Fukushima 3rd Anniversary; Technical Report – Plant Conditions
Conditions at the plant have remained a challenge and appear they will be in the future. TEPCO started off on
Read moreConditions at the plant have remained a challenge and appear they will be in the future. TEPCO started off on
Read moreContaminated water issues dominated TEPCO’s work and reporting out of the plant. The ALPS system intended to remove some of
Read moreUnit 4 saw the completion of the defueling building. Since early in 2011 TEPCO has considered the removal of fuel
Read moreUnit 3 saw considerable work take place in the last year. The torus of this unit was considered to be
Read moreThese events and new information were found on unit 2 within the last year. TEPCO announced in July that they
Read moreWith the 3rd anniversary of the 3-11 triple disaster approaching we have taken a look at the changes that have
Read moreAbout 10,000 showed up for a series of protests and concerts in Tokyo. photos from the Tokyo protest. 300 showed
Read moreThe local fishing cooperative in Iwaki found 110 bq/kg in a rockfish tested for radioactive contamination. This type of fish
Read more31,383 workers have passed through the gates of Fukushima Daiichi between March 2011 and December 2013. TEPCO has complained of
Read moreSome Fukushima contamination samples collected by citizens in Japan have been tested for strontium 90. Marco Kaltofan from the Dept.
Read more374 fuel assemblies have been moved from unit 4’s spent fuel pool to the common pool as of this week.
Read moreScientists from the Bedford Institute of Oceanography have found levels of cesium in sea water off the Vancouver Canada coast that
Read moreExamples of the continued abuse of workers hired to work at the nuclear disaster site continued in the last year.
Read moreAfter pressure from the Health Ministry, TEPCO recalculated the thyroid doses of some workers. These totaled to 1,973 workers who received
Read more放射能は人々を見えない存在にする ロバート・ジェイコブズ A version in English IS available here: http://Wp.Me/p1zinA-3bv 放射能は人々を見えない存在にする。放射線を浴びる、つまり被ばくすると、健康に害が及ぶこ とは知られている。高い放射線量を浴びた場合は、死にいたることさえある。しかし、放射能が及 ぼす影響はそれだけではない。被ばくした人たちは、そして健康障害はないが被ばくした恐れがあ る人たちでさえも、人生が大きく変えられてしまう。彼らは「二級市民」とみなされ、家族、地域 コミュニティ、ふるさと、昔ながらの食生活、受け継がれてきた知恵までもが奪われてしまう。残 された人生を、ふるさとに戻りたい、普通の生活に戻りたいと願いながら過ごすことになる。そし て、自分たちは犠牲者となったこと、自分たちが幸せな暮らしを送れるかどうかは政府や地域社会 の関心の的ではないことを少しずつ悟るのである。 核技術の社会的、文化的側面を研究する歴史家として、筆者は何年にもわたって世界中の被ばく 地域をめぐり、調査を行ってきた。こうした地域の人たちの多くが被ばくした原因は、核実験、
Read moreLocal food coops that carefully select and test their food have become a go-to source for people concerned about contamination
Read moreMore agreements have been inked between Fukushima Medical University and the international nuclear mafia. Fukushima Medical University has signed an
Read moreThere were big concerns thrown around about the situation in the Pacific related to Fukushima in the last year. Oceanographers
Read more100 tons of water leaked from a contaminated water tank at Fukushima Daiichi after workers incorrectly aligned valves. They then
Read moreUnit 2 at Fukushima Daiichi has lost another bottom thermometer in the reactor vessel. Workers said it short circuited when
Read moreThe concerns about food contamination from Fukushima has also increased awareness of the lingering problems of world wide food contamination
Read moreTEPCO released radiation readings for water inside the unit 3 turbine building this week. The readings were from December 2013.
Read morePeople around Japan are still conducting efforts to understand their environment and to act as a 3rd party accuracy check
Read moreTEPCO reports a total of 352 fuel assemblies have been removed from the unit 4 spent fuel pool as of
Read morePeople in Japan early on realized they needed to take things into their own hands if they wanted to know
Read moreTEPCO has admitted that the concrete reactor well cover on unit 3 has been damaged. They floated two possible causes.
Read moreA high school student from Ibaraki explains her family’s journey to evacuated from the regions around the Fukushima disaster. This
Read moreYomiuri has released a more detailed article after yanking an earlier version. Two Yomiuri reporters were allowed into unit 4’s
Read moreAfter the recent admission of record high strontium 90 readings being found at the sea front at Fukushima Daiichi, more
Read moreThe town of Kawauchi has been trying to encourage residents to return to the town on the edge of the
Read moreIn June of 2013 UNSCEAR released a report declaring the human health impacts from Fukushima to be almost non-existent. The
Read more308 assemblies have been removed from the unit 4 spent fuel pool. The assemblies were transferred to the common pool
Read moreTEPCO has admitted they knew about the extremely high strontium 90 readings and the issues with their testing equipment back
Read moreAs the third anniversary of the 3-11 disaster draws near, parents in Japan are still dealing with the impacts from
Read moreThis article is a good example of the motivations and biases in play related to Fukushima food contamination in North
Read moreThe number of children found with confirmed or suspected thyroid cancers continues to grow. The newest numbers out of the
Read moreTEPCO announced earlier this week that a pipe carrying cooling water for the reactors was leaking. The accompanying photo of
Read moreTEPCO released readings for two seafront wells that have not been published before. Wells 1-2 and 1-3 were not on
Read moreMETI has reported some progress and a plan for removing debris out of the unit 3 spent fuel pool. Initial
Read moreThe upper floors of the equipment hatch at unit 3 were found to have some damage on a recent inspection.
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