nuclear-news

Experts update quake risk projections across Japan
Japanese seismic experts have updated their earthquake risk projections for the country’s major cities over the next 30 years.
Members of the government’s Earthquake Research Committee released the estimates on Friday for the first time in two years.

Reactor screening to begin in July or later
The head of Japan’s nuclear watchdog says it cannot begin safety screening of off-line reactors until new safety standards are set up next July.

All but two of Japan’s reactors are suspended following the Fukushima accident last year.
Team finds faults at nuclear plant possibly active
A panel of nuclear experts has found that 2 faults under a nuclear power plant in northern Japan may be active.
The findings could keep the plant offline for some time.

Floating pier washed ashore in Washington
Authorities in the US state of Washington are considering what to do with a floating pier that has apparently washed ashore from Japan.
A US Coast Guard helicopter spotted the 9-meter-long concrete pier on Tuesday on the shore of the Olympic Peninsula.

15 giant tsunami hit western Japan over 6000 years
A university research team says about 15 massive tsunami have occurred near the Nankai Trough along Japan’s Pacific coast in the last 6,000 years, devastating the country’s western region.

Links to other stories:

Mother: Child with severe nose bleeds, full body rash after playing in Fukushima contaminated water — So much blood, thought head was cut open — Fingers covered in open sores
http://enenews.com/mother-child-severe-nose-bleeds-full-body-rash-after-playi…

Tepco admits link between death and Fukushima disaster for 1st time
http://enenews.com/tepco-admits-link-between-death-and-fukushima-disaster-for…
Nuclear fuel rods in Common Pool to be inspected for ‘soundness’ at Fukushima plant (PHOTO)

Nuclear fuel rods in Common Pool to be inspected for ‘soundness’ at Fukushima plant (PHOTO)
http://enenews.com/fuel-rods-in-common-pool-at-fukushima-to-be-inspected-for-…

Tepco concerned about liner of No. 3 Spent Fuel Pool at Fukushima plant? (PHOTOS)
http://enenews.com/tepco-trying-repair-liner-3-spent-fuel-pool-fukushima-plan…

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20121221003540391-210031.html
IPPNW urges Obama to stop subcritical tests
An international medical doctors’ association that won the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize has urged US President Barack Obama to give up subcritical nuclear tests without delay.
An international medical doctors’ association that won the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize has urged US President Barack Obama to give up subcritical nuclear tests without delay.

More Fukushima nuclear pollution to hit U.S. starting in 2015 — Study: Impact strength of Cesium-137 on West Coast to be as high as 4 PERCENT
http://enenews.com/report-nuclear-pollution-from-fukushima-to-hit-u-s-in-2015…

Tepco: Fuel assemblies could be damaged from shock in Fukushima Unit 3 pool
http://enenews.com/tepco-fuel-assemblies-could-be-damaged-unit-3-pool-fukushi…

Fukushima Worker: Rats now being found in many places around plant — Concern about biting cables, tripping electrical systems, spreading high level contamination

http://enenews.com/fukushima-worker-rats-being-found-many-places-around-plant…

http://fukushima-diary.com/
Tepco vented PCV of reactor1 after nuclear fuel melted through the RPV, twice

Environmental consequence analysis by JAEA is worse than monitoring data by MEXT

Tepco removed the steel beam from SFP reactor3, “3 months after they dropped it into the pool”

[Column] 3 facts to support the hypothesis that fractured nuclear fuel is in individual stages of nuclear reaction

11,000 Bq/Kg of cesium was measured from wild boar in Minamisoma city

120 Bq/kg of cesium measured from soybeans and sold for transitional measures

Meteorological agency warns to stay alert to further aftershocks
[Reader’s post] “Common spent fuel pool is more heated than SFP of reactor1, 2, 3″

http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/10/radiation-level-spiked-in-hokkaido-still-i…