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Pressure Drop at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1

February 21, 2021 Editor 0 Comments 2021, Containment, damage, earthquake, Fukushima Daiichi, japan, Pressure, unit 1, water

More problems from the recent earthquake in Fukushima Prefecture are being found. Water leaks were discovered at units 1 and

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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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SimplyInfo.org; A Fukushima Update 10.10.19

October 10, 2019October 10, 2019 Editor 0 Comments daiichi, daini, fukushima, restarts, tsunami wall, uranium, water

We round up recent news from Fukushima Daiichi and related events. TEPCO has continued to delay the completion of a

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TEPCO Releases Fukushima Waste Stream Data

November 5, 2018 Editor 0 Comments alps, building, daiichi, debris, fukushima, radiation, Testing, water

TEPCO released a report in July on various waste streams at Fukushima Daiichi. This rather dry sounding report contains some

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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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TEPCO Adds Low Tech Water Injection to Unit 3 Spent Fuel Pool

March 23, 2018March 23, 2018 Editor 0 Comments injection, spent fuel pool, unit 3, water

TEPCO published a handout covering the recent worker training for a rather low tech system to refill unit 3’s spent

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1 Billion USD Lawsuit Over Hitachi Fukushima Cleanup Contracts

September 1, 2016 Editor 0 Comments contract, daiichi, fukushima, hitachi, lawsuit, purolite, water

Purolite company based in the US has sued Hitachi for 1 billion USD in a US court over theft of

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NRA Tells TEPCO To Reduce Radioactive Water In Reactor Buildings At Fukushima

July 20, 2016 Editor 0 Comments buildings, fukushima, NRA, reactor, water

NRA has instructed TEPCO to deal with the radioactive water in the reactor building basements at Fukushima Daiichi. The request

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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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Fukushima Pacific Plume Reaches Predicted Levels

December 4, 2015December 4, 2015 Editor 0 Comments 2015, california, fukushima, ocean, pacific, plume, radiation, rossi, sea, US, water

A press release from Woods Hole announced today that new radiation readings for the Pacific off the North American coast

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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 Unit 3 New Hatch Investigation

November 27, 2015November 27, 2015 Editor 0 Comments 3d, fukushima, hatch, inspection, leaks, robot, unit 3, water

TEPCO sent the small 3D printed robot equipped with a smart phone into inspect the unit 3 containment hatch a

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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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Fukushima Tritium Removal Technology Moves To Next Phase

September 9, 2015 Editor 0 Comments daiichi, fukushima, tritium, water

Industry insiders and the IAEA told Japan to just dump their tritium laced water at Fukushima Daiichi into the Pacific.

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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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Unit 1 Basement Shows Highly Contaminated Water Remains

April 7, 2015April 6, 2015 Editor 0 Comments basement, daiichi, fukushima, radiation, unit 1, water

TEPCO is making an effort to lower the water level in some of the basement rooms of the unit 1

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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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Fukushima Daiichi Updates From IRID Part 3; Testing The Goo

November 19, 2014November 17, 2014 Editor 0 Comments cement, Containment, daiichi, fukushima, IRID, plug, water

IRID has made some progress on their research to find ways to seal the containment structures at Fukushima Daiichi. The

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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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ALPS 2.0 Begins Test Operations At Fukushima Daiichi

September 17, 2014September 17, 2014 Editor 0 Comments alps, daiichi, decontamination, fukushima, multi nuclide, water

The new and improved version of ALPS has begun test operations. TEPCO announced the first of the two units has

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2nd ALPS Decontamination System Installed At Fukushima Daiichi

August 28, 2014 Editor 0 Comments alps, daiichi, decontamination, fukushima, toshiba, water

A second ALPS decontamination system is being installed at Fukushima Daiichi and will begin test operations in early September. NRA

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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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Welded Water Tanks Installed At Fukushima Daiichi

July 1, 2014June 29, 2014 Editor 0 Comments daiichi, fukushima, water, welded tanks

Welded water tanks to replace the miles of leaking bolt together tanks at Fukushima Daiichi are being installed. The tanks

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TEPCO Admits Deep Groundwater Contamination & Leak To Sea

June 26, 2014June 26, 2014 Editor 0 Comments contamination, deep layer, groundwater, pacific, TEPCO, water

TEPCO has been doing further groundwater investigations at the plant including testing for contamination at various depths to understand what

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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 Frozen Wall Scandal

May 6, 2014May 5, 2014 Editor 0 Comments bypass, frozen wall, groundwater, METI, TEPCO, water

The Japanese government began funding this project after it was discovered TEPCO had realized the need, yet hid the problem

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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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Prefabricated Tanks Installed At Fukushima Daiichi

April 19, 2014April 18, 2014 Editor 0 Comments daiichi, fukushima, installation, prefabricated, storage, tanks, water

As part of the efforts by the government and METI to improve the contaminated water problem at Fukushima Daiichi new

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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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Fukushima Unit 1 To Undergo Spent Fuel Pool Desalination

April 4, 2014 Editor 0 Comments desalination, spent fuel pool, unit 1, water

TEPCO reported they will now remove the salt from the unit 1 spent fuel pool. Maybe you are asking why

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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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Big Fukushima Daiichi Update; March 18, 2014

March 18, 2014 Editor 0 Comments daiichi, fukushima, tanks, technical, water

Small bits of information have been coming out in recent weeks regarding Fukushima Daiichi. Here’s what you need to know:

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METI Working On Tritium Disposal For Fukushima Daiichi

March 17, 2014March 17, 2014 Editor 0 Comments disposal, fukushima, METI, TEPCO, tritium, water

While the IAEA is busy trying to convince the public yet again that TEPCO should dump contaminated water into the

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