Fukushima compensation scheme accused of denying hundreds of claims
Just under 700 residents from the Hippo district of Miyagi prefecture have sounded the alarm that they have been unjustly denied full compensation because the government’s basic compensation scheme only covers Fukushima residents,…
Highly radioactive debris recovered from atop crippled Fukushima Daiichi reactor
Workers at Fukushima Daiichi were working this week to remove rubble from atop the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 reactor building with remote-controlled cranes, when they discovered the radiation dose from a piece…
TEPCO loses over 7 billion dollars in 2012
TEPCO announced on Tuesday that it had felt a group net loss of over $7 billion dollars in 2012, the third year running that the company has remained in the red. Utility officials…
IAEA says decommissioning Fukushima Daiichi to exceed expectations
After investigating the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant last week, Juan Carlos Lentijo, the head of the investigating team, admitted that the work to decommission and stabilize the reactors the plant is so…
TEPCO still obviously affected by organizational overconfidence
TEPCO officials have been flushed and squirming lately. There are serious leaks from previously undisclosed underground pits and on three separate occasions TEPCO workers have been forced to shut down critical cooling systems…
TEPCO installs cover at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 Spent Fuel Pool
For the last year and a half, workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been working to clear debris from atop the decimated reactor building. After an explosion ripped the building…
Workers at Fukushima Daiichi conducting operations without safety equipment
The JiJi Press is reporting that after discovering radioactive water leaking from underground storage pits, TEPCO sent 14 workers at Fukushima Daiichi to carry out efforts to transport water, but did not give…
TEPCO admits failing to meet decommissioning and decontamination goals at Fukushima Daiichi
At a press conference this week, a Vice President from TEPCO admitted that TEPCO was falling short of their goals to decommission the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and decontaminate the accumulating amounts…
Plutonium found outside of containment in marine soil at Fukushima Daiichi
TEPCO has been forced to take drastic measures to deal with the continual contamination of the Pacific Ocean from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. To quell the transfer of contaminated marine…
Workers investigate Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 Torus Chamber
On April 11th and 12th, workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station used an endoscopic camera to investigate the torus chamber in the Unit 2 reactor building. On the second day, workers…
More contaminated water leaks at Fukushima Daiichi reported
TEPCO announced that more radioactive water had leaked on Thursday at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant while workers were transferring contaminated water between leaking underground storage pits. The incident happened one day…
Fukushima Daiichi still in precarious state says nuclear regulation chairman
Last week, problems at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant reminded citizens around the world of the precarious state the decommissioning work is being conducted in. Nuclear Regulation Authority Chairman Shunichi Tanaka…
TEPCO admits contaminated water leaking from multiple temporary storage pits at Fukushima Daiichi
Last week, TEPCO announced that radioactive water was leaking from temporary underground storage pits, and was likely to continue until the water could be transferred. The first reported leak occurred in a tank…
TEPCO penalizes executives for March power outage at Fukushima Daiichi
The world was reminded of the constant threat that the crippled Fukushima Daiichi reactors pose last month, when a power outage occurred on March 18th, which bought spent fuel cooling operations and other…
TEPCO’s overconfidence and lack of humility blamed for Fukushima Daiichi disaster
On Wednesday, officials from the Atomic Energy Society of Japan discussed the report at their annual meeting held at Kinki University in Osaka Prefecture. The report released by the Atomic Energy Society accepted…
Japan orders TEPCO to install backup power sources at Fukushima Daiichi
After the power outage at Fukushima Daiichi this week that took over 29 hours to restore, Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yoshihide Suge, confirmed at a press conference Thusrday, that Japan’s government had ordered…
Power outage at Fukushima Daiichi blamed on rodents
TEPCO announced yesterday that it had restored the cooling systems for the four spent fuel pools which were knocked out for nearly 30 hours before restoration. All in all, the outage caused 9…
TEPCO still unable to restore power at all affected facilities
Monday night, a power outage at the Main Anti-Earthquake Building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station suspended operations at three spent fuel pool cooling systems and other critical plant facilities. TEPCO was…
Power outage at Fukushima Daiichi halts spent fuel pool cooling at multiple units
According to TEPCO and the Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority, around 19:00 on Monday night, the seismic building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant had experienced a power failure. While the outage did…
Two years have passed since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
This year, on the second anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the author would like to pose the following questions, and invite the reader to do the same. The Fukushima Disaster is…
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