Showing posts with label NHK News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NHK News. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Radiation of 10 Sieverts Per Hour Detected Between Reactors 1 and 2 at Fukushima

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The measurements were made yesterday and reported here and here . Just 2 sieverts in an hour can be fatal.
Friday, June 24, 2011

Fukushima Prefecture Residents Have Absorbed 3.2 MilliSieverts Between March and May

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According to this story . The total is over 3 times the annual limit, in just 2 months, while Americans typically get 6.2 millisieverts per ...

Fukushima City Checks Radiation at Over 1000 Sites, 6 Are Above 3.4 MicroSv/Hr

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The city itself is 60 km inland from the nuclear power plant on the coast. Reported here . The levels are over 30 times normal, three months...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

Fukushima Cooling Water Requirements Total 500 Tons Per Day

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The water gets contaminated with radioactivity and must be stored on site. A new system to decontaminate this water was unsuccessfully teste...
Saturday, June 4, 2011

Robot at Fukushima Reactor 1 Finds Crevice in Floor, Steam and Highest Radiation Yet Measured in Air Pouring From It

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NHK World has the story here : The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says steam was observed coming out of the floor o...
Friday, May 27, 2011

Holes/Cracks in Fukushima Reactor Pressure Vessels/Containments Estimated at 3-10 Centimeters

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So reported NHK World on Wednesday, here : Tokyo Electric Power Company analyzed the changes in pressure levels inside the pressure and cont...

Fukushima Waste Water Treatment Facility is Leaking

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So says this report , which indicates that the water in question had been transferred from the Unit 3 reactor's turbine building and tun...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

Fukushima Reactor 1 Melting Fuel Rods Put Small Holes in Pressure Vessel by 3/12

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According to a report at NHK World here , and The Wall Street Journal here . Without quick action to pour on water and keep it on, it would ...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Areva To Build Water Decontamination Capability at Fukushima, Operable By June

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Capable of processing 1200 tons of contaminated radioactive water per day, according to the story at NHK World here . Long live the French!
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Vermont Wants to Shut Down Yankee Nuke Plant, Lawsuit Filed

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The reactor is of the same design as at Fukushima and is already 40 years old.  Read more about it, here .
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Reactor 2 Suppression Pool Abnormalities Blamed For Bulk of Radiation Release

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Over a two day period beginning the morning of March 15. This according to the Nuclear Safety Commission in Japan, as reported here . The le...

Radiation in Namie Town at 34 Millisieverts in Just 25 Days

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From March 11 to April 5. As reported here : 34 millisieverts of radiation had accumulated over that period at one location in Namie Town, a...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Japan Expands Evacuation Zone Due To Expected Annual Radiation of 20 Millisieverts

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A month after the accident at Fukushima, the future is clear: there will be radiation problems 20 to 30 km around the nuclear plant for the ...

Namie, Japan, Radiation 14 Millisieverts in 17 Days, In Iitate 8 Millisieverts

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The source is believed to be cesium, with a very long half-life (a generation) compared to radioactive iodine (a week). An American gets on ...
Saturday, April 9, 2011

New Video: Fukushima Daiichi Swamped by 15m Tsunami, Designed for 5.7m

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Story and video here : [T]he tsunami reached up to 15 meters on the ocean side of the reactor and turbine buildings. The figure is far beyon...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Radiation in Namie, Japan, Approximately 37.88 Microsieverts Per Hour

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As reported here  (but you have to do the math of 10 mSv divided by 264 hours times 1000): On Monday, the [Japanese] government announced th...

Radiation Next to Reactor Buildings 100 Millisieverts Per Hour, Inside Off the Scale

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So reports NHK World, here : A radiation monitor at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says workers there are exposed to imm...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Is the Plutonium Story Being Sensationalized?

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To read the online papers, like ABC News ( here ), you'd think the detection of plutonium around the Fukushima reactors indicates a melt...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Radiation in Namie, Japan, Has Risen From 0.161 to 1.4 mSv/hour

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According to this report : The Science Ministry says a reading of 1.4 millisieverts was taken on Wednesday morning in Namie Town northwest o...

Coast of Minami-sanriku Was Hit By 52 Foot Tsunami

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Reported here .