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 moreJapan’s plan to allow TEPCO to dump contaminated water into the Pacific has caused international uproar. Other governments, environmental groups,
Read moreThe Associated Press reported from a TEPCO press conference held late last week that treated water TEPCO has been trying
Read moreOceanographer Michio Aoyama presented an estimate at an international conference recently showing that the cesium 137 contamination in the Pacific will
Read moreAn Associated Press story made the rounds this week quoting various experts regarding potential tritium dumping at Fukushima Daiichi. Some
Read moreA court case that went after TEPCO for causing a major contaminated water leak, part of which leaked to the
Read moreA press release from Woods Hole announced today that new radiation readings for the Pacific off the North American coast
Read more**Update and additional information added at the end of the post** The Woods Hole “Our Radioactive Ocean” project has erased
Read moreWoods Hole announced some recent findings of Fukushima identified radioactive contamination found offshore in the US and Canada. The test
Read moreWe previously reported about increases at the unit 1 discharge canal back in February. The highs back then were in
Read moreJapan’s NRA has released a series of sea soil and sediment readings taken off the eastern coast of Japan. The
Read moreTEPCO has gained approval to dump contaminated groundwater into the ocean. The water is being pumped up from the subdrain
Read moreA presentation given at a recent American Chemical Society meeting outlined the discovery of Fukushima radioactive contamination in food soon
Read moreAs news came out about yet another finding of Fukushima radioactive contamination offshore of North America, TEPCO published a rather
Read moreWoods Hole’s radioactive oceans project detected Fukushima identified radiation off the US/Canadian coast this week. But what does this mean
Read moreThe series of groundwater monitoring wells near the sea front have seen continued changes consisting of high levels of various
Read moreCesium levels in well 1-6 near the port jumped on today’s readings. Readings taken at 9:44am JST October 13 (before
Read moreJapan’s nuclear regulator and a team of researchers completed a set of sea floor monitoring earlier this summer. They found
Read moreYesterday we reported on TEPCO’s admission of ongoing daily sea releases of contaminated water to the Pacific. The TEPCO rep
Read moreTEPCO made the startling admission today at a press conference that the plant is leaking 8 billion bequerels per day.
Read moreTEPCO hopes to have two new installations of ALPS completed in September and October of this year. The company is
Read moreNuclear historian at Hiroshima University (and SimplyInfo.org member) Dr. Robert Jacobs will be speaking in Tokyo July 19th at an
Read moreTEPCO has been doing further groundwater investigations at the plant including testing for contamination at various depths to understand what
Read moreContaminated soil on the sea floor was found a few kilometers south of Fukushima Daiichi. The samples were collected in
Read moreTEPCO announced they could begin dumping bypass well water into the sea as early as May 20th. The wells have
Read moreKelp Watch has released their first batch of testing results. The program is a mash up of university, national lab
Read moreBuried in the most recent Roadmap document is some useful information about how and where reactor water is leaking out
Read moreA report issued this week by the NRA cites that two monitoring points outside the plant serve as indicators for
Read moreThis was bound to happen and TEPCO had to have known this at the time they pushed for permission to
Read moreTEPCO has admitted that the radioactive sludge leak from the H4 tank farm last August was more than three times
Read moreTEPCO has obtained permission from two local fishing cooperatives to dump contaminated groundwater into the Pacific. The cooperatives said they
Read moreContaminated water issues dominated TEPCO’s work and reporting out of the plant. The ALPS system intended to remove some of
Read moreScientists from the Bedford Institute of Oceanography have found levels of cesium in sea water off the Vancouver Canada coast that
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 moreTEPCO has admitted they knew about the extremely high strontium 90 readings and the issues with their testing equipment back
Read moreThis article is a good example of the motivations and biases in play related to Fukushima food contamination in North
Read moreTEPCO released readings for two seafront wells that have not been published before. Wells 1-2 and 1-3 were not on
Read moreIn an unexplained change of plans TEPCO and the Japanese govt. are back to trying to sell the fishing groups
Read moreA US based fish company has had some of their salmon and tuna tested for strontium 90. Fukushima Voice reports
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