Five Killed in Mihama-3 Accident Nuke Info Tokyo No. 102
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...
Category: Accident
a running report on the Mihama-3 accident by Hosokawa Komei
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...
Cracks in reactor vessel head at Ohi-3 Nuke Info Tokyo No. 101
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...
Revelations of sloppy management at nuclear power stations Nuke Info Tokyo No. 99
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...
Perspective from 4th Anniversary of the JCO Criticality Accident Nuke Info Tokyo No. 97
Since the criticality accident of September 30th 1999, the inside of the conversion test building, the site of the accident, has been closed to the public. In September, four years after the accident, JCO...
Looking Back Over a Year of TEPCO’s Cover-up Nuke Info Tokyo No. 97
On August 29 last year, an announcement was made about the long-term cover-up regarding cracks in the reactor shroud. Over the following year numerous horrifying facts have been revealed one after another. The fragility...
Workers’ Radiation Exposure from Replacing Reactor Core Shroud and Recirculation System Pipes Nuke Info Tokyo No. 96
This article reports on the levels to which utility workers exposed from the replacement of reactor core shroud and recirculation system pipes based on the data that was made public by the request from...
Myth of TEPCO’s Power Shortage: Tokyo can survive without nuclear power! Nuke Info Tokyo No. 96
*The power supply capacity is compiled according to TEPCO’s data. In addition, TEPCO could increase its supply capacity provided by outside of TEPCO’s facilities, not reflected in offcial data. As of August 31, 11...
All 17 of TEPCO’s units shut down Nuke Info Tokyo No. 94
Anti-nukes celebrate the shutdown of 17 nuclear plants in front of the TEPCO building on April 15 Tokyo Electric Power Company Inc. (TEPCO) shut down all of its nuclear power plants (NPPs) for...
Revelation of Endless N-damage Cover-ups Nuke Info Tokyo No. 92
the “TEPCO scandal” and the adverse trend of easing inspection standards There has been a series of significant nuclear accidents over the past few years. To name a few, there was the Monju sodium...