Nuclear Energy in Japan: August 10, 2011

We find ourselves at another noteworthy point in the recovery from the Fukushima Daiichi accident, although none of the media in Japan have ...

TEPCO, Japanese Gov't: "Reactors Stabilized"

Developing 9:00 PM Eastern. NHK in Japan now is reporting that Tokyo Electric Power Company and the Japanese Government have announced in a ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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... May 5th

There are several updates this evening... -TEPCO has responded to NISA's request regarding the safety of flooding the dry well of No. 1 ...

TEPCO responds to NISA on reactor building, and more

Surprisingly, TEPCO has made a press release in the middle of the night (Tokyo time) to cover some of NISA's requests. It includes a rat...

Fukushima Daiichi update: Wednesday morning May 4

The recent events of this week seem to have blown the almost hourly reporting on Fukushima Daiichi by major news sources right off the front...

Sunday evening update

TEPCO has made a press release revealing some further plans at No. 1 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi site. TEPCO has stated that i...