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TEPCO has released another information update. Three workers were exposed to a doses exceeding 170 mSv. From a wonky perspective, the SDF is releasing “thermographs” of the reactors — infrared images that show the heat from the reactor vessels and…
TEPCO turned on the lights in the control room at Unit 1. I imagine this is a little like turning on the lights Saturday morning after a very large party that turned ugly. It has to be the same sinking…
James Acton, our good friend and erstwhile colleague here on the blog, has published a new Adelphi Paper (aka a book), Deterrence During Disarmament. James received two awfully fine blurbs: “Ronald Reagan’s vision of a world without nuclear weapons remains…
Your daily update on Fukushima, with the full-text below the jump. I have been collecting, thanks to an eagle eyed reader, some of the images of the spent fuel ponds. I will try to get to it later today. I…
TEPCO has released a statement on water spraying operations — apparently they are using a cement spraying pumping truck. I had no idea such a thing existed.
As Mike Cooley of the Drive-By Truckers sings, “been falling so long it’s like gravity’s gone and I’m floating.” Events in Pakistan remind me of this lyric. On March 2nd, Pakistan’s Minorities Affairs Minister, Shahbaz Bhatti, was gunned down getting…
Hiroko Tabuchi, David Jolly and Kevin Drew report in the New York Times that the Unit 2 cooling pond “was spewing steam late Tuesday, forcing workers to divert their attention to dousing the reactor building with water.” The FEPC statement…
I’ve been struggling with how to express the risk from radiation doses without sounding like either a fear-mongering lunatic (“You will die from a slow and painful cancer!”) or some nuclear-industry hack (“Really, it’s no worse than smoking a cigarette…
Hey, remember when Bush Administration officials tried to convince Kim Jong Il that he could get the same denuclearization deal Bush gave Qadhafi? Yeah, the last couple of days might explain why Kim didn’t think it was such a great…
Here is your daily information sheet from FEPC. Another fire at Unit 3. That’s not encouraging. TEPCO is in the process of turning on the lights. Once power is restored, we’ll have some idea whether TEPCO can get this under…
