Akiko Fukushima

Japan’s environment and nuclear minister visited the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant on Saturday to inspect a spent fuel pool at the center of safety concerns and said it appeared to have been properly reinforced. The visit by Goshi Hosono, apparently aimed at demonstrating the safety of the facility, came amid renewed concerns about conditions at the plant’s No. 4 reactor after its operator reported a bulging of the building’s wall. Nuclear regulators ordered a new...Read Full Story

Fukushima Unit 3 ☢ Two Theories - 福島第一原発3号機 GoddardsJournal さんが 2011/05/04 にアップロード In this Unit-3 update the fact that Unit 1 had weaker upper-deck walls is considered as a possible causal factor in the differences between the Unit 1 and 3 explosions. Also considered is how the stronger walls of Unit 3 might have helped a hydrogen explosion initiate a prompt criticality.本ユニット-3アップデートでは1号機は弱い上部デッキの壁を持っていたという事実は、ユニット1と3の爆発の違いの可能性因果因子として考えられている。また、3...Read Full Story

Asia Bizz: Japan is still trying hard to make communities inhabitable again by cleaning up the radiation contaminated areas. Workers in rubber boots at the frozen ground are digging away to remove five centimetres of radioactive soil from a yard of a single home. The total amount of waste gathered is roughly 60 tons and still more scrap has to be cleared; but the wind and the rain are the two factors that spread the radiation easily and giving workers a hard time. It is indeed a massive task...Read Full Story

Operators at Japan’s earthquake and tsunami-ravaged Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant ushered journalists clad in protective clothing through the plant on Monday, just weeks ahead of the first anniversary of the March 11 disasters. Reporters from about 30 Japanese and foreign media organizations entered the wrecked facility by bus and were allowed to leave the vehicle once. All carried respiration masks and radiation detectors, as they heard the plant’s director apologize to nearby...Read Full Story

STORY HIGHLIGHTS The wild monkeys will wear a collar fitted with GPS and a device to measure radiation Scientists want to assess the impact of radiation leaks following the Fukushima crisis An earthquake and tsunami in March led to radiation leaks from the Fukushima Daiichi plant Tokyo (CNN) -- Wild monkeys are to be used to assess the impact of radiation on wildlife in a Japanese forest following the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, a scientist said Wednesday. Takayuki...Read Full Story