Laaska news Dec. 9, 2011
Rising amounts of water which has low-levels of radioactivity is starting to be a burden for the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
The utility was considering releasing the water into the sea but it postponed the decision due to strong protests from the fishery industry. Read more…
Laaska News Nov. 10,2011
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says the explosion of the facility’s Number 4 reactor on March 15th was caused by a backflow of hydrogen from an adjacent building. Read more…
Laaska News Nov. 6 ,2011
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun removing radioactive cesium from water in the spent fuel pool of one of the damaged reactors.
Laaska News Nov. 2 ,2011
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has poured water containing boric acid into the No. 2 reactor.
The move followed the detection of a radioactive substance, xenon, in the reactor’s containment vessel, indicating that nuclear fission may have resumed. Read more…
Laaska News Oct. 25,2011
Japan’s Atomic Energy Commission says a nuclear accident could raise the cost of power generation by up to 1 yen per kilowatt-hour, but the total cost would still be lower than other forms of power generation. Read more…
Laaska News Oct. 23,2011
Tokyo Electric Power Company has released new footage of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. It reveals the progress made over the 7 months since the March 11th disaster.
Laaska News Oct. 18,2011
The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says the water-injection system, which has external pipes, is the area that’s most likely to cause possible problems in future. Read more…
Laaska News Oct. 17,2011
A covering of thick polyester sheets has been attached to steel frames at the damaged No.1 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Tokyo Electric Power Company plans to complete the covering and verify its effectiveness by the end of October. Read more…
Laaska News Oct. 13,2011
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says the facility could be kept safe even if its reactor-cooling system is knocked out by another huge earthquake. Read more…
Laaska News Oct. 10,2011
The operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says the level of hydrogen in a pipe at the No. 1 reactor has become low enough to make an explosion unlikely. Read more…
Laaska News Oct. 9,2011
New footage of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi plant has been released by the Tokyo Electric Power Company. No steam is seen leaving the No.2 and 3 reactors, which indicates that internal temperatures have dropped. Read more…
Laaska News Oct. 8,2011
The operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Saturday afternoon began to remove hydrogen that has built up in pipes connected to the No.1 reactor. Read more…
Laaska News Oct. 7,2011
The Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, has started sprinkling decontaminated water on the premises of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
TEPCO on Friday began spraying the water onto trees cut down and piled on Read more…
Laaska News Oct. 5,2011
In response to the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the government instructed the nation’s power companies on March 30 to take urgent safety measures to prevent damage from tsunami. Read more…
Laaska News Oct. 4,2011
The Japanese government says it will check the radiation levels in the environment at 5 municipalities outside the 20-kilometer no-entry zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Read more…
Laaska News Sept. 29,2011
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says that high densities of hydrogen have built up in pipes connected to the No. 1 reactor.
Tokyo Electric Power Company says that an explosion is unlikely as there is no oxygen in the pipes, but that it will begin work to drain the gas starting on Thursday. Read more…
Laaska News Sept. 29,2011
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says that high densities of hydrogen have built up in pipes connected to the No. 1 reactor. Read more…
Laaska News Sept. 26,2011
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Laaska News Sept. 20,2011
The Japanese government and the operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant say they will install new devices to reduce the amount of Read more…
