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@All, I lurk here daily (hence username Lurking), I have to say this site has great info. I also like the new group site. Good job all!

@Pedro thanks. I would hate to have such a good source of info being overlooked because it could have a virus. Like I said, I have not encountered the problem but too many others have for me to just let it go without passing the info on.

Radiation levels to be checked at 100 places in Tokyo
Thursday 09th June, 04:20 AM JST

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TOKYO —
The Tokyo metropolitan government announced Wednesday it will gauge radiation levels in the air at 100 locations in the metropolis, in response to requests from cities, towns and villages for more expanded coverage than the current measurement conducted at the metropolitan government building in Shinjuku Ward.

The metropolis is planning to have staff travel for one week from June 15 to measure radiation and publish the results on its website. It will also rent 70 dosimeters to local governments from June 20. www.japantoday.com

@Lurking If there were any known virus on that page I would have gotten a red flag straight away. Front page is clean, although I haven't checked all the links in it. I even checked the "China women for dating" link at it's clean. Let me know if you have problems. My Security Suite is one of the best and is updated several times a day. If there's a name for a virus it will detect it. Sometimes it even gives false detections although that has only happened to me a couple of times. And thank you for the input. =)

@smoss Never heard of that. There is an amount of time it must sit in the SFP prior to being locked in dry casks but not before it can be inserted in the reactor, afaik.

@all I am finding discrepancies in the amount of MOX fuel assemblies delivered to Ikata-3:

Big time hose and green stuff spraying going on with the bushes and 3 workers right now on Tepco cam.

@all (Hit return too soon) The MOX fuel being shipped this time is for Kyushu Electric's Genkai-3 reactor (PWR, 1,180 MW) in Saga Prefecture (16 assemblies), Shikoku Electric's Ikata-3 reactor (PWR, 890 MW) in Ehime Prefecture (21 assemblies), and Chubu Electric's Hamaoka-4 reactor (BWR, 1,137 MW) in Shizuoka Prefecture Prefecture (28 assemblies). The assemblies are transported in casks, which weigh around 100 metric tons each, including the fuel assemblies. They will be off-loaded directly at the ports alongside the Genkai and Ikata plants and at the Omaezaki port, about 3 kilometers from the Hamaoka plant. ***this source duplicates your number @lillymunster lost the link momentarily*** The MOX fuel that is used at this phase of the program is manufactured by Areva at its MELOX plant. The fuel that is being loaded in reactors was delivered from France in a shipment that reached Japan in May 2009. It contained 24 assemblies for Ikata-3, 28 for Hamaoka-4, and 16 for Genkai-3. In addition, 60 MOX fuel assemblies were delivered for use in Tokyo Electric's Fukishima I-3 and Kashiwazaki-Kariwa-3 BWR units earlier, in 1999 and 2001, respectively. This fuel, manufactured by Belgonucleaire, is awaiting approval by local authorities. Another MELOX-manufactured fuel shipment is scheduled to leave France shortly, probably this March. ***This second bit is from the fissile materials blog, which has in the past been rejected as spam. This cite stated that there were 24 assemblies for Ikata-3, not 21.***

@lillymunster Awesome!

@lilymunster Not working, still says spam...this is the site backward...status of japan's mox fuel/03/2010/blog/org/fissile materials

@smoss Mind that I'm talking about reprocessed MOX fuel shipped to NPPs that is ready to be used as nuclear fuel. I'm not acquainted with the reprocessing procedures, but I do know they are not done at NPPs that do not possess a specific reprocessing facility (if there are any). AREVA reprocesses nuclear fuel so maybe we can find some info regarding that you're asking.

@Mart - the green stuff (and sometimes an orangy beige) is the polymer they spray to keep radioactive dust from flying about. I call it Operation Super Glue

@Lurking That's a good name for it, haha.

@lilymunster quotes and parenthesis don't work...domain name is fissilematerials (org)

@lillymunster In reverse status of japans mox/03/2010/blog/org/fissilematerials/www

@all Before I distracted myself with the differing #'s for MOX fuel assemblies delivered to Ikata-3, I was actually trying to determine a general timeline between delivery of assemblies and insertion of assemblies. Because every 18 months 1/3 of the MOX fuel has to be renewed...was kind of wondering if new shipments to Fukushima I-3 would have to have been pre-arranged, or pre-exsistant. @lilymunster That's the link!

@lillymunster Guidelines for MOX refueling actually come from AREVA...Nathalie Bonnefoy, from the MELOX Division of AREVA La Hague, France, said, "In this site, all the MOX fuel has been already loaded in the reactor (it started in October 2010)," no MOX fuel is stored on site here. On others sites, a part of the MOX fuel is stored on site (every 18 months you have to renew one third of the MOX fuel because it has lost efficiency). dcbureau.org

We're going to hear lots of AREVA in the near future since they are most likely to be the ones decommissioning all 6 reactors at Fukushima Daiichi and cleaning up the mess when the situation comes under control (one way or the other), working alongside Toshiba.