Japan to declare Fukushima nuclear plant stable, but problems aren't over
Surely this will end well! Japan is expected to soon declare the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant "virtually stable" nine months after a quake and tsunami led to a nuclear disaster there. The...
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Wild monkeys and boars enlisted to help measure Fukushima radiation in Japan
Many challenges remain in measuring radiation leaked from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, after a devastating quake and tsunami 9 months ago left that site crippled. The crowdsourced...
View ArticleJapan premier declares Fukushima nuclear plant "stable"
Of course, just because Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda says the world’s worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl is over doesn't mean it's entirely over.
View ArticleTruth and consequences: FRONTLINE's brilliant documentary on Fukushima
Nuclear Aftershocks is a new FRONTLINE documentary, airing tomorrow, January 17, at 10:00 pm Eastern. I watched an advance screener yesterday. About halfway through Nuclear Aftershocks, a new FRONTLINE...
View ArticleFrontline post-Fukushima documentary "Nuclear Aftershocks" airs tonight
[Video Link]"Nuclear Aftershocks," the PBS Frontline documentary which Maggie described in a Boing Boing review as "brilliant," airs tonight online and on local PBS stations at 10pm. I've seen an...
View ArticleA view inside a nuclear reactor
This is not a metaphorical view inside a nuclear reactor. This is for real-real. This month, the good folks at TEPCO sent a remote-controlled endoscope and thermometer into the containment vessel of...
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After nuclear disaster, a harsh winter for Fukushima's abandoned pets (big...
Members of UKC Japan care for dogs rescued from inside the exclusion zone, a 20km radius around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (REUTERS) As regular Boing Boing readers will...
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Inside the Fukushima exclusion zone: the photography of Satoru Niwa
Among the recent projects of London/Tokyo-based photojournalist Satoru Niwa is this stunning series of images captured near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, just days after the March 11,...
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Two new nuclear reactors to be built in Georgia
Yesterday, the United States' Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the construction of the first two nuclear reactors to be built in this country since 1978. They're both part of the same power...
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Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown, one year later: Frontline doc airs tonight...
Airing tonight on PBS Frontline (check your local listings, or watch it online!), a documentary film that provides the definitive inside account of what really happened, moment to moment, during the...
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Haunting photos from Fukushima, one year later: "Invisible You," by Satoru Niwa
Japanese photographer Satoru Niwa, whose work I blogged in a previous Boing Boing post, has a new series from Fukushima marking the one-year anniversary of the March 11 disaster: Invisible You. Again,...
View ArticleJoin a live Q&A about the first few days of the Fukushima nuclear crisis
Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown Last night, PBS FRONTLINE aired a new documentary about what happened at the Fukushima nuclear power plant during the crucial first days of that crisis. Using amateur...
View ArticleFukushima and mental health
Yesterday, I got to host an eye-opening Q&A with Dan Edge, a PBS FRONTLINE producer who just finished a documentary about what happened at Fukushima during the first few days of the nuclear crisis...
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Must-listen radio: "Nuclear Power After Fukushima," documentary from BURN: An...
Veteran radio journalist and master storyteller Alex Chadwick (who's also a personal friend—he's taught me so much about journalism over the years) hosts a must-listen radio documentary premiering...
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Radiation is like an angry wife
A public info campaign in Japan compared radiation to a nagging wife. Apologies have been made. Reuters' Miki Kayaoka: The Japanese Atomic Energy Agency devoted a page on its website to an effort to...
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First of Japan's 50 reactors restarts since nuclear crisis; Japan's energy...
Photo: Oi Nuclear Power Plant, via Wikipedia. The No. 3 reactor at the Ohi (or Ōi) nuclear plant in Japan went back on the grid Thursday morning, according to a statement from its operator, the Kansai...
View ArticleJapan launches criminal probe into Fukushima nuclear crisis
Finally: Prosecutors in Japan have launched a criminal investigation into the 2011 nuclear plant accident, after more than 1,300 residents filed a complaint against TEPCO executives. Bloomberg reports...
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Japan: record high radiation levels found in Fukushima fish, more than a year...
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) in Japan said Tuesday its monitoring efforts have recorded record high radiation levels in local seafood: 25,800 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in...
View ArticleAnother look at Fukushima's legacy
Recently, I linked you to a report on the World Health Organization's estimates of the long-term risk of cancer and cancer-related deaths among people who lived nearest to the Fukushima nuclear plant...
View ArticleNuclear contaminated water leaking from storage tanks at Fukushima site
Over the last couple of days, Japanese electrical company TEPCO has announced that they found leaks in three of the seven underground tanks used to store contaminated water at the site of the Fukushima...
View ArticleSafecast, crowdsourced radiation monitoring project, logs 10 million data points
The crowdsourced radiation monitoring project Safecast, which was launched in the weeks after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, has reached a big milestone: they have collected and published...
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Source of increasing contamination at Fukushima Nuclear Plant unknown
Via VOA: "A leakage detective unit (C) and its detection punch unit on an underground water storage tank are seen at TEPCO's tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in Fukushima, in this undated...
View ArticleTEPCO admits Fukushima is leaking into the ocean
Experts have long suspected that the Fukushima nuclear power plant site is leaking contaminated water into the nearby ocean. Today, TEPCO, the Japanese energy company that owns the site, admitted this...
View ArticleMore on the Fukushima water leaks
The New York Times has a story that ties together several reports of contaminated, radioactive water leaking into the ground and the nearby harbor at the site of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in...
View ArticleHow engineers freeze soil to create structurally sound solid walls of earth
In Japan, engineers are attempting to contain radioactive contamination from the Fukushima power plant by freezing the ground around it into "ice walls" that will remain frozen for years. At Nova,...
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Deformed mutant daisies photographed near Fukushima nuclear disaster site in...
[caption id="attachment_408334" align="alignnone" width="599"] Photo: @san_kaido[/caption] These snapshots of “deformed mutant daisies” are making the rounds online this week, four years after the...
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For 20+ years, Japan's largest companies have been riddled with corruption...
For months, Japan's much-vaunted manufacturing sector has been wracked by scandal after scandal, as the country's biggest corporations admit to decades of systematic fraud that started in the...
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What it was like to be in Japan's worst-ever earthquake
The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake was Japan's worst of all time, leading to more than 15,000 deaths and meltdowns at three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. But all the footage I'd seen...
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Photographer returns to areas destroyed in 2011 Japan tsunami to take...
On the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, photographer Kazuhiro Nogi revisited parts of Japan that were obliterated and took new photos from the same spot. The Guardian assembled them into...
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Radioactive pig hybrids have taken over a nuclear disaster site in Japan
There's a new scientific paper out from the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, which studied the outbreak of wild boar in the area affected by the Fukushima nuclear explosion in 2011. As The...
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