On March 11 both the Fukushima Daini and Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants were hit by a 15 meter tsunami which disabled backup power and reactor cooling systems. By March 12 off-site power was restored to […]
TEPCO has reported radiation dosage measurements above the water surface of the spent fuel pool of Unit 4. 84 mSv/hr This means that in a little over an hour of exposure, the maximum annual dosage […]
TEPCO has released new measurements of concentrations of iodine-131 in seawater samples taken near the plant. Near water intake of Unit 2 on Tuesday Apr 12 afternoon 100 Bq/cm3 of iodine-131 (2,500 times the legal […]
Tuesday the Prime Minister of Japan, Naoto Kan, said that he has instructed TEPCO to develop a roadmap to stabilize the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Wednesday Masataka Shimizu, president of TEPCO, said that the firm is in the final stages of developing […]
March 18 the Japanese government raised its rating of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to Level 5 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES). It has now raised it to a […]
NISA says that damage at the Fukushima nuclear power plant has resulted in the release of a massive amount of radioactive substances, which are a risk to human health and the environment over a wide […]
Monday 5:16 PM, JST (04:16 a.m. Monday April 11 ET) The Japan Meteorological Agency reported an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 with an epicenter in Fukushima Prefecture at a depth of 10 kilometers. The agency issued […]
As a result of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, NISA is now requiring electric utility companies in Japan operating nuclear power plants to install two backup generators for each reactor instead of one as currently required. […]