A second hydrogen explosion has been reported at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. The explosion occurred at Unit 3, and was a known risk as a result of venting required to reduce pressure in the containment […]
The 2011 Sendai earthquake was a 9.0 magnitude earthquake off the northeast coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on 11 March 2011. The epicenter was reported to be 130 kilometers off […]
Kyodo News has reported that a cooling system pump has stopped at the Tokai nuclear power plant in Ibaraki Prefecture, south of Fukushima. Tokai No. 2 Power Station, operated by Japan Atomic Power Co., shut […]
The IAEA has been informed by Japanese authorities that radioactivity levels at the Onagawa nuclear power plant have returned to normal background levels. A low state of emergency (Article 10) was declared at the plant […]
WNN has outlined the sequence of events at Fukushima Daiichi. Only three reactors, Units 1, 2 and 3, all boiling water reactors, were in operation at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant when the biggest earthquake […]
As I blogged before, there are about half a milllon gas wells in the US. To be more precise, in 2009 there were 493,000 active natural-gas wells, around 90 percent of which have used fracking […]
There’s a very long, but good article explaining what has happened at Fukushima Daiichi. You can find it on several sites, but here’s one. Its most important conclusions are that “The plant is safe now […]
According to Nikkei, there may be problems with the water-level gauges in Units 1 and 3, according to the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA). Sea water is continuing to be pumped into Unit 1, […]