TOKYO, May 29 (MarketWatch) – Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501.TO) is coming to the view that it will be impossible to stabilize the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant by the end of this year, possibly affecting the timing for the government to consider the return of evacuees to their homes near the […]
By Geoff Brumfiel26 May 2011 As more details leak out about the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, it’s become clear that something else is leaking—radioactive water from the cores of three damaged reactors. Leaks have been a persistent problem at the plant since it was struck by an earthquake and tsunami on 11 March. […]
By Chisa Fujioka and Kevin Krolicki; Editing by Tomasz Janowski and Nick Macfie27 May 2011 (Reuters) – Japan will pay schools near the quake-ravaged Fukushima nuclear power plant to remove radioactive top soil and set a lower radiation exposure limit for schoolchildren after a growing outcry over health risks. The Education Ministry triggered protests in […]
View Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace team in a larger map By arevamirpal::laprimavera27 May 2011 Radioactive materials in concentration that was up to several hundreds of times the normal level were detected from the soil on the ocean floor in the 300-kilometer strip along the coast from Kesennuma City in Miyagi Prefecture to Choshi […]
By Stuart Biggs and Yuriy Humber27 May 2011 As a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency visits Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled nuclear plant today, academics warn the company has failed to disclose the scale of radiation leaks and faces a “massive problem” with contaminated water. The utility known as Tepco has been pumping […]
By Harvey Wasserman26 May 2011 New readings show levels of radioisotopes found up to 30 kilometers offshore from the on-going crisis at Fukushima are ten times higher than those measured in the Baltic and Black Seas during Chernobyl. “When it comes to the oceans, says Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceonographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic […]
[Greenpeace folks have posted their radiation measurement data here: Radiation survey – Fukushima.] By Greg McNevin 26 May 2011 Two week’s ago we released preliminary results from our marine radiation monitoring work off the coast of Japan, near the melted-down and leaking Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. These results showed worrying levels of radioactive contamination in […]
PARIS, May 24 (AFP) – Seventy thousand people living beyond the 20-kilometre no-go zone around Fukushima should be evacuated because of radioactivity deposited by the crippled nuclear plant, a watchdog said. Updating its assessment of the March 11 disaster, France’s Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) highlighted an area northwest of the plant […]
May 25 (Asahi Shimbun) – Tokyo Electric Power Co. is fast running out of places to stash highly radioactive water from the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and may soon be unable to prevent leaks into the ocean. About 744 tons of water a day was being pumped into the No. 1, No. […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera24 May 2011 So says the Mainichi Shinbun reporters who must be reading the report submitted by TEPCO on May 23 and released on May 24. Multiple 10-centimeter holes in the Reactor 2 Containment Vessel, and one 7-centimeter hole in the Reactor 1 Containment Vessel. Hiroaki Koide of Kyoto University was so right. The […]
