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"Newly released neutron data from three University of California San Diego scientists confirms Fairewinds' April analysis that the nuclear core at Fukushima Daiichi turned on and off after TEPCO claimed its reactors had been shutdown. This periodic nuclear chain reaction (inadvertent...

The Tokyo Electric Power Co. TEPCO hopes to put a makeshift roof over the reactor 3 turbine building at the Link Removed in preparation for Typhoon Ma-on. The roof would cover a hole caused by a hydrogen blast in March after an earthquake and tsunami hit the plant. A hose from the reactor to a...

Nuclear fuel in three reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has possibly melted through pressure vessels and accumulated at the bottom of outer containment vessels, according to a government report obtained Tuesday by The Yomiuri Shimbun. A "melt-through"--when melted nuclear fuel...

EPCO Fights Humidity in No 2 Reactor – Workers HospitalizedTEPCO has now released to the media that more than 9 workers have suffered from heatstroke, and at least two workers were hospitalized for dehydration. The weather onsite is beginning to heat up for summer, and this will make it much...

TOKYO The Japanese utility battling to bring its radiation-spewing nuclear reactor under control said Sunday that 1,500 more tons of radioactive water are being moved into temporary storage -- the latest attempt to prevent a massive spill of contaminated water into the environment. More...

Shares of Tokyo Electric Power, operator of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, suffered a renewed sell-off after the president of the Tokyo Stock Exchange said the troubled utility should be allowed to go bankrupt. “Tepco should be dealt with using the same court-sponsored process as...

The situation at Fukushima remains critical. Please read my last status update at http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/ ... shima.html The news out today focuses on the degree of contamination and the situation at reactor 1, which is devoid of pressure. I’m not sure whether new confirmation...

TOKYO — The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said Saturday it has detected radiation of up to 4,000 millisieverts per hour at the building housing the troubled No. 1 reactor—the highest reading taken in the air inside the complex. Tokyo Electric Power Co also...

Radioactive water accumulating in Japan’s crippled Fukushima plant may start overflowing from service trenches in five days, potentially increasing the contamination from the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. Link Removed - Invalid URL Electric Power Co. has been manually pumping water...

TEPCO : •Ÿ“‡‘æˆêŒ´Žq—Í”­“d￾Š | Live video feed from Fukushima ! In relation to multiple devices via ※, rather than the actual time (30 seconds) video is delivered late. Bad weather or strong backlighting ※, etc. If the screen is at night there. Equipment maintenance and a failure ※ There...

TOKYO, May 31 (Xinhua) -- Operator of the troubled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant found that oil has been leaking into the sea close to the facility, the Kyodo News reported Tuesday. The operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said the oil leaks were possibly from nearby oil tanks...

Japan can avoid turning the affected Fukushima Prefecture into a dead zone by immediately applying chemicals and planting radiation-absorbing plants at the contaminated soil, scientists said. Radioactive soil in pockets of areas near Japan's crippled nuclear plant have reached the same level as...

TEPCO claim that two workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant may have exceeded the government’s radiation exposure limit, adding to the health concerns of those working to stabilise the facility. The government and TEPCO have come under fire for not disclosing enough information about...

The confirmation of core meltdowns hitting reactors 1 through 3, accompanied by breaches to the critical pressure vessels that hold the nuclear fuel, has led officials to believe that "there will be a major delay to work" to contain the situation, one official said. Tepco, the plant's...

As the typhoon made its way towards Kyushu on Sunday morning, Japan's Meteorological Agency issued a mudslide warning for Kagoshima, where recent volcanic eruptions left the ground weak and prone to such events. Kagoshima received 121mm of rain on Saturday. A little further south, Naze had a...

So far the only good news to accompany the Fukushima catastrophe has been that for all the fallout, the radiation has been mostly contained due to Northwesterly winds which have been blowing any radioactivity mostly out and into the Pacific (coupled with relatively little rainfall), as well as...

Typhoon Songda strengthened to a supertyphoon after battering the Philippines and headed for Japan on a track that may pass over the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant by May 30, a U.S. monitoring center said. Songda’s winds increased to 241 kilometers (150 miles) per hour from 213 kph...

TOKYO, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Cooling system at a reactor of the crippled Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant stopped from Saturday, the plant's operator said Sunday. Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the pumps to cool the nuclear reactor and fuel pool have stopped at the No. 5 unit, and the operator...

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