Tag Archives: decommissioning

TOUCHING FROM A DISTANCE The workers of Fukushima Daiichi　via Metropolis

Posted on 2018/09/28 by nfield

By Andrew Deck […] Since our day began at the edge of the exclusion zone in Tomioka, Fukushima, we had passed through half a dozen security checkpoints and received a full-body scan to measure internal radiation, a baseline reading for … Continue reading →

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‘Serious Near Miss’ Accident at San Onofre Sparks NRC Investigation via 7 San Diego

Posted on 2018/09/27 by nfield

By JW August A “serious near miss” accident at the San Onofre Nuclear power plant could have been catastrophic.  On August 3, a steel canister filled with hot nuclear waste was being lowered twenty feet into underground storage at San Onofre … Continue reading →

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SURFERS TAKING A STAND AGAINST SAN ONOFRE’S NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE via Surfer Magazine

Posted on 2018/08/31 by nfield

If you surf along the coast of Southern California, you’re likely aware that Southern California Edison is working to transport large amounts of spent nuclear fuel from the now-offline San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) into onsite dry-cask storage. The … Continue reading →

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Final fuel-removal exercise starts for problem-plagued Monju reactor via The Japan Times

Posted on 2018/08/19 by nfield

[…] The JAEA will launch actual fuel removal operations this month if it finds the work can be conducted safely. It was initially planned to begin late last month but was postponed after problems plagued the equipment test. In the … Continue reading →

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The San Onofre nuclear plant is a ‘Fukushima waiting to happen’ via Los Angeles Times

Posted on 2018/08/15 by nfield

By Steve Chappell Southern California Edison is keeping 3.6 million pounds of lethal radioactive waste at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant in San Clemente. The waste poses a significant threat to the health, safety and economic vitality of the … Continue reading →

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Monju reactor project failed to pay off after swallowing ¥1.13 trillion of taxpayers’ money: auditors via The Japan Times

Posted on 2018/05/11 by nfield

[…] The trouble-plagued prototype, which only ran for 250 days, was designed to play a key role in Japan’s quest to set up a nuclear fuel recycling program, but the project only achieved 16 percent of the intended results, the … Continue reading →

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Unplanned Shutdown of Doel NPP’s Reactor Takes Place in Belgium　via Sputnik

Posted on 2018/04/23 by nfield

BRUSSELS (Sputnik) – The ENGIE Electrabel company operating the Doel nuclear power plant (NPP) in northern Belgium said on Monday that it had decided to halt the activities of a reactor at the NPP ahead of the schedule. According to ENGIE … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Keeps on Polluting, Long After Shutdown via Counterpunch

Posted on 2018/04/17 by nfield

By John LaForge Last month, the La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor, on the banks of the Mississippi River in Wisconsin, was found to be leaking radioactive tritium (the radioactive form of hydrogen) into the groundwater. Again, clean, safe, cheap nuclear … Continue reading →

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FirstEnergy plans to shut down Beaver County nuclear plant via WPXI.com

Posted on 2018/04/17 by nfield

[…] Two other plants in Ohio are also scheduled for closure. Combined, the three plants generate about two-thirds of the electricity produced by FirstEnergy Solutions, the press release said. The Beaver County plant, which went online in 1976, employs about … Continue reading →

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Drone to map radiation within Fukushima plant via World Nuclear News

Posted on 2018/02/27 by nfield

A small drone is to be deployed to measure radiation levels at the damaged reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The UK-developed RISER – Remote Intelligence Survey Equipment for Radiation – has already been used successfully at Sellafield, … Continue reading →

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