An alert has been declared at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Diego County. Liquid ammonia was discovered to be leaking at a rate of three gallons every 10 minutes from a tank in an open area, said Dricks of the NRC. The leak made portions of the plant’s turbine building inaccessible and […]
SECTION 1. EXERCISE OVERVIEW The exercise begins with SONGS Unit 2 Train B Diesel Generator suffering a catastrophic failure. Within fifteen minutes of this event, SONGS declares an Alert and notifies the jurisdictions within the EPZ. In an unrelated event, the Control Room receives a Unit 2 vibration and loose parts alarm. Subsequently, Unit 2 Reactor Coolant […]
A delegation from the Fukushima Prefecture is en route to two former Soviet republics to investigate how they reacted to the persistent problem of radiation after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. The University of Fukushima organized the visit of 8 day Ukraine and Belarus. More than 30 medical experts and officials of municipalities involved. […]
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude 5.0 Date-Time Tuesday, November 01, 2011 at 16:21:25 UTC Wednesday, November 02, 2011 at 01:21:25 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 35.939°N, 141.637°E Depth 21.1 km (13.1 miles) Region NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN Distances 112 km (69 miles) […]
In October 2010, the South Texas Project announced that the Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, had entered into an agreement with Nuclear Innovation North America, to purchase an initial 9.2375% stake in the expansion for $125 Million, and $30 Million for an option to purchase an additional stake in the new units for $125 […]
We reevaluated the nuclide analysis results of the samples taken during October 1 – 15 from the atmosphere in the station site, seawater / marine soil around the station, seawater around the intake of Unit 1 to 4, sub-drain water around the turbine buildings, sub-drain water around the Centralized Radiation Waste Treatment Facility and seawater offshore of Ibaraki and Miyagi […]
Areva SA, the world’s largest provider of nuclear equipment and services, is “not at all concerned” about the outcome of stress tests on Europe’s atomic power stations, Chief Commercial Officer Ruben Lazo said. The Fukushima atomic disaster in Japan won’t stop construction of new reactors in Europe, Lazo said in an interview yesterday after a […]
Along with the price, the outlet, run by Cataloghouse Ltd. in Tokyo’s Shinbashi district, displays the cesium level found in the fruit or vegetable. If the radiation detection device installed in the outlet detects radioactive iodine or cesium in any produce, the figure is displayed next to the produce. The device can detect radiation levels […]
A Japanese official has drunk water collected from the quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, after reporters challenged him to prove it was safe. Yasuhiro Sonoda appeared nervous and his hands shook as he downed a glass during a televised news conference. The water he drank was taken from puddles under two reactor buildings. It is […]
Tokyo (CNN) — The decommissioning of four reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will likely take more than 30 years to complete, according to a report by Japanese officials. The draft report, released by Japan’s Atomic Energy Commission of the Cabinet Office on Friday, said the removal of debris — or nuclear […]
Officials with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission will discuss construction at the Watts Bar nuclear plant in a meeting next Tuesday afternoon. According to a release, the meeting will start at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday November 8th at a Comfort Inn on Decatur Pike in Athens. Officials will explain the construction schedule and challenges they […]