News About Japan

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 [...]

Democratic lawmaker Edward Markey told a House of Representatives hearing on the nuclear disaster that the NRC had told him the core had melted through the vessel. Official from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said on it was not clear that Japan’s Fukushima No. 2 nuclear reactor has melted through the reactor pressure vessel. “That’s [...]