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Radioactive Water Leaking at Fukushima

Another week, another nuclear setback at Fukushima. This time, TEPCO’s noticed what appears to be contaminated water gushing out of a containment tank, Reuters reports—a development that’ll make cleaning up the facility even trickier. The tank in question, a holding area inside a waste disposal building, needs to be decontaminated as part of Fukushima’s permanent…

Tech News Sam Biddle

American Nuclear Plants Have Fukushima’s Flaws—And We’ve Ignored the Warning

Five years ago, Anthony Sarrack, an engineer at a Minnesota nuclear plant, warned the US government that their common emergency vents wouldn’t work in a disaster. He was ignored. Two months ago, Fukushima exploded because of those same vents. The vents at Sarrack’s plant require electricity to open—which is exactly what workers at Fukushima didn’t…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Fukushima 90210

Hey Californians, you are all going to die. Not in some abstract, eventually, kind of way. But horribly. In a radioactive fire. Probably. The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, which Rolling Stone dubbed California’s “Fukushima in waiting” straddles fault lines and sits on the edge of the sea. In the wake of Fukushima, it had…

Tech News Mat Honan

Fukushima Was Ruined by Quake Even before the Tsunami

We’ve long assumed that the double decker disaster scenario of a massive earthquake and tsunami caused the Fukushima meltdown. Turns out, all it took was the former, which knocked out Fukushima’s cooling in less than 10 minutes. Records released by TEPCO from the day of the quake show that the plant began to plunge into…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Lost Animals of Fukushima

After much hand-wringing, the Japanese government finally created a mandatory evacuation zone around the radiation-spewing Fukushima plant. Humans should be safe now. But the same can’t be said of the hundreds of thousands of abandoned of animals left behind. https://gizmodo.com/japan-makes-radiation-evacuation-zone-mandatory-5794412 In the midst of a hurried and uneven evacuation plan, the creatures—both household pets and…

Biology Sam Biddle

Fukushima Evacuation Widened, Again

The Japanese government has taken the bold and somewhat confusing step of evacuating residents of towns outside the official isolation zone, in what amounts to a de facto enlargement. Babies and pregnant women will be the first of thousands removed. The decision comes in the wake of last week’s meltdown revelation, and will affect around…

Tech News Sam Biddle

TEPCO Installing Giant Tents over Radiation-Leaking Reactors

With radiation still seeping from Fukushima, TEPCO is taking an odd step: installing enormous polyester tents around the cores. Each steel-framed tent will be “will be 55 meters high, 47 meters long and 42 meters wide,” Dow Jones reports. We’re not sure if this is silly, desperate or effective. While it will probably aid in…

Tech News Sam Biddle

It’s Official: Fukushima Was Hit With a Nuclear Meltdown

The flow of bad news (and radiation) out of Fukushima’s reactors has diminished to a trickle over the past several weeks, as rescue work has proceeded. Not today. TEPCO’s admitted for the first time that Fukushima experienced a grave meltdown. What exactly is a meltdown, you might ask? There’s a lot of confusion as to…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Japan Has to Borrow Generators from Thailand to Stay Running

Losing a nuclear plant after being devastated by an earthquake and tsunami tend to have negative effects on a small country’s grid. So Japan’s looking outward for juice—borrowing Thai diesel generators for up to five years. [In Focus]

Tech News Sam Biddle

Oops: Japanese Gov Didn’t Send out Fukushima Radiation Spread Map

After the devastating quake rocked the rads out of Fukushima’s reactors, the Japanese government took over eight hours to deliver an atmospheric map showing where radiation was likely to spread—an action that should have been immediate. Failing to deliver the data in the midst of the crisis—where hours are a long, long time—likely held up…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Humans Enter Fukushima Reactor for First Time Since Quake Disaster

Not since an enormous quake (and subsequent explosions) crippled the Fukushima plant has anyone stepped foot inside—the radiation has been too thick for humans, leaving robots to do the job. But not today, as workers braved the millisieverts. After the robot squad reported lowered radiation levels, a team of twelve, working on quick shifts to…

Tech News Sam Biddle

New Japanese Cars Are Slightly Radioactive

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Tech News Adrian Covert

Hovering Drones Capture Video of Fukushima Destruction

Viewing the massive explosions inside the Fukushima plant was shocking enough—but up-close video, courtesy of robotic drones, give a more intimate view of the wreckage—and the perilous environment rescue workers have had to navigate. This newest footage was released just yesterday, making vivid the extent of the plant’s ruined condition. The video is both incredible…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Venerable Enriyu Robot to the Rescue at Fukushima?

The Fukushima nuclear disaster, while certainly not short on tragedy, is also not short of robots, with a host of the automated helpers having been deployed there already. Now mighty Enriyu is set to join them, massive arms and all. https://gizmodo.com/gigantic-clawed-dragon-bot-terrifies-and-helps-at-the-s-279718 Weighing in at massive 5-tons, Enriyu (“Rescue Dragon”) was originally created in response to…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Fukushima Plant Is (Officially) Dead Forever

We knew that the longterm plan for Fukushima’s nuclear plant was to get the thing safely shut down and decommissioned, but the local governor has just put the kibosh on any nuclear future there, banning TEPCO from restarting the plant. [Kyodo News]

Tech News Sam Biddle

How To Cool Down the Fukushima Plant

As part of its roundup of the tech that can save the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, The Atlantic takes a look at the water chillers that could help stabilize temperatures and bring the plant under control. It’s a system that the French have used for years, and amounts to basically a (very) fancy air…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Japan Makes Radiation Evacuation Zone Mandatory

Long overdue: the mushy “suggested” evacuation now has some force behind it. The Japanese government has declared a 12 mile radius around the crippled Fukushima plant a mandatory evacuation zone—all but emergency workers are banned from entering. https://gizmodo.com/japan-widens-evacuation-zone-around-crippled-nuke-plant-5785675 Although residents are now forbidden from entering the area, local mayors have made a temporary exemption for…

Tech News Sam Biddle

TEPCO Starts Pumping Extremely Radioactive Water from Fukushima

The dicey task of extracting tens of thousands of gallons of water—two million times as radioactive as the stuff poured into the Pacific—has begun. It’s unclear where exactly this water is headed, but removing it is crucial. The highly dangerous water will be removed in order to make room for—drumroll—more radioactive water, with the ultimate…

Tech News Sam Biddle

RDTN Project Wants to Arm Japan with Geiger Counters

One of the worst factors of the Fukushima crisis is clarity of information—and the distinct lack of it since the quake first hit. The people behind RDTN say to hell with the government and TEPCO—let citizens report radiation. The idea has yet to crack from its Kickstarter egg ($9,700 out of $33,000), but its ambitions…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Fukushima Needs This Gigantic, Water-Spewing Truck with Football Field Reach

TEPCO is desperately trying to keep Fukushima’s scalding fuel rods from overheating. So they need water. Swimming pools of it. Pumping that much water isn’t easy—but this massive rig 700 gallons per minute with an astounding 70-meter boom. The $2 million Putzmeister 70Z (aka THE JUGGERNAUT) is the big brother of another Putzmeister model currently…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Radioactive Water Leaking at Fukushima

American Nuclear Plants Have Fukushima’s Flaws—And We’ve Ignored the Warning

Fukushima 90210

Fukushima Was Ruined by Quake Even before the Tsunami

The Lost Animals of Fukushima

Fukushima Evacuation Widened, Again

TEPCO Installing Giant Tents over Radiation-Leaking Reactors

It’s Official: Fukushima Was Hit With a Nuclear Meltdown

Japan Has to Borrow Generators from Thailand to Stay Running

Oops: Japanese Gov Didn’t Send out Fukushima Radiation Spread Map

Humans Enter Fukushima Reactor for First Time Since Quake Disaster

New Japanese Cars Are Slightly Radioactive

Hovering Drones Capture Video of Fukushima Destruction

Venerable Enriyu Robot to the Rescue at Fukushima?

Fukushima Plant Is (Officially) Dead Forever

How To Cool Down the Fukushima Plant

Japan Makes Radiation Evacuation Zone Mandatory

TEPCO Starts Pumping Extremely Radioactive Water from Fukushima

RDTN Project Wants to Arm Japan with Geiger Counters

Fukushima Needs This Gigantic, Water-Spewing Truck with Football Field Reach

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