Chernobyl Loses Power Due To Russian Occupiers
Update 8am CST: Chernobyl has 48 hours worth of diesel fuel to operate back up power systems for the spent
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Massive US Nuclear Bribery Scandal Exposed By FBI
A bribery scandal involving the GOP Speaker of the House in Ohio, four associates, and nuclear power plant owner FirstEnergy
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Pandemic Risks & Disruption At World’s Nuclear Plants
The pandemic has caused some very real safety threats to the nuclear industry worldwide. The disruption and a distracted public
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TEPCO Suffers Wrath of Kan
TEPCO lost 750,000 customers and has seen their profits drop by 37% in their newest financial reports. This is a
Read moreFukushima Power System Failure Takes Down Ice Wall & Nitrogen Injection
The power system to operate the freezing of the ice wall and also the nitrogen interting system for the damaged
Read moreSimplyInfo.org; Fukushima News For A Monday (April 27, 2015)
A couple of stories came out over the last week or so that were worth mentioning. Toshiba showed off their
Read moreFukushima Worker Electrocuted, 3 Power Issues At Plant
An electrician was electrocuted while working on the new office building at Fukushima Daiichi. The worker was taken to the
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Taiwan New Nuclear Plants Fail Tests, Old Unit Out of Spent Fuel Space
The fourth nuclear plant reactors in Taiwan have been found to have failed containment tests. This has created considerable controversy
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German Grafenrheinfeld Nuclear Plant To Shut Down Early Over Financial Woes
The Grafenrheinfeld nuclear plant will shut down 7 months earlier than planned due to a poor economic outlook for continuing to
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Japan Power Companies Shift Focus To Non Nuclear Power
Japan’s power companies have been quietly shifting their focus to building new or restarting thermal power generation facilities. The country
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Rats Infiltrate Power Systems At Fukushima Daiichi, Again.
Rats yet again set off a power system alarm after entering a power panel box at the plant. TEPCO’s report
Read moreTaiwan’s Nuclear Nightmare
Taiwan, a country that is about 1/3 the land mass of the state of Kentucky has over 23 million residents.
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 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 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 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 moreFukushima Daiichi Power Taken Out By A Mouse
The third power distribution panel at Fukushima Daiichi that has yet to be repaired appears to have been taken out
Read morePower Partially Restored To Fuel Pools At Fukushima Daiichi
TEPCO has restored some power at the spent fuel pools at Daiichi Information from various media sources is conflicting. The
Read moreUpdate On Power Outage At Fukushima Daiichi
TEPCO has released a document confirming a few things and with some additional information. These facilities are still out: Units
Read moreTEPCO Doesn’t Know How To Fix Power Outage
CBC Canada is reporting more on the power outage at Fukushima Daiichi. TEPCO confirms that reactor cooling is also taken
Read morePower Out At Fukushima Daiichi
Update: NHK reports that spent fuel pool cooling, common pool cooling, water treatment system, and the isolation building are without
Read moreEuropean Nuclear Power Facing Same Economic Problems As US
Bloomberg is reporting how economics may doom a Czech nuclear power project. The costs to build, time to build and
Read moreEdano: “We have to eventually terminate all nuclear power stations”
Kyodo News is reporting new comments from METI head Yukio Edano on Japan’s dependence on nuclear power. “I think we
Read moreByron Nuclear Plant Loses Offsite Power, Tritium Leaks In Venting Steam
Earlier today the Byron nuclear power plant near Rockford IL lost all offsite power to unit 2. The unit scramed
Read moreJapan Realizes They Don’t Need Nuclear Power
Japan is now down to 3 operating nuclear reactors. With an estimated 30% of their electricity coming from nuclear power
Read moreA Look At The Power That Failed At Fukushima
UPDATE: Some additional images and diagrams found by Peter Melzer in the IAEA reports on Fukushima have been added below.
Read more90% Of Japan’s Nuclear Reactors Will Be Offline
As of Sunday JST 90% of Japan’s nuclear reactors will be offline. Shikoku Electric will shut down the #1 reactor
Read moreNISA Colluded With Seven Power Companies To Influence Public
The official count so far has risen to seven power companies that NISA colluded with to fake public support for dangerous
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