TEPCO Begins Dumping Contaminated Water
TEPCO began dumping contaminated water at 1pm Thursday (Japan time). International opposition and outcry have not been resolved. We document
Read moreTEPCO began dumping contaminated water at 1pm Thursday (Japan time). International opposition and outcry have not been resolved. We document
Read moreTEPCO’s long-term plan to dump contaminated water into the Pacific has progressed closer to reality. Regulators have given initial approvals
Read moreTEPCO estimates they will have the discharge pipe/tunnel for dumping contaminated water into the Pacific completed by 2023. This article
Read moreTEPCO has completed work to address the leakage of contaminated reactor water into the main building for unit 3. Raised
Read moreJapan’s plan to allow TEPCO to dump contaminated water into the Pacific has caused international uproar. Other governments, environmental groups,
Read moreJapanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga gave TEPCO permission to dump contaminated water into the sea on Tuesday. Japanese fishing, environmental
Read moreThere have been multiple problems at Fukushima Daiichi in the contaminated water tanks farms. Initial reporting after the February earthquake
Read moreBelow are some of the more notable new information related to Fukushima Daiichi from recent weeks. We will have more
Read moreFukushima unit 3 will have contaminated water removed from the suppression chamber to help improve the earthquake resistance of the
Read moreWork to reduce the risk of the mega float from tsunami is expected to be completed by mid fiscal year
Read moreThe Associated Press reported from a TEPCO press conference held late last week that treated water TEPCO has been trying
Read moreTEPCO has successfully obtained a sample and water depth for the sump drain connected to the unit 1-2 vent tower.
Read moreContamination levels rose again in the unit 1 discharge canal near the reactor building. Our records show this may have
Read moreTEPCO reported a small radiation spike at the K drainage canal on June 6th. Levels went up on the 6th
Read moreTEPCO’s latest contaminated water leak at least partially made it to the sea. TEPCO eventually closed the drainage canals and
Read moreTEPCO announced that they have cleaned most of the contaminated water at Fukushima Daiichi. But the details show they are
Read moreTEPCO admitted that water recently leaked from the H4 tank farm is loose in the groundwater at the plant. Monitoring
Read moreA significant spike in contaminated water levels at Fukushima Daiichi in the unit 1 discharge canal was reported today. Readings
Read moreThe US company that supplied a mobile strontium 90 filtration system is saying it met target goals of performance at
Read moreTEPCO has made multiple attempts to deal with the unit 2 trench full of highly contaminated water. In 2011 they
Read moreTEPCO drained 200,000 liters of water out of the unit 2 trench after they declared the end near the turbine
Read moreTEPCO announced they are putting the new improved version of the ALPS decontamination system into daily operation. It will operate
Read moreTEPCO and the team of contractors that worked on the underground zeolite wall have released more detail about the validation
Read moreFishermen have raised concerns with TEPCO’s new plan to dump treated water into the sea. The group is not convinced
Read moreTEPCO announced the completion of the installation of an 80 meter wide underground zeolite wall at Fukushima Daiichi. This wall’s
Read moreThe July 9th reading for monitoring well 1-2 at the sea front had this startling reading. 39,000,000 bq/liter of beta
Read moreA report issued this week by the NRA cites that two monitoring points outside the plant serve as indicators for
Read moreTEPCO still has not completely ruled out this being a deliberate act, but is assuming it may have been a
Read moreTEPCO has admitted that the radioactive sludge leak from the H4 tank farm last August was more than three times
Read moreWork has begun to freeze the unit 2 trench at Fukushima Daiichi. This has been a problematic area since the
Read moreTEPCO has admitted they knew about the extremely high strontium 90 readings and the issues with their testing equipment back
Read moreTEPCO released to the sea, rainwater that had built up behind the concrete barrier around the contaminated water tanks at
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