February 9, 2015
Actual Fukushima child exposures are one-third of Tokyo estimates. A team at Minamisoma General Hospital, led by Dr. Masaharu Tsubokura, monitored 520 school children of all ages with dosimeters. The monitoring periods ranged between 18 and 30 months. The actual...February 5, 2015
Tepco identifies and resolves labor safety issues. Last month, two contractor employees lost their lives in separate mishaps at Fukushima Daiichi and F. Daini. As a result, all labor projects were stopped at the two nuke stations, as well as Kashiwazaki-Kariwa. Work...February 2, 2015
Nahara officials have returned home to spur future repopulation. In December, Mayor Yukihide Matsumoto and three others were given a special permit from Tokyo and Fukushima Prefecture to return to the town and live there. The four officials live in the town and...January 29, 2015
Tokyo will soon begin building two Fukushima rural waste storage facilities. Both are in existing industrial parks near F. Daiichi. Each will have an area of about 10,000 square meters. They are part of the 16 square kilometer site in Okuma and Futaba which Tokyo...Japan’s NRA chief is right: Tepco should release water ASAP
On January 21, Chairman Shunichi Tanaka of the Nuclear Regulation Authority spoke about the worker safety issue at Fukushima Daiichi following the death of a contractor employee. The employee slipped and fell from the top of a ten-meter high tank while helping secure...January 26, 2015
Tepco has moved the target date for full wastewater decontamination to May. Company President Naomi Hirose apologized for not being able to keep the promise made to PM Shinzo Abe that the job would be done by the end of March. Takayuki Ueda of the Agency for Natural...245th Carnival of Nuclear Energy Bloggers
The Hiroshima Syndrome’s Fukushima Commentary is proudly hosting the 245th Carnival of Nuclear Energy Bloggers. This week’s edition includes articles by Dan Yurman, Dr. Gail Marcus, Dr. Jim Conca, Meredith Angwin, Rod Adams, Steve Alpin and Brian Wang. Here’s the Fact...January 22, 2015
Two workers died Tuesday at Fukushima Daiichi and F. Daini, respectively. Both were “cooperative” staff, and not working for either Tepco or contractor companies. Cooperatives are worker-owned and operated groups specializing in various job classifications. At F....January 15, 2015
Futaba accepts Tokyo’s rural radioactive waste plan. Okuma agreed to the plan last month. The government wants to build a sixteen square kilometer facility between the two F. Daiichi host communities to store contaminated soil and other debris for no more than 30...This site requires a lot of work. We hope you find our efforts valuable and rewarding. Please consider offering your support. There is no minimum amount. Feel free to donate as you see fit, without restriction. Thank you...
