At 7:30 am local time March 1st, a magnitude 5 earthquake hit 68 miles from TOKYO, Japan. After the earthquake, alarms sounded from the nuclear fuel processing plants and Tokai 2 nuclear power plant in Tokai-mura, Ibaraki Prefecture. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Nuclear and Industrial Safety announced that so far, the […]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ET AUDIO FILE Saturday, March 12, 2011 CHAIRMAN JACZKO: Now, interestingly enough, I’m watching CNN, and they’re not on the nuclear units, right now, which is a good thing. MALE PARTICIPANT: Well, it’s Saturday night basketball night, or whatever. I mean, really, it’s the American […]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ET AUDIO FILE Saturday, March 12, 2011 MALE PARTICIPANT: We’ve got some new information, Chairman. CHAIRMAN JACZKO: Yes. MALE PARTICIPANT: And Japanese television. MALE PARTICIPANT: — and Japanese television, who said that there was the — the level in Unit 3 was at -3 meters, […]
For the second time in a month, a power interruption caused operators at Byron Generating Station to declare an “unusual event,” officials said in a news release sent around 10 p.m. Tuesday. Byron Unit 1 Emergency Diesels automatically started to respond to a Loss of Offsite Power (LOOP) at 17:31 CST. Offsite Normal Power to […]
Why is it so hard to get information from TEPCO? On February 26th, we reported on the fire at Tokyo Electric Power Companies Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant, smoke was detected in a building full of heat-exchange equipment, but no fire was found by the time that the local fire department arrived on-scene. Subsequent press releases did not […]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ET AUDIO FILE Saturday, March 12, 2011 MR. JOHNSON: Bill, this is Mike Johnson. Do we know what the U.S. nuclear industry is doing, if anything? MR. BORCHARDT: They have a conference call, I think organized by NEI, or I think it was NEI, earlier […]
FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC) confirmed that it has completed its Root Cause Analysis Report regarding the cause of the tight cracks identified in portions of the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station Shield Building during its fall 2011 reactor head replacement outage. The report has been submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). FirstEnergy says the weatherproof […]
The NRC is hosting a public meeting tonight in South Haven to discuss the safety of Palisades nuclear power plant at the Beach Haven Event Center in South Haven at 6 PM tonight. Officials want to hear from residents living near the Palisades plant in Covert, as the agency downgraded the facility’s rating following a couple […]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ET AUDIO FILE Saturday, March 12, 2011 MR. McDERMOTT: There is one other nugget of information, people might know people. There were 40 individuals from GE that were actually asked, at this facility, taking part in the refueling of the three units. We understand that […]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ET AUDIO FILE Saturday, March 12, 2011 MR. SHARON: This is Brian Sharon. Quick question, well, not question, but I’ve gotten a couple of emails here today, from some of the National Labs, and they’re all — there are a couple of them chomping a […]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ET AUDIO FILE Saturday, March 12, 2011 MR. McDERMOTT: If you’ve seen the media coverage from over the evening, the most significant development is shown pretty vividly on some of the video. There was, at the Unit 1 reactor, an explosion of some time, […]
Public Meeting to Discuss Recent Performance Issues at the Palisades Nuclear 1 Nuclear Regulatory Commis…
Background On Oct. 10, 2011, the NRC was informed by FENOC that its workers identified cracks in the shield building while the plant was shut down to replace the reactor vessel head. FirstEnergy consistently told the public that the cracks were confined to “architectural elements” or “decorative elements” of the wall. A team of Davis-Besse personnel and […]
TEPCO has dispatched the Quince 2 robot into the 5th operating floor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Reactor 2. Radiation doses over 220 mSv per hour were recorded, as the robot searched around the crippled building. The levels recorded near the stairwell were similar to those recorded before October 20th, when the […]
NHK reports an independent panel investigating the Fukushima nuclear accident has found that the prime minister was not aware of SPEEDI, the government’s system that can predict the spread of radioactive materials quickly. While the government was attempting to cope with multiple reactors that were in various stages of meltdown, key government decision-makers were forced […]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ET AUDIO FILE Saturday, March 12, 2011 MR. VIRGILIO: Bob, good morning. It’s Marty Virgilio. WANO – Good morning, Marty. I’m here with [omitted] is our Director of WANO Center, Atlanta and President of Operations at INPO. MR. VIRGILIO: Good morning, – Good morning, Marty. […]
Radioactive water leaks have repeatedly surfaced at Fukushima Daiichi, and recent flyovers have revealed thousands of tanks to store contaminated water lined in sprawled masses across the site. In a UN conference this week, TEPCO announced that it will install a new machine to remove radioactive materials from the contaminated water in the reactor buildings. […]
Watch Inside Japan’s Nuclear Meltdown on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. [quote] Almost one year removed from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, PBS Frontline producer Dan Edge takes viewers “Inside Japan’s Nuclear Meltdown” with rare footage from inside the plant and eyewitness testimony, in “Inside Japan¹s Nuclear Meltdown,” airing Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, at […]
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The mayors of Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto, home to a total of 5.7 million people, called for Kansai Electric Power Co, the Japanese utility that relies the most on nuclear generation, with all its atomic power plants offline. to promote efforts to switch to alternative energy supplies and price incentives to curb demand. Kansai Electric […]