Tag: TEPCO

Plan To Discharge Fukushima Water Into Pacific Gets OK From Regulators

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Plan To Discharge Fukushima Water Into Pacific Gets OK From Regulators
  By Julia Conley MAY 18, 2022 Despite outcry from local leaders and the Japanese public and warnings from environmental campaigners, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday gave its approval for a plan to discharge contaminated water from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, a move critics say will pose a major threat to marine life. After spending several months reviewing the plan announced by then-Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s administration last spring, the NRA said discharging more than 1.2 million tons of treated wastewater will help the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) secure space needed to decommission the plant, where three reactors melted down in March 2011 after a tsunami.… Read the rest

Building a Wall Of Ice: Japanese Engineers To Construct Novel New Means To Attempt To Control Radiation Leakage At Fukushima

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Building a Wall Of Ice: Japanese Engineers To Construct Novel New Means To Attempt To Control Radiation Leakage At Fukushima
A Wall Of Ice: Japanese Engineers Come Up With A Novel–And Untested–Way To Contain Radioactive Leakage In the wake of the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan, one of the biggest problems facing the cleanup crews is that radioactive water has been and continues to leak from the damaged reactors. But now the engineers working for the plant’s operator, TEPCO think they have hit on a novel new way to contain the leakage: a wall of ice.… Read the rest

Number of U.S. Sailors Sickened By Nuclear Plume Following Fukushima Disaster Continues To Grow

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Number of U.S. Sailors Sickened By Nuclear Plume Following Fukushima Disaster Continues To Grow
Fallout From Fukushima: While U.S. Officials Twiddle Their Thumbs, Former Prime Minister Of Japan Weeps For Sickened U.S. Sailors There is something so heartbreaking and infuriating about the way we treat veterans in the U.S. We trot out patriotic performances of songs on veteran-focused holidays, we see baseball and football players in specially made uniforms with camouflage hats or red, white and blue socks.… Read the rest

Fukushima Execs Face Trial, Tiny Fine: First Time Anyone Faces Justice for Nuclear Disaster

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Fukushima Execs Face Trial, Tiny Fine: First Time Anyone Faces Justice for Nuclear Disaster
Tokyo Electric Power Company, reviled around the world as TEPCO, owns the stricken nuclear power station Fukushima Daiichi (or Fukushima Number 1) as well as other power stations around Japan. Although two government panels have called for the prosecution of former top TEPCO executives for professional negligence, the first call was ignored.  This time, however, ex-TEPCO chair Tsunehisa Katsumata and former vice presidents Sakae Muto and Ichiro Takekuro were charged with professional negligence over allegedly failing to take measures to protect the plant, despite being aware of elevated tsunami risks.… Read the rest