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 […]
Wednesday, April 06, 2011 21:50 TEPCO has reported new radioactive element concentrations in sea water neat the plant Near the water intake of the Unit 2 reactor on Tuesday morning Apr 5 11,000 Bq/cm3 of […]
April 4 TEPCO began releasing “low level contaminated water” into the sea. The Japanese government has approved the action by TEPCO to dump wastewater containing radioactive materials, including iodine-131 with a level of about 100 […]
The IAEA has reported new radiation measurements for sea water sampled near the plant. Seawater is collected daily close to the discharge areas of Units 1 – 4 April 3 24 kBq/l for I-131 10 kBq/l […]
The latest radiation dosage readings from JAIF as of 15:00, Apr. 5th (02:00 am Tuesday April 5 ET) 0.72 mSv/hr (720 μSv/hr) at the south side of the office building 112 μSv/h at the Main gate 49 μSv/h […]
Tuesday, April 05, 2011 19:51 NHK reports on what appears to be an interview with an anonymous radiation monitor, whose affiliation is not reported, at the nuclear power plant. The monitor is reported to have said […]
TEPCO has reported the highest levels of radioactivity in sea water near the Fukushima plant that I have seen. Detected near the water intake of the Unit 2 reactor at 11:50 AM Saturday Apr 2 […]
April 4 9:00 () JAIF has published graphical data showing trends in measured radiation dose rates in monitoring stations in Fukushima and neighboring prefectures between 20 and 100 km from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. […]