Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, December 19, 2011

Japan Declares Fukushima Daiichi Reactors Stable

Plant Status

• The Fukushima Daiichi reactors are in “a state of cold shutdown,” with temperatures at the bottom of the reactor pressure vessels and containment vessels stably below the boiling point and radiation levels at the plant boundary below 100 millirem per year. (By comparison, the average radiation level from all sources to U.S. citizens is about 400 millirem per year.) The announcement last Friday…