New surveys released by the Forestry Agency in Japan show that leaves in Fukushima prefecture near Namie, Futaba-machi, and other areas over 30 km from Fukushima Daiichi are contaminated up to 4,400,000 bq/kg of radioactive cesium. The tests were conducted from September to November of 2011, and over 400 locations in Fukushima prefecture were surveyed. […]
Southern California Edison said Friday that refueling operations at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s Unit 2 reactor are complete after nearly half of the reactor fuel was replaced with new fuel. The nuclear plant is still forced to delay restarting a reactor that showed accelerated wear on its generator tubes in order to perform more […]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ET AUDIO FILE WEDNESDAY – MARCH 16, 2011 MALE PARTICIPANT: What I wanted to tell you, another piece of information we got from the (inaudible) call, is they did get the plane up over the air base, and they have detectable iodine and cesium […]
Researchers from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency have conducted simulations that show that Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 2 may have sustained damage immediately after the earthquake. The simulations showed that a hole possibly 6 or 7 inches in diameter may have occurred in the containment vessel. This is the first estimate of damage to the concrete […]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ET AUDIO FILE WEDNESDAY – MARCH 16, 2011 MALE PARTICIPANT: You know, Pete Lyons in DOE has been just itching to find a niche here. And if there’s some specific scenario you want INEL to run, just let us know and we can reach out […]