Fukushima Scandal; What IS A Meltdown?
The recent TEPCO investigation into events during the early phase of the Fukushima Disaster raised a few questions. TEPCO claims
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TEPCO Tries To Shift Blame For Hiding Meltdowns
The 3rd party investigation prompted by Niigata prefecture concluded that TEPCO’s president instructed company officials to not mention the word
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Fukushima Frozen Wall Progress And Failures
The frozen wall at Fukushima Daiichi has seen some minor progress amid ongoing problems with freezing portions of the wall.
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Fukushima Unit 2 Muon Scan Shows No Fuel In Reactor
TEPCO released preliminary information from the second muon scan of unit 2 at Fukushima Daiichi. This scan finds no fuel
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Highly Radioactive Fukushima Town Reopens
The town of Katsurao currently has radiation levels of 20-50 mSv/year, with some areas above the 50 mSv/year level. 20
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Fukushima Soil Road Reuse Plan Ignores Significant Risks
The government plan would take any contaminated soil under the 8000 bq/kg hazardous waste limit and use it to build
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Govt. To Allow Two Fukushima Fish Species To Be Sold
A sale ban has been lifted for Fukushima caught flounder and conger fish. These two species along with many others
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Zeolite Fibers Found Effective In Removing Cesium 137 From Fukushima Rivers
A new study by researchers in Japan found that zeolite-polymer fiber materials were effective in filtering out low levels of
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TEPCO Begins Small Debris Removal On Fukushima Unit 1
NHK announced late last week that TEPCO has begun removing small debris off the top of Fukushima unit 1 with
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Possible Causes Of Fukushima Frozen Wall Failures
TEPCO reported last week that roughly 10% of the frozen wall is not working. Currently only certain sections are being
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5 At TEPCO Home Office Knew Of Meltdown Manual
TEPCO admitted via Asahi Shimbun that 5 people at TEPCO’s home office in Tokyo knew of the meltdown manual as
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TEPCO’s Two Tales About Fukushima Missing Melted Fuel
Fukushima Daiichi decommissioning chief, Naohiro Masuda spoke with Australia ABC TV this week about where the melted fuel is. Masuda
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Fukushima Frozen Wall Appears To Make Progress
NHK reports that the frozen wall at Fukushima Daiichi is making progress. They cite that 80% of the 6000 monitoring
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Fukushima Decontamination Company Employees Arrested For Murder
A decontamination worker went missing in the fall of 2015. A recent tip given to police implicated six workers for
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TEPCO To Stop Fukushima Work During G-7 Summit
TEPCO announced they will halt all decommissioning work at Fukushima Daiichi during the G-7 Summit. The summit will be held
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Fukushima Pacific Contamination Will Show Back Up In Japan 2-3 Years
Oceanographer Michio Aoyama presented an estimate at an international conference recently showing that the cesium 137 contamination in the Pacific will
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IRID Completes Full Scale Fukushima Torus Model
IRID has completed a full sized model of the torus (suppression chamber) based on the damaged reactors at Fukushima Daiichi.
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Greenpeace Develops Innovative Way To See Radiation
Greenpeace has developed an innovative yet fairly simple way to visualize radiation. “We found our answer in a custom built LED light
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Fukushima Frozen Wall Not Solid, What You Need To Know
Last week TEPCO admitted that the frozen wall would not fully contain groundwater flowing through the plant. Original estimates of
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Fukushima Workers Removing Tanks Receive High Radiation Exposures
Workers dismantling bolt together tanks at Fukushima Daiichi received high radiation doses to the eye during their work. TEPCO did
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Sludge Solidification Technology Gets Trial Run At Fukushima Daiichi
A geopolymer technology from UK company AMEC Foster Wheeler will have a trial run at Fukushima Daiichi to solidify radioactive
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Fukushima Tritium Dumping Plan More Dangerous Than Advertised
An Associated Press story made the rounds this week quoting various experts regarding potential tritium dumping at Fukushima Daiichi. Some
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Someone At TEPCO Knew The Meltdown Standard
Asahi Shimbun has reported that Yuichi Okamura, the senior director of nuclear power generation knew. In a recent press conference he said
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TEPCO Begins Installing Unit 3 Defueling Building
TEPCO began installing the first sections of the defueling building this week. The decking is the first portion of what
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Two New Leaks At Fukushima Daiichi
Two new leaks happened at Fukushima Daiichi recently. Both were contained within the buildings where they happened. The first was
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Research Towards High Radiation Robots For Fukushima
One of the largest challenges in the effort to decommission the Fukushima Daiichi disaster site is developing robotic technology to
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Interim Fukushima Contaminated Soil Storage Won’t Start Until 2020
Yomiuri Shimbun is reporting that the effort to establish an interim soil storage site for the mountains of contaminated soil
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Fukushima Unit 2 Gets Mini Muon Detector
Unit 2 already had one muon scan done by Nagoya University that found no fuel to likely be in the
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Fukushima; What Will The Future Be?
Many media reports tried to document the 5th anniversary of the 3-11 disaster. Some gave it superficial coverage. Others tried
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Fukushima Disaster Costs Taxpayers $100 Billion So Far
The Financial Times reports the estimate, based on work by Ritsumeikan University professor Kenichi Oshima. This includes what taxpayers have
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Fukushima Documentary; 88 Hours Inside The Disaster
NHK is broadcasting a documentary throughout the week called 88 Hours – The Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown. It is based on
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SimplyInfo.org Fukushima 5th Year Report
Our research team’s 5th year report on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is out. Full of technical details rarely covered
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IAEA Says Feature Key To Controlling Fukushima Disaster Not Used Elsewhere
The head of the IAEA talked about this with Kyodo News recently. The seismic “isolated” building, sometimes referred to as
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3 TEPCO Execs Indicted On Criminal Negligence Charges
Three TEPCO executives were successfully indicted on Monday in Tokyo. The three are Tsunehisa Katsumata, 75, chairman of TEPCO at
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TEPCO Admits To Fukushima Meltdown Coverup
TEPCO has admitted that they failed to officially notify the government of the meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi and that they
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Fukushima Ice Wall To Begin Freezing Early March
TEPCO should begin freezing the sea side of the ice wall in early March according to Asahi Shimbun. That should
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Details On Fukushima Tritium Removal System
Kurion’s tritium removal system is inching closer to implementation. Bloomberg has some information on how the system will work. A
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TEPCO And NRA Agree On Fukushima Frozen Wall Plan
TEPCO and NRA have come to an agreement to being operation of the frozen wall. TEPCO wanted to freeze the
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Fukushima Daiichi Frozen Wall Controversy Hits Stalemate
The NRA in Japan has put a stop to implementation of the frozen wall. Our ongoing reporting on the frozen
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A Fukushima Evacuee’s Story; Who Represents Us?
We try to present the first hand experience of those impacted by the Fukushima disaster whenever possible. Those who have
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