The Tokyo Electric Power Company, or Tepco, the operator of Fukushima plant, issues a forecast in the evening for the next day, then refines the forecast the following morning.
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Is Russia’s Nuclear Plant Innovation Sufficient, Touting It As Accident Free?
The Russian nuclear industry has profited by selling reactors abroad, mostly to developing countries like China and India.
Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Upgraded To Crisis Severity 7, Same As Chernobyl
The government’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency upgraded its provisional evaluation based on an estimate that radioactive materials far exceeding the criteria for level 7 have so far been released into the external environment, but added that the release from the Fukushima nuclear plant is about 10 percent of that from the former Soviet nuclear plant, Kyodo reported.
Nitrogen Injected Into Fukushima Reactor To Reduce Explosion Risk
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) on Thursday started injecting nitrogen into one of the reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, Kyodo News reported.