TEPCO begins streaming video of Fukushima nuclear plant on homepage

Anyone seeking a peek inside the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant can now check up on the goings on there anytime of the day with a new 24-hour camera feed, available through plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)'s website.

TEPCO put the feed from the "Fuku-Ichi Live Camera" up on its homepage at 10 a.m. on May 31. The camera is mounted close to the plant's main administrative building, about 250 meters from the No. 1 reactor, and provides views of reactors No. 1 to 4. The video relay will lag about 30 seconds. TEPCO also says it hopes to provide annotations to explain any fires or other serious events captured by the camera.

The video feed can be found at: http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/f1-np/camera/index-j.html.

Fuku-Ichi Live Camera stream
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/f1-np/camera/index-j.html

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20110531p2a00m0na001000c.html

From the map look how close they are to the ocean. WTF were they thinking!!

PB

Wouldn't a webcam do? Like they think they might have to turn off the camera if anything untoward happens. Very sneaky if you ask me.

I'm using Firefox and IE and I'm not getting anything. I even tried much earlier in the day or last night. Nothing.

:shrug:

PB