Highly Radioactive Fukushima Town Reopens
The town of Katsurao currently has radiation levels of 20-50 mSv/year, with some areas above the 50 mSv/year level. 20
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Fukushima Soil Road Reuse Plan Ignores Significant Risks
The government plan would take any contaminated soil under the 8000 bq/kg hazardous waste limit and use it to build
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Govt. To Allow Two Fukushima Fish Species To Be Sold
A sale ban has been lifted for Fukushima caught flounder and conger fish. These two species along with many others
Read moreJapan To Meet Summer Peak Power Demand With Solar
Japan is now following the path of Germany where solar power may meet the peak power demand during summer. Japan
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Zeolite Fibers Found Effective In Removing Cesium 137 From Fukushima Rivers
A new study by researchers in Japan found that zeolite-polymer fiber materials were effective in filtering out low levels of
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Chubu Power Wants To Restart Damaged Reactor
The Hamaoka nuclear plant sits near one of the most dangerous earthquake faults in Japan. If this wasn’t concerning enough,
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TEPCO Begins Small Debris Removal On Fukushima Unit 1
NHK announced late last week that TEPCO has begun removing small debris off the top of Fukushima unit 1 with
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Japan; Still Radioactive (Video)
Asuperdry reported quite a bit during 2011 when the disaster hit, showing people radiation readings and other information. This new
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Possible Causes Of Fukushima Frozen Wall Failures
TEPCO reported last week that roughly 10% of the frozen wall is not working. Currently only certain sections are being
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5 At TEPCO Home Office Knew Of Meltdown Manual
TEPCO admitted via Asahi Shimbun that 5 people at TEPCO’s home office in Tokyo knew of the meltdown manual as
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TEPCO’s Two Tales About Fukushima Missing Melted Fuel
Fukushima Daiichi decommissioning chief, Naohiro Masuda spoke with Australia ABC TV this week about where the melted fuel is. Masuda
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Fukushima Frozen Wall Appears To Make Progress
NHK reports that the frozen wall at Fukushima Daiichi is making progress. They cite that 80% of the 6000 monitoring
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Three Companies Raided, Fined Over TEPCO Bid Rigging
Three electronics companies were raided by Japan’s Fair Trade Commission last year and now face steep fines for bid rigging
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Fukushima Decontamination Company Employees Arrested For Murder
A decontamination worker went missing in the fall of 2015. A recent tip given to police implicated six workers for
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TEPCO To Stop Fukushima Work During G-7 Summit
TEPCO announced they will halt all decommissioning work at Fukushima Daiichi during the G-7 Summit. The summit will be held
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Japan Citizen Radiation Testing Labs Join Forces To Show Data
Various citizen based radiation testing labs that have been established since the 2011 Fukushima disaster have joined forces to make
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Fukushima Pacific Contamination Will Show Back Up In Japan 2-3 Years
Oceanographer Michio Aoyama presented an estimate at an international conference recently showing that the cesium 137 contamination in the Pacific will
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IRID Completes Full Scale Fukushima Torus Model
IRID has completed a full sized model of the torus (suppression chamber) based on the damaged reactors at Fukushima Daiichi.
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Greenpeace Develops Innovative Way To See Radiation
Greenpeace has developed an innovative yet fairly simple way to visualize radiation. “We found our answer in a custom built LED light
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Fukushima Frozen Wall Not Solid, What You Need To Know
Last week TEPCO admitted that the frozen wall would not fully contain groundwater flowing through the plant. Original estimates of
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Kyushu Earthquake Showed Japan’s Govt. Still Flounders With Truth
There has been a bit of a shake up at Japan’s nuclear regulator, the NRA. The IAEA issued a report
Read more30 Years After Chernobyl, Reporters Find Milk With Banned Levels Of Strontium 90
An Associated Press report found Strontium 90 levels in commercial milk to be over both the Belarus and Russian limits
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Kyushu Earthquakes Expose Unaddressed Nuclear Reactor Risks
The Kyushu region of Japan has been hit by a series of major earthquakes and aftershocks since late last week.
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Fukushima Workers Removing Tanks Receive High Radiation Exposures
Workers dismantling bolt together tanks at Fukushima Daiichi received high radiation doses to the eye during their work. TEPCO did
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Sludge Solidification Technology Gets Trial Run At Fukushima Daiichi
A geopolymer technology from UK company AMEC Foster Wheeler will have a trial run at Fukushima Daiichi to solidify radioactive
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Two Days Of Earthquakes Near Japan’s Operating Reactors
UPDATE: Mt. Aso near the fault line generating these earthquakes has had a small eruption. Strong earthquakes have been hitting
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Fukushima Tritium Dumping Plan More Dangerous Than Advertised
An Associated Press story made the rounds this week quoting various experts regarding potential tritium dumping at Fukushima Daiichi. Some
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Someone At TEPCO Knew The Meltdown Standard
Asahi Shimbun has reported that Yuichi Okamura, the senior director of nuclear power generation knew. In a recent press conference he said
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TEPCO Begins Installing Unit 3 Defueling Building
TEPCO began installing the first sections of the defueling building this week. The decking is the first portion of what
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US Think Tank Urging Japan Keep Nuclear Funded By Japanese Govt & Nuclear Industry
A report by The Intercept this week provided a missing piece of the puzzle from 2012 and Japan’s attempted nuclear
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TEPCO Curiously Avoids Prosecution On Contaminated Water Leak
A court case that went after TEPCO for causing a major contaminated water leak, part of which leaked to the
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Fukushima Workers With Maximum Exposure Could Come Back To Work
TEPCO announced that workers who exceeded 100 mSv in exposure during the initial disaster could soon return to work at the
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TEPCO Starts Frozen Wall, What You Need To Know
Full operation of the frozen wall at Fukushima Daiichi has begun. The entire process should take about 8 months to
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Nuclear Accident In India Worse Than Reported
The nuclear accident that occurred at the Kakrapar nuclear plant in India on March 11th is much worse than the
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Two New Leaks At Fukushima Daiichi
Two new leaks happened at Fukushima Daiichi recently. Both were contained within the buildings where they happened. The first was
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Research Towards High Radiation Robots For Fukushima
One of the largest challenges in the effort to decommission the Fukushima Daiichi disaster site is developing robotic technology to
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Japan Sees Another Reactor Permanently Shut Down
The Ikata unit 1 reactor will be permanently shut down. The nearly 40 year old reactor needs 200 billion yen
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Interim Fukushima Contaminated Soil Storage Won’t Start Until 2020
Yomiuri Shimbun is reporting that the effort to establish an interim soil storage site for the mountains of contaminated soil
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3 Incidents Show High Stakes Game Of Nuclear Chicken
Three serious incidents came to light in recently that show a disturbing level of risk to the public from nuclear
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Fukushima Unit 2 Gets Mini Muon Detector
Unit 2 already had one muon scan done by Nagoya University that found no fuel to likely be in the
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