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TEPCO plans to bring LNG-powered facilities onstream ahead of schedule in order to achieve the plan.
In the interview, Nishizawa also expressed willingness to participate in an Australian project to secure about 20 percent of its annual LNG consumption.by dean 7/3/2011 2:19:53 AM- hi RadioGuy good to see youby dean 7/3/2011 2:20:22 AM
Don't remember seeing this here so posting just in case, Fukushima Disaster images of the Completed Re-enforcement of Spent Fuel Pool 4 21 June 11
by Deb 7/3/2011 2:21:08 AM
hi @radioguy @all gnight 3.21 am here zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzby elainekirk 7/3/2011 2:22:17 AM
Hi dean. I've been keeping up on the board in quick information grabs today. Thankfully it's not quite as dramatic as yesterday.by RadioGuy 7/3/2011 2:23:02 AM- nite elaineby RadioGuy 7/3/2011 2:23:08 AM
- rest well elaine...by dean 7/3/2011 2:23:18 AM
Good morning from Hiroshimaby bo 7/3/2011 2:28:44 AM- good morning boby dean 7/3/2011 2:33:52 AM
- bo.. check my last link.. about the new tepco boss saying LNG to be the center of future power plants...by dean 7/3/2011 2:35:08 AM
- good morning dean, what do you think, is he blowing smoke to please the public?by bo 7/3/2011 2:37:39 AM
- @bo.. my first impression is one of a business man saying something which will quell the public into thinking that TEPCO will settle the claims through just what he said.. while at the same time.. not mentioning that TEPCO will probably ,, or maybe already in the works , split up into seperate companies perhaps 1-2 of which will hopefully show a profit over all... it's hard to tell... I know one thing.. if you have ever studied the ships that bring LNG in from other countries.. they do not let them near any ports because if.. they exploded a town would be flattened.. I have a friend in alaska by kenai and when I visit I can see those large ships out away from every where loading with LNG going to JAPAN..by dean 7/3/2011 2:47:06 AM
- @dean yeah, it didn't seem like good news to me either. And given TEPCO's record it doesn't fill one with confidence that they will practice rigorous safety measures. Can't win for loosing.by bo 7/3/2011 2:49:04 AM
- The AtlanticWire piece on the workers is great too.by bo 7/3/2011 2:50:08 AM
- Good news if true! "Big electricity users reach reduction goal on 1st day" www.asahi.comby bo 7/3/2011 2:52:28 AM
- @dean some perspective on the new president "TEPCO turns to president with experience fending off government officials" www.asahi.comby bo 7/3/2011 2:54:00 AM
- www.eaglespeak.us info on LNG and LPGby dean 7/3/2011 2:54:37 AM
- They're battening down the hatches for war!by bo 7/3/2011 2:55:14 AM
- @bo.. not sure where every one slipped of to.. I need to get some rest after a long day.. will return ... hold the fort down as they say... PEACEby dean 7/3/2011 2:56:44 AM
- @dean enjoy, and thanks for the scary article!by bo 7/3/2011 2:58:58 AM
Steady rain in Los Alamos! www.youtube.comby bo 7/3/2011 3:53:29 AM- Who has time to worry about public health when there is important work like this to be done: "Japanese 'thank you' message aired at New York's Times Square" www.japantoday.comby bo 7/3/2011 4:28:14 AM
- More horror stories of the human impact:
Woman living in Fukushima shelter burns herself to death in apparent suicide
NATIONAL JUL. 03, 2011 - 05:40AM JST ( 38 ) FUKUSHIMA —
The body of a 58-year-old woman was found in front of her home in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture on Friday after she apparently burned herself to death, police said Saturday.
The woman, who had been living in an organized refuge area, was found by her husband Friday morning outside their former home, which is in a no-go area due to radiation. Residents have been permitted to make short visits home a few times since the evacuation began.
According to police, her husband said, “Recently she has been having a hard time living out of the shelter and told me that she couldn’t stay there anymore.”
A relative of the deceased woman said: “She was always an upbeat and cheerful person. She was considerate and caring and she never stopped smiling.”
www.japantoday.comby bo 7/3/2011 4:29:48 AM - Radioactive cesium detected in tea leaves grown in Tokyo
Radioactive cesium was detected in processed tea that was made from leaves that elementary school children picked in Tokyo as part of their school curriculum, it has been learned.
The Itabashi Ward Office announced on June 30 that 2,700 becquerels of radioactive cesium -- in excess of the government's provisional limit -- was detected in processed tea that used leaves picked at a plantation in the ward by some 300 students of local elementary schools.
The processed tea is set to be disposed of, while none of the children have suffered any health problems. The tea plantation is dedicated to providing visitors with opportunities to pick leaves and does not ship its harvest to the market.
According to the ward office, the tea-picking class took place on May 9, and fourth- and fifth-grade students from three public elementary schools in the ward participated in the event. When the approximately 20 kilograms of processed tea -- made of some 80 kilograms of first-harvest leaves that the students had picked -- was screened, 1,300 becquerels of cesium 134 per kilogram and 1,400 becquerels of cesium 137 per kilogram were detected.
Following the revelation, ward officials picked second-harvest tea leaves at the plantation on June 22 and detected 350 becquerels of cesium from raw tea leaves.
The ward office will conduct screenings of locally-grown agricultural products but will not regulate the shipment of tea leaves as there is no other tea plantation in the ward.
It is the first time that radioactive cesium has been detected in tea leaves grown in Tokyo. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government's survey had previously detected no radioactive substances exceeding the government limit in agricultural products grown in the capital.
mdn.mainichi.jpby bo 7/3/2011 4:34:14 AM 
@Bo pushed that article to twitter/FB. Unbelievable.by Panserbjorne9 7/3/2011 5:41:50 AM- Workshops help nursery school teachers learn how to cope with quake orphans
mdn.mainichi.jpby Panserbjorne9 7/3/2011 5:43:37 AM - I meant *I* pushed it. Doing a mini-sweep/push now.by Panserbjorne9 7/3/2011 5:44:24 AM
- @Panserbjorne9 agreed. Amazingby bo 7/3/2011 5:44:28 AM
- Burglars nabbed for stealing from empty homes in Fukushima evacuation zone mdn.mainichi.jpby Panserbjorne9 7/3/2011 5:45:26 AM
- @Bo they say in excess of limit but not by how much. It throws all the becqs out without any context or summary of exposure. Ridiculous.by Panserbjorne9 7/3/2011 5:46:55 AM
- @Panserbjorne9 yes. With each article their credibility goes down. This is why over 70% of Japanese don't feel they're being told the truth anymore. Because they are not.by bo 7/3/2011 5:49:30 AM
- Elementary students send Mainichi their opinions on responsibility for nuclear disaster Ah, from the mouths of babes. "It may be TEPCO that made the nuclear power plant, but it is the people of Japan, no the world, who caused plants to be built. The reason we had to make more nuclear plants is because Japanese people wasted energy, running supermarkets and playing video games until late at night. Another reason that nuclear plants had to be built was to stop global warming. It is people all around the world who have caused global warming to advance." mdn.mainichi.jpby Panserbjorne9 7/3/2011 5:58:00 AM
- Fleeing crisis takes deadly toll on elderly / 77 Fukushima evacuees died within 3 mths www.yomiuri.co.jpby Panserbjorne9 7/3/2011 6:01:15 AM
www.theatlanticwire.com Excellent summary of the fiasco thusfar.by gabe 7/3/2011 7:07:05 AM
Japan officials draw up Tepco breakup plan: report "A group of Japanese government heavyweights have written a secret proposal to break up Tokyo Electric Power Co and nationalise its nuclear operations, a newspaper said on Sunday." www.reuters.comby Ralph Unger 7/3/2011 7:08:05 AM
www.tepco.co.jp
Leakage from Waterpipes of Outline of Temporary RHRS Pump at Unit 5, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
OOOOOOOOOpps a daisy it has leaked again .....must go put kettle onby elainekirk via Tepco.co.jp 7/3/2011 8:03:32 AM- by Antonia 7/3/2011 8:19:09 AM
- Sorry to interrupt guys but has anyone heard of this?by Antonia 7/3/2011 8:19:17 AM
- It is not structural, so its uses are limited. It would make a good Fukushima groundcloth though.by Ralph Unger 7/3/2011 8:20:45 AM
- @Ralph Unger it would make good elaines garden slope groundcloth tooby elainekirk 7/3/2011 8:21:46 AM
- 3.0 Concrete Canvas Shelters My next tent when camping! www.concretecanvas.co.ukby Ralph Unger 7/3/2011 8:29:30 AM
- that stuff is awesome tepco could do with someby elainekirk 7/3/2011 8:38:17 AM
- Nice post from Gabe as well.by Ralph Unger 7/3/2011 8:38:53 AM
- Everytime I play a YouTube video lately, an ad pops up first advertising food from Tohoku. I finally clicked on it and it took me to the Eastern Japan channel, all promoting food from the prefectures, including Fukushima, in the Northeast: www.youtube.comby bo 7/3/2011 8:45:54 AM
- @bo it wont come up here says video unavailable so that is a neat way of 'bullying' the citizens without the world seeing.
Maybe somebody there could put together a video if the examples of the propoganda the people faceby elainekirk 7/3/2011 8:48:32 AM
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