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IAEA Document Reveals Concerns Over Fukushima Communications via Nuc Net

Posted on 2013/08/28 by yukimiyamotodepaul

28 Aug (NucNet): The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has told Japan to consider producing an “appropriate communications” plan to explain the safety significance of incidents at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant and to avoid sending “possibly confusing” messages to the … Continue reading →

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Russia Offers Fukushima Cleanup Help as Tepco Reaches Out via Bloomberg

Posted on 2013/08/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] As Tokyo Electric pumps thousands of metric tons of water through the wrecked Fukushima station to cool its melted cores, the tainted run-off was found to be leaking into groundwater and the ocean. The approach to cooling and decommissioning … Continue reading →

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[audio] Radiation leaks at Fukushima are unquantifiable, scientists say via WBEZ

Posted on 2013/08/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Shortly after the 2011 earthquake in Japan, the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant experienced equipment failures that prompted radioactive leaks. Those leaks, scientists now say, are much worse then imagined. “We’ve been saying since 2011 that the reactor site is still … Continue reading →

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Japan Races To Contain Worst Fukushima Spill Since Meltdown via the Wall Street Journal

Posted on 2013/08/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Leak Is Prompting Fresh Scrutiny of Handling of Nuclear Site Japan is scrambling to contain its worst spill of contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant since its 2011 meltdown, drawing fresh scrutiny to its handling of the site. TOKYO—Japan … Continue reading →

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Tank Has Leaked Tons of Contaminated Water at Japan Nuclear Site via the New York Times

Posted on 2013/08/21 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TOKYO — Three hundred tons of highly contaminated water has leaked from a storage tank at the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on Japan’s Pacific coast, its operator said Tuesday, prompting regulators to declare a “radiological release incident” for … Continue reading →

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Wrecked Fukushima plant springs highly radioactive water leak via Chicago Tribune

Posted on 2013/08/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TOKYO (Reuters) – Contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation is leaking from a storage tank at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the most serious setback to the clean up of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. The storage … Continue reading →

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Cesium levels in Fukushima water 8 times higher than after disaster via the Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2013/08/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Tokyo Electric Power Co. has reported finding radioactive cesium levels in underground water at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant that is eight times greater than what it recorded right after the accident. TEPCO, which operates the facility, … Continue reading →

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About 300 tons of contaminated water leak into sea per day from Fukushima via The Voice of Russia

Posted on 2013/08/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

A Japanese government official said an estimated 300 tonnes of contaminated water is leaking into the ocean per day from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged on Wednesday to step up government efforts to stem … Continue reading →

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Fukushima fishermen forced to test fish for radiation via Reuters

Posted on 2013/06/01 by kojimaaiko

(Reuters) – Dozens of crabs, three small sharks and scores of fish thump on the slippery deck of the fishing boat True Prosperity as captain Shohei Yaoita lands his latest haul, another catch headed not for the dinner table but … Continue reading →

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Rising radioactive spills leave Fukushima fishermen floundering via Reuters

Posted on 2013/05/31 by yukimiyamotodepaul

(Reuters) – Dozens of crabs, three small sharks and scores of fish thump on the slippery deck of the fishing boat True Prosperity as captain Shohei Yaoita lands his latest haul, another catch headed not for the dinner table but … Continue reading →

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