Japan Disaster
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Return to Fukushima
Posted by Greg Laden on August 7, 2014 
Three years after the disaster at Fukushima, science correspondent Miles O’Brien returned to the Daiichi nuclear plant for an exclusive look at the site. Follow Miles on a never-before-seen tour of Daiichi’s sister site, Fukushima Daini, which narrowly avoided a meltdown during the Tohoku earthquake. As the country debates turning its reactors back on, Miles…
UPDATE Chance Typhoon Neoguri Will Hit Nuke Plant Increases?
Posted by Greg Laden on July 7, 2014 
Update: The new forecast track of Neoguri is shown above as well as the location of two nuclear power plants. The forecast track has moved south, and is now in a very good (and here good means bad) position to strike the Sendai nuclear power plant very directly. Keep in mind that this forecast may…
The Fukushima Alternative
Posted by Greg Laden on March 11, 2014 On March 11th, 2011, a large earthquake caused a large tsunami in Japan, and the two historic events wrecked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The power plant had six boiling water reactors of the kind used around the world in many nuclear power plants. Three of the six reactors suffered a meltdown, and containment…
Removing the fuel rods at Fukushima: Video
Posted by Greg Laden on November 22, 2013 
TEPCO is removing some of those famous spent fuel rod assemblies, here’s some video:
Removing the #Fukushima Spent Fuel Rods. Or not.
Posted by Greg Laden on November 15, 2013 
TEPCO was going to start removing the fuel rods from the less-damaged reactor building Numnber 4 over the next few days. Today, it was announced that damage to the fuel rod assemblies, some or most of which predated the tsunami and earthquake, this could not be done. There is now uncertainty as to what is…
Fukushima Update #70: If you can’t measure it … (UPDATED)
Posted by Greg Laden on September 15, 2013 Fukushima Update #70: If you can’t measure it, you can’t analyze it. by Analiese Miller and Greg Laden It has been suggested, by various commenters on the internet, that the problem with Fukushima is not that there is a dangerous radioactive mess there, but rather, that the authorities in charge have decided that exposure to…
News From The Forbidden Zone Is Alarmingly Bad (Fukushima)
Posted by Greg Laden on August 24, 2013 News from Fukushima Update # 69 by Ana Miller and Greg Laden Over the last several weeks we’ve heard repeated, alarming, and generally worsening, news from Fukushima Diachi, the Japanese nuclear power plant that suffered a series of disasters that make The China Syndrome look like a Disney family movie. One question is this: Has…
Fukushima Update
Posted by Greg Laden on August 16, 2013 Patrick J. Kiger at National Geographic News has an excellent summary of the current situation at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The plant continues to leak radioactive material into the sea, though at a rate much lower than the massive release that happened at the time of the accident. Strontium-90 (Half-life 28.79 years) has increased…
Fukushima Update: Radioactive Fish, Conflicts of Interest, and Filtered Vents
Posted by Greg Laden on November 21, 2012 On March 11th, 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant complex suffered damage from an earthquake and ensuing tsunami that caused multiple nuclear reactor core meltdowns and melt-throughs, explosions, and major releases of radioactive material into the air and the sea. In addition to the reactor meltdowns and melt-throughs spent fuel storage tanks were also…