Japan Earthquake

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@Pedro Jesus that is rather cool. I suppose it helps sell installations if they do some of the estimation work for people.
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 1:37:08 AM

Oh bummer, the government refused to fund the tourism free tickets to Japan program. :-( www.japantimes.co.jp
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 1:55:55 AM

cars in the exclusion zone jalopnik.com
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 2:13:05 AM

”Fly to Japan! Project”(10,000 FREE FLIGHTS TO FOREIGNERS)
Last Update : 2011/12/26 The project titled Fly to Japan! (to offer flight tickets to 10,000 foreigners with high potential to communicate Japan’s attractions), which had been covered in a number of media in autumn this year, was not approved as a governmental draft budget of FY 2012. www.mlit.go.jp
by MaryW 12/29/2011 2:33:03 AM

(I'll be back later to catch up on today's new:)
by MaryW 12/29/2011 2:33:35 AM

TEPCO flooded out a generator in 1991 when pipes broke causing it to no longer work.

Emergency generator is submerged in the past TEPCO
December 29 and 40 minutes at 4
TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant 20 years ago, the emergency generator, soaked in water leaking from the pipes, it was having trouble no longer work, former employees from talking 分Karimashi TEPCO other. Measures to promote water generator, the problem could also be a chance to obtain prevent a serious accident like this, as a result, measures were Tsunagarimasen.
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, the emergency diesel generators basement floor, no longer functions flowed flooded by the tsunami, it was a nuclear reactor 冷Yasenaku, becomes one of the causes of the situation is serious directly below. From such flooding, troubles will also give an opportunity to protect the generator that was happening in October 1991, 20 years ago, found in the story of a former employee of Tokyo Electric Power Co. et al. According to these former employees of the troubles, in the turbine building of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 1, water flows into the basement leaked from piping, emergency generator no longer works. At the time, was a former employee, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power technology is close to the sea from the turbine building, "If a tsunami coming, and thought unusable generators flooded basement in the same way, boss consulted, "said the like. Meanwhile, TEPCO, then, the door of a room with the generator is subjected to measures that the water and transferring to high ground where the generator, assuming the tsunami did not take measures. TEPCO This is "the cause of this problem, its anti-leaking pipes are taken from. In addition," the risk manager in consultation with the tsunami, "the former employee's claim for a boss at the time, not consulted with the recognition that "You are. www3.nhk.or.jp
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 3:03:12 AM

URGENT High levels of radioactive MOX material started leaking at Reactor #3 - 24 March 2011 (SAVE this video safely)
by MaryW 12/29/2011 3:24:10 AM

Fuku governor demands all 10 nukes in prefecture be decommissioned. mdn.mainichi.jp
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 3:37:46 AM

Guy who promoted Monju as a good idea put in charge of MEXT mdn.mainichi.jp
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 3:39:36 AM

Shared venting at Fukushima lacked back flow preventers ajw.asahi.com
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 3:41:13 AM

Germany's increasing use of renewables www.businessweek.com
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 3:47:58 AM

Former NRC member tells how it really is at the NRC green.blogs.nytimes.com
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 3:52:25 AM

Summary Report of RSMC Beijing on Fukushima Nuclear Accident Emergency Response. COORDINATION GROUP FOR NUCLEAR EMERGENCY RESPONSE ACTIVITIES. Vienna, Austria. 31 October-4 November 2011. LOOK: "...continuous easterly winds happened in Japan and China, ...(1) five days of continuous easterly wind ...; (2) Nuclear leaks occurred in Fukushima and lasted for five days. THE TOTAL RELEASE AMOUT WAS EQUAL TO THAT OF CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR EXPLOSION..." docs.google.com
by MaryW 12/29/2011 4:01:05 AM

World Meteorological Organization Websites. www.wmo.int
by MaryW 12/29/2011 4:31:06 AM

@MaryW - from your linked article: In the Irish Sea — where the British Nuclear Fuels plant at Sellafield in the northwestern United Kingdom released radioactive material over many decades, beginning in the 1950s — studies have found radioactive cesium and plutonium concentrating significantly in seals and porpoises that ate contaminated fish
by Lurking 12/29/2011 4:50:04 AM

Canadian Medical Association: Public health fallout from Japanese quake www.cmaj.ca A “culture of coverup” and inadequate cleanup efforts have combined to leave Japanese people exposed to “unconscionable” health risks nine months after last year’s meltdown of nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant, health experts say.
by Mid Valley 12/29/2011 6:07:11 AM

Last shelters in Fukushima Pref. close www.yomiuri.co.jp
by Mid Valley 12/29/2011 6:09:52 AM

Powerful group of photos from Inside the evacuation zone - many i've not seen before: www.adn.com
by Mid Valley 12/29/2011 6:18:11 AM

Nuclear Event in USA on Wednesday, 28 December, 2011 at 15:38 (03:38 PM) UTC.
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The reactor at the River Bend nuclear plant in Louisiana shut down automatically after an issue in the turbine caused safety systems to trip. River Bend nuclear plant. Source: NRCAccording to an event notification report filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the shutdown caused the reactor protection system to activate, and the reactor's water level briefly dropped. Per the system's design, containment isolation valves in the boiling water reactor's suppression pool cooling system closed. Reactor core isolation cooling operated manually for about 1 minute. The shutdown from 100 percent power was uncomplicated, according to the NRC. Plant operators are conducting an investigation into the reactor trip, which the report indicated was caused by a loss speed sensor in the turbine. Entergy operates River Bend, near Baton Rouge, La. The plant uses a single General Electric boiling water reactor with Mark III containment at the plant generating 989 megawatts, according to the NRC. hisz.rsoe.hu
by MaryW 12/29/2011 6:29:10 AM

Nuclear Event in USA on Tuesday, 27 December, 2011 at 18:20 (06:20 PM) UTC.
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Updated: Thursday, 29 December, 2011 at 04:01 UTC
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The Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Plymouth has been shut down after what officials said was a small leak of radioactive steam. The owner of the power plant says the leak was never a threat to workers or the public. Entergy Corporation says the leak in a safety relief valve was contained within the plant's piping. This is the second controlled shutdown at the plant in the past two months. hisz.rsoe.hu
by MaryW 12/29/2011 6:30:58 AM

Biological Hazard in MultiCountries on Thursday, 13 October, 2011 at 04:59 (04:59 AM) UTC.
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Updated: Wednesday, 28 December, 2011 at 03:58 UTC
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Scientists in Alaska are investigating whether local seals are being sickened by radiation from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Scores of ring seals have washed up on Alaska's Arctic coastline since July, suffering or killed by a mysterious disease marked by bleeding lesions on the hind flippers, irritated skin around the nose and eyes and patchy hair loss on the animals' fur coats. Biologists at first thought the seals were suffering from a virus, but they have so far been unable to identify one, and tests are now underway to find out if radiation is a factor. "We recently received samples of seal tissue from diseased animals captured near St. Lawrence Island with a request to examine the material for radioactivity," said John Kelley, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. "There is concern expressed by some members of the local communities that there may be some relationship to the Fukushima nuclear reactor's damage," he said. The results of the tests would not be available for "several weeks," Kelley said. Water tests have not picked up any evidence of elevated radiation in U.S. Pacific waters since the March earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which caused multiple fuel meltdowns at the Fukushima plant and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate the surrounding area. Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have been seeking the cause of the diseased seals for weeks, but have so far found no answers.

hisz.rsoe.hu
by MaryW 12/29/2011 6:34:40 AM

Christmas in the Radiation Zone

by CHRIS WILLIAMS

It’s the first thing you notice. Electric orange, ripe and luscious hoshigaki hang from every bough. As we drive through the country and over the glittering, snow-specked mountain range from Fukushima city to Soma on the northeast coast of Japan, we pass many persimmon trees dotting the landscape, all laden with fruit, ready for harvesting. But this year, the persimmons of Fukushima prefecture will remain untouched. Bounty only for microbial decomposers, they are a silent reminder of the slow-burning, far-reaching menace of a nuclear accident.
www.counterpunch.org
by M.I.A. 12/29/2011 7:28:04 AM

restarted
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 12:15:36 PM

One of the many people who wrote letters to Japan Times about the Kolb letter smearing Germany, was printed! :-) www.japantimes.co.jp
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 12:24:58 PM

Ha! They printed mine too! www.japantimes.co.jp
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 12:25:53 PM

Wow. Total propaganda piece in Wash Times paper, doesn't even mention Fukushima when talking about nuclear risk communities.washingtontimes.com
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 12:28:23 PM

Psychological ailments rise in quake-hit areas www.japantimes.co.jp
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 12:30:06 PM

France operating nuclear engineering school in China online.wsj.com
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 12:49:37 PM

cesium in urine of children in Tokyo via twitter:
@ Kikko_No_Blog veteran off, let alone start. I always let me read tweet. Not just in Setagaya, Tokyo, I exit from the urine of children cesium equivalent. I get the cesium-137 from the child 0.11Bq. 1 year old 10 kg body weight. The body is 150 times. Tokyo is already bad.
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 12:59:03 PM

US version of a passive house, 80-90% efficient www.greenbuildingadvisor.com
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 1:06:14 PM

posted an article on the referendum process and nuclear renaissance www.simplyinfo.org
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 2:13:27 PM

@lillymunster It's really good- clear and potent :-)
by M.I.A. 12/29/2011 2:40:44 PM

@M.I.A. thanks!
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 3:06:08 PM

Markeley blasts NRC for overriding Jaczko on the AP 1000 reactor approval www.menafn.com
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 3:06:31 PM

@All here is the (redacted) version of Dr. John S. Ma's dissent to AP1000. pbadupws.nrc.gov
by M.I.A. 12/29/2011 3:30:19 PM

And here is his bona fides: www.nrc.gov
by M.I.A. 12/29/2011 3:32:28 PM

@M.I.A. wow, good find! Did his concerns ever get addressed in the later reviews? His letter was about 1 year ago. That is a short time for major design changes to be made and tested...
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 3:37:37 PM

@lillymunster Looking now, but here's the unredacted version courtesy of FOIA: pbadupws.nrc.gov
by M.I.A. 12/29/2011 3:42:03 PM

If these issues have not been addressed or inadequately addressed this is a major issue...
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 3:45:51 PM

The documents associated with the FOIA are not attached to it. I tried googling by document number and got nothing. Hmm that is odd.
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 3:47:40 PM

From the non-concurrence:

2. As described in Section B of this Non-concurrence Process Form, certain sections of the SER will be revised to clarify the
bases for the staffs determination that there is reasonable assurance that the shield building meets relevant requirements. As
these changes to the SER do not affect the design or analyses submitted by the applicant, nor address the issues raised in the
non-concurrence, there is no need to seek re-concurrence by the non-concurring individual in the revised SER as his concerns
remain unresolved.
Final status of the non-concurrence: The non-concurrence remains in place

It sounds like the NRC did nothing to make the design be changed so it may have been approved with these flaws still in place!
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 3:50:16 PM

A couple of issues I remember from past discussion of the AP 1000: The water tank at the top of the reactor building makes it top heavy and you have water sloshing during a quake at the top of the building. Parts of the reactor building are cast concrete that are brought to the site and assembled in a modular fashion. This means there are connection and seams in the concrete protection structures that could be weak points in an accident.
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 3:54:02 PM

Found the FOIA request, but no such document on NRC site, only the FOIA request (?) pbadupws.nrc.gov
by M.I.A. 12/29/2011 3:56:57 PM

@M.I.A. maybe friends of the earth would be willing to share a copy if they received them?
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 3:58:31 PM

I am reading through the NRC version released. What seems to be the big issue is the upper portion of the outer containment building. It failed on their concrete tests and computer modeling they tried to do to justify its safety were flawed and didn't pass concrete testing standards for computer modeling.
by lillymunster 12/29/2011 4:00:02 PM