Nuclear in Japan: Brief update

We have already reported the voting down of an attempt by some shareholders of Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, which would have made...

Flooding: Ft. Calhoun and Cooper

As much as the anti-nuclear authors / bloggers / reporters / experts would like it not to be so, the fact is that, at the moment, there is a...

Brief Fukushima Update: June 28, 2011

FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI UPDATES: -TEPCO has begun injecting nitrogen into the dry well of the No. 2 plant. This is being done to eliminate the ch...

Generation mPower and TVA

According to World Nuclear News, the company known as Generation mPower, on which APR has reported before and which is jointly owned by Babc...

Fukushima Daiichi Update: Friday, June 24, 2011

FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ACCIDENT RECOVERY UPDATES... TEPCO continues to reduce rates of water injection. Here are the injection rates, and feed no...

Two interviews.

I am very proud to announce that I've participated in two interviews in the last week and that the results are now on line. The first in...

Fukushima Daiichi update: Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Our updates on Fukushima Daiichi have slowed, as the number of, and seriousness of, developments on site also slows. First we will cover con...

Public Opinion in Japan

While the rest of the world --- the part of the world NOT affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, the resulting tsunami, and the Fukush...

Associated Press "hack job" article draws responses

The AP has produced a now widely-disseminated article covering supposed serious failures of the NRC, and implying a highly reduced level of ...

Atomic History: Dresden-1

In one of our previous discussions concerning the nature of reactor plant containment, we made considerable effort to detail the very early ...

JAIF Public Opinion Poll Data

The Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, or JAIF, has released a very interesting document showing combined results of public opinion polls in Jap...

OPPD Flood Blog ...

This is a very brief post to let APR's readers know that I've added the Omaha Public Power District's Storm and Flood / Outage B...

Fukushima Daiichi update: Saturday, June 18, 2011

Note: I am keeping track of the situation at the Ft. Calhoun station in the USA, which is in the midst of a flood of the Missouri River and ...

How the Misinformation Superhighway affects Nuclear Energy

Thanks to ANS Nuclear Cafe for hosting this week's Carnival of Nuclear Bloggers. The success of the blog you are now reading is only on...

Fukushima Daiichi update: Tuesday June 14, 2011

Developments of note at Fukushima Daiichi over the last two days... TEPCO has begun operations with the previously mentioned system to remov...

Fukushima Daiichi update: Saturday, June 11, 2011

It has been three months since the Great East Japan Earthquake today. Also, then, as a result three months since the initiation of the Fukus...

Fukushima Daiichi: Wednesday update June 8

First.. there are reports circulating in the press, seemingly particularly on anti-nuclear sites and anti-nuclear leaning big media that the...

Fukushima Daiichi update: Tuesday June 7

A number of developments have occurred since our last report. NISA has completed a first review of data demanded from TEPCO relative to plan...

TEPCO Video: Dust inhibitor operations

New TEPCO release depicts dust inhibitor spraying operations at No. 2 plant, Fukushima Daiichi site. DUST INHIBITOR OPS As with previous lin...

TEPCO video: Steam and high rad levels in No. 1 plant

Tokyo Electric Power Company has released a video, taken June 3 by a robot during a survey inside No. 1 reactor building, showing steam risi...

Fukushima Daiichi update: Friday June 3

TEPCO is rapidly running out of room for contaminated water, due partly to water injection and partly to rain at the site. The company has a...