The Fukushima Daiichi site was one of two nuclear power plant sites in the Japanese prefecture of Fukushima. It housed six reactors, all of which were GE designed BWRs. Several factors associated with the building of the Fukushima Daiichi plant contributed to its susceptibility to damage during ...
A Nuclear Story - In occasione della visita alla centrale di Fukushima Daiichi nell'estate del 2013, una delle prime concesse ai giornalisti stranieri, il giornalista Pio d'Emilia ripercorre i tre anni trascorsi in Giappone dopo il terribile terremoto-ts
As work continues to clean up the mess left by the meltdown of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011, scientists are enlisting some local help in their efforts to survey the damage, in the form of rat snakes that frequent the area. Energy 21 new plants to help transform Fukushima...
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima INuclear Power Plantthat began on March 11, 2011, and resulted in a meltdown of three of the plant’s six nuclear reactors. The failure occurred when the plant was hit by a tsunami that had been triggered by th...
Life as an evacuee after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident is a cause of polycythemia: the Fukushima Health Management Survey BMC Publ. Health, 14 (2014), p. 1318 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar 31 S. Nomura, M. Blangiardo, M. Tsubokura, A. Ozaki, T. Morita, S. Hodgson...
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has also been hit with a number of lawsuits for alleged negligence or improper design, construction and maintenance of the nuclear facilities. "The multiple disasters that struck Fukushima seven years ago are not something that just belongs to the...
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings had originally planned to begin removing melted fuel from the Unit 2 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi plant last year, 10 years after the disaster triggered by amassive earthquakeand tsunami on March 11, 2011. ...
Y. YAMANAKA, “Research Plan Regarding Improvement of Simulation Code for Understanding the Status of Fuel Debris in the Reactor,” Proc. Int. Symp. Decommissioning of TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1-4, Tokyo, Japan, March 14, 2012. ...
(DBA). This means that although the design of the Fukushima Daiichi plant had considered possible accidents scenarios, which involved earthquakes and tsunamis, the safety precautions installed were only designed for a tsunami about half the height of what struck the plant (i.e., the design base...
Saito recalls staring helplessly out of his hospital room window as waves inundated the town beneath him. His first thought was of the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. “If the tsunami caused the plant to lose power to cool the reactors, it would be a disaster.” ...