 2015 they found two samples

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TEPCO Begins Tank Removal Work At Fukushima Daiichi

June 19, 2015 Editor 0 Comments bolt together tanks, daiichi, fukushima, H1, H2, removal

Work began in late May to remove some of the bolt together tanks at Fukushima Daiichi. The bolt together tanks

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Sendai Nuclear Plant Restart Rescheduled As Inspections Fall Behind

June 11, 2015June 11, 2015 Editor 0 Comments japan, nuclear, restart, sendai

The potential restart of the Sendai nuclear plant has now been pushed back to mid-August at the earliest. JAIF is

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New Fukushima Daiichi Robot Changes Approach

June 11, 2015 Editor 0 Comments autonomous, Chiba, drone, fukushima, robot

Yet another robot has been introduced for use at Fukushima Daiichi. This one is significantly different. The unnamed six propeller

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EPA Investigates WIPP Room Closure

June 10, 2015June 8, 2015 Editor 0 Comments closure, room, WIPP

WIPP abruptly closed off two rooms that contained at risk barrels of nuclear waste. One being the site of the

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Fukushima Businesses Cut Off, Youth Don’t Plan To Return

June 9, 2015June 8, 2015 Editor 0 Comments businesses, compensation, evacuation, fukushima, return, youth, zone

A new plan was announced by TEPCO and the Japanese government that would terminate compensation payments to businesses impacted by

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Rain May Have Caused Radiation Spike At Fukushima Drainage Canal

June 8, 2015 Editor 0 Comments contaminated water, daiichi, fukushima, k drainage, leaks, rain

TEPCO reported a small radiation spike at the K drainage canal on June 6th. Levels went up on the 6th

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IRID Shows Off New Robot To Help With Containment Inspections At Fukushima Daiichi

June 4, 2015 Editor 0 Comments Containment, daiichi, fukushima, IRID, robot, shield blocks, tembo

IRID has announced a new robot to help access the containment structures at Fukushima Daiichi. The new robot named TEMBO

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TEPCO Caught Lying About Fukushima Failed Hose Incident

June 3, 2015 Editor 0 Comments daiichi, drainage, fukushima, hose, kanaflex, leak, NRA, waste water

TEPCO was reprimanded by the NRA after being caught lying about the use of the now failed transfer hose at

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New Leak At Daiichi Used Known Weak Hose

June 2, 2015 Editor 0 Comments 2015, contaminated water, daiichi, fukushima, hose, kanaflex, leak

TEPCO’s latest contaminated water leak at least partially made it to the sea. TEPCO eventually closed the drainage canals and

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Japan Plans To Restart Reactors Surrounded By Active Volcanoes

May 29, 2015 Editor 0 Comments japan, nuclear, restart, sendai, volcano

Japan’s NRA has given the go ahead to restart two reactors at the Sendai nuclear plant. A recent court decision

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Fukushima Daiichi Cleans Most Contaminated Water, Not Really

May 28, 2015 Editor 0 Comments contaminated water, daiichi, filtering, fukushima

TEPCO announced that they have cleaned most of the contaminated water at Fukushima Daiichi. But the details show they are

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Waste Storage Tanks At Fukushima Daiichi At Risk Of Explosion

May 23, 2015 Editor 0 Comments alps, daiichi, explosion, fukushima, HIC, hydrogen

Filter waste containers stored at Fukushima Daiichi are at risk of having hydrogen explosions. TEPCO released documents on Friday detailing

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Japan Takes S. Korea To WTO Over Fukushima Food Bans

May 21, 2015 Editor 0 Comments ban, food, fukushima, japan, korea, south, WTO

Japan has filed a WTO trade complaint against South Korea for restricting potentially contaminated Japanese food from entering their market.

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Fukushima; The Beginning Of The End

May 19, 2015 Editor 0 Comments compensation, end, evacuation zone, evacuees, fukushima, reopen

A series of announcements over the last two weeks have shown the Abe administration’s true plan for Fukushima & Japan.

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Takahama Reactor Restarts Appeal Rejected By Court

May 19, 2015 Editor 0 Comments fukushima, japan, nuclear, reactor, restarts, Takahama

The restart attempt of the nuclear reactors at the Takahama plant in Japan has again been rejected by the courts.

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Fukushima Radiation Found In Tap Water Around Japan

May 18, 2015May 15, 2015 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, fukushima, japan, tap, tokyo, water

Testing conducted in February and March of 2015 found cesium in many tap water samples collected around Japan. While the

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SimplyInfo.org Report: Taiwan Food Testing Of Japanese Imports

May 18, 2015May 22, 2015 Editor 0 Comments food, fukushima, japan, taiwan, Testing

Thanks to activists in Japan, we were made aware of ongoing Japanese food import testing being conducted in Taiwan. The

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Taiwan Implements New Oversight On Japan Food Imports

May 15, 2015 Editor 0 Comments food, fukushima, taiwan

After the mislabeling scandal earlier in the year where Japanese food imports had falsified prefecture of origin labels, Taiwan’s new

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LDP Wants To Reopen Much Of Evacuation Zone By 2017

May 15, 2015 Editor 0 Comments evacuation zone, fukushima, japan, LDP, reopening

The LDP party is pushing a plan to reopen the evacuation zone for any area below 50 mSv/year by 2017.

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Fukushima Unit 5 Fuel Removed From Reactor

May 13, 2015May 13, 2015 Editor 0 Comments fukushima, removal, spent fuel, TEPCO, unit 5

The fuel assemblies that have been inside the unit 5 reactor vessel since the 2011 disaster have all been moved

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Scientists Think Mega Quake May Hit Kyushu Region Soon

May 13, 2015 Editor 0 Comments kyushu, nuclear, prediction, quake, sendai

Scientists in Japan released a new study that indicates that a mega quake could hit the Kyushu region of Japan

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What Happened At Indian Point?

May 12, 2015 Editor 0 Comments explosion, fire, Indian, oil leak, point, transformer

Over the weekend there was an incident at the Indian Point nuclear plant near New York City. Reports of an

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Japanese Burger Chain Busted Using Restricted Fukushima Food In Taiwan

May 6, 2015 Editor 0 Comments food, fukushima, imports, mos burger, taiwan

Mos Burger is in trouble in Taiwan for importing mislabeled food products to their stores in Taiwan. One of the

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Taiwan Customs Broker Arrested In Fukushima Food Scandal

April 29, 2015 Editor 0 Comments food, fukushima, inspector, taiwan

A food import customs broker has been arrested in Taiwan on charges he faked import testing and documents. This included

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SimplyInfo.org; Fukushima News For A Monday (April 27, 2015)

April 27, 2015 Editor 0 Comments drone, fukushima, playground, power, summer, tokyo

A couple of stories came out over the last week or so that were worth mentioning. Toshiba showed off their

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Fukushima Daiichi Frozen Wall Begins Freezing Operations

April 23, 2015April 23, 2015 Editor 0 Comments 2015, daiichi, frozen, fukushima, wall

TEPCO’s contractors have begun the process of freezing the completed sections of the frozen wall. Blocks 1-8 are currently in

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Fukushima Daiichi Port Concreting Completed

April 23, 2015 Editor 0 Comments concreting, daiichi, fukushima, port

Work to put down a coat of concrete across the entire port floor at Fukushima Daiichi has been completed. Initial

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