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Fukushima plant head told workers to disregard order on water injection

TOKYO, Nov. 30, Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 11/29/2011 10:03:28 PM

@Edano did you get the Kyodo login I sent you?
by lillymunster 11/29/2011 10:03:30 PM

@artnuke any link to this peer reviewed article on this enriched uranium weapon?
by lillymunster 11/29/2011 10:04:26 PM

Aeon is the only company that got this right. Retailers peddling Fukushima produce ajw.asahi.com
by lillymunster 11/29/2011 10:21:41 PM

www.youtube.com Busby hits back at his attackers. His peer-reviewed paper shows a new eriched uranium weapon was used by US forces against Fallujah. He says no pills were made, and no money was made. Same user posts fukushima show on Rense, (also a dubious source)
by artnuke 11/29/2011 10:51:47 PM

Did anybody else notice this patent? I found it from a search for drawings but no sign of drawings in this patent application. Belongs to GE, no surprise.
www.patsnap.com
ISOLATION CONDENSER PASSIVE COOLING OF A NUCLEAR REACTOR CONTAINMENT
Publication Number US5059385
Application Number US/07/519070
Assignees GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Inventors GLUNTZ DOUGLAS MCOOKE FRANKLIN E
Filing Date 04 May 1990
Issued Date 22 Oct 1991
International Patent Classifications G21C15/18
U.S. Classifications 376/282 376/283 376/299 976/DIG196
Agents Schroeder; R. R.
Abstract
A nuclear reactor system which includes a containment uses, upon loss-of-coolant event, an isolation condenser submerged in a large supply of water and elevated some distance above the system pressure vessel to effect both initial and decay heat dissipation cooling in the containment. The isolation condenser has inlet thereto communicated to an open entry conduit disposed in the containment so that steam and heated gasses in the containment space enter the isolation condenser and are cooled. Condensate resulting from the cooling is returned to an elevated system gravity coolant supply pool, which pool is used for replenishing coolant lost from the pressure vessel, the return being through a return conduit that has a lower end section configured with a water trap with non-condensable gasses present in the steam being separated from the condensate and vented to the suppression pool. The condensate flow to the gravity pool thus supplements this stock as a core cooling source and continues to do so after the original gravity supply pool stock is exhausted, the condenser function and condensate effusion therefrom continuing during cooldown and decay heat removal, the effusion flow of condensate entering the empty gravity pool chamber as discharge from the water trap end of the return conduit and gravity feeding as an outflow therefrom into the pressure vessel through the gravity pool piping connection with the vessel.
by artnuke 11/29/2011 10:51:52 PM

Now Canadian National disinformation website is promoting Busby's campaign against nuclear weaponization: www.agoracosmopolitan.com They are helping to "raise money" for his important cause: Has a political-military-industrial complex weaponized the use of radiation in Fukushima and on Middle East war fronts?

Dr. Chris Busby has been an activist on spreading further public awareness on the on-going Fukushima Crisis.
by artnuke 11/29/2011 11:00:59 PM

Here is another factoid for our condenser quest from this document www.scribd.com : "Steam generation occurs in a direct cycle with steam separators and dryers inside thereactor pressure vessel. A separate steam generator is not required. Typical operatingsaturation temperature is around 280°C; steam pressure ~ 7 MPa." From that temp it would take only about four hours to reach cold shutdown. But I believe that the rpv temp rises after the scram.
by Peter 11/29/2011 11:05:04 PM

@artnuke agoracosmopolatain thinks aliens and the Israelis caused Fukushima :-)
by lillymunster 11/29/2011 11:12:25 PM

@Peter so 280c was the baseline temp at least for kicking in the IC
by lillymunster 11/29/2011 11:15:14 PM

Looks like this is the guy who told workers to disregard the order to STOP injecting water into the reactor. From May:
www.hiroshimasyndrome.com
Asahi Shimbun also reports the person who correctly disregarded TEPCO (Prime Minister?) orders to stop sea water flow to #1 reactor was/is the Plant Manager, Masao Yoshida. He decided to come forward with the truth May 25, when he discovered he was to be interviewed by a team of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) officials investigating the Fukushima emergency. He did not wish to continue keeping what he did a secret in front of the most prestigious nuclear organization in the world. Yoshido said he, “...wanted to file a report based on the facts so that this can be used as an international lesson." Here is Yoshido's scenario as to what happened...

1. On March 11, 7:04pm, he ordered the seawater flow to begin.

2. At 7:25pm, a Tokyo TEPCO official from Tokyo told him to stop and said, "We do not have the approval of the prime minister. They are discussing what to do." Yoshida told the operators to disregard the TEPCO order.

3. At 8:20pm, Yoshida was told by TEPCO to resume sea water pumping because Kan has given them permission. Yoshida told them he would do so, but declined to tell them what he had already done.

TEPCO did not begin looking at actual control room records until ordered by NISA last week. On May 25, TEPCO discovered Yoshida's decision. However, it was Yoshida who decided to go public, saying, "I continued with the pumping of seawater based on the judgment that the most important thing was to continue with pumping water into the reactor core in order to prevent the spread of the accident." In response to Yoshida's disclosure, TEPCO says that the Plant Manager has total control of routine operations and “normal accidents”, but decision-making during extreme accidents resides with the home office. TEPCO president Masataka Shimizu had approved the 7:04pm seawater flow start-up, but other TEPCO executives wanted it stopped because of their feelings concerning Prime Minister Kan's anxieties. TEPCO vice president Sakae Muto said, in hindsight Yoshida's decision to protect the reactor and disregard TEPCO orders, was correct. TEPCO is considering disciplinary action against Yoshida.

I'd give him a medal!
by artnuke 11/29/2011 11:26:25 PM

I am having an absolute brain fart. Do we have reactor data for March 11 in any form?
by lillymunster 11/29/2011 11:30:10 PM

NRC denies Mass. effort to stop nuke relicensing
www.reuters.com
by lillymunster 11/29/2011 11:33:27 PM

Islamic Republic of Iran promotes Busby Enriched Uranium Warfare findings:
“It was rejected by The Lancet without even being sent for Peer Review. It was rejected by the International Journal of Environment and Public Health where we published our previous paper,” Busby said.
irna.ir
US enriched uranium weapons caused Fallujah cancer, study finds
London, Oct 21, IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency) – The cause of congenital anomaly and cancer in Fallujah, Iraq, has been identified as Enriched Uranium from novel weapons systems deployed by the US. A new study found that both in the hair of the parents and in the environmental samples in the Iraqi city, the ratio of isotopes was significantly low, implying the presence of man-made Enriched Uranium and not Depleted Uranium as previously thought.
Busby, visiting professor at the University of Ulster in Belfast, said that with evidence of enriched uranium weapons being used in other places, like in Lebanon, it was “most likely” they have been used by Nato in Libya.

“What we see is the deployment of a device of indiscriminate effect with terrible and indiscriminate consequences,” he warned.

The professor also spoke of attempts to stop the joint UK-Iraq investigation, to prevent the findings from being published and even hackers being used.

“There has been a sustained effort to stop us making this study and then to stop us publishing it.”

“We have been attacked by people writing to our funders so we had no money to pay for the analyses, to the journals we were sending the study to even before we sent it, to our Universities and Hospitals and Institutions,” he said.
by artnuke 11/29/2011 11:42:57 PM

@artnuke So is there a copy of the study and who peer reviewed it anywhere?
by lillymunster 11/29/2011 11:52:57 PM

according to a 400-page medical estimate the norwegian mass murderer breivik was not accountable when he killed over 80 adolescents. this means he cannot be judged guilty for his deeds. he developed a split personality based on a psychosis and shizophrenia.

from a distance, i have problems with this opinion. of course he is ill, but i think he was able to percieve the consequences of his deeds. if you follow this evaluation, you could not judge any kind of terrorist guilty. they are all driven by false estimations (psychosis). and i doubt he has a split personality.

i hope more expert opinions will be asked.
by Edano 11/29/2011 11:59:07 PM

i think we have a europe-wide network of neonazi terrorists. in these days germany is rocked by the revelation of a terroristic nazi cell that committed 9 murderers and 14 bank robberies in the last 14 years. police spies are involved in this group at top positions, one "homeland-security agent" has even witnessed at least one of the killings without notifying it to the police. of course all the victims were turkish people. at this time it even seems that one of the murderers was a "homeland-security agent". this leaves fundamental doubts of the security of our "homeland".
by Edano 11/30/2011 12:08:44 AM

@Edano I thought split personality was brought into question recently after one of the early subjects recanted her split personality as a fraud?
by lillymunster 11/30/2011 12:11:34 AM

@Edano yikes. (the homeland security story)
by lillymunster 11/30/2011 12:12:30 AM

@lillymunster yes, it is emberassing, even merkel said that. it is a shock for democratic people. of course, documents are missing, so it will be interesting how that ends.
by Edano 11/30/2011 12:15:23 AM

the nazi murderers had a couple of identities, not falsified documents, they were perfectly real. so guess who gave them the docs.
by Edano 11/30/2011 12:17:07 AM

Spooks destroyed files on neo-Nazi gang www.thelocal.de
by Edano 11/30/2011 12:19:54 AM

21.11.2011 Right-wing terror and the Muslims. The role of the secret services in Germany is the subject of heated debate. By Khalil Breuer
Hard against Muslims, gentle with rightists
www.globaliamagazine.com
by Edano 11/30/2011 12:20:35 AM

Scandal grows in German neo-Nazi case www.upi.com
by Edano 11/30/2011 12:21:07 AM

@Edano So did homeland security in Germany have some project where they infiltrated these guys? We have had a number of recent "terrorism" arrests where the FBI pretended to be terrorists and gave these guys everything they needed right up to being short of doing an attack. There are concerns it is both entrapment and that the people targeted might not have ever acted upon their sentiments without the FBI encouraging them to do so.
by lillymunster 11/30/2011 12:21:18 AM

@lillymunster yes, they are in top positions and probably initiated violent actions.
by Edano 11/30/2011 12:22:54 AM

one of the spooks called himself "little hitler" in his home town.
by Edano 11/30/2011 12:24:07 AM

@Edano do the neo-Nazi's in general have it out for muslims in Germany? Sounds like the homeland security people crossed the line between undercover and doing the crimes.. Do they think they were neo-Nazi before they became undercover or under cover who went to far?
by lillymunster 11/30/2011 12:24:27 AM

A blind eye turned to right-wing terror? www.dw-world.de
by Edano 11/30/2011 12:24:38 AM

@lillymunster yes they attack muslims and ethnic minorities, especially in rural areas of the east. the spook was neo nazi before he was introduced to the group.
by Edano 11/30/2011 12:26:23 AM

they do the attacks without verifying their group and intentions. so people thought all the years those were single attacks, but now they discover it was a strategic action. imagine, since 14 years !
by Edano 11/30/2011 12:28:20 AM

Neo-Nazi murders expose institutional blind spot www.thelocal.de
by Edano 11/30/2011 12:29:14 AM

@Edano that all is really disturbing.
by lillymunster 11/30/2011 12:30:41 AM

i don't understand it. they arrest muslims here for "planning a bomb" when they just buy H2O2 in a super market, they have cams and micros in their beds, but the nazis are obviously free like birds.
by Edano 11/30/2011 12:32:51 AM

outlaws. that was the word.
by Edano 11/30/2011 12:34:32 AM

Here is that "peer-reviewed" study. It was rejected by mainstream journals like Lancet as per IRNA article.

Uranium traces detected in the soil samples and the hair showed
slightly enriched isotopic signatures for hair U238/U235 = (135.16 SD
1.45) compared with the natural ratio of 137.88. .. showed
statistically significant presence of enriched Uranium... Whilst
caution must be exercised about ruling out other possibilities,
because none of the elements found in excess are reported to cause
congenital diseases and cancer except Uranium, these findings suggest
the enriched Uranium exposure is either a primary cause or related to
the cause of the congenital anomaly and cancer increases. Questions
are thus raised about the characteristics and composition of weapons
now being deployed in modern battlefields

www.conflictandhealth.com
Uranium and other contaminants in hair from the parents of children with congenital anomalies in Fallujah, Iraq
Samira Alaani1, Muhammed Tafash1, Christopher Busby2*, Malak Hamdan3 and Eleonore Blaurock-Busch4
* Corresponding author: Christopher Busby c.busby@ulster.ac.uk
Author Affiliations

1 Fallujah General Hospital, Althubbadh, Fallujah, 00964, Iraq
2 Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Ulster, Cromore Rd, Coleraine, BT52 1SA, UK
3 The Cancer and Birth Defects Foundation, Office 4, 219 Kensington High Street, London, W8 6DB, UK
4 Laboratory for Clinical and Environmental Analysis, Microtrace Minerals, Rohrenstrasse 20, D-91217, Hersbruck, Germany
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Conflict and Health 2011, 5:15 doi:10.1186/1752-1505-5-15

The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: www.conflictandhealth.com
by artnuke 11/30/2011 12:34:51 AM

Fukushima proposes scrapping all nuke plants

Quake-stricken Fukushima Prefecture has decided to draft a regional reconstruction plan that does not depend upon nuclear plants.

The prefecture hopes to compile a blueprint for the reconstruction by the year-end to deal with the damage from the March quake and tsunami as well as the nuclear disaster.

Sources close to the governor, Yuhei Sato, say the Fukushima government will propose decommissioning all 10 nuclear reactors in the prefecture in its reconstruction plan.

Tokyo Electric Power Company operates all the reactors, including 4 at the Fukushima Daini plant that survived the tsunami.

In October, the prefectural assembly adopted a pledge to remove all the reactors, but Governor Sato has not made clear whether he supports the idea.

Sato will finalize the policy at a senior officials' meeting on Wednesday, and will hold a news conference.

Concern has been expressed about the loss of jobs and the potential impact on TEPCO's compensation plan, if all the reactors in the prefecture were decommissioned.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 07:10 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 11/30/2011 12:44:03 AM

Reading the abstract for that paper a few things come to mind. The rationale for the control groups they chose. The conclusion that enriched vs. depleted uranium were used, I would need to read the full version to see if they make any sort of case that actually substantiates that. I don't know the standards or general impression of that journal, if it is well respected or not.
by lillymunster 11/30/2011 12:47:19 AM

Norway killing suspect declared insane

Prosecutors in Norway say a man accused of carrying out a mass killing in July suffers from a mental illness and cannot be held criminally responsible.

The prosecutors announced the result of psychiatric tests on Anders Breivik on Tuesday.

The 32-year-old suspect allegedly carried out a bomb attack in central Oslo and opened fire at a youth camp of the governing Labour Party outside the capital.
The attacks killed 77, mostly young people.

Breivik has admitted carrying out the attacks and said he wanted to prevent Muslims from overtaking Europe.

He also reportedly said that he wanted to deal a blow to the Labour Party, which has a tolerant policy on immigration.
The suspect will stand trial, but the court may declare him mentally incompetent and send him to a psychiatric ward rather than a prison.

If the decision is made, it is likely to draw criticism from the families of the victims of Norway's worst mass killing.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 07:11 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 11/30/2011 12:47:52 AM

by Ian 11/30/2011 12:59:29 AM

Official NRC video on Fukushima...
by Ian 11/30/2011 12:59:59 AM

Via twitter. School nutritionist using dried shiitake mushrooms in school lunch menu
by lillymunster 11/30/2011 1:24:29 AM

Ohio tomodachi
by bo 11/30/2011 1:37:33 AM

Hey Bo!
by lillymunster 11/30/2011 1:40:18 AM

A discussion came up the other day about weapons proliferation and civilian nuclear plants. There was an article maybe a month ago about Japan having a nuclear program in the 60's and some statement about reluctance to completely end their civilian program. Mary found info on TVA reactors being used for tritium production for the US nuclear weapons program. Is this a bigger factor than is normally admitted?
by lillymunster 11/30/2011 1:43:58 AM