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Fukushima Unit 2 Fuel Debris Inspection Results

February 14, 2019 Nancy Foust 0 Comments 2019, Corium, daiichi, fuel debris, fukushima, inspection, pedestal, unit 2

TEPCO completed another inspection inside unit 2 containment this week. The newest work involved attempting to move and grasp pieces

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TEPCO Releases Fukushima Waste Stream Data

November 5, 2018 Nancy Foust 0 Comments alps, building, daiichi, debris, fukushima, radiation, Testing, water

TEPCO released a report in July on various waste streams at Fukushima Daiichi. This rather dry sounding report contains some

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Researchers Claim To Have Drone Capable Of Fukushima Containment Flight

March 22, 2018March 22, 2018 Nancy Foust 0 Comments Containment, daiichi, drone, fukushima, inspection, SWRI

The Southwest Research Insititute (SwRI) and University of Pennsylvania’s robotics lab claim they have a drone capable of operating inside

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SimplyInfo.org Fukushima Update; September 25, 2017

September 25, 2017 Nancy Foust 0 Comments court, daiichi, evacuation, evacuees, futaba, Kashiwazaki Kariwa, NRA, road, spent fuel, TEPCO, zone

A number of individual events have taken place recently. We review them here. Communities rebuilding after the 3-11 earthquake have

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Authority Confirms Dry Removal Plan For Fukushima Daiichi

July 6, 2017 Nancy Foust 0 Comments Corium, daiichi, decommissioning, dry, fuel, fukushima, method, removal

The decommissioning authority (NDF) for Fukushima Daiichi has confirmed they will likely use a method to attempt to remove melted

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The Semi-Secret Plan To Tunnel Under Fukushima Daiichi

March 10, 2017March 9, 2017 Nancy Foust 0 Comments daiichi, decommissioning, fuel, fukushima, removal, tunnel, underground

Quietly buried in technical reports was this interesting plan. Researchers have developed a method to tunnel under the reactor buildings

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SimplyInfo.Org Fukushima 6th Anniversary Report

March 8, 2017 Nancy Foust 0 Comments 6, anniversary, daiichi, fukushima, report, simplyinfo.org, year

Our Fukushima 6th Anniversary Report is now available here. We cover the technical, environmental and humanitarian evolution of the disaster

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Fukushima Unit 2 Containment Inspection, What You Need To Know

January 2, 2017 Nancy Foust 0 Comments Containment, daiichi, fukushima, inspection, pedestal, robot, scorpion, unit 2

IRID released a report late in December, 2016 that outlines in great detail, the technical tasks involved in the upcoming

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Are Mechs Going To Fukushima Daiichi? Probably Not

December 23, 2016December 21, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments daiichi, fukushima, korean, mech, robots

News began showing up earlier this week claiming they were going to send a mech style robot to work at

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Fukushima Disaster May Take Major Turn Due To Trump

December 22, 2016December 21, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments abe, agreement, contractors, daiichi, fukushima, Putin, Russia, Trump, US

Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe was one of the first foreign leaders to scurry to New York to meet with

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TEPCO Erects Mystery Platform Around Unit 2 Fukushima Daiichi

December 15, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments 2016, daiichi, fukushima, platform, unit 2

Among images provided by TEPCO of a recent visit to the disaster site by the Kashiwazaki mayor, was this photo.

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SimplyInfo.org Publishes New Report On Fukushima Daiichi

December 6, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments Corium, daiichi, decay heat, fuel, fukushima, research, simplyinfo.org

Our newest in depth report is available! Fukushima Daiichi Decay Heat & Corium Status Report Publish date: December 6, 2016

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Fukushima Disaster Costs Soar

November 29, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments compensation, costs, daiichi, decontamination, disaster, fukushima, interim storage

New estimates have been released for the expected costs for the Fukushima disaster. These costs are broken down by the

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Fukushima Unit 2 Containment Repair Research Underway

October 21, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments concrete, daiichi, fukushima, IRID, research, torus, unit 2

IRID announced details of work that is now underway to determine if a method for repairing the unit 2 suppression

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Fukushima Frozen Wall Update; October 4, 2016

October 4, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments 2016, concrete, daiichi, frozen wall, fukushima, progress, september

TEPCO published a new report on the frozen wall dated September 29. TEPCO states that they have frozen 95 percent

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Fukushima Daiichi To Clean Debris Off Sea Floor

September 27, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments 2016, cleaning, daiichi, debris, floor, fukushima, sea, TEPCO

Over five years later TEPCO is just now starting the process to remove debris from the sea floor up to

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The Big Job To Sample Water At A Fukushima Vent Stack

September 3, 2016September 2, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments daiichi, drain pit, fukushima, unit 1, unit 2, vent tower, work

The effort to deal with the unit 1-2 vent stack has grown in complexity. TEPCO claims in this new work

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Typhoon Melts Two Sections Of Fukushima Ice Wall

September 2, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments daiichi, frozen wall, fukushima, melt, typhoon

Asahi Shimbun reported that two sections of the underground ice wall at Fukushima Daiichi have thawed and failed two sections.

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Japan Is NOT Trying To Restart Fukushima Daiichi

September 1, 2016September 2, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments daiichi, fukushima, restart

A factually incorrect article published at OilPrice.com (Update: they have corrected the erroneous claim about restarting Fukushima Daiichi but left a

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1 Billion USD Lawsuit Over Hitachi Fukushima Cleanup Contracts

September 1, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contract, daiichi, fukushima, hitachi, lawsuit, purolite, water

Purolite company based in the US has sued Hitachi for 1 billion USD in a US court over theft of

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Typhoon Lionrock Targets Fukushima Daiichi

August 28, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments daiichi, fukushima, typhoon

Typhoon Lionrock has strengthened and changed course. Current predictions as of today shows it hitting the Tohoku coast as a

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Another Worker Drops Dead At Fukushima Daiichi

July 31, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments daiichi, death, fukushima, worker

A worker has died at Fukushima Daiichi. The report (machine translated below) indicates he was found dead around 10:39 in

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Pokemon Spotted At Fukushima Daiichi

July 26, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments daiichi, fukushima, japan, pokemon, pokemon go

TEPCO has reported Pokemon have been spotted on the grounds of Fukushima Daiichi. They did not specify what ones were

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What Windscale Can Tell About The Future Of Fukushima Daiichi

July 22, 2016July 20, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments daiichi, decommissioning, fukushima, NDF, windscale

The decommissioning authority managing the long term response to the Fukushima Daiichi disaster site has cited three previous nuclear disasters

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Fukushima Daiichi Manga To Be Available In English

June 25, 2016June 20, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments amazon, daiichi, english, fukushima, manga

The Fukushima Daiichi Manga released a few years ago will be made available in English in 2017. Advance purchase is

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Virtual Reality Being Used To Tackle Fukushima Daiichi

January 9, 2016February 15, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments 3d, daiichi, decommissioning, fukushima, naraha, virtual reality

If you wondered why there was an interest within the last year to take 3D images of the reactor buildings

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How The Fukushima Daiichi Sea Wall Was Damaged

December 1, 2015December 1, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments daiichi, frozen wall, fukushima, groundwater, head, Pressure, sea wall

TEPCO announced last week that the steel and concrete sea wall they installed and recently closed the last section of

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Last Of Fukushima Daiichi Steel Wall Closed

September 29, 2015September 28, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments closed, contamination, daiichi, fukushima, piling, port, sea wall, steel

The last portion of the steel piling wall installed in the sea front of Fukushima Daiichi has been closed. On

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Researchers Confirm 100% Of Fukushima Unit 2 Core May Have Melted

September 26, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments Corium, daiichi, fukushima, location, meltdown, muon, nagoya university, reactor core, unit 2

Nagoya University announced that their ongoing research of the unit 2 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi has shown that 70-100% of

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Fukushima ALPS System Secret Revealed

September 22, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments alps, daiichi, filters, fukushima, ion exchange, materials

TEPCO and their contract partners have been fairly secretive about what exactly makes the ALPS system work. While they have

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Fukushima Tritium Removal Technology Moves To Next Phase

September 9, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments daiichi, fukushima, tritium, water

Industry insiders and the IAEA told Japan to just dump their tritium laced water at Fukushima Daiichi into the Pacific.

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Fukushima Daiichi Worker Died From Accident Injuries Saturday

August 8, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments daiichi, death, fukushima, kajima, tanker, workers

Another worker at Fukushima Daiichi has died. The worker was doing some sort of work involving small tanker trucks used

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Fukushima Residents Warned TEPCO About Tsunami Risk At Plant In 2004

July 18, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments Citizen, daiichi, fukushima, panel, tsunami, warning

A citizen panel made up of residents near Fukushima Daiichi had warned TEPCO in 2004 about the tsunami risk at

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Rosatom Begins Tritium Removal Project At Fukushima Daiichi

July 16, 2015July 15, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments daiichi, fukushima, rosatom, tritium, triton

Plans for a demonstration system based off of the Russian Triton tritium removal technology will begin construction early next year.

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TEPCO To Resume Fukushima Unit 1 Cover Removal Work In Late July

July 16, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments cover removal, daiichi, fukushima, unit 1

TEPCO announced work to remove the unit 1 cover will resume on July 28th and take about 4 months to

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Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 Prepares For Containment Inspection

June 29, 2015June 30, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments Containment, crd rail, daiichi, fukushima, inspection, unit 2

A newly released document shows progress in the effort to inspect inside unit 2’s containment. At unit 1 they went

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Fukushima Daiichi Reactors Torus Structures In Need Of Reinforcement

June 25, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments Containment, daiichi, flooding, fukushima, IRID, pcv, reinforcement, suppression chamber, torus, toshiba

IRID published a call for proposals mid June related to research and development into a way to reinforce the torus structures

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Fukushima Daiichi Tank Dismantling Explained

June 24, 2015June 23, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments bolt together tanks, daiichi, fukushima, removal, storage

TEPCO provided more information about how they will go about taking down the many bolt together tanks at the disaster

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Fukushima Daiichi Has More Defective Hoses

June 23, 2015June 23, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments daiichi, failure, fukushima, hose, kanaflex

After a recent leak from a Kanaflex hose at Fukushima Daiichi, TEPCO inspected other similar hoses at the plant. They

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New Problems & Challenges Plague Fukushima

June 23, 2015February 15, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments daiichi, decontamination, evacuation, evacuees, fukushima, naraha, roadmap, soil bags, thyroid

As June wanes we find more delays, more problems and new admissions about the extent of the disaster. TEPCO introduced

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