On Monday morning this week TEPCO officials were meeting with experts from Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority to discuss ways to mitigate and approach the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi. During the meeting, TEPCO officials failed to notify the regulatory body of rises in the groundwater levels at Fukushima Daiichi, even though the data they had […]
A supervisor at the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in New Jersey failed a random fitness for duty test, confirming positive for alcohol. The employee’s access to the nuclear power facility has been restricted but not revoked. Source: NRC Event Notifications
In the rare event that the reader has never seen Mickey Mouse starring in “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”, I will remind them that the whole story revolves around an apprentice who is tempted to use magic to do things that he does not wish to do for himself, which starts out well enough, only to find […]
Naomi Hirose, the president of Tokyo Electric Power Company admitted that the utility was wrong in not acknowledging that radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was leaking into the ocean for more than a month, and that the primary blame lay on lax risk management of the radioactive water. Hirose acknowledged that […]
Entergy announced on Tuesday that a former supervisor, who worked at the Indian Point nuclear power plant north of New York City for twenty-nine years, had been arrested for deliberately falsifying critical safety records and lying to federal regulators last year. The utility said that Daniel Wilson, age 57, who was in charge of ensuring […]
During a random fitness-for-duty test on July 22nd, a licensed employee confirmed positive for illegal drugs. The employee has had access to the nuclear power plant revoked. Source: NRC Event Notifications
TEPCO workers used an infrared-thermographic camera over the weekend to capture images of the top floor of the Unit 3 reactor building where steam was observed last week. The camera was positioned between 15 and 40 meters above the reactor suspended by a crane. TEPCO released its results of the measurement but was unable to […]
Tokyo Electric Power Company has been arguably been dealing with more uncertainty than any other utility in the world for the last two years, but the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is not the only threat to their ability to continue operations. TEPCO has been unable to prevent a constant stream of key managers and personnel […]
On May 15th of this year, fugitive Michael Buhrman was sentenced in absentia of aggravated vehicular hijacking and vehicular hijacking for the 2012 armed hijacking of a woman’s car in a parking lot in Woodridge, Illinois. It only took the jury 45 minutes of deliberations before they found Buhrman guilty of the felony and the […]
TEPCO announced that while workers were conducting debris removal operations with remotely operated cranes positioned atop the crippled Unit 3 reactor building at Fukushima Daiichi steam began emanating from near the primary containment structure and equipment storage pool on the 5th floor. The primary containment vessel surrounds the reactor vessel and is made of steel […]
In December of 2012, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority determined that the Urazoko fault, which runs near the Tsuruga nuclear power plant, was likely active. At a press conference at the time of the announcement, NRA Chairman Shunichi Tanaka, told reporters he felt the authority could not allow the restart of the reactors, because they could […]
Typhoon Soulik stuck Taiwan over the weekend with winds over 100 miles per hour, equivalent to a Category 2 hurricane, so strong in fact that it took out a nuclear reactor twice at the Jinshan Nuclear Power Plant. Early Saturday morning, the strong winds knocked out emergency systems at the Unit 2 reactor which are […]
A supervisor at the Pilgrim nuclear power plant confirmed positive for a banned substance during a random fitness-for-duty test. After the failed drug test, the employee’s access to the plant has been terminated pending an ongoing investigation. Source: NRC Event Notifications
In May of this year, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority released a report which concluded that the Tsuruga nuclear power plant was constructed upon an active fault which runs directly underneath the Unit 2 reactor building. At the time of the report, Kunihiko Shimazaki, an NRA commissioner said, “Safety levels (at Tsuruga) have been low and […]
The situation at Fukushima Daiichi is prompting workers and officials to yet again change their stance on the status of the crippled nuclear power plant. Due to recent spikes in radioactivity in groundwater around the reactors, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has said that it strongly suspects that contaminated water is leaking directly into the Pacific, […]
The nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi continues to push the limits of what was largely considered unimaginable before the March 11th earthquake and tsunami crippled four reactors at the nuclear power plant. In April of this year, TEPCO warned that it was running out of space to store highly contaminated water being generated at the […]
On Easter Sunday, March 31st, 2013, 24-year-old Wade Walters was working at the only nuclear power plant in Arkansas owned by Entergy, as operators were removing the Main Turbine Generator Stator. The stator device, which weighs over 500 tons, fell and killed Wade, injured others, and caused a loss of off-site power. This week, the […]
In Nahara, a town in Futaba District some 15 kilometers south of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, debris has been found that is significantly contaminated and releasing a high dose of radiation. The town is host of J-Village and is home to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The high dose debris was found […]