Improvised Fukushima water decontamination system fails at first ‘skid’

By arevamirpal::laprimavera18 June 2011 According to TEPCO’s handout for the press for June 18, TEPCO stopped the entire water processing system manually when the surface radiation at the “skid” for removing oil and technetium exceeded 4 millisievert/hour, the limit set for replacing the zeolite cylinders (which TEPCO calls “vessel”) inside the skid. That “skid” contains […]

Fukushima timeline hours after the earthquake – New TEPCO documents show problems encountered in venting, pumping water to damaged reactors

June 18 (Asahi Shimbun) – The Asahi Shimbun has obtained TEPCO documents that provide a timeline of events from 2:46 p.m. on March 11 when the magnitude-9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake struck, and includes the explosions that occurred at the No. 1 to No. 3 reactors until March 15. Despite the orders of Masao Yoshida, […]

Japan’s radiation sleuths toil with borrowed Geiger counters – TEPCO response characterized by ‘ineptitude, negligence’

By Shigeru Sato, Sachiko Sakamaki, and Tsuyoshi Inajima13 Jun 2011 Makoto Tonami starts his workday by slipping on a white surgical face mask and then drives around with a borrowed Geiger counter, taking radiation readings. Three months ago, he was sorting garbage claims in Minami Soma, a city north of the Fukushima nuclear plant. “It’s […]

Graph of the Day: Citizen-measured Radiation Levels in Japan, June 2011

By FishOutofWater, for Japan Nuclear Incident Liveblogs16 June 2011 […] A map of citizen-measured radiation levels shows radioactivity is distributed in a complex pattern reflecting the mountainous terrain and the shifting winds across a broad area of Japan north of Tokyo, which is in the center of the of bottom of the map. Radiation limits […]

Video: Japan prayers for disaster closure

By Hideyuki Sano18 June 2011 TOKYO (Reuters) – A rise in radiation halted the clean-up of radioactive water at Japan’s Fukushimi nuclear power station on Saturday hours after it got under way, a fresh setback to efforts to restore control over the quake-stricken plant. The power plant has been leaking radiation into the atmosphere ever […]

Fukushima nuclear plant: Contaminated water treatment system may not restart for another week, as trench water rises

By arevamirpal::laprimavera17 June 2011 More on the news that TEPCO halted the system due to higher than expected radiation level in the cesium absorption subsystem by Kurion: The radiation limit of 4 millisieverts/hour was reached in 5 hours, instead of one month as anticipated. New information from Jiji News Japanese (12:47PM JST 6/18/2011): The radiation […]

Economy sends Japanese to Fukushima for jobs

By HIROKO TABUCHI8 June 2011 IWAKI-YUMOTO, Japan — Just after 6 a.m. in this still sleepy hot spring town, bleary-eyed workers emerged from their inns, ready to board buses to return to their daily battle to contain the crisis at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Some men are local technicians who have worked […]

Video: Workers enter Unit 3 reactor building at Fukushima nuclear plant, 15 June 2011

June 15 (NHK) – Tokyo Electric Power Company has released video footage taken last week of Number 3 reactor at its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The video shows workers wearing protective suits enter the building through a cargo entrance. The roof of the facility was missing with the sky in view because of […]

Radiation in Japan: Nosebleed, diarrhea, lack of energy in children in Koriyama City, Fukushima

By arevamirpal::laprimavera15 June 2011 Once a malicious “baseless rumor” on the net, now it is written up in a regional newspaper with readership in Tokyo and Kanto area. Tokyo Shinbun (paper edition only, 6/16/2011) reports that many children in Koriyama City in Fukushima Prefecture, 50 kilometers from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, are suffering inexplicable […]

Radiation ‘hotspots’ hinder Japan response to nuclear crisis – ‘I want to dig a hole in the ground and scream’

By Kevin Krolicki and Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Linda Sieg and Nick Macfie14 Jun 2011 KANAGAWA, Japan (Reuters) – Hisao Nakamura still can’t accept that his crisply cut field of deep green tea bushes south of Tokyo has been turned into a radioactive hazard by a crisis far beyond the horizon. “I was more than […]

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