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Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for February 3rd – February 6th, 2012 Filed under: Environment News Visit the original post at: Environment News © admin for Eco Friendly, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Feed enhanced b…

If you’re going to rely on nuclear energy, it’s a very, very bad idea to rely on for-profit companies who have every incentive to cut corners and cover up. Can anyone honestly say they still believe anything TEPCO says? Not a great position for Jap…

From an email I received: Spent fuel assembly storage at Fukushima Dai-ichi at the time of the earthquake and tsunami gives the following figures Spent Location Fuel Assemblies Unit 1 292 Unit 2 587 Unit 3 514 Unit 4 1,331 Unit 5 946 Unit 6 876 Spent F…

… cannot be achieved with machines, labour and materials. What I’m talking about concretely is the Fukushima nuclear power plant. As you probably know, at least three of the six nuclear reactors damaged by the earthquake and tsunami have not yet be…

Cooling of Fukushima Daiichi unit 2 has been upset by a change in injection rates, leading to a rise in temperature that Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) is working to gradually correct.Source : World Nuclear NewsExplore : Asia, Business, Energy a…

Water temperatures at Japan’s damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant have risen more than 20 degrees Celsius over the past week.Source : The TelegraphExplore : Asia, Energy, Japan, Nuclear Energy, World

Researchers working around Japan’s disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant say bird populations there have begun to dwindle, in what may be a chilling harbinger of the impact of radioactive fallout on local life. In the first major study of the impact…

Tokyo Electric Power Co. injected boric acid into a reactor at its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to prevent an accidental chain reaction known as re- criticality after temperatures rose in the past week.Source : Business WeekExplore : Asia, Japan, …

Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com Japanese companies spent $70 billion on acquisitions overseas in 2011—a record . Healthcare was the largest sector, $20.6 billion. Armed with a ferociously strong yen, they’re trying to escape the pressures at h…

[As always, apologies for the ad.] One man refuses to leave his home in Japan’s mandatory evacuation zone near Fukushima. CNN’s Kyung Lah reports. Japan exclusion zone’s lone resident Technorati Tags: Fukushima , Japan , Asia , infrastructure failure ,…

How Much Fuel Is at Risk at Fukushima? http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/how-much-fuel-is-at-risk-at-fukushima.htmlSource : Michele Kearney’s Nuclear WireExplore : Asia, Japan, World

In the confusion following the earthquake and tsunami last March that damaged Japan’s Fukushima nuclear complex, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it was standing by to help. But a trove of e-mails posted on the NRC’sWeb site shows an agency s…

Fukushima Reactors Heating Up Again … Water Fails to Cool Them Down from zero hedge by George Washington By Washington’s BlogSource : Michele Kearney’s Nuclear WireExplore : Asia, Japan, World

Just when you thought it was over, the temperature at reactor number 2 at Fukushima’s nuclear plant has soared 26.7C in the last few hours. Worse: they don’t know why the temperature is increasing after being stabilised for so long. The reactor rea…

Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant crisis was one of the most severe environmental disasters of the past year – and now it appears that it’s far from over, as the temperature at reactor number 2 just soared up 26.7 degrees Celsius in the past …