June 29, 2011

Jun 29, 2011 | Fukushima Accident Updates

Asahi Shimbun reports yet another example of TEPCO withholding critical information very early in the Fukushima emergency scenario. A report from the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) says that by 10pm on March 11, some six hours after the tsunami wiped out...

June 27, 2011

Jun 27, 2011 | Fukushima Accident Updates

On Friday, June 24, Asahi Shimbun reported the control room records kept by the operators in Fukushima units 1, 2 & 3, and TEPCO’s executives/administrator’s records are available through the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) website. The...

June 24, 2011

Jun 24, 2011 | Fukushima Accident Updates

JAIF reports the humidity level in reactor building #2 has been lowered to between 45% and 60% (depending on location). Teams are now allowed to enter the building to take radiation readings and replace the questionable water level and pressure instruments for the...

June 22, 2011

Jun 22, 2011 | Fukushima Accident Updates

So far so good on opening reactor building #2 for ventilation. TEPCO reports the first doors were opened Monday and the humidity just inside the doors dropped from 100%  to  ~60%. Another set of doors will be opened today, followed by opening a “cargo entrance”, which...

June 20, 2011

Jun 20, 2011 | Fukushima Accident Updates

Japan Today, Japan Times and Asahi Shimbun say TEPCO has released a detailed 41 page time-line of what happened in the Fukushima Daiichi control rooms beginning on March 11. If the articles are correct, it seems the Plant Manager wanted to vent reactor containment...

June 17, 2011

Jun 17, 2011 | Fukushima Accident Updates

Japan’s Atomic Industrial Forum reports work has begun on installing a new spent fuel cooling system for SPF #3 using installed piping for cycling water through an external heat exchanger. It will be very similar to the one now being successfully run on the unit...

June 15, 2011

Jun 15, 2011 | Fukushima Accident Updates

First, there’s some international good and bad news. The bad news first…Italy has passed a public referendum and their people have overwhelmingly said “NO!” to the country’s development of nuclear energy. However, they had already pulled out of the...

June 13, 2011

Jun 13, 2011 | Fukushima Accident Updates

One of the most important items concerning a possible cause of the accident at Fukushima, contained in the recent Japanese report to the IAEA, was a conflict of interest in Japanese nuclear regulatory processes. NISA, the agency with the responsibility of setting and...

June 10, 2011

Jun 10, 2011 | Fukushima Accident Updates

An Emailer tells us our Wednesday report of not being able to find “melt-through” evidence coming out of Japan is incorrect, and references an article in Yomiuri Shimbun. The headline says, “Melt-through at Fukushima? / Govt (sic) report to IAEA suggests situation...

June 8, 2011

Jun 8, 2011 | Fukushima Accident Updates

The level of conflicting information coming from numerous Japanese government bodies continues. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) preliminary report on Fukushima underscores the problem of uncoordinated reporting to the public, which greatly...
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