Showing posts with label Nuclear Accidents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nuclear Accidents. Show all posts

Friday, April 18, 2014

Tiny power plants hold promise for nuclear energy (Update)

http://phys.org/news/2014-04-tiny-power-nuclear-energy.htm


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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Fukushima disaster: New information about worst-case scenarios.

Newly released documents and memos inside the US response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster show that "we" reckoned the disaster wasn't going to be worst case. However it could have been a lot worse than it has turned out to be, had winds blown a different way, or had the meltdown gone further than it has.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/09/fukus


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Thursday, September 5, 2013

Japan's radioactive water leaks: How dangerous?

New revelations of contaminated water leaking from storage tanks at the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant have raised alarm, coming just weeks after Japanese officials acknowledged that radioactive water has been seeping into the Pacific from the plant for more than two years, The government announced this week that it would contribute 47 billion yen ($470 million) to build an underground "ice wall" around the reactor and turbine buildings and develop an advanced water treatment system. A look at the problem, and the potential risks to fish and the humans who eat them.

http://phys.org/news/2013-09-japan-radioactive-leaks-dangerous.html#nw


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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Fukushima leaks: Japan pledges $470m for 'ice wall'

Japan is to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into building a frozen wall around the Fukushima nuclear plant to stop leaks of radioactive water. Government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said an estimated 47bn yen ($473m, £304m) would be allocated.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-2394021


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How everything went so wrong at Fukushima - Salon.com

The steps of the disaster at the nuclear power plant

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/23/how_everything_went_so_wrong_at_fukush


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Japan to fund ice wall to stop reactor leaks

Japanese government taking over the recovery operations at Fukushima ... building an underground ice wall to contain ground water from escaping.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/japan-fund-ice-wall-stop-reactor-leak


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The icewall cometh: Japan's new plan to fix Fukushima - Salon.com

Japanese government now says they'll step in and take charge of efforts to contain radioactive water leaking from the crippled Fukushima nuclear site.

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/03/the_icewall_cometh_japans_new_plan_to_


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