This factsheet will be updated as new information becomes available. Michael Mariotte,
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Greenpeace video of campaign to stop shipment of plutonium-based MOX fuel to Fukushima in 1999. Updated to point out that anti-nuclear activists kept MOX out of the Fukushima reactors for more than ten years. If they hadn't done that, the situation at Fukushima would be even worse.
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For perspective, a radiation level of about 0.19 MicroSieverts/hour is roughly equivalent to the maximum allowable radiation exposure level (1 MilliSievert/year or 100 Millirems/year (note 0.19 actually comes out to 166 mrem/year) for the United States. Until , that was also the allowable exposure level in Japan.
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Updated Greenpeace International report on Areva’s EPR design: A Dangerous Waste of Time and Money.
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presentation from Tokyo Electric Power on how high-level radioactive waste is stored at Fukushima (including pool inventory and dry cask info).
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At least one reactor at the complex, Fukushima I-3, began using MOX (mixed plutonium-uranium) fuel in
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