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The fifth discharge of treated water from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi NPP was suspended for several hours following a power outage, local media has reported. The outage occurred after as a power cable at the plant was damaged during excavation work, Kyodo reported, citing plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco). The system to cool reactors and used fuel pools was not affected by the power cutoff and continued to operate, Tepco said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 27 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newspower-outage-halts-ocean-discharge-of-treated-water-from-fukushima-11713413
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts have confirmed that the tritium concentration in the fifth batch of diluted ALPS treated water, which Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) is now discharging to the sea is far below the country’s operational limit.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 24 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstritium-levels-below-operational-limits-in-latest-release-of-fukushima-daiichi-treated-water-11705882
Tokyo Electric Power Holdings (Tepco) plans to excavate a massive slope near the used fuel pool at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP to avert the danger of a landslide, according to Asahi Shimbun. The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has requested Tepco to deal with the 24-metre-high slope comprising soft ground would present a risk in the event of an earthquake.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 18 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstepco-to-excavate-major-slope-near-fukushima-daiichis-used-fuel-pool-11688881
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says it has been informed by Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), operator of the Fukushima Daiichi NPP, that localised corrosion and flaking of paint had been discovered on three tanks used to store treated contaminated water at the site.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 17 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsjapan-informs-iaea-about-corrosion-of-fukushima-water-tanks-11687024
Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) plans to begin loading fuel into unit 7 of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture following approval by Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority. It is not yet known when the reactor will be restarted.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 16 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fuel-loading-to-start-at-Kashiwazaki-Kariwa-unit
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts has completed a nuclear security mission at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station (KKNPS) in Japan at the request of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco). The purpose of the mission was to assess the enhancement of the physical protection measures at the KKNPS, Japan’s largest NPP, and to provide further advice as necessary to Tepco.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 05 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-completes-nuclear-security-mission-at-japans-kashiwazaki-kariwa-npp-11658909
IAEA has expressed support for plans and offered technical assistance
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 30 March 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/tepco-applies-to-fuel-load-approval-as-kashiwazaki-kariwa-restart-moves-closer-3-5-2024
Photographs taken by specially developed miniature drones deep inside the badly damaged reactor at unit 1 of the Fukushima Daiichi NPP show displaced control equipment and misshapen materials. The 12 images were released by plant owner/operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) are of the main structural support (pedestal) in the reactor’s primary containment vessel, which is immediately beneath the reactor core.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 22 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstepco-shows-new-images-of-damage-inside-fukushima-daiichi-1-11620843
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is satisfied with the process of releasing tritium-containing treated water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi NPP into the sea, IAEA Director-General Rafael Marino Grossi said during a visit to Japan.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 16 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-satisfied-with-fukushima-treated-water-release-process-11605466
International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi says one aim of the forthcoming Nuclear Energy Summit for heads of state is to see what "international cooperation mechanisms we can agree" to accelerate the provision of new nuclear in line with the COP28 declaration in December.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 05 March 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Grossi-hopes-nuclear-summit-can-agree-new-financin