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Residents sue to seek complete suspension of Genkai reactors
SAGA, Japan, Dec. 27, Kyodo english.kyodonews.jpby Edano 12/27/2011 11:13:10 AM- TEPCO dissatisfied with panel's view of severe accident measures
TOKYO, Dec. 27, Kyodo english.kyodonews.jpby Edano 12/27/2011 11:14:03 AM 
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Govt panel says M9.0 quake possible
A Japanese government panel says a huge earthquake of magnitude 9.0 could strike central to western Japan in future.
The panel of experts studying massive quakes and tsunami predicted near the Nankai Trough in the Pacific Ocean released its interim report on Tuesday. The study group was set up following the magnitude 9.0 quake that hit northeastern Japan on March 11th.
The report says that if major quakes occur simultaneously along the trough, their focus zone will span over 750 kilometers. The total area would be about 110,000 square kilometers, or 1.8 times larger than earlier predictions.
The panel says the quake's magnitude would be up to 9.0, compared to the previous estimate of 8.7. This would make the quake's energy nearly 3 times greater than earlier predictions.
The panel also says tsunami could rise from the seabed near the Nankai Trough. The observation is based on a report that the March 11th tsunami was magnified near the Nippon trench, where bedrock slides.
The panel plans to publicize its estimates of the earthquake's intensities and the sizes of tsunami early next year. And it plans to begin work on predicting damage by autumn.
Considering the new estimates, the central and local governments are likely to revise their anti-quake and tsunami measures.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 18:00 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jpby Edano via Www3.nhk.or.jp 12/27/2011 11:15:19 AM
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TEPCO asks for $9-bil. more for compensation
The operator of the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is seeking nearly 9 billion dollars in additional government funds to help it compensate people affected by the March disaster.
Tokyo Electric Power Company says it needs more funding because a government panel has ruled that people who evacuated voluntarily should also be compensated.
The power firm says it also needs to pay compensation to households which will not be able to return home even after next April.
The government plans to study the request and the firm's cost-cutting efforts before it decides how much it will assist to finance the payments.
The utility is already set to receive 11.5 billion dollars in public funds from the Nuclear Damage Compensation Facilitation Corporation.
As of now, TEPCO has paid out more than 3 billion dollars in compensation to people who have evacuated. However, the firm is under criticism for its slow payouts.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 15:41 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jpby Edano via Www3.nhk.or.jp 12/27/2011 11:18:39 AM
Kyushu electric to step down in March mdn.mainichi.jpby lillymunster 12/27/2011 1:10:46 PM- Closed railway crossings may have prevented many from escaping tsunami mdn.mainichi.jpby lillymunster 12/27/2011 1:11:05 PM
- Tokai just can't stop burning itself up...
Tokai nuclear power cable to the second burning
December 27, 21:30
Yesterday afternoon at the Tokai nuclear power plant in Tokai village in Ibaraki Prefecture, there was a fire burning heater cables for freeze protection of a pressure gauge attached to the pump to draw water. According to the Japan Atomic Power 原電 of businesses, radioactive material is that it does not leak to the outside.
According to 原電, at around 20:02 yesterday afternoon, the workers have found traces of burnt cables for freeze protection heaters and pressure gauge attached to the pump to draw water in the Tokai nuclear power second. Cable is 6 mm in diameter, was burned over about 40 centimeters long. Not injured, etc., is that no radioactive material leaking to the outside. According to 原電, seawater pump, is that it is intended to draw the water to be used when cooling the reactor building, such as motors. Operation was stopped for inspection last month, 27 because of their work, that was putting the power of the heater has been studied in detail the cause of the fire 原電. In Ibaraki is also August 20, burnt and ceiling of a building in the research reactor of the Atomic Energy Agency of Japan, if a series of fires at nuclear facilities, Ibaraki attracted each person on October 28, We call once again to ensure that safety managemen www3.nhk.or.jpby lillymunster 12/27/2011 1:19:08 PM 
News report about pollen and possibility radionuclide dispersal thereby. An interim report is cited and seems to conclude that there's no risk of immediate danger. Translation of description reads:
Forestry Agency, for radioactive material contained in cedar pollen under the influence of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, damage to health at the moment "there is no need to worry" was that an interim report of the investigation.by Ian 12/27/2011 1:23:55 PM- Heard an interesting point on NPR (radio) yesterday. They claimed that TEPCO lying in the early days of the accident that nothing was wrong at the plant, denying the melt downs etc. put people at risk. That because TEPCO grossly downplayed the early situation at the plant people didn't evacuate voluntarily that would have, had they known the plant was damaged and melting down on March 11.by lillymunster 12/27/2011 1:32:58 PM
- by Ian 12/27/2011 1:33:06 PM
- English summary of the disaster investigation in case people missed it yesterday icanps.go.jpby lillymunster 12/27/2011 1:34:22 PM
- 3000 bq/kg concrete to be recycled into roads etc ex-skf.blogspot.comby lillymunster 12/27/2011 2:39:07 PM
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for December 23rd –December 26th, 2011 www.greenpeace.orgby Mid Valley 12/27/2011 2:48:54 PM- In the US 20% (or less) of our power comes from nuclear. How hard would it be for people to find 20% electricity use reduction in their lives? When CFL bulbs were first put out it was claimed they could drastically reduce total power consumption and prevent the need for new power plants. So what would it take for each person to find a 20% reduction?
Something like this could be a symbolic action to prove we don't need that 20% nuclear sector in the US.by lillymunster 12/27/2011 3:19:54 PM 
@Ian Interesting video! I like the fact that 'there is no need to worry' attitude when the Forestry Agency employees are dressed in full radiation-protection suits.by MaryW 12/27/2011 3:29:24 PM- The news story over the weekend that claimed there was no radiation fallout over Alaska? Here's proof they were outright lying. The air filter data:
opendata.socrata.comby lillymunster 12/27/2011 3:29:51 PM - @MaryW we see that alot and nobody doing it notices the extreme irony of what they are doing...by lillymunster 12/27/2011 3:30:25 PM
- @lillymunster Its like a game, 'what's wrong with this picture'.by MaryW 12/27/2011 3:32:44 PM
- moderator, please delete that postby MaryW 12/27/2011 3:39:46 PM
Everything is fine. There is no fallout here. There is no immediate risk to human health. It is just like eating a banana or flying on a plane! Everything is below limits of um something. seattletimes.nwsource.com
by lillymunster via Seattletimes.nwsource 12/27/2011 3:48:41 PM- Breaking News: Increasing leakage of Iodine 131
Posted by Mochizuki on December 27th, 2011 fukushima-diary.com (Source) translate.google.comby MaryW 12/27/2011 3:49:21 PM - @MaryW, right, there's always "no need to worry" no matter what the findings. So the declaration is meaningless. Even with three meltdowns, the only conclusion the Japanese Govt has ever had is that there's no need for concern, or at worst no immediate health threat.by Ian 12/27/2011 3:50:47 PM
- High Radiation Detected in Male Cedar Flowers. Dec 27.2011 VIDEO
Extremely high radiation levels of more than 250,000 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium have been detected in male flowers of cedar trees in the no-entry zone near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. www3.nhk.or.jpby MaryW 12/27/2011 4:07:30 PM - by MaryW 12/27/2011 4:11:07 PM
- @MaryW, the i131 reports reported all appear to be from sewage / water-treatment facilities. This is where medical i131 shows up. For example, here's a 2001 study on i131 in sewers from medical use www.radpro.com I believe what we're seeing is a phenomenon of hyper-vigilance wherein postFuku everyone is looking and thereby finding what would otherwise have gone unnoticed. Take for example the Tokyo 'hot spot' that turned out to be radium bottles.by Ian 12/27/2011 4:16:03 PM
- @Ian But if you think about it...the source of the water ends up in the sewer. and what is the source?...its from your tap water, your toilet flushings, etc...by MaryW 12/27/2011 4:18:35 PM
- @MaryW right, but if you just had i-131 treatment at the hospital that is going out via pee and toilet flushings. This is why hospitals are required to have a separate ward and bathrooms for patients in the hospital getting this kind of radiation treatment.by lillymunster 12/27/2011 4:20:05 PM
- The way I see it, its as simply as, there is Iodine-131 in the water. Open/shut case.by MaryW 12/27/2011 4:21:42 PM
- @MaryW um. there is more than one source for iodine 131, wouldn't figuring out where it came from be important? It also isn't in the water, it is in the sewage sludge. The report says it came from sewage sludge, not tap water.by lillymunster 12/27/2011 4:22:23 PM
- @lillymunster Again, I see it as, it came from the nuclear explosion at Fukushima. But, yes lilly, I know what you mean :)by MaryW 12/27/2011 4:23:37 PM
- Study: Modeling Fukushima NPP Radioactive Contamination Dispersion Utilizing Chino M., et al., source terms. www.datapoke.orgby MaryW 12/27/2011 4:25:24 PM
- @MaryW how do you see it came from fuku. How can you prove that?by lillymunster 12/27/2011 4:25:42 PM
- BTW, the highest reading is in Tokyo Akishima City with 150 but zero cesium detected. That right there questions it being from Fuku that it would have a very high iodine reading and zero of cesium and down in Tokyo...by lillymunster 12/27/2011 4:26:39 PM
- by MaryW 12/27/2011 4:31:02 PM
- Never Was It Even Hinted That The Evacuation Could Last Years, Or Decades. Dec 27, 11:19 AM EST
No-Man's Land Attests to Japan's Nuclear Nightmare.
The tens of thousands of people who once lived around the plant have fled. They are now huddling in gymnasiums, elementary school classrooms, bunking with friends, sometimes just sleeping in their cars, moving from place to place as they search for alternatives. Never was it even hinted that the evacuation could last years, or decades. hosted.ap.orgby MaryW 12/27/2011 4:37:09 PM - Does Anyone has access to the NYT? 'Former world's largest power utility bankrupt by 'cheap'...' I believe this article is about TEPCO. myaccount.nytimes.comby MaryW edited by lillymunster 12/27/2011 4:44:31 PM
- The article from NYT www.nytimes.com Japan Recommends Temporary State Control for Tokyo Electricby lillymunster 12/27/2011 4:48:28 PM
- @MaryW, the best reason to doubt that i131 being found where medical i131 is found came instead from Fukushima Daiichi is that once fuel has melted into a blob of corium, it can't go critical.
A nuclear physicist and scientist wrote this in a discussion about this issue, and I've never found anything refuting his assertion:
So in order to achieve criticality, the fuel has to:
1) be in a heterogeneous lattice
2) have water moderator in that lattice
3) not have the presence of the control rods.
Tell me how one achieves all 3 of the above conditions in the Fukushima accident scenario,
and I'll believe in a criticality.
@ www.physicsforums.comby Ian 12/27/2011 4:48:45 PM - @lillymunster Re: NYT article. I, or anyone who tries that link and does not have an account, will not be able to access it. Just a FYIby MaryW 12/27/2011 4:55:31 PM
Radioactive Lie: 'Japan response to Fukushima inadequate'
by MaryW 12/27/2011 4:57:59 PM- @MaryW I am not logged into a NYT accountby lillymunster 12/27/2011 5:01:49 PM
- Definition for Accident vs Incident. An 'ACCIDENT' is 1) an unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury : 2 an event that happens by chance or that is without apparent or deliberate cause : An 'INCIDENT' is 1) an event or occurrence: 2) likely to happen because of; resulting from : the fact of something existing or being found in a place or under a particular set of conditions : In legality, the nuclear explosions at the Daiichi Nuclear Plant at Fukushima is an 'incident' and not an 'accident'.by MaryW 12/27/2011 5:21:00 PM
- Fukushima rice farmers asking 'until when will this continue?' With the government announcing a possible ban on future rice planting in areas where contaminated rice was detected, farmers in Fukushima Prefecture are on the verge of losing the little hope that has kept them going amidst months of torture. Dec 28.2011. "What should I do? There's really nothing to be done. I had to receive medicine from my doctor because I can't even sleep at night," says Eiji Watanabe, 62, a farmer from the Yoshikura (former Shibukawa) area in Nihonmatsu. mdn.mainichi.jpby MaryW 12/27/2011 5:25:50 PM
- Now we will begin to see the results of all the lies the government of Japan have given to their people. All the 'don't worry', 'smile', 'all will be fine' gave the Japanese radiation refugee victims hope, light at the end of the tunnel. And now after more that 9 months, the facts and truths that were known from the beginning of this crisis are starting to surface. What a cruel thing the government and TEPCO have done to their own peopleby MaryW 12/27/2011 5:36:00 PM
- Hi scribblers! Just saw a story about Exelon's attempt to renew the Limerick PA NPP license and scrolled back and didn't see it posted yet. "A newly formed panel will determine the validity of a request by the NRDC for a hearing on Exelon Nuclear's application to renew its operating license for the Limerick Generating Station." Unit 1's license is scheduled to expire in 2024 and unit 2 in 2029. Excelon has applied for a 20 year extension. "One of the NRDC’s concerns is an analysis known as the 'severe accident mitigation design alternatives analysis.' NRDC charges that this analysis was adopted as the result of a court settlement and was issued by NRC even though it 'was never evaluated for accuracy, completeness, or compliance with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act.'
"'Exelon now relies on that (SAMDA) analysis, unmodified, to meet its NRC regulatory obligation to fully consider alternatives' to relicensing and continued operation." from www.thereporteronline.comby momof3littles 12/27/2011 6:52:42 PM
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