All the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi are boiling water reactors (BWR) designed by General Electric. The reactors for Units 1, 2, and 6 reactors were manufactured by General Electric. Toshiba supplied the reactors for Units […]
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 […]