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. […]
A short video taken about one km from the plant by a worker has been released by TEPCO. It shows what is now said to be at least 14 to 15 m high tsunami hitting the plant […]
I blogged earlier about what Tohoku Electric and other utilities operating nuclear power plants are doing to prepare for earthquake and tsunami emergencies such as were experienced at Fukushima Daini and Daiichi. TEPCO has released […]
WNN has reported the casualties at the Fukushima nuclear plants or that can be ascribed to the events at Fukushima Daiichi and Daini. Three TEPCO workers have died at the plants, one at Daini and […]