Japan To Stop Fukushima Leak With “Ice Wall”
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) recently admitted that 300 tons (nearly 72,000 gallons) of contaminated water are leaking from Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant into the Pacific Ocean. About...
View ArticleTepco Faces 132 Olympic Pools Worth of Radioactive Water
http://bloom.bg/16SQTa4 Tepco `Textbook’ Management Failure at Fukushima Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) has accumulated the largest pool of radioactive water in the history of nuclear accidents. The...
View ArticleWater Contaminated by Radioactivity Leaked from Nuclear Power Plant in...
The NFRDI announced results of surveys on seawater in Korea conducted in conjunction with the KINS. ▲ Places of collecting samples of surface seawater (left) and sea bottom deposits (Source: NFRDI)...
View ArticleLaser research could benefit nuclear recycling
Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy uses a high-power laser within the Center for Advanced Energy Studies at INL. The technique can discern the contents of used nuclear fuel and potentially boost the...
View ArticleVermont Yankee Nuclear Plant to Close in 2014
In the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, the nuclear energy sector has seen a downturn, enduring bad press and changing financial trends as well as racking up a running...
View ArticleInternational Day Against Nuclear Testing
The image of our nuclear past inhibits any thoughts of a nuclear future with testing, or any other kind of unrestricted nuclear action; Nuclear bomb explosion; Credit: © Shutterstock At the instigation...
View ArticleFukushima radiation levels spike
Fukushima radiation levels spike Radiation near a tank holding highly contaminated water at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has spiked 18-fold, the plant’s operator said on Sunday,...
View ArticleHigh radiation found in Fukushima groundwater
Japan pledged a renewed push to contain potentially hazardous leaks at Fukushima on Tuesday after the operator of the crippled plant reported spiking levels of radiation in groundwater. Late on...
View ArticleKAERI Builds Ultra Trace Level Nuclear Material Analysis Facilities
It can contribute to preventing global nuclear proliferation. ▲ Researchers analyze samples in the CLASS. A public research organization in Korea installed facilities that can precisely analyze ultra...
View ArticleJapan’s Last Nuclear Reactor Switched Off For Inspection With No Plans To...
This Jan. 26, 2012 file photo shows No. 3, right, and No. 4 reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co’s Ohi nuclear power plant in Ohi town, Fukui prefecture, western Japan. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi,...
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