Late details, Fukushima Daiichi

Water spray from trucks finished at No. 4 plant. Spray at No. 3 and/or No. 4 may be restarted overnight. Fluid situation. This would hold ...

Brief morning update

Conflicting data here on whether or not TEPCO actually has power to systems inside No. 2 plant.. New JAIF FILE shows little of note except ...

Fukushima Daiichi plan of action update

Plans are as follows as of now: -Get electrical power back at No. 2, which is in progress -Get five more trucks, or 30 tons, of water on No....

Edano Press Conference

Cabinet secretary Edano has indicated the following: -It's not true that US nuclear assistance is being refused -TEPCO is going after No...

Before and now pics

A before picture, viewed from the ocean side: In this picture, the substation or transformer building that TEPCO is stringing the 66KV line ...

TEPCO Electric supply to plants

TEPCO has laid their cards on the table for the next play; they want power back to No. 2 plant as soon as possible. Apparently they've ...

TEPCO, SDF, N&ISA response becoming aggressive

The overall response to the situation at Fukushima Daiichi is becoming more aggressive, and some results and plans for today: -Four water du...

JAIF Status file, again

The status file I linked down there a short while ago doesn't look worse than the last one yesterday with one exception: Battery power h...

Water operations, Fukushima Daiichi

The specially shielded CH-47 helicopters are still cycling back and forth with seawater and are dumping it on No. 3 and No. 4 for now. Eleve...

New JAIF file

Newest reactor plant status file for Fukushima Daiichi: LINK TO PDF FILE 10:05 AM Eastern Wednesday 3/16 ATOMIC POWER REVIEW

7:00 AM Eastern / Wednesday status update

At this moment, there appears to be no change in STATUS of the reactor plants at Fukushima Daiichi as compared with the detailed status char...

Fukushima Daiichi No. 3

Cabinet Secretary Edano's press conference... -High rad levels force site evacuation -Levels at front gate of site in millisieverts -Eda...

Fukushima Daiichi / High Rad Levels, continued

We do have a fresh report here at 1:30 PM Eastern that TEPCO has indeed not only evacuated 730 out of 800 site workers at Fukushima Daiichi ...

Update, of sorts....

For all of those who are following this site.. we were hoping here to do an update at 12:00 Noon Eastern here with new information, but othe...

FACTS: Hydrogen at nuclear power plants

--It is now known that there have been hydrogen explosions at three of the four seriously affected reactor plants at Fukushima Daiichi. Let...

Perhaps a bit of good news..

The situation at Fukushima Daiichi is exceedingly complex. No one would ever have suspected that four plants on one site would be in a state...