From Manchini News SHIZUOKA (Kyodo) — Chubu Electric Power Co. revealed Thursday it has been unable to remove a spent fuel rod that was damaged in an accident 17 years ago from its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture. While spent nuclear fuel is normally sent to the reprocessing plant in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture […]
A German Information Visualization specialist has mapped some of the data in Germany. See original article here. The german Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS) is, among other duties, in charge of measuring gamma radiation in the atmosphere throughout Germany. A network of about 1750 Geiger counters collects data which is displayed publicly on a very basic user interface. Since the Tsunami in […]
David McNeill meets a nuclear worker who sees it as his duty to save the stricken plant – even if it means an early grave Tuesday, 26 July 2011 Atsushi Watanabe (not his real name) is an ordinary Japanese man in his 20s, about average height and solidly built, with the slightly bemused expression of […]
U.S., Japan to jointly study new technology to decontaminate large areas TOKYO (Kyodo) — The United States and Japan will work together in researching new technology to remove radioactive materials from large areas around the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a visiting senior U.S. official said Sunday. As thousands of square kilometers require decontamination […]
KEWAUNEE, Wis (WSAU) One of Wisconsin’s two nuclear power plants has freed up some critical space to cool spent fuel rods in its main reactor building. The Kewaunee plant recently moved a number of uranium rods from a cooling pool in the reactor to a hardened concrete cask outside. Each cask holds over 5,000 rods […]
EDITOR’S note: THIS letter, written by Ha Minh Thanh Vietnamese Immigrant working in Fukushima as a policeman to a friend in Vietnam, was posted on New America Media on March 19. It is a testimonial to the strength of the Japanese spirit, and an interesting slice of life near the epicenter of Japan’s crisis at […]
TOKYO (Kyodo) — A desalination device that forms part of the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s key water decontamination system halted for a number of hours Sunday in the latest glitch at the plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said late Sunday. The plant operator said it resumed desalinating decontaminated water to be recycled as […]
Workers involved in the restoration of the areas hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant say their working conditions have been harsh. About 1,500 temporary workers of subcontractors hired by leading construction companies gathered in Tokyo on Sunday to discuss the situation. A man who took part […]