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@lillymunster Great :)

Fukushima Video. Must see!

This one too. Hm..legal mismash..concerning "mitigation strategies."pdfs\ML11164A020.pdf

here's a cached page of my old newspaper, that talks about them: "For example, on May 28, 2010, Unit 2 automatically shut down after the loss of an electrical component. The power loss ultimately resulted in the shutdown of one of three pumps used to move cooling water through the reactor core, which caused the unit to come off line for safety reasons." webcache.googleusercontent.com

Sorry, should have specified. Scroll to bottom for hyperlinks to the inspection reports for 2010 for North Anna.

A September 2010 report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on International Status and Prospects of Nuclear Power said that some 65 countries without nuclear power plants “are expressing interest in, considering, or actively planning for nuclear power” at present, after a “gap of nearly 15 years” in such interest worldwide. www.world-nuclear.org

@Liz Thanks so much for the pointer to that video. I do some work for the Community Access TV station here. I forwarded it to their programmer.

Nuclear Power Plant Near East Coast Earthquake Epicenter Lacking Seismographs Since 1990s...The facility, which was built on a fault line, is only designed to withstand an earthquake up to a magnitude of 6.1. Yesterday’s quake registered a 5.8. All of the plant’s seismographs were removed in the 1990s due to budget cuts. www.democracynow.org

budget cuts!

Government's move to monitor online sparks public outcry. While the government defends its new monitoring program of online postings concerning the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to stem the spread of "inaccurate" information, critics say it harkens back to Big Brother.

The Agency for Natural Resources and Energy said tweets on Twitter and postings to blogs will be monitored for groundless and inaccurate information that could inflame and mislead the public.

The agency said it is trying to "track down inaccurate information and to provide correct ones instead."

But critics are skeptical about the agency's motive, especially because the government has been under fire for failing to provide an accurate picture of what has been occurring at the plant and the spread of radioactive contamination. ajw.asahi.com

Japan Triples Airborne Radiation Checks as ‘Hot Spots’ Spread Japan will more than triple the number of regions it checks for airborne radiation as more contaminated “hot spots” are discovered far from Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power station.

The government said it will increase radiation monitoring by helicopter to 22 prefectures from the six closest to the plant, which began spewing radiation after an earthquake and tsunami struck the station in March. The plan comes after radioactive waste more than double the regulatory limit was found 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the plant this week. www.bloomberg.com

Authorities have refused to give a ***ulative figure for radiation released from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant after estimating in June that fallout in the six days following the quake was equal to 15 percent of total radiation released in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. The authorities have been too slow to widen airborne radiation testing, said Tetsuo Ito, the head of Kinki University’s Atomic Energy Research Institute in Osaka. (Are helicopters a good way to get airborne radiation numbers? Doesn't it depend on height and where the plumes are?)

Letter to PM Naoto Kan from International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. 22 Aug 2011, recommending detailed spatial mapping, monitoring, evacuations, etc.
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@Peter Melzer That was my guess, too, but it's still a completely asinine statement.