Tokyo Electric Power Co. is under fire for trying to raise consumers’ electricity bills before making sufficient efforts to streamline its management. The Japanese government is set to take a majority stake in Tokyo Electric in return for injecting about 1 trillion yen ($12.4 billion) in public funds, the Asahi newspaper reported on Friday. Citizens […]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ET AUDIO FILE Sunday, March 13, 2011 MR. TRAUTMAN: Okay good. I know they gave you some data points that we got from Ronald Reagan. MR. VIRGILIO: Yes. MR. TRAUTMAN: We got an additional one. MR. VIRGILIO: Okay. MR. TRAUTMAN: The ship was out, we […]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ET AUDIO FILE Sunday, March 13, 2011 ADMIRAL DONALD: Earlier this evening, as the USS Ronald Reagan was operating off the coast of Japan, we — the ship just arrived. We had given the ship some guidance as far as positioning was […]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ET AUDIO FILE Sunday, March 13, 2011 ADMIRAL DONALD: Who are you and who do you work for? MR. WEBER: I am Michael Weber. I am a deputy executive director for operations. I work for Bill Borchardt and currently I am the acting team […]
Fukushima alone cannot change future approaches to nuclear safety In Japan, TEPCO’s approach to safety remained lax even as the Fukushima disaster was unfolding, leading to a significant lack of trust in the government and the (nuclear-power) operators today by the Japanese public. The Japanese government who had created the myth that nuclear plants are […]
Last summer, the Japanese government estimated that the March 11 Fukushima accident released 15,000 terabecquerels of cesium. Japanese researchers have newly released data that shows a mind-boggling 40,000 trillion becquerels (40,000 terabecquerels, or 40 quadrillion becquerels) of radioactive cesium, or twice the amount previously thought, may have spewed from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power […]
Newly released documents from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission show that cracks associated with welding defects were identified in a Japanese steam generator for a nuclear reactor in California in 2009 before its delivery to the plant. The steam generator installed at the No. 3 reactor at the San Onofre nuclear power plant, was produced […]
High levels of radioactive cesium were found in an area near an elementary school in Yokohama and official levels have been registered over 6.85 uSv/hr. After investigation officials believe that the radiation accumulated in areas where air conditioning filters were washed from industrial complexes. It is believed that the filters were washed with water and […]