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KayKodh went to sleep... Where's George? We need to discuss the remote embed license available here...

@Rob in SF : okay, but it also subtily implies that the accident would not have occured in the U.S. ;) GE is preparing its defense .....

@Edano:

Regarding the implication that the accident would not have occured in the U.S.?

I did not find that point subtle.

The Salem 1 nuclear reactor is shut down today because of problems with "grassing," the blocking of cooling water intakes by vegetation, officials said. Salem 1 was manually taken off line Thursday about 4 p.m. and remains down today as operators attempt to clear debris causing the problem. Grassing is caused by vegetation such as phragmites and other weeds and grasses growing along the Delaware River's shoreline and its tributaries becoming dislodged and floating downstream in the river. Grassing can be especially troublesome in the spring when dead vegetation moves downstream. High tides and heavy rains - like the conditions seen last weekend - can dislodge even more of the dead materials and carry them downstream. Salem 1 and its neighboring Salem 2 reactor together draw in and return 3 billion gallons of water from the river each day for cooling purposes. Hope Creek, the third reactor at the Artificial Island nuclear generating complex here, draws in only about 58 million gallons a day from the river because the plant has a cooling tower which recirculates cooling water.

Salem 1 had been operating at reduced power - 89 percent - at the time it was shutdown after the grassing issue became more severe, according to Joe Delmar, spokesman for the plants' operator, PSEG Nuclear. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said today that the shutdown was handled properly. "Our resident inspectors assigned to Salem observed the shutdown from the plant's control room and identified no concerns with operator or equipment response," said NRC Spokesman Neil Sheehan. "The inspectors have also concluded that PSEG's response to an increase in grassing this week was appropriate and in accordance with plant procedures used during the grassing season." Delmar said he could not estimate when Salem 1 would return to service. "River grassing continues to be an operating challenge for the Salem plants," Delmar said. "Our operators are trained to take appropriate measures when need as they did yesterday to ensure the safe shutdown of the plant. We will continue to explore opportunities to make plant modifications to lessen the impact of grassing on our plant operations," Delmar said. The Salem 2 reactor was taken off line on April 9 for a scheduled refueling outage. Each of the reactors generates enough power for 1 million homes. (RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service - hisz.rsoe.hu )

@Jim Carver : right. one must not forget how lucky the japanese are without direct neighbors !

 TEPCO News; Press Releases (Apr 23,2011)
Status of TEPCO's Facilities and its services after the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake (as of 4:00PM, April 23)
Delta/New item:
*From 0:30 pm, April 23, water has been sprayed to the spent fuel pool of
Unit 4 by the concrete pumping vehicle.

www.tepco.co.jp

@elainekirk @Majjham Zazen Also i found out if you have to ftp into the site. I have to manually transfer the files into /Shared. I guess this is so users don't clog up the shared folder with huge files.

EPA Radiation System Dysfunctional
Apr 23, 2011 5:55am by Elle D'Coda in
Health

Daniel Hirsch, a lecturer on nuclear policy at the University of California Santa Cruz, tells us that EPA reports on radiation in rain water, drinking water, etc. are out of date by the time they're published. Levels are going up. Furthermore some of EPA's monitors have gone months without necessary repairs...so, we can't count on the EPA for information. (Recall an earlier post about the creation of EPA by collaboration between the military & nuclear industry ...to protect nuclear reputation -- not us, not the environment) www.hawaiinewsnow.com

@elainekirk Let me know if you want to try and I'll give you the settings. And of course, use the friendly open source Linux based filezilla.:)

Tapslo's report on Cl-38 or 39, I forget, is gone for example.

Elaine and I could go together but they won't let me out of the country--too many unpaid parking tickets.

@Majjham Zazen 404

@dean I saw it on the wire, but didn't look at it.

S mayor a message (4 / 12)
(April 11, 2011 (Monday) announced 7:00 pm)
Today (April 11), regarding what was announced by Chief Cabinet Secretary, and it has not briefed in advance.
I, stable and low measured values ​​of radiation dose rate space Niyoru Environmental Monitoring in Iwaki, why, Orimashita with a strong feeling that what is not clear indication of retreating indoors. In such, we Iwaki, the "emergency evacuation preparation area" to ensure that those that do not qualify, Dearimasu Noted.
In this decision, and it has 受Ketome country, deemed to have admitted the safety of Iwaki City.
Therefore, everyone also citizens, "Iwaki is safe" in that, I would like to relieved.
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This is a greet job . But i did not see the lat/log on it ,only before in their site www.flickr.com

@elainekirk Their pretty real at around the prefecture level, it's just when you move up the chain...