Tokyo Electric Power Company, the utility which owns and manages the cleanup at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant admitted earlier this summer that highly contaminated water was leaking from the plant into the Pacific Ocean. TEPCO has estimated that some 10 trillion becquerels of strontium and 20 trillion becquerels of cesium have leaked […]
While conducting a site investigation at the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant in North Carolina, workers found that a pipe on the site property was leaking onto the soil. The leaking isolation valve, 3WN-38, allowed nearly 10,000 gallons of water to escape onto the surrounding area. The water contained some 5,780 picocuries per liter of […]
According to an official from Tokyo Electric, it has been estimated that some 400 tons of contaminated water breaches underground barriers and continues leaking into the Pacific Ocean every day from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but the utility cannot confirm the exact volume of contaminated groundwater that is escaping. The utility has […]
It is no secret that Tokyo Electric is incapable of containing the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, and often their actions have had adverse affects which have worsened conditions on-site. For example, TEPCO had begun operations onsite to reduce the amount of contaminated water on-site by injecting chemicals into the ground to prevent the contaminated groundwater […]
On Monday morning this week TEPCO officials were meeting with experts from Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority to discuss ways to mitigate and approach the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi. During the meeting, TEPCO officials failed to notify the regulatory body of rises in the groundwater levels at Fukushima Daiichi, even though the data they had […]
In the rare event that the reader has never seen Mickey Mouse starring in “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”, I will remind them that the whole story revolves around an apprentice who is tempted to use magic to do things that he does not wish to do for himself, which starts out well enough, only to find […]
Naomi Hirose, the president of Tokyo Electric Power Company admitted that the utility was wrong in not acknowledging that radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was leaking into the ocean for more than a month, and that the primary blame lay on lax risk management of the radioactive water. Hirose acknowledged that […]
Tokyo Electric Power Company has been arguably been dealing with more uncertainty than any other utility in the world for the last two years, but the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is not the only threat to their ability to continue operations. TEPCO has been unable to prevent a constant stream of key managers and personnel […]
The American Health Physics Society released a map which shows how far radioactive iodine spread in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The map was generated by researchers from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency and the United States Department of Energy after they analyzed radiation data that had been gathered jointly between April […]
In Japan, while still concerned about the continued migration of radioactive materials on-site at Fukushima Daiichi, authorities in Fukushima Prefecture are also working to deal with the contamination which is spreading. Many decontamination efforts are behind in schedule or simply not able to provide adequate results. AREVA it seems is adapting to the new role […]
TEPCO finally revealed that groundwater testing at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant found elevated levels of radioactive Strontium-90, a by-product of the fission process, at more than 30 times the legal limit. Water collected on May 24th, also found abnormally high levels of tritium, in addition to the radioactive strontium. Officials said that […]
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 out of the contaminated water being generated daily at the crippled nuclear power plant, is leaking contaminated water from a welded part […]
On May 2nd, workers at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant were taking apart scaffolding in a steam tunnel when they discovered two goldfish in a lemonade pitcher full of radioactive water in a secured area. For the next month, security investigators at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant spent untold hours reviewing video recordings to attempt […]
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, despite the fact that recorded radiation levels in the local area after the onset of the nuclear disaster were greater than those […]
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 of radioactive water and nuclear waste on-site. Last month, a rat caused a power outage after it short-circuited a temporary switchboard which […]
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 after TEPCO announced a plant to transfer water from the Number 3 reservoir pit which holds some 10.400 tons of contaminated water […]
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 was speaking to reporters on Wednesday, when he said that the plant, which relies on temporary ad-hoc cooling systems, remains highly vulnerable […]
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 located some 800 meters from the Pacific Ocean which contained processed water which had been used to cool down the crippled reactors […]
This year, on the second anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the author would like to pose the following questions, and invite the reader to do the same. The Fukushima Disaster is old news…right? Nuclear power plants are not dirty bombs…right? Fukushima is no Chernobyl…right? Radiation from Fukushima Daiichi didn’t affect any other nations…right? […]
The reactor containment structures which house the nuclear reactors at Fukushima made by GE, Hitachi, and Toshiba, have so many holes in them that they are preventing workers from making any substantial progress on improving conditions inside of the destroyed reactors, and will ultimately delay the removal of melted fuel from the reactor buildings, the […]
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