New Discovery At Fukushima Unit 3 Provides Clues To Meltdown Severity, Environmental Releases
TEPCO recently published a video of the work to remove spent fuel from the unit 3 fuel pool. In this
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Fukushima Unit 2 Containment Repair Research Underway
IRID announced details of work that is now underway to determine if a method for repairing the unit 2 suppression
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Fukushima Frozen Wall Update; October 4, 2016
TEPCO published a new report on the frozen wall dated September 29. TEPCO states that they have frozen 95 percent
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Fukushima Frozen Wall Sees Small Progress From Concrete Addition
The newest frozen wall report documented the process of injecting concrete into the areas experiencing freezing problems along the sea
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TEPCO Begins Concreting Unit 4 Trench At Fukushima Daiichi
TEPCO has begun concreting in the seawater piping trench for unit 4 at Fukushima Daiichi. The work has been on
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Frozen Wall Delayed As More Concreting At Fukushima Daiichi
TEPCO announced a two week delay in work to install a frozen underground wall around the leaking reactors at Fukushima
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TEPCO Begins Concreting Unit 3 Trench
TEPCO concreted the unit 3 trench in some unannounced work at Fukushima Daiichi. The unit 2 cable trench had been
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TEPCO Admits Unit 2 Trench Concrete Work May Be Failing
NHK reports that the work to concrete in the unit 2 trench may not be working as planned. The work
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Fukushima Unit 1 New Photos Reveal Additional Damage
Photos taken during the removal of the cover on unit 1 showed some additional conditions on the refueling floor that
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Fukushima Unit 1 Reactor Well Cover Dislodged
TEPCO showed in a handout that got little attention that the concrete reactor well cover for unit 1 is dislodged.
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TEPCO’s Trench Saga Could Have Unintended Consequences
TEPCO has made multiple attempts to deal with the unit 2 trench full of highly contaminated water. In 2011 they
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TEPCO Declares Effort To Drain Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 Trench Futile
TEPCO drained 200,000 liters of water out of the unit 2 trench after they declared the end near the turbine
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TEPCO Gets Approval To Concrete Tunnels At Fukushima Daiichi
As part of the ongoing work to install the frozen wall around the reactor buildings at Fukushima Daiichi, concreting some
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TEPCO Admits High Radiation Readings In Fukushima Port
TEPCO began a second round of concrete covering of the port at Fukushima Daiichi in June 2014. As they began
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Fukushima Daiichi; Work Begins To Concrete Port A Second Time
Work has begun, to concrete over the port at Fukushima Daiichi for a second time. Initial work to concrete over
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Fukushima Unit 3 Concrete Reactor Cover Damaged
TEPCO has admitted that the concrete reactor well cover on unit 3 has been damaged. They floated two possible causes.
Read moreTEPCO Considers Filling Fukushima Reactors With Concrete
A recent Bloomberg article documents TEPCO’s efforts to work with the US Department of Energy on ways to deal with
Read moreNew Paper: Gamma Radiation Damage To Fukushima Units 1- 4 Spent Fuel Pools
fukuleaks.org/web has released another new paper taking an in depth look into the ongoing challenges at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
Read moreUnit 4 Reactor Well Cover, Hiding In Plain Site
We were reviewing the images from the METI tour earlier this week and caught this from an older image and
Read moreRadioactive Gravel Used In Concrete In Japan Has Been Sent Who Knows Where.
Earlier Sunday news came out that a condo building in Nihonmatsu had been found to be radioactive. The gravel facility
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