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@dean strange, eh ? and absolutely no news on kyodo and nhk ... very strange.
by Edano 7/30/2011 9:53:17 PM

@dean and yet super duper tepco knew allmost instantly that no damage was done
by elainekirk 7/30/2011 9:53:22 PM

yeh .. I imagine them having a seismograph automatically set to send out the message everything is ok.. be fore the shaking is finished
by dean 7/30/2011 9:54:03 PM

ah, now finally ....

Strong earthquake hits Fukushima

An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 6.5 jolted Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sunday morning.

The Meteorological Agency says the quake occurred at around 3:53 AM.

The quake's focus is off Fukushima Prefecture and is 57 kilometers deep.

Tremors with an intensity of 5 plus on the Japanese scale of zero to 7 hit Naraha Town and Kawauchi Village in Fukushima.

There is no chance of a tsunami.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says there have been no reports of abnormalities at the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini nuclear power plants.

Sunday, July 31, 2011 05:30 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 7/30/2011 9:56:15 PM

oh looky they have realised different parts of beef cattle will show different levels of cesium translate.google.com
by elainekirk 7/30/2011 9:57:01 PM

@elainekirk : don't tell them, they will sell the parts below the limit !
by Edano 7/30/2011 9:59:42 PM

TEPCO to test run cooling system for No.4 reactor

The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is set to test run a system to cool a spent fuel storage pool at the No.4 reactor as early as Sunday.

The pool holds 1,535 fuel rods, the most for any of the plant's reactors. A hydrogen blast on March 15th damaged a wall supporting the pool. The temperature of the pool water remained high at 86 to 87 degrees Celsius on Friday.

Tokyo Electric Power Company began reinforcing the wall with steel pillars and concrete in late May. It also started setting up a cooling device with a heat exchanger in mid-July. This is designed to establish a circulatory cooling system that pumps water out of the pool, cools the water, and returns it to the pool.

The work on strengthening the wall and setting up a cooling system ended on Saturday. Tokyo Electric Power hopes to test run the cooling system as early as Sunday and start full operation if no problem occurs.

TEPCO intends to reduce the temperature of the pool water to around 30 to 40 degrees within one month.

A similar cooling system is in place for spent fuel rod pools at the No.2 and No.3 reactors. TEPCO wants to test run a cooling system for the No.1 reactor no later than early August.

Sunday, July 31, 2011 05:30 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 7/30/2011 10:00:09 PM

Some 100 lawyers to mediate nuclear disputes

The Japan Federation of Bar Associations will assign around 100 lawyers to mediate settlements at proposed state entities dealing with compensation disputes related to the Fukushima nuclear accident.

In April, the government formed a panel to work on who is eligible for compensation in a bid to swiftly assist those affected by the accident.

The panel is holding discussions on creating dispute-settlement centers in Tokyo and Fukushima Prefecture.

The panel plans to have legal experts, including lawyers, bring about settlements. The Japan Federation of Bar Associations is making a list of about 100 lawyers to be recommended for the work.

The federation is also preparing to appoint 30 lawyers as screening officers tasked with looking into compensation claims and compiling points of contention.

The federation's secretary general, Yuichi Kaido, says his organization will do its utmost as the dispute-resolution centers are designed to handle the unprecedented size of compensation quickly and fairly.

Sunday, July 31, 2011 05:30 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 7/30/2011 10:01:55 PM

@Edano there is more news the past couple of days isn't there
by elainekirk 7/30/2011 10:05:37 PM

another quake video: www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 7/30/2011 10:06:08 PM

ty Edano.. I keep thinking.. all the work they have going on at fuku, trying to get the clean up systems working, the storage containers stacked etc.. there must have been some damage, setbacks or delays as a result of a 6.5 EQ
by dean 7/30/2011 10:25:18 PM

be back in a bit
by dean 7/30/2011 10:31:30 PM

@dean yes just looking for tweets on the subject
by elainekirk 7/30/2011 10:38:53 PM

I don't know where NHK has documented the news on EQ, but JPA page keep their early published values, these are M6.4, 40Km deepth and JMA Intensity of 5+.
by estacion 7/30/2011 11:11:19 PM

@estacion The only on NHK that I found was on the Japanese site.
by lillymunster 7/30/2011 11:12:35 PM

@lillymunster www3.nhk.or.jp
by estacion 7/30/2011 11:13:14 PM

kyodo keeps on sleeping
by Edano 7/30/2011 11:18:44 PM

translate.google.com
revealed that radioactive cesium was detected 11,000 becquerels per kilogram bag of mulch from Tochigi Prefecture.
by elainekirk 7/30/2011 11:20:28 PM

if that has translated properly there just has to be more radiation than anyone has admitted to floating around
by elainekirk 7/30/2011 11:21:19 PM

We, the coalition of Japanese Non Governmental Organizations hereby request a country visit to Japan by UN Special Rapportuers for the aim of fact-finding missions on the human rights situations affected by the East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima First Nuclear Plants accidents.
Since the situation is quite urgent and many people’s fundamental human rights have been at stake, please kindly consider our request and realize the mission at your earliest convenience.
www.humanrights.asia
Introduction: It has been over three months since the Great East Japan Earthquake which resulted in the deaths and missing of more than 20,000 people. Although the reconstruction works have gradually started, human rights of affected people are still not fully guaranteed.................
by elainekirk 7/30/2011 11:23:57 PM

@Elainekirk from here ex-skf.blogspot.com as high as 14,800 bq/kg and over 200,000 bags sold. I am lost for words.....
by Thunder edited by Edano 7/30/2011 11:29:27 PM

Surely my post about NHK was poorly written. What I mean is JPA's data are 40Km depth (not 57 Km as said by NHK) and M6.4 (not 6.5 as noted by NHK). I think that is poor journalism.
by estacion 7/30/2011 11:30:20 PM

@estacion ah. I thought you meant they had not covered it.
by lillymunster 7/30/2011 11:33:12 PM

@Thunder those units are steaming it has to be going somewhere and if tepco are to be believed it is not coming to ground in the area around the plant
by elainekirk 7/30/2011 11:36:14 PM

@Elaine well that's where it's at, everywhere and that was always going to be the problem, it dosen't travel in a sweet little unform pattern like a 30km radius line does! Too many factors play a role in it's dispersal and it's sometimes subsequent reconcentration. Would be interesting to know what type of plant the mulch is from, and I am guessing it's mainly desposited cesium on the leaf surface, which means they would have done well to wash it first! The water of course then would have been a problem after that. On the beef too, I read the thing about different parts containing different amounts.....weird, because they are talking (from what I could understand) about two parts that lie directly ontop of one another, in the end though it's all prime red meat readings, if they want some interesting results they should check the offal, like the kidneys and the tripe! I would hate to be the person who ate those kidneys!!!!!
by Thunder 7/30/2011 11:45:34 PM

@Thunder and thooses are the bits that will go into pies/sausages/flavourings etc and once in will be probably just below the limit but what use will limits be to the person who gets the plutonium
by elainekirk 7/30/2011 11:52:32 PM

hFukushima city begins building solar power plant using U.S. donation mdn.mainichi.jp
by elainekirk 7/30/2011 11:56:05 PM

@Elaine....err, McDonalds minces whole shoulders.....I wish I was joking! From what I can guess, they mean the blade tested higher while the chuck roll tested lower.....in non-butcher terms that means the meat atop the shoulder blade bone is higher while the meat under this bone that lies along the high centeral back bone extending into the neck meat is lower...which may be a good thing because from the chuck is where the pharma beef tendon is collected!
by Thunder 7/30/2011 11:58:17 PM

@Thunder and in the mcD chain it could end up literally anywhere
by elainekirk 7/31/2011 12:03:43 AM

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by elainekirk 7/31/2011 12:04:06 AM

@elainekirk cool.
by lillymunster 7/31/2011 12:04:53 AM

@Elaine all of it could end up anywhere because of poor management, imo it shouldn't be the end user testing for contamination it should be the producers testing before dispact to ensure integrity of the product! That goes for everything! Anyways...I am out for a while, gota get some work done! @All stay well! BTW nice badge, maybe they should have built a dosimetre into one!:-)
by Thunder 7/31/2011 12:10:12 AM

Elaine, have you talked to the artist at all? Wondering if you had more background we could use to do a short article to give some background on the art.
by lillymunster 7/31/2011 12:19:03 AM

@Thunder the dosimeter is a great idea - stay safe see you soon :)
by elainekirk 7/31/2011 12:19:07 AM

@lillymunster twitter.com!/pelukiss is tweeting at the moment I am not sure but I think he reads english if not rockhopper is in touch with him
by elainekirk 7/31/2011 12:20:43 AM

good morning kyodo

M6.5 quake hits Fukushima, no impact on nuclear plant

TOKYO, July 31, 09:06, Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 7/31/2011 12:21:06 AM

I think they are moving ahead with the cooling system at #4 www3.nhk.or.jp
by lillymunster 7/31/2011 12:26:30 AM

@Edano that camera must be on a pole just outside the perimeter and we saw the camera move and the plant stand still
by elainekirk 7/31/2011 12:27:19 AM

@lillymunster I am tweet watching after seeing talk of #4 sfp being cracked it is driving me crazy
by elainekirk 7/31/2011 12:28:10 AM

@elainekirk do you remember what tweeter said it was cracked?
by lillymunster 7/31/2011 12:32:28 AM

Sorry if this has been already posted.
Video with English Caption: Professor Tatsuhiko Kodama of Tokyo University Tells the Politicians: "What Are You Doing?"
ex-skf.blogspot.com
by estacion 7/31/2011 12:34:53 AM