December 16, 2011
Prime Minister Noda’s declared the three damaged reactors at Fukushima have achieved cold shutdown. All Japanese Press outlets have articles on the declaration. Noda cites two specific criteria behind the announcement. They are all three RPVs having sustained...December 14, 2011
On December 6, TEPCO announced they have begun removal of radioactive materials from the water in the Spent Fuel Pool (SPF) of unit #2. The decontamination system is contained in two trucks, one for pumping and the other holding a Cesium absorption device. The...December 12, 2011
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
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
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
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
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...November 30, 2011
The misconception of a hydrogen explosion inside the unit #2 containment structure on March 15 refuses to go away. TEPCO has once again gone to the Press to try and stanch the misinformational flow by using some previously unreleased information. TEPCO now says the...November 28, 2011
We have previously commented on radiophobia (morbid fear of radiation) being the new darling of the Japanese news media. Radiophobia has caused anxieties to germinate and blossom into psychological problems, and the Press is all over it. It’s blamed on Fukushima...November 25, 2011
Radiophobia – Morbid fear of radiation, as from x-rays or nuclear energy. (Medilexicon.com) We have been seeking a non-scientific term for phobic fear of radiation exposure…one that fits our goal of keeping website terminology in “everyday language” as...November 23, 2011
Last week, a reader (Linda) wrote and asked about the Fukushima melt-through volcano stories carried by many western news outlets. The source was difficult to pin down. This past weekend a former architect for unit #3 at Fukushima Daiichi admitted he was the source of...November 21, 2011
It was only a matter of time… The Mainichi Shimbun and Japan Times have run lead articles which both carry the headline Future cancers from Fukushima may be hidden. The articles are literally a mirror image of each other. Their opening paragraphs read “Even if...November 18, 2011
Between 70 and 80% of the radioactive Cesium released in March from Fukushima Daiichi was swept out to sea by the winds blowing across the power complex. Somewhere between 20 and 30% was blown across land areas. “Only small amounts ended up falling on land because...November 16, 2011
TEPCO’s most recent airborne Cesium measurements in and around Fukushima Daiichi are either undetectable or nearly so. Cs-134 is no longer detectable at the main gate and Cs-137 is down to 1.9×10-7 bq/cc. (two 10-millionths of a radioactive emission per...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...
