Japan Earthquake

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lots of excitement...little more news I think.
by Cryptococcus 9/12/2011 4:08:55 PM

BBC article on French incident www.bbc.co.uk
by wrshpr 9/12/2011 4:20:23 PM

One dead at explosion at French nuclear site www.reuters.com
by wrshpr 9/12/2011 4:20:24 PM

Japan refuses Nuclear cooperation with Jordan over the reactor location
The Japanese Parliament Commission of the International Relations refused nuclear cooperation with Jordanian’s counterpart over the nuclear reactor location.

Japan supposed to cooperate with Jordan in the Technical filed during building the nuclear reactor if the Japanese side agreed to the reactor conditions.

The Japanese commission explained that they should provide their country's nuclear power technology by ensuring that its safety is of the highest global standards, but Japanese experts criticized the location of the reactor” Mafraq” to replace Khebet Al Samra . Hahahaha!

They indicated that the new location is closed to civilians and it has poor resources of water that they need for cooling the reactor.

Japan's parliament to refused ratify accords on civil nuclear power cooperation with Jordan, to avoid spoiling the fruit of diplomatic negotiations and causing damage to bilateral trust.

Tokyo had actively promoted nuclear plant exports all over the world until a massive quake and tsunami on March 11 sent the Fukushima Daiichi facility into meltdown, causing it to leak radiation in the world's worst nuclear accident since the 1985 Chernobyl disaster.

recent months, environmentalists and concerned citizens have joined forces to voice their opposition to the reactor, slated for a site in Balaama, near Mafraq, some 40 kilometres northeast of Amman.

en.ammonnews.net
by joniver 9/12/2011 4:27:34 PM

@joniver Something I hadn't thought of, the stupidity of putting nuclear reactors in a desert. Most of those regions have only a few water sources that the people are highly dependent on for clean drinking water. Can you imagine what a nuclear disaster would do if it polluted the only water source in a region??
by lillymunster 9/12/2011 4:30:09 PM

@joniver @lillymunster total stupidity
by elainekirk 9/12/2011 4:30:56 PM

@elainekirk Welcome back!
by joniver 9/12/2011 4:31:54 PM

areva says the incident is over now.
by Edano 9/12/2011 4:32:49 PM

If Japan is worried you know it's bad. Can you imagine a nuke plant in the desert! Unbelievable.
by joniver 9/12/2011 4:33:20 PM

@Edano Do you believe it?
by joniver 9/12/2011 4:33:38 PM

Speaking for myself it's hard to believe anything the nuclear industry says.
by joniver 9/12/2011 4:35:01 PM

Francis Sorin, the speaker of a french nuke lobby group, spoke of a chain reaction. www.tagesschau.de
by Edano 9/12/2011 4:36:17 PM

If the "nuclear mafia" is what it is sometimes claimed to be, then they're will be cooperation with Jordan eventually, it may be that the political context in japan makes the current posturing the most seamless way to go, (much like the rise of the Tea Partying is causing some gerry-mandering by the Left in the US that they might not otherwise have to go through), but eventually the pendulum always swings back. If nothing else, I am sure the Chinese (or someone) will step into help. The nuclear power race in the Mid-East is quite problematic on several levels when you consider how many are at least in theory planned, even outside of the proposed reactors in jordan.
by wrshpr 9/12/2011 4:36:34 PM

@all However, Marcoule is on the list of candidate sites to host one of the European Pressurised Water Reactors (EPRs) that according to government policy are to provide the next generation of French citizens with nuclear electricity. Richard Black - Analysis www.bbc.co.uk
by smoss 9/12/2011 4:37:05 PM

well, we know that japanese reactors need a lot of water, maybe a french type would be a better choice for jordan. or a russian one.
by Edano 9/12/2011 4:37:35 PM

www.tagesschau.de radioactivity readings near marcoule
by Edano via Tagesschau.de 9/12/2011 4:40:02 PM

Six months after Japan's tsunami, residents worry their plight is fading from view
axcessnews.com
by Panserbjorne9 9/12/2011 4:41:45 PM

I guess its a good sign they aren't wearing masks yet. Is anyone monitering the Twitter feed for Marcoule?
by wrshpr 9/12/2011 4:42:43 PM

Benoît Hartmann, speaker of a local environment organisation, said, that there are 3 official incidents daily in french nukes. www.tagesschau.de
by Edano 9/12/2011 4:43:37 PM

Eine Betriebsärztin berichtete dagegen aus ihrem Büro: "Wir bleiben im Gebäude eingesperrt. Wir dürfen nicht raus. Die Fenster dürfen auf keinen Fall geöffnet werden, wir dürfen nicht essen oder trinken. In den 15 Jahren, in denen ich hier arbeite, passiert das zum ersten Mal."

Translation: A company doctor told the other hand from her office... "Must we remain in the building locked, we can not go out the window to be opened under any circumstances, we must not eat or drink in the 15 years that I work here, that happens to first time "

www.tagesschau.de
by joniver 9/12/2011 4:45:13 PM

In dem Betrieb des französischen Strom-Monopolisten EDF werden schwach radioaktive Abfälle aus Atomkraftwerken eingeschmolzen und in Glas gegossen. Jetzt ermittelt die Polizei und muss viele Fragen beantworten. Beispielsweise die, die Francis Sorin, der Sprecher des Interessenverbandes der Nuklearenergie, aufgeworfen hat: Er sprach von einer kleinen atomaren Kettenreaktion bei der Verarbeitung des verstrahlten Schrotts. Das Metall wird in der Anlage verdichtet, um weniger Lagerplatz zu verbrauchen. Die Kettenreaktion habe ausgereicht, um eine chemische Explosion auszulösen, sagte Sorin dem Radiosender Europe1.

Atomexperte Alain Corréa von der Umweltorganisation "Sortir du nucléaire" (Atomausstieg) ist entsetzt: "Man löst nicht einfach mal so eine Kettenreaktion aus wie einen Knallfrosch. Es muss Radioaktivität geben, und sei es nur in dem Gebäude." Nach Auskunft der Werkschefs blieb das Fabrikgebäude, in dem der Ofen explodierte, unbeschädigt.

Translation: In the operation of the French electricity monopoly EDF weakly radioactive waste from nuclear power plants, melted and poured into glass. Now determined to answer the police and have many questions. For example, the one that has Sorin Francis, spokesman for the interests of the Association of nuclear energy raised: he spoke of a small nuclear chain reaction in the processing of contaminated scrap. The metal is compressed into the system to consume less storage space. The chain reaction was sufficient to cause a chemical explosion, Sorin said the radio station Europe1.

Nuclear expert Alain Correa of the environmental group "Sortir du nucléaire" (nuclear phase-out) is horrified: "It does not solve simple times as a chain reaction like a firecracker There must radioactivity, and it was only in the building.." According to the factory boss was the factory building, which exploded in the oven, undamaged.
by joniver 9/12/2011 4:48:13 PM

www.spiegel.de www.spiegel.de mox production in marcoule
by Edano via Spiegel.de 9/12/2011 4:51:25 PM

decent huffpo article on the French incident www.huffingtonpost.com
by wrshpr 9/12/2011 4:51:58 PM

video taken of incident in France, again no masks, so that's moderately positive in my opinion www.youtube.com
by wrshpr 9/12/2011 4:53:25 PM

www.spiegel.de no masks police and firefighters
by Edano via Spiegel.de 9/12/2011 4:55:11 PM

firefighters emerge from building where incident occured twitpic.com
by wrshpr via Twitpic 9/12/2011 4:56:10 PM

@Edano Is the photo below one of the reprocessing ovens?
by joniver 9/12/2011 4:56:56 PM

@joniver i don't know, it is the mox production device.
by Edano 9/12/2011 4:59:06 PM

The event that occurred this morning in Centraco, nuclear installation located near Marcoule site (Gard) is considered as closed.

The explosion of a furnace dedicated for the melting of the metallic radioactive waste triggered a fire that ended at 13h00 (11.00 UTC)

The building where the explosion occurred was not damaged. Injured people do not suffer from any radiological contamination and all measures conducted by the licensee outside of the building have shown no trace of radioactive contamination.

One worker died and 4 others have sustained injuries, one of whom suffered deep burns.

This event does not involve any radiological issue and no protective actions was required for the population.

ASN, the French Nuclear Safety Authority, has suspended its emergency organization; ASN is still in permanent contact with the prefecture of Gard and the licensee Socodei. ASN will conduct dedicated inspections in liaison with Labour inspection in order to analyse the reasons of the accident.

Centraco is owned by SOCODEI. The installation is dedicated to the treatment and conditioning of low level radioactive waste, either by melting of metallic waste or by incineration of incinerable waste.

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www.french-nuclear-safety.fr
by M.I.A. 9/12/2011 5:00:59 PM

@Edano What a monster.
by joniver 9/12/2011 5:01:07 PM

@joniver ugly dirty monster.
by Edano 9/12/2011 5:02:32 PM

Explosion on a nuclear site du Gard: 18 incidents recorded in a decade : The Centraco (Center for processing and packaging of low-level waste) from Codolet (Gard), where the explosion of a furnace made Monday a death had been a series of incidents prior to this tragedy. Problems alarm, detection or monitoring, exceeding the level of radioactivity or from fire ... the French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) records since 2000 eighteen incidents within the facility that for the treatment of waste weakly or very weakly radioactive, or by merger or by incineration. translate.googleusercontent.com
by Majj 9/12/2011 5:13:07 PM

english.kyodonews.jp

New industry minister Edano
Japan's new Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yukio Edano speaks during his first press conference since assuming the post at the industry ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 12, 2011. Edano replaced Yoshio Hachiro, who resigned after making remarks deemed insensitive to people affected by the Fukushima nuclear crisis. Edano gave daily briefings on the nuclear crisis triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami when he was chief Cabinet secretary. (Kyodo) english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano via English.kyodonews.jp 9/12/2011 5:13:41 PM

Long earlobes denote generosity but curved outward like that?
Did he have these before the meltdowns;)
by joniver 9/12/2011 5:17:46 PM

Noda picks Edano as new trade minister

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda picked former chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano as the country's new Economy, Trade and Industry Minister on Monday.

On Saturday, the trade minister, Yoshio Hachiro, resigned from his post for making inappropriate remarks about radiation contamination in Fukushima Prefecture. This came only 8 days after Noda launched his Cabinet.

Edano, aged 47, is currently serving his 6th term in the Lower House. The former lawyer was elected to the Diet for the first time in 1993.

After the Democratic Party came into power in 2009, Edano rigorously screened government projects to cut spending.
In February last year, then Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama appointed Edano as Government Revitalization Minister. It was Edano's first Cabinet post.

He later became the governing Democratic Party's secretary general.

While serving as Chief Cabinet Secretary since January, Edano led the government's efforts to cope with the Fukushima nuclear accident.

Monday, September 12, 2011 12:11 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 9/12/2011 5:20:31 PM

Fukushima, Oyster Creek Similarities a Cause of Concern for Locals
Nearly half a year after Japan was overcome by an earthquake and tsunami, which caused a nuclear meltdown, residents of New Jersey continue to show concerns.

The similarities between Oyster Creek Generating Station in Forked River and the Fukushima reactor, which suffered a meltdown earlier this year in Japan, was the focus of an anti-nuclear power meeting sponsored by Jersey Shore Nuclear Watch.

“It has to do with the design of the reactor, the deficiencies of the GE Mark 1 reactor,” he said. “Oyster Creek Power Plant is the oldest GE Mark 1 reactor in the world.”

Oyster Creek came on line in 1969 making it the oldest operating nuclear plant in the country. With a GE Mark 1 reactor, the plant is the same type the power plant as Fukushima, which leaked nuclear waste and energy after an earthquake and subsequent tsunami, Mariotte said.
The type of technology is obsolete and the design itself is not good, Mariotte said.
More: manchester-nj.patch.com
by joniver 9/12/2011 5:23:43 PM

The Bomb Plant
by Joseph Trento

Thanks to funding from the Colombe Foundation, the Educational Foundation of America and an anonymous donor, National Security News Service reporters spent the last two years investigating the most secretive institution in the federal government: the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and its radioactive weapons facility – the Savannah River Site (SRS).

We call our multi-media investigation The Bomb Plant. It tells how a secretive and little known government agency, dedicated to modernizing and safeguarding nuclear weapons, reaped billions of dollars in the name of nonproliferation. After DOE wasted billions of Stimulus Act dollars on environmental clean-up at the nation’s nuclear weapons facilities, especially SRS, NNSA took control to hide the problems.

Begun in the Bush administration, NNSA eats up 85% of the Department of Energy (DOE) budget. It has bipartisan support in Congress. It became one of the most powerful agencies in the U.S. government by successfully compromising its opponents.

NNSA’s nonproliferation and energy solution is Mixed Oxide Fuel (MOX). With little more than a theory, the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations accepted an unproven idea and committed billions of taxpayer money to building an enormous plant to take surplus plutonium from weapons and civilian programs from around the world, grind it into a fine powder and turn it into a fuel array for civilian nuclear power reactors. Some experts say this process is more dangerous than stabilizing and burying the excess plutonium.

Working with its huge and politically-connected contractors, NNSA uses an old, tired Atoms-For-Peace argument: It will solve the country’s energy problems by taking excess warhead material and converting it to reactor fuel for “peaceful” purposes. Former Obama White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod coined the phrase – nuclear power is the “bridge to our energy future” – when his company worked for Exelon, a Chicago-based utility that is the largest nuclear operator in the United States. NNSA says its MOX fuel will provide an abundant, on-demand, carbon-free power supply.

More: www.dcbureau.org

The horror of it all leaves me feeling weak.
by joniver 9/12/2011 5:34:31 PM

@joniver , ears with attached lobes like buddha's are symbols of good luck in Southeast Asia. Edano will need plenty of it. cdn.babble.com
by Peter via Cdn.babble 9/12/2011 5:50:24 PM

@Peter Wow! They 're just like Edano's. Isn't that something. He's going to need all the luck he can get.
by joniver 9/12/2011 5:54:58 PM

@joniver , sorry I meant DETACHED earlobes.
by Peter 9/12/2011 5:56:48 PM

@Peter If Buddha' earlobes are detached, what do they hang on to?
by joniver 9/12/2011 6:01:58 PM

by Edano via Spiegel.de 9/12/2011 6:04:35 PM

Double lobes, he'll need triple lobes before the year is done.
by joniver 9/12/2011 6:05:56 PM

"Because of the frequency of his appearances, he inspired Twitter users concerned for his health to post messages asking him to get some sleep, popularizing the Twitter hashtag "#edano_nero", from the imperative word for sleep! (寝ろ, nero?) in Japanese."
en.wikipedia.org i am in wikipedia now !
by Edano 9/12/2011 6:08:23 PM

The lobulus is detached. I see now in English it is called 'free earlobe' as opposed to 'attached earlobe'. en.wikipedia.org
by Peter 9/12/2011 6:08:41 PM