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No charges for TEPCO in Fukushima meltdown disaster
Japanese prosecutors have decided not to indict former officials of Tokyo Electric Power, the operator of the tsunami-stricken nuclear power plant at Fukushima, over their roles in the accident there in March 2011, Japan’s public broadcaster reported Monday. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/world/asia/japan-no-indictments-over-fukushima-accident.html?ref=world Naoto Kan, who was prime minister at the time of the accident, will also not be […]
Fukushima on the verge of irreparably polluting the Pacific
The Japanese nuclear energy watchdog raised the incident level from one to three on the international scale that measures the severity of atomic accidents. This was an acknowledgement that the power station was in its greatest crisis since the reactors melted down after the tsunami in 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23779561 Some nuclear experts are concerned that the […]
Even more bad news from Fukushima
The operator of Japan’s tsunami-crippled nuclear power plant said Tuesday that about 300 tons of highly radioactive water have leaked from one of the hundreds of storage tanks there — its worst leak yet from such a vessel. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/08/20/world/asia/ap-as-japan-nuclear.html?hp&_r=0 Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the contaminated water leaked from a steel storage tank at the […]
Fukushima will leak radiation into the sea forever
The Japanese prime minister directed his government on Wednesday to step in to help stabilize the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, after continuing radiation leaks exposed the failure of the plant’s operator to contain the problem more than two years after a triple meltdown. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/world/asia/fukushima-nuclear-plant-radiation-leaks.html?hp&_r=0 Some 300 tons, or about 75,000 gallons, of contaminated groundwater […]
Preparing for a meltdown at Fukishima reactor no. 3
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant stood ready Thursday to inject boric acid into one of its most heavily damaged reactors after it found steam emanating from the reactor building. The preventive measure would stave off sustained nuclear reactions in the reactor’s damaged core. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/world/asia/steam-detected-at-damaged-fukushima-reactor.html?hp&_r=0 Remote camera footage Thursday showed steam escaping […]
Fukishima leaking radiocative material into sea
The stricken nuclear power plant at Fukushima has probably been leaking contaminated water into the ocean for two years, ever since an earthquake and tsunami badly damaged the plant, Japan’s chief nuclear regulator said on Wednesday. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/11/world/asia/japanese-nuclear-plant-may-have-been-leaking-for-two-years.html?ref=world In unusually candid comments, Shunichi Tanaka, the head of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, also said that neither his […]
Nuclear risk from Fukushima grows
Toxic water has leaked from an underground storage pool at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, the plant’s operator said Sunday, two days after it reported a much larger leak from a similar storage pool. three liters, or just over three quarts, of water was believed to have leaked from the No. 3 pool, where highly […]
Dirty Babylon 