– leaked water contained an extraordinarily high 230-million becquerels per liter of beta-ray emitting substances, consisting mainly of strontium 90. NHK — Feb 21 The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says 100 tons of water containing record high… Read More ›
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
Breaking: Radioactivity level spikes 6,500 times higher at Fukushima well than readings taken on Wednesday
Published time: October 18, 2013 02:08 Fukushima Governor Yuhei sato (orange helmet) inspects the contaminated water tanks at Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture on October 15, 2013. (AFP… Read More ›
Leaking tank at Fukushima plant has no water gauge
NHK — Aug 22 The operator of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says it may have failed to find a leak of radioactive wastewater from a tank because it lacks a water gauge. Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO,… Read More ›
Radioactive water at Fukushima an emergency / Contaminated water could rise to the ground’s surface within three weeks
Watchdog says radioactive water at Fukushima an emergency By Antoni Slodkowski and Mari Saito National Aug. 06, 2013 – 06:45AM JST ( 29 ) TOKYO — Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant… Read More ›
Fukushima Nuke Plant manager dies of cancer
Tuesday, 09 July 2013 Masao Yoshida (AFP Photo / Japan Pool via JIJI Press) The ex-head of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant Masao Yoshida, 58, died at a Tokyo hospital of esophageal cancer on July 9, 2013…. Read More ›
Almost third of US West Coast newborns hit with thyroid problems after Fukushima nuclear disaster
Published time: April 03, 2013 19:56 A boy receives a radiation scan at a screening center in Koriyama in Fukushima prefecture (AFP Photo / Go Takayama) Researchers have discovered that the Fukushima nuclear disaster has had far-reaching health effects more… Read More ›
Fukushima loses cooling power
No electricity to pumps that feed ponds where spent nuclear fuel rods must be kept underwater at a safe temperature Associated Press in Tokyo guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 19 March 2013 00.38 EDT A damaged reactor building at the Fukushima power plant… Read More ›
Record cesium level detected in fish caught near Fukushima nuclear plant: 7,400 times above safe limits
Kyodo Online: Mar 16, 2013 Last Modfied: Mar 16, 2013 Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday it detected a record 740,000 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in a fish caught in waters near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power… Read More ›