Tokyo Electric Power Company started building something new and very cold at the ruined Fukushima nuclear power plant complex on Monday. It’s basically a big underground cooler meant to freeze the soil into a rectangular wall around TEPCO’s four nonfunctioning but still highly radioactive reactors. The frozen ground of the … [continued]
Fukushima nuclear power station as unit 4 operations commenced (screen shot from euronews broadcast, November 11, 2013.) TEPCO announced 10% completion of the spent fuel transfer this week. Tokyo Electric Power Company has reached a minor milestone in cleaning up the mess that started at its Fukushima nuclear power station … [continued]
CHAdeMO is a fast-charging method for electric vehicles proposed by the organization CHAdeMO. The organization was formed by Tokyo Electric Power Company, Nissan, Mitsubishi, and Fuji Heavy Industries (the manufacturer of Subaru vehicles). Toyota eventually joined. The CHAdeMO concept can provide a whopping 62.5 kW of high-voltage DC current, which … [continued]
Greenpeace is a true blue — well, a true green — working for the betterment of society since its passionate and humane beginnings. Greenpeace International may be associated with nature, but it also impresses upon us the fact that the same businesses that brought us the cloud, internet-powered smart phones, … [continued]
Global smart meter shipments fell 15 percent in the first quarter of 2012, reports Pike Research. […]
In the wake of public protests opposing nuclear energy, at least one elected official has joined the cause. Tokaimura Mayor Tatsuya Murakami called on the federal government to decommission the nuclear reactor in his town 68 miles northeast of Tokyo. The reactor, which has had some problems in the past, has been shut down for routine maintenance since the tsunami and resulting nuclear incidents of March 11 this year.
There’s not a lot of information coming out of Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) or the Japanese government regarding the severity of the ongoing meltdown at the Fukushima Daichi nuclear facility.
What we are getting is alarming and according to an Al Jazeera story yesterday Japanese scientists and doctors are sounding the alarm.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has commissioned a 7-MW (7,000-kw or 7-million-watt) photovoltaic (solar panels) solar power plant in Tokyo Bay, Japan, which is to generate enough electricity to power 2,100 homes and is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 3,100 tons per year. This assumes that the homes require an average of 3.3 kW of power, which is a very common average in developed countries.
Tokyo City proper has again decided to incorporate recent energy saving and renewable energy technology, calling it “Tokyo Specifications for Reduced and Renewable Energy.”
In Hiroshima Prefecture, both the city of Fukuyama and the private sector are pushing forward with a futuristic “Eco Town.” In the midst of interest in natural sources of energy, following the nuclear incident in TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, an attempt is being made to acquire and market local “know-how” as quickly as possible to other prefectures in order to stimulate regional revitalization.
