TEPCO Admits Unit 2 Trench Concrete Work May Be Failing
NHK reports that the work to concrete in the unit 2 trench may not be working as planned. The work
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TEPCO Declares Effort To Drain Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 Trench Futile
TEPCO drained 200,000 liters of water out of the unit 2 trench after they declared the end near the turbine
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TEPCO Begins Draining Unit 2 Trench Of Radioactive Water
TEPCO has finally begun draining the Unit 2 trench of highly radioactive water. The trench was found to contain highly
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Unit 2 Frozen Trench Installation Begins At Fukushima Daiichi
Work has begun to freeze the unit 2 trench at Fukushima Daiichi. This has been a problematic area since the
Read moreSimplyInfo.org Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 Extended Report 2015 – German Translation
SimplyInfo.org Fukushima Daiichi Block 2 Bericht 2015 (deutsche Übersetzung) Das SimplyInfo Research Team Dean Wilkie – Autor Edano San MD
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SimplyInfo.org Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 Extended Report 2015
SimplyInfo.org Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 Report 2015 By The SimplyInfo Research Team Dean Wilkie – Author Edano San MD –
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TEPCO Begins Concreting Unit 4 Trench At Fukushima Daiichi
TEPCO has begun concreting in the seawater piping trench for unit 4 at Fukushima Daiichi. The work has been on
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TEPCO Begins Concreting Unit 3 Trench
TEPCO concreted the unit 3 trench in some unannounced work at Fukushima Daiichi. The unit 2 cable trench had been
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TEPCO’s Trench Saga Could Have Unintended Consequences
TEPCO has made multiple attempts to deal with the unit 2 trench full of highly contaminated water. In 2011 they
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Fukushima Trench Freezing Failures & Tactics Technical Report
Update: Added table of sea water data at the end and another TEPCO handout on the work released this week.
Read moreUnit 2 Scope Results; What We Found
The second unit 2 scope project has been completed. TEPCO has released this PDF report on the project. Now in English here.
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SimplyInfo.org; Annual Report – Reactor Technical Developments
This is one section of our annual report, the full report can be found here. We will be posting a
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Possible Causes Of Fukushima Frozen Wall Failures
TEPCO reported last week that roughly 10% of the frozen wall is not working. Currently only certain sections are being
Read moreSimplyInfo.org; Fukushima News Roundup, July 12, 2015
NRA has begun work to consider BWR (boiling water reactors) for potential restarts. The initial push for restarts has
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SimplyInfo.org Fukushima Disaster Four Year Report
It has been four years since the massive triple disaster struck Japan. In some ways much has changed, in others,
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Japan NRA Admits Fukushima Daiichi Still Leaking Into Pacific
The head of Japan’s NRA stated that the contaminated water at Fukushima Daiichi is continuing to seep into the ground
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Fukushima Daiichi Seafront Well Radiation Skyrockets
Well number 1-12 experienced an over 50 times increase in radiation this week. The well sits between the unit 1
Read moreSimplyInfo.org Fukushima & Nuclear News Roundup, Nov 30, 2014
Transformer explosion in switching yard takes down Tihange nuclear reactor in Belgium http://www.lameuse.be/1159492/article/2014-11-30/tihange-des-cables-electriques-en-feu-a-cote-de-la-centrale-nucleaire-une-explos Fukushima workers still in murky labor contracts:
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Fukushima Groundwater Contamination Rises To Nearly Double Previous Reading
Seafront well 1-6 began to rise again after it had begun to drop after the most recent typhoon. It nearly
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What May Be Causing The New Reactor Building Leak At Fukushima Daiichi
TEPCO admitted last week that some subdrain pit wells at the Fukushima Daiichi plant showed a large increase in contamination.
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TEPCO To Try Two New Tactics To Stem Radioactive Tide At Fukushima Daiichi
Efforts to freeze a trench near unit 2 in order to remove highly radioactive water has continued to have problems.
Read moreSimplyInfo.Org; Fukushima & Nuclear News Roundup 8.3.2014
Gov’t raises max allowable ambient radiation level in nuclear disaster cleanup zones http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20140731p2a00m0na022000c.html TEPCO is now dumping 15 tons of
Read moreWater Related Decommissioning
Data coming soon Frozen Wall Work TEPCO admitted a few weeks ago to METI that the trench freezing
Read moreWhat Is Going On At Fukushima Daiichi Right Now
TEPCO tends to bury bits of information among obscure sources while pushing their distraction of the day at the public.
Read moreFuku Leaks
Now that the truth is at least partially public knowledge, the Japanese government is stepping in to help at Fukushima
Read moreNews Archive
News articles newer than 2013 can be found in our Dropbox archive. If you need downloadable copies of any of
Read moreTEPCO’s Video Dump All Files Here
These are the videos from TEPCO’s recent video dump. Some were previously released and others were not. TEPCO states these
Read moreThe Condensate Storage Tanks At Fukushima Daiichi
There have been questions about the role the condensate storage tanks played in the early hours of the disaster at
Read moreSeismic Activity & Reactor Safety: Lessons From Japan
This post was authored and provided by Peter Melzer, it originally appeared on his blog. Seismic Activity & Reactor Safety:
Read moreNews Roundup for June 19 2011
News Roundup for June 19 2011 TEPCO to open doors on unit 2 TEPCO tightens radiation tests for workers 4
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