Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is creating an "emergency" that the operator is struggling to contain, an official from the country's nuclear watchdog said on Monday. This contaminated groundwater has breached an underground barrier, is...
Thus, more of the radioactive fallout from Japanese nuclear facilities would not fall as far away, but be concentrated more inside Japan and the neighbors of Japan on the map immediately downwind. The terms "radiation" and "radioactivity" are often confused and need to be clarified here. ...
Several Taiwan organizations on Tuesday rallied in Taipei to protest Japan's planned discharge of radioactive wastewater from its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. The protesters held banners and chanted "Japan is
In April last year, the Japanese government officially decided to discharge the nuclear contaminated water into the sea starting in the spring of 2023. The contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant contains radioactive cesium, strontium, tritium and other radioactive substances. ...
The meeting took place as Asia's two largest economies seek to improve ties which have been strained after the neighbours clashed over issues ranging from Japan's release of treated radioactive water into the ocean to maritime territorial claims, China's detention of Japanese citizens, Taiwan and...
On 27 March, a new threat arose from highly radioactive water flooding the basements of Fukushima's reactors, in some areas deliver- ing a potentially lethal dose of 1,000 mSv h−1. The water is seeping into piping trenches less than 70 metres from the sea shore, raising the ...
(TEPCO) official wearing a radioactive protective gear stands in front of Advanced Liquid Processing Systems during a press tour at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Japan revised a roadmap on Friday, Dec. 27, 2019, for the tsunami-...
Estonia, Japan, where will the radioactive waste come from next? Our ancestors' remains were dug up to build the mill, and burying waste near them impacts us today. We’re concerned about pollution of our well water. We’re concerned about our young ones and our elderly in our Ute commu...
Show on mapBy Jonathan HClick on the image above to see a full-scale [6MB], poster-size scan of a Japanese advanced boiling water nuclear reactor [ABWR]. Though the image above is NOT the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactor, it closely resembles the design of that plant. You can also download ...
1.2 MILLION TONS OF RADIOACTIVE WATER TEPCO has been unable to release the 1.2 million tons of treated but still radioactive water kept in nearly 1,000 tanks at the plant, fearing public repercussions and the impact on the area's struggling fishing and agriculture. The amount of water is gr...