Fukushima Update – Day 257
Radioactive Strontium Found in Central Tokyo / ex-SKF / November 21, 2011 / A citizen group did the soil survey of three locations in central Tokyo, and had the soil samples tested for radioactive...
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Emergency condenser at Fukushima plant may not have fully run after tsunami / Mainichi Daily / November 23, 2011 / An emergency cooling condenser at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant appears to...
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TEPCO says not responsible for decontamination / Enformable.com / November 24, 2011 / During court proceedings concerning a radioactive golf course, Tokyo Electric Power Co. stunned lawyers by saying...
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More Fukushima rice tainted with cesium / NHK / November 25, 2011 / Fukushima Prefecture says it has found rice tainted with radioactive cesium above the tentative government limit from five more...
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Stress tests to start for nuke storage, reprocessing sites / Japan Times / November 26, 2011 / The government will subject nuclear fuel reprocessing and storage facilities to its safety checks...
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Fukushima Dai-Ichi Plant Chief to Undergo Medical Treatment / Bloomberg / November 28, 2011 Masao Yoshida, the manager of Japan’s crippled Fukushima atomic plant, was transferred to the hospital after...
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Expert urges probe of No.2 reactor leak / NHK / November 29, 2011 / The spike in radiation levels following unspecified trouble at the No.2 reactor on March 15th was much more prominent than on March...
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Hospitalized Fukushima head told workers to disregard TEPCO orders / Enformable.com / November 30, 2011 / Masao Yoshida, who has drawn media attention for continuing the seawater injection despite...
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Fukushima fuel rods may have completely melted / Guardian / December 2, 2011 / Fuel rods inside one of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant may have completely melted and bored...
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Japan looks to giant washer to clean Fukushima debris / Japan Today / December 4, 2011 / Japan is looking to launder tsunami debris in a giant washing machine to get rid of radiation from the Fukushima...
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Radioactive Baby Formula: 30.8 Becquerels/Kg of Cesium from Powdered Milk by Meiji / ex-SKF / December 5, 2011 / The manufacturer will replace 400,000 cans of its baby formula free of charge. The brand...
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Fukushima’s Ripple Effects Continue / New York Times / December 6, 2011 / The triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March startled many people in the American nuclear industry, the...
View ArticleFukushima Update – Day 275
Fukushima Prefecture’s Latest “Decon” Technology: Leaf Collector / ex-SKF / December 10, 2011 Sorry to bother you with another “high-tech” decon strategy coming out of Japan that makes you doubt the...
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Fukushima Ocean Radiation Was 50 Million Times Above Normal, But No Threat: Scientists / Forbes / December 12, 2011 / • Radiation Still Leaking Into Ocean • Concern About Marine Sediments Last April,...
View ArticleFukushima Update – Day 277
Evacuations too late outside no-go zone / Japan Times / December 13, 2011 / High exposure to radiation possible before officials acted FUKUSHIMA — Some residents near the Fukushima No. 1 plant might...
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Independent: Giant concrete ‘diaper’ to be built under Fukushima plant in effort to stop radioactive substances leaking into ground -Nuclear experts / via ENEnews.com / December 16, 2011 / Battle to...
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Hosono Says Fukushima Plant Is in ‘Equivalent of Cold Shutdown’ / BusinessWeek / December 19, 2011 / Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled reactors in Fukushima are in a state “equivalent to cold...
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Tepco is told to weigh temporary state control / Japan Times / December 28, 2011 / Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Yukio Edano told Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Toshio Nishizawa on...
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New Fukushima scare blamed on faulty thermometer / Reuters / February 13, 2012 / (Reuters) – A scare over temperatures rising near danger level in a reactor at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where...
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Japan group seeks local referendum on nuclear power / Reuters / February 14, 2012 / TOKYO, Feb 14 (Reuters) – A group of Japanese activists submitted a petition to the western city of Osaka on Tuesday...
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Documents show Japan, U.S. at odds over IAEA nuclear inspections / Mainichi Daily / February 16, 2012 / TOKYO (Kyodo) — Japan and the United States clashed with each other over nuclear inspection...
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Only 10 prefectural governments willing to accept quake rubble / Mainichi Daily / February 17, 2012 Only 10 prefectural governments are actively considering accepting rubble from earthquake- and...
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Yokosuka groups object to disaster debris burial / NHK / February 17, 2012 / Residents in Yokosuka, near Tokyo, are objecting to a plan to bury incinerated disaster debris from eastern Japan at a site...
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Japan’s nuclear evacuees denied Canadian refuge / Toronto Sun / February 18, 2012 / A Japanese woman who claimed exposure to radiation from damaged nuclear reactors has been denied refugee status in...
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Fukui reactor to go offline Tues, leaving only 2 online in Japan / Japan Today / February 20, 2012 FUKUI — Kansai Electric Power Co will shut down the No. 3 reactor at the Takahama nuclear plant in...
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Gov’t emergency headquarters refused to conduct additional thyroid testing on children / Mainichi Daily / February 21, 2012 / The government’s Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters did not fulfill...
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Cruise finds Fukushima pollution / BBC News / February 22, 2012 Radioactive elements from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant have been detected in seawater and marine organisms up to 600km from...
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Decontamination info center opens in Fukushima / NHK / February 25, 2012 The Environment Ministry and Fukushima Prefecture have begun to provide people concerned about radiation with information on how...
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Govt releases new radiation readings / Daily Yomiuri / February 26, 2012 The government has announced the latest radiation readings from areas in the no-entry zone and the expanded evacuation zone...
View ArticleFukushima Update – Day 353
via ex-SKF / February 26, 2012 / A small leak was found in one of the two lines of Toshiba/IHI/Shaw’s cesium absorption system “SARRY” on February 25, 2012. SARRY is housed inside the Miscellaneous...
View ArticleGround freeze urged to curb seepage into Fukushima No. 1 radioactive basements
via JapanTimes.co.jp / May 30, 2013 / To reduce the flow of groundwater into the crippled reactor buildings at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 atomic plant, the government told Tepco on...
View ArticleLast no-go zone designation in Fukushima lifted
via JapanTimes.co.jp / via May 29, 2013 / The government lifted the last no-go zone designation in Fukushima Prefecture on Tuesday, more than 26 months after three reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 power...
View ArticleVideo: Women of Fukushima (trailer)
Six Japanese women offer brutally honest views on the state of the clean-up, the cover-ups and untruths since the nuclear accident in Fukushima, and how it has affected their lives, homes and families....
View ArticleLeak Found in Steel Tank for Water at #Fukushima
via Russia Today / June 06, 2013 / The operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said Wednesday that it had found a leak in one of the hundreds of steel tanks used to store radioactive water at...
View ArticleRemoval of melted fuel from stricken #Fukushima reactors may be advanced a bit
via Japan Times / June 10, 2013 / The government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday they may be able to start removing the melted fuel inside the crippled nuclear reactors at the Fukushima No. 1...
View ArticleDamaged reactor building at #Fukushima plant fully covered
via Asahi Shimbun / June 12, 2013 / A canopy has been completed over a heavily damaged reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in preparation for removing the spent nuclear fuel...
View ArticleNo clear goals in most decontamination contracts
via NHK World / June 13, 2013 / Work to remove radioactive substances from the land and surfaces of buildings has been underway across Fukushima Prefecture more than 2 years following the nuclear...
View ArticleJapan PM promotes nuclear exports at central Europe summit
via ChannelNewsAsia.com / June 17, 2013 / Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a push on Sunday for his country’s nuclear technologies at a summit in Warsaw with leaders of four ex-Communist...
View ArticleGovernment secretly backtracks on Fukushima decontamination goal
via The Asahi Shimbun / June 16, 2013 / With the government facing difficulty in finding disposal sites, municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture are being unofficially notified that the goal for...
View ArticleJapan finds highly toxic strontium in #Fukushima groundwater
via TheStar.com / June 19, 2013 / High levels of toxic strontium-90 have been found in groundwater at the devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, the utility that operates the facility said...
View Article‘Eat and Support’ #Fukushima Rice, Without Knowing and Without Choice
via EX-SKF / June 19, 2013 / From rice to be grown and harvested in 2013, the national government is buying up 250,000 tonnes for the government’s rice reserve; of that, 40,000 tonnes, or 16%, may come...
View Article(Another) Leak found at Fukushima Daiichi desalting device
via NHK World / June 21, 2013 / TEPCO says radiation-contaminated water was found to have leaked from a desalinating device at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The plant operator...
View ArticleTritium level rising in #Fukushima plant port
via NHK World / June 25, 2013 / Officials from Tokyo Electric Power Company say the level of radioactive tritium has been rising in sea water near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. They say...
View ArticleWar and the New Nuclear Danger: #Fukushima and Beyond
Global Research News Hour Episode 31: via Global Research.ca / June 24, 2013 / One of the most severe industrial accidents in history occurred two and a half years ago when the Fukushima Daiichi...
View ArticleNew map of radioactive iodine released from Fukushima Daiichi
via Enformable.com / June 28, 2013 / 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...
View ArticleOpinion: We cannot allow return to nuclear power without proper debate
via Asahi Shimbun / July 2nd, 2013 / POINT OF VIEW by Hirohito Ono / The run-up to July’s Upper House election will likely focus on the economy and foreign policy issues, but one topic that must be...
View Article#Fukushima waste incinerator takes shape
via World Nuclear News / July 2nd, 2013 / Construction of an incinerator is underway at the Fukushima Daiichi plant to burn the low-level waste (LLW) being generated from the clean-up and...
View ArticleJapanese Govt. gives up on #Fukushima Pref. decontamination efforts
via Nuclear-News.net / June 4th, 2013 / Government officials held a meeting in Tamura-city in Fukushima prefecture to explain to residents that they need to look after themselves from now on....
View ArticleScientists detect highest cesium levels in a year in #Fukushima
via The Asahi Shimbum / July 8, 2013 / Radioactive cesium levels found in moss on a rooftop in downtown Fukushima exceeded 1.7 million becquerels, the highest levels detected in a year, researchers...
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