August 26, 2013
On Friday, Masao Yoshida, former Fukushima station manager, was laid to rest. He died on July 9 of esophageal cancer. Yoshida was the person in charge of the plant staff fighting the accident, beginning on March 11, 2013. He has been praised by all officials in Japan...Japan’s Disastrous Flirtation with Worst-Case Scenarios
August 24, 2013 On July 26, Tepco’s president Naomi Hirose vowed to improve Tepco’s public disclosure policy, saying “even if the evaluations do not show enough evidence, we will swiftly and honestly mention risks and worst-case scenarios without fearing the impact.”...August 22, 2013
One of the Cesium-stripped water storage tanks at F. Daiichi has lost 300 tons of water. The tank lost the water into a coffer dam surrounding 26 tanks grouped together, each holding 1,000 tons. The leaking tank has been drained and the water pumped into another...August 19, 2013
Prophets of nuclear energy doom have again descended on Japan’s willing, nuclear-averse Press. Tepco is preparing to remove more than 1,300 spent fuel bundles from the storage pool on the fifth floor of F. Daiichi’s unit #4 reactor building. The bundles will be placed...A Suggested Answer to Fukushima’s Wastewater Question
August 17, 2013 The build-up of stored wastewater at Fukushima Daiichi is a serious problem, at least as far as the Japanese press is concerned. Currently, there is almost 360,000 tons of Cesium-stripped water being stored in above-ground tanks. The rate of build-up...August 15, 2013
Tepco is accelerating “pumping up” groundwater inside the soil-solidified walls at F. Daiichi. One pumping operation was started last Friday at less than 20 tons per day. After the complete installation of about thirty pipes driven 5 meters into the ground later this...August 12, 2013
Japan’s Industry Ministry admits their statement of highly-contaminated groundwater flow to the sea is an assumption. The Ministry official who made the announcement qualified the Ministry’s position when he said, “But, we’re not certain if the water is highly...August 10, 2013
On Wednesday, the Tokyo government estimated F. Daiichi’s leak to the sea could be 300 tons per day. While any leak is into the well-barricaded quay along the F. Daiichi shore, Press outlets in Japan make it sound like the Pacific Ocean is being polluted. In addition...Fukushima Groundwater Contamination is Not an Actual Emergency
August 9, 2013 This past Monday, a Nuclear Regulatory Authority inspector at F. Daiichi told the Press that the contaminated groundwater problem places the station in a “state of emergency”. The official, Shinji Kinjo, admitted his personal opinion was based on a...August 6, 2013
The level of groundwater at Fukushima Daiichi is rising toward the surface. Tokyo Electric Co. staff at the nuke station say the level of water measured in one of the observation wells has increase more than two feet in the past 20 days. The company speculates it...August 1, 2013
Two more “trenches” at F. Daiichi contain high levels of radioactivity, specifically the seawater intake cabling tunnels for units #2. The waters in the unit #2 tunnel has 340 million Becquerels per liter of total cesium activity at one meter depth, and then...July 29, 2013
Tokyo Electric Co. says water inside a cabling tunnel from F. Daiichi unit #2 is highly contaminated. Tepco’s analyses show 2.35 billion Becquerels per liter of radioactive Cesium and 8.7 million Bq/liter of Tritium. Total radioactivity from the other 60-odd isotopes...Fukushima Groundwater Issue Poses Many Questions
July 27, 2013 On July 23, Tepco revealed that contamination is leaching into their inner port (quay) at Fukushima Daiichi. Tepco and the Nuclear Regulatory Authority make it seem as if the contamination is going into the Pacific Ocean. There are many unanswered...July 26, 2013
The groundwater contamination issue makes daily headlines. Tepco is being castigated for delaying announcement of leakage into the site’s small seaport for more than a week. The company says they had no confirmable indication until they were told water level inside...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...
