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Unit 3 Receives New Turbine Building Cover

September 22, 2020 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, cover, decommissioning, rainwater, turbine building, unit 3, water

The unit 3 turbine building suffered roof damage during the 2011 explosion at that reactor. A temporary cover had been

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91 Bags Of Contaminated Fukushima Soil Washed Away In Typhoon

November 3, 2019 Editor 0 Comments 2019, contaminated, fukushima, soil, typhoon hagibis, washed away

NHK is reporting that 90 bags of contaminated soil floated away in a river during Typhoon Hagibis. 25 of those

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TEPCO Admits Almost 200 Billion Bq In Undeclared Water Contamination

August 20, 2018August 19, 2018 Editor 0 Comments alps, contaminated, dumping, fukushima, ocean, TEPCO, tritium, water

Kyodo News wrote about a new admission at Fukushima Daiichi. The ALPS water decontamination systems are not removing almost all

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New Fukushima Contaminated Soil Storage Sits On River Banks

November 8, 2017November 5, 2017 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, fukushima, futaba, interim storage, Okuma, soil

The new interim storage site designated for longer term storage of radioactive contaminated soil near Fukushima Daiichi has opened for

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NRA Puts Stop To Plan To Reuse Contaminated Soil

January 10, 2017 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, environment, fukushima, NRA, roads, soil

Japan’s Environment Ministry had a plan. They were going to solve the problem of the massive piles of radioactive soil

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Public To Shoulder Fukushima Decontamination Costs While Waste Piles Up

December 21, 2016December 21, 2016 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, fukushima, japan, law, soil, TEPCO

As of early December 2016 there were more than 9 million radioactive waste bags piled up in Fukushima prefecture alone.

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Fukushima Fish Still Contaminated

December 13, 2016 Editor 0 Comments 2016, contaminated, fish, food, fukushima, radiation

Asahi Shimbun published a fairly misleading article last week where they claimed radiation in Fukushima fish was not detected. This

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Fukushima Soil Road Reuse Plan Ignores Significant Risks

June 13, 2016June 11, 2016 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, fukushima, japan, recycle, reuse, roads, soil

The government plan would take any contaminated soil under the 8000 bq/kg hazardous waste limit and use it to build

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TEPCO Curiously Avoids Prosecution On Contaminated Water Leak

April 4, 2016April 3, 2016 Editor 0 Comments case, contaminated, court, drainage, INES, NRA, pacific, prosecution, tanks, TEPCO, water

A court case that went after TEPCO for causing a major contaminated water leak, part of which leaked to the

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Two New Leaks At Fukushima Daiichi

March 29, 2016March 28, 2016 Editor 0 Comments 2016, alps, contaminated, fukushima, incinerator, leak, water

Two new leaks happened at Fukushima Daiichi recently. Both were contained within the buildings where they happened. The first was

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Japanese Govt. To Reuse Fukushima Contaminated Soil

December 22, 2015 Editor 0 Comments construction, contaminated, fukushima, nuclear, recycling, reuse, soil, storage, waste

The Environment Ministry has announced they plan to “reuse” contaminated soil in public construction projects. Last week they announced that

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Fukushima Unit 1 Discharge Canal Begins Filtration

November 30, 2015 Editor 0 Comments canal, contaminated, discharge, filter, tailrace, unit 1, water

The discharge canal of unit 1 has been the site of ongoing high levels of contamination since the initial disaster.

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Fukushima Contaminated Mushrooms Found In Stores

September 29, 2015 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, food, fukushima, gunma, mushrooms

Four samples of mushrooms being sold in stores in Gunma Japan were found to be contaminated with cesium 134 &

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Environment Ministry To Move Fukushima Soil Bags

September 24, 2015 Editor 0 Comments bags, contaminated, flood, fukushima, soil

The Environment Ministry has said they would move contaminated soil bags housed near rivers or alternatively “tie them with ropes”

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Japanese Govt. To Return Contaminated Soil Storage Land To Owners

September 23, 2015September 24, 2015 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, farm, fukushima, land, Minamisoma, return, soil

Land borrowed in Minamisoma for storing bags of contaminated soil is going to be “returned” to the land owners it

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Fukushima Contaminated Soil Bags Washed Away In Floods

September 11, 2015 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, flood, fukushima, iitate, soil

NHK is reporting that bags on contaminated soil and debris in Iitate Village were washed away in the recent flooding.

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TEPCO To Finish Closing Sea Wall By End Of October

September 9, 2015September 9, 2015 Editor 0 Comments closure, contaminated, fukushima, piling, sea wall, steel, water

TEPCO announced the timeline to close the steel piling sea wall. This wall has been under construction for years. An

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New Contaminated Japanese Tea Found In Taiwan

June 22, 2015 Editor 0 Comments cesium, contaminated, food, japan, taiwan, tea, Testing

Taiwan’s FDA published some new radiation testing results in the last week. On June 16, 2015 they found two samples

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Fukushima Radiation Found In Tap Water Around Japan

May 18, 2015May 15, 2015 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, fukushima, japan, tap, tokyo, water

Testing conducted in February and March of 2015 found cesium in many tap water samples collected around Japan. While the

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Radioactive Japanese Tea Found In Hong Kong

March 15, 2015March 15, 2015 Editor 0 Comments 2014, cesium, contaminated, fukushima, green, hong kong, Japanese, radioactive, tea

Hong Kong’s government Center For Food Safety, found a series of radioactive Japanese tea samples in 2014. The findings are

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TEPCO Under Fire For Leaks At Fukushima Daiichi

February 25, 2015 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, daiichi, fukushima, leaks, unit 2, water

TEPCO has again been receiving growing criticism over their handling of contaminated water at the plant. The first leak, from

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TEPCO Begins Concreting Unit 3 Trench

February 5, 2015 Editor 0 Comments concrete, contaminated, fukushima, trench, unit 3, water

TEPCO concreted the unit 3 trench in some unannounced work at Fukushima Daiichi. The unit 2 cable trench had been

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Japan NRA Admits Fukushima Daiichi Still Leaking Into Pacific

January 27, 2015 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, daiichi, fukushima, leaks, sea, water

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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4158 bq/kg Mushrooms Found In Tochigi Prefecture

December 7, 2014 Editor 0 Comments 2014, cesium, contaminated, food, japan, mushrooms, tochigi

Mushrooms from Tochigi prefecture tested and found to have 4158 bq/kg of cesium. The test was recently completed and shows

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Fukushima Groundwater Contamination Rises To Nearly Double Previous Reading

October 29, 2014 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, fukushima, sea front, water

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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TEPCO To Try Two New Tactics To Stem Radioactive Tide At Fukushima Daiichi

August 20, 2014 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, decontamination, frozen trench, Fukushima Daiichi, groundwater, hitachi, sub drain, water

Efforts to freeze a trench near unit 2 in order to remove highly radioactive water has continued to have problems.

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Fukushima Contaminated Water Problems Worsen

August 9, 2014 Editor 0 Comments alps, contaminated, fukushima, subdrain, trench, water

TEPCO announced this week that they wanted to begin pumping up water from the sub drains near the reactor buildings.

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TEPCO Claims ALPS Decontamination System To Be Operational By End Of Year

July 31, 2014July 31, 2014 Editor 0 Comments alps, contaminated, fukushima, pacific, water

TEPCO hopes to have two new installations of ALPS completed in September and October of this year. The company is

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TEPCO’s Bolt Together Tanks Were Known To Leak Before Installation

July 24, 2014July 23, 2014 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, fukushima, leaking, tanks, water

The manufacturer that sold TEPCO used bolt together tanks for use at Fukushima Daiichi said that the tanks were known

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NRA Discovers Major Radioactive Tank Leak At Fukushima Daiichi

June 5, 2014June 5, 2014 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, fukushima, leak, tanks, water

TEPCO missed it but NRA officials that were at the plant found a 4 ton leak of radioactive water. Not

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Fukushima Reactor Water Leak Sources Admitted By TEPCO

May 2, 2014May 1, 2014 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, fukushima, nonukes, nuclear, pacific, water

Buried in the most recent Roadmap document is some useful information about how and where reactor water is leaking out

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Fukushima Highly Radioactive Water Accidentally Released From Reactor Basement

April 14, 2014April 14, 2014 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, fukushima, radioactive, spill, water

TEPCO has admitted that highly radioactive water from reactor building basements was pumped out of the buildings into the basements

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TEPCO To Resume Dumping Groundwater Into The Sea At Fukushima Daiichi

March 25, 2014 Editor 0 Comments bypass, contaminated, fukushima, pacific, water

TEPCO has obtained permission from two local fishing cooperatives to dump contaminated groundwater into the Pacific. The cooperatives said they

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SimplyInfo.org Fukushima Proposals To Be Validation Tested In Japan

March 21, 2014 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, Corium, daiichi, fukushima, IRID, METI, mitsubishi, proposals, validation, water

METI announced today in an email and press release that four ideas brought about by the IRID call for proposals

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Fukushima 3rd Anniversary; Technical Report – Water

March 10, 2014March 10, 2014 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, fukushima, leaks, pacific, tanks, water

Contaminated water issues dominated TEPCO’s work and reporting out of the plant. The ALPS system intended to remove some of

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SimplyInfo.Org Zeolite Plan To Be Tested At Fukushima Daiichi

January 31, 2014January 31, 2014 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, daiichi, fukushima, IRID, leaks, wall, water, west valley, zeolite

NHK is reporting that the government task force and TEPCO will implement one of our submitted ideas at the plant.

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ALPS Still Not Meeting Targets, Operation Date Uncertain

January 14, 2014January 14, 2014 Editor 0 Comments alps, contaminated, daiichi, fukushima, NRA, toshiba, water

NRA is saying that ALPS is still not meeting the radiation removal targets claimed for the system. A problem with

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TEPCO Releases More Details About Frozen Wall

January 14, 2014 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, daiichi, frozen, fukushima, pacific, wall, water

TEPCO released a short video (in Japanese) giving more information about the test run of the frozen wall technology. The

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More Cesium 137 Found In Gourmet & Organic European Jam Brands

January 10, 2014June 17, 2015 Editor 0 Comments blueberry, cesium 137, chernobyl, contaminated, european, food, fukushima, jam

Have some cesium 137 with your toast. Most people assume that organic jam or even better yet, European gourmet or

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First Implementation Of Ice Wall Will Allow Emptying Of Highly Contaminated Trench Water

January 4, 2014January 4, 2014 Editor 0 Comments contaminated, daiichi, frozen, fukushima, ice, trench, wall, water

NHK reports that the test operation of the ice wall technology done earlier in December will enable them to isolate

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