Fukushima Unit 2 Fuel Debris Inspection Results
TEPCO completed another inspection inside unit 2 containment this week. The newest work involved attempting to move and grasp pieces
Read moreTEPCO completed another inspection inside unit 2 containment this week. The newest work involved attempting to move and grasp pieces
Read moreTEPCO released a report in July on various waste streams at Fukushima Daiichi. This rather dry sounding report contains some
Read moreThe Southwest Research Insititute (SwRI) and University of Pennsylvania’s robotics lab claim they have a drone capable of operating inside
Read moreA number of individual events have taken place recently. We review them here. Communities rebuilding after the 3-11 earthquake have
Read moreThe decommissioning authority (NDF) for Fukushima Daiichi has confirmed they will likely use a method to attempt to remove melted
Read moreQuietly buried in technical reports was this interesting plan. Researchers have developed a method to tunnel under the reactor buildings
Read moreOur Fukushima 6th Anniversary Report is now available here. We cover the technical, environmental and humanitarian evolution of the disaster
Read moreIRID released a report late in December, 2016 that outlines in great detail, the technical tasks involved in the upcoming
Read moreNews began showing up earlier this week claiming they were going to send a mech style robot to work at
Read moreJapan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe was one of the first foreign leaders to scurry to New York to meet with
Read moreAmong images provided by TEPCO of a recent visit to the disaster site by the Kashiwazaki mayor, was this photo.
Read moreOur newest in depth report is available! Fukushima Daiichi Decay Heat & Corium Status Report Publish date: December 6, 2016
Read moreNew estimates have been released for the expected costs for the Fukushima disaster. These costs are broken down by the
Read moreIRID announced details of work that is now underway to determine if a method for repairing the unit 2 suppression
Read moreTEPCO published a new report on the frozen wall dated September 29. TEPCO states that they have frozen 95 percent
Read moreOver five years later TEPCO is just now starting the process to remove debris from the sea floor up to
Read moreThe effort to deal with the unit 1-2 vent stack has grown in complexity. TEPCO claims in this new work
Read moreAsahi Shimbun reported that two sections of the underground ice wall at Fukushima Daiichi have thawed and failed two sections.
Read moreA factually incorrect article published at OilPrice.com (Update: they have corrected the erroneous claim about restarting Fukushima Daiichi but left a
Read morePurolite company based in the US has sued Hitachi for 1 billion USD in a US court over theft of
Read moreTyphoon Lionrock has strengthened and changed course. Current predictions as of today shows it hitting the Tohoku coast as a
Read moreA worker has died at Fukushima Daiichi. The report (machine translated below) indicates he was found dead around 10:39 in
Read moreTEPCO has reported Pokemon have been spotted on the grounds of Fukushima Daiichi. They did not specify what ones were
Read moreThe decommissioning authority managing the long term response to the Fukushima Daiichi disaster site has cited three previous nuclear disasters
Read moreThe Fukushima Daiichi Manga released a few years ago will be made available in English in 2017. Advance purchase is
Read moreIf you wondered why there was an interest within the last year to take 3D images of the reactor buildings
Read moreTEPCO announced last week that the steel and concrete sea wall they installed and recently closed the last section of
Read moreThe last portion of the steel piling wall installed in the sea front of Fukushima Daiichi has been closed. On
Read moreNagoya University announced that their ongoing research of the unit 2 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi has shown that 70-100% of
Read moreTEPCO and their contract partners have been fairly secretive about what exactly makes the ALPS system work. While they have
Read moreIndustry insiders and the IAEA told Japan to just dump their tritium laced water at Fukushima Daiichi into the Pacific.
Read moreAnother worker at Fukushima Daiichi has died. The worker was doing some sort of work involving small tanker trucks used
Read moreA citizen panel made up of residents near Fukushima Daiichi had warned TEPCO in 2004 about the tsunami risk at
Read morePlans for a demonstration system based off of the Russian Triton tritium removal technology will begin construction early next year.
Read moreTEPCO announced work to remove the unit 1 cover will resume on July 28th and take about 4 months to
Read moreA newly released document shows progress in the effort to inspect inside unit 2’s containment. At unit 1 they went
Read moreIRID published a call for proposals mid June related to research and development into a way to reinforce the torus structures
Read moreTEPCO provided more information about how they will go about taking down the many bolt together tanks at the disaster
Read moreAfter a recent leak from a Kanaflex hose at Fukushima Daiichi, TEPCO inspected other similar hoses at the plant. They
Read moreAs June wanes we find more delays, more problems and new admissions about the extent of the disaster. TEPCO introduced
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