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,…
Tsuruga nuclear power plant sitting on active fault says Japanese regulator
After 6 months of investigation, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority released a final report on Wednesday which officially concludes that the Unit 2 reactor of the Tsuruga nuclear power plant in central Japan rests…
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…
Japan adopts new set of nuclear safety rules
On Wednesday, officials from Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority approved a new set of nuclear safety guidelines for utilities to follow in order to prepare for emergencies and natural disasters, the new rules will…
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…
Japan’s nuclear power plants to be forced to assess risks from volcanoes
Japan, one of the most densely populated nations in the world, lies in a zone of extreme crustal instability named the Ring of Fire, where 90% of the world’s earthquakes and a large…
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…
Japanese utilities face 1.2 trillion yen burden every year nuclear plants shut down
In Japan, a fierce debate is taking place over the future of the nation’s energy supply. Protests in Tokyo last July held more demonstrators than the 1960s protests against a security treaty with…
Plans for new nuclear plant construction scrapped
Tohoku Electric first announced plans to construct the Namie-Odaka nuclear power plant 10 kilometers north of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in 1968. After the proposed site was one of the areas…
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