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Dr. Tatsuhiko Kodama gave unsworn testimony at the Diet yesterday. He is a prof of Tokyo Univ Research for Advanced Science and Technology.
(cont) & the director of Univ's Radioisotope center. His testimony was very powerful, and got a big applause from the no-nuke plant arena.
cont) Especially because many eminent nuclear science researchers at Tokyo University appeared to support pro-nuclear policy of JP gov,
cont) receiving a big money from the industry.
So, I'm gonna report important points of his testimony... He is an internal medicine specialist and worked in Fukushima for decontamination.
(cont) Dr. Kodama: "JP gov/TEPCO have never reported the size of the Fukushima nuclear plant accident. So, our center did estimations.
(cont) In terms of the amount of heat, the spent fuel and fuel rods emit the heat equivalent to 29.6 of Hiroshima A-bombs.
(cont) Plus, according to findings, radioactive residuals from A-Bomb goes down 1/1000 one year after. But, only 1/10 from nuke plants.
cont) So, the size of the accident is equivalent to more than a dozen of A-bombs, and larger and longer effects of radioactive chemicals.
cont) One issue is that these radioactive particles diffuse unevenly, and it's very difficult to predict their behaviors in the air & water
ont) I visit Minami-Souma city every week. We have had a problem to establish radiation measurement system there because of the lack of...
(cont) ..high-quality counters & lack of information from gov/TEPCO to farmers & residents in the area. There are many high-quality counters
(cont) I was stunned when I heard a report that 2-3Bq/l were found in breast milk (7 women were tested).
Dr. Kodama's testimony) Currently, children of Minami Souma go to schools on the bus from low-contaminated area to high area.
(cont) I would really like to ask JP gov to stop this by compensating voluntary evacuation. Protect children with utmost governmental effort
(cont. Sorry. I made mistakes. He IS working in Minami Souma currently; I used past tense. And, the breast milk results were from Fukushima)

@RBeaner oh yes I just wish they would think about how they present information to the public , it certainly says to Japan that testing is needed

Chubu Electric: NISA tried to deceive public forum [!!!!!!]

Chubu Electric Power Company says the government's nuclear agency asked it to make sure that questions in favor of nuclear power be asked at a government-sponsored symposium in 2007.

In a report submitted to the government on Friday, the utility said the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency requested that it gather participants and have local residents pose prearranged questions at the forum held in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

The utility said it refused NISA's request to arrange the questions, citing difficulties with ensuring compliance. But senior officials of the Hamaoka nuclear power plant sent e-mails to employees and visited affiliate companies in an effort to comply with the request.

An official of Chubu Electric Power Company said on Friday that his firm issued calls to the public to participate in the forum.

He said he doesn't think the act was an outright breach of the law. But he added that it could have led to the misunderstanding that his firm was trying to manipulate public opinion, and he offered apologies.

The revelation comes after Kyushu Electric Power Company came under fire for submitting fake e-mails in support of a restart of idled nuclear reactors in a government-sponsored meeting for local residents in June.

Following the scandal, the industry ministry ordered the 6 Electric Power Companies to conduct an internal investigation of its activities aimed at winning local support for nuclear power.

Friday, July 29, 2011 14:15 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp

Wastewater recycling partially halted at Fukushima

A problematic water decontamination system at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has forced its operator to stop pumping out radioactive water pooled in the basements of reactor buildings.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, said on Friday that a waste disposal facility where radioactive water is kept before being decontaminated is almost full because of a delay in the decontamination process.

As a result, TEPCO suspended the transfer of contaminated water to the facility from the plant's No. 2 and 3 reactor buildings.

The utility uses a wastewater system that decontaminates radioactive water and recycles it as coolant for reactors.

But since a June 17th test run of the system, it has been plagued with glitches and its operating rate has remained below the target of 70 percent.

TEPCO says, however, that the radioactive water in the basements is very unlikely to overflow since the system is working, and that the transfer can resume in 2 days.

TEPCO also reported that one of the system's pumps in a device for removing radioactive cesium has stopped working, but that the failure has not affected the system's operating rate.

Friday, July 29, 2011 16:03 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp

this will be the emergency power system for fukushima's nukes ....

good morning here...

hi lilly..

lilly ,.. I find that so hard to comprehend, this isn't the first nuclear accident in Japan, maybe what they are saying is that all of the previous accidents and releases were ignored also.

Workers in unit 3 received significant doses. I don't know how they are going to get workers in there to do work without maxing their doses. ex-skf.blogspot.com

@dean I believe so. His and Kan's recent visits seemed very PR based and not fact finding.

the working rad field at that point is 28REM/HR,,,, or 2800 mr/hr in terms I'm used to. A worker on a radiological work permit would typically be set at 70% of the permissible "job' dose level so that level, probably 100mr would be reached in minutes...

466 mr per minute

that's so true lilly and, it probably wont help in the long run either

@dean as far as getting it under control? Or just keeping workers going?

@lilly, the logic for recovery based on plans there are probably driven by different objectives and it makes me worry if all of the nuclear exec's have fully understood that those plants cannot run any more

nuclear kamakazi workers