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Fukushima 1 an après : l’IRSN publie un rapport sur ses premières analyses de l’accident et de ses conséquences
Le premier ministre japonais, Yoshihiko Noda , a estimé, samedi 3 mars, que personne en particulier ne pouvait être tenu pour responsable de l'accident nucléaire de Fukushima, mais que chacun devait "partager cette douleur" . Lors d'un entretien accordé à des journalistes étrangers à Tokyo, M. Noda a reconnu que les autorités nippones avaient été flouées par "le mythe de la sûreté" de l'énergie nucléaire et n'étaient pas préparées à une catastrophe de l'envergure de celle survenue le 11 mars 2011.
Pas de responsabilité individuelle pour la catastrophe de Fukushima
Japan's nuclear crisis: Fukushima's legacy of fear
Yoichi Tao is busily shovelling dirt in Iitate, a small village about 40 kilometres from the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. It is certainly different from his day job. Tao has a background in high-energy physics, and teaches students about information-security systems at Kogakuin University in Tokyo. But on this sunny February morning, he and a dozen volunteers have joined local farmers in removing the top few centimetres of radioactive soil from rice fields. “When the soil is frozen, we can remove it easily, like a board,” Tao says. In a corner of the field, they dump the soil in a hole lined with absorbent sheets.(Click to enlarge.) IAEA's fact-finding team investigates the Fukushima Daiichi site. Photo credits: G. Webb/ IAEA Nearly a year has passed since the unimaginable happened in Japan: a massive earthquake and tsunami claims the lives of more than 15,000 people and leaves thousands of others homeless; massive devastation occurs in the region’s communities; and an accident unfolds at the local Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy facility. As we reflect on the events that occurred last March 11, the world demands to know: has the global nuclear industry learned and applied the lessons from the Fukushima Daiichi event to make nuclear energy facilities safer than they were before?
The Global Response to Fukushima Daiichi
[ACTUALISE] - Dans trois semaines, cela fera un an que le Japon a été frappé par un séisme et un tsunami catastrophiques. L’occasion pour le ministre de l’Industrie, Eric Besson, de se rendre sur place pour faire un état des lieux. Eric Besson est le premier ministre étranger à se rendre ce 21 février sur le site de la centrale de Fukushima ravagée par le tsunami du 11 mars dernier.
Eric Besson rassure sur l’état de la centrale de Fukushima - Energie
TERRAINS DE CAMPAGNE - Quand le nucléaire électrise la présidentielle
Le point sur les rumeurs d'explosion récente au niveau du bâtiment n°.4 de Fukushima Daiichi
Depuis environ 48h, des informations "non-confirmées" font état d'une nouvelle explosion survenue récemment au niveau de l'unité n°.4 de la centrale accidentée de Fukushima-Daiichi. Or, avec l'expérience et le recul de 9 mois sur la communication gouvernementale et celle de l'opérateur Tepco, nous avons appris à estimer l'évaluation de cette dernière. D'une manière générale, la consigne des autorités semble actuellement – après la déclaration d'arrêt à froid du 16/12 – être : sur ce qui n'est pas important, dénégation et démenti systématique – au moins dans un premier temps – sur les informations plus critiques comme une évolution importante touchant l'état des bâtiments accidentés. Les premières rumeurs d'explosion récentes sont apparues hier sur les blogs d'information alternative habituels :Little ado about nothing | ANS Nuclear Cafe
A so-called scientific article issued on December 19 by Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman purports that an estimated 14,000 excess deaths in the United States are linked to the radioactive fallout from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors in Japan. The article, published in the International Journal of Health Services, is available by clicking here . Not much media attention has been paid to the article, which has been labeled as “flawed” by the Nuclear Energy Institute.LONDON – British Ambassador to Japan David Warren and three Japanese employees of his embassy have been awarded New Year’s honors in recognition of their work after the March disasters and nuclear crisis, the U.K. Foreign Office said Saturday. Warren was awarded a knighthood for his efforts and three drivers at the embassy in Tokyo, Tsuneo Ogata, Isamu Suzuki and Jun Yanagiya, have been appointed honorary Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for their “exceptional service.”
Brit envoy, three Japanese staff hailed for disaster efforts
L'opérateur n'avait pas pris au sérieux la possibilité d'un tsunami de cette ampleur. Un rapport d'étape sur la catastrophe nucléaire de Fukushima a été publié lundi au Japon. Il met en évidence un manque de préparation et une communication défectueuse au plus haut niveau après la catastrophe. Selon la commission d'enquête dirigée par un spécialiste des dysfonctionnements, l'opérateur Tepco, qui exploite la centrale de Fukushima-Daiichi, ainsi que les services de régulation n'ont pas pris à temps la mesure du tsunami provoqué par un séisme et de l'impact dévastateur qui allait en résulter. La centrale numéro un de Fukushima, située à 240 km au nord-est de Tokyo, a été frappée le 11 mars par un tsunami dont les vagues dépassaient 15 mètres par endroits. Ce tsunami a mis hors service les circuits de refroidissement des réacteurs, ce qui a entraîné des fusions de combustible nucléaire.
SPECIAL JAPON: Fukushima, un rapport souligne les défaillances de Tepco
Japan sizes up task of Fukushima waste disposal
By Yoko Kubota TOKYO | Fri Sep 30, 2011 5:14pm IST TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan faces the prospect of removing and disposing of 29 million cubic metres of soil contaminated by the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years from an area nearly the size of Tokyo, the environment ministry said in the first official estimate of the scope and size of the cleanup. Six months after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami triggered reactor meltdowns, explosions and radiation leaks at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Japan's northeast coast, the size of the task of cleaning up is only now becoming clear.Alarmist predictions that the long-term health effects of the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan will be worse than those following Chernobyl in 1986 are likely to aggravate harmful psychological effects of the incident. That was the warning heard at an international conference on radiation research in Warsaw, Poland, this week. One report, in UK newspaper The Independent , quoted a scientist who predicted more than a million would die, and that the prolonged release of radioactivity from Fukushima would make health effects worse than those from the sudden release experienced at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine. "We've got to stop these sorts of reports coming out, because they are really upsetting the Japanese population," says Gerry Thomas at Imperial College London, who is attending the meeting.
Fukushima media coverage 'may be harmful' - health - 30 August 2011
Kan bows out, says he did best he could
We don't have the page you're looking for on this system. We have recently relaunched our site and are still migrating content to a new system.The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission directed its staff to choose which task-force safety proposals should be adopted in the near term in response to the Japan crisis, resolving a dispute over how to proceed. Chairman Gregory Jaczko had pressed the commission to act within 90 days on each of 12 recommendations the task force offered in a July report.
NRC Staff Directed to Set Priorities for Japan Safety Proposals
Some stabilisation targets have been met at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but levels of contaminated water in the basements remain Tepco's biggest challenge. Pumping water into the three ruined reactors will be essential to their cooling for some time to come, and temperatures at units 2 and 3 are slowly approaching the landmark 100ºC, while unit 1 has been below this for almost a month. However, the water becomes highly radioactive after passing over the melted cores and it goes on to accumulate in the basements of the buildings.

