April 30, 2015
Japan’s nuke watchdog approves building the Fukushima ice wall. On Tuesday, the Nuclear Regulation Authority approved Tepco’s plan to begin trial runs on 18 in-ground piping groups containing freezable liquid. If the ground between the pipes freezes solid, the company...April 27, 2015
A localized high level of radiation was found in Tokyo on Thursday. The discovery was made in a small Toshima Ward park near playground equipment. The reading at the ground level was 480 microsieverts per hour. The park was closed in order to investigate. The earth at...April 23, 2015
Another rainwater run-off incident at F. Daiichi hits the Press. After last month’s media bashing over mildly radioactive rainwater run-off possibly reaching the sea, Tepco brought in portable pumps to carry run-off out of drainage ditches and send it to the...April 20, 2015
530 Fukushima evacuees sue Tokyo for allowing them to go home. On December 8th, the government lifted the evacuation order for 142 “hot spots” in Minamisoma City. The reason was that the radiation levels were measured to be less than the international guideline for...April 16, 2015
A Fukui Prefecture court issues its second anti-restart injunction in a year. The order is effective immediately. The latest decision, invoked Tuesday, involves Takahama units 3&4, currently expected to be two of the first nukes to restart, perhaps this summer....April 13, 2015
The shape-shifting robot inspection inside unit #1 containment began Friday, then stopped moving after about three hours of use. In its snake configuration, the robot was inserted into a pipe running from a relatively low radiation location outside the PCV, through...April 9, 2015
Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. And Canada’s Fukushima InFORM announced the first traces of Fukushima Cesium detected at the North American Pacific shoreline. There was considerable Press coverage in Japan. The amounts detected are 1.4 Becquerels per ton of water...April 6, 2015
Nahara evacuees can now stay at home 24 hours/day. Today, Tokyo began allowing interested town evacuees to stay at home around the clock, in preparation to lifting the evacuation order. The measure will last three months. Roughly 7,500 Nara residents have been living...April 2, 2015
Tepco’s American advisor Dale Klein says tritiated water is safe to release. Klein is the former Chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He says, “Most people don’t know what tritium is, so what they will think about is that it’s bad, something that’s really...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...
