News About Japan

TEPCO is continuing transfer of highly radioactive water from two reactor buildings to storage facilities, but there will be no more space within 3 or 4 days. More than  47,000 tons of contaminated water has accumulated inside of  Fukushima nuclear plant tunnels and buildings, what made all works to bring the plant under control more [...]

TEPCO must remove highly radioactive debris  to proceed with efforts to stabilize the No. 3 reactor. Tokyo Electric Power Company  found debris releasing 1,000 millisieverts per hour in No. 3 reactor building. It is the highest level of radiation found in debris left outside. These materials can be part of the large amount of debris [...]

South Korean President Lee Myung Bak and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited  Miyagi Prefecture . They have arrived in Japan to attend a 3-way summit which starts on Sunday. The South Korean and Chinese leaders separately arrived at Sendai Airport  on Saturday. The South Korean president  visited tsunami-hit Natori City. Lee offered flowers on a [...]

President of TEPCO, Masataka Shimizu, will resign to take the responsibility for the nuclear accident in Fukushima nuclear nuclear plant. TEPCO’s executive board decided, that Shimizu should resign in June when the company holds its shareholders’ meeting. Shimizu will be replaced by Toshio Nishizawa, who previously worked as the head of TEPCO planning division. TEPCO [...]

Workers of Fukushima nuclear plant have entered the No. 3 reactor building  for the first time since a hydrogen explosion. TEPCO says that two specially equiped workers carrying air tanks went inside the building for about 10 minutes on Wednesday, to check radiation levels. TEPCO says the  radiation was 160 to 170 millisieverts per hour [...]

Japanese government allows the International Atomic Energy Agency to investigate the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant accident. Team of  specialists from IAEA  will visit Japan from May 24 to June 2. They are going to visit the power plant and discuss problems of plant with representatives of Japan’s nuclear-related institutions. Japanese government will start [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday Tokyo was hit by news that tap water is unfit for babies to drink because radiation from damaged reactors of Fukushima nuclear plant affected the Tokyo’s water supplies. Levels of radioactive iodine in tap water are even twice higher that recommended for babies and infants. The authorities are advising Tokyo citizens not to use [...]

Japanese government stopped shipments of milk, spinach and other leaf vegetables  from the area around Fukushima. It will costs Japanese farmers a lot as they are loosing their income now. Because of that situation, Tepco, Tokyo Electric Power will have to pay compensation, as whole radiation problem is caused by radiation coming from its power [...]

Japan’s alarm over radiation found in food products and water, has also raised question how it may affect the human body? There is lack of research. Some were made after Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear attacks, some after Chernobyl disaster, but still it gives no answer. Now, there is radioactive cesium-137 and iodine-131 isotopes in milk, [...]