Oct 30, 2013 | Fukushima Commentary
October 30, 2013 On Saturday, October 26th, an Asahi Shimbun article included (buried at the end) a breakdown of how much money Fukushima evacuees have received from Tepco since April of 2011.(1) It took me several days to get my mind around the numbers. Many times, I...
Oct 29, 2013 | Fukushima Accident Updates
Guidelines have been set for rainwater release from F. Daiichi. The Nuclear Regulatory Authority says F. Daiichi no longer needs their permission to pump rainwater buildup to the sea as long as the waters test below current activity limits. NRA Commissioner Toyoshi...
Oct 27, 2013 | Fukushima Commentary
October 27, 2013 The Hiroshima Syndrome’s Fukushima Commentary is proudly hosting the 180th edition of the Carnival of Nuclear Energy Bloggers. For the full reports, please click on the individual links. Blog topics for this edition include – the sorrow felt by the...
Oct 25, 2013 | Fukushima Commentary
October 25, 2013 Early in 2014, Tokyo Electric Company intends to begin the full-scale operation of their Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) at Fukushima Daiichi. It will remove 60+ radioactive isotopes remaining in the currently-stored wastewater that has been...
Oct 24, 2013 | Fukushima Accident Updates
A trace of Cesium was detected 1 kilometer off-shore of F. Daiichi, and the Japanese Press again over-reacts. In an October 18 sample of open seawater, Tepco detected 1.6 Becquerels per liter of Cesium-137, which is 0.3 Bq/liter more than minimum detectability. It is...
Oct 21, 2013 | Fukushima Accident Updates
Rainwater has overwhelmed many wastewater tank containment dams at F. Daiichi. The resulting Japanese Press coverage is heavy. Eleven of the dams overflowed on Sunday, six of which were found to have contamination in excess of Tepco’s self-imposed release limits. One...
Oct 19, 2013 | Fukushima Commentary
October 19, 2013 Late last year, a poll of the 50 major Japanese news outlets resulted in 47 admitting to being antinuclear. This tends to explain why every seemingly negative event at Fukushima Daiichi – no matter how trivial or inconsequential – gets widespread,...
Oct 17, 2013 | Fukushima Accident Updates
PM Shinzo Abe has reiterated that the wastewater situation at F. Daiichi is “under control”. Called before the Diet’s extraordinary session, Abe was grilled by ex-Cabinet Minister Banri Kaieda, head of the deposed Democratic Party of Japan. When asked about his...
Oct 14, 2013 | Fukushima Accident Updates
The inner port (quay) contamination spike at F. Daiichi is abating. The increase in radioactive Cesium relative to the unit #2 near shoreline was caused by embankment barricading which caused some contaminated soil to spill into the water contained by a silt fence....
Oct 11, 2013 | Fukushima Commentary
October 11, 2013 Next month, the staff at Fukushima Daiichi will begin moving the 1331 spent fuel bundles out of the unit #4 Spent Fuel Pool. Ordinarily, such an operation at any nuclear plant in the world is quite routine and not considered newsworthy. However, the...