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Leaking Radioactive Water at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant The rising tide of contaminated water and TEPCO’s makeshift countermeasures Nuke Info Tokyo No. 154

Figure 1. Photos of an underground tank for contaminated water (Photos by TEPCO) The constantly increasing amount of radioactive water stored at the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is...

Anti-Nuke Who’s Who Kenichi Hasegawa, Dairy farmer maintaining visual records of Iitate Village since the Fukushima nuclear crisis Nuke Info Tokyo No. 153

by Noboru Kobayashi* Mr. Kenichi Hasegawa (Photo by Noboru Kobayashi) Kenichi Hasegawa was born and raised in Iitate Village and has lived continually in the village in Fukushima Prefecture since he was born there...

Problems emerge in operations to bring the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident to an end, and in decontamination operations Nuke Info Tokyo No. 153

We demand the abolition of the multi-layer subcontractor system and the provision of jobs and wages for workers whose total accumulated radiation exposure has exceeded the official limit Two years have passed since the...

An Attempt to Estimate Early-stage Radiation Exposure Dose at the Location of Every Household in Iitate Village, Fukushima Nuke Info Tokyo No. 153

Independent Study for Determining Early-stage External Radiation Exposure and Thyroid Exposure due to Inhaled Radioiodine Tetsuji Imanaka, Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University Immediately after the occurrence of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in March...