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@LM Thanks for the proofreading...

RE Bushehr NPP: (Wiki) Construction of the plant was started in 1975 by German companies, but the work was stopped in 1979 after the Islamic revolution of Iran. A contract for finishing the plant was signed between Iran and the Russian Ministry for Atomic Energy in 1995, with Russia's Atomstroyexport named as the main contractor. The work was delayed several years by technical and financial challenges as well as by political pressure from the West. After the construction almost ground to a halt in 2007, a renewed agreement was reached, in which the Iranians promised to compensate for rising costs and inflation after completion of the plant. Delivery of nuclear fuel started in the same year. An official launch ceremony was held on 21 August 2010, though the plant has not yet gone online as of May 2011.

And then there's this:

The plant is located at the junction of three tectonic plates. :O

IAEA knew meltdown should have happened in 3.5 hours : mdn.mainichi.jp

Yay! More confidence building!! Just in time too!!

U.N. panel sees no health effects from Fukushima radiation so far

VIENNA (Kyodo) -- The U.N. committee on atomic radiation said Monday it has so far expected no health effects of radiation released from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan.

"So far what we have seen in the population, what we have seen in children, what we have seen in workers...we would not expect to see health effects," Wolfgang Weiss, chairman of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, said at a press conference.

"We cannot identify and attribute health effects to these doses," he said, while adding that further and detailed data on the radiation doses is needed to say more about the probability of possible health effects.

mdn.mainichi.jp

Trippy is right.

@Rob in SF Maybe if we stare at them long enough the cesium will disappear!

It is like their all looking at me.......

Meltdowns also at No.2, No.3 reactors
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says findings show that fuel meltdowns may have occurred at the No.2 and No.3 reactors within days of the March 11th earthquake. But it says both reactors are now stable at relatively low temperatures.

Tokyo Electric Power Company said earlier this month that fuel rods at the plant's No.1 reactor had melted.

The utility says a cooling system failure at the No.2 reactor 3 days after the quake led to a sharp drop in its water level.

Workers tried pumping in water from a fire engine, but the injection wasn't enough and the fuel rods likely became exposed.

Most of the fuel is thought to have melted down and collected at the bottom of the reactor pressure vessel by 8 PM on March 15th. That's about 101 hours, or 4 days, after the earthquake.... www3.nhk.or.jp

@Nancy LOL!

Oh, re Bushehr NPP in Iran, This from www.haaretz.com

"When Iran began loading fuel into Bushehr in August, officials said it would take two to three months for the plant to start producing electricity and that it would generate 1,000 megawatts, about 2.5 percent of the country's power usage.

On Wednesday, however, the official Iranian news agency quoted the country's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi as saying that, as the Iranian regime "previously announced, Bushehr power plant has reached the criticality stage, [meaning] it has been successfully launched."

@Lethbridgean Oh..great analogy!

@Nancy That's the ridiculous part isn't it. It's almost as if they waited until the slag left containment to make this announcement, just so they could say it's stable and cool..Ugh.

@Lethbridgean look below that post. thanks

I opened this up and started laughing...not a good sign! Agency gears up to retrieve device fallen inside Monju reactor

I need to sleep. See everyone later.

@Nancy - goodnight Nancy.

Night Nancy!

@radioguy "Bushehr power plant has reached the criticality stage"

Israel may help them really reach criticality...

@radioguy Hard to know which article is accurate. Israel re Iran is bound to be a complex journalistic exercise as is just about anything on Iran's nuclear program in the west right now. Did you see the plant sits at the intersection of 3 tectonic plates!?? :-O

@Rob in SF LOL! Doesn't it now?!