Nuclear Energy in Japan: The Scandal Widens

Recently, we were all fairly interested to see the effect in Japan when it was revealed that Kyushu Electric Power Company carried out an e-...

Nuclear Energy in Japan: July 27, 2011

TEPCO has released a video of the QUINCE robot inside No. 3 reactor building on July 26th. See it at the APR YouTube Channel: ATOMIC POWER R...

Nuclear Energy in Japan: Genkai pressure vessel embrittlement

Today in Japan there are a number of reports in circulation concerning a report given by a Tokyo professor in the field of metal physics to ...

Nuclear Energy in Japan: July 25, 2011

FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI UPDATE Conditions at the site are essentially as reported before, with some expected problems. Perhaps most notable is the...

Site update for regular readers

Site note: Your author has just finished taking a brief time off, after the release (officially, that is) that TEPCO has completed the first...

Nuclear Energy in Japan: Tuesday July 19, 2011

FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI UPDATE -The Japanese government and TEPCO have modified their overall timeline for recovery from the Fukushima Daiichi acc...

NRC Chairman Jaczko - Speech at NPC

NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko has just finished a speech and Q&A session at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. This writer watche...