November 7, 2011

The fallout from TEPCO’s informational blunder last week, continues. While all experts on the phenomena agree the Xenon discovered in unit #2’s Primary Containment is due to spontaneous fission, many admonish TEPCO for needlessly causing fears and creating...

November 4, 2011

The international Press is focusing on news reports out of Japan about recriticality in the damaged fuel of reactor #2 at Fukushima Daiichi. The Japanese Press is calling for a complete revision of the “cold shutdown” criteria, and the world’s Press is drooling...

November 2, 2011

The source of the high radiation level near a Tokyo, Setagaya Ward supermarket has found it to have nothing to do with Fukushima. After tearing up the asphalt overlying the location of the source, technicians dug down nearly a foot into the soil and found a bottle...

October 31, 2011

We have finally found a down-loadable copy of the completed enclosure surrounding unit #1 reactor building… TEPCO announced they have nearly doubled the cooling injection flow to RPV #1. It is now 7.5 tons per hour, versus the previous flow of 4 tons per hour....

October 28, 2011

The first results of a nuclear “stress test” were submitted today. Kansai Electric submitted the results of a stress test on the Oi No.3 reactor in Fukui Prefecture. Kansai Electric mentioned their results showed the plant structures and cooling systems could survive...

October 26, 2011

On Monday, 200 pages from the TEPCO accident procedural manuals used for Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were made public by NISA. The manual was originally given to NISA by TEPCO with nearly everything blacked out. This submittal was unedited. As it turns out,...

October 24, 2011

The initial reports on 4,500 Fukushima residents who lived within 20 km of the power complex reveals no-one has internal and external exposure posing a health threat. In fact, the highest exposure, two boys from Futaba Village adjacent to Fukushima Daiichi property,...

October 21, 2011

JAIF’s weekly posting of units 1 through 3 RPV parameters show a continuing cooling trend. #1 and #3 are at 72 oC and unit #2 is at 81 oC. The total volume of water which has been decontaminated stands at 135,000 tons. Surprisingly, total waste water volume...

October 19, 2011

Today’s nuclear news from Japan begins with a topic that’s smoldered since the day after the tsunami hit. The earthquake and tsunami devastation along the northeast coast of Japan’s main island (Honshu) was the lead news story around the world for 24...

October 14, 2011

A 10 meter by 1 meter sidewalk near a school in Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward was discovered to have an exposure level of 2.7 microsieverts per hour, which is higher than the rest of the sidewalks in the ward. The ward made the walkway off-limits for children walking on...
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