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Fukushima Daiichi adds Insult to Injury for the Pacific’s Coral Reefs.
Fukushima Daiichi adds Insult to Injury for the Pacific’s Coral Reefs. As the El Niño builds to a terrifying crescendo, that won’t peak before April 2024, the Pacific’s Coral Reefs will become stressed, and a bleaching event will unfold as it did in the 2016 El Niño. What is our response? TEPCO and the Japanese government […]
Fukushima Takes a Turn for the Worse
Fukushima Takes a Turn for the Worse Photograph Source: IAEA Imagebank – CC BY 2.0 Tokyo Electric Power Company-TEPCO- has been attempting to decommission three nuclear meltdowns in reactors No. 1 No. 2, and No. 3 for 11 years now. Over time, impossible issues grow and glow, putting one assertion after another into the anti-nuke coffers. […]
Japan Set To Release 1.2 Million Tons Of Radioactive Fukushima Water Into Ocean, Causing “Immeasurable Damage”
Japan Set To Release 1.2 Million Tons Of Radioactive Fukushima Water Into Ocean, Causing “Immeasurable Damage” Just in case a global viral pandemic, whose sources are still unclear and apparently now include human feces, wasn’t enough, the global outrage meter is about to go “up to eleven” with Japan now set to flood the world’s oceans […]
Japan Proposes Dumping Radioactive Waste Into Pacific As Storage Space Dwindles
Japan Proposes Dumping Radioactive Waste Into Pacific As Storage Space Dwindles As the decade comes to an end, the future of nuclear power in the west remains in doubt. Almost nine years ago, a powerful underwater earthquake triggered a 15-meter tsunami that disabled the power supply and cooling at three of the reactors at the […]
Contaminated Fukushima Water Storage Tanks “Close To Capacity”, TEPCO Admits
Contaminated Fukushima Water Storage Tanks “Close To Capacity”, TEPCO Admits The Tokyo Electric Power Company is running out of container space to store water contaminated by tritium outside the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, and it’s also running out of room for building more tanks, according to Yomiuri Shimbum, a Japanese newspaper, which is […]
Locals Furious At Plan To Dump Radioactive Water From Fukushima Into Pacific Ocean
Locals Furious At Plan To Dump Radioactive Water From Fukushima Into Pacific Ocean In the latest sign that the area surrounding the destroyed Fukushima power plant is far from ready for the return of human inhabitants, locals and fishing groups are criticizing a plan to release water containing radioactive tritium from the ruined Fukushima power […]
Fukushima Aborts Latest Robot Mission Inside Reactor; Radiation At “Unimaginable” Levels
Fukushima Aborts Latest Robot Mission Inside Reactor; Radiation At “Unimaginable” Levels Two years after sacrificing one robot, TEPCO officials have aborted their latest robot mission inside the Fukushima reactor after the ‘scorpion’ became unresponsive as it investigated the previously discovered hole where the core is believed to have melted. A “scorpion” robot sent into a Japanese nuclear reactor […]
TEPCO Admits Fukushima Radiation Levels Reach Record Highs As Hole In Reactor Discovered
TEPCO Admits Fukushima Radiation Levels Reach Record Highs As Hole In Reactor Discovered With just 3 years left until the 2020 Olympics, Japan is likely desperate to reassure the world’s athletes that all is well, but an admission from TEPCO – the Fukushima nuclear plant operator – that they discovered a hole at least one square meter in […]
Former-PM Admits “Future Existence Of Japan Was At Stake” As Mutations Appear In Fukushima Forest
Former-PM Admits “Future Existence Of Japan Was At Stake” As Mutations Appear In Fukushima Forest “The future existence of Japan as a whole was at stake,” admits Japan’s prime minister at the time of the 2011 quake and tsunami, revealing that the country came within a “paper-thin margin” of a nuclear disaster requiring the evacuation of 50 million […]
Fukushima’s 5th Year of Full-Blown Crisis
Fukushima’s 5th Year of Full-Blown Crisis March 11th is the 5th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Japan’s NHK broadcaster recently conducted a poll of how citizens feel about nuclear power. According to NHK’s poll results, over 70% are in favor of completely or partially abandoning nuclear power plants. Nothing too surprising about that, but […]
Fukushima Amplifies Murphy’s Law
Fukushima Amplifies Murphy’s Law Murphy’s Law has found a permanent home in Fukushima: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” For instance, only recently, radioactive cesium in tunnels at Fukushima suddenly spiked by more than 4,000 times similar measurements from one year ago. This spooky/huge spike in radiation levels hit 482,000 Becquerels per liter. […]
Declassified U.S. Government Report Prepared a Week After Fukushima Accident: “100% of The Total Spent Fuel Was Released to the Atmosphere from Unit 4”
Declassified U.S. Government Report Prepared a Week After Fukushima Accident: “100% of The Total Spent Fuel Was Released to the Atmosphere from Unit 4” We reported in 2011 that the International Atomic Energy Agency knew within weeks that Fukushima had melted down … but failed and refused to tell the public. The same year, we reported in […]
TEPCO Admits Fukushima Radiation Leaks Have Spiked Sharply
TEPCO Admits Fukushima Radiation Leaks Have Spiked Sharply Just weeks after the completion (and failure) of one supposed ‘containment’ wall (and as the construction of the “ice wall” begins), TEPCO, the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, has admitted that the levels of radioactivity in underground tunnels has risen sharply (4000x last year’s levels). As NHKWorld reports, TEPCO officials […]
Inspired By Game Of Thrones, TEPCO Resumes Building “Ice Wall” Around Fukushima
Inspired By Game Of Thrones, TEPCO Resumes Building “Ice Wall” Around Fukushima 14 Months after abandoning the “Game of Thrones”-esque frozen-water-wall containment plan for Fukushima, Bloomberg reports that TEPCO expects to begin freezing a soil barrier by the end of the year to stop a torrent of water entering the wrecked Fukushima nuclear facility, moving a step closer to […]
Fukushima police sends nuclear contamination case against TEPCO execs to prosecutors
Fukushima police sends nuclear contamination case against TEPCO execs to prosecutors Water tanks storing radiation contaminated water are seen at Tokyo Electric Power Co’s (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture. © Shizuo Kambayashi / Reuters Fukushima police have finally reacted to a criminal complaint filed against TEPCO and 32 of its […]
