FUTABA, Japan -- For the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, managing the ever-growing volume of radioactive wastewater held in more than 1,000 tanks has been a safety risk and a burden since ...

J-Village lies 12 miles south of Fukushima Daiichi, where this March also marks something else: the 10th anniversary of the meltdown of three of the six nuclear reactors at the generating complex known as Fukushima Number 1, or F1. ... (Sieverts are used to measure the relative biological damage done to the human body, while …

Since the quake and tsunami that crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, water used to cool the nuclear reactors and contaminated groundwater have been stored in massive tanks at the plants.

Daisuke Hirose, a Tepco spokesman, inside the Unit 5 reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Tepco used underwater robots that finally found the melted uranium fuel inside Unit 3, another ...

March 11, 2021 Stanford experts discuss the lessons and legacy of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. A decade after a powerful earthquake and tsunami set off the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown in ...

Robots come to the rescue after Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster 14:23. More than 10 years have passed since a monster earthquake and tsunami struck northeast Japan and triggered what became ...

FILE - In this March 24, 2011 file photo, a young evacuee is screened at a shelter for leaked radiation from the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, northeast of Tokyo. A decade ago, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant melted down. It looked like a bombed-out factory in a war zone.

New highly radioactive particles derived from Fukushima Daiichi Reactor Unit 1: Properties and environmental impacts. Science of The Total Environment, 2021; 773: 145639 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv ...

CNN —. Contaminated water that could soon be released into the sea from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant contains radioactive carbon with the potential to damage human DNA ...

3 "Daiichi" and "Daini" roughly translate as "first" and "second," respectively; hence, although not used in this report, "Fukushima 1" (Daiichi) and "Fukushima 2" (Daini) may be used elsewhere. 4 "Scram" is used to designate the shutdown of the nuclear reactor fission process by insertion of control rods.

Legend. Green – a numerical value and a green dot indicate that this aspect of the discharge system is operating currently and that the data being reported from TEPCO to the IAEA is within the expected levels. Grey – a grey dot indicates that this aspect of the discharge system is not currently operating. This does not indicate a problem ...

As the 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit the Japanese shore, the reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant shut down automatically to control the nuclear fission. The electrical lines collapsed, but the plant responded as designed, and the earthquake itself did not cause any other problems. The tsunami it triggered, however, did.

Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant normally relied on purified water to whisk away heat from its reactors, until the destruction wrought by the March 11 tsunami called for extreme measures

April 12, 2021. Japan said on Tuesday that it had decided to gradually release tons of treated wastewater from the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the ocean, describing it as the best ...

Most radionuclides from the Fukushima/Daiichi facility have disappeared due to radioactive decay. For example, the half-life of I-131 is about eight days. This means that the level of radiation ...

Fukushima Daiichi Status Updates, 6 September 2013-Present. Fukushima Daiichi timeline - Progress in nuclear safety since 2011. IAEA Review of Safety Related Aspects of Handling ALPS - Treated Water at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Report 3: Status of IAEA's Independent Sampling, Data Corroboration, and Analysis …

The Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Accident. On March 11, 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck Japan about 231 miles (372 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo off the Honshu Island coast. Eleven reactors at four sites (Fukushima Dai-ichi, Fukushima Dai-ni, Onagawa, and Tokai) along the northeast coast automatically shut down after the …

A worker stands near tanks used to store treated radioactive water used to cool the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The water is soon to be released into the ocean. Photograph: Hiro Komae/AP

2 days agoWorkers in Japan started releasing treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday. In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami hit the...

Yes, that Fukushima Daiichi, site of the world's worst nuclear disaster. Unit 3 was one of three reactors crippled on March 11, 2011, after a 9.0 earthquake struck 80 miles off the coast of Japan.

This paper describes the processes used at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, Japan, to purify the waste effluents generated in the cooling of damaged reactors. These include primary cesium removal with the Kurion zeolite system and the SARRY system utilizing silicotitanate to remove radiocesium from water recirculated to reactors for cooling.

Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s (Tepco) Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, rear, in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, where Japan is expected to discharge more than a million cubic meters of ...

The Honeywell T-Hawk, an 18-pound flying machine, was used to explore the disaster site at Japan's devastated nuclear power plant. The team of people on the asphalt road near Fukushima were ...

On 11 March 2011, an earthquake cut power to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and a tsunami wiped out emergency generators. Three reactor cores exploded, releasing the highest amount of radioactivity in the environment since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Although cleanup in Fukushima has been in progress for 10 …

24 August 2023 Climate and Environment. Japan has begun discharging treated radioactive wastewater from the disabled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station into the Pacific Ocean, 12 years on from the major meltdown there, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed on Thursday. Experts from the UN nuclear watchdog were present to ...

The Maebashi district court near Tokyo awarded ¥38.55m (£270,000) to 137 people who were forced to evacuate their homes in the days after three of Fukushima Daiichi's six reactors suffered a ...

The last time that EPA detected radioactive elements associated with Fukushima was July 28, 2011 in Hawaii. On March 18, 2011, the RadNet air monitor in Hawaii detected very low levels of iodine-131 in real-time. Iodine-131 is a radionuclide that would be expected from the Fukushima nuclear incident. During the rest of March and …

TOMIOKA, Japan (AP) — Part of the town of Tomioka, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, is still a no-go zone 10 years after a meltdown sent radioactive fallout over the area. The no-go zone is about 12% of the town, but was home to about one-third of Tomioka's population of 16,000.

More than 1,000 tanks holding contaminated water are scattered around the site of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan. Credit: The Asahi Shimbun via Getty.

By June last year, this process had generated 1.3 million cubic metres of ALPS treated water, which is housed in over one thousand tanks on the Fukushima Daiichi site.