December 12, 2011

Dec 12, 2011 | Fukushima Accident Updates

Japan’s Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) says that TEPCO has met all the preconditions for declaring Fukushima Daiichi to be in a state of cold shutdown. This is not a final, official declaration, but merely a preliminary one. It is expected the formal, official...

December 9, 2011

Dec 9, 2011 | Fukushima Accident Updates

Radiophobia has struck 500 kilometers from Fukushima. 50 angry residents have loudly protested Osaka Prefecture’s decision to accept and dispose of tsunami rubble and debris from the Tohoku region. Why? Because it might have radiation from the Fukushima accident, of...

December 7, 2011

Dec 7, 2011 | Fukushima Accident Updates

At least half of members of the government panel investigating the accident at Fukushima Daiichi are skeptical of TEPCO’s week-old interim report. While most informed sources feel TEPCO’s conclusion of the tsunami as the cause of the accident is correct, the panel’s...

December 5, 2011

Dec 5, 2011 | Fukushima Accident Updates

TEPCO’s recent release of its interim report on Fukushima has literally turned into a bad soap opera.  Most of the Japanese news media are lambasting TEPCO for stating the obvious. For example, there is no doubt that regulatory overconfidence in tsunami protection for...

December 2, 2011

Dec 2, 2011 | Fukushima Accident Updates

Wednesday’s reports out of Japan on TEPCO’s estimates of unit #1 RPV’s complete melt-through to the primary containment floor, is literally full of more holes than the RPV itself. As more detail on the data TEPCO fed into the computer simulation...
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