Highly radioactive debris recovered from atop crippled Fukushima Daiichi reactor
Workers at Fukushima Daiichi were working this week to remove rubble from atop the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 reactor building with remote-controlled cranes, when they discovered the radiation...
View ArticleFukushima compensation scheme accused of denying hundreds of claims
Just under 700 residents from the Hippo district of Miyagi prefecture have sounded the alarm that they have been unjustly denied full compensation because the government’s basic compensation scheme...
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TEPCO to begin measuring groundwater inflow into Fukushima Daiichi reactors
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has announced that it plans to install water gauges in the basement of the reactor buildings of Unit 1, Unit 2, and Unit 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power...
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Tape, broomsticks, and safety cones used at nuclear power plants to manage leaks
Many, if not all of our readers, saw the photo that was leaked out of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station to the press, which showed a massive pipe that had been leaking saltwater which had been...
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Japanese regulators inspect Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 isolation condenser
Officials from Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority inspected the Unit 1 reactor building at Fukushima Daiichi on Friday to inspect the possibility that critical components were damaged by the...
View ArticleMarch 17th, 2011 – US nuclear power plants lack sufficient measures to...
March 17th, 2011 – Rescinding the Denial of PRM-50-76 by Enformable The post March 17th, 2011 – US nuclear power plants lack sufficient measures to prevent runaway meltdown after LOCA appeared first...
View ArticleMarch 16th, 2011 – Estimate time for boil-dry times for a typical spent fuel...
Estimate time for boil-dry times for a typical spent fuel pool Source: RTM Table D-1 (see figure below) Assumptions: (1) Full core recently discharged (see box in figure) (2) 100 days after shutdown...
View ArticleMarch 30th, 2011 – Japanese Government Action Items and Material Request List
Japanese Government Action Items and Material Request List March 30th, 2011 – Japanese Government Action Items and Material Request List by Enformable The post March 30th, 2011 – Japanese Government...
View ArticleMarch 31st, 2011 – Notes from the Consortium Call at 2000
Consortium Call – 3/31/2011 20:00 Attendees: NRC Headquarters Operations Officer Sal Golub, DOE/NE Kevin Mulligan, INPO Rick M Nielsen, INPO Randy Trapasso, INPO Lt Col. Price, PACOM w/radiation...
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Former NRC chairman not confident in San Onofre restart or risk assessment...
Former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Gregory Jaczko spoke at a meeting in San Diego today about the future of nuclear energy as a member of an expert panel which included former...
View ArticleMarch 31st, 2011 – TEPCO’s assessment of structural damage to Unit 1, 3, and...
March 31st, 2011 – TEPCO’s Assessment of Structural Damage to Unit 1, 3, And 4 Reactor Buildings by Enformable The post March 31st, 2011 – TEPCO’s assessment of structural damage to Unit 1, 3, and 4...
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Canada set to raise nuclear liability cap
The Pickering Nuclear Power Plant In Canada, officials are working to submit legislative plans to increase the amount in damages Canadian operators of nuclear power plants would be responsible for in...
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Japanese scientists find fish around Fukushima Daiichi contaminated shortly...
Researchers in Japan have found that fish close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant had absorbed a large dose of radioactive materials, like cesium, immediately after the March 2011 nuclear...
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More radioactive leaks at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have found that the newly-installed Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) designed by Toshiba, the system which is supposed to be filtering 62...
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TEPCO confirms Fukushima Daiichi groundwater contaminated with strontium and...
TEPCO finally revealed that groundwater testing at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant found elevated levels of radioactive Strontium-90, a by-product of the fission process, at more...
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AREVA sends new decontamination robots to Fukushima
In Japan, while still concerned about the continued migration of radioactive materials on-site at Fukushima Daiichi, authorities in Fukushima Prefecture are also working to deal with the contamination...
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New map of radioactive iodine released from Fukushima Daiichi
The American Health Physics Society released a map which shows how far radioactive iodine spread in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The map was generated by researchers from the...
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Nuclear issues in Japan piling up but no easy resolutions
Over 60,000 demonstrators gather at a protest against the nuclear industry at Shiba Park in Tokyo, Japan in June of 2013. There is a widespread and deep-seated dissatisfaction in Japan today...
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As Fukushima Daiichi disaster worsens Japan’s ruling party continues push to...
A worker walks in front of water tanks at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture in this June 12, 2013 file photo. High...
View ArticleFukushima Daiichi plant still leaking contaminated water into Pacific Ocean
The situation at Fukushima Daiichi is prompting workers and officials to yet again change their stance on the status of the crippled nuclear power plant. Due to recent spikes in radioactivity in...
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