News About Japan

Japanese government decided to restructure its nuclear-related organizations. The government wants to clarify roles and responsibilities of every organization in case of a nuclear crisis. Also, it plans to submit  the IAEA Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety  this month. NHK report says that  Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency will be independent from the Ministry of [...]

Two workers of  Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant have been exposed to very high radiation. This is the first such case in which radiation levels in human bodies have exceeded the limit since the accident at Fukushima. Test shows that internal radiation absorbed by two men is between 200 and 580 millisieverts. The results indicate [...]

It is always the same story- TEPCO plans to plug all potential leaks of highly radioactive water from the Fukushima  nuclear power plant. And TEPCO wants to make this miracle in June! But despite all previous efforts, radioactive water keep leaking… TEPCO made a plan and submited it to the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. [...]

TEPCO informed that workers in Fukushima nuclear plant  have successfully restored cooling systems of all four  reactors. TEPCO workers are also working to install new water-circulating systems to  cool all the fuel pools more efficiently. This new system should start to work from July. Finally some good news.

TEPCO informed that  decontamination of highly radioactive water which leaked from reactors will cost at least 650 million dollars. According to TEPCO, about 84,700 tons of cooling water have leaked into basements and other areas of the 4 reactor buildings. This contaminated water makes work in reactors’ buildings very difficult if not impossible. TEPCO uses  [...]

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 is inspecting a radioactive water disposal facility for possible leaks, because water level had dropped there. TEPCO has been transfering highly radioactive water from No. 2 and No. 3 reactors to waste disposal facilities from some time. Today, TEPCO stopped transfer of radioactive water from  reactor No.3 to check if the disposal facility could [...]

TEPCO future president Toshio Nishizawa, who will be promoted to this position next month, said that he is determined to end current nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 quickly. Nishizawa, who will replace current TEPCO president Masataka Shimizu,  worked in the planning division of TEPCO for many years. Now, he is  in charge of  [...]

TEPCO  checked the radiation levels directly above the No. 1 and 4 reactors to see how much radioactive material is still being released from the reactors. To take these measurements, TEPCO is using a small instrument attached to the arm of a crane pump, 50 meters tall. On last  Sunday the instrument measured radioactive substances [...]

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 [...]