According to Tepco, they are going to run out of the storage for highly radioactive debris in Fukushima nuclear plant by 2015. Currently the volume of debris produced from decommissioning Fukushima nuclear plant is 199,000 tones. 176,000 tones of debris will be newly added by 2015. Generally, 90% of the storage capacity will be full. [...]
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Radioactive debris of Fukushima nuclear plant to start overflowing the storage by 2015, Tepco has no detailed plan
Posted by Mochizuki on May 20th, 2013
Posted in Daily News, Fukushima Plant situation, Media blackout 
Tags: 311, debris, fukushima, japan, NRA, nuclear, radiation, tepco 
1 Comment »Tepco had subcontract workers manually wipe out the leaking oil by rag beside reactor3
Posted by Mochizuki on May 20th, 2013
On 5/18/2013, Fukushima Diary reported “Remote-control heavy equipment leaked flammable oil on debris removal of reactor3, Tepco “Far enough from SFP” [URL]” According to Tepco, they had subcontract workers (Not Tepco workers) wipe out the leaking oil on the assembly base directly. Due to the high level of radiation, human workers can’t get on the [...]
Posted in Daily News, Fukushima Plant situation Tags: 311, debris, fukushima, heavy equipment, japan, nuclear, oil, radiation, reactor3, SFP, subcontract, tepco No Comments »Tepco to dismantle reactor1 cover to remove the spent fuel assemblies, “4 years to start removing the fuel”
Posted by Mochizuki on May 10th, 2013
On 5/9/2013, Tepco announced they are going to dismantle reactor1 cover in mid 2013. Tepco cannot build the sarcophagus on Fukushima nuclear plant due to the spent fuel assemblies. In order to take out the spent fuel assemblies, Tepco needs to remove the debris on the operation floor. They built the reactor1 cover in [...]
Posted in Daily News, Fukushima Plant situation Tags: 311, cover, debris, decommission, fukushima, japan, nuclear, radiation, reactor1, spent fuel, tepco Comments OffExtremely radioactive debris found on the top of reactor3 North side, Tepco “Safely moved to the South side”
Posted by Mochizuki on May 4th, 2013
On 5/4/2013, Tepco released the press release to announce they found the extremely radioactive debris on the top of reactor3. At this moment, English version of the report is not published yet. The debris was found in the North side of the top, where used to be the operation floor. When they loaded it onto [...]
Posted in Daily News, Fukushima Plant situation Tags: 311, debris, fukushima, japan, nuclear, operation floor, radiation, reactor3, tepco Comments Off[Express] “JP gov offered N. Marianas gov a huge economical support for the condition to accept disaster debris”
Posted by Mochizuki on April 27th, 2013
Introducing important Tweets as [Express] for simultaneous updates. <Translate> It’s been a while to see Saipan governor in US since we met in the field research. He said, “North Marianas government made the statement to accept disaster debris from Japan, but it hasn’t been talked about for a while. I wonder what is going [...]
Posted in Daily News, Global consequences, Media blackout Tags: 311, debris, express, fukushima, japan, nuclear, radiation, saipan, tepco, tweet, US Comments OffDebris stopping SFP of reactor3 from fully covered
Posted by Mochizuki on April 22nd, 2013
According to Tepco, they “completed” the first phase of covering the spent fuel pool of reactor3. The crippled reactor3 had the spent fuel pool on the top exposed to the atmosphere. However, they can not cover the entire pool because of the sticking debris into the pool. They are to remove it in the second [...]
Tepco crane picked up the skimmer surge tank hatch by mistake during debris removal of reactor3
Posted by Mochizuki on April 20th, 2013
According to Tepco,Tepco mis-operated to have a crane pick up the hatch of skimmer surge tank of reactor3. On 4/18/2013, they were removing the debris caused by the explosion from reactor3. During the operation, a crane picked up the hatch of skimmer surge tank by mistake. Skimmer surge tank is a part of the spent [...]
Posted in Daily News, Fukushima Plant situation Tags: 311, crane, debris, fukushima, japan, nuclear, radiation, reactor3, SFP, skimmer surge tank, spent fuel pool, tepco Comments Off[Where from?]1.4 billion Bq/Kg of Co-60 measured from debris attached to the new fuel in SFP4, “feels like grit”
Posted by Mochizuki on March 26th, 2013
According to Tepco, significantly high level of Co-60 was measured from the piece of debris taken from SFP4. They measured 1,400,000,000 Bq/Kg of Co-60 (half-life 5.3 years). The surface dose was 1 mSv/h. The sample was 4g. It was taken when they washed the new fuel assembly removed from the spent fuel pool in [...]
Posted in Daily News, Fukushima Plant situation Tags: 311, co-60, debris, fukushima, japan, nuclear, radiation, reactor4, SFP, tepco 7 Comments »Mr. Yamamoto Taro’s mother moved abroad
Posted by Mochizuki on March 1st, 2013
Actor / activist, Yamamoto Taro tweeted his mother has been sick since Osaka started incinerating debris. (cf, [Express] Yamamoto Taro “Since Osaka started incinerating debris, my mother has been sick” [URL]) On 3/1/2013, he tweeted she already left Japan. <Translate> My mom left abroad. I went with her to help finding a house. will [...]
Posted in Daily News, Media blackout Tags: 311, debris, fukushima, incinerate, japan, nuclear, osaka, radiation, tepco, yamamoto taro 2 Comments »Photos and videos of Tepco’s SFP investigation in reactor3
Posted by Mochizuki on February 22nd, 2013
When Tepco was removing debris from around the SFP of reactor3 on 2/6/2013, they dropped 1.5 tones of the fuel handling machine mast into the pool. [URL 1] The investigated inside of the pool from 2/14 to 2/16 and 18, and released the photos and movies on 2/21/2013. They concluded none of the fuel [...]
Posted in Daily News, Fukushima Plant situation Tags: 311, debris, fuel handling machine mast, fukushima, japan, nuclear, radiation, reactor3, SFP, tepco Comments Off
