30 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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Fukushima; What Will The Future Be?
Many media reports tried to document the 5th anniversary of the 3-11 disaster. Some gave it superficial coverage. Others tried
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Japanese Court Forces Takahama Nuclear Plant To Shut Down
A district court in Shiga prefecture has forced Kansai Electric to shut down unit 3 at Takahama Nuclear Plant and
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Fukushima Disaster Costs Taxpayers $100 Billion So Far
The Financial Times reports the estimate, based on work by Ritsumeikan University professor Kenichi Oshima. This includes what taxpayers have
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Fukushima Documentary; 88 Hours Inside The Disaster
NHK is broadcasting a documentary throughout the week called 88 Hours – The Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown. It is based on
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Fire At Namie Nuclear Waste Site
Loose branches and dead grass being prepared to be loaded into the iconic black bags used for nuclear soil and
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SimplyInfo.org Fukushima 5th Year Report
Our research team’s 5th year report on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is out. Full of technical details rarely covered
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IAEA Says Feature Key To Controlling Fukushima Disaster Not Used Elsewhere
The head of the IAEA talked about this with Kyodo News recently. The seismic “isolated” building, sometimes referred to as
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Chat Service Restored
Chat service has been intermittent for the last 4 hours. It should be corrected now. If you continue to have
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3 TEPCO Execs Indicted On Criminal Negligence Charges
Three TEPCO executives were successfully indicted on Monday in Tokyo. The three are Tsunehisa Katsumata, 75, chairman of TEPCO at
Read moreTakahama Reactor Fails Days After Restart
An issue in the turbine systems caused unit 4 at the Takahama nuclear plant in Japan to automatically shut down just
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TEPCO Admits To Fukushima Meltdown Coverup
TEPCO has admitted that they failed to officially notify the government of the meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi and that they
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Fukushima Ice Wall To Begin Freezing Early March
TEPCO should begin freezing the sea side of the ice wall in early March according to Asahi Shimbun. That should
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Details On Fukushima Tritium Removal System
Kurion’s tritium removal system is inching closer to implementation. Bloomberg has some information on how the system will work. A
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TEPCO And NRA Agree On Fukushima Frozen Wall Plan
TEPCO and NRA have come to an agreement to being operation of the frozen wall. TEPCO wanted to freeze the
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Fukushima Daiichi Frozen Wall Controversy Hits Stalemate
The NRA in Japan has put a stop to implementation of the frozen wall. Our ongoing reporting on the frozen
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A Fukushima Evacuee’s Story; Who Represents Us?
We try to present the first hand experience of those impacted by the Fukushima disaster whenever possible. Those who have
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Strontium 90 Rises Between Units 1 And 2 At Fukushima Daiichi
Strontium 90 has risen in a number of wells between unit 1 and 2 at Fukushima Daiichi to record levels.
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New Meltdown Byproduct Found Far From Fukushima Daiichi
Another type of material has been found by researchers that is tied to the meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi. We have
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New Plan To Inspect Fukushima Unit 1 Unveiled
IRID has published a new plan to complete phase 2 of the robot containment inspection of unit 1 at Fukushima
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Fukushima Unit 2 Containment Inspection Postponed Further
TEPCO is reporting that the effort to put a robot into unit 2’s containment has been delayed further. Work to
Read more2013 Fukushima Dust Release May Have Caused Fallout At Regulator
In the summer of 2013 researchers from Kyoto University began finding evidence of new radiation releases from Fukushima Daiichi. By
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