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Covering Fukushima I (Daiichi) Nuclear Accident Since March 11, 2011
(Photo: Reactor 3 Operating Floor, January 2014)

Thursday, December 31, 2015

Closing Time for 2015

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A fox doesn't seem to care if the air dose rate is in several millisieverts per hour inside the Reactor 2 building around containment ve...
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Sunday, August 2, 2015

(Video) Fuel Handling Machine Wreckage Removed from #Fukushima I NPP Reactor 3 Spent Fuel Pool

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without incident, despite the extremely dense summer fog. Some in Japan had hoped for a failure and disaster (or so they said on Twitter) s...
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Thursday, May 28, 2015

OT: Kuchinoerabu-Jima off Kagoshima Blows

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A tweet by @satake_take : Sendai Nuclear Power Plant in Kagoshima Prefecture is all cleared for the restart, sometime in July. No effect,...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

#Fukushima I Reactor 2: Thermocouples in Containment Vessel Are Acting Up Again

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The temperature is either 88 degrees Celsius, or 20 degrees Celsius, depending on which thermocouple you believe. Or none of the above, a...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Four Years Later in Japan

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A reporter and a cameraman from Jiji Tsushin went to Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant on February 26, 2015 and made the video available on J...
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Sunday, January 11, 2015

(OT) (Happy) New Year

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UPDATE-2 (1/13/2014) Israeli newspaper HaMevaser photoshopped out Angela Merkel and three other female politicians (including Danish PM f...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Tying Loose Ends at 2014 End: #Fukushima I NPP R4 SFP Emptied, STAP Was Outright Fraud, Potential Radioactive Leak in Ukraine

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All fuel assemblies - 1331 used and 202 new - in the Spent Fuel Pool of Reactor 4 at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant have been moved out of...
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Friday, December 26, 2014

(OT for Christmas 2014) Ave Verum Corpus

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Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1791, the year he died. Ave verum corpus, natum de Maria Virgine vere passum, immolatum in cr...
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Thursday, December 25, 2014

District Court Dismisses Lawsuit from Family of Worker Who Died At #Fukushima NPP, "No Evidence TEPCO Was Supervising the Work"

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and therefore is not responsible for the worker's death. Then who was supposed to be supervising the work? The deceased worker hims...
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Saturday, December 13, 2014

(OT) Abe's Just-In-Case Election - "This Is The Only Way"

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Japan's Prime Minister Abe called a snap election without a cause, other than to make sure, just in case, his party LDP and coalition p...
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Monday, November 24, 2014

#Fukushima I NPP: Plan C Also Failed in Plugging Reactor 2 Trench... Now What?

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Plan D of Course! But first, recall that Plan A was to install freezing pipes at the head of the trench leading from Reactor 2 turbine b...
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Sunday, October 26, 2014

(OT) To Readers of this Blog

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It's not that there isn't any more news about the Fukushima I NPP accident or about the Japanese politics or about anything I want ...
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Sunday, October 12, 2014

(OT) Typhoon No.19 Expected Path

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By @KitamotoAsanobu : It is expected to land in Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu in the morning of October 13, 2014, then zap through Shik...
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Sunday, October 5, 2014

(OT: Updated) Typhoon No.18 to Hit East Japan

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(UPDATE) The landfall is likely to be Hamamatsu City in Shizuoka Prefecture. JMA reports the current location of the typhoon to be SSW 70 k...
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Saturday, October 4, 2014

(OT) Mt. Ontake Eruption: God of the Foundation of the Land Decapited by a Volcanic Rock

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The statue of the god, 国之常立神("god that always stands on the land"), on top of Mt. Ontake is still standing, but without the head....
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Saturday, September 27, 2014

(OT: UPDATED) Mt. Ontake in Nagano Prefecture Erupts, 250 Climbers Trapped Near the Top, More Than 30 "Dead"

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(UPDATE-4) Another word that the government agencies and mainstream news outlets are at great pains, for some unknown reason, to avoid is ...
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Thursday, September 25, 2014

(OT) Reuters Column: War Without End

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The one who started it (who also happens to be one of the Nobel Peace Prize winners) didn't even have a courtesy to inform us first, bu...
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Monday, September 8, 2014

Video Showing #Fukushima I NPP Reactor 3 Operating Floor's Heavily Damaged Northwest Section

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I happened on this 25-minute video in TEPCO's video archive (Japanese), instead of the usual Photos and Videos Library. There is no do...
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Sunday, September 7, 2014

#Fukushima I NPP Reactor 3 SFP Debris Removal: Crane Dropped Fuel Handling Machine Console into the Pool

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Or rather, workers employed by the general contractor Kajima, manipulating the crane from a remote location using cameras, dropped the cons...
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40-Year-Old Minister of Economy Declares "Contaminated Water Is Under Control", and "Effect of Radioactive Materials Is Completely Blocked" at #Fukushima I NPP

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dutifully parroting her boss, PM Shinzo Abe. Thanks to the recent cabinet reshuffle by PM Shinzo Abe, Ms. Yuko Obuchi (link in Japanese...
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