
I got a strange letter from the NRC this morning. It is announcing a public meeting on North Anna but the date is tomorrow. The announcement is through the NRC email system I signed up for so it won't show up on their website until this afternoon or some time tomorrow and the meeting is in Maryland. How is the public supposed to attend?
by lillymunster 9/7/2011 12:12:04 PM

More families leave Fukushima over radiation fears
www.monstersandcritics.comFukushima residents need information to make decisions about future
mdn.mainichi.jpThe Kan interview about TEPCO abandoning Fukushima has hit the US media
www.google.comby lillymunster 9/7/2011 12:57:16 PM

@Crytococcus or public input at all. A similar meeting on Ft. Calhoun had the proper 10 days notice. I was going to drive down to Omaha to attend and ask some questions but hubby had surgery the day before the meeting. This meeting on N. Anna is at the NRC offices and they should be used to dealing with the public.
by lillymunster 9/7/2011 12:59:07 PM

I am going through the details of this and putting it on the group website. So far I found no other notice of the meeting anywhere on their site and they failed at least 2 of their own policies
by lillymunster 9/7/2011 12:59:46 PM

@Crytococcus they also NOW think sending investigators out to private sector power plants might be a good idea? What have they been doing all these years?
by lillymunster 9/7/2011 1:01:16 PM

@Crytococcus that randomly pops up. We have not quite figured out what sets it off.
by lillymunster 9/7/2011 1:11:33 PM

Posted details along with the NRC letter I received to the group website. It should be the current lead story.
by lillymunster 9/7/2011 1:16:35 PM

@Majj this is all so strange. What information could Dominion have that requires a meeting with no notice? If it is really bad news like the plant needs to be shut down it could wait a few days since the units are already in cold shutdown. If it is good news and they want to restart there is no point in having a meeting on an urgent basis.
by lillymunster 9/7/2011 2:45:26 PM

@Majj I sent this whole mess to the producer at RT. If this is their intention, to announce good news and railroad this through, this is a big violation of public trust. If it is bad news than the bad news must be newsworthy for such an urgent meeting.
by lillymunster 9/7/2011 2:54:04 PM

@Majj I have a hard time following his posts, they don't translate to English well. I get the list of #3 explosion videos deleted. Was there more articles etc. deleted?
by lillymunster 9/7/2011 2:59:24 PM

@Peter I am really at a loss to guess this. It seems so odd to call an emergency type meeting on the findings. I worry that it may be a first step to railroading through a restart.
@majj good to see the media is starting to pick this up.
I am going to switch my schedule tomorrow so I can be in the office to watch the meeting while I get some other things done. I will see if there is a way to capture a copy if the NRC doesnt archive it.
by lillymunster 9/7/2011 3:09:54 PM

@Peter but why 1 days notice for a meeting open to public comment? It doesn't make sense?
by lillymunster 9/7/2011 3:26:02 PM

I worry how much of the public will catch wind of this in one day. The downside with the webcast is that people can't give comment. That must be done in person. This also makes any of the anti-nuclear groups have to scramble to get someone there if they want to raise technical concerns
by lillymunster 9/7/2011 3:33:15 PM

@lillymunster #3 water level dropped from -1350mm to -3050mm within a week.i wanted to know if tepco mentioned it and gives an explanation. -3050 has never occurred so low before.
by Edano 9/7/2011 4:06:29 PM

@Edano Was this today?
by lillymunster 9/7/2011 4:07:55 PM

There is a large pile of images of Daini after the tsunami on TEPCO's photo page
www.tepco.co.jpby lillymunster 9/7/2011 4:14:55 PM

If The water level drop was today, this is from today's press release:
At 2:46 pm on September 7, we adjusted the rate of water injection for the
reactor of Unit 3 through reactor feed water system piping arrangement to
approx. 5.0 m3/h. (Water injection through core spray system continues at
approx. 3.0 m3/h.)
by lillymunster 9/7/2011 4:20:57 PM

This also had details of changes in Unit 3 in recent days:
www.tepco.co.jpby lillymunster 9/7/2011 4:22:37 PM

@lillymunster no, over the last 7 days.
by Edano 9/7/2011 4:23:23 PM


Not a speck of radiation in the water outside Fukushima Daiichi yet all the fish int he region are full of radiation. I guess the fish ate all the radiation?
www.tepco.co.jpby lillymunster 9/7/2011 4:27:06 PM

@Edano the last link on unit 3 I posted covers actions over the last 7 days. Will go back through press releases for something specific as a reason.
by lillymunster 9/7/2011 4:27:49 PM

Nishizawa:TEPCO to scrap Fukushima reactorsTokyo Electric Power Company president Toshio Nishizawa says his company will scrap the 4 severely damaged reactors at its disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
He made the remark on Wednesday at a session of the Fukushima Prefectural Assembly, which is investigating the accident at the plant.
Nishizawa deeply apologized for causing the serious nuclear accident, and, in particular, for mentally and physically affecting evacuees from areas around the plant.
He also stressed that TEPCO will do its utmost to bring the crisis under control and compensate those who have been affected by the accident.
Answering a question by a prefectural assembly member, Nishizawa said that TEPCO will scrap the damaged No.1 to No.4 reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
He added, however, that TEPCO will judge, based on the opinions of local municipalities, whether the remaining reactors that are less damaged will be abolished. He was referring to 2 reactors at the Daiichi plant and 4 reactors at the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant. The Daini plant is located about 10 kilometers south of the Daiichi plant.
Another prefectural member asked if the utility had taken adequate anti-quake, anti-tsunami and other safety measures in spite of predictions of a higher-than-expected tsunami.
Nishizawa says he thinks that the company had prepared for the possible damage based on various studies, but that it needs to consider such predictions more humbly. He admitted to insufficient damage prediction by his company.
Wednesday, September 07, 2011 20:56 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp by Edano 9/7/2011 4:27:54 PM

@lillymunster yes, i read it, but no word about the low water level.
by Edano 9/7/2011 4:28:34 PM

They are transferring water out of unit 3 now, still finishing up press release searching.
At 9:54 am on August 30, we started transferring accumulated water from
the turbine building of Unit 3 to High Temperature Incinerator Building
of Centralized Radiation Waste Treatment Facility.
www.tepco.co.jpby lillymunster 9/7/2011 4:31:06 PM