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@bo great article I have tweeted and fbooked hope many more do

Wise words understandable even after translate
LoLLopezz LazLopez
Remember that there are countless unnamed heroes in the shadow of nuclear propulsion is a must. The other is let's stop making heroes or not? # primary genpatsu Shikanai Desho referendum is?

@Alblee yes are you on twitter some pretty disturbing ones today which seem to be panic caused by lack of information when will goj learn that the people need information

@bo safe journey

@Alblee @all two workers for tweeters to follow @ Happy20790 @ Sunnysunnynismo

ikrockhopper Itsumi Kakefuda
Cows, hogs & others 'evacuated' after 3.11 from Fukushima to other prefs. They can be sold with the origin name of places they were moved to

much is lost in the translation but has to be noted
TEPCO, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant restoration work gangs declared exclusion
www.asahi.com

Japan to unveil updated roadmap to achieve cold shutdown of reactors

TOKYO, July 19, Kyodo

Japan is set to release later Tuesday an updated work schedule to achieve a ''cold shutdown'' of the crippled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant now that a new water circulation system has stabilized cooling operations and the risk of hydrogen explosions has been eliminated.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan told a parliamentary committee in the morning, ''We are starting to see a tremendous critical condition heading toward a certain level of settlement,'' with the completion ''almost as scheduled'' of the initial phase of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s timetable to bring the nuclear disaster under control.

Under the timetable initially drawn up by the utility, the cold shutdown is scheduled to be achieved by January at the latest, but Kan said earlier that the government and the plant operator would try their best to move up the schedule so that people forced to evacuate their homes because of the crisis can return.

Restoration efforts have continued since the March 11 magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami hit the six-reactor complex and led the cooling functions of the reactors and spent nuclear fuel pools at the Nos. 1 to 4 units to fail.

One of the key challenges during the past months has been how to deal with the massive amount of highly radioactive water that has accumulated in the reactor turbine buildings and nearby areas as an outcome of an emergency measure to keep injecting water into the reactors to cool the fuel inside.

Workers have now succeeded in installing devices to remove radioactive substances from the polluted water and recycle the decontaminated water to cool the crippled Nos. 1 to 3 reactors.

Nitrogen, an inert gas, is also being injected into the three reactors to prevent hydrogen explosions from occurring inside the reactors, since such explosions may lead to the release of massive amounts of radioactive substances.

As for the No. 4 unit, where all of its fuel rods had been stored in the spent fuel pool for maintenance work before the disaster struck, work is proceeding to create a system involving a heat exchange device to stably and efficiently cool the water inside the pool.

Kan said that the goals stipulated in the so-called ''step one'' of the restoration roadmap had been achieved by July 17 almost as scheduled. But not all of the process has gone smoothly.

Most notably, the key water decontamination devices, which started operating in June, have repeatedly faced problems such as water leakage. The system was operating at 73 percent of its capacity by mid-July, lower than the 80 percent target.

During the so-called ''step two,'' which is expected to be implemented in the three to six months following the completion of the first phase, the utility known as TEPCO aims to achieve not only a cold shutdown of the reactors but also a reduction in the total amount of contaminated water in the plant's premises.

TEPCO would also consider creating an underground ''shielding wall'' to surround the reactor buildings and reactor turbine buildings so as to prevent contaminated water seeping from the buildings and get mixed in with groundwater. The wall is expected to extend 30 meters deep to a layer that does not absorb water.

The utility said in its earlier roadmap that completing the processing of contaminated water is one of the medium-term tasks to be dealt with after the ''step two'' process ends, but the new roadmap is expected to show that a maximum period of about three years is to be spent on the medium-term issues, according to sources close to the matter.

==Kyodo
english.kyodonews.jp

i have no idea how they want to get the temps below 90°. more water ?

"whale harvest" in taiji - they mean the dolphin slaughter .... these are the moments when i wish them another tsunami - sorry ! :(

@you having seen what happens in abbatoirs etc I think in this day we should be more humane when sourcing food and all those dolphins that is carnage

www.tepco.co.jp
:Provisional Evaluations of Current Emission Rate of
Radioactive Materials from the Units 1 to 3 at Fukushima
Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, Tokyo Electric Power Company

@Edano"the government will compensate farmers" that'll be the taxpayers then, why are the taxpayers footing the bill for tepco's pollution?