Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency is reminding Tokyo Electric Power Company that it must stop the flood of contamination that is still pouring into the ocean.
According to NHK, TEPCo is still trying to figure out how to stop leaks of contaminated water. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency gave TEPCo until 01 June […] Continue Reading…
Recently Tokyo Electric Power Company tried to blame the metldown of reactor 1 on an employee turning off the cooling system. Turns out the employee was following TEPCo’s own operating manual!
TEPCo now says the employee was following procedure because coolants temps had actually dropped, so much that their manual called for the shut down […] Continue Reading…
Tokyo Electric Power Company now confirm reactors 2 and 3 at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, melted down within days after the 11 March tsunami.
Reactor 3 began meltdown on 13 March, Reactor 2 on 15 March.
Previously TEPCo officials said their inability to access the reactor buildings kept them from the knowledge of any meltdowns, but […] Continue Reading…
“The co-operation that I see every day in intelligence matters is without parallel in the world. So is our nuclear co-operation. Our armed forces are working together with intimate closeness”-William Hague, British Foreign Secretary
According to British media, President Obama will make a joint announcement, with Prime Minister David Cameron, concerning a new U.S./U.K. national […] Continue Reading…
May 22, the day after the Queen of England left Ireland, a Northern Ireland bank was hit by a small bomb. Three masked men burst into the bank, warning customers they had one hour to leave before the bomb went off. Police say people could have been killed if they were still in the […] Continue Reading…
“We support a set of universal rights. Those rights include free speech…”-President Barak Obama, May 19 Middle East speech
Obama talks about freedom of speech, while at the same time bans reporters from being present at White House press briefings.
Reporters from the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Boston Herald, are the latest to be […] Continue Reading…
French environment minister, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, declared a “crisis situation” because of the ongoing drought. She explained that current water levels are the same as if it was July, instead of May.
She has ordered a third of all French administrative departments to cut back on water use. Two-thirds of the country’s groundwater reserves are reported […] Continue Reading…
Korean media reporting the three U.S. Army veterans have testified that they were ordered to dump 250 55-gallon barrels of Agent Orange on a U.S. base in South Korea.
“They just told us it was going to be used for disposal.”-Steve House, veteran
South Korea’s environment ministry will take soil samples at Camp Carroll in Chilgok […] Continue Reading…
While British Petroleum fights to pin blame on others for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, they somehow have convinced one of its Japanese business partners to pay for part of it.
MOEX, a unit of Japanese trading firm Mitsui and Company, will pay just over $1 billion to cover damages and clean up. […] Continue Reading…
Tokyo Electric Power Company president, Shimizu Masataka, has resigned, and will step down in June.
TEPCo has lost $15 billion. $12 billion of that is directly due to dealing with the ongoing nuclear disaster at their Fukushima Daiichi plant.
In order to pay compensation to people affected by the radiation disaster, TEPCo will sell off $7 […] Continue Reading…