Japan:Excess radiation in northeast of Japan + Related Articles

Laaska News  Nov. 15,2011
Japan:Radioactive cesium may have reached Hokkaido
Radioactive material removed from Setagaya lot

Photo: RIA Novosti    
 

Japan:Smaller increase in children’s weight in Fukushima

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

Japan:No criticality in Fukushima

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.

Japan:TEPCO begins removing cesium from spent fuel pool

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.

Japan:TEPCO retracts criticality call +Related Article

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.

Japan:Xenon detected in No.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.

Japan:Fukushima pollution much larger says French report + Related Articles

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.

Japan:Radiation found in mushrooms from Fukushima prefecture

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.  

Japan:Rice shipped from city in Fukushima

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.

Japan:Fukushima City begins decontamination work

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.