Heres the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japans Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.. State of Nuclear Politics in Japan. The Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission, a Diet panel investigating the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, announced that it will interview former TEPCO President Masataka Shimizu, who was overseeing the Fukushima Daiichi plant as during last years nuclear crisis. The panel had previously said that it would wrap up its work following an interview with former Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who testified last week, but considerable controversy has arisen regarding whether or not TEPCO planned to abandon the plant as the disaster was unfolding. Government officials, including Yukio Edano, the head of METI, and former Prime Minister Kan insist that Shimizu made that request. If all workers had evacuated, the effects of the disaster would have been far more catastrophic.. International nuclear experts are criticizing efforts by ...

Statement: Japanese civil society requests that the reports of the United Nations Scientific Committee on Fukushima be revised 日本の６４の市民団体が福島事故に関しての国連科学の報告内容を改訂するよう要請 www.http://hrn.or.jp/eng/a tivity/area/worldwide/japanese-civil-society-requests-that-the-reports-of-the-united-nations-scientific-committee-on-fukus/ Anand Grover, Esq., UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, criticizes UNSCEAR report on Fukushima -10/24/2013 (1 of 4)国連「健康に対する権利「の特別報告者のアナンドヵグローバー氏: 国連科学の報告を批判 Video - http://vimeo.com/78483070 October 24, 2013 (NYC, NY) *Medical experts criticize UNSCEAR report for playing down consequences of Fukushima nuclear accident ドイツの専門家が国連科学の報告書を ｡福島事故の影響を過小評価している｡と批判! ...

Shortly after the accident, J-village, a soccer training facility located 20 km south of Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP, was utilised as a place for preparing workers for entry into the nuclear power station, where they put on their protective equipment and performed decontamination tests when leaving (figure 2). Accommodation facilities for workers were set up outside the 20 km evacuation zone. Inside the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP, the main earthquake-proof building, in which radiation exposure was controlled by a high-quality purified-air ventilation system, was set up as a direct command centre for operations and had some rooms for workers to stay overnight.. Several measures were taken to prevent external and internal radiation exposure. To minimise external exposure, the radiation level was assessed over the whole site, and workers monitored radiation exposure using an alarm pocket dosimeter. To protect workers from internal radiation exposure from inhaling radioactive particles and gas, workers wore ...

Heres the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japans Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.. State of the Fukushima Reactors. Japans government has consulted the countrys fishing industry on plans to dump contaminated groundwater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has attempted to assure the National Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations that contamination levels of the water will be kept below Japans legal limit. Plant operator TEPCO says any groundwater pumped into the ocean will be contaminated with less than one becquerel of cesium-134 and cesium-137 per liter of water, less than 5 becquerels of strontium-90 and other substances that emit beta particles, and less than 1,500 becquerels of tritium. Around 400 tons of groundwater run into the Fukushima site every day. The plan hopes to divert this flow before it can enter the basements of the damaged reactors where it becomes ...

Watch Video. On Thursday, 2 June 2011, the IAEA provided the following information on the status of nuclear safety in Japan:. Overall, the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant remains very serious.. The IAEA receives information from various official sources in Japan through the Japanese national competent authority, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA). This Update Brief is based on information issued by the IAEA Incident and Emergency Centre up to 16:00 UTC on 31 May 2011.. 1. Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Status. Tables 1 - 4 track progress for Units 1 - 4 towards fulfilling the three basic safety functions of the IAEA safety standards: prevention of criticality, removal of decay heat and mitigation of radioactive releases. The tables replace the three-colour table that was used previously. The charts are cross-referenced to the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Roadmap plan to bring the nuclear reactors and the spent fuel pools at the Fukushima ...

Statement: Japanese civil society requests that the reports of the United Nations Scientific Committee on Fukushima be revised 日本の６４の市民団体が福島事故に関しての国連科学の報告内容を改訂するよう要請 www.http://hrn.or.jp/eng/a tivity/area/worldwide/japanese-civil-society-requests-that-the-reports-of-the-united-nations-scientific-committee-on-fukus/ Anand Grover, Esq., UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, criticizes UNSCEAR report on Fukushima -10/24/2013 (1 of 4)国連「健康に対する権利「の特別報告者のアナンドヵグローバー氏: 国連科学の報告を批判 Video - http://vimeo.com/78483070 October 24, 2013 (NYC, NY) *Medical experts criticize UNSCEAR report for playing down consequences of Fukushima nuclear accident ドイツの専門家が国連科学の報告書を ｡福島事故の影響を過小評価している｡と批判! ...

Summary of Reactor Status. On Monday, 2 May 2011, the IAEA provided the following information on the current status of nuclear safety in Japan:. 1. Current Situation. Overall, the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant remains very serious.. Changes to Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Status. The IAEA receives information from various official sources in Japan through the Japanese national competent authority, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA).. Management of On-site Contaminated Water. According to the 25 April evaluation by NISA of the report submitted by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), there is a little less than 70 000 tonnes of stagnant water with high-level radioactivity in the basement of the turbine buildings of Units 1, 2 and 3. The transfer of stagnant water from the turbine building of Unit 2 to the radioactive waste treatment facilities was resumed on 30 April.. Plant Status. On 27 April TEPCO provided an update of the estimated percentage ...

The government has reopened a section of National Route 6 running through part of the Hamadori region of Fukushima Prefecture, where residency is restricted due to radioactive contamination from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co. It opened the entire highway to traffic for the first time in three and a half years following the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. The move, effective as of midnight on Sept. 14, was announced on Sept. 12 by the governments local office addressing the nuclear accident. Read more. (Fukushima Minpo, 13 September 2014) ...

To evaluate the biological effect of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, relative differences in the growth of wild Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata) were measured before and after the disaster of 2011 in Fukushima City, which is approximately 70 km from the nuclear power plant, by performing external measurements on fetuses collected from 2008 to 2016. Comparing the relative growth of 31 fetuses conceived prior to the disaster and 31 fetuses conceived after the disaster in terms of body weight and head size (product of the occipital frontal diameter and biparietal diameter) to crown-rump length ratio revealed that body weight growth rate and proportional head size were significantly lower in fetuses conceived after the disaster. No significant difference was observed in nutritional indicators for the fetuses mothers. Accordingly, radiation exposure could be one factor contributed to the observed growth delay in this study.. Introduction. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power…. ...

Fukushima News. Summaries of the reports from Japans Press, which admits it is 94% antinuclear and calls the Fukushima accident a nuclear disaster.

Basic Principles of the Skilled Veterans Corps for Fukushima (SVCF) *. *Registered name; Skilled Veterans Corps for Fukushima (SVCF), formerly The Project for Preventing Accidental Discharge from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. The SVCF was established based on the proposition that retired engineers and skilled persons, who are less vulnerable to damage by radiation exposure due to their age, should be engaged in sorting things out at the nuclear power plants in Fukushima to reduce young generations exposure to radiation.. The SVCF consists of volunteers, as the organization intends itself to be unification of free wills, indifferent to thoughts, beliefs and sentiments of individuals. The principle applies to the controversy of nuclear power plants; amongst the corps are members both for and against them. The only bond that unites the diversified members is the common cause of bringing the nuclear disaster to an end.. Members are free to act on their own creed outside the corps and even ...

To date, all attempts to model or accurately measure the core damage and radiation releases from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the wake of the March 11th earthquake and tsunami have proved incomplete, unreliable, and admittedly unable to accurately replicate the sequence of events, largely due to the lack of information available […]. Still, much has been said about the radioactive releases from Fukushima Daiichi, but one thing remains certain; anyone who attempts to make definitive statements as to minimize the size or scale of the release can do no better than to offer some rudimentary stab at the issue, as the data released to date is woefully insufficient. What little recorded data has been published and peer reviewed has yielded some startling results, which may infer some insight into why so many pro-nuclear voices have been so quick and adamant in their downplaying of the disaster. […]. More recent studies have estimated that some 27.1 PBq of Cs-137 was ...

Scientists have issued a dire warning that the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant is at risk of a massive new earthquake.. Research using data from more than 6,000 recent tremors has found that last Marchs disaster has reactivated a seismic fault practically beneath the power station.. Now scientists are telling Japanese authorities to urgently shore up the damaged reactor in expectation of more massive quakes. Fukushima Daiichi was the scene of the worst nuclear disasters in history after it was damaged by the March 11, 2011, magnitude 9 earthquake and following tsunami.. But this tremors epicentre was about 100 miles from the site, off the coast of Japan, and a much closer one could occur in the future at Fukushima.. Dapeng Zhao, geophysics professor at Japans Tohoku University, said: There are a few active faults in the nuclear power plant area, and our results show the existence of similar structural anomalies under both the Iwaki and the Fukushima Daiichi areas.. Given that a large ...

Following up this article.. Malignant and possible malignant thyroid tumor of Fukushima children increased from 58 to 75 cases [URL]. Malignant and possible malignant thyroid tumor cases increased from 75 to 90 at the end of this March. Fukushima prefectural government announced on 5/19/2014.. Among 90 cases, 50 cases were confirmed as thyroid cancer.. The youngest child was 6 years old, the oldest child was 18 years old when 311 took place.. However the committee of experts stated it is hard to assume there is a connection with Fukushima nuclear accident.. http://www.pref.fukushima.lg.jp/uploaded/attachment/65174.pdf. http://ceron.jp/url/news.goo.ne.jp/article/jiji/nation/jiji-140519X151.html. ...

A year after the Fukushima nuclear accident, the emerging consensus among scientists is that its effects on physical health and the environment have so far been...

Christine Marran, Contamination: From Minamata to Fukushima http://japanfocus.org/-Christine-Marran/3526. • Matthew Penney, Nuclear Nationalism and Fukushima. • Fujioka Atsushi, Understanding the Ongoing Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima:A Two-Headed Dragon Descends into the Earths Biosphere. • Kodama Tatsuhiko, Radiation Effects on Health: Protect the Children of Fukushima. • Say-Peace Project and Norimatsu Satoko, Protecting Children Against Radiation: Japanese Citizens Take Radiation Protection into Their Own Hands. ·APJ Feature, Save the Children: Radiation Exposure of Fukushima Students. • Ishimure Michiko, Reborn from the Earth Scarred by Modernity: Minamata Disease and the Miracle of the Human Desire to Live. Notes. 1 Beck, Ulrich (2011) 「福島、あるいは世界リスク社会における日本の未来 [Fukushima, or the future of Japan in the World Risk Society], in Sekai, July, pp.68-73.. 2 Beck, Ulrich (1999) World Risk Society, Polity, Cambridge.. 3 McCormack, Gavan ...

VIENNA - The health impact of last years Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan appears relatively small thanks partly to prompt evacuations, the chairman of a U.N. scientific body investigating the effects of radiation said on Tuesday.. The fact that some radioactive releases spread over the ocean instead of populated areas also contributed to limiting the consequences, said Wolfgang Weiss of the U.N. Scientific Committee on the effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR).. As far as the doses we have seen from the screening of the population … they are very low, Weiss told Reuters. This was partly due to the rapid evacuation and this worked very well.. Weiss was speaking on the sidelines of a week-long meeting of 60 international experts in Vienna to assess for the United Nations the radiation exposures and health effects of the worlds worst nuclear accident in 25 years.. The March 11 disaster caused by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami wrecked the Fukushima plant on the coast north of ...

The Japanese reaction occurred after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. A nuclear emergency was declared by the government of Japan on 11 March. Later Prime Minister Naoto Kan issued instructions that people within a 20 km (12 mi) zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant must leave, and urged that those living between 20 km and 30 km from the site to stay indoors. The latter groups were also urged to evacuate on 25 March. Japanese authorities admitted that lax standards and poor oversight contributed to the nuclear disaster. The government came under fire for their handling of the emergency, including the slow release of data on areas which were likely to be exposed to the radioactive plume from the reactor, as well as the severity of the disaster. The accident is the second biggest nuclear accident after the Chernobyl disaster, but is more complicated as three reactors suffered at least partial meltdowns. Once a proponent of ...

An estimated 14,000 excess deaths in the United States are linked to the radioactive fallout from the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan, according to a major new article in the December 2011 edition of the International Journal of Health Services. This is the first peer-reviewed study published in a medical journal documenting the health hazards of Fukushima.Authors Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman note that their estimate of 14,000 excess U.S. deaths in the 14 weeks after the Fukushima meltdowns is comparable to the 16,500 excess deaths in the 17 weeks after the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986. The rise in reported deaths after Fukushima was largest among U.S. infants under age one. The 2010-2011 increase for infant deaths in the spring was 1.8 percent, compared to a decrease of 8.37 percent in the preceding 14 weeks.The IJHS article will be published Tuesday and will be available online as of 11 a.m. EST at http://www.radiation.org . Just six days after the disastrous meltdowns ...

Chernobyl can easily be discarded. The nuclear reactions in 1986 at Chernobyls core sped up when coolant was lost in a reactor whose design was opposite to Western standards. And, more importantly, Chernobyl lacked the massive steel-and-concrete containment structure common at Japanese and American plants. When the Chernobyl core began to burn, the plume easily stretched out into the atmosphere. Chernobyl was a dirty bomb.. Three Mile Island (TMI) has proven the better guide for Fukushima, though vitally that 1979 accident, near Middletown, Pa., on March 28, 1979, saw only one reactor in crisis, as opposed to Fukushimas three. Like Fukushima, the control rods at TMI worked properly, absorbing the subatomic particles that would cause more uranium to split and release energy. But also like Fukushima, TMIs cooling failed, allowing the radioactive elements remaining in the core to begin overheating.. Nearly half of TMIs core subsequently melted and slumped toward the bottom of its reactor ...

ABSTRACT. Several countries are developing and deploying SFRs even after the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Companys Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Station. However, the Fukushima accident prompted all countries to redefine the fast reactor programs. The drastic safety enhancement is the most important issue to be established. In light of this situation, key essence of the safety improvement is reviewed in this paper by referring the achievements of the recent International Workshop on Prevention and Mitigation of Severe Accidents in SFRs which was held by Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in June, 2012 and the findings published in the past journals including those of the International Conference on Fast Reactor and Related Fuel Cycles (FR09) held by IAEA in December, 2009.. 1. INTRODUCTION. Nuclear reactors have been developed since 1950s in various countries because they can deliver huge amounts of energy to both emerging ...

The 2011 Tohoku earthquake drastically changed human activities in parts of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The subsequent tsunami damage and radioactive fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant resulted in the abandonment of agricultural land and towns, allowing the expansion of wild mammal populations into areas previously inhabited by their domesticated relatives. This study examined possible hybridisation between wild boars and domesticated pigs in Fukushima. We analysed the mitochondrial DNA sequences of 75 wild boars collected from Fukushima populations between 2014 and 2016. While 71 boars had Asian boar haplotypes, four boars identified as wild boars phenotypically had mitochondrial genomes extremely close to that of European domesticated pigs, implying ongoing genetic contamination of wild boar populations from feral domesticated pigs. This suggests the need for detailed genetic monitoring using nuclear DNA markers and population management based on genetic data ...

What most people have use for though are Dosimeters you can buy a handheld radiation detector pretty cheap that are good addition to a survival kit. There are different kinds that you can use that will detect radiation. There are radiation badges that will tell you when radiation become high. Workers at nuclear power plants use these to inform them of how much radiation they have been exposed to. Now also children in the Fukushima prefecture have each been given a radiation badge so they know if they are exposed to radiation. Some come in the shape of a pen that you can carry in your pocket while other are made more compact so that you can attach them to your keychain. And then you have what is called a personal radiation monitor. These are also called Dosimeters and also normally called Geiger counters. Although not all use the Geiger-Muller Tube for the radiation detection some use a semiconductor instead. These and mostly the older geiger counters seen are pretty big to carry around, so they ...

On March 21, an external power supply was connected to the Fukushima Daiichi Plant. As of the morning of March 23, however, electrical power is not connected to various instruments. We still do not know when the circulation of the cooling water will be restored. Although the amount of heat resulting from radioactive decay will decrease over time, it is possible that the delicate balance between the heat release and the cooling may be lost. There is still a danger that molten fuel deposited at the bottom of the pressure vessel, or the containment vessel could melt through the bottom of these vessels. Alternatively, the cores of one or more reactors could go critical.. According to TEPCO, neutron radiation was observed on March 14 and 15. This might be an indication that nuclear fission, or criticality occurred. Criticality can occur not only within the reactors but also in the fuel storage pools. For example, if the earthquake damaged the storage racks which separate individual fuel rods (e.g., ...

After the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, there was confusion among the public caused by uncoordinated information about radiation provided by diverse channels. We explored the association between information sources regarding reconstruction progress after the disaster and mental fatigue in Fukushima. We used data from the annual public opinion survey by the Fukushima Prefectural Government on its policies from 2013 to 2015, which contained survey responses from 1,300 community residents randomly selected from the 28 municipalities in the Fukushima Prefecture. The survey contained a question assessing mental fatigue: How often do you usually feel mentally tired or depressed? In total, 2,130 participants (758 participants in 2013, 699 participants in 2014, and 673 participants in 2015) were analyzed. The respondents were classified as two categories, high mental fatigue and low mental fatigue, based on their responses to this question. Overall, the proportion of participants with high ...

The devastating tsunami triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011 inundated the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) resulting in a loss of cooling and a series of explosions releasing the largest quantity of radioactive material into the atmosphere since the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Although 80% of the radionuclides from this accidental release were transported over the Pacific Ocean, 20% were deposited over Japanese coastal catchments that are subject to frequent typhoons. Among the radioisotopes released during the FDNPP accident, radiocesium (134Cs and137Cs) is considered the most serious current and future health risk for the local population. ...

Figure 2: Categorization of Radioactive Sources.. What we learn from Fukushima. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns, and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, following the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011. The accident at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan released about 940 PBq (iodine-131 equivalent) of radioactive material, mostly on days 4 to 6 after the tsunami. In May 2013, United Nation Scientific Commission on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) reported that Radiation exposure following the nuclear accident at Fukushima-Daiichi did not cause any immediate health effects. It is unlikely to be able to attribute any health effects in the future among the general public and the vast majority of workers. The lessons that we should be learned from the accident at Japans Fukushima-Daichii nuclear power plant, are that emergency generators should be better protected ...

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A COLUMBAN missionary has witnessed a massive contamination clean-up in the Japanese region surrounding Fukushima, where a 2011 earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear power plant meltdown.. Fr Paul McCartin, recently visited the Fukushima region, six years after the nuclear disaster, and ahead of a government evacuation order being lifted at the end of this month, which will allow people to return home.. Arriving by bullet train at the town of Kouriyama, 60km west of Fukushima Number One Nuclear Power Plant, Fr McCartin said the first surprise was the large radiation monitor in front of the station.. Over the next three days I saw similar monitors in cities, beside country roads and along expressways, Fr McCartin, the Columban Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation co-ordinator in Japan, said.. He has worked in Japan since 1979 and visited the Fukushima last September.. I had taken face masks but our guides gave us better ones, he said.. We were told to make sure we washed our ...

Kyodo, Jul 14, 2017 (emphasis added): Fukushimas tritiated water to be dumped into sea, Tepco chief says - Despite the objections of local fishermen, the tritium-tainted water stored at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant will be dumped into the sea, a top official at Tokyo Electric says. The decision has already been made, Takashi Kawamura, chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., said in a recent interview with the media… As of July 6, about 777,000 tons were stored [1.54 billion pounds]… Kawamuras remarks are the first by the utilitys management on the sensitive matter…. The Independent, Jul 15, 2017: Radioactive waste from Fukushima power plant disaster to be dumped in sea - Water tainted with tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen, is to be released into the Pacific Ocean, says the head of the company responsible for the Fukushima clean-up operation… Local residents are furious at plans to release the radioactive tritium from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant, ...

ABSTRACT. A variety of environmental media were analyzed for fallout radionuclides resulting from the Fukushima nuclear accident by the Low Background Facility (LBF) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in Berkeley, CA. Monitoring activities in air and rainwater began soon after the onset of the March 11, 2011 tsunami and are reported here through the end of 2012. Observed fallout isotopes include 131I, 132I, 132Te, 134Cs, 136Cs, and 137Cs. Isotopes were measured on environmental air filters, automobile filters, and in rainwater. An additional analysis of rainwater in search of 90Sr is also presented. Last, a series of food measurements conducted in September of 2013 are included due to extended media concerns of 134,137Cs in fish. Similar measurements of fallout from the Chernobyl disaster at LBNL, previously unpublished publicly, are also presented here as a comparison with the Fukushima incident. All measurements presented also include natural radionuclides found in the ...

On 6/22/2013, Fukushima Diary reported (Not radiation effect) Anonymous Fukushima worker Cant stop blood, mucus and membrane from nose and mouth [URL]. In this post, Fukushima Diary reported he couldnt stop bleeding from his mouth and nose, and was suffering from strong fatigue.. On 7/1/2013, the anonymous worker commented on Twitter that doctor diagnosed his illness as mycoplasma pneumonia.. ,Translate,. Confirmed that it was mycoplasma pneumonia. My throat became inflamed and looked like a gastric ulcer.. ,End,. ...

We estimate the contamination risks from the atmospheric dispersion of radionuclides released by severe nuclear power plant accidents using the ECHAM/Modular Earth Submodel System (MESSy) atmospheric chemistry (EMAC) atmospheric chemistry-general circulation model at high resolution (50 km). We present an overview of global risks and also a case study of nuclear power plants that are currently under construction, planned and proposed in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, a region prone to earthquakes. We implemented continuous emissions from each location, making the simplifying assumption that all potential accidents release the same amount of radioactivity. We simulated atmospheric transport and decay, focusing on 137Cs and 131I as proxies for particulate and gaseous radionuclides, respectively. We present risk maps for potential surface layer concentrations, deposition and doses to humans from the inhalation exposure of 131I. The estimated risks exhibit seasonal variability, with the highest

Toshiba has unveiled a remote-controlled robot called the Fuel Removal System (FRS), which has been specially designed to help with the clean-up of Japans wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The Japanese government intends to begin decommissioning reactor 3, considered to be filled with harmful radiation, in 2017. The entire clean-up process is expected to take up to four decades and involves completing tasks that can be too dangerous for human beings. The nuclear power plant went into meltdown after being hit by a devastating tsunami in March 2011. The Japanese governments clean-up crew has been restricted to clearing surface debris as some parts of the power plant still have toxic levels of radiation.. IB Times 19th Jan 2016 read more ». World Nuclear News 18th Jan 2016 read more ». ...

No one is sure how to safely dispose of millions of gallons of highly radioactive water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. 'There is nothing like this, on this scale, that we have ever attempted to do before,' a U.S. expert says.

Storage tanks at car wash facilities near a crippled Japanese nuclear power plant contain sludge which is seven times higher than the legal radioactive limit, Japans Kyodo news agency reported Sunday. An inspection of car wash facilities in the Fukushima prefecture found sludge containing up to 57,400 becquerels of radioactive material per kilogram, compared with the limit of 8,000 becquerels per kilogram allowed by authorities, according to a document Kyodo obtained. The radioactive material is believed to come from ash and soot which was washed from vehicles shortly after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster in March 2011, officials said. The six-reactor plant suffered a triple meltdown after it was hit by a magnitude-9 earthquake and resulting tsunami. Fukushima Prefecture has some 1,700 car wash facilities where a growing number of tanks are filled to capacity, officials said, adding the amount of polluted sludge is estimated at several thousands of tons. Last month the ...

Kelp off California was contaminated with short-lived radioisotopes a month after Japans Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant accident, a sign that the spilled radiation reached the states coastline, according to a new scientific study. Scientists from CSU Long Beach tested giant kelp collected off Orange County, Santa Cruz and other locations after the March 2011 accident and detected radioactive iodine, which was released from the damaged nuclear reactor. [...] giant kelp concentrates radioactive iodine - for every 1 molecule in the water, there would be 10,000 in its tissues. The level of radioactive iodine found there - 2.5 becquerel per gram of dry weight - was well above levels sampled in kelps prior to the Fukushima release, according to the paper, published online in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. In the marine environment, it was significant, but probably not harmful at the levels we detected it, except it may have affected certain fishs thyroid systems. The EPA measured

Firms from Russia, Canada and the USA have been chosen to demonstrate their technology for cleaning up tritium-containing liquid radioactive waste at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc., selected bids...

TOKYO - The second major typhoon in a month made its way out of Japan on Thursday after triggering landslides and floods that left at least 16 people dead or missing but sparing a crippled nuclear plant from major damage.. There had been concerns that Typhoon Roke could pose more problems for the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, which was sent into meltdown by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, but officials said the plant weathered the storm without major incident.. Hiroki Kawamata, spokesman for plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co., said several cameras set up to monitor the plant were damaged, but there had been no further leaks of radioactive water or material into the environment.. We are seeing no problems so far, he said.. Police and local media reported 16 people dead or missing because of the storm, most swept away by rivers swollen with rains in the southern and central regions. One person died in a landslide in northern Iwate prefecture and two people were swept away in ...

Introduction. Fukushima report The worlds? continents are situated on several tectonic plates around the world, which are up to 100km thick or thicker, which move with molten magma under the earths crust in the mantle. The plates can translate ? slide past each other, converge ? slide into each other or diverge ? slide away from each other. These movements cause natural disasters that greatly impact cities and countries. There are around 1,000,000 natural disasters that occur each year. Science has come up with solutions today to predict and/or limit the amount of destruction and damage caused by natural disasters. The Eurasian plate is situated in the Pacific Ocean, Japan lies on the edge of the plate. In March 11 2011, a major earthquake hit 100km of the coast of Japan. The worst affected area was Fukushima, a prefecture located on the north Eastern Island of Honshu, facing the Pacific Ocean. The earthquake was 9.0 on the Richter scale, the largest in Japanese history. The city of Fukushima ...

Fairewinds Chief Engineer, Arnie Gundersen and Entergy Senior Vice President for Engineering, Tim Mitchell, sit down with Vermont Edition to discuss the Japanese Fukushima Daiichi plant and how it compares to Vermont Yankee. The failed Daiichi reactors are virtually identical to Vermont Yankee. Problems with the Mark 1 containment and resulting containment leakage have been a focus of Gundersens concerns for years.

As with many feature films based on real-life incidents, Fukushima 50, which opened nationwide March 6 and depicts the actions of the men who struggled to contain the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant following the Great East Japan Earthquake of ... ...

May 17 (Tue ), 2011 The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo is transmitting the following Travel Alert that was issued by the Department of State in Washington DC. May 16, 2011 This Travel Alert replaces the Travel Alert for Japan dated April 14, 2011. The U.S. Government is updating its recommendation on the safe use of the Tohoku Expressway and the Tohoku Shinkansen Railway through the 50-mile evacuation area. Using the same analysis we would use in a similar situation in the United States, the U.S. Government believes it is safe for U.S. citizens to use the railway and expressway for transit through the area. Other portions of this Travel Alert remain unchanged from the Alert published on April 14. This Travel Alert expires on July 15, 2011. Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant The assessment of technical and subject matter experts across United States Government agencies is that while the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi plant remains serious and dynamic, the health and safety risks to areas beyond the ...

Japan may set standards for long-term radiation exposure that would effectively extend the evacuation zone around the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a top government official said Thursday, as a strong new aftershock rattled the area

Nagasaki, Japan. I was at the end of my institute graduation course in Moscow when the accident at Chernobyl power station happened in April 1986. In part my education included an extensive program of radiation protection allowing me to better understand how serious the situation was. Since 2000 I have been working in Nagasaki University focusing mostly on radiation-induced thyroid carcinogenesis. It was hard to believe that the second large-scale radiological accident in my life took place in Japan, in the country where I am working, like 25 years ago, and how similar the reactions on the accident could be despite the difference in time and place. Undoubtedly, from March 11, 2011 our attention was primarily riveted on the tragedies caused by tsunami but soon we realized that this was not all yet and that there is a mounting crisis at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima.. Considering Chernobyl and Fukushima, there are some obvious traits in common. Both have been accidents at the nuclear power ...

Scientists at Rice University and Kazan Federal University in Russia have developed inexpensive, oxidized carbon particles that extract radioactive metals from water. They said their materials may help purify contaminated waters stored after the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident.

Fukushimas Minami-soma has a ten-centuries-long tradition of holding the Soma Nomaoi (chasing wild horses) festival to celebrate the horses great contribution to human society. Following the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in the wake of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, local people were forced to flee the area. Rancher Shinichiro Tanaka returned to find his horses dead or starving, and refused to obey the governments orders to kill them. While many racehorses are slaughtered for horsemeat, his horses had been subjected to radiation and were inedible. Yoju Matsubayashi, whose Fukushima: Memories of the Lost Landscape is one of the most impressive documentaries made immediately after the disaster, spent the summer of 2011 helping Tanaka take care of his horses. In documenting their rehabilitation, he has produced a profound meditation on these animals who live as testaments to the tragic bargain human society made with nuclear power.. ...

David McNeill meets a nuclear worker who sees it as his duty to save the stricken plant even if it means an early grave Atsushi Watanabe (not his real name) is an ordinary Japanese man in his 20s, about average height and solidly built, with the slightly bemused expression of the natural sceptic. Among the crowds in Tokyo, in his casual all-black clothes, he could be an off-duty postman or a construction worker. But he does one of the more extraordinary jobs on the planet: helping to shut down the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. That job, in a complex that experienced the first triple-reactor meltdown after Japans 11 March earthquake and tsunami, means he will never marry or raise a family for fear of health problems down the line, and may not even live to see old age. But he accepts that price. There are only some of us who can do this job, he says. Im single and youn g and I feel its my duty to help settle this problem.. Independent 26th July 2011 more ,,. Has the Fukushima ...

Fukushima Residents Plagued by Health Fears of Nuclear Threat in their Midst Justin McCurry (in Fukushima) guardian.co.uk, Friday 9 March 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/09/fukushima-residents-plagued-health-fears A year after the power plants triple meltdown, conflicting official information leaves families confused and fearful for their future The noise levels soar inside Fukushima citys youth centre gymnasium as dozens of nursery school children are let loose on bouncy castles and pits filled with plastic balls. The handful of teachers and volunteers on duty are in forgiving mood: for the past year, the Fukushima nuclear accident has robbed these children of the simple freedom to run around. Instead, anxious parents and teachers have confined them to their homes and classrooms, while scientists debate the possible effects of prolonged exposure to low-level radiation on their health. Many parents wont let their children play outside, even in places where the radiation isnt ...

The darkness is broken only by the flashing torchlight of the heroes who stayed behind. These first images of inside the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant reveal the terrifying conditions under which the brave men work to save their nation...

Nuclear and radiological mass-casualty incidents are significant risks to deployed military personnel and civilian populations. Disasters such as those at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, emphasize the need for available and effective therapeutic options to mitigate and treat the damaging effects of exposure to lethal doses of ionizing radiation. There are currently more than 100 countries without adequate monitoring systems or regulatory control in place to discourage terrorist groups from obtaining radioactive material, detonating a dirty bomb, or using radiological dispersal devices. In the worst-case scenario, an improvised nuclear device, radiological dispersal device or dirty bomb would be detonated in a densely populated city, inciting not only panic, fear, injury and death but also an array of other medical issues arising from the blast, radioactive fallout and extreme heat. The large number of individuals affected by these events would ...

On March 9, 2012, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced that it directed its staff to issue three Orders, which are effective immediately, to United States commercial reactor plants. According to the NRC, this expedited mandate attempts to implement lessons learned from the accident at Japans Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.. Two of the Orders will apply to every U.S. commercial nuclear power plant, including those under construction and the recently licensed new Vogtle reactors. More specifically, the first Order requires the plants to better protect safety equipment installed after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and to obtain sufficient equipment to support all reactors at a given site simultaneously.. The second Order requires the plants to install enhanced equipment for monitoring water levels in each plants spent fuel pool.. The third Order applies only to U.S. boiling-water reactors that have Mark I or Mark II containment structures. These reactors must improve ...

FUKUSHIMA: Pacific Ocean Will Not Dilute Dumped Radioactive WaterAccording to Previously-Secret 1955 Government Report:By Washingtons BlogGlobal Research, June 1, 2012Washingtons BlogThe operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has been dumping something like a thousand tons per day of radioactive water into the Pacific ocean.Remember, the reactors are

Introduction Following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, the European Council declared that the safety of all EU nuclear power plants should be reviewed on the basis of a comprehensive and transparent risk assessment (Stress test). This review was later expanded to nuclear installations other than nuclear power plants. Based on th ...

Humankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, explosion, incineration, courtroom contempt and drowning of its most lethal industry. We know only two things for certain: worse is yet to come, and those in charge are lying about it---at least to the extent of what they actually know, which is nowhere near enough. Indeed, the assurances from the nuke power industry continue to flow like the floodwaters now swamping the Missouri Valley heartland. But major breakthroughs have come from a Pennsylvania Senator and New Yorks Governor on issues of evacuation and shut-down. And a public campaign for an end to loan guarantees could put an end to the US industry once and for all. FUKUSHIMA: The bad news continues to bleed from Japan with no end in sight. The light at the end of the tunnel is an out-of-control radioactive freight train, headed to the core of an endangered planet. Widespread internal radioactive contamination among Japanese citizens around Fukushima has now been confirmed.

The abstract: The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) accident was one of the worst nuclear disasters in human history and resulted in widespread radiation contamination over large habitable areas. Several studies have documented the distribution of radionuclides in soil samples and animal organs throughout the contaminated region. However, assessing how such contamination affects the health of living organisms requires different techniques. One key consequence of ionizing radiation is the induction of DNA damage. One type of DNA damage, the double-strand break (DSB) can be sensitively quantitated utilizing the induced phosphorylation of histone H2AX at DSB sites. The creation of a DNA DSB in eukaryotic cells is generally accompanied by the formation of hundreds of phosphorylated H2AX (γ-H2AX) molecules in the chromatin flanking the DSB site. Antibodies to γ-H2AX allow the visualization of a focus at the DSB site. These foci form the basis of many biodosimetry assays used in both ...

Acknowledging what he called a difficult situation, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said Friday that the government was helping to facilitate movement from the zone between 20-to-30 kilometers of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The threat of a fission explosion at the Fukushima power facility emerged today when the roof of the number three reactor exploded and fears that a spent fuel pool, located over the reactor, has been compromised. The pool, designed to allow reactor fuel to cool off for several years, was constructed on top of the Fukushima reactors instead of underground. As of 2010, there were 3450 fuel assemblies in the pool at the number three reactor. The destruction of the number three reactor building has experts concerned about whether the spent fuel storage pool, which sits just below the roof, could have survived intact the hydrogen explosion. The explosion was much more severe than Saturdays blast at the number one reactor.. !ADVERTISEMENT! As massive amounts of seawater are pumped by fire trucks into Fukushimas failing nuclear reactors and cooling ponds, the radioactive waste water, now laden with a variety of radioisotopes, is being flushed into the sea.. Just how much danger the spent fuel pool ...