April 28, 2014

748 fuel bundles have been safely moved from the unit #4 fuel storage pool. 726 of the transferred bundles are spent (used) fuel and 22 are unused. The fuel transfer operation is steadily approaching the half-way mark with no radiological incidents....

206th Carnival of Nuclear Energy Bloggers

April 27, 2014 The Hiroshima Syndrome’s Fukushima Commentary is proudly hosting the 206th Carnival of Nuclear Energy Bloggers. This week’s edition includes articles by Gail Marcus, Meredith Angwin, Jim Conca and Rod Adams. Here’s the Fact or Fiction (?) quiz for this...

April 24, 2014

Naraha’s Fukushima evacuees debate returning home. The town of Naraha, inside the mandated exclusion zone, has been decontaminated and Tokyo has begun briefing residents on conditions in the town. Decontamination has cut the radiation exposure levels in half, now at...

April 21, 2014

The repopulation of the Miyakoji district continues as a hot topic with the Japanese Press. The public release of new radiation exposure measurements followed repopulation and seems too convenient to most media outlets. Since the measurements were taken in September...

April 17, 2014

Contaminated equipment washing water has overflowed inside its storage facility. While cleansing a tank from the advanced water decontamination system, ALPS, F. Daiichi workers found water building up outside the washing area. It is estimated that about seven tons of...

April 14, 2014

638 fuel bundles have been removed from unit #4 spent fuel pool. 616 of the transferred bundles were actual spent fuel and 22 were unused. http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/decommision/index-e.html Resolving radiation anxieties is the key to Fukushima repopulation. The...

Arnie Gundersen’s Fukushima hot particle myth

April 11, 2014 Hot particles are produced by nuclear weapon detonations, and do not come from nuclear power plant accident releases. However, prolific antinuclear pundit Arnie Gundersen is making a concerted effort to have the world think that hot particles also come...

April 10, 2014

Industry Minister says F. Daiichi groundwater releases should begin next month. Toshimitsu Motegi said that since the local Fisheries have agreed to the releases, the “pumping up” of groundwater into storage tanks can begin immediately. The waters will be tested...

April 7, 2014

As of this morning, 594 fuel bundles have been safely transferred out of unit #4 fuel pool. There are now less than 1,000 of the original 1533 fuel bundles remaining in the #4 spent fuel pool. http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/decommision/index-e.html Tepco has revealed the...
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