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Looks like gardening.

the next wind blows it in again.

@artnuke There was lots of that mentality, not just in Japan. The science at the time was less advanced and there was this attitude that nothing could go wrong. If you look at Daini vs. Daiichi you can see drastic differences between building in the late 60's early 70's and building in the 1980's. Daini has a different generator configuration and is up higher. Even so Daini still was inundated and withstood considerable damage.

@Majj try this youtu.be

Japan's first astronaut lost his farm and everything he owns in the Fuku disaster. ajw.asahi.com

BTW. Has anyone seen direct donation pages for any of the evacuation or save child groups?

Japanese seafood sampling party held in Shanghai

Several Japanese seafood companies have taken part in a fair in Shanghai to promote the safety of Japan's maritime products.

The event was organized by the Japanese fishery ministry in an effort to recoup sales in China that were undermined by the nuclear accident in Fukushima.

8 Japanese companies took part in the sampling party on Wednesday. About 80 Chinese wholesalers attended the event.

Participants were invited to view a demonstration, in which a 35-kilogram bluefin tuna was cut and trimmed into sizable blocks.

Sea bream and yellow tail sushi and sashimi were also served.
A fishery ministry official stressed the safety of Japanese maritime products. He said the seafood products are checked for radioactivity twice by authorities from both countries.

In May, the Chinese government eased import restrictions on maritime products from Japan.

But concerns over the safety of the products remain among Chinese consumers.

Thursday, December 08, 2011 02:15 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp

6 percent reduction in 22 years is a joke...

Gov't to decide Dec. 16 on 'cold shutdown' of Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Dec. 7, Kyodo

Japan is set to decide Dec. 16 that the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has been brought under control by achieving a stable state called ''cold shutdown,'' government sources said Wednesday.

The government has determined that it is possible to put the Nos. 1 to 3 reactors at the complex in the stable state by year-end, a timeline envisaged for the completion of step 2 in a road map drawn up to bring the crisis under control, according to the sources.

The government has for months been trying to keep temperatures in the cores of the damaged reactors below the boiling point for water in a stable manner and prevent a fresh release of radioactive materials into the surrounding environment.

The decision is expected to be made at a meeting of the nuclear disaster countermeasure headquarters headed by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Dec. 16, they said.

Given the imminent completion of step 2, the government plans to begin working in earnest to review evacuation restrictions imposed on areas around the Tokyo Electric Power Co. plant by using radiation levels as a guide, to enable a speedy return for displaced residents.

The government and the utility, known as TEPCO, will compile a medium- to long-term road map toward decommissioning the plant, while envisaging the removal of spent nuclear fuel rods left in the pools for the reactors, possibly within two years.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has found ''largely acceptable'' a TEPCO plan to safely manage company facilities over the next three years, while instructing the utility to look into a recent leak of radioactive water from circulatory contaminated water desalination facilities, according to the sources.

The government has set as conditions for a cold shutdown in the road map achieving the state in which temperatures at the bottom of the pressure vessel for each of the Nos. 1 to 3 reactors stay at 100 C or below and the yearly radiation dose at the plant's perimeter at 1 millisievert or lower.

TEPCO says nuclear fuel inside the pressure vessel for each of the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 reactors leaked into the containment vessel encasing the inner vessel, but that the fuel remains cooled because of continued water injection.

In the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, cooling functions were completely lost for most of the reactors at the six-reactor complex on the Pacific coast, resulting in fuel meltdowns inside the crippled reactors and a massive release of radioactive materials into the air and sea.

Step 1 in the current road map to bringing the reactors under control was completed in mid-July after TEPCO succeeded in keeping reactor cores cooled in a stable manner.

==Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp

Cesium-tainted rice found in another city in Fukushima Pref.

FUKUSHIMA, Japan, Dec. 7, Kyodo

The Fukushima prefectural government said Wednesday it detected excessive levels of radioactive cesium in rice harvested in Nihonmatsu, following similar contamination of the crop produced in two other cities in the prefecture.

The cesium in the rice samples taken at a farm in Nihonmatsu measured 780 becquerels per kilogram, against the provisional 500-becquerel limit, local government officials said. None of the rice from the Nihonmatsu farm has been shipped to markets.

The number of rice farming households where cesium exceeding the limit has been detected in rice reached 22, the officials said. High levels of cesium exceeding the limit were found in rice samples collected in the cities of Date and Fukushima last month.

Fukushima Prefecture hosts the radiation-leaking Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled by the March earthquake and tsunami.

==Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp