‘Completely and utterly fail in an earthquake’: The Fukushima story you didn’t hear on CNN

By Greg PalastNovember 10, 2011 I’ve seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant: Wiesel was very upset. He seemed very nervous. Very agitated. … In fact, the plant was riddled […]

Japan starts TEPCO bailout after Fukushima nuclear disaster causes more losses

By Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada4 November 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Co. won approval for a 900 billion yen ($11.5 billion) bailout from the government after the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe to avert bankruptcy and start paying compensation for the crisis. Trade and Industry Minister Yukio Edano approved the support after the company known as Tepco […]

Video: Children’s health issues and Fukushima radiation

  By arevamirpal::laprimavera30 OCtober 2011 […] ContAct, did an interview with Mika Noro, which was webcasted on July 14, 2011. Ms. Noro has been active in helping children in areas affected by the Chernobyl nuke plant accident, and after the Fukushima accident her organization has been setting up free medical consultations for mothers and children […]

Graph of the Day: Cesium-137 Concentrations in Ocean Sediments Near Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Plant, 21 April – 18 October 2011

[Translated from French] This graph shows the evolution of sampled cesium-137 concentration and the respective distance from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Concentrations vary typically from 1 to 10,000 Bq/kg, with an increasing trend over time. This evolution may be the result of the kinetics of cesium transfer to sedimentary particles and particle deposition processes […]

30 years to decommission Fukushima nuclear plant

TOKYO, October 29 (Xinhua) – Decommissioning the stricken reactors at the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant is likely to take 30 years or more, the government’s Japan Atomic Energy Commission said in a provisional report released on Friday. The commission said that as the situation at the Fukushima plant is more complicated than the process […]

Fukushima: 20 times more radiation spilled into Pacific Ocean than thought – ‘Largest one-time contribution of artificial radionuclides to the marine environment ever observed’

From Jiji Tsushin (10/28/2011): フランス政府系の放射線防護原子力安全研究所(IRSN)は27日、東京電力福島第1原発事故後の3月21日から7月半ばまでに海に流出した放射性セシウ ム137の総量は2.71京ベクレル(1京は1兆の1万倍)で、東京電力が6月に発表した推計値の20倍に達すると推定した調査報告書を公表した。 On October 27, the Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (L’Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, IRSN) of France announced its research report in which the researchers estimated the total amount of radioactive cesium-137 leaked from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean was 27,100 terabecquerels […]

Comprehensive study finds Fukushima nuclear disaster released more radioactive xenon than Chernobyl

By Geoff Brumfiel, with additional reporting by David Cyranoski and Rina Nozawa25 October 2011 The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March released far more radiation than the Japanese government has claimed. So concludes a study1 that combines radioactivity data from across the globe to estimate the scale and fate of emissions from […]

Fukushima victims are desperate, angry, homeless – ‘We don’t know who we can trust’

FUKUSHIMA, Japan, October 18 (Reuters) –  At last, victims of Japan’s nuclear crisis can claim compensation. And they are angry. They are furious at the red tape they have to wade through just to receive basic help and in despair they still cannot get on with their lives seven months after the huge quake and […]

Graph of the Day: Radioactive Cesium in Metropolitan Tokyo Soil, August 2011

Tokyo Metropolitan Soil Testing Results(released 2011/8/8) Over 60,000 Bq/kg of Cesium-134 and Cesium-137 detected in Tokyo! As our first work of our Nationwide Soil Testing Project, we tested soil samples from 132 areas in the Tokyo metropolitan area, including Tokyo, Chiba, Saitama, Kanagawa, and Ibaraki. Our results show how much radioactive particles fell over the […]

Radioactive hot spots in Tokyo point to wider problems

By HIROKO TABUCHI14 October 2011 TOKYO – Takeo Hayashida signed on with a citizens’ group to test for radiation near his son’s baseball field in Tokyo after government officials told him they had no plans to check for fallout from the devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Like Japan’s central government, local officials said there was […]

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