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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]