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JAPON Fukushima Dai-Ichi (11 mars 2011)
SUIVI 2011
15 avril
The latest news of the situation at the Fukushima reactor site
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     The latest news of the situation at the Fukushima reactor site in Japan at the time of writing, Friday 15 April, may be found in the following sequence of updates, and by following the links below.
* The website of our sister journal, Nuclear Engineering International

The following sites are also posting continuing updates:
* http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/index-e.html
* http://www.iaea.org/
* http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/
* http://bravenewclimate.com/
* http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/
* http://www.kantei.go.jp/

     Unit 4 Fukushima spent fuel assemblies 'mostly undamaged'
     Japanese utility TEPCO says that a tentative analysis of water samples from the Fukushima Daiichi unit 4 spent fuel pool suggests that the majority of fuel is sound.
     Fukushima Unit 2 suppression pool to blame for much of leaked radiation, JSC concludes
Japan's Nuclear Safety Commission blames problems with the Fukushima Daiichi reactor suppression pool for large radiation releases.

suite:
     New estimates show raised levels of site flooding at Fukushima
     The flooded basements of the Fukushima Daiichi units 1, 2 and 3 turbine halls each contain 20.000 tons of radioactive water, according to electrical utility TEPCO.
     NISA raises crisis rating of Fukushima Daiichi to INES 7
     The Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has provisionally increased its estimate of the scale of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crisis to the level of Chernobyl, level 7 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale.
     Fukushima Daiichi ready for draining
Preparations for pumping out radioactive water from the basements of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants is now proceeding and by 11 April were nearly complete.
     WENRA devrait publier ses propositions de "tests de résistance" ("stress tests") la semaine prochaine.
     Cela serait intéressant de voir ce que les Allemands vont demander en plus... et de comparer les différents pays européens... (commentaire ADIT)