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Slide show of Fuk including air leak at Daini on 8th June , and several of SFP #3 and 4. plus lots more in.reuters.com

Radioactive cesium detected from Tochigi tea
Radioactive cesium exceeding the government limit was detected in processed tea made in Tochigi City, about 160 kilometers from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The Tochigi Prefectural Government says 1,810 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium was detected in tea processed from leaves harvested in the city in early July.

The level is more than 3 times the provisional government limit.

On Thursday, the prefecture requested that tea farmers in the city voluntarily stop shipments of their products.

Radioactive cesium has also been detected in other areas in the prefecture. www3.nhk.or.jp

@LM Titled "Some good news for a change" A depressing read. It seems like ANS pressure their folk to put a positive spin on the mess. ansnuclearcafe.org

Back, sweaty, but back.

Hi @LM

Kyushu Electric senior official ordered e-mails

A senior official with the operator of the Genkai nuclear power plant is now embroiled in the company's recent scandal.

Internal sources say the official instructed a manager to influence opinion on the restart of the plant's reactors. The manager then asked staff and affiliates to pose as citizens and send e-mails supporting the restart.

The sources say the official was in charge of construction and management of nuclear power plants, and admitted ordering the manager in the same division.

The plan was to send the e-mails to a government-hosted session for local residents.

The meeting was held in June in Saga City, near the plant. The purpose was to explain to local residents the restart operation of 2 reactors after inspections.

It was aired on cable TV, and viewers were invited to send e-mails and faxes with their opinions.

The sources also say the manager requested that staff working on nuclear power generation and others in 4 affiliate companies send the e-mails. The affiliate members had formerly worked in the division.

Friday, July 08, 2011 09:05 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp

Govt defends decision to introduce stress test

Japan's industry minister Banri Kaieda says he hopes municipalities hosting nuclear plants will understand the need to conduct additional safety tests of all reactors in the country.

Speaking at a Diet committee meeting on Thursday, Kaieda said he's very sorry that the government's abrupt decision to introduce stress tests forced the mayor of Genkai Town to retract his decision to approve resumption of 2 reactors there.

Kaieda said he personally assured the mayor about the safety of the reactors during a visit to the town in late June, but that the situation has changed.

Kaieda added that the mayor of Karatsu City and others in neighboring municipalities are not yet convinced about the safety of the reactors, and that the government must do more to win their support.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan explained to the Diet why he instructed Kaieda and nuclear crisis minister Goshi Hosono to work out a new set of standards that idle reactors must meet before they can be put back online.

Kan said the problem under the current law is that idle reactors can be restarted with approval by the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency and the industry minister, but that the agency was primarily responsible for the failure to prevent the Fukushima Daiichi accident.

He added that he instructed the 2 ministers to propose new safety rules that people will accept.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said at a news conference on Thursday that the government may suspend operations of active reactors that fail the stress tests.

Thursday, July 07, 2011 21:15 +0900 (JST)
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TEPCO temporarily halts cooling Fukushima Daini reactor
mdn.mainichi.jp

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Japan nuclear restart in doubt as test plan provokes fury "Japan's government scrambled to assure wary public Thursday that stress testing nuclear reactors did not call into question their safety after confusion over the plan threatened to delay the first restart of reactors since the March 11 earthquake triggered a radiation crisis." www.reuters.com

I am not registered to Kyodonews so the link did not work for me Edano. So I posted the Reuters version.

Hi Fit , I just got back

Doing good working on a fence for my dogs.

wow didnt realize the time..I can hardly see straight..I have a link here for a excerpt from a book written in the 80s. Nuclear witness insider speaks out John Gofman. I skimmed through it, and it is pretty interesting...Gofman was one of the guys who did the Manhatten Project... www.ratical.org

Thanks...

I need expresso, bed, or a couple of match sticks..Its 2.30 in the morning here

OPINION: Nuclear power requires perfection "The "nuclear renaissance" that supposedly was getting under way before the accident looks as though it has been stopped, and the world may even have begun the long process of getting out of the nuclear power business altogether." www.nuc.berkeley.edu