Insight: After disaster, the deadliest part of Japan’s nuclear clean-up
via Reuters.com / August 14, 2013 / The operator of Japan‘s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is preparing to remove 400 tons of highly irradiated spent fuel from a damaged reactor building, a dangerous...
View ArticleTEPCO reveals new radioactive water leaks
via NHK World / Aug. 19, 2013 / Officials with Tokyo Electric Power Company say they will study storage tanks to find out why radioactive water is leaking at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power...
View ArticleFukushima Unit 4 Fuel Removal Risks
via Fukuleaks.org / Sep 11, 2013 / TEPCO plans to begin removing spent fuel from unit 4 this fall. This effort only came about after ongoing public outcry over the danger the damaged pool posed. The...
View ArticleThe REAL Fukushima Danger: Spent Fuel Pools
via Washington’s Blog / September 14, 2013 / The fact that the Fukushima reactors have been leaking huge amounts of radioactive water ever since the 2011 earthquake is certainly newsworthy. As are the...
View ArticleFukushima plant on typhoon alert
via NHK World / Sep 16, 2013 / Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are preparing for the approaching storm. They are increasing patrols to make sure contaminated water does not...
View ArticleOP-ED: Fukushima Forever
via Huffington Post / Sep 20, 2013 / Charles B. Perrow is an emeritus professor of sociology at Yale University and visiting professor at Stanford University. Recent disclosures of tons of radioactive...
View ArticleFuel rod removal attempt at Fukushima Unit 4 delayed, possibly for weeks
via ENE News / Nov. 5, 2013 / The utility had intended to start removing the fuel rods from the unit’s packed cooling pool as early as Friday. The test was requested by the Japan Nuclear Energy Safety...
View ArticleTepco feeling heat over fuel removal
via Japan Times / November 5, 2013 / With Tepco due to begin removing more than 1,300 spent-fuel rod assemblies and nearly 200 fresh ones from the reactor 4 pool at the Fukushima No. 1 plant this...
View ArticleFukushima Trial Run Begins Dangerous Reactor 4 Clean-Up
via CommonDreams.org / November 5, 2013 / Preparations to begin the potentially catastrophic decommissioning of the crippled Reactor 4 at the Fukushima nuclear power plant will begin this week with a...
View ArticleFukushima nuclear clean-up enters critical phase
via The Guardian / November 8, 2013 / Gazing down at the glassy surface of the spent fuel pool inside the No 4 reactor building at Fukushima Daiichi, it is easy to underestimate the danger posed by the...
View ArticleFukushima: Now For The Tough Part
via Reuters / November 13, 2013 / The operator of Japan‘s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant will as early as this week begin removing 400 tonnes of highly irradiated spent fuel in a hugely delicate and...
View ArticleUnit 4: Three Fuel Assemblies Deformed or Damaged, says TEPCO
via EX-SKF / It must be from the explosion! Or from something TEPCO has done since the accident, whatever it is! No. If TEPCO is to be believed, TEPCO has been hiding the damages for at least 10 years;...
View ArticleTEPCO Admits 80 Spent Fuel Assemblies Had Damage Before Nuclear Accident
via EX-SKF / November 18, 2013 / Move over, three fuel assemblies with damaged/deformed fuel rods inside in the Reactor 4 Spent Fuel Pool! You’re nothing. According to Kahoku Shinpo, a Fukushima local...
View ArticleFukushima operators begin risky nuclear fuel rod removal
via Russia Today / November 18, 2013 / In a highly risky undertaking Fukushima plant operators have finally begun removing over 1,500 nuclear fuel rods from one of the four reactors at its damaged...
View ArticleVideo: Transfer of Fuel Assemblies to the Cask inside Reactor 4
via EX-SKF / November 20, 2013 / TEPCO started removing fuel assemblies stored in Reactor 4 Spent Fuel Pool on November 18, 2013. 4 unused (new) assemblies containing about 60 fuel rods each were...
View ArticleTEPCO at final stage in 1st round of fuel transfer
via NHK World / The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is preparing to complete the first transfer of nuclear fuel from a reactor building to a safer storage pool. On Thursday, Tokyo...
View ArticleFirst Stage of Fukushima’s Fuel Rod Transfer Completed
via Energy Business Review / Tokyo Electric Power Company has transported 22 fuel assemblies from the Unit 4 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. Loaded into a cask (pictured), the...
View ArticleWater decontamination system in trouble
via Voice of Russia / December 2, 2013 / A trouble-prone system used to decontaminate radioactive water at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant was switched off Sunday because of a chemical...
View ArticleArnie Gundersen Comments on the Fukushima FOIA Documents
via Fairewinds.org / December 11, 2013 / At Fairewinds we get numerous questions about Fukushima Daiichi and nuclear power in general. This is the first in a a series of short videos designed to answer...
View ArticleRadioactive cesium detected in deeper groundwater
via NHK World / December 20, 2013 / Tokyo Electric Power Company says radioactive substances have been detected in water samples taken from deep underground at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear...
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