By Chihiro Kamisawa / CNIC / June 1, 2013 / One of Japan’s major newspapers, the Asahi Shimbun, reported on February 7 that Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) had obstructed the investigation of the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) by the National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (NAIIC). TEPCO clearly gave commission members false explanations concerning the condition of the Unit 1 reactor … Continue reading →
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via Washington’s Blog / March 11, 2013 / Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen said today that the containment vessel at Fukushima reactor 2 has a large crack in it. Reactors 1, 2 and 3 all exploded. BBC reports today: They know very little about what??…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / February 11, 2013 / The photos were taken on February 10, 2013, from a Kyodo News helicopter at an altitude of 1,500 meters. For the first time, the government allowed the aerial photographs within 3 kilometers of Fukushima I Nuclear Power…
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Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / December 12, 2012 / The operator of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is grappling to locate the source of a leak of highly radioactive water in the crippled No. 2 reactor, and will continue trying to pinpoint the cause ne…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / September 7, 2012 / TEPCO still hasn’t identified the cause for the decreased water flow into the reactors (1, 2, and 3), but the company suspects some rust or foreign particles clogging the system somewhere. On September 5, a video …
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / September 7, 2012 / TEPCO still hasn’t identified the cause for the decreased water flow into the reactors (1, 2, and 3), but the company suspects some rust or foreign particles clogging the system somewhere. On September 5, a video …
Continue readingvia ENEnews.com / September 3, 2012 / Title: Decrease in the Reactor Injection Water Amounts at Unit 1-3 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Source: Tepco Press Release Date: September 3, 2012 Emphasis Added […] At 3:00 PM on August 30, 2012, …
Continue readingvia ENEnews.com / September 3, 2012 / Title: Decrease in the Reactor Injection Water Amounts at Unit 1-3 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Source: Tepco Press Release Date: September 3, 2012 Emphasis Added […] At 3:00 PM on August 30, 2012, …
Continue readingvia RT / August 13, 2012 / The reactors at crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant are not stable, says its former head. He urged for international expertise to be called in to make the site of one of world’s worst nuclear disasters safe. “Peopl…
Continue readingvia NHK / July 14, 2012 / NHK has learned that a government panel of experts will say it has been unable to specify exactly how the radioactive release occurred at a reactor of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. On March 15th, 4 days a…
Continue readingNHK / June 12, 2012 / The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says a new method has failed to locate radioactive water leaking from one of the reactors. Identifying the leaks is a key step towards decommissioning the plant. Tokyo Elec…
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Continue readingvia Guardian.co.uk / March 28, 2012 One of Japan‘s crippled nuclear reactors still has fatally high radiation levels and much less water to cool it than officials estimated, according to an internal examination that renews doubts about the plant&…
Continue readingDecontamination info center opens in Fukushima / NHK / February 25, 2012 The Environment Ministry and Fukushima Prefecture have begun to provide people concerned about radiation with information on how to clean up contaminated property. Officials at an…
Continue readingCruise finds Fukushima pollution / BBC News / February 22, 2012 Radioactive elements from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant have been detected in seawater and marine organisms up to 600km from Japan. But the scientists who made the discovery st…
Continue readingProblems shut down Fukushima Unit 2 noble gas detection system and spent fuel cooling systems / Enformable.com / February 20, 2012 TEPCO began constant monitoring of noble gas in the PCV of Reactor 2 on February 19th, as they were decreasing the amou…
Continue readingby Justin McCurry / The Guardian / February 20, 2012 / The manager of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan has conceded that it will be very difficult to remove the facility’s melted nuclear fuel, but dismissed fears that one of the damaged…
Continue readingJapan’s nuclear evacuees denied Canadian refuge / Toronto Sun / February 18, 2012 / A Japanese woman who claimed exposure to radiation from damaged nuclear reactors has been denied refugee status in Canada almost one year after that nation was ro…
Continue readingThermometers a Hot Topic at Fukushima Daiichi / Wall Street Journal / February 15, 2012 / Fukushima Daiichi operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Tuesday said that one of the thermometers attached to its No. 2 reactor was almost certainly on the blink. …
Continue readingNew Fukushima scare blamed on faulty thermometer / Reuters / February 13, 2012 / (Reuters) – A scare over temperatures rising near danger level in a reactor at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where workers are battling to prevent a resurgence of…
Continue readingby James Corbett / fukushimaupdate.com / January 21, 2012 / So what is happening at Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 2? Good question. Last Thursday, TEPCO ran an industrial endoscope into the reactor and found some surprising results. Following is video from…
Continue readingvia NHK / November 30, 2011 / The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has announced the results of an analysis on the state of melted fuel in the plant’s Number 1 unit. The Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, and sev…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / November 24, 2011 / After 8 and a half months of trying to lower the temperature of the Reactor Pressure Vessels (RPV), which by the way are broken and probably devoid of melted fuel, TEPCO announced they would now try to raise the tempera…
Continue readingby Lucas W Hixson / Enformable.com / November 4, 2011 / Much recent discussion has occurred regarding the recent developments at Reactor 2.If sustained criticality is occurring inside (or outside) of the containment, then there is constant danger of cr…
Continue readingby Lucas W Hixson / Enformable.com / November 3, 2011 / We have all been watching this closely, when you watch this video the crane on the right between Reactor 2 and Reactor 3 turns, and the cable descends tojust around the hole area.
Continue readingMore on Xenon Detection in Reactor 2 (TEPCO’s Press Conference) / ex-SKF / November 1, 2011 / Xenon was detected in the order of 10^-5 (ten to the power of minus 5) per cubic centimeter, says TEPCO’s Matsumoto in the press conference that i…
Continue readingvia Enformable.com / November 1, 2011 / [Editor’s Note: Please check the original post at Enformable.com for live updates on this breaking story. CLICK HERE for the original post.] VIDEO: LIVE VIDEO OF SITE: Possibly Related: Tepco Detects Nuclear Fiss…
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