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  • 70% of Japan's nuclear reactors remains shut

    37 nuclear reactors in Japan, or nearly 70 percent of them, remain shut. This includes 2 reactors operated by Kansai Electric Power Company in Fukui Prefecture that were recently closed for regular inspections.

    According to the plant operators, inspections for 11 of the 37 reactors will finish by August. But it is still unknown when any of these will be resumed due to the government's new stress-test requirements announced earlier this month.

    The remaining 17 reactors that are currently in operation will also be brought to a halt for regular inspections every 13 months. Among these is the Kansai Electric Ohi power plant No. 4 reactor in Fukui Prefecture that will shut down by Saturday. An additional 3 reactors will be brought to a halt by August.

    Among the 13 other reactors in operation, 5 will be stopped by autumn, 6 by winter, and 2 by spring.
    This would leave Japan with no nuclear reactors in operation by spring next year.

    Friday, July 22, 2011 07:27 +0900 (JST)
    www3.nhk.or.jp
    by Edano 7/22/2011 12:35:06 AM

  • cool.
    by Edano 7/22/2011 12:35:55 AM

  • @RadioGuy I don't think they have much idea they didnt spot the problem till the beef had entered the retail chain they may have gone back and measured any straw still onsite but lets face it those cow sheds will have been pretty loaded too they are well vented places otherwise there would be methane explosions providing 'ready-to-go burgers everywhere.
    by elainekirk 7/22/2011 12:38:29 AM

  • I think the straw rice whilst being radioactive is being given as the sole cause because if they said the cows were contaminated they would have to admit the people were too
    by elainekirk 7/22/2011 12:40:18 AM

  • Conversing with the people working at the nuclear accident site: kansblog.kantei.go.jp
    by es 7/22/2011 12:51:03 AM

  • This was ABC's lead story this morning. Claims that US nuclear plants are terrorism targets and that a terrorist had access to 5 different US plants. abcnews.go.com

    IF a group wants to get the old Mark 1 units shut down, this would be the angle to use. There isn't a person in Congress that wants to be seen soft on terrorism. :-)
    by lillymunster 7/22/2011 12:51:14 AM

  • Hi all, a quick hello before I cycle off to work.
    by bo 7/22/2011 12:57:40 AM

  • Morning bo!
    by lillymunster 7/22/2011 1:06:44 AM

  • Is rice straw accurate, or is it rice hay? In the US, hay is for feed and straw is for bedding, for the most part. The straw is not very nutritious.
    by RadioGuy 7/22/2011 1:13:20 AM

  • New lifetime radiation limits and the head games involved ex-skf.blogspot.com
    by lillymunster 7/22/2011 1:14:40 AM

  • @lilly it seems like there is no way they could get away with that. I think such a brazen shift in allowable levels would meet with a lot of public opposition.
    by bo 7/22/2011 1:19:43 AM

  • aaaand now the contaminated milk starts. :-( ikrockhopper Itsumi Kakefuda
    Radioesium-contaminated milk was found in Niigata pref, by the pref's sampling test. The milk was from Miyagi, and contained 13.5Bq/kg.
    by lillymunster 7/22/2011 1:20:05 AM

  • Slow motion dominoes.
    by bo 7/22/2011 1:20:52 AM

  • @bo I hope so. I fear it is confusing. All the numbers and measurement types. I hope more of the media points out why is is a dangerous headgame more than a standard of safety.
    by lillymunster 7/22/2011 1:21:24 AM

  • I am still really disturbed by the statement I saw yesterday that the US wanted Kan to explain his "de-nuclear" comments. If anyone finds a story with details please post it. It sounded on the surface like some sort of pressure to keep nuclear power??
    by lillymunster 7/22/2011 1:23:38 AM

  • @lilly there was such a hubbub when they raised the allowable level for school kids, and such a successful opposition.
    by bo 7/22/2011 1:25:23 AM

  • Well, off to work. Be back soon.
    by bo 7/22/2011 1:26:12 AM

  • 151 Emergency Monitoring Fukushima Kawamata-machi Grain sampling Raw milk Center of Japan Analytical H23.3.20 H23.3.20 H23.3.21 5300 Bq/kg

    83 Emergency Monitoring Fukushima Village Iitate - Raw milk Center of Japan Analytical H23.3.19 H23.3.20 H23.3.20 5200 Bq/kg

    ......

    yasaikensa.cloudapp.net
    by Edano 7/22/2011 1:26:18 AM

  • @lillymunster This gets more preposterous every damn day. It was "beyond their expectations" that if the cows are contaminated, the milk is? And the yogurt. Cheese. And all the downstream products that use them.
    by RadioGuy 7/22/2011 1:26:22 AM

  • @lillymunster : i felt exactly the same. some kind of pressure. very disturbing.
    by Edano 7/22/2011 1:30:40 AM

  • @Edano It is very disturbing. Since when it is our business if they want to remove their nuclear plants? If anything it would be a plus for the US, no more chances of radiation wafting over the US. What makes it worse is that the US had such a hand in introducing nuclear power to Japan and building their first plants. The idea that we would be possibly trying to pressure Japan on this just seemed very wrong.

    @Radioguy, what about all the other processed foods that have milk in them? Baked goods, sauces, powdered milk products that end up in other things.
    by lillymunster 7/22/2011 1:39:22 AM

  • @lillymunster But then, look at Vermont's struggle to ditch Vermont Yankee.
    by RadioGuy 7/22/2011 1:41:57 AM

  • @lillymunster : i think the US still regard japan as a kind of colony, and they are completely dependent, in fact.
    by Edano 7/22/2011 1:42:37 AM

  • japan without nukes would be a huge strike against nuke power industry.
    by Edano 7/22/2011 1:43:45 AM

  • Big corps. It's a game of masters and slaves. USA is very pro big corps, and when did the masters ever care about the wellbeing of the slaves.
    by Cat 7/22/2011 1:43:58 AM

  • July 22 2011, 00:56:27 UTC 19 minutes ago off the east coast of Honshu, Japan 4.8 23.4 quakes.globalincidentmap.com
    by Edano 7/22/2011 1:46:39 AM

  • A thought: now that they've changed their methodology to a lifetime dose, as doses rise in the general population, even the minimum radiation released by a power plant could be called an unacceptable risk as the general population has no more headroom to give. Of course, then they just change the metric again.
    by RadioGuy 7/22/2011 1:48:20 AM

  • have a friend in Sacramento who barely survived cancer radiation treatments, and his health has plummeted since March. He swears it's Fukushima and who am I to say otherwise?
    by RadioGuy 7/22/2011 1:50:33 AM

  • A school district has established some food standards about sourcing food by location, type and possibly some testing. mytown.asahi.com
    by lillymunster 7/22/2011 1:51:55 AM

  • Good points on the pro business and that the US govt. is pushing the same thing here. The court case on Vermont Yankee is a perfect example. If a state can't execute a standing agreement to shut down a reactor?
    by lillymunster 7/22/2011 1:54:01 AM

  • Chinese fast reactor starts supplying electricity : The sodium-cooled, pool-type fast reactor has been constructed with some Russian assistance at the China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIEA), near Beijing, which undertakes fundamental research on nuclear science and technology. The reactor has a thermal capacity of 65 MW and can produce 20 MW in electrical power. The CEFR was built by Russia's OKBM Afrikantov in collaboration with OKB Gidropress, NIKIET and Kurchatov Institute. www.world-nuclear-news.org
    by Majj 7/22/2011 1:57:01 AM

  • Need sleep. Here's a great bunch of musicians who have lots to say about corporate greed. www.seizetheday.org Really want to acsess that radioactive pickup vid. Bobby said "Over 3.5 Sv/year in that truck bed." (Bobby1 July 16 at 2:07 PM) Hope someone captured it.
    by Cat 7/22/2011 2:00:06 AM

  • If anyone finds this in English please post. The translation relates that the female TEPCO employee who was murdered was turning anti-nuclear and was working on the MOX development program as a liaison to METI. Her dad also worked for TEPCO, became anti-nuclear and did of cancer the next year. www.asyura2.com
    by lillymunster 7/22/2011 2:02:21 AM

  • @All hi, about the food...namely the cows, I was thinking and well what the hell did they test to find the contamination? The meat I am guessing! So remember with cs group nuclidies a lot of it is filtered out and leaves the body.....the kidneys do the filtering and I am guessing if the meat had a very high level than the kidneys off those beasts would have been glowing! And another thing....as already mentioned it ends up everywhere, in the milk way down the line in a product unsuspected....but what about the tripe off these cows, it would hvae been absolutely loaded, it ends up in all sorts of things including cheap chicken nuggets and crab sticks(fake seafood)! And on the pharma, I can tell everyone that china buys most of the pharma byproducts produced at my plant so if they do the same and send it there for processing then who will be testing chinese pharma products for rads???
    by Thunder 7/22/2011 2:02:30 AM

  • @Thunder I had faux-crab salad for lunch.
    If that gets sent to China it would be almost impossible to trace.
    by lillymunster 7/22/2011 2:09:13 AM

  • The water purifier is having more problems, lowered capacity www.asahi.com
    by lillymunster 7/22/2011 2:19:02 AM

  • @lillymunster Maybe it doesn't like river water.
    by RadioGuy 7/22/2011 2:20:33 AM

  • Wait. This is just sinking in. They augmented with river water? From a river that runs through Fukushima? What else do we know that runs downhill into rivers and puddles?
    by RadioGuy 7/22/2011 2:22:05 AM

  • @Lilymunster LOL!:-) Meat wrokers always laugh when we see people eating faux crab or anything the like because we know better....trust me I have seen the tripe pre-wash.....I wouldn't put it anywhere near my mouth! On the pharma Japan might do some of their own, I think they grind up tendons to make some colagen drink or something....@Bo might know more? But for our plant the most part goes China's way, including most of the tendons, cartlidge, glands ect. Another thing we pull out and sell that is very expensive is gallstones, they are worth a fortune.....I would have no idea what sort of contamination load one might carry though! Off the cows for a while cause it's just the tip of the iceberg, the other contaminated food floating around in circles right now is mind blowing!!!! Eggs end up everywhere and so does grain for a start along with the already mentioned milk! I think if I was in Japan today, I would be eating only whole foods and unprocessed, therefore unmixed, if I wanted bread or pasta it would come down to actually having to personally source all the raw ingredients and starting from scratch to ensure zero contamination and it's like that for all things manufactured....it's sad but that's what it has come to! I mean seriously when did TEPCO write the food standards, I currently see the same approach to food as I do with the water contamination......"the solution to pollution is dilution"......1 part rads + 2 parts rad free = below the allowable limit! MAGIC!!!! I have to say it......FFS!
    by Thunder 7/22/2011 2:26:33 AM

  • @Thunder hi there. I don't know about the specific collagen drink made from tendons, but it wouldn't surprise me, there are many here. Lots of loosely defined health pills and drinks on TV.
    by bo 7/22/2011 2:30:10 AM

  • @Thunder Some of those strange food additives are made by processing down things like collagen etc. So it wouldn't surprise me to find cow parts in some unsuspecting foods. The problem is that radiation doesn't get destroyed by cooking or drying so what would normally be processed to death now poses a diffuse risk.
    by lillymunster 7/22/2011 2:32:19 AM

  • @Bo I saw the collagen drink on TV once.....made my gut churn! How anyone could drink that??? But this is the extent of it, if they had of simply treated the rad area as a disease outbreak area everything would have been fine, everyone might not know but any agricultural society has measures in place to absolutely lock down an area in the case of suspected outbreak to stop the spread, the processes and infrastructure are already inplace they just needed to apply it to a different area of thinking! Even down to the abbatoir, like I mentioned the other day, the bse program has everything needed in it to stop any rad beef leaving the plant untested, it's as simple as classing any potetial rad beef as bse beef and whala, the problem stops! But they choose not to? @Lilly diffuse risk? In some instances the processing may actually magnify the contamination level, it would all depend on the process realative to the isotope involved, or atleast I would think! Also alot of the tendons and cartlidge end up in arthritis pills from memory??? @All I have to go pay some bills and things, might be back later if I have time! I will leave you with this @the americans here, my plant exports beef everywhere from Russia to China from Brazil to the EU but one place always buys, constantly without fail everyday they buy alot of the bulk mince packs(red meat off cuts).....McDonalds USA, they can never get enough beef, they buy and buy......so when Japan admits some of that beef may have been exported.....what if that was the mince packs headed your way??? Does the USA have published results of testing of Japanese food imports? I am unsure, I know USDAFA are a pain in the a** to work with due to their tough approach and probably do test hardcore any import but I would be wary, very wary......Big Mac anyone? :-)
    by Thunder 7/22/2011 2:48:24 AM

  • Lt. Col. Margery Hanfelt, commander the Japan District Veterinary Command (responsible for food safety on U.S. bases), has decided that products from 26 Japanese processing plants will once again be sold on U.S. installations. The [previously] suspended plants — among 60 that deliver to U.S. bases — produce a variety of foods ranging from baked goods and eggs to fresh fruit, vegetables and processed items.
    www.stripes.com
    by Cat 7/22/2011 2:50:31 AM

  • @Thunder see you later.
    by bo 7/22/2011 2:52:25 AM

  • @Cat that confirms the lack of care given to US troops!
    by bo 7/22/2011 2:53:54 AM

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