News About Japan

Just as I expected yesterday, there is another leak of radioactive water in Fukushima nuclear plant. TEPCO says that radioactive water continues to leak from a waste disposal facility and water level had dropped by around 3 centimeters comparing with yesterday’s. TEPCO says it is possible that the water level in the facility will stop [...]

TEPCO makes preparations to cover the damaged No 1 reactor building at the Fukushima nuclear plant to reduce the amount of nuclear materials leaking into the air. The contaminated rubble has been cleaned and a chemical hardening agent was spraying to prevent the spread of radioactive dust. The other task for TEPCO is to keep [...]

A high reading above the pool prompted the Tokyo Electric Power Company, to take a sample on Tuesday. But the radiation levels are far lower than they would be if there were damage to the fuel rods. The temperature of water in the No. 4 pool was more than twice a normal reading, and more [...]

Fukushima plant workers have succeeded in sealing a fracture in one of damaged reactor’s shielding and retain leakage of contaminated water into the sea-has informed the agency Kyodo The fracture in reactor shield was filled by liquid glass. By the gap in shield, huge quantities of contaminated water were flowing to the Ocean making water [...]

Finally, it was found – the source of radioactive leakage in Fukushima nuclear power plant. Highly radioactive water is leaking into Pacific from 2o cm crack in a concrete pit outside a damaged reactor No 2. The level of radiation in the pit is over 1,000 millisieverts per hour, more than 330 times the dose [...]

It seems like nuclear crisis in Japan is not going to end soon. Not only it is not getting better, but new problems are coming one by one. Now there is radiation detected not only in sea water but also in groundwater and beef too. Japanese government decided that people who live in 20 km [...]

There are around thousand bodies of tsunami victims scattered around damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. Bodies are highly radioactive and it is dangerous to come closer to them. Because of high radiation level, bodies can not be buried. If bodies were buried, soil could be contaminated and cremation will not make ashes less radioactive than [...]

Over and over again…media repeat themselves telling us almost same story about nuclear crisis in Japan. It is bad, it doesn’t look like its going to get better soon. Definitely, situation is very difficult and almost three weeks after tsunami slammed Fukushima nuclear power plant facilities, TEPCO is sill unable to take control under damaged [...]

Fukushima nuclear plant workers are pumping out highly radioactive water, which was spreading to seawater and soil contaminating them. There are hundreds of tons of this radioactive water inside of the nuclear plant buildings. Water must be removed to let workers continue their task of restoring plant’s cooling system. I truly wonder if they can [...]

Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant, crippled by the Great East Japan Earthquake, has discharged lots of radiation and still is doing so. The level of soil contamination in some places is comparable to those found after the Chernobyl and there is the danger that the contaminated land will be unusable for many years. Radiation is still [...]