7 April 2011 (Asahi Shimbun) – While changes improved safety at the Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant, overconfidence, complacency and high costs stymied such action at the now-crippled Fukushima No. 1 plant, according to people familiar with the situation. The difference in the safety designs was the main reason why the crisis continues to […]
Uploaded by videonewscom on Apr 6, 2011 Fukushima, Japan – The Japanese government has issued the evacuation order on March 12 for the residents living within the 20 kilometer radius of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Since then, residents have left their homes, and the “no man land” has been out of touch with […]
By Jason Clenfield18 March 2011 The unfolding disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant follows decades of falsified safety reports, fatal accidents and underestimated earthquake risk in Japan’s atomic power industry. The destruction caused by last week’s 9.0 earthquake and tsunami comes less than four years after a 6.8 quake shut the world’s biggest atomic plant, […]
FUKUSHIMA, Japan, April 6 (Kyodo) – The village of Iitate near a crippled nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture plans to evacuate pregnant women, toddlers and babies amid a growing doubt among villagers about the government’s radiation safety instructions, village officials said Wednesday. The mayor of the nearby city of Minamisoma, however, urged the Fukushima […]
By JAMES GLANZ and WILLIAM J. BROAD5 April 2011 United States government engineers sent to help with the crisis in Japan are warning that the troubled nuclear plant there is facing a wide array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely, and that in some cases are expected to increase as a result of the […]
By Tsuyoshi Inajima5 April 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Co. is pumping millions of gallons of radioactive water into the sea from its crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi station, and Japan has asked Russia to send a ship capable of processing nuclear waste. The company known as Tepco will discharge 10,000 tons (2.6 million gallons) of water from […]
5 April 2011 (Asahi Shimbun) – The government on Sunday acknowledged for the first time that it would take several months before radioactive materials stopped leaking from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Goshi Hosono, special adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan for the Fukushima crisis, told reporters: “We cannot allow radiation to […]
TOKYO, April 4 (Kyodo) — Tokyo Electric Power Co. began disposing of a total of 10,000 tons of water containing low-level radioactive substances in the Pacific Ocean on Monday from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to make room to store more highly polluted water filling the No. 2 reactor turbine building, as the […]
Highly radioactive water is leaking directly into the sea from a damaged pit near the crippled reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Radioactive water leaking into ocean in Japan TOKYO, April 2 (Kyodo) – Water with high levels of radiation has been confirmed to have seeped into the sea from the No. 2 reactor […]
This video was taken 24 March 2011 and shows Fukushima nuclear plant reactor No. 4. The camera is mounted on the tip of the crane used for discharging concrete pump into the building. Inside reactor 4 Fukushima Technorati Tags: Fukushima,pollution,infrastructure failure,Asia
