Laaska News Feb. 8, 2012
Researchers say high levels of radioactive cesium have been detected in earthworms caught in areas around the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant. Read more…
Laaska News Jan 30, 2012
More water leaks have been found at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Tokyo Electric Power Company told reporters on Monday morning that it has discovered 2 additional water leaks at the nuclear plant. Read more…
Laaska News Jan 30, 2012
Tokyo Electric Power Company has found water leaks in 14 locations at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
The utility says the leaks apparently occurred after frozen water ruptured the pipes and the leaked water did not contain any radioactive materials. Read more…
Laaska News Jan 24, 2011
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says the amount of radioactive substances being released from the plant has risen slightly. It attributes the rise to increased human activities onsite. Read more…
Laaska News Jan 22, 2011
Photo: EPA
A fresh radioactive leak was reported at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, its operator TEPCO says.
A statement issued on Saturday says that 2 liters of radioactive water leaked from the No.2 reactor`s energy unit. Read more…
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has found 500 tons of highly radioactive water near the crippled No.2 reactor. Read more…
Laaska news Dec. 27, 2011
Extremely high radiation levels of more than 250,000 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium have been detected in male flowers of cedar trees in the no-entry zone near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Read more…
Laaska news Nov. 29,2011
Expert urges probe of No.2 reactor leak
TEPCO says no explosion occurred at No.2 reactor
Panel studies aging effect on Fukushima accident
Japanese nuclear experts are investigating how the aging of facilities factored into the accident that struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March. Read more…
Laaska news Nov. 25,2011
Fukushima Prefecture says it has found rice tainted with radioactive cesium above the tentative government limit from five more farms.
The prefecture said on Friday that the five farms are in the Oonami district of Fukushima City, about 56 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear Read more…
Laaska News Nov. 15,2011
Japan:Radioactive cesium may have reached Hokkaido
Radioactive material removed from Setagaya lot
Photo: RIA Novosti
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Laaska News Nov. 8 ,2011
A survey shows that some children in Fukushima Prefecture have smaller average weight gains this year compared to the year before. A pediatrician says the results indicate the negative effects of the nuclear plant accident in
Laaska News Nov. 8 ,2011
Japan’s nuclear agency has confirmed that sustained nuclear fission did not take place at the Fukushima nuclear power plant last week.
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. 3 ,2011
The operator of the Fukushima nuclear power plant has retracted an earlier assessment that a continuous nuclear reaction, or a criticality, could have taken place in the damaged Number 2 reactor.
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. 30,2011
Govt compiles plan for contaminated soil and waste
Another radioactive spot not related to Fukushima
Fukushima pollution much larger says French report
French researchers say the amount of radioactive cesium that has leaked from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean is 20 times larger than the plant operator estimated. Read more…
Laaska News Oct. 29,2011
An inspection has found increased concentration of radioactive isotopes of cesium in mushrooms which have been grown in hothouses in the city of Soma in Japan’s prefecture Fukushima. Read more…
Laaska News Oct. 19,2011
Farmers in Nihonmatsu City in Fukushima Prefecture have started shipping rice from this year’s harvest after radioactive contamination levels dropped below the government-set limit. Read more…
Laaska News Oct. 18,2011
Fukushima City has launched a massive campaign to clean up radioactive materials, with the ultimate goal of decontaminating all homes and public facilities. Read more…
Laaska News Oct. 18,2011
The city of Fukushima, about 60 kilometers from the crippled Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, will start to remove radioactive materials from all private houses in the city on Tuesday.
