Japan Earthquake

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by Edano via Taz.de 11/28/2011 5:32:18 PM

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by Edano 11/28/2011 5:36:58 PM

the castor trucks are moving now on the southern route.
by Edano 11/28/2011 5:47:36 PM

Academic society set up to study decontamination

A group of researchers has set up an academic society in the hope of helping on-going efforts to remove radioactive materials caused by the trouble at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Researchers in a wide range of fields, including atomic energy and nuclear waste, jointly launched the society at a meeting in Tokyo on Monday.

Ehime University visiting professor Masatoshi Morita, an expert on environmental pollution, said progress has been slow in decontamination efforts centering on Fukushima Prefecture.

He emphasized the need for the cooperation of various types of specialists to study technologies that would be effective in cleaning up radioactive contamination.
A Japan Atomic Energy Agency official in charge of decontamination in Fukushima noted that radioactive contamination levels on houses near forests are difficult to reduce because of the radioactivity that adheres to trees.

The society hopes to come up with recommendations for municipal authorities making decontamination efforts.

Monday, November 28, 2011 21:44 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 11/28/2011 5:49:06 PM

200 Germans injured in clashes over nuke waste + video !

Clashes between German police and protesters attempting to block a shipment of nuclear waste from neighboring France have left more than 200 people injured.

A train carrying about 150 tons of nuclear waste reprocessed in France arrived in western Germany on Friday. It is now on its way to a temporary storage facility in the northern German city of Gorleben.

Since Friday, thousands of protesters have been trying to block the train's passage by lying on railway tracks and setting them on fire.

On Sunday, protesters occupying tracks skirmished with police in Dannenberg near the storage facility. The police temporarily detained 1,300 people.

Protesters in another area threw stones and fire crackers at police. The police countered with water cannons.

This is the first shipment of nuclear waste since Germany decided to scrap all of its nuclear power plants by 2022, following safety concerns raised after the nuclear accident in Fukushima.

But Germany has yet to decide where nuclear waste should be stored permanently.

Monday, November 28, 2011 11:00 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 11/28/2011 5:50:53 PM

High cesium levels in Chiba likely related to Fukushima crisis

TOKYO, Nov. 29, Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 11/28/2011 5:53:23 PM

Excessive cesium levels found in more Fukushima rice, 9 kg sold

FUKUSHIMA, Japan, Nov. 29, Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 11/28/2011 5:54:00 PM

TEPCO study on nuclear crisis stressed need to avoid flooding

TOKYO, Nov. 29, Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 11/28/2011 5:54:46 PM

Kansai Electric estimates 200 bil. yen required for nuclear plant safety

FUKUI, Japan, Nov. 28, Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 11/28/2011 5:56:26 PM

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by lillymunster via Absolutely-unbelievable 11/28/2011 6:02:01 PM

@lillymunster bill gates' backyard ?
by Edano 11/28/2011 6:03:44 PM

Explosion rocks Iran city of Isfahan, home to key nuclear facility. 1 hour ago. (Fars news agency has apparently removed its news story on the blasts in Islahan. Telegraph World News, London) www.haaretz.com
by MaryW 11/28/2011 6:07:39 PM

@Edano possibly.
by lillymunster 11/28/2011 6:10:05 PM

Report: Huge explosion heard in Iranian city of Isfahan www.ynetnews.com
by Edano 11/28/2011 6:13:32 PM

Their nuclear facilities sure have been explodey lately..
by lillymunster 11/28/2011 6:14:04 PM

@lillymunster two weeks ago: The IDF intelligence community on Monday commented on the explosion in a military base in Tehran two weeks ago, which killed one of Iran's missile project heads. www.ynetnews.com
by Edano 11/28/2011 6:15:13 PM

Iran state governor denies reports of blast
Jerusalem Post - ‎22 minutes ago‎
By REUTERS TEHRAN - The deputy governor of Iran's Isfahan province on Monday said he had no reports of an explosion in his region, after some news media reported such a blast had taken place on Monday. "So far no report of a major explosion has been ... www.jpost.com
by Edano 11/28/2011 6:17:44 PM

@lillymunster I want one! It's like having your very Metsamor in the middle of suburbia!
by smoss edited by lillymunster 11/28/2011 6:18:17 PM

very own
by smoss 11/28/2011 6:18:34 PM

@smoss Real men don't need containment. :-)
by lillymunster 11/28/2011 6:19:32 PM

no risk no fun
by Edano 11/28/2011 6:20:15 PM

@Edano instructions are just suggestions, directions and maps are for sissies. :-)
by lillymunster 11/28/2011 6:28:15 PM

Second World War bomb leads to mass evacuation of German town (Koblenz). Nov 28.2011....45,000 will be cleared from an evacuation zone 1.8 kilometers in radius... www.telegraph.co.uk
by MaryW 11/28/2011 6:30:21 PM

I finished an article on the spent fuel problem, started with the NYT article and added in bunches of our existing research info. I put it in peer review so people could read it ahead of time. Was going to publish it tomorrow morning. Let me know if you see something that needs adding etc. www.simplyinfo.org
by lillymunster 11/28/2011 6:46:07 PM

@lillymunster the US readers may like to read about the "terrorism" aspect. attack and proliferation.
by Edano 11/28/2011 6:52:42 PM

I found a post that by mere virtue of its date is of historical proportion. It shows why tritium is considered of importance and the country will always be interested in finding ways of producing it. The story makes me wonder whether commercial nuclear power reactors don't play a part in this production. www.fortfreedom.org
by Peter 11/28/2011 6:56:17 PM

the protesters managed to produce ice on the road to gorleben so that the castor trucks have to creep now. :)
by Edano 11/28/2011 6:59:16 PM

From Mary's article: Tritium is a radioactive form of hydrogen that is integral to
the proper functioning of nearly all the U.S.'s nuclear warheads.
Because it degrades over time, the government must routinely
reinsert freshly made tritium into each warhead.

There we have the answer to why constantly running reactors are needed, rather than relying on old stockpiles of plutonium
by lillymunster 11/28/2011 7:02:12 PM

lilly, there you go (I cite from this wiki en.wikipedia.org ): "2005: The Tritium Extraction Facility (TEF) was completed for the purpose of extracting tritium from materials irradiated in the Tennessee Valley Authority's commercial nuclear reactors. "
by Peter 11/28/2011 7:03:59 PM

I wonder who else is participating in this program.
by Peter 11/28/2011 7:06:04 PM

by Edano 11/28/2011 7:09:36 PM

Of course this application for nuclear power reactors plays a role in countries like India as well: www.ccnr.org
by Peter 11/28/2011 7:10:17 PM

by Edano 11/28/2011 7:10:37 PM

If you look at a country like Japan without a nuclear weapons stockpile. You need a reactor and fuel. If you had to start from scratch with a shut down reactor and shut down fuel processing plant it would take a couple of years to make the assemblies, run them long enough to irradiate them and process to make the weapons material.
by lillymunster 11/28/2011 7:13:21 PM

@lillymunster , I imagine with an eye on China's ambitions in the region, this has been integral part of GoJ's planning.
by Peter 11/28/2011 7:18:30 PM

@Peter China, N Korea. They don't have the friendliest neighbors. :-)
by lillymunster 11/28/2011 7:19:07 PM

If TVA is sending fuel to Savannah river for tritium extraction is must be still rather "hot" when they ship it.
by lillymunster 11/28/2011 7:20:00 PM

two protesters have mounted the castor truck. the convoi has stopped. castorticker.de
by Edano 11/28/2011 7:21:50 PM

After 120 hours: Castor radioactiv waste transport is stopped by two persons, entering the first castor truck
by Puc 11/28/2011 7:21:58 PM

Castor Ticker in English. linksunten.indymedia.org
by MaryW 11/28/2011 7:44:15 PM

"44 Fukushimas rolling to Gorleben: Greenpeace media in Monday's english ticker.
by MaryW 11/28/2011 7:50:44 PM

TEPCO plant manager Yoshida has been gone since Nov 14th. TEPCO didn't bother to tell anyone and NISA didn't ask why he was gone ex-skf.blogspot.com
by lillymunster 11/28/2011 8:33:48 PM

Fukushima Chief Steps Down Due to Illness. also VIDEO fukushima-diary.com
by MaryW 11/28/2011 8:41:00 PM

We all know the common citizen will not make headline news when he is ill and hospitalized, only the rich and famous. I am beginning to believe the unpopular stories of symptoms and illnesses among Japan's citizens.
by MaryW 11/28/2011 8:43:52 PM