Nuclear Safety Regulation in Romania – Recent Developments and Planned Actions Cantemir CIUREA – ERCAU, Director, Nuclear Fuel Cycle Division CNCAN (National Commission for Nuclear Activities Control) – Bucharest, Romania The most important elements introduced by the new regulations on siting, design and construction of NPPs: the establishment of numerical nuclear safety targets / quantitative nuclear safety […]
Review of Accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company Incorporated’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and Proposed Countermeasures (Summary) October 2011 Japan Nuclear Technology Institute Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident Investigation and Review Committee Introduction This report is a compilation of the aggregate efforts of the nuclear power industry comprising electric power operators and manufacturers […]
Located on the coast of the Sea of Japan 400 km (250 miles) west of Tokyo, the 280-megawatt Monju reactor is designed to burn plutonium refined from spent fuel at conventional nuclear reactors to create more fuel. Fast-breeder reactors have been beset by technical problems and many countries have abandoned costly programs to develop them. […]
From: Quails, Phil Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 3:07 PM To: McCann, Edward Subject: RE: new article on Japan NPP This may get really ugly in the next few days. From: McCann, Edward Sent: Friday, March li, 2011 1:46 PM To: Quails, Phil Subject: RE: new article on Japan NPP This is true. They have […]
From: Dube, Donald Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 11:59 AM To: Clark, Theresa; Ader, Charles; Lombard, Mark; Landry, Ralph; Donoghue, Joseph; Dreisbach, Jason; Lee, Samuel; McKirgan, John; Mrowca, Lynn; Segala,John Subject: RE: Japan Update: Evacuations ordered around Fukishima Ok, if I had to make an educated judgment call from all the reports, Unit 1 is […]
Fukushima Daiichi: My trip inside Japan’s Dead Zone By Chico Harlan …As we drove deeper into the no-entry zone, curving past beautiful and empty homes with tile roofs, the numbers on our dosimeter started to soar well beyond the safe-guideline level.3.41 uSv/hr. 7.12 uSv/hr. 12.03 uSv/hr. 32.04 uSv/hr…. We were about eight or nine miles from […]
Objective We have confirmed that some normal earthquake fault has emerged along the Yunotake Fault by the earthquake (M7.0) which occurred on April 11th on Hama-dori in Fukushima Prefecture, which we did not think need to be considered as active faults in terms of the aseismic design. Based on this, in order to check whether […]
Having instructions from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, TEPCO implemented sampling and measurement at land and sea as below. [Land] <Monitoring within 20km radius> Measurement of airborne radioactivity concentration by the support team from other electricity utility companies at 50 points (once a week.) Dust sampling at 5 points around 10 […]