According to Bloomberg, TEPCO has confirmed a third explosion today at its Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant. The company is evacuating workers after the blast at the Unit 2 reactor, and will continue to pump water […]
There are reports of a third explosion at 2110 GMT (5:10 pm Eastern Time), this time at Unit 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
At 5:30 EDT, the NEI said that TEPCO reported at 3:00 p.m. EDT that work had resumed to pump seawater into Fukushima Daiichi 2 to maintain safe cooling water levels after the utility was able […]
It has been reported at 8:00 pm GMT (04:00:00 p.m. Monday March 14 Eastern Time) that the Japanese government asked the International Atomic Energy Agency to send in experts to help with their battle to […]
An update from NEI at 1:30 P.M. EDT, MONDAY, MARCH 14 reports that Unit 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant lost a significant amount of reactor coolant for a second time on Monday. […]
The Harvard Seismology Group has used USArray Transportable Array data to image the rupture properties of the March 11, 2011 Tohoku-Chiho Taiheiyo-Oki earthquake. The results suggest that the Sanriku-Oki earthquake on March 9, 2011 is […]
JAIF has reported the Status of Unit-2 of Fukushima #1 Nuclear Power Station – 21:00, March 14, 2011 (08:00:00 a.m. Monday March 14 Eastern Time) 16:25 Local TimeAll core coolability has been lost at Unit-2 […]
JAIF is reporting 15 microSv/hr (micro Sieverts per hour) at the Fukushima Daiichi NPS border. To give you some idea of what that means, the US Center for Disease Control has published the radiation dose […]