Reporting by Risa Maeda; Editing by Alex Richardson21 May 2011 TOKYO (Reuters) – A water leak from Japan’s tsunami-crippled nuclear power station earlier this month resulted in about 100 times the permitted level of radioactive material flowing into the sea, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Saturday. TEPCO said the leak discovered on May […]
Note that the previous record level was 58 feet. Mississippi River at Natchez Technorati Tags: flood,North America,global warming,climate change,agriculture,infrastructure failure
May 21 (Mainichi Japan) – The government has discovered thousands of cases of workers at nuclear power plants outside Fukushima Prefecture suffering from internal exposure to radiation after they visited the prefecture, the head of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said. Most of the workers who had internal exposure to radiation visited Fukushima after […]
On 22 May 2011, TEPCO imaged the inside of Unit 1 with visible light and gamma-ray cameras. Here are a couple of photos from that expedition. Desdemona wonders if the pixel noise in the visible-light images is caused by gamma rays hitting the camera’s image sensor. Inside the Reactor Building, Unit 1, Fukushima Daiichi […]
The official TEPCO map of radioactive contamination at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in millisieverts/hour, 20 May 2011. TEPCO / www.ex-skf.blogspot.com 1000 Millisieverts/Hr Debris Outside Reactor 3 at #Fukushima I Nuke Plant [pdf] Technorati Tags: Fukushima,Japan,Asia,pollution,infrastructure failure
By Tokyo Brown Tabby; posted by arevamirpal::laprimavera20 May 2011 And that is the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan’s Tohoku region very hard. As of May 13, more than 15,000 people have been killed, 9,506 are still missing, and about 115,500 are still living in 2,425 evacuation shelters, according to […]
By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer 20 May 2011 TOKYO – The president of the Japanese utility that runs a tsunami-devastated nuclear plant resigned in disgrace Friday after reporting the biggest financial losses in company history, saying he was stepping down to take responsibility for the ongoing crisis. Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Masataka Shimizu, […]
May 19 (Yomiuri Shimbun) – Nearly two months after the start of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, only 10 percent of workers there had been tested for internal radiation exposure caused by inhalation or ingestion of radioactive substances, due to a shortage of testing equipment available for them. … A […]
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 […]
