The good—the very good—energy news is that the Indian Point nuclear power plants 26 miles north of New York City will be closed in the next few years under an agreement reached between New York State and the plants’ owner, Entergy. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has long been calling for the plants to be […]
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) admitted last week that they should have declared a meltdown within days of the March 11th earthquake and tsunami that crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, instead of delaying the public announcement for months. “We apologize for the great inconvenience and worry the delay caused”, a representative for TEPCO […]
The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) typically begins its narrative on the “lessons learned” from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe with Japan’s March 11, 2011accident. Not surprisingly, the agency has avoided addressing the most critical lesson recognized in the accident’s official investigative report by Japan’s National Diet. In their finding, the unfolding radiological catastrophe […]
The Environmental Protection Agency – the overseers of the suspiciously on-again/off-again RadNet monitoring system in the wake of the 2011 mass meltdown/blow-outs at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi power station – has helpfully extended the public comment period on its proposed “update” to 40CFR.190, “Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Nuclear Power Operations.” Citizens now have until August 4th […]
This is Part 1 of a 2 Part mini-series – Read Part 2 Here The following is the transcript of a speech given by Gerry Spence in Pennsylvania shortly after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979, published here with his approval. Spence is well known for having won a $10.5 million verdict for […]
The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, operated by Exelon Nuclear Generation near Londonderry, Pennsylvania, was forced to shutdown and depressurize the Reactor Coolant System in order to stop a leak. The leak was not able to be isolated with valves or other devices because it was a through weld leak at a Pressurizer Heater […]
From: Fleger, Stephen Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 6:09 PM To: Barnes, Valerie; Peters, Sean; Desaulniers, David; Boggi, Michael; Martin, Kamishan; Marble, Julie; Xing, Jing; D’Agostino, Amy; Morrow, Stephanie; Lapinsky, George Subject: RE: CONSIDERATIONS OF WGHOF WITH RESPECT TO FUKUSHIMA EVENT Hey Val – I just returned from briefing the ACRS on our updated Advanced […]
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The Fukushima disaster precipitated a rise in public concerns about potential accidents, storage of nuclear waste, and nuclear proliferation across the globe. However, the nuclear industry is trying to liken that response to the response after Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, but the cost of regulating risk and skyrocketing construction costs are just as severe […]
Commenting on his new paper titled “Nuclear Safety and Nuclear Economics,” Mark Cooper said: “Before Fukushima, the mythical ‘nuclear renaissance‘ had already proven to be a bubble with the air rapidly leaking out of it. Fukushima will make it even more difficult to inflate. Fukushima is magnifying the economic problems that the ‘nuclear renaissance’ faced, […]
Loss of Cooling Accidents Light Water SL-1 Millstone 1 Browns Ferry 1 and 2 Three Mile Island 2 ** Ginna Mihama 2 Chernobyl ** Heavy Water NRX Lucens Gas Cooled Windscale St. Laurent Hunterston B Hinckley Point B Liquid Metal EBR-1 Enrico Fermi [toggle_simple title=”Related articles” width=”600″] Related articles *ALERT* NRC says Reactor No. 2 […]
Japanese industry minister Yukio Edano on Tuesday called into question the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant operator’s plan to release low-level radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, saying doing so without consent from fishermen should not be allowed. “It should not be socially allowed that (the operator) goes ahead (with the plan) before gaining agreement […]
TEPCO’s Challenges for Occupational Exposure Reduction -Installation of Additional CF in Fukushima Daiichi NPP- Shunsuke HORI, Akira SUZUKI Tokyo Electric Power Company Nuclear Power Plant Management Department Radiation Protection Group ISOE International ALARA Symposium September 8-9, 2009, Aomori, JAPAN Occupational Exposure in NPP Measures for Reduction of Collective Dose Quality of Feed Water after Installation […]
JAEA Activities towards Environmental Restoration of FUKUSHIMA Kazuo Todani October 16, 2011 Headquarters of Fukushima Partnership Operations JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (1) Assessment of radiological contamination situation • Support to government’s mapping and monitoring • Detailed investigation with Autonomous Unmanned Helicopter and Plastic Scintillation Fibers JAEA activities for environment restoration (2) Development of decontamination measures […]
(TEPCO) has dropped plans — at least for now — to release low-level radioactive water from the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean after protests from fishermen. The workers are contemplating how to handle the underground water is that accumulating inside the power plant’s reactor buildings at a rate of 200 to 500 […]
The government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. have revised the timetable for the seventh time in the eight months since the crisis began. Data suggests the reactors and radioactive material are under control, and the power plant will achieve a cold shutdown once required conditions are confirmed. The situation at the nuclear plant does not […]
This article is posted to mark the date, November 11th, 2011 – the 8 month anniversary of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. Had TEPCO installed hardened vents 20 years ago, and settled on a realistic evaluation of seismic risk, and threat of corresponding tsunami, it is unknown if the world would be facing the 8th month […]
The forgotten side of Japan as a nuclear power: Many planned NPP were abandoned due to widespread and long-lasting local opposition. Nuclear Power Plants in operation, as of 4 September 2011 Hokkaido Electric Power Tomari-3 Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) Kashiwazaki Kariwa-1 Kashiwazaki Kariwa-5 Kashiwazaki Kariwa-6 Kansai Electric Power Mihama-2 Takahama-2 Takahama-3 Ohi-2 Chugoku Electric Power Shimane-2 Shikoku […]
The government on Wednesday ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to create by the end of the year a new schedule for scrapping the crippled nuclear reactors at the crisis-hit Fukushima No. 1 power complex, as the plant nears a cold shutdown. It also ordered the utility to start removing the plant’s spent nuclear fuel within […]
From: Jimenez, Manuel I {\ • Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 2:02 PM To: Cartwright, William Subject: FW: Japan’s Fukushima plant Bill: I am new at this thing so I am going to send you what I have – don’t know if this is applicable to your request Most if not all is publically available […]