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Nuclear News and the new year
The January issue of Nuclear News magazine is available in hard copy and electronically for American Nuclear Society members (must enter ANS user name and password in Member Center). The issue contains...
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ANS banner, donations support Fukushima workers
A banner signed by American Nuclear Society members during the society’s Winter Meeting in Washington, DC, signifies the support and encouragement of ANS membership for the people of Japan and the...
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ANS Special Committee on Fukushima to issue report on March 8
Webcast event available from National Press Club The American Nuclear Society Special Committee on Fukushima will issue its full report next week on Thursday, March 8. A press conference will be held...
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A Fukushima investigative scorecard
by Leslie Corrice Since the Fukushima accident last March, several Japanese investigative groups have been created to try to establish what actually happened. As the number of groups has grown, some...
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Fukushima health effects
The American Nuclear Society Special Committee on Fukushima has been conducting a comprehensive study of the events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant following the Great East Japan...
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Can we repeat facts about Fukushima often enough to overcome fears?
by Rod Adams We are within one week of the one year anniversary of the Great North East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. That powerful punch from nature slowly destroyed four out of six of the nuclear...
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ANS Fukushima press conference, March 8 at 10AM EST
The American Nuclear Society Special Committee on Fukushima will issue its full report on March 8 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, at 10AM EST. The press conference will be available for...
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NRC/Fukushima hearing in US Senate on Thursday
A hearing titled “Lessons from Fukushima One Year Later: NRC’s Implementation of Recommendations for Enhancing Nuclear Reactor Safety in the 21st Century” will be held in the U.S. Senate on Thursday,...
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Spent fuel at Fukushima Daiichi safer than asserted
By Will Davis In recent days, a number of articles have been printed that assert that a grave danger exists at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear generating station. These articles claim that this danger...
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Fukushima Two Years Later
by Will Davis At about a quarter to three in the afternoon on March 11, 2011, a gigantic and unprecedented earthquake struck just over 110 miles off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture in Japan. The...
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Japan’s NRA determines Tsuruga Nuclear Plant built over active fault
By Will Davis The news has finally come out on a long-awaited subject: the first determination by Japan’s new Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) that a nuclear plant in Japan lies on a seismic fault...
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Decommissioning of Private Assets is Public Matter in Japan; TEPCO Forges Ahead
Fukushima Daiichi Units 5 (left) and 6 (right) seen in October 2012 behind the newly completed breakwall. by Will Davis Earlier this month, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe conducted a visit to Tokyo...
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Fukushima Three Years Later
Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Station; Units 6 and 7 were submitted for safety screening in September 2013. By Will Davis In our collective memory, disturbing images played...
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TEPCO Updates on Fukushima Daiichi Conditions (with video)
Special ANS Friday Matinee edition by Will Davis Fukushima Daiichi Units 5 and 6, courtesy TEPCO It’s been quite some time since this blog has taken a look at present events at the Fukushima Daiichi...
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Anniversary Observations
By Alan Medsker The seismic event was huge and was felt all over the world. With a moment magnitude of over 9.0, the earthquake and was the fourth largest ever in the more than 100 years of recorded...
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