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NUCLEAR CRISIS: HOW IT HAPPENED / Time needed for fresh start of N-power policy www.yomiuri.co.jp
On May 19, about two months after the Great East Japan Earthquake, plaintiff lawyer Hiroyuki Kawai firmly delivered his opening argument in a lawsuit seeking to have Electric Power Development Co. suspend the building of a nuclear power facility in Omamachi, Aomori Prefecture.
"Referred to as the 'boy who cried wolf,' we were accused of discussing something that didn't exist. But it's now clear we were right [to be concerned about the dangers posed by nuclear power plants]"by Reed 6/17/2011 11:57:17 AM
@Reed - Insane how the used to just let it flow over the ground when they couldn't cap it. Texas tea.
publishing.cdlib.orgby Rob Thomas via Publishing.cdlib.org 6/17/2011 11:59:02 AM
Oh, Texas Tea - hot, with lemon and a stick of cinnamon :)by FradyKat 6/17/2011 12:00:59 PM- @FradyKat @Rob Thomas Oh, we SO need the Dark Side to re-open...LOLby Reed 6/17/2011 12:03:38 PM
As ES has said in a deleted post this morning, mods must be ashamed by they have done. I plenty agreed with him and want to add there isn't fun to post anymore here. This board has become a TEPCO style report where citizens are trated like cattle because they have not the little delete button Great kings for a dwarven kingdom!! Bye.by estacion 6/17/2011 12:04:09 PM- Well, We should just try to stay on topic, with minimum humor :)by FradyKat 6/17/2011 12:04:37 PM
- Tea please. I actually am going to make toast. Nuclear on-topic toast though. BRB.by Rob Thomas 6/17/2011 12:05:02 PM
- @Rob Thomas Microwave the toast - very nukish.by FradyKat 6/17/2011 12:05:44 PM
- I have some ice cream with uranium pellets and stuck valves in it. It's called TEPCO Swirl :)by FradyKat 6/17/2011 12:07:02 PM
Morning! Has anyone figured out the water treatment game? Can they actually remove most of the radiation or only a small amount? What will they do with all that water in the end? It is going to look like a shipping yard if they put it all in those metal boxesby lillymunster 6/17/2011 12:07:15 PM
@nancy @reed @rob have gathered a lot of it together but there asnt been anything from tepco on how they have solved the leaks, there is pics in abundance but nothing to say what where or how www.tepco.co.jpby elainekirk 6/17/2011 12:10:33 PM- @lillymunster Last numbers I remember was 1200 ton capacity, with a 500 ton daily usage on the reactors. So, 700 ton net difference for treating standing water.by FradyKat 6/17/2011 12:11:15 PM
- @FradyKat have they admitted what they are going to do with it in the end? Will they dump it in the sea?by lillymunster 6/17/2011 12:19:07 PM
- @lillymunster - They'll end up burying it I betcha.by Rob Thomas 6/17/2011 12:20:21 PM
- @lillymunster I haven't heard anything in regards to that. Or which radionuclitides are actually filtered out or not.by FradyKat 6/17/2011 12:20:56 PM
- @lillymunster But id it is low-level waste, they might just put it into the ocean. Depends on their safety regulations and the quantities.by FradyKat 6/17/2011 12:22:08 PM
- Failure Guru Probing Japan’s Nuclear Catastrophe for Lessons Not Culprits www.bloomberg.com
"Tokyo Electric is now the subject of Hatamura’s next study. He was appointed by Prime Minister Naoto Kan last month as head of the 10-member team to conduct an “impartial and multifaceted” investigation into what went wrong at the Fukushima nuclear plant and how to prevent a repeat.
The Failure Knowledge Database that Hatamura set up has studied 1,175 accidents using a method that focuses on design flaws, human error and how designers fail to see future changes in use.
Hatamura’s database has a case study of Tokyo Electric and its falsification of nuclear plant maintenance records, which the utility known as Tepco admitted in 2002. The study concludes the faked reports resulted from lack of quality control and proper risk management.
“We want this study into Fukushima to be something valuable 100 years from now,” he said this month. “This accident not only affects Japan but also people in the rest of the world.”by Reed 6/17/2011 12:23:05 PM - Other areas of Japan mull the risk of nuclear plants, evacuation plans and drinking water contamination search.japantimes.co.jpby lillymunster 6/17/2011 12:23:57 PM
- @FradyKat That is my worry, what level will it really be and what will be filtered out and what left in. If they filter the cesium but leave plutonium and americum and dump it in the sea it is still a problem.by lillymunster 6/17/2011 12:25:55 PM
- Fukushima is a Mobro 4000.by Rob Thomas 6/17/2011 12:26:33 PM
- @lillymunster I think I read something about a 2-step process, one for cesium, one for plutonium. But I can't remember exactly what was said, sorry :(by FradyKat 6/17/2011 12:27:10 PM
- @lillymunster Also, standing time is a parameter of the equation. As it sits, the half-lifes of many things deteriotate until they are stable.by FradyKat 6/17/2011 12:28:35 PM
- Luckily Pu-239 has a half-life of 24000 years.by Rob Thomas 6/17/2011 12:29:42 PM
- @Rob Thomas I tend to feel the amount of Pu-239 is 'moderately low', because normal fission has been stopped (some chugging still happens) and it is heavy so gravity with assist in condensing it into bottoms of tanks so they can better isolate it in separate containers.by FradyKat 6/17/2011 12:32:28 PM
- Dog owner sleeping in his car at an evacuation center. www.facebook.com!/media/set/?set=a.232527206759781.70334.207835229228979by lillymunster 6/17/2011 12:34:23 PM
- Out for a whileby elainekirk 6/17/2011 12:39:40 PM
- They're going to run out of money and are just going to have to bury the whole prefecture. (Not to be a pessimist. They will be planting sunflowers!)by Rob Thomas 6/17/2011 12:40:19 PM
Don't mess with bismuth!
periodictable.comby Rob Thomas via Periodictable 6/17/2011 12:43:26 PM- @Rob Thomas The Japanese people are different. They will push forward with environmental clean-up until it is all gone - might take 10 years to finish.by FradyKat 6/17/2011 12:43:28 PM
- @Rob Thomas the governor of the prefecture is going to fight the plan to bury the plant material in Fuku. Not sure where they would take it. How much of the region will be unusable?by lillymunster 6/17/2011 12:43:50 PM
- @Rob Thomas Breakfast At Daiichi's: Bismuths and Gravy :) nummyby FradyKat 6/17/2011 12:45:06 PM
@FradyKat - 30 years I believe is the cleanup estimate.
They'll never make it.
gailtheactuary.files.wordpress.comby Rob Thomas via Gailtheactuary.files.wordpress 6/17/2011 12:47:47 PM- Damage found to 43 pipes in steam condenser at Hamaoka atomic plant english.kyodonews.jpby lillymunster 6/17/2011 12:49:06 PM
- @lillymunster - "the governor of the prefecture is going to fight the plan to bury the plant material in Fuku."
See Mobro 4000.by Rob Thomas 6/17/2011 12:49:16 PM - @Rob Thomas ??Mobro 4000?by lillymunster 6/17/2011 12:49:54 PM
- @lillymunster - The famous garbage scow that ended up returning home after sailing around the world as no one would accept the waste.by Rob Thomas 6/17/2011 12:52:26 PM
- Has there been any significant news in the last 24hrs? All I found was TEPCO's update to their roadmap.by lillymunster 6/17/2011 12:58:06 PM
- @lillymunster Only the Russian volcano is all I found.by FradyKat 6/17/2011 1:02:53 PM
- And the Saint Lawrence seaway EQ.by FradyKat 6/17/2011 1:03:13 PM
- More extreme weather troubles, and more food shortages looming.... news.yahoo.comby M.I.A. 6/17/2011 1:05:16 PM
- Traditional wood blinds gain popularity as part of energy reduction measures www.asahi.comby lillymunster 6/17/2011 1:27:15 PM
- Fukushima to do extensive study of radiation effects. ajw.asahi.comby lillymunster 6/17/2011 1:54:26 PM
Hi folks. Checking in (wine soaked) before bed time.by bo 6/17/2011 2:09:01 PM- @bo LOL. Been quiet past hour or so. Have not seen any major news this morning.by lillymunster 6/17/2011 2:10:44 PM
- @lilly then I can sleep the peace of the wine soaked.by bo 6/17/2011 2:12:07 PM
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