3 April 2011, 17:15 UTC (13:15:00 Sunday April 3 ET) According to the IAEA, Japanese authorities have informed the IAEA that on April 3, for the first time since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, off-site power is […]
NISA has confirmed that, as an aide to the Prime Minister has said, a complete recovery of cooling systems at the nuclear power plant is needed to stop the leakage of radioactive substances, and the work will take […]
JAIF has reported radiation readings at the Fukushima Daiichi plant at 09:00, Apr. 3rd (20:00 Saturday April 2 ET) 0.83 mSv/h (830 μSv/h) at the south side of the office building 127 μSv/h at the […]
According to NHK, an aide to the Japanese Prime Minister said on Sunday that environmental contamination caused by the leakage of highly radioactive water from Fukushima Daiichi to the ocean is very serious. He said […]
Sunday, April 03, 2011 05:46 JST (16:46:00 Saturday April 2 ET) According to NHK, the Japanese government and TEPCO have begun measuring atmospheric radioactivity levels at about 30 locations within a 20 kilometer radius of […]
NHK reports that TEPCO said on Saturday that water has been seeping from a crack in the wall of a 2-meter deep pit that contains power cables near the Unit 2 reactor’s water intake. Water measuring […]
In an earlier blog I pointed to a New York Times site where there was imagery showing Fukushima Daiichi before and after (Mar 17). The imagery came from GeoEye, and you can access the data […]
MEXT has published radiation readings for locations 20 km and more from the nuclear power plant.