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@lillymunster, some of the web interfaces still work for gross air measurements, but for atleast the last 2 days there seems to be no way to look up the raw data on plutonium, etc

A Radioactive Contamination Map On air now at www3.nhk.or.jp

@all
INFCIRC documents filed with the IAEA – annual declaration of plutonium holdings

3. Plutonium contained in unirradiated MOX fuel or other
fabricated products at reactor sites or elsewhere.

1996 900 kgPu
1997 800 kgPu
1998 800 kgPu
1999 1200 kgPu
2000 1200 kgPu
2001 1500 kgPu
2002 1100 kgPu
2003 1100 kgPu
2004 1300 kgPu
2005 1500 kgPu (1300 kgPu)
2006 1200 kgPu
2007 1200 kgPu
2008 1300 kgPu
2009 1900 kgPu
2010
***based on the following sources***
www.aec.go.jp
www.aec.go.jp
www.iaea.org

Shipments of MOX from overseas fabrication plants

Date: 7/1999 8 MOX assemblies, with 255kg of plutonium
Date: 1999 32 assemblies – 225kg of plutonium
Date: 12/2000 220kg of plutonium, 28 assemblies
Date: 2/2009 65 assemblies – 1800kg plutonium
Date: 6.28.2010 ???
Date: 6.30.2010 8 MOX assemblies

www.simplyinfo.org

@lillymunster, it is always better to the first ones out because of better resettlement opportunities and acceptance. Once the relocation wave hits, those groups are often looked at with disdain by the locals. For the life of me, I am amazed anyone under 70 or with children is still in Tokyo

@all Please consider my previous post as a work in progress as to Japan's Past Plutonium Holdings in the form of unirradiated MOX fuel. When comparisons are made to the shipments of MOX from overseas, it does led me to consider the state of their domestic MOX production program. I say this knowing that the primary focus of their domestic program has been geared toward FBR assemblies. All and all I find it hard to understand how 32 MOX fuel assemblies could have been deemed of acceptable quality to insert into a reactor core after being stored in a SFP for 10 years. I am personally mulling the idea that these 32 were actually still in the SFP of reactor 3 and domestically produced MOX fuel rods were inserted into the core in their sted (Fall 2010). ***This is just me...thinking outloud in the presence of others, and submitting a bit of data for consideration.***

@Nancy The Plutonium Holdings data listed below is complete thru 2010...If you think it worthwhile, you could add to the MOX pages...I am going to try to pull the link that indicates they may have actually begain production of MOX domestically in 2006.

@Nancy The shipments portion is from the website...thought it was interesting to offer that in comparison to the amount of unirradiated MOX that Japan was reporting to the IAEA (rounded to the neared 100kg of course)

@Nancy Thanks and Be Well!

Nuclear Crisis Part 1: Why Was the Accident So Serious?" On air now at
www3.nhk.or.jp

Nuclear Crisis Part 1: Why Was the Accident So Serious?" On air now at
www3.nhk.or.jp

Asahi The amount of radiation waste created from the treatment of highly radioactive water at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is estimated at 2,000 cubic meters, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said June 9.

Details on how to dispose of the radiation waste have yet to be determined.

TEPCO will operate equipment on June 15 to purify radioactive water. During the process, radioactive substances in the water, such as cesium, strontium and iodine, will be either separated by a special chemical agent or removed by zeolite, an agent that absorbs cesium.

When the process is completed, the radioactive waste will remain on the bottom of a container used in the process.

The radiation level of the waste is expected to be more than 100 times the level of the highly radioactive water at the plant, and will require remote operations to handle the substances.

The waste will be held in a storage pool in the basement of the plant's water treatment facilities or in newly installed tanks for the time being.

Apart from the radiation waste, the containers--each 2.3 meters in height and 90 centimeters in diameter--holding the used zeolite will also be stored in a safe place. When the radiation level of the container's surface is measured at 4 millisieverts per hour, the container will be replaced with a new one.

TEPCO will use two to four containers a day in the early phase of the project, totaling 400 containers in a year.

After the treatment process, the radiation levels of water at the plant are expected to be lowered to between one-1,000th and one-10,000th of the current levels. The treated water will be stored in a makeshift tank and be reused to cool reactors at the plant.

TEPCO will decontaminate 1,200 tons of radioactive water every day until December, meaning it will purify 200,000 tons in total, including water still at the plant now.

Currently, TEPCO is injecting 500 tons of water a day into the reactors to cool them. The company expects to see the amount of radioactive water go down once the purification process starts.

TEPCO also said it will install other purification facilities in August.

I do not know if this has been linked already. "Report of Japanese Government
to the IAEA Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety
- The Accident
at TEPCO's Fukushima Nuclear Power Stations -" www.kantei.go.jp

If the 250 pages of the report are a bit daunting, reading the attachments is a shortcut to much info.