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TEPCO reported possibility of huge tsunami to gov't before March 11

TOKYO, Aug. 24, Kyodo

Tokyo Electric Power Co. calculated in 2008 that a tsunami higher than 10 meters could hit its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant but has since taken no countermeasures, officials at the Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency said Wednesday.

A manager at the utility, known as TEPCO, reported the calculation to the agency verbally on March 7 this year before the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami hit the plant on March 11, the officials said.

The agency instructed TEPCO to adopt countermeasures.
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Japan to seek to reduce children's radiation dose by 60% in 2 yrs

TOKYO, Aug. 24, Kyodo

Japan will seek to halve the amount of radiation in residential areas around the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and cut children's daily radiation dose by 60 percent over the next two years, a document on radiation decontamination policy showed Wednesday.

The policy is to be endorsed Friday by a government task force dealing with the nuclear crisis triggered by the devastating March 11 earthquake and ensuing tsunami.

The document also showed that the state will take responsibility for securing places to dispose of contaminated soil, while acknowledging the need to temporarily keep it in local areas for some time.
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@elainekirk i think the radiation will decrease naturally within 2 years, no matter what the govm does...

Cattle shipment ban lifted in Fukushima

The Japanese government is going to allow Fukushima and 2 other prefectures to resume shipments of beef cattle once they clear radiation tests.

The government says it will lift the shipment ban for Fukushima, Iwate and Tochigi Prefectures on Thursday as safety arrangements have been put in place.

The government imposed the ban on the 3 prefectures as well as Miyagi Prefecture on July 19th after higher levels of radioactive cesium than the government limit were detected in beef samples from cattle that were fed contaminated rice straw at farms in those regions.

The ban in Miyagi Prefecture was lifted last Friday.
Cattle from all regions around the country will now be allowed to be sold if they clear radioactive screening.

Under the new safety arrangements, the local governments will test all cattle from farms where radioactive cesium over the legal limit was detected, as well as from farms in the evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

Other farms will have to put only the first head of cattle they intend to ship out to screenings.

Thursday, August 25, 2011 04:31 +0900 (JST)
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@ Edano.. hi... my friend has been in external reviews all week but I have the message to him to talk..

@dean : i have found another job for you : www3.nhk.or.jp

@dean :)

ha ha @Edano.. I would peddle for power..

will return

Reading one page back on the N Anna things you all found What The Heck??? The built it on a known fault and lied about it? Wow

back for a min.... @ lilly.. they don't mention that the NRC must have approved it's construction.. what's up with that.. and they (NRC) probably spent a few years reviewing everything...

I wonder if documents that old would be on the NRC website, the construction reviews for N. Anna

www.fas.org @ LILLY.. some design requirement information and discussion of construction permits issued in the 60's and 70's...pg 16

@Dean, Looking at some of these testimony documents. It looks like they filed initial documents under the AEC in 1973. In 1975 the hearings on the lied about fault lines were going on. The reactor went on line in 1978. Why didn't someone stop construction?

i remember back when nuclear facilities were being built and from a seismic standpoint there wasn't as much data from which to base historical EQ data to build the reactor to,,,, thus the best approach had to be made to build a reactor near a fault line

Interesting. All the plants up for seismic review are on the east coast or in the midwest www.fas.org

North Anna is currently going through the lengthy process of obtaining regulatory permission to build an additional unit at the site. Dominion Nuclear North Anna, LLC submitted its application for an Early Site Permit (ESP) for the North Anna site on September 25, 2003. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued the ESP on November 27, 2007.[4] On the same day, Dominion submitted an application for a Combined Construction and Operating License (COL) for a 1,520 MWe GE–Hitachi Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR), designated as North Anna Unit 3.... SO WHY DID THE NRC ISSUE THE ESP? they knew then

@dean it is way beyond comprehension :(

the nuclear history has an evolution with it's ups and downs that has occurred over the years. similar to other sciences but with so much larger impact to society. I worked on reactors in the late 60's and on up to now and have seen so many changes in approaches to design, and all the external natural phenomena affects on the whole process. coupled with the fact that producing power from these huge plants and the resultant profits unfortunately has driven many many decisions. The NRC and how they operate on something that was written back years ago, it's like it's their bible that they don't want to re-write etc..

susposed to be on right after this break lilly