By arevamirpal::laprimavera3 August 2012 I’ve written about 137 alarms at Ooi Nuclear Power Plant Reactor 4 and the jellyfish protesting the restart (again) in my previous post. Yomiuri Shinbun tells us the scale of the jellyfish attack this time. 200 cubic meters worth of jellyfish forced the plant to reduce the water intake by 30%. […]
By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press23 July 2012 TOKYO (AP) – The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant is still stumbling in its handling of the disaster 16 months later, by dragging its feet in investigations, and trying to understate the true damage at the complex, investigators said Monday. The report by a government-appointed panel […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 20 July 2012 Mr. Tomohiko Suzuki, journalist who went to work at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant last year to report how it really was in the plant, said the workers use a variety of ways to lower (i.e., fake) the radiation exposure as measured by their dosimeters. One of the ways is […]
By Aaron Sheldrick; Editing by Jeremy Laurence16 July 2012 TOKYO (Reuters) – More than 100,000 anti-nuclear protesters marched through central Tokyo on Monday to voice their opposition to atomic power, racheting up the pressure on under fire Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda. On the hottest day of the year, protesters forsook their air-conditioned homes to say […]
14 July 2012 (BBC) – About 250,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes to avoid floods caused by torrential rainfall in south-west Japan, officials say. Flooding and landslides on the southern island of Kyushu have left at least 20 people dead in the past three days. TV footage showed muddy waters sweeping through […]
By Jim Andrews, AccuWeather.com13 July 2012 At least fifteen people have been killed by flooding and landslides as unprecedented rainfall continues to pound southwestern Japan. A further 11 people were missing in parts of the region, according to Fox News. About 48,000 people were ordered to flee the city of Kumamoto. Blackouts hit thousands of […]
By Tom Whipple 11 July 2012 One has to go back to the 1930’s to find a time when so much of civilization was in turmoil at once. The 30’s ended with World War II, tens of millions dead, and much of the industrialized world in ruins. It is not hard to argue that the […]
By Risa Maeda and Linda Sieg; Editing by Robert Birsel5 July 2012 TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Fukushima nuclear crisis was a preventable disaster resulting from “collusion” among the government, regulators and the plant operator, an expert panel said on Thursday, wrapping up an inquiry into the worst nuclear accident in 25 years. Damage from the […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 3 July 2012 It’s just a bad juju after another. Water leaks, alarms going off along the power transmission lines, protesters preventing the government minister from entering the plant by land, and now this. The Reactor 3 turbine vibrates too much. From Jiji Tsushin (7/3/2012): 発電再開、５日に延期＝関電大飯３号機 Start of power generation postponed till July […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 28 June 2012 TEPCO, soon to be “effectively” nationalized, sent own workers to the Reactor 1 building at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant on June 26 to measure the water level, radiation levels and temperatures inside the Torus Room. The workers used the CCD camera fitted with thermometer and dosimeter, and fed the […]
