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 […]