Japanese National Policy Minister Motohisa Furukawa said that all 6 reactors at Fukushima Daiichi, as well as the 4 reactors at the Fukushima Daini site should never be reactivated. TEPCO has not announced any determination whether to decommission the plant’s No. 5 and No. 6 reactors and the four reactors at the Fukushima No. 2 […]
Reported in the media, As of April 3, Tepco have said that some 370 people are at work at the Fukushima Daiichi site, 51 of whom are contractors. At the fully stabilized Daini site, which remains under emergency status, there are 626 workers, of which 64 are contractors. To date, 21 workers have received radiation […]
Researchers from the University of Tokyo, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency and other experts have examined the crisis response log from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. They also checked radiation levels in surrounding areas, namely the radiation data from the Fukushima Daini plant 10 kilometers south of the Daiichi plant. They found that workers attempts […]
From:Schaperow, Jason Sent:Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:09 AM To:’[email protected]’ Cc:Tinkler, Charles; Chang, Richard Subject:-telecon Attachments:•.SS100_20110315_16131631 .pdf Just to confirm our telecom that we had a few minutes ago… Fukushima Daiichi unit 4 may be having a spent fuel pool meltdown. Fukushima Daiichi unit 4 has a full core offload in its spent fuel pool. We […]
Fukushima Dai-ichi Professor Tom Downar University of Michigan, USA 12/30/2011 ►We do not know how this will turn out –Situation is currently stable –But could change – ►There will be an impact on U.S. nuclear energy –We can speculate –But impossible to predict for sure – ►Impact might include issues with –Keeping spent fuel on […]
On Dec. 28, Environment Minister Goshi Hosono met and asked local leaders in Fukushima Prefecture for permission to build an interim storage facility somewhere in Futaba county in which two municipalities host the troubled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant. Kawauchi Mayor Yuko Endo voiced concern about the possibility that the interim storage facility could […]
Earthquake/Tsunami Status Update March 15, 2011 1930 EDT USNRC Emergency Operations Center Status Update March 15, 2011 Earthquake / Tsunami Status Update Compiled by Executive Briefing Team Caution – This information may be dated and is subject to constant change. Changes/Additions from previous updates are underlined Status of Japanese Facilities (This information is compiled from […]
From: King, Mark Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:15 AM To: Thorp, John; Brown, Michael Subject: RE: conversion rates – why doesn’t the IRC make these updates – more user friendly i.e. convert IC to *F Attachments: 0430 EDT (March 30, 2011) USNRC Earthquake/Tsunami Status Update Mike Speaking of conversions – why doesn’t someone in the […]
From: Weber, Michael Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:30 PM To: Haney, Catherine Cc: LIA05 Hoc Subject: RESPONSE – Shipments Thanks Liaison Team – notethat shipments of nuclear material may be disrupted on their way to Japan for a variety of reasons. From: Horn, Brian- Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:52 AM To: Habighorst, Peter […]
December 17, 2011 福島第二原子力発電所site visits (6th floor Unit 1 reactor building) (December 17, 2011 shooting) video is here [toggle_simple title=”Related articles” width=”600″] Related articles March 11th, 2011 – Fukushima Daini Information (enformable.com) TEPCO Earthquake Information Update as of March 14, 2300(JST) – Fukushima Daini Unit 1 in Cold Shutdown – All Fuel Became Uncovered AGAIN (enformable.com) […]
30mSv between Unit-2 and Unit-3, 400mSv beside Unit-3, 100roSy beside Unit-4 at 10:22, Mar. 15. Remarks It is estimated that spent fuels stored in the spent fuel pit heated and hydrogen was generated from these fuels, resulting in explosion. TEPCO later announced the fire had been extinguished. Other staff and workers than fifty TEPCO employees […]
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant evaporative concentration apparatus, Leakage treatment with sandbags (pictured on December 4, 2011). 2011.12.5 <Download> [Reference]Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant evaporative concentration apparatus Status of the water leakage (29.0KB) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant evaporative concentration apparatus, Leakage treatment with sandbags (pictured on December 4, 2011) [toggle_simple title=”Related articles” width=”600″] […]
Objective We have confirmed that some normal earthquake fault has emerged along the Yunotake Fault by the earthquake (M7.0) which occurred on April 11th on Hama-dori in Fukushima Prefecture, which we did not think need to be considered as active faults in terms of the aseismic design. Based on this, in order to check whether […]
Having instructions from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, TEPCO implemented sampling and measurement at land and sea as below. [Land] <Monitoring within 20km radius> Measurement of airborne radioactivity concentration by the support team from other electricity utility companies at 50 points (once a week.) Dust sampling at 5 points around 10 […]
Japanese Researcher: “Reactor 2 Suppression Chamber May Have Been Damaged in the Earthquake” From Kyodo News Japanese (11/19/2011): 東京電力福島第１原発２号機で、原子炉格納容器下部の圧力抑制プールが地震の揺れで早期に損傷したか、劣化した可能性が高いとする解析結果を１９日までに、原子力安全の専門家がまとめた。 An expert in nuclear safety complied the result of the analysis by November 19 that shows the high possibility of the Suppression Chamber of Reactor 2 at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant having been damaged or degraded by […]
•Following the Fukushima Daiichi events, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Headquarters Operations Center immediately began to monitor the situation •Teams of NRC officials were immediately deployed to Japan to advise Japanese officials since the day after the event •NRC’s monitoring of radiation levels around the Fukushima Daiichi plant was coordinated with the U.S. Department of […]
From: Grice, Thomas Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 2:01 PM To: Freeman, Eric; Aguilar, Santiago Subject: RE: Some sensible comments… [quote] Wouldn’t want to bother mentioned how designs have progressed through the years. People might start asking when ours were designed and start to obstruct the renewal processes. [/quote] From: Freeman, Eric Sent: Monday, March 14, […]
From: Cullingford, Michael Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 8:32 AM To: Leeds, Eric; Grobe, Jack; Boger, Bruce; McGinty, Tim; Regan, Christopher; Astwood, Heather; Hopkins, Jon; Quinones, Lauren; Brown, Frederick; Cheok, Michael; Lubinski, John; Ruland, William; Giitter, Joseph; Holian, Brian Subject: FW: Fukushima I Unit 2 fyi From: Hidehiko Yamachika [mailto:yamachika-hidehikojines-usa.orr4 Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 […]
The Fukushima Daiichi Incident and Earthquake Presentation Matthias Braun PEPA4-G AREVA NP GmbH Unit I – GE Mark I BWR (439 MW), Operating since 1970 Unit II & III – GE Mark I BWR (760 MW), Operating since 1974 Related articles March 11th, 2011 – They are struggling to shut down the plant – We all need […]
From: Rudland, David Sent: Friday, March 11,2011 10:54 AM To: ‘Bud Brust’ Subject: RE: Fukushima Daiichi Reactors No, at this point, all we know is that they are struggling to shut down the plant. We all need to say a prayer… From: Bud Brust [mailto:bbrustOemc-sq.coml Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 10:50 AM To: Rudland, David […]