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On June 8th it was confirmed that there had been yet another leak from the spent fuel storage pool (Figure 1) at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant. The location of the leak was a corner...
1. What was the Mihama-3 accident? Nearly a year has passed since a pipe ruptured in the secondary system of Kansai Electric Power Company’s (KEPCO) Mihama-3 reactor (PWR, 826 MW, commenced operation 1976). The...
This article begins with a follow-up on the report in NIT 101 about cracks in the Ohi-3 (PWR, 1,180 MW) reactor vessel head, then reports on the cracks that were discovered later in the...
The inescapable conclusion that must be drawn from the Mihama-3 accident is that the full length of the piping in nuclear power plants must be checked at regular intervals. This, however, is a conclusion...
Tombstones toppled by the earthquake. Tombstones have long been used as an idicator of the strength of earthquakes. They are still used to gauge the strength of earthquakes that occurred before seismic...
Five years have passed since the JCO criticality accident at Tokai Village. Two people died, compared to the five people who died in the Mihama-3 accident. At the time of the JCO accident Tokyo...
Five Killed in Mihama-3 Accident v Mihama Nuclear Power Plant across the bay. As most people will be aware from reports in the mainstream media, on August 9th, the 59th anniversary of the...
Magpie News a running report on the Mihama-3 accident by Hosokawa Komei The reports posted below proceed from the most recent one. Scroll down to see older reports. The content of this page was...
On May 4th, during routine inspections of Ohi-3 (Fukui Prefecture, Ohi Town (see map), Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR), 1,180 MW), a build up of white powder was detected around the area where the...
Sloppy management has been revealed at Tokyo Electric Power Companys (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi, Fukushima Daini (Fukushima Prefecture) and Kashiwazaki/Kariwa (Niigata Prefecture) Power Stations. Examples include tools, plastic sheets and other ‘foreign objects’ being thrown...