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Broken pump shaft found in coolant system at Genkai nuclear plant

FUKUOKA, Dec. 16, Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp

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Morning! (afternoon-evening)

@Pedro Jesus Yea?

Checking twitter. One of the workers calling cold shutdown just politics

Kansai Electric shuts Oi nuclear reactor for periodic checkup bit.ly

Sounds like they have been playing water whack-a-mole again. Lots of moving water in and out of unit 3's condensate storage tank. This was the only new item.
At 9:10 am on December 15, a cooperative firm worker discovered the burnt
trace in the distribution panel at Centralized Waste Treatment Facility
(Miscellaneous Solid Waste Volume Reduction Treatment Building [High
Temperature Incinerator Building]). But a smoke was not found. We
reported the incident to the fire station at 9:19 am on the same day. At
10:28, we stopped power supply to the distribution panel. Afterwards, as
the result of confirmation at the site of this facility by fire station,
it is considered that the fire was not occurred. At 2:30 pm, we resumed
power supply to the distribution panel.
- At 11:38 am on December 16, as we found that there was high vibration at
desalination plant (RO) unit 2-2 high pressure pomp, we manually stopped
the desalination plant. We confirmed that there is no water leakage at
the site.
We will study on its countermeasure later. On the other hand,
desalination plant (RO) unit 2-1 is in operation. And water injection to
the Reactors will not be affected since the cooling is continued by using
processed water in the buffer tank. www.tepco.co.jp

TEPCO has videos of press conf and more on this page now www.tepco.co.jp

Noda sagte auf einer Pressekonferenz, ein „großer Angstfaktor“ sei beseitigt worden. Er entschuldigte sich dafür, dem Volk und aller Welt Sorgen bereitet zu haben. Jetzt müssten die verstrahlten Gebiete dekontaminiert, die Gesundheit der Bürger überprüft und Entschädigungen gezahlt werden. Man werde sich darum bemühen, dass die Betroffenen so schnell wie möglich in ihre Heimat zurückkönnten. Doch viele Bürger hegen Zweifel an den Aussagen der Regierung.

+++ Fukushima-Chef Yoshida an Krebs erkrankt +++

Nach deren Definition und des Atombetreibers Tepco ist die Kaltabschaltung erreicht, weil die Temperatur am Boden der Druckbehälter unter 100 Grad gehalten wird. Experten und Umweltschützer werfen der Regierung jedoch einen falschen Gebrauch des technischen Begriffs der Kaltabschaltung vor, der für den Normalbetrieb von Kraftwerken geprägt wurde.

„Hier von Kaltabschaltung zu sprechen grenzt an eine bewusste Lüge“, erklärte Reinhard Uhrig, Atomexperte von Global 2000. Die geschmolzenen Brennelemente hätten sich durch den Boden der Druckbehälter gebrannt und lägen nun als Klumpen auf dem Boden der Umhüllung. Dort wiesen sie weiterhin Temperaturen von schätzungsweise 3000 Grad auf. Von einem sicheren Zustand seien die Reaktoren noch weit entfernt.

www.abendblatt.de

Noda said at a press conference, a "great fear factor" had been eliminated. He apologized for the nation and around the world to have worries. Now it is up contaminated areas decontaminated, checks the health of citizens and compensation shall be paid. They would seek that those affected zurückkönnten as soon as possible to their homes. But many people have doubts on the testimony of the government.

+ + + Fukushima boss Yoshida ill with cancer + + +

According to their definition of the nuclear operator Tepco and the cold shutdown is achieved because the temperature is kept at the bottom of the pressure vessel at 100 degrees. Experts and environmentalists accuse the government but from a wrong use of the technical concept of cold shutdown, which was coined for the normal operation of power plants.

"To speak of cold shutdown borders on a deliberate lie," said Reinhard Uhrig, nuclear expert at Global 2000. The molten fuel would have burned through the bottom of pressure vessel and now lay in a lump at the bottom of the casing. There they remained at temperatures of approximately 3000 degrees. From a safe condition, the reactors are still far away.

cold shutdown. time to go home. nothing to see here anymore.

@Edano because the politicians say so.

article very critical of cold shutdown news.businessweek.com

Local paper with nuke ties cancels anti-nuke book ajw.asahi.com

Finally have the article on the NRC and the Fukushima safety changes done. www.simplyinfo.org

Tsuruga, Fukui and Takahama pushing for laws or resolutions to ban nuclear power plants in their areas. Tsuruga already passed and sent to the diet. sankei.jp.msn.com