TEPCO To Release Groundwater At Fukushima, Potential Consequences
TEPCO has gained permission from fishing groups to dump contaminated groundwater into the Pacific as long as it is below
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Worker Death At Fukushima Daiichi Completely Preventable
TEPCO released an interim report into the recent construction worker’s death at the plant. The report showed that the worker
Read moreAll Work Haulted At Fukushima Daiichi
After the death of a construction worker yesterday all work at Fukushima Daiichi has been stopped. TEPCO announced in today’s
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Worker Dies At Fukushima Daiichi
A construction worker at the plant died after a concrete foundation wall collapsed. Work was being done in an excavation
Read more142 TEPCO Workers Found To Have Higher Exposures
142 TEPCO workers were found to have higher radiation exposures than TEPCO admitted. The Labor ministry found the workers doses
Read moreTEPCO To Pay Town’s Residents Full Compensation
The notion of total compensation may not be a totally accurate term. 39 households will by payed a total of
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METI Working On Tritium Disposal For Fukushima Daiichi
While the IAEA is busy trying to convince the public yet again that TEPCO should dump contaminated water into the
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TEPCO 2011-2014 A Systemic Failure
SimplyInfo.org member Peter Melzer takes a look at the systemic failures at TEPCO and how cognitive processes impact what has
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TEPCO Admits Withholding Stronitum 90 Readings
TEPCO has admitted they knew about the extremely high strontium 90 readings and the issues with their testing equipment back
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TEPCO Admits Most Radiation Readings May Be Wrong
TEPCO has admitted a large number of their radiation readings taken since 2011 may be wrong and much lower than
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5 MILLION bq/liter Strontium 90 Found In Well At Fukushima Daiichi
TEPCO released readings for two seafront wells that have not been published before. Wells 1-2 and 1-3 were not on
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More On Fukushima Unit 3, TEPCO Fails To Explain Levels
TEPCO released two new handouts on the leak at unit 3. This gives some additional insight but still fails to
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NRA Japan Saves The US West Coast And The Rest Of The World
NRA demanded that TEPCO drop test waste canisters to be used to hold highly radioactive sludge from the ALPS processing
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TEPCO Re-Installs Unit 1 Web Camera At Fukushima Daiichi
TEPCO is reporting they will re-install the web camera near unit 1. The camera is not live yet but will
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Fukushima Workers Who Risked Lives, TEPCO Demands They Repay Evacuee Compensation
Many of the workers at Fukushima Daiichi lived in the area. They lost their homes to the tsunami and nuclear
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TEPCO Sets Up Internal Decommissioning Authority
TEPCO announced it will launch an internal decommissioning authority by April 2014. This internal group would include management from involved
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At Fukushima Daiichi; What The Media Isn’t Reporting
There have been a number of things going on at the plant in recent weeks that do not make the
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Fukushima News Roundup; December 16, 2013
Banks that have been lending money to TEPCO say they will cut off new loans after this upcoming ones for
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Fukushima Water Leak Issues May Still Be Out Of Control In 2020
Officials from METI admit that problems with leaking contaminated water at Fukushima Daiichi may still not be under control in
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Radioactive Strontium 90 And Radioactive Silver Found In Fukushima Fish
TEPCO tested fish within 20km (fish hauled 1-3 km offshore) of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant for cesium, strontium 90
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Who Really Runs Fukushima Daiichi?
Much has been made about the contractor system at Fukushima Daiichi, the worker abuses and cut rate construction. This only
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Warning Alarm At Fukushima Daiichi Caused By Rat Pee
TEPCO was again foiled by rats. A warning alarm went off in the electrical switching gear at the plant. Workers
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“Troika Of Irresponsibility” & Dissatisfaction In Fukushima Disaster Response
Remember only weeks ago when Japan’s PM Abe announced the government was taking over the contaminated water problems at Fukushima
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Poor TEPCO! Upset That News Media Reported Fuel Cask Transfer
TEPCO sent out this press release today complaining about the press, for reporting news. Kyodo News and possibly others flew
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TEPCO Fails To Release Portion Of Unit 1 Torus Inspection
TEPCO recently released videos and reports of their work in the unit 1 torus room. The work was split into
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Japan To Turn TEPCO Into Holding Company, May Join International Nuclear Liability Treaty
The Japanese government has announced they will turn TEPCO into a holding company. This would shift the decommissioning work into
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TEPCO To Use New Floating Robot To Inspect Unit 1
TEPCO and Hitachi are working on a floating robot to inspect the torus area of the damaged reactors. The new
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TEPCO Finally Admits Landslide At Fukushima Daiichi 10 Days Later
TEPCO is now admitting publicly, a landslide at the plant that happened 10 days ago. We first heard of the
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Toxic Assets: Japan Govt. To Make Fukushima & Nuclear Industry Taxpayer’s Problem As TEPCO Flounders
The LDP has hatched a new scheme to solve all of their inconvenient nuclear problems. TEPCO and all the other
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TEPCO Declares Rain To Be Highly Radioactive
In a TEPCO press release they cited a valve leak at the H9 tank farm. The said the water had
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Fukushima Daiichi Finds Increased Contamination In Drainage Ditch To The Sea
Contamination in a drainage ditch that still runs to the sea saw a considerable spike. The levels went from 19
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Wipha Hits Fukushima Daiichi, TEPCO Releasing Water
TEPCO is already releasing rainwater piled up around the storage areas of the plant. The company said they are testing
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Japan Conducts Nuclear Evacuation Drill, Exposes Fleeing Citizens
As part of the effort to restart Kashiwazaki Kariwa the nearby city of Nagaoka held an evacuation drill. JAEA and Niigata
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Fukushima; Dysfunction Olympics
Workers are stressed, nobody is being held accountable, solutions remain out of grasp with the Olympics as a looming distraction.
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TEPCO; Like The Last Days Of Rome
So what happens to TEPCO? It is painfully obvious to anyone paying attention that the corporate management structure is incompetent
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NRA Demands TEPCO Fix Problems, Send Staff From Other Plants To Fukushima
The NRA had nothing good to say to TEPCO president Hirose today. In a rather scathing rebuke of the company, Katsuhiko
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TEPCO Gives $2 Million To Pro Nuclear Village While Evacuees Wait For Compensation
TEPCO payed out their portion of a $2 million payment to the village that sits near their planned new nuclear
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Newest TEPCO Tank Leak Due to Tilted Tank
NHK is reporting that TEPCO has admitted the reason the latest tank leak happened was contributed to by the tank
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TEPCO Has Excess Winter Capacity, Restarts Serve Only Business Interests
In this report to METI TEPCO admits that with all of their nuclear plants offline they have excess power generation
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NRA; TEPCO Is Incompetent, Fukushima & Kashiwazaki Kariwa Restart Joined At The Hip
Japan’s nuclear regulator had scathing criticism of TEPCO at their meeting today. They also stated that the handling of the
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