More Problems at Reactor 4
by Nelle Maxey / Pacific Free Press / January 15, 2012 / Two more problems (aside from the Unit #4 mystery which I update below) have surfaced in the last week at the Fukushima plant site. First, a...
View ArticleReactor No. 4 Cooling System Suspended
Mainichi Daily / June 30, 2012 / The cooling system for a spent fuel pool at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant’s No. 4 reactor automatically suspended operation Saturday morning after an alarm...
View ArticleFukushima operators fix cooling to spent fuel
via ABC / July 1, 2012 / The operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant has managed to restore the cooling system in a pool which holds hundreds of tonnes of spent nuclear fuel at the facility. The system...
View ArticleReport on potential “significant global impact” of collapse of Reactor 4
via Bellona.org / July 3, 2012 / A collapse of the already tilting reactor No 4 building at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant, ¬atop which sits a spent nuclear fuel storage pool containing 1,535...
View ArticleTEPCO to Remove Rods from Spent Fuel Pool in Reactor 4
via ENEnews.com / July 13, 2012 / The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will soon start test runs for removing fuel rods from a storage pool of the No. 4 reactor. Removal Procedure...
View ArticleFuel Rods Removed From Spent Fuel Pool at Reactor 4
via Japan Times / July 19, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Wednesday removed one of two unused nuclear fuel assemblies from the spent-fuel pool of reactor 4 at its Fukushima No. 1 power station....
View ArticleSecond fuel assembly removed from Reactor 4 spent fuel pool
via Japan Times / July 20, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Thursday removed an unused fuel assembly from the spent-fuel pool in the reactor 4 building at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, sources...
View ArticleFukushima Hangs by the Devil’s Thread
by Harvey Wasserman / CounterPunch / August 7, 2012 / Our lives still hang by a Devil’s thread at Fukushima. The molten cores at Units 1, 2 & 3 have threatened all life on Earth. The flood of...
View ArticleFukushima ex-boss: ‘Reactors not stable’
via RT / August 13, 2012 / The reactors at crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant are not stable, says its former head. He urged for international expertise to be called in to make the site of one of...
View ArticleHighly Contaminated Water From Reactor 3 Leaked in Reactor 4 Turbine Building
via ex-skf / August 14, 2012 / It’s been about 14 months since the hastily rigged system of transporting and treating the contaminated water and circulating the treated water back into the Reactor...
View ArticleFirst nuclear material is out of Fukushima
via Nature / August 30, 2012 / Investigations continue at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, and earlier this week the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) released photos of the first...
View ArticleJust In: Tepco releases badly altered image of Fukushima Unit 4
via ENEnews.com / September 1, 2012 / Photo set published August 30, 2012 only on Tepco’s Japanese-language website: http://photo.tepco.co.jp/date/2012/201208-j/120830-03j.html Direct link to photo:...
View ArticleUpdate: TEPCO altered photos “for physical protection of nuclear materials”
via ENEnews.com / September 5, 2012 / First, Tepco released the badly altered photo, which was deleted and replaced with an alteration of the original alteration. Now Tepco has altered their original...
View ArticleGround under Fukushima Unit 4 sinking, structure on verge of complete collapse
by Ethan A. Huff / NaturalNews.com / October 16, 2012 / Though the mainstream media has long since abandoned the issue, the precarious situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in Japan...
View ArticleGundersen on Fukushima Daiichi and Daini after the earthquake
via Fairewinds / December 9, 2012 / In today’s Fairewinds’ podcast with Arnie Gundersen, we examine the effect of the recent earthquakes on both the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini sites, as well as...
View ArticleRecent Aerial View of #Fukushima I Nuke Plant
via ex-SKF / February 11, 2013 / The photos were taken on February 10, 2013, from a Kyodo News helicopter at an altitude of 1,500 meters. For the first time, the government allowed the aerial...
View ArticleNew cover for fuel removal at Fukushima
via World Nuclear News / May 14, 2013 / A four-year process is planned to rebuild the cover over Fukushima Daiichi 1, equipping it to remove used reactor fuel still stored there. Tokyo Electric Power...
View Article#Fukushima – Too many unknowns about the accident and the current state
By Chihiro Kamisawa / CNIC / June 1, 2013 / One of Japan’s major newspapers, the Asahi Shimbun, reported on February 7 that Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) had obstructed the investigation of the...
View ArticleDamaged reactor building at #Fukushima plant fully covered
via Asahi Shimbun / June 12, 2013 / A canopy has been completed over a heavily damaged reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in preparation for removing the spent nuclear fuel...
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