Fukuishi LIVE Fukushima Daiichi Camera

A twenty-four hour a day live camera is now being used at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Below is the link: FUKUICHI LIVE CAM...

Fukushima Daiichi... Sunday 5/29

Some updates from Fukushima Daiichi... -TEPCO does not at this time believe that the rain and wind from the approaching tropical storm will ...

Fukushima Daiici Video; Dust Inhibitor

Tokyo Electric Power Company has released a new video showing the first extensive coverage of the dust inhibitor operations on site. FUKUSHI...

Fukushima Daiichi Update: Friday 5/27

There is not a lot of news coming out of Fukushima Daiichi at the moment, at least of any emergent nature. Probably the most important news ...

Westinghouse responds to the NRC... in print, in public

Thanks to Margaret Harding of 4 Factor Consulting LLC, we've been tipped off that Westinghouse has made a public press release respondin...

Westinghouse AP1000 ... Who is on which side?

Here is an article for your consideration: ATTEMPT TO DERAIL OR SLOW DOWN WESTINGHOUSE AP1000 CERTIFICATION This article smacks of ignorance...

Second Wednesday update (5/25)

Some further Fukushima Daiichi updates. First, on the wires right now, an indication that TEPCO is saying that the pressure vessel at No. 1 ...

Fukushima Daiichi details... Wed. May 25

There are two news stories of interest coming out of Japan at the moment. We'll tackle them in our usual fashion. First, TEPCO is now re...

Fukushima Daiichi No. 2 and No. 3

Well, as expected at some point, we now have a statement by TEPCO (right now only seemingly carried by Kyoto News) that the reactor cores in...

Fukushima Daiichi update: Monday, 5/23

As has become the case in the last few weeks, with the plant conditions stabilized, the train of press releases and other news items from Fu...

Brief Fukushima Daiichi update- Sunday 5/22

As reported on this blog on April 23, TEPCO has (again) noted the discovery of radioactive debris on the Fukushima Daiichi site which is emi...

Fukushima Daiichi update; Friday evening 5/20

TEPCO has released photos taken at Fukushima Daiichi as the tsunami hit. I've assembled them into a slide show movie and the sequence i...

TEPCO Board Meeting

TEPCO has made a press release stating the fact that at a meeting of the board of directors of the company, TEPCO has decided to decommissio...

Fukushima Daiichi Update... Thursday, 5/19

Apparently, high seas are keeping the mega-float barge from getting farther than Onahama. There is no word as to when it will leave that por...

Fukushima Daiichi update, Weds. morning 5/18

The "mega-float" barge which has been modified for use by TEPCO for the storage of contaminated water has apparently started towar...

TEPCO Video

TEPCO Press Release video showing a very long tour of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, shot on May 6, is now available on the new Atomic Power R...

Fukushima Daiichi update: Tuesday 5/17

As expected, there are a number of news developments from TEPCO and the Fukushima Daiichi site. TEPCO has revealed the fact that the isolati...

BWR Pressure Vessel illustrations

This is a companion post to a previous post. Click here to read the post about reactor core conditions at Fukushima Daiichi No. 1. A previ...

Further Fukushima Daiichi updates 5/15

Be sure to see the previous post on this blog regarding the apparent total derangement of the reactor core at Fukushima Daiichi No. 1 plant....

Core totally demolished at Fukushima Daiichi No. 1

We now have a fairly thorough report from TEPCO which details the extent of core damage at Fukushima Daiichi No. 1, and gives some times for...

Fukushima Daiichi No. 1: Core melt / exit of pressure vessel speculated by TEPCO, NISA

There are a number of very serious reports on the various Japanese news media at this moment; we will report these and make commentary in a ...

View of cooling equipment for TEPCO

TEPCO has released the first photos of the new cooling equipment to be installed at Fukushima Daiichi No. 1 first, and then probably at the ...

Hamaoka No. 4 shut down; No. 5 to follow

Chubu Electric Power Company has shut down Hamaoka No. 4. The plant began reducing power at 3:30 AM Friday and the plant was off the grid a...

NISA responds to TEPCO plan to fill dry well at No. 1 plant

NISA has published its response to TEPCO regarding the plan to flood No. 1 plant's dry well to a height above active fuel. While present...

Fukushima Daiichi No. 1: Meltdown?

Note: Blogger.com has been down for almost an entire day, preventing any new posts and actually removing, temporarily I'm told, some of...

Fukushima Daiichi No. 1 - estimates worsen

TEPCO has now reported, through a management rep speaking at a press conference, a number of new things about Fukushima Daiichi No. 1. -Ther...

TEPCO, NISA: Serious water loss at No. 1 plant

The Japanese media outlets are reporting a downgrading of the condition of the reactor pressure vessel, in estimation, at Fukushima Daiichi ...

Fresno Nuclear Energy Group

A new CNBC video describing what the Fresno Nuclear Energy Group is proposing... a pair of French-built reactors to be built near Fresno, Ca...

TEPCO rapidly halts water flow to cable pit at No. 3 plant.

TEPCO press photos... Picture 1 is a view into the cable pit with the leak still in progress: Picture 2 appears to be the top of the pit, no...

Fukushima Daiichi update; Wednesday 5/11

TEPCO has discovered a leak of contaminated water into a pipe trench, or pit, almost the same as happened at No. 2 plant but this time the d...

Fukushima Daiichi updates

As work at the site really gets heavy in all areas of restoration, the news is beginninng to come out of Fukushima Daiichi fairly rapidly. H...