Tag: Fukushima Daiichi
Japan’s Softbank announces solar power plan (AFP)
May 25th, 2011, No Comments
Japan Softbank announced the plan for solar power TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese telecommunications company Softbank is with the local authorities to work towards renewable energy, the chairman said on Wednesday following the announcement of the construction of 10 solar systems. Japan 11th March earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear crisis, was elected Chairman and CEO [...]
Tepco confirms meltdowns at 2 more Fukushima reactors (Reuters)
May 25th, 2011, No Comments
Workers wearing protective suits enters inside TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant No.2 reactor building in Fukushima Prefecture TOKYO (Reuters) – The operator of the nuclear power plant at the center of a radiation scare after being disabled by Japan's earthquake and tsunami confirmed Tuesday that there had been meltdowns of fuel rods at three [...]
Toshiba cautious on nuclear, eyes renewables (Reuters)
May 25th, 2011, No Comments
A view shows Toshiba Corp's logo at the fourth International Photovoltaic Power Generation (PV) Expo in Tokyo TOKYO (Reuters) – Toshiba Corp said it may need to push back by several years a target to capture 39 orders for nuclear reactors and that it would expand sales in renewables, amid tighter safety standards in the [...]
Snapshot – Japan’s nuclear crisis (Reuters)
March 30th, 2011, No Comments
Japan upgrades nuclear safety standards after plant disaster TOKYO (Reuters) – Following are main developments after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated northeast Japan and crippled a nuclear power station, raising the risk of an uncontrolled radiation leak. * New readings show a sharp rise in radioactive iodine in the sea off the Fukushima Daiichi [...]
Japan’s Edano:Can’t say when nuclear plant will be under control (Reuters)
March 30th, 2011, No Comments
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edan told reporters Wednesday he could not say when conditions would be under control at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex disabled is the worst crisis the world since Chernobyl nuclear power in 1986. "We have to consider several measures, but this time we are in a situation where [...]
U.S. nuclear plant says shielded against Japan emergency (Reuters)
March 28th, 2011, No Comments
BROWNS FERRY, Alabama (Reuters) – A U.S. nuclear plant in Alabama similar in design to the earthquake-hit Fukushima facility in Japan has multiple defenses to prevent and tackle the same kind of emergency, its operator said. Safety features at the Browns Ferry plant in northern Alabama are so superior to those at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi [...]
Japan Says 2nd Reactor May Have Ruptured With Radioactive Release
March 16th, 2011, No Comments
Workers are struggling at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, seen in a satellite photo at 9:35 a.m. Wednesday. The Defense Ministry announced that it was preparing to drop water on the stricken reactor by helicopter — a sign of the desperate measures being undertaken after the company operating the reactors withdrew most of its workers from [...]
Experts Had Long Criticized Potential Weakness in Design of Stricken Reactor
March 16th, 2011, No Comments
A fuel storage pool in the Fukushima plant reactor building. Surrounding this and reactors like it is a containment vessel, the last line of defense if cooling fails. Now, with one Mark 1 containment vessel damaged at the embattled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and other vessels there under severe strain, the weaknesses of the design [...]
Wind and Rain Steer Radiation’s Reach
March 16th, 2011, No Comments
Experts say it is impossible to forecast how events at Japan’s stricken nuclear plant will unfold, whether there will be a meltdown or other crisis at one or more of the reactors that results in a large release of radioactivity into the environment. And even if such a release occurred, the impact in Japan and [...]
Precautions Should Limit Health Problems From Nuclear Plant’s Radiation
March 16th, 2011, No Comments
An evacuee was screened for radiation exposure Tuesday in Koriyama, Japan. The government has evacuated those people closest to the Fukushima Daiichi plant. The Japanese government has evacuated people closest to the plant, told others to stay indoors and distributed the drug potassium iodide to protect the thyroid gland from radioactive iodine. The great tragedy [...]
