Monday Update

TEPCO Injects Nitrogen Into Reactors, Prepares for “Cold Shutdown Condition” December 5, 2011 Plant Status Tokyo Electric Power Co....

The Leak at Fukushima

No two ways about it : Some 45 tons of highly radioactive water leaked Sunday from desalination equipment used to decontaminate the rad...

What Is “Cold Shutdown?”

Several news articles late this week have reported that Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant may be in “cold shutdown” by mid-December. ...

Friday Update

From NEI’s Safety First web site : Industry Proposes Integrated Approach on Post-Fukushima Activities December 2, 2011 Industry/Regula...

Google and Amazon–And Nuclear Power?

Does America Online still exist? Why, yes it does, though it seems to have changed its business model considerably – it isn’t supporting the...

On The Containment Vessel Damage at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1

Early on Wednesday morning, the Dow Jones News Wire first reported the following from Japan , before the rest of the mainstream media got ho...

Pilgrim, Blobs of Black Oil, Fusion Part 20

We always have time for some good news: A three-judge panel at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) denied a filing by Massachusett...