Fukushima and the ‘Recovery Olympics’
by Caitlin Stronell (CNIC) The Japanese government’s so-called ‘Recovery Olympics’ are looking sicker by the day. Even PM Abe has finally begun to hint that the Olympics may not be able to go ahead...
Category: Contamination
Report on Environmental Radiation Dose Rate Measurements in Fukushima area
by Ban Hideyuki, CNIC Co-Director On May 11, 2011, the author set out to investigate radiation dose rates in the environment. At that time, we had chosen to conduct an investigation starting from the...
Disturbing Plutonium Exposure Accident
Plutonium Dust Release at Japan Atomic Energy Agency’s Oarai Research and Development Center Fuel Research Building At around 11:15 on June 6, 2017, a plutonium release and exposure accident occurred in an analytical lab...
Fukushima Daiichi NPS today- 5 years since the disaster began ~Nuke Info Tokyo No. 170
1) After 5 years, still very little is known about the causes and effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster A whole five years will soon have passed since the severe accident occurred at...
Contaminated Water Woes at Fukushima Daiichi Is Seepage Control Possible Using a “Frozen Earth Barrier”? Nuke Info Tokyo No. 162
The struggle with contaminated water (Photo by TEPCO) The Battle to Contain Contaminated Water The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) has serious water contamination problems. Water injected to cool the nuclear fuel has...
Report of the Iitate Villagers’ Early-stage External Radiation Exposure Assessment Project Nuke Info Tokyo No. 160
Tetsuji Imanaka Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University As we reported in the March/April 2013 issue of Nuke Info Tokyo (No. 153), we started on a project entitled “Assessment of the Initial Radiation Exposure to...
State of Agricultural Research on Radioactive Contamination Nuke Info Tokyo No. 159
The Fukushima nuclear disaster caused radioactive substances to be spread widely throughout the environment, and many foods were contaminated with radioactivity. Currently, even though three years have passed since the accident, the mechanisms of...