UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ET AUDIO FILE Saturday, March 12, 2011 MR. DORMAN: We also continue to have no additional information on the status of maintaining cooling through the other units at that site. The media are reporting that in conjunction with that nuclear plant explosion, there were four […]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ET AUDIO FILE Saturday, March 12, 2011 CHAIRMAN JACZKO: — the updates, and I won’t have to do that as much. We have video footage that we believed showed containment has been violated. MR. DORMAN: Yes, what is it, is — I’ll try to describe […]
The Fukushima Daiichi site is still a harsh reminder of the disaster that has been unfolding over the last year, everything on site appears broken, shattered, and scattered. Japanese press shot footage around 4 kilometers from the plant at an altitude of some 700 meters on Sunday for the first time , the highest reported […]
Japanese media outlets are reporting around 11 pm Sunday night, TEPCO’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant’s fire alarms activated, and smoke was seen rising from the Unit 5 area. According to TEPCO, external radiation monitors have not detected any increase of radiation dose around the station from a leak of radioactive materials. The smoke was […]