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@veenie The world is so small I actually got that guy to take that reading. He contacted me and told me so I said go outside and make a video. He did.

This was his comment:

@elainekirk It probably will. Good for him!. At least I can take credit for telling him to do it. I hope he approves my video response which I had made before I knew he had actually listened to me. So he is the source I quote in my video I just posted.

@Reed, got this out of that article:....... Elsewhere in the world, only India, Russia, Japan and China currently have operational fast breeder reactor programs; Japan had a "Breeder" someplace ???

@Reed, TY !!!

@wtm See: wiki for fast breeders @ en.wikipedia.org
and the Japanese Monju Reactor... @ www.google.com and @ large.stanford.edu

@Reed @elainekirk the hotspots in Tokyo parks surprises me. they should make soil readings.

Govt. document shows offsite center dysfunctional

An internal document from Japan's nuclear safety agency reveals that an emergency response office was nearly dysfunctional at the time of the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant on March 11th.

NHK has obtained a document from the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency that shows how the office, called an "off-site center" failed to function properly due to a rise in radiation levels in the wake of a power outage.

Off-site centers were established at 22 locations near nuclear power plants throughout the country after a criticality accident in 1999 at a nuclear fuel processing plant in Tokai Village in Ibaraki Prefecture.

Officials of the national and local governments, police and Self-Defense Forces were to gather at these offices in the event of nuclear power plant accidents to formulate plans to evacuate residents.

A Nuclear Safety and Industrial Agency log shows that an off-site center 5 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi plant was barely functional after the March 11th earthquake.

It reveals that after the power outage, an emergency diesel generator did not work at all, communications were down, and other critical functions were lost.

The document reveals that officials from only 3 out of more than 20 organizations assembled at the off-site center at around 10:00 PM on March 11th, 7 hours after the earthquake.

On the following day, the document shows that radiation levels were rising inside the center after an explosion occurred at the Number One Reactor building. It is believed that the off-site center was poorly equipped and unable to prevent radioactive materials from getting in.

Later, as radiation levels continued to rise, the authorities decided to relocate the functions of the off-site center to the Fukushima Prefectural Government office, 60 kilometers from the nuclear plant, on March 16th.

Monday, June 06, 2011 22:00 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp

Labor Ministry inspects Fukushima plant

Labor ministry officials have conducted onsite inspections at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, to investigate why 2 workers were exposed to excessive levels of radiation.

A team of 4 inspectors arrived at the plant on Tuesday afternoon to check working conditions and interview safety control managers.

The probe followed revelations by the Tokyo Electric Power Company that the 2 workers were exposed to over 250 millisieverts of radiation -- an elevated emergency limit introduced by the government after the nuclear crisis began.

The 2 men were on duty in the central control rooms of reactors No.3 and 4.

They weren't wearing protective masks when reactor No.1 was hit by a hydrogen explosion, one day after the March 11th quake and tsunami.

The health and labor ministry plans to instruct TEPCO to improve conditions, if Tuesday's inspections turn up problems with workers' safety management.

Tuesday, June 07, 2011 14:03 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp

strange, tepco seems not able to calculate correctly. i doubt that NISA can, either.

Gov't says nuclear regulatory system failed to act swiftly in crisis

TOKYO, June 7, Kyodo

The Japanese government said Tuesday in a report to be submitted to the International Atomic Energy Agency that the country's nuclear regulatory system had failed to deal swiftly with the continuing crisis at the Fukushima power plant and that it would separate its nuclear safety agency from the industry ministry.

The report compiled for an upcoming IAEA nuclear safety meeting in Vienna later this month also highlighted that the country was not fully prepared for severe accidents that challenge safety systems at a level much higher than expected, including the insufficient communication seen between the government and the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co.

''We are taking very seriously the fact...that consistent preparation for severe accidents was insufficient. In light of the lessons learned from the accident, Japan has recognized that a fundamental revision of its nuclear safety preparedness and response is inevitable,'' the government task force dealing with the nuclear disaster said in an outline of the report.
english.kyodonews.jp

@Angie : yep i have 90 min till work.

Death sentence to stand for Hiroshima killer of foster father, wife english.kyodonews.jp
huuuu, they have death sentence in japan ?

‘The media is a mouthpiece for Tepco’ Toyohiro Akiyama (below) is a former TBS TV Washington bureau chief. He was later selected for Russian astronaut training in a deal between TBS and the old Soviet Union..... One reason was the repeated news of cesium dispersed in the atmosphere. This meant damaged fuel rods. That news was being broadcast by 2:30 p.m. on March 12.

Another was my experience visiting the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in 1982 when I was a TBS correspondent. During the accident in 1979, engineers released radioactive steam into the atmosphere. I was sure that the Japanese government would do the same.

Also, the chief cabinet secretary (Yukio Edano) kept announcing that the core was not damaged. He repeated it so many times that I began to suspect he was hiding information. Though the TV pundits said it would be OK, I couldn’t ignore the possibility of a cover-ups when I recalled earlier cover-ups by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco). no1.fccj.ne.jp

@Edano This is the second time I have seen this referenced, " sea-borne storage tank hauled away some 10,000 tons in the middle of the month" www.pressherald.com Have you all seen anything saying the filled the megafloat and hauled it away? Where'd it go? What water did they put in there, 5&6, or hot stuff from 1-4?