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Japan nuclear regulator alarmed at Fukushima contamination reports

2013-07-10 13:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Japan's nuclear regulator expressed growing alarm on Wednesday at increased contamination beside the seafront of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station and urged the plant's operators to take protective measures. Fukushima's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., has acknowledged problems are mounting at the plant north of Tokyo, the site of the world's worst atomic disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. On Tuesday, the company said radiation levels in groundwater had soared, suggesting...

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Dr. Mikhail Sokolov Receives ASTM International Award of Merit for Contributions to Nuclear ...

2013-07-10 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

Mikhail Sokolov, Ph.D., senior research staff member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge, TN, received Award of Merit and honorary title of fellow from ASTM International. Sokolov was honored for contributions to successful symposia for Committee E10 on Nuclear Technology and Applications as well as his work on transition range fracture toughness standards for Committee E08 on Fatigue and Fracture. This story is related to the following:Trade Associations

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US residents living near reactors support nuclear plants, says study

2013-07-10 01:00:00| Power Technology

Residents living near nuclear power plants in the US support such facilities more than the public at large, according to a Bisconti Research survey commissioned by the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI).

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Should every nuclear plant have snake robots?

2013-07-09 23:56:57| CNET News.com

A Carnegie Mellon test shows that modular crawling robots can get deep into pipes at a nuclear facility, something that could help with inspections. [Read more]    

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Former chief of Fukushima nuclear plant has died

2013-07-09 14:11:56| Energy - Topix.net

Tokyo Electric Power Co. says the former chief of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant, Masao Yoshida, has died of cancer of the esophagus.

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