The soil samples should normally be 100 Bequrels. The Japanese governments safety standard is 500 Bequrels. If the soil is contaminated with 20000000 Bequrels of radio active isotopes this is
19999500 Above the government safety standard. If as NHK is reporting this is the number detected, the...
On March 23, Dr. Link Removed - Invalid URL a Research Scientist at the Monterey Institute of International Studies saw a report by Kyodo news agency that caught his eye. It reported that Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) had observed a neutron beam about 1.5 km away from the plant. Bursts of...
The Guardian reports that Japanese engineers have "lost the race" to prevent a nuclear meltdown. Apparently reactor number 2 has melted through its containment vessel, onto the concrete floor underneath. According to the expert quoted in the piece, the fuel will now run out like lava, "and that...
14 near-misses at US nuke plants revealed as President Obama orders a comprehensive nuclear safety review.
As fears about the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan continue to grow, scientists have revealed there were 14 'near-misses' at America's nuclear power plants in the last year alone...
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The massive earthquake that forced the closure of four nuclear power plants in Japan has highlighted the grave risk of inadequate back-up generators at U.S. facilities, a leading U.S. scientist group said on Friday.
While the U.S. regulator made clear that the national...
Of the 31 nations and regions with nuclear power plants, Japan is the most at risk of being hit by an earthquake. Particularly worrisome is the fact that Japan has lots of nuclear power plants and nuclear power plants and nuclear treatment facilities are built in earthquake-prone areas. The...
In September 1999, three workers were exposed to extremely high levels of radiation at a uranium conversion plant in Tokaimura (70 miles from Tokyo) and 150 others were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. One of the workers died in December, 1999. Another worker died in April 2000. It was...
Link RemovedAs dangerously high levels of radiation spread beyond the Fukushima exclusion zone in Japan, there are fears the race to contain the nuclear crisis has been lost and meltdown has already taken place.
Radiation measured at a village 40 kilometres from the Fukushima nuclear plant now...
Tokyo (CNN) -- Smoke was spotted at another nuclear plant in northeastern Japan on Wednesday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.
The company said smoke was detected in the turbine building of reactor No. 1 at the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant around 6 p.m. (5 a.m. ET).
Smoke could no longer be...
Link RemovedJapan's nuclear safety agency says radioactive iodine has been detected at more than 3,000 times the allowable level in the ocean near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
Officials said Wednesday that the water sample, with the highest levels yet recorded, was collected about 300...
They house all this nuclear material in massive concrete buildings and thick ,thick metal containers for the reactor cores .
Spent fuel is handled in much the same way . Kept well away from the human population in insulated containers .
Soon as we have a nuclear dissaster it is all change !
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No one likes an alarmist without cause, however, in this case, there appears to be ample cause for alarm.
Study the close up views of the #3 reactor explosion and you will see that the blast was not the type of blast one would expect from a hydrogen explosion. The fireball seen in the corner of...