Enformable

Day: March 5, 2012

NRC Transcripts – Chuck Casto Re Fukushima Unit 4 – “For me, I’m evermore convinced that there’s nothing there. There’s major damage to that building. And I just have to stake my career on it.”

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ET AUDIO FILE WEDNESDAY – MARCH 16, 2011 CHUCK CASTO: For me, I’m evermore convinced that there’s nothing there. There’s major damage to that building. And I just have to stake my career on it. But I don’t see that there’s any structural integrity there […]

NRC Transcript – TEPCO relayed information Unit 4 SFP Dry – Walls collapsed and incapable of holding inventory – Unit 3 “everything else gone” –

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ET AUDIO FILE WEDNESDAY – MARCH 16, 2011   NRC CHAIRMAN JACZKO: Hey, Chuck. Hey, can you just — and I don’t want you to interpret this in any way, questioning anything – I am just trying to confirm what the source of our information […]

Defining and classifying a nuclear disaster

Disaster A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard that has come to fruition, resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the environment, as the consequence of inappropriately managed risk.  These risks are the product of a combination of both hazard/s and vulnerability. All disasters are the result of human failure […]

Record 5.5 Trillion Yen Lawsuit Filed Against TEPCO

TEPCO shareholders have filed a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court against 27 utility executives.  The plaintiffs are jointly seeking a record 5.5 trillion yen (S$85 billion) in compensation, claiming that the accident was caused by their negligence in ignoring safety measures, including building wave barriers, Kyodo said. A lawyer for the group says Japan’s […]