The extremely radioactive black substance was found at 4km from the center of Tokyo. In 10 minutes walk from Hirai station of JR Sobu line, where is about 4 km from Tokyo station, 5 km from Imperial Palace black substance was found in several places near the play ground of a public estates. 大きな地図で見る [...]
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240,000 Bq/Kg at 5km from Imperial Palace
Posted by Mochizuki on May 15th, 2012
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Tags: black substance, Chiyoda, fukushima, Hirai station, imperial palace, japan, nuclear, radiation, tepco, tokyo 
No Comments »NISA investigated chemical complex in Iwakuni
Posted by Mochizuki on April 24th, 2012
Following up this article..Chemical complex had second explosion and radiation measurement is nearly impossible After fire was finally extinguished at 14:30 of 4/23, when 36 hours had passed from the first explosion, Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency investigated the plant in AM of 4/24 with police and fire department. The state of radioactive contamination is still [...]
Chemical complex had second explosion and radiation measurement is nearly impossible
Posted by Mochizuki on April 22nd, 2012
Following up this article..One factory worker found dead At 8:00 AM 4/22/2012, the chemical complex had second explosion with black smoke. They managed to extinguish fire at 17:15 of 4/22/2012, when already 15 hours had passed. 11 factory workers got injured except for the dead worker, and 11 [...]
Depleted uranium is stocked in the site on fire
Posted by Mochizuki on April 21st, 2012
岩国の爆発事故で、 @hanayuu さん達が、「劣化ウラン」について心配されているので、一応、県庁担当者に確認しました。所蔵していることはたしか。影響はないと確認しているとのこと。 — とくらたかこ (@tokuratakako) April 21, 2012 <Translate> About the factory explosion of Iwakuni, @hanayuu and other people are concerned about the possible depleted uranium, so I called the prefectural government to confirm. They said, depleted uranium is stocked in the site, but it’s not affected by the accident. <End> [...]
One factory worker found dead
Posted by Mochizuki on April 21st, 2012
Following up this article..Possible depleted uranium at the chemical complex on fire One factory worker, Mr. Sunakawa Shota (22), was found dead in the site. The site is still on fire. The glass of the office door located 350m away from the plant was smashed by the blast. The blast reached 20km east to the [...]
Possible depleted uranium at the chemical complex on fire
Posted by Mochizuki on April 21st, 2012
Following up this article..Chemical Complex is on fire with nuclear fuel in Yamaguchi The complex owner, Mitsui chemicals hold 71.1 tones of depleted uranium. They have 8 complexes in Japan but it is not known which site holds depleted uranium. Iwakuni Otake site holds 3379 units of nuclear waste. Osaka site holds 1889 units [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: chemical, fire, japan, nuclear, radiation, uranium, Yamaguchi 8 Comments »Chemical Complex is on fire with nuclear fuel in Yamaguchi
Posted by Mochizuki on April 21st, 2012
At 2:20 of 4/22/2012, Iwakuni Otake Petrochemical Complex of Mitsui chemicals got lightning strike to explode. The complex is still on fire, and 3379 units of radioactive waste (200L in each unit) and Uranium for nuclear fuel are preserved in the site. The state of the uranium and radioactive waste is not reported yet. Windows were [...]
JP Prime minister confirmed the necessity of restarting Ooi nuclear plant
Posted by Mochizuki on April 13th, 2012
Following up this article..[Live] Police inspector join anti-nuke demonstration in front of prime minister’s official residence Japanese Prime minister confirmed the safety of Ooi nuclear plant and judged it is necessary to restart it to supply power for this summer. Once they obtain the agreement of local citizens, they are going to restart it. [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: fukushima, japan, nuclear, ooi, prime minister, radiation, tepco 9 Comments »Probably coolant system of SFP recovered
Posted by Mochizuki on April 13th, 2012
Coolant system of SFP at reactor4 was restarted at 16:04 4/13/2012, Tepco announced in their press conference of the same day. ４号機プールの冷却装置は16:04に再起動したと東電が発表しました。 However, for the potential increase of the temperature, Tepco prepared a water truck for reactor 4. しかしながら、今後の温度上昇にそなえ、キリン放水車を配備しています。 At 15:00, the temperature was 37.6℃, it was 35℃ at 16:00 but this is the temperature of [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: coolant, cooling, fukushima, heat, japan, nuclear, radiation, reactor4, SFP, temperature, tepco 1 Comment »SFP4 over 55℃. Coolant system is still stopped.
Posted by Mochizuki on April 12th, 2012
Though Tepco stopped the water leakage, coolant system is still not back on. At the moment, they can’t estimate when they can recover it. Also, they estimated the temperature increases at 0.5℃/h, it’s increasing at over 1℃/h. It went up by 22℃ within 18 hours. Currently the temperature of SFP is 55℃.(10:00 JST) The safety [...]
