By YUKA HAYASHI And PHRED DVORAK18 May 2011 FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE, Japan—The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant deteriorated in the crucial first 24 hours far more rapidly than previously understood, a Wall Street Journal reconstruction of the disaster shows. So helpless were the plant’s engineers that, as dusk fell after Japan’s devastating March 11 quake and tsunami, […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera19 May 2011 40 degrees Celsius, humidity over 90 percent (in the previous survey by the robots). 50 millisieverts/hour radiation, and the Spent Fuel Pool is apparently very warm. At one spot, the steam (highly radioactive) from the Spent Fuel Pool was condensing and falling like raindrops. But TEPCO says it will be easier […]
BY EISUKE SASAKI STAFF WRITER19 May 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Co. is sticking to its goal of stabilizing the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant by July despite radical revisions to its initial strategy after larger-than-expected damage was confirmed. … High radiation levels prevented workers from taking specific measures over the past month at […]
TEPCO has just released new photos of the March 11th tsunami hitting the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The following sequence shows the first tsunami wave approaching the plant, overwhelming the sea wall, and washing away vehicles. Tsunami wave approaches the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, 11 March 2011. The location is the slope at […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera17 May 2011 From the blog of Professor Bin Mori of Tokyo University Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences: Autoradiograph of Equisetum arvense (Horsetail; young shoots are edible), picked on May 3: This is an enlargement of one part of the skirt. The distribution is uniform, so the particles are likely spores. […]
TOKYO, May 14 (AFP) – A highly radioactive substance was detected in ash from an incinerator at a sewage works in Tokyo in late March following the nation’s worst nuclear accident in Fukushima, newspapers reported Saturday. The ash, containing an unidentified substance with a radioactive density of 170,000 Becquerel per kilogramme, was collected from a […]
By Kamome Fujimori, Tatsuyuki Kobori and Yo Noguchi14 May 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Co. concealed data showing spikes in radiation levels at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in March, one day before a hydrogen explosion injured seven workers. The Asahi Shimbun obtained a 100-page internal TEPCO report containing minute-to-minute data on radiation levels […]
[Reposted due to the Great Blogger Disaster of May 11th.] A report from the Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission Ex-Secretariat, Dr. Saji, credits the current status of the accident to “luck”. Gundersen discusses what could have happened if the wind had been blowing in-land. Fukushima Groundwater Contamination Worst in Nuclear History Technorati Tags: Fukushima,Japan,Asia,pollution,infrastructure failure
[Reposted due to the Great Blogger Disaster of May 11th.] TOKYO, May 12 (AFP) – Environmental activist group Greenpeace said Thursday it had detected radiation far above legal limits in seaweed samples taken from the ocean off Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. Greenpeace, which sent its Rainbow Warrior flagship to take samples of marine life […]
By Hidenori Tsuboya and Eisuke Sasaki13 May 2011 A major new leak of highly radioactive water into the ocean near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was discovered May 11. Local authorities and the embassies of the United States and other countries, including neighboring nations, were notified of the latest setback at the stricken […]
