By David McNeill in Tokyo23 April 2011 The former governor of Fukushima province has spoken of his frustration at the failure of the Japanese authorities to heed his warnings over the safety of the power plant that was stricken by the country’s recent earthquake. The story of Japan’s epic disaster comes with a generous cast […]
TOKYO, April 25 (UPI) – Radiation leaks remain a health threat for areas around Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, officials said. The crisis at the plant resulted from an earthquake and tsunami March 11. Some experts believe the Fukushima crisis is more serious than that resulting from an explosion at Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant […]
By Ichiro Matsuo, Tatsuyuki Kobori, and Hidenori Tsuboya26 April 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Co. started the unprecedented and potentially risky measure of allowing water to flood the containment vessels of three troubled reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, company sources said. It is the world’s first attempt to saturate the entire containment […]
By Stuart Biggs, Kanoko Matsuyama, and Frederik Balfour 25 April 2011 The wreckage of a 379-metric ton tuna boat blocks the road to the deserted fish market in Kesennuma, once Japan’s largest port for bonito and swordfish. Even after the debris from last month’s tsunami has been cleared away, the industry may never recover. “Thirty […]
Measured distribution of radioactive contamination at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in millisieverts/hour. Asahi Shimbun / www.ex-skf.blogspot.com The official TEPCO map of radioactive contamination at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in millisieverts/hour, 24 April 2011. Sankei Shinbun / www.ex-skf.blogspot.com #Fukushima I Nuke Plant “Contamination Map” Emerges, Sort Of… Technorati Tags: Fukushima,Japan,Asia,pollution,infrastructure failure
By arevamirpal::laprimavera23 April 2011 Fukushima I nuke plant: 154 terabecquerels per day, every day, of radioactive iodine and cesium are still spewing out of the plant, Japan’s Nuclear Safety Commission now admits. On April 12, during the joint press conference with Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) where they jointly announced the Fukushima I Plant […]
French nuclear conglomerate AREVA presented this slide deck during an invitation-only meeting at Stanford University on 21 March 2011. The Fukushima Daiichi Incident outlines the probable course of events, from the earthquake to the meltdowns. Most of this information hasn’t received widespread media coverage, but Arnie Gunderson and the folks at Fairewinds have liberated it […]
April 23 (Asahi Shimbun) – The 83-year-old man spoke with tears in his eyes. “It’s all over. It is better to just die.” He had just learned his small farm would be sealed off at midnight April 21 inside the government’s no-entry zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Like many with properties […]
TOKYO, April 23 (Kyodo) – Workers at a nuclear power plant damaged by last month’s earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan’s northeast continued battling to deal with radioactive water Saturday as their exposure to radiation is constantly increasing. One more worker is found to have been exposed to radiation of more than 100 millisieverts, bringing […]
By Matt Smith, CNN22 April 2011 Tokyo (CNN) — The worst may have passed in the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, but cleaning up when it’s finally over is likely to take decades and cost Japan an untold fortune. A six- to nine-month horizon for winding down the crisis, laid out by plant owner Tokyo […]
