TEPCO has just released new photos of the March 11th tsunami hitting the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The following sequence shows the first tsunami wave approaching the plant, overwhelming the sea wall, and washing away vehicles. Tsunami wave approaches the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, 11 March 2011. The location is the slope at […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera17 May 2011 From the blog of Professor Bin Mori of Tokyo University Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences: Autoradiograph of Equisetum arvense (Horsetail; young shoots are edible), picked on May 3: This is an enlargement of one part of the skirt. The distribution is uniform, so the particles are likely spores. […]
TOKYO, May 14 (AFP) – A highly radioactive substance was detected in ash from an incinerator at a sewage works in Tokyo in late March following the nation’s worst nuclear accident in Fukushima, newspapers reported Saturday. The ash, containing an unidentified substance with a radioactive density of 170,000 Becquerel per kilogramme, was collected from a […]
By Kamome Fujimori, Tatsuyuki Kobori and Yo Noguchi14 May 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Co. concealed data showing spikes in radiation levels at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in March, one day before a hydrogen explosion injured seven workers. The Asahi Shimbun obtained a 100-page internal TEPCO report containing minute-to-minute data on radiation levels […]
[Reposted due to the Great Blogger Disaster of May 11th.] A report from the Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission Ex-Secretariat, Dr. Saji, credits the current status of the accident to “luck”. Gundersen discusses what could have happened if the wind had been blowing in-land. Fukushima Groundwater Contamination Worst in Nuclear History Technorati Tags: Fukushima,Japan,Asia,pollution,infrastructure failure
[Reposted due to the Great Blogger Disaster of May 11th.] TOKYO, May 12 (AFP) – Environmental activist group Greenpeace said Thursday it had detected radiation far above legal limits in seaweed samples taken from the ocean off Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. Greenpeace, which sent its Rainbow Warrior flagship to take samples of marine life […]
By Hidenori Tsuboya and Eisuke Sasaki13 May 2011 A major new leak of highly radioactive water into the ocean near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was discovered May 11. Local authorities and the embassies of the United States and other countries, including neighboring nations, were notified of the latest setback at the stricken […]
13 May 2011 (Asahi Shimbun) – As if Tokyo Electric Power Co., the embattled operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, didn’t have enough problems, another daunting task is what to do with an estimated 90,000 tons of radioactive water. This vast amount remains from the pumping of water to cool reactors […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera The water gauges for the Reactors 2 and 3 are not to be trusted, said TEPCO’s Matsumoto in the press conference on May 12 (I watched the live-recorded video) when the company officially acknowledged the meltdown of the Reactor 1. If the water gauges for the Reactors 2 and 3 have been overstating […]
Gundersen says Fukushima’s gaseous and liquid releases continue unabated. With a meltdown at Unit 1, Unit 4 leaning and facing possible collapse, several units contaminating ground water, and area school children outside the exclusion zone receiving adult occupational radiation doses, the situation continues to worsen. TEPCO needs a cohesive plan and international support. Fukushima – […]
