A magnitude 9 earthquake near Sendai occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday, March 11. The subsequent tsunami hit Fukushima Prefecture about an hour later. There has been very little information about what happened at Daini and Daiichi in […]
Lawrence Livermore National Lab has published a beautifully simple, but comprehensive graphic showing energy sources, uses and end user efficiency. Some interesting information gleaned from this diagram about energy use in the US in 2009, […]
JAIF has reported recent radiation dosage measurements at the plant perimeter as of 15:00, Apr. 7th (02:00 am Thursday April 7 ET). 0.67 mSv/h (670 μSv/h) at the south side of the office building 108 μSv/h at the […]
NISA has reported that the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that hit northeastern Japan Thursday, resulted in losing power on 2 of the 3 off-site power lines to the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant. The plant is using the remaining off-site […]
7 April 2011 15:32 GMT The BBC has reported that a magnitude 7.1 earthquake has occurred off the east coast of Honshu, 118 km north of Fukushima, 40 km offshore. A tsunami with a wave height of 2m […]
Yesterday TEPCO reported that after several attempts it had managed to stop a leak of highly contaminated water from a concrete pit outside Unit 2. TEPCO has reported new measurements of iodine-131 concentrations in sea water near the […]
According to the New York Times, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said Wednesday that some of the core of the Unit 2 reactor “had probably leaked from its steel pressure vessel into the bottom […]
The New York Times has released details of a confidential assessment dated March 26 prepared by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Reactor Safety Team of the situation at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. NRC […]