SimplyInfo.org WIPP Update; July 28, 2014
The Albuquerque Journal discovered that the contractor for WIPP received a 1.9 million dollar performance bonus… after the WIPP fire
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Fukushima Monkeys May Show Radiation Damage
A new study of Japanese snow monkeys shows that they may be suffering from damage from radiation exposure. Researchers found
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Japan Moves Closer To Nuclear Restarts, But Who Decides?
Japan’s NRA gave an initial approval towards the Sendai nuclear plant meeting government “safety standards”. There are still other aspects
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Reactor related decommissioning will be part of the long term plans for Fukushima Daiichi. Considerable research is needed before actual
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Fukushima Frozen Wall Problem Claimed To Be Trickle Of Water
TEPCO is claiming a small water flow of 2 milliliters per minute is causing the frozen wall installation in cable
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Japanese Govt.; Evacuating Around Fukushima Daiichi Would Take 5 Days
Interviews given to the government investigation of the Fukushima disaster and released by Asahi Shimbun showed the reality of evacuation
Read moreSimplyInfo.org Fukushima & Nuclear News Roundup
TEPCO shareholders demand Fukushima interviews be released to the public, threaten to take it to court if needed. http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/nuclear.html
Read moreSimplyInfo.org Fukushima & Nuclear News Roundup; May 25, 2014
A reporter has lived in Iitate village in Fukushima for the last two years to film a documentary about life
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Fukushima; The Loss Of Homeland
The central government has declared the towns of Futaba and Okuma to be interim storage sites for the growing piles
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Work Begins Towards Removing Melted Fuel At Fukushima Daiichi
Work has begun towards implementing a way to remove the melted fuel at Fukushima Daiichi. It was reported earlier this
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Taiwan Keeps High Level Travel Warning For Fukushima
Taiwan will continue to keep the region around Fukushima Prefecture as a “red” travel warning. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Plans To Flood Fukushima Containments Scrapped
The entire decommissioning plan has hinged on this one thing, the ability to flood the containment structures of the reactors
Read moreSimplyInfo.org; Fukushima Nuclear News Roundup
Nuclear waste (mostly soil and plant matter) piles up around Japan with nowhere to go. Twitter user hitsuji44 shared the
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Fukushima Frozen Wall Scandal
The Japanese government began funding this project after it was discovered TEPCO had realized the need, yet hid the problem
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Fukushima Reactor Water Leak Sources Admitted By TEPCO
Buried in the most recent Roadmap document is some useful information about how and where reactor water is leaking out
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Fukushima Spent Fuel Progress Report
Spent fuel processing at Fukushima has made some new progress though much work remains with higher risk work being left
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Japan Finds Continuing With Nuclear Power More Than Challenging
Japan’s nuclear regulator took a shot at the nuclear industry response to safety after Fukushima. “He said nuclear operators have
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NRA Makes Faulty Assumption About Fukushima Leaks
A report issued this week by the NRA cites that two monitoring points outside the plant serve as indicators for
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Corium Experiments; Pedestal Behaviors Using Lead
As part of the ongoing work to better understand how corium (melted reactor fuel) can behave after burning through the
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Fukushima Students Left With Few Good Choices
Some students in Fukushima have returned to schools on the edges of the evacuation zone. A school in Tamura reopened
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WIPP Incident Creates Local Frustration
A town hall meeting and a meeting with New Mexico’s congressional delegation showed the level of frustration and lack of
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WIPP Workers Union To Independently Test Exposed Staff
The United Steel Workers is sending a team of international safety department scientists to take samples and test workers at the
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New Information On WIPP From Public Meeting
A joint public meeting was held in Carlsbad NM today for the public to ask questions about the incident at
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WIPP Plutonium Leak Amount Confirmed
CEMRC, the New Mexico authority that monitors outside the WIPP plutonium facility has provided some usable readings for the leaks.
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TEPCO Admits Withholding Stronitum 90 Readings
TEPCO has admitted they knew about the extremely high strontium 90 readings and the issues with their testing equipment back
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Fukushima Fuel Inventory Update; February 4, 2014
The cask storage facility at the seafront is now completely empty, all casks have been moved. This building will likely
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Radiation Makes People Invisible – Full Article
Radiation Makes People Invisible Robert Jacobs A version in Japanese is available here: http://wp.me/p1zinA-3ev Radiation makes people invisible. We know that
Read moreRadiation Makes People Invisible (Part 2)
This is part two of a 3 part series to run Mon-Wed this week. Dr. Robert Jacobs of the Hiroshima
Read moreRadiation Makes People Invisible (Part 1)
This is part one of a 3 part series to run Mon-Wed this week. Dr. Robert Jacobs of the Hiroshima
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Japan Nuclear Evacuations Would Take 12+ Hours To More Than 6 Days
An independent study in Japan showed it would take at least 12 or more hours to evacuate a 30km zone
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Two New Pacific Radiation Monitoring Programs Launch
Woods Hole has officially launched their program to continue testing the Pacific for cesium concentrations due to the Fukushima nuclear
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60 bq/liter Strontium 90 Found In Deep Well Near Reactors At Fukushima Daiichi
60 bq/liter of strontium 90 was found in the 3/4 deep permeable layer well near the unit 4 turbine building.
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Fukushima Daiichi Fuel Storage Locations Updated
As part of the larger roadmap document TEPCO has reported some major changes in the location of spent fuel around
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Fukushima Daiichi Groundwater Well Hits 2 Million Bq Beta Radiation
Well 1-16 in the sea front area at Fukushima Daiichi has hit another new record. 2,100,000 bq/liter of beta radiation
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SimplyInfo.org’s Fukushima Corium Research Experiment Results
In our research we have tried to find ways to help explain some of the behaviors seen in meltdown accidents.
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Another Load Of Spent Fuel Moved At Fukushima Daiichi
TEPCO has moved another load of spent fuel from unit 4 to the common pool. After the initial fuel transfers
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TEPCO Worried About Vent Tower Stability, 25 Seivert Radiation Found At Base
TEPCO had been inspecting the unit 1/2 vent tower at a distance after damage to the upper structural system was
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The Plan For Japan
Besides the effort to declare arbitrary state secrets there have been a number of other disturbing efforts in the government
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Poor TEPCO! Upset That News Media Reported Fuel Cask Transfer
TEPCO sent out this press release today complaining about the press, for reporting news. Kyodo News and possibly others flew
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U4 Fuel Cask Moved To Common Pool Building
NHK and TEPCO have announced that the first cask of fuel assemblies has been moved from unit 4 to the
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