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No better way to raise funding than scaring the poop out of people :-)by lillymunster 1/3/2012 7:38:25 PM
it is interesting that tepco first drills under reactor #2. #2's core is probably the best of the three.by Edano 1/3/2012 7:41:46 PM- i think #1 had a china syndrome in the first weeks already.by Edano 1/3/2012 7:42:31 PM
- that's why it was so easy to cool .... without core inside.by Edano 1/3/2012 7:44:09 PM
- @Edano I think 2 may have somehow leaked down under early on also. Remember there was massive high radiation coming out of 2's intake canal. They also mentioned a meter or 3 meter hole in the basement or containment very early on. I remember seeing it in a news report because the translation originally said 30 meters until I rechecked it.by lillymunster 1/3/2012 7:46:13 PM
all of #1'pics\_1tem.bmp
by Edano via Houseoffoust 1/3/2012 7:46:42 PM- @Edano I don't disagree about 1.by lillymunster 1/3/2012 7:47:53 PM
- only the moles know the full truth :)by Edano 1/3/2012 7:51:55 PM
madmumblings.com moles and some of these :)
by MaryW via Madmumblings 1/3/2012 8:19:02 PM- NRC SEEKS PUBLIC COMMENT ON ASSUMPTIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY OF EXTENDED STORAGE OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeks public comment on a report updating preliminary assumptions for an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) the agency will develop to analyze the effects of storing spent nuclear fuel from the nation’s commercial power reactors
for as much as 200 years.
Comments on the report may be filed by email to WCOutreach@nrc.gov or by U.S mail to Christine Pineda, Project Manager, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Mailstop EBB-2B2, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
No. 12-00by lillymunster 1/3/2012 8:19:13 PM - @lillymunster whats the date on that?by MaryW 1/3/2012 8:19:44 PM
- @MaryW today via email. It should show up on NRC's website in a few daysby lillymunster 1/3/2012 8:29:52 PM
- Riot police witness disaster, recovery / Dispatched officers lift spirits, ensure safety of evacuees. Jan 03.2011. The Metropolitan Police Department began dispatching riot police to the disaster-hit areas immediately after the earthquake struck in March. A total of 130,000 police officers have so far been dispatched on a rotation basis.
Even now, 270 officers patrol the 20-kilometer no-entry zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, while others make sure disaster victims living in temporary housing units can sleep soundly at night. www.yomiuri.co.jpby MaryW 1/3/2012 8:32:28 PM - January 3, 2012
NRC SEEKS PUBLIC COMMENT ON ASSUMPTIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY OF EXTENDED STORAGE OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL www.nrc.govby MaryW 1/3/2012 8:34:18 PM - Solar power from external walls / New material allows for more efficient energy production www.yomiuri.co.jpby lillymunster 1/3/2012 8:44:00 PM
Fourth in a series of explanatory TEPCO videos. This video shows some of the activities performed during, and gives an explanation of, a drill that TEPCO conducted at the Fukushima Daiichi site on October 12. In this drill, it is assumed that water injection (fresh water) has stopped to one of the reactors and cannot be restarted; the company elects to use fire engines in a pre-planned arrangement and inject seawater to the core. It is important to note that TEPCO's plans submitted to NISA specified a three hour time frame to accomplish this work but it only took one hour.
by MaryW 1/3/2012 8:49:26 PM- Greenpeace International filed a criminal complaint over a French news report that Areva SA (CEI), the world’s biggest supplier of nuclear fuel and services, had the environmental activist group spied on.
Spies may have infiltrated three watchdog groups, including Greenpeace, at Areva’s request, according to a Jan. 1 report in the Journal du Dimanche, prompting Greenpeace France to ask the Paris prosecutors to order an investigation today, Adelaide Colin, a Greenpeace France spokeswoman, said by phone.
“We learned of this affair in the press and want all possible light shed on this possible spying operation,” Colin said in a statement about the complaint, which didn’t name Areva as a target.
Greenpeace won damages in a criminal case last year against Electricite de France SA (EDF) over charges Europe’s biggest power producer hired private investigators to spy on the group’s anti- nuclear activities.
www.bloomberg.comby M.I.A. 1/3/2012 10:31:55 PM 
Accumulated water in the trench between Process Mail Building and Miscellaneous Solid Waste Volume Reduction Treatment Building (High Temperature Incinerator Building) in the Centralized Radiation Waste Treatment Facility at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. TEPCO December 19, 2011. www.tepco.co.jp www.tepco.co.jp www.tepco.co.jp
by MaryW via Tepco.co.jp 1/4/2012 1:07:14 AM
Accumulated water in the trench between Process Mail Building and Miscellaneous Solid Waste Volume Reduction Treatment Building (High Temperature Incinerator Building) in the Centralized Radiation Waste Treatment Facility at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. TEPCO December 19, 2011. www.tepco.co.jp www.tepco.co.jp www.tepco.co.jp
by MaryW via Tepco.co.jp 1/4/2012 1:07:14 AM- Nuclear fantasy www.foreignpolicy.comby lillymunster 1/4/2012 1:07:38 AM
- @lillymunster That's a good description to the whole works, Nuclear Fantasy. I like it :)by MaryW 1/4/2012 1:09:01 AM
- I am slowly teaching myself on how to post pictures, so be patient :)by MaryW 1/4/2012 1:09:37 AM
- To Respect Japan's Judgment on Fukushima N-Plant Conditions: IAEA Chief
Tokyo, Dec. 19 (Jiji Press)--International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Yukiya Amano said Monday the IAEA respects the Japanese government's determination that reactors of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s <9501> stricken Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant have been brought into stable conditions.
jen.jiji.comby MaryW 1/4/2012 1:12:23 AM - The crack of axle linkage casing at the overhead crane in the building of spent fuel common pool, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
Part of the damaged gear coupling of the overhead crane in the buliding of spent fuel common pool (whole image)
[Reference] The crack of axle linkage casing at the overhead crane in the building of spent fuel common pool, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (survey result)
www.tepco.co.jp
www.tepco.co.jpby MaryW 1/4/2012 1:48:34 AM - by MaryW via Tepco.co.jp 1/4/2012 1:49:38 AM
by Ian 1/4/2012 1:58:06 AM- @Ian They might also try making plants for 'food', solution to world...? A thoughtby MaryW 1/4/2012 2:23:50 AM
- Rice will be grown in Fukushima again this spring t.coby lillymunster 1/4/2012 2:31:18 AM
- CRIIRAD (Commission Research and Independent Information on Radioactivity) denounced Wednesday in Lyon, returning from a mission to "serious deficiencies" of the Japanese authorities in the management of the Fukushima nuclear disaster 11 in March.
"How management can it be as bad, twenty-five years after Chernobyl? " questioned during a press conference Chareyron Bruno , an engineer in nuclear physics and member of the Commission, which conducted a measurement campaign and samples to Japan in May.
According to him, "the population has been evacuated to an area sufficient" , it was not distributed iodine tablets quickly "so that they must be ingested three hours before the show " and no distribution plan exists to date about new releases massive, finally, we let the people eat contaminated food, he said.
"ON JAPAN IS WHAT WE DID TO CHERNOBYL"
"Far beyond the forbidden zone of 20 km around the plant, there are radiation doses that induce cancer risks unacceptable" , he said, and "we tolerate a rate of on-site cancer risk twenty times higher than commonly accepted " .
"There on the ground that the authorities are overwhelmed as the industry" , added the scientist. He said it would "remove or decontaminate land " on a radius of several tens of kilometers around the plant.
Roland Desbordes, president of the organization, he is concerned "that raise rates" eligible after each radiation accident: "For economic reasons, it is Japan that has been done at Chernobyl, we don ' evacuates not " people "who live in areas highly contaminated" because their compensation would be too expensive. www.lemonde.frby lillymunster 1/4/2012 2:39:05 AM - Japan starts operating new centrifuges for enriching uranium. Japan Nuclear Fuel plans to replace all old units with new ones over the next decade at the enrichment facility that went on-stream in 1992.
(Mainichi Japan) December 29, 2011 mdn.mainichi.jpby MaryW 1/4/2012 2:50:28 AM - Nuclear watchdog members received donations from energy sector. Jan 02.2012. One-third of Nuclear Safety Commission members on committees overseeing inspections of power plants and nuclear fuel received donations from companies and organizations affiliated with the nuclear energy sector, an Asahi Shimbun study has found.
The study found that two of five NSC commissioners and 22 of 84 NSC members received a total of about 85 million yen ($1.1 million) in such donations over a five-year period until fiscal 2010.
Eleven individuals received donations from nuclear plant manufacturers as well as from electric power companies and nuclear fuel manufacturing companies that are the subjects of safety inspections, the study found.
ajw.asahi.comby MaryW 1/4/2012 3:14:31 AM Photo taking and police officers. Tomioka live cam http://www.nttfukushima.com/live/tomioka/Default.html
by MaryW 1/4/2012 3:17:08 AM- Hosono: Fukushima as center for nuclear safety
Japan's nuclear crisis minister says he wants to make Fukushima Prefecture an international center to promote nuclear safety. www3.nhk.or.jpby MaryW 1/4/2012 3:21:49 AM "EER" earthquake early warning for Sunday, Jan 01. 2012 magnitude 7.0 quake.
by MaryW 1/4/2012 3:34:14 AM- Babies born on March 11 in Tohoku www.japantimes.co.jpby lillymunster 1/4/2012 3:44:21 AM
- A minor point on TEPCO plant updates, update for Jan 2nd. The following line was added to the reports for reactors 4-6
"At this moment, we do not think there is any reactor coolant leakage
inside PCV."
This is not included on units 1-3. Sounds like an admission by omission that they know 1-3 are leaking. We probably already knew that but I don't think TEPCO has been clear about admitting so. www.tepco.co.jpby lillymunster 1/4/2012 3:58:45 AM - Some good news:
"EDF Pegs Nuclear Upgrade Cost at $13 Billion" (Max Colchester) online.wsj.com
"France's nuclear-safety watchdog ordered immediate upgrades to nuclear reactors to guard against natural disasters"
"Tuesday's 500-page report was the latest sign of how the post-Fukushima environment is posing new regulatory challenges for nuclear power globally"
"The agency wants EDF, which operates France's nuclear plants, and nuclear-engineering group Areva SA by June 30 to outline measures to reinforce "core" safety at its reactors."
""This will take time and money," Mr. Lacoste said. "We are not asking the operator to make these investments. We are telling them to.""
"The French agency's report came as the country's political consensus on nuclear power has begun to crack ahead of the presidential election"by Pedro Jesus 1/4/2012 5:10:09 AM - @MaryW, do you mean making synthetic plants? I'd stick with the real ones!by Ian 1/4/2012 5:13:20 AM
- restartedby lillymunster 1/4/2012 12:55:28 PM
- New article on France's upgrades to their reactors. This one has details on the upgrades. They found some considerable things lacking and their reactor fleet is much newer than the US or Japan. www.businessweek.comby lillymunster 1/4/2012 1:08:48 PM
- As radiation fears persist, ties unravel in society ajw.asahi.comby lillymunster 1/4/2012 1:50:08 PM
- Anti-nuclear Japanese official found shot to death, report says either suicide or accident. enenews.com Google translation of original article:
Around 2:45 pm on December 3, 町議 古和浦 same town south of Ise, Mie Prefecture, Mr. Yasuhiro Uemura (64), car parking in a ranch run by yourself, you are bleeding from the chest discovered his wife was 119. Was confirmed dead at a hospital.
According to Ise, Mr. Uemura has collapsed in the driver's seat in the chest by a bullet, shotgun (113 centimeters long, with upper and lower expression) had fallen on the outside. Mr. Uemura was around 10:30 am that day, in order to remove the crow of the ranch, it went out alone with a gun. Police are investigating the accidental discharge from both accidents and suicide.
Mr. Uemura in 1990 and first elected to the South Island 町議 old, he was a total of six quarters after the merger, including the southern city of Ise. Opposed the plan from Chubu 浜原 leg, was instrumental in the 1993 referendum ordinance. Fukushima received the first nuclear accident, and had done well throughout the recent anti-nuclear speech. Takumi Taniguchi []
sp.mainichi.jpby Ian 1/4/2012 3:00:21 PM - New article on the French safety changes and costs www.simplyinfo.org
@all - working on putting together details on the AP 1000 reactor design. If you find information both pros and cons or information on the 2 US ones being constructed please post. MIA found some good NRC documents on the design problems. Trying to assemble what we know about these as they are the only new units in processby lillymunster 1/4/2012 3:26:03 PM - @lillymunster, looks good!by Ian 1/4/2012 3:32:23 PM
- Antinuclear town councillor found shot dead in car
MINAMIISE, Mie -- An antinuclear town assembly member here was found shot dead in his car after he went out with a shotgun to hunt crows, police said on Jan. 3.
Yasuhiro Uemura, 64, a member of the Minamiise Town Assembly in Mie Prefecture, was found by his wife bleeding from his chest at his ranch at around 2:45 p.m. on Jan. 3. She called emergency services, but Uemura was later pronounced dead at hospital.
According to Ise Police Station, Uemura was found collapsed in the driver's seat of his car with wounds to his chest. A 113-centimeter-long shotgun was found on the ground outside the vehicle. Uemura had reportedly gone out by himself with a shotgun to rid his property of crows at around 10:30 a.m. the same day. Police are investigating the case as a possible accidental discharge or suicide.
First elected to the town assembly of Nanto (part of present-day Minamiise) in 1990, Uemura served as a town council member for six terms. He successfully opposed Chubu Electric Power Co.'s plan to construct a nuclear power plant in the area, pushing through a local referendum ordinance on the plant in 1993. mdn.mainichi.jpby Ian 1/4/2012 3:32:46 PM
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