-
Recent Posts
- Intake canal seawater of unit 3 still radioactive
- Mongolian nuke deal included reactors in desert in exchange for waste dump
- 60 mill Bq released to air, over 200 mill Bq leak to sea each hour
- Fukushima could take 30 years to clean up – official report
- Biggest ever nuclear spill to ocean – 27 petaBq of Cs-137 is 20 times TEPCO’s estimate says IRSN
- Fukushima release more than Chernobyl, C-137 double govt estimates, says new study of global data
- Cesium levels off Fukushima Prefecture 58 times higher than before quake
- Mongolia nuclear waste dump: US official denies personal talks
Categories
- agricultural effects
- basement water
- doubtful assurances
- groundwater
- health impacts
- incompetence
- megafloat
- Mon
- Mongolia waste dump
- plant damage
- popular myths
- quotes
- radiation release
- recriticality
- regulator failure
- roadmap to repair
- scandals
- seismologist
- strontium
- technical (diagrams etc)
- TEPCO too big to fail
- tsunami warnings ignored – not 'unforseen natural disaster'
- Uncategorized
- underground barrier sheet pile wall
- water leaks to sea
- worker safety
-
Meta
Category Archives: tsunami warnings ignored – not ‘unforseen natural disaster’
5 big tsunamis may have hit nuclear plant village in past 1,000 years
A village in North Honshu which hosts a nuclear power plant may have been hit by huge tsunamis at least five times during the past 1,000 years, a researcher said Saturday, and the 6.5 metre maximum tsunami design-height at Higashidori … Continue reading
in 2008 TEPCO knew that a bigger-than-design tsunami was coming sometime, but blamed JSCE for not suggesting this to TEPCO?
Gov’t nuclear watchdog criticizes TEPCO for delayed release of tsunami estimate – and TEPCO blames another agency for not announcing this new knowledge A government nuclear watchdog has criticized the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) for not releasing an … Continue reading
Regulator slams TEPCO for not telling them about large tsunami possibilities
Gov’t nuclear watchdog criticizes TEPCO for delayed release of tsunami estimate A government nuclear watchdog has criticized the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) for not releasing an estimate it put together years ago that a tsunami over 10 meters high … Continue reading
TEPCO predicted 10m tsunami before disaster – and told govt regulators before 3/11
3/7: Tepco gave NISA high-wave scenarios Kyodo Tokyo Electric Power Co. was aware 10-meter-plus tsunami could hit the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station as early as in 2008, reporting the results of simulations for the first time to the … Continue reading
Japan may never be safe for nuclear power – seismologist and former nuclear safety advisor
Quake expert urges Japan to overhaul nuke policy TOKYO (AP) — Japan needs to overhaul its nuclear policies and may never be safe for atomic power because it is too prone to earthquakes, a leading seismologist and former government nuclear … Continue reading
Government, TEPCO brushed off warnings from all sides. "This crisis at the power plant is not a natural disaster. It is a man-made disaster,"
How it happened: 4th part of Yomiuri’s series is about tsunami warnings: Government, TEPCO brushed off warnings from all sides. Well worth reading excerpts: It is now clear the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. did not learn from … Continue reading
Tsunami taboo at TEPCO – nuke worker speaks out
An engineer who worked at Fukushima for 12 years was interviewed on Australian TV. “I asked my boss back in the late ’90s what would happen if a tsunami hit the Fukushima reactors … I said surely a meltdown will … Continue reading
15 metre tsunami height questioned by experts… 10m seems more likely
Experts are questioning whether the tsunami that hit Fukushima was as high as the plant’s operator says. Tepco says it was 14-15 meters high when it hit the plant, but some analysts are pointing out that the figure is well … Continue reading
Onagawa nuke plant survived, built for 9.1 metre tsunami
Onagawa NPP on the same coast was built for a 9.1m tsunami (unlike 5.7m at Fukushima) and survived this one. Govt was slow to enforce upgrades under industry pressure. Summary from Asahi Shimbun via google translate… Tokyo Electric Power Co., … Continue reading
General Electric has 1000 engineers working on "this horrific natural disaster"
“This is an industry that’s had an extremely safe track record for more than 40 years,” Immelt said. “We have had more than 1,000 engineers working around the clock since the incident began and we will continue in the short, … Continue reading
Fukushima watching 