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No room for error? Fukushima basements mistakenly flooded with 200 tons of radioactive water

A pump at Japan’s battered Fukushima power plant has mistakenly flooded its basements with highly contaminated cooling-tank water. But the latest mishap follows a far more worrying discovery about one last year’s leak. About 200 tons of water ended up flooding the basements beneath the complex, although the water didn’t have a pathway to reach […] Continue reading →

Fukushima fishermen approve plan to release groundwater from plant

Fishermen working off Japan’s destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant have agreed to allow the release of uncontaminated groundwater around the facility into the ocean, Jiji news agency reported on Tuesday, in a rare victory for the site’s operator. Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco), the operator of the Fukushima station that suffered triple nuclear meltdowns after the […] Continue reading →

Fukushima radiation levels underestimated by five times � TEPCO

RT News TEPCO has revised the readings on the radioactivity levels at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant well to 5 million becquerels of strontium per liter – both a record, and nearly five times higher than the original reading of 900,000 becquerels per liter. Strontium-90 is a radioactive isotope of strontium produced by nuclear […] Continue reading →

Tepco has failed at Fukushima, no progress made � Tepco to change name, start new business

Tepco demands nuclear workers return payments, anger passed tipping point - Plans to create a new brand name under which the utility will sell electricity in regions outside its own service area across the country as part of efforts to boost its earnings, it has been learned. [...] TEPCO made the decision apparently because the […] Continue reading →

Fukushima Radiation Reaches 8 Times Gov�t Standards

Nuclear radiation at the boundaries of the stricken Fukushima power plant has now reached 8 times government safety guidelines, TEPCO has said. The firm has been struggling to contain radioactive leaks at Fukushima since the onset over the crisis in 2011. The levels of nuclear radiation around Fukushima’s No. 1 plant have risen to 8 […] Continue reading →

Fukushima : Plant Decontamination System Shuts Down Amid Failure

Anthony Gucciardi, A malfunction within the Fukushima plant has led to the complete shutdown of the plant’s decontamination system. As the Fukushima nightmare continues under the wing of plant operator TEPCO, the blatant incompetence of the highly deceptive corporation is once again apparent following a complete shutdown of the plant’s decontamination system. The very same […] Continue reading →

Fukushima Workers Used Duct Tape to �Stop

Rebar wasn’t even used to reinforce the concrete foundations under water tanks, says worker A Japanese worker who spent six months at the Fukushima nuclear power plant says that he isn’t surprised about the latest radioactive leaks from the plant because of its shoddy construction and repair work, including the use of duct tape to […] Continue reading →

Japan PM wants Fukushima plant entirely scrapped

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered the operator of the country’s crippled nuclear power plant Thursday to scrap all six reactors at the site instead of just four already slated for decommissioning and to concentrate on tackling pressing issues like radioactive water leaks. After taking a firsthand look at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, however, Abe […] Continue reading →

IAEA Boss Says Fukushima Water Leak Urgent

International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Yukiya Amano on Monday characterized the leak of radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant as “a matter of high priority that needs to be addressed urgently.” Amano pledged to send a team to Japan this autumn to deal with the increasingly worrisome problem. Meanwhile, plant operator TEPCO announced […] Continue reading →

TEPCO confirms Fukushima Leaking Highly Radioactive water spread underground

Highly radioactive water that leaked from a storage tank and was not discovered until last month is spreading underground at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sept. 5. The utility said 650 becquerels per liter of radioactive materials, which emit beta rays such as radioactive strontium, were found in […] Continue reading →

�Boiling Sea� Off Fukushima Viral Photo Of The Day

The sea is boiling off of the coast of Fukushima, Japan and the picture below has been called a viral photo of the day by Coolbuster. Check out the picture, what is that all about? It certainly can’t be good for any plant or animal life left off of the coast of Japan… if this radiation […] Continue reading →

Latest Fukushima Radiation Leak Called a National Emergency

Yuhei Sato, the governor of the Fukushima prefecture in Japan, has described a massive leak from a radioactive water storage tank at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant as a national emergency. Continue reading →