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Onagawa Unit 2 Shut Down During Restart Due to Problems The Unit 2 reactor of Tohoku Electric Power Co.’s Onagawa Nuclear Power Station (BWR, 825 MW) was restarted on October 29 to resume...
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Fukushima Now (27) Part 2, Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (February to July 2024)
By Matsukubo Hajime State of the Plant The water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel pools (SFPs) shows no great variation despite seasonal temperature changes. The state of releases of...
Fukushima Now (27) Part 1, Troubles Continue – But Will They Manage to Complete the Decommissioning?
By Yamaguchi Yukio I. Thirteen and a half years have passed since the unprecedented catastrophe of the Fukushima nuclear accident. While reflecting on the deep sadness experienced by people who have lost their...
CNIC Statement: Is there any point in the fuel debris sample collection at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 2?
September 10, 2024 On September 10, 2024, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) began collecting samples of the debris [1] at Unit 2 of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. However, it is not...
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Genkai Town, Saga to Accept Literature Review Mayor Wakiyama Shintaro of Genkai Town, Saga Prefecture expressed acceptance on May 10 of a literature review. This is a step toward the town’s selection as...
Overview of Water Treatment Secondary Waste Issues at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
By Masano Atsuko Work to clear up the mess from the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (below, Fukushima Daiichi) operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, In. (below, TEPCO) has run...
Updates on the 311 Children’s Thyroid Cancer Trial
Ido Ken’ichi, Attorney 1. Introduction I wrote about the filing of the 311 Children’s Thyroid Cancer Suit in the March/April 2022 issue of Nuke Info Tokyo. cnic.jp/english/?p=5973 In this report I introduce how...
Current State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
(Oct. 2023 to Jan. 2024) By Matsukubo Hajime (CNIC) State of the Plant The water temperature in the containment vessels and the spent fuel pools (SFPs) shows no great variation despite seasonal temperature changes....
Two Accidental Exposure Incidents at Fukushima Daiichi
By Ban Hideyuki (CNIC Co-Director) Two accidents resulting in internal exposures occurred recently at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, where decommissioning work is in progress. The first was on October 25, 2023...
High School Students Looking Squarely at and Communicating about the Nuclear Accident
By Watanobe Yoshihiro, Fukushima Prefectural Soma High School Teacher A radio documentary program was produced by the Fukushima Prefectural Soma High School Broadcasting Station (the so-called Broadcasting Club) in June 2011. The program, entitled...