TEPCO finds defect in ALPS water treatment system at Fukushima Daiichi
According to Tokyo Electric, the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the most recent breakdown of the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) is due to a chipped resin filter. The…
March 19th, 2011 – NRC NARAC Models of Fukushima Daiichi Disaster Did Not Model All Available Radionuclides
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI PMT STATE INTERFACE AUDIO FILES SATURDAY, MARCH 19th, 2011 Pages From C147216-02X – March 19th, 2011 – NRC NARAC Models of Fukushima Daiichi…
March 15th, 2011 – Navy tried to get dosimeters for all sailors on USS Ronald Reagan after Fukushima disaster
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI PMT STATE INTERFACE AUDIO FILES TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2011 Pages From C147216-02X – March 15th, 2011 – Navy Tried to Get Dosimeters for…
TEPCO to begin dumping groundwater into Pacific Ocean in May
After getting the approval of fishery cooperatives in Fukushima Prefecture last Friday, Tokyo Electric and the Japanese government have announced that they will begin pumping groundwater at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant…
TEPCO says running out of room to store contaminated debris at Fukushima Daiichi
Engineers from Tokyo Electric held discussions with officials from the Japanese government on Monday where they communicated that they are running out of room to store contaminated debris at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi…
March 17th, 2011 – Special Lawyers Group tackled legal issues arising from Fukushima disaster response for White House
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ET TABLE BACKUP 2 AUDIO FILES THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 2011 Pages From C147359-02X – March 17th, 2011 – Special Lawyers Group Tackled Legal…
Industry paper investigates why other plants were not affected like Fukushima Daiichi
A paper published by the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum focuses on why Fukushima Daiichi experienced a severe accident and other nuclear power facilities like Fukushima Daiini, Onagawa, and Tokai nuclear power plants were…
TEPCO to nearly double contaminated water storage capacity by March 2016
Contaminated water keeps accumulating at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant facility. Right now Tokyo Electric, the utility who operated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, has enough tanks on site to…
Human errors strand robot in Fukushima Daiichi reactor building
Tokyo Electric announced today that the “Warrior” robot, designed and engineered in the United States, tipped over during an inspection of the Unit 2 reactor building two weeks ago and could not be…
Human error blamed after spent fuel removal operations halted at Fukushima Daiichi
Tokyo Electric, the utility decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, determined that human error is the most likely cause for the alarms which stopped work removing spent fuel assemblies from…
Alarm brings fuel retrieval from Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 to a halt
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been forced to halt removal of spent fuel rods from the Reactor 4 spent fuel pool. The pool contains 1,533 fuel rods, 1,331 of…
TEPCO shuts down ALPS system at Fukushima Daiichi after contamination found in storage tanks
On Wednesday, workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were forced to halt the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) water treatment system used to decontaminate radioactive water at the crippled nuclear facility….
Nearly 70% of decontamination firms still violating labor laws in Fukushima
According to labor officials in Fukushima Prefecture, nearly 70% of the companies hired to conduct decontamination work after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster have been found to be in violation of multiple labor…
Venting operations at Fukushima Daiichi may have released more radioactive materials then estimated
New data released from Japan may help researchers to determine exactly how radioactive materials were released into the atmosphere from the Unit 1 reactor during the early days of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear…
NRC’s inconsistent interpretations and applications of rules governing FOIA releases
Quantum mechanics imply that something can be both simultaneously one thing and another until it is observed. Erwin Shrodinger explained it using a box and a cat. If you seal the cat in…
More progress made overhauling site than decommissioning reactors at Fukushima Daiichi
In the three years since the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster there has been a plethora of drastic changes made to the landscape of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant including;…
Tokyo Electric to investigate potential groundwater contamination at Fukushima Daiichi after leak
After confirming that more than 100 tons of highly radioactive water overflowed from a storage tank in February, TEPCO has decided to prepare observation wells to identify possible contamination of the groundwater. The…
On the third anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi catastrophe
By Karl Grossman With the third anniversary of the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe coming next week, the attempted Giant Lie about the disaster continues—a suppression of information, an effort at…
Japan’s new pro-nuclear energy policy facing criticism
In Japan, how the government defines nuclear power has been an issue of contention since the March 11th nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi. While speaking at a Lower House subcommittee meeting on…
Tokyo Electric determines human error cause of contaminated leak at Fukushima Daiichi
Last week officials from the Tokyo Electric Power Company announced that extremely radioactive water had leaked from a storage tank at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. According to the utility over 100…
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