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Japan Nuke Reactor to Be Sealed in Concrete
The owner of Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant plans to construct a barrier around one of its reactors that The Telegraph in London describes as a “concrete sarcophagus.”
The Tokyo Electric Power Co. will begin construction on June 27, using remote-controlled equipment in order to protect workers. The structure will be outfitted with filters that clean the air inside, allowing workers to enter the facility.
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@lillymunster It's not on the Website ?....I think, it maybe due for a review, maybe Bo can get updated level's, since he is right there....cause this is a HUGE difference in safety !

From the article below. "Prefecture and city officials found that the operator had tampered with video images of the fire to hide the scale of the disaster".
Fire?

@Edano THAT is what i was asking.,ok, so the tweet was wrong, thanks !

Does anyone know what kind of device which weighs 3.3 tons could crash into an inner reactor vessel?

@joniver Crane that handles the Rods for example

@joniver Look for iit on our FB Page, it holds all the items we find, I know it was posted here as well

@ElaineKirk There ya go, Morning )), you remebered it to eh ?

oh and a piece of the vessel lid

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Nuclear plant hosts doubt minister's assurances
Halted reactors safe to fire up: Kaieda
Kyodo

Industry minister Banri Kaieda on Saturday called for restarting nuclear reactors currently suspended to meet summertime electricity demand, saying immediate countermeasures for severe accidents have been taken "appropriately" at the nation's power plants.

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But local governments hosting nuclear plants adopted a cautious stance, saying they will need to thoroughly examine safety measures.

According to safety agreements signed with power plant operators, utilities need the consent of local governments before reactors can be restarted.

Noting that the power shortages facing the country could cause a "hollowing out" of Japanese industries, he called on local governments and residents to accept the reactivation of reactors that have been halted longer than planned by the ongoing nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 plant.

On Saturday, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, part of the industry ministry, said it had determined that nearly all short-term measures have been taken to prevent severe accidents at nuclear power plants, prompting Kaieda to say that there is no safety problem with rebooting the suspended reactors.

On June 7, NISA called for 11 nuclear power plant operators to report on countermeasures taken to prevent accidents similar to the Fukushima incident from happening again.

The agency then conducted inspections to confirm the countermeasures reported, including steps to ensure communication during blackouts, protective gear for high-level radiation and mechanisms to vent hydrogen from the reactor buildings.

Kaieda expressed readiness to visit areas hosting nuclear power plants to gain the acceptance of local governments and residents for the move.

"The state will thoroughly explain the safety of atomic energy to local people as its responsibility," he said.

Despite Kaieda's strong urging for reactor reboots, local governments hosting nuclear power plants appeared largely unmoved, with the government of Fukui Prefecture, which hosts 13 commercial reactors — the most in the nation — saying that it is in no position to agree to an immediate restart.

"While it's true that we now have an additional appraisal for reactor safety, there is no change in our prefecture's response so far," an official in charge of nuclear safety measures said.

Thirty-five of the nation's 54 commercial reactors have been halted for regular inspections and other reasons. But restarting them has been problematic because the local governments hosting them are concerned about their safety in light of the world's worst nuclear crisis since the Chernobyl accident.

Ishikawa Gov. Masanori Tanimoto said in a statement it is difficult to make a decision on restarting the Shika plant located in his prefecture unless the government explains in more detail how the situation at the Hamaoka plant in Shizuoka Prefecture, which the government formally asked Chubu Electric Power Co. to shut down, differs from that at other plants.

At the news conference, Kaieda also indicated the need to devise comprehensive safety standards to obtain the understanding of local governments and people worried about the safety of nuclear power plants.

What I am reading inbetween the lines here is....local prefectures are not trusting the Goverment at all in their staements that they are ready to be restarted......and another thing, in this article, it seems to state that MANY were actually halted without explanation ?

Has anybody heard anything about this? Radioactive reactor equipment may be exposed at Fukushima plant
TOKYO, June 19, Kyodo
english.kyodonews.jp

New report shows early chaos at Japan nuke plant
www.sfgate.com

On that Kyodo story:
TOKYO, June 19 Kyodo - Highly radioactive equipment removed from and kept under water near a suspended reactor at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant may be partially exposed and emitting radiation into the air, officials of the plant operator said Sunday. Tokyo Electric Power Co. began injecting water for the equipment the same day at the building of the No. 4 reactor, which was suspended for regular inspection when it lost cooling functions in the March 11

@radioguy Thanks. Somehow we always seem to end up with more questions than answers.

@lillymunster And you are so right. That just smacks of a TEPCO "AHem... hrmmmph.. um... remember we were talking about Grandma the other day?"

It is a tactic the last Labour government in the UK used - leak just enough info to get some media coverage then when the whole truth comes out it doesnt get prominence due to it no longer being 'news'

@Veenie I think a 9.0 earthquake is sufficient to justify all those leaks. The NPPs around the world are only designed to withstand up to M5.7 earthquakes and Fukushima-Daiichi was (and I emphasize WAS) one of the strongest around the world. Most NPPs would crumble at M7.0 let alone M9.0. I think some people here keep forgetting the magnitude of what happened on March 11TH. [I apologize but I'm getting a bit fed up with all the TEPCO this and TEPCO that]