Japan Earthquake

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Nite Elaine
by lillymunster 10/18/2011 1:53:29 AM

Yikes! The study estimates the cumulative dose by the Ministry of Education, the higher cumulative dose was 503.1 mSv per year for most小入野Okuma town about 3 km west-southwest of Tokyo Electric Power Co. Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. www.minpo.jp
by lillymunster 10/18/2011 1:59:40 AM

Widow of Fukushima worker that died offered $6508 in compensation for his death. WTH TEPCO. gendai.ismedia.jp
by lillymunster 10/18/2011 2:19:55 AM

Reuters article on the compensation process www.reuters.com
by lillymunster 10/18/2011 2:30:24 AM

@lillymunster - 6.5k - that is a crime. A crime I cry.
by Mid Valley 10/18/2011 3:04:33 AM

Fukushima victims: homeless,desperate and angry
www.reuters.com
by Mid Valley 10/18/2011 3:29:31 AM

High radioactivity measured at Tokyo school

A radioactivity level higher than that of areas near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has been detected at a Tokyo elementary school.

A level of 3-point-99 microsieverts per hour was observed 5 centimeters above ground just beneath a rainwater pipe on Monday at the school in Tokyo's Adachi Ward. Radiation levels in Fukushima City about 60 kilometers from the plant were around 1 microsievert per hour on Monday. The ward is about 210 kilometers from the plant.

Ward authorities plan to remove soil and trees from the school area and measure radiation in ditches at about 800 locations including schools, parks and other public facilities.

The school's principal says he was stunned to hear about the radiation and cancelled physical education classes and other activities in the schoolyard for the day.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011 17:11 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 10/18/2011 8:30:03 AM

oh boy... that is mandatory evacuation area.
by Edano 10/18/2011 8:31:29 AM

www3.nhk.or.jp

Fukushima City begins decontamination work

Fukushima City has launched a massive campaign to clean up radioactive materials, with the ultimate goal of decontaminating all homes and public facilities.

The city is located about 60 kilometers from the disaster-stricken Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Decontamination work began on Tuesday morning in the Onami district, where radiation levels are relatively high.

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda was on hand for about 20 minutes to inspect the work in Onami.

A team of professional workers used water jet cleaners to clean roofs and ditches. They also cut away vegetation in gardens and removed a layer of top soil.
Fukushima City's ultimate goal is to decontaminate 110,000 households, public facilities, and roads near schools by the end of fiscal 2012.

The city plans to ask residents and volunteers to help clean up areas where radiation levels are not too high.

Securing the necessary manpower and space to store radioactive waste are among the key challenges.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011 12:16 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano via Www3.nhk.or.jp 10/18/2011 8:32:30 AM

they forget to say nhthh lately.
by Edano 10/18/2011 8:33:47 AM

english.kyodonews.jp

Closure of British MOX plant causes multibillion yen loss

LONDON, Oct. 18, Kyodo

Japan's electric power industry suffered multibillion yen losses due to the closure of a plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel plant in Britain, industry sources said Tuesday.

Japan's 10 utilities jointly bore the expenses for renovating the Sellafield-based plant, owned by the British government-affiliated Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, but the British side determined Japan would no longer need MOX fuel in the wake of the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, and has decided to close it, the sources said.

While the Japanese companies, which operate nuclear plants, have already spent multibillion yen for the renovation to smoothly extract plutonium from spent nuclear fuels discharged from commercial reactors in Japan for use as MOX fuel, the unexpected closure made the investment a waste. english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano via English.kyodonews.jp 10/18/2011 8:35:05 AM

english.kyodonews.jp

British MOX plant to be closed
File photo taken in March 2011 shows facilities related to nuclear power in Sellafield, Britain. Ten Japanese electric power companies that operate nuclear power plants jointly covered the cost of renovating a Sellafield-based plant to produce plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel. Now the British government-affiliated Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, which runs the facility, has determined Japan will no longer need MOX fuel in the wake of the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, and has decided to close the reprocessing plant, industry sources said Oct. 18, 2011. (Kyodo) english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano via English.kyodonews.jp 10/18/2011 8:35:41 AM

ooh this is so sad, sooo sad. it makes me cry..... no more mox..... huhuuuu
by Edano 10/18/2011 8:39:14 AM

German testing firm starts food radiation measuring service in Japan

TOKYO, Oct. 18, Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 10/18/2011 8:39:55 AM

strahlentelex ????
by Edano 10/18/2011 8:40:07 AM

english.kyodonews.jp

Shark fins dried in the sun in tsunami-hit Kesennuma
Shark fins, a local specialty of tsunami-hit Kesennuma, are dried in the sun as part of their processing as a luxury food item, in the Miyagi Prefecture city on Oct. 17, 2011, after shark catches were landed at the Kesennuma port. The fins were suspended by strings because drying platforms were washed away by the March 11 tsunami. (Kyodo) english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano via English.kyodonews.jp 10/18/2011 8:41:41 AM

some things will never change. and i fear in japan nothing will ever change.
by Edano 10/18/2011 8:42:19 AM

@Edano you are possibly right
by elainekirk 10/18/2011 9:14:43 AM

@Edano that mox story is iffy sellafield is a big problem and statistically there has been a health impact so I think the Japan excuse translates to - we cant go on harming people this way or they will turn on us
by elainekirk 10/18/2011 9:17:21 AM

@elainekirk i am still thinking of the tokaimura incident only 12 years ago. it seems nothing has changed in japanese society since then. they had tokaimura, learned nothing, and the same mentality of negligence and criminality led to fukushima. and again, the public will forget and the nuclear mess will go on. the tokaimura lesson was not learned. they still work with untrained, unaware workers from subcontractors and pay them like dogs.
by Edano 10/18/2011 9:57:18 AM

they even do not know their names, obviously.
by Edano 10/18/2011 9:58:26 AM

you cannot run a nuke plant like a macdonalds shop with unnamed, random students or homeless immigrants without any formation.
by Edano 10/18/2011 10:00:49 AM

@Edano yes and they hide it all behind 'our workers are trained' people just don't realise how much they use contracted workers who are not trained
by elainekirk 10/18/2011 10:03:27 AM

@elainekirk there is a strong global tendency in many fields to adapt the "mcdonalds" scheme to other businesses....
by Edano 10/18/2011 10:06:19 AM

two years ago, the eu has decided to unify working directives in the medical sector. we have to work out multilingual "checklists" with fotos documenting our work steps, understandable even for analphabets. the reason is that they think they can ease the access to work for all kind of people. which sounds reasonable for low qualified work, but wth is the sense in a specialist field such as medicine ??? i will never work with unqualified workers, and it does not make any sense to have employees that do not speak my language. i often think, okay that might be the future, but thank goodness, i will be out of this before it comes real.
by Edano 10/18/2011 10:17:28 AM

@Edano it is a recipe for disaster
by elainekirk 10/18/2011 10:19:27 AM

they earnestly call it "qualified managment" but it is the very contrary. it's mickey mouse management.
by Edano 10/18/2011 10:19:38 AM

@Edano but it keeps the drug companies happy
by elainekirk 10/18/2011 10:22:05 AM

@elainekirk there are lots of people deserving money with this nonsense.
by Edano 10/18/2011 10:27:28 AM

@elainekirk btw the sellafield plant looks like an airport.
by Edano 10/18/2011 10:29:45 AM

TOKYO, Oct. 18 -- (Kyodo) _ ---------- German testing firm starts food radiation measuring service in Japan

TOKYO - The Japanese unit of Tuv Rheinland Group, a major German inspection and certification service provider, said Tuesday it has launched services to measure radioactive content in agricultural, dairy and food products.

The new service examines samples sent by clients, such as food makers and retailers, to check the amount of cesium and other radioactive substances contained in them for 18,000 yen or more each, Tuv Rheinland Japan Ltd. said.
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by Edano 10/18/2011 10:31:38 AM

in germany, the "TÜV Rheinland" seal does not mean much. i think you can buy it. but maybe they make a good job in japan.
by Edano 10/18/2011 10:34:34 AM

Morning! (afternoon-evening)

So has Selafield just scrapped the old mox plant or have they decided not to build the new one also?
by lillymunster 10/18/2011 10:41:09 AM

Europe have just used citizens money to open a propaganda centre called the 'Parlimentarium' and I have been looking at the video's they have produced and spotted this bit of censoring!! so much for the peoples parliament and democracy *http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=VeH9jGXJ2No remove star for link
by elainekirk 10/18/2011 10:44:46 AM

@lillymunster it's a strange story. japan pays for this mox plant and the brits simply decide to shut it down because the japanese don't need it anymore ? sounds like slapstick...
by Edano 10/18/2011 10:49:53 AM

this needs further investigation :)
by Edano 10/18/2011 10:50:30 AM

@Edano yes I think we need to delve deeper
by elainekirk 10/18/2011 10:51:11 AM

@elainekirk Does it have a rollercoaster? :-) Sheesh.
by lillymunster 10/18/2011 10:51:42 AM

english.kyodonews.jp

Decontamination work in Fukushima
Workers use water to remove radioactive substances, leaked from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, from the tiled roof of a house in the Onami district in the city of Fukushima on Oct. 18, 2011. The city, which is situated about 60 kilometers from the nuclear plant, began implementing a major decontamination project the same day. (Kyodo) english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano via English.kyodonews.jp 10/18/2011 10:52:21 AM

of course, i appreciate the shutdown, but it is a bit ...... ehm, undiplomatic ?
by Edano 10/18/2011 10:53:04 AM

@elainekirk There were UK political types made mentions maybe 1-2 weeks ago about the cost of building a new MOX plant there. I don't know if they were just talking out another orifice or if there is a working plan to build another plant and the announcement is just PR nonsense
by lillymunster 10/18/2011 10:53:08 AM

@lillymunster and make japan pay for it. :)
by Edano 10/18/2011 10:54:04 AM

@Edano I would guess there will be a lawsuit. This would explain why Hokkido announced they were ending their MOX program.
by lillymunster 10/18/2011 10:54:14 AM

These mox plants - they never mention it but are they old weapons factories turned into MOX factories? The Selafield article mentions upgrades not building that one from the ground up. Maybe France did the same thing? That would explain Savannah River being the supposed US MOX plant.
by lillymunster 10/18/2011 10:55:57 AM

english.kyodonews.jp

Gov't plans consultation service to clean up radioactive 'hot spots'

TOKYO, Oct. 18, Kyodo

The government plans to soon set up a unit to offer advice on how to guard against radiation from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant following the recent discoveries of alarmingly high radioactive concentrations in and around Tokyo, science minister Masaharu Nakagawa said Tuesday.

''We hope to have experts from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency and the science ministry offer technical expertise on decontamination and other know-how on how to deal with (polluted) areas,'' said the minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology.

While saying it is each local authority's responsibility to decide how to handle ''hot spots'' with high radiation levels, the national government will offer assistance if decontamination proves difficult, he added. english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano via English.kyodonews.jp 10/18/2011 10:57:17 AM