05:14 PM EST on March 23rd, 2013 | 36 comments

16 million Bq/liter of Cesium-137 in water at Fukushima Daiichi Spent Fuel Pool No. 1 — More than in June 2011 — Almost 5,000 times Unit 4′s levels

07:44 PM EST on December 10th, 2012 | 10 comments

Gundersen: I’m sure there’s a lot of damaged nuclear fuel in Fukushima spent fuel pools — The tubes are cracked — May be completely severed (VIDEO)

01:14 AM EST on October 11th, 2012 | 30 comments

Fukushima Boss in 3/11 Footage: “Spent fuel pool at Unit 1 is exposed now” (VIDEO)

01:12 AM EST on August 1st, 2012 | 30 comments

Tepco planning to float balloon inside Reactor 1 in early August — Inspecting top floor with spent fuel pool

12:46 AM EST on May 21st, 2012 | 31 comments - (Comments are closed)

Gundersen on Plutonium: I believe fragments of nuclear fuel are in the ocean — From explosions at Unit 3 AND Unit 1 (VIDEO)

05:04 AM EST on March 17th, 2012 | 80 comments - (Comments are closed)

Interim Report: Tepco prepared to airdrop ice into Reactor No. 1 Spent Fuel Pool — 3.5 tons brought to Fukushima

09:34 PM EST on January 3rd, 2012 | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)

Reactor Operator: FOIA response shows US knew in March that Spent Fuel Pool No. 3 leaking — “Flooding of pool may not be possible due to damage” (VIDEO)

07:02 AM EST on August 28th, 2011 | 152 comments - (Comments are closed)

220 Million Bq/liter of Cesium now in No. 2 Spent Fuel Pool — SFP No. 1, 2, & 3 “clearly have significant spent fuel damage” (VIDEO)

08:28 AM EST on August 27th, 2011 | 93 comments - (Comments are closed)

Cesium-134 nearly doubles in Fukushima Spent Fuel Pool No. 1 over past two months — Now at 23,000 bq/cm³

02:24 PM EST on June 2nd, 2011 | 48 comments - (Comments are closed)

Enlarged 50-mile evacuation zone by US was because of spent fuel pools, not reactor meltdowns: NRC official

The NRC also had “suspicions” about the conditions of the spent fuel pools, Borchardt said… Based on that assumption, he said, the NRC recommended that U.S. residents in Japan stay 80 km away

03:13 PM EST on May 22nd, 2011 | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)

TEPCO acknowledges ‘vapor’ is still being seen at Reactors No. 2, 3 and 4 spent fuel pools

08:32 AM EST on May 9th, 2011 | 27 comments - (Comments are closed)

Radiation in No. 1 reactor building “far exceeded expected levels” reaching 700 millisieverts per hour — 500 million becquerels released when opening entrance

Japan detects radiation up to 700 milliserverts at Fukushima nuke plant, Xinhua, May 9, 2011