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we have not seen such pictures with mubarak as president ....

so the entire population has to pay for tepco's mess. that was clear. socialize the damage, privatize the gains.

Gov't, TEPCO set 40-yr work plan for scrapping Fukushima reactors

TOKYO, Dec. 21, Kyodo

The Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday they would seek to finish scrapping the four crippled nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in the next 30 to 40 years in a newly unveiled work schedule describing measures to be taken following the plant's stabilization.

Based on the road map toward decommissioning, the plant operator known as TEPCO would start removing the nuclear fuel stored in the spent fuel pools of the Nos. 1 to 4 units within two years and the melted fuel from the Nos. 1 to 3 reactors within 10 years.

A survey of the inside of the primary containment vessels of the reactors is expected around the latter half of fiscal 2017, and that of the reactor cores around fiscal 2020, government officials said. It is expected to bring to light what has happened inside the reactors in the world's worst nuclear crisis since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
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Aomori municipalities call on gov't to maintain nuclear fuel recycling

TOKYO, Dec. 21, Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp

Enviroment Pollution in USA on Wednesday, 21 December, 2011 at 04:09 (04:09 AM) UTC.
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Radioactive material has been found in the groundwater around the Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant. Tennessee Valley Authority officials have reported finding elevated levels of tritium in a groundwater sample taken from one of two new onsite monitoring wells at the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant. TVA says these elevated levels pose no threat to the health and safety of the public. "The newly installed groundwater monitoring wells were placed in an area known to have contained tritium that was previously reported," Sequoyah Plant Manager Paul Simmons said. "The health and safety of the public are our primary concern, which is why providing additional monitoring capability to the plant's groundwater wells is an important measure for protecting the community and the environment." There are a total of 16 groundwater monitoring wells on the Sequoyah site. The highest level found in the sampling on Friday, December 16, was approximately 23,000 picocuries per liter. A "curie" is the standard measure for the intensity of radioactivity contained in a sample; a picocurie is one trillionth of a curie.

None of the Sequoyah groundwater monitoring wells is used for drinking water or irrigation purposes and no potable water wells are downstream of where the tritium was found. Additionally, TVA confirmed no detectable levels of tritium in any sampling of the Tennessee River where the plant discharges water. "Sequoyah voluntarily communicated to federal, state and local officials these elevated sample results due to TVA's own conservative decision-making process and in accordance with a groundwater protection initiative established by the nuclear industry in 2006, " Simmons said. "TVA is reviewing the new monitoring well sample results, determining the cause of these elevated levels and how they relate to the previously reported releases of tritium." An Associated Press investigation published earlier this year found tritium leaks at 75 percent of the commercial nuclear power plants in the United States. The number and severity of the leaks has been escalating, even as federal regulators extend the licenses of more and more reactors across the nation. Tritium, which is a radioactive form of hydrogen, has leaked from at least 48 of 65 sites, according to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission records reviewed as part of the AP's yearlong examination of safety issues at aging nuclear power plants. Leaks from at least 37 of those facilities contained concentrations exceeding the federal drinking water standard - sometimes at hundreds of times the limit. hisz.rsoe.hu

On the seal outbreak, the Atlantic outbreak was determined to be a virus. All current marine mammal outbreaks have identified or likely causes except the one spreading from Russia to Alaska.

another admission the treated water only has cesium removed.

" By 2012, new decontaminated water processing facilities against multi-radioactive nuclides,which can not be removed by existing Cesium treatment facilities, will be installed."