Rats Vs. TEPCO, The Rats Are Winning
TEPCO’s new arch nemesis, the influx of rats that have taken up residence at the plant, are causing more problems.
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Strontium 90 Will Contaminate Coastal Groundwater In 10 Years
Strontium 90 found to be leaking out of the ponds installed by TEPCO is expected to contaminate the coastal groundwater
Read moreFukushima & Nuclear News Roundup April 21,2013
Japan Steel is struggling, their stocks declined and some workers are being given partial furloughs. Their nuclear parts business is
Read moreMSIV Inspection At Unit 2
TEPCO did a robot inspection of the MSIV room of unit 2. No video of the work has been released
Read moreFukushima Daiichi Technical Update Report
TEPCO has begun pumping water out of the number 2 pond at the plant to above ground tanks. TEPCO cites
Read moreNRA Sets Rules For Japan’s Nuclear Future
Japan’s NRA has begun the process to establish new rules (or guidelines) for reactor restarts. The rules are open for
Read moreFukushima Nuclear News Roundup – Monday April 15, 2013
TEPCO is still not ruling out the option of dumping radioactive water into the ocean. Something that would cause obvious
Read moreHow TEPCO Manages A Disaster
This is how TEPCO solves a highly radioactive water leak. These pipes are part of the pond system that was
Read moreWater Leaks At Daiichi Expose New Widescale Failures At TEPCO
The extent of the problems at Fukushima Daiichi has come to light in the past few weeks as multiple failures
Read moreTEPCO To Remove Water From Ponds By June
TEPCO announced a big press conference to be held out at J Village. So far the only report out of this
Read moreMore Problems Come To Light At Fukushima Daiichi
More information has come out today in relation to the pond failures and leaks at Fukushima Daiichi. Third confirmed pond
Read moreUS Petition To Revoke BWR Reactor Licenses
Beyond Nuclear filed a petition in March 2013 requesting the NRC revoke the operating licenses of the GE BWR reactors
Read morePre-Tsunami Damage At Unit 1 Fukushima Daiichi
Concerns about damage to unit 1 and possibly other units having happened before the tsunami hit the plant still exist
Read moreSilt Fence At Daiichi Fails, May Have Released Highly Radioactive Fish
TEPCO is reporting that the silt fence at the plant that has also been serving to keep highly radioactive fish
Read morePond Liner Used At Fukushima Daiichi Equal To Trash Bag Plastic
Asahi Shimbun mentions in one of their reports on the pond tank leakage at Fukushima Daiichi that the HDPE plastic
Read moreAll Pit Tanks May Be Leaking At Fukushima Daiichi
TEPCO had previously announced two pit tanks leaking at the plant over the weekend. Now a newer handout shows even
Read moreCompany Involved In Decontamination Scandal Built Daiichi Pit Tanks
The company that built the now leaking pit tanks at Fukushima Daiichi was also involved in the recent scandal involving
Read moreANOTHER Leak In A Pit Tank At Fukushima Daiichi
TEPCO is now reporting another leak in one of the pit tanks at Fukushima Daiichi. The number 3 pit tank
Read moreUpdate On Water Leak At Fukushima Daiichi
We documented the early information on the radioactive water leak at Daiichi here. TEPCO and the Japanese media have released
Read moreHigh Level Water Leak At Fukushima Daiichi
Update: Reporting from various sources that were following the press conference. TEPCO plans to move the water from the leaking
Read moreNew Power Outage Caused By Workers
Workers were installing a piece of wire mesh inside an energized high voltage panel at Fukushima Daiichi in an attempt
Read moreNRA To Give 5 Year Waiver On Nuclear Safety Facility At Plants
NRA has announced they will give a five year waiver for certain safety buildings at nuclear plants in Japan. The
Read moreTemporary Power Failure At Fukushima Daiichi, Not A Repeat From Last Week
Unit 3 lost power to the spent fuel pool cooling system yet again. So far no cause has been admitted
Read moreNRA Renames Standards, Did This Change Regulation?
NRA announced that they are changing their “safety standards” to “guidelines”. The reason given by NRA for this is potential
Read moreRumor Still Blamed For Fukushima Food Problems
“Harmful rumor” is still being blamed for the economic problems among food producers in Fukushima. Prices have not recovered and
Read moreTEPCO Cites 6 Years For Total Property Loss
Six Years For Total Loss On Fukushima Properties TEPCO has admitted a time frame for total loss on property claims.
Read moreTEPCO’s Image Rehab Game
The media jumped all over TEPCO’s latest excuse without a moment of investigation. TEPCO announced that the disaster happened because
Read moreAbe Stacks Deck To Obtain Nuclear Restarts
PM Abe tossed out six panel members with anti-nuclear views from the government’s energy policy advisory council in mid March
Read moreReader Questions; Can You Test Blood & Saliva For Radiation Exposure?
We solicited (and continue to) readers to send in their questions for us to try to answer. There are so
Read moreNew Fukushima Investigation To Look Deeper Into Technical Disaster
The recently announced NRA investigation of the Fukushima nuclear disaster will look deeper into the technical details of the disaster.
Read moreOi Nuclear Plant To Get Interim Safety Check, Japan Power Co’s Denied Full Rate Hike
Oi will receive an interim safety check by the NRA as part of a plan to allow them to operate
Read moreUS Hires Nuclear Industry To Determine Nuclear Disaster Clean Up Policy
The US government has paid the NCRP, a private company largely sponsored by the nuclear industry to draw up new
Read moreJapan Nuclear Society Admits Their Bias
As a side note in a recent NHK story the Atomic Energy Society of Japan polled their members who admitted
Read moreMainichi Exposes Widespread Nuclear Dark Money In Japan
In a trio of articles Mainichi has exposed even more widespread dark money influence into groups assumed by the public
Read moreJapan May Limit Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
After missing a deadline to outline their future plan for Japan’s plutonium stockpile the AEC has announced a possible change
Read moreTEPCO Admits Rat Caused Widespread Power Outage
TEPCO is now citing the rat found in the electrical distribution panels as the cause of the entire outage, not
Read moreTEPCO Dumps Large Cache Of Radiation Readings From Daiichi Buildings
TEPCO released a document of radiation readings for an extensive list of locations in the reactor buildings, related buildings and
Read moreAbenomics To Blame For Fukushima
William Pesek at Bloomberg makes an interesting proposition that the policies of the LDP in Japan are part of the
Read moreCanadian Embassy In Tokyo Radiation Readings – Source Material
A paper published in the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry details the findings of soil samples taken in March and May
Read moreKEPCO To Take Delivery Of MOX Fuel
KEPCO will be receiving a shipment of MOX fuel from France around April. What is not clear is what they
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