More radioactive leaks at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have found that the newly-installed Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) designed by Toshiba, the system which is supposed to be filtering 62 different radioactive substances…
Japanese scientists find fish around Fukushima Daiichi contaminated shortly after disaster
Researchers in Japan have found that fish close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant had absorbed a large dose of radioactive materials, like cesium, immediately after the March 2011 nuclear disaster, rather…
Canada set to raise nuclear liability cap
In Canada, officials are working to submit legislative plans to increase the amount in damages Canadian operators of nuclear power plants would be responsible for in case of a nuclear accident, as well…
March 31st, 2011 – TEPCO’s assessment of structural damage to Unit 1, 3, and 4 reactor buildings
March 31st, 2011 – TEPCO’s Assessment of Structural Damage to Unit 1, 3, And 4 Reactor Buildings by Enformable
Former NRC chairman not confident in San Onofre restart or risk assessment based on probabilities
Former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Gregory Jaczko spoke at a meeting in San Diego today about the future of nuclear energy as a member of an expert panel which included former…
March 31st, 2011 – Notes from the Consortium Call at 2000
Consortium Call – 3/31/2011 20:00 Attendees: NRC Headquarters Operations Officer Sal Golub, DOE/NE Kevin Mulligan, INPO Rick M Nielsen, INPO Randy Trapasso, INPO Lt Col. Price, PACOM w/radiation support team V? Lynch, INPO…
March 30th, 2011 – Japanese Government Action Items and Material Request List
Japanese Government Action Items and Material Request List March 30th, 2011 – Japanese Government Action Items and Material Request List by Enformable
March 16th, 2011 – Estimate time for boil-dry times for a typical spent fuel pool
Estimate time for boil-dry times for a typical spent fuel pool Source: RTM Table D-1 (see figure below) Assumptions: (1) Full core recently discharged (see box in figure) (2) 100 days after shutdown…
March 17th, 2011 – US nuclear power plants lack sufficient measures to prevent runaway meltdown after LOCA
March 17th, 2011 – Rescinding the Denial of PRM-50-76 by Enformable
Japanese regulators inspect Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 isolation condenser
Officials from Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority inspected the Unit 1 reactor building at Fukushima Daiichi on Friday to inspect the possibility that critical components were damaged by the earthquake on March 11th, 2011. …
Tape, broomsticks, and safety cones used at nuclear power plants to manage leaks
Many, if not all of our readers, saw the photo that was leaked out of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station to the press, which showed a massive pipe that had been leaking…
TEPCO to begin measuring groundwater inflow into Fukushima Daiichi reactors
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has announced that it plans to install water gauges in the basement of the reactor buildings of Unit 1, Unit 2, and Unit 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi…
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…
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