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Tweet from workers. Not sure if this means they are waiting til the 19th to do the scope?
Yatte来Mashou inspection alone if you open貰E P / A? (O ° °) @ Happy20790 : three more: First entry in today's No. 2 (in the field I say it) I had a press release. A good free good hole, thanks to the topic in the workers involved. 覗Keru is finally on the 19th of the PCV,by lillymunster 1/17/2012 1:20:45 PM- I think this is in reference to the power outage.
Injection in the furnace is so alive, each supply should be under repair by now with alacrity. Night work, your safe! (O ° °)by lillymunster 1/17/2012 1:21:25 PM - Have to run for a bit. There are tons of worker tweets. Will get them translated and posted as soon as I get people dropped off at work and school.by lillymunster 1/17/2012 1:24:45 PM
Tuesday January 17 2012, 12:55:38 UTC 52 minutes ago Samar, Philippines 5.9 50.3by Edano 1/17/2012 1:51:26 PM- hmmm scribble is in german now....by Edano 1/17/2012 1:52:02 PM
- hmm ... "google-german" :)by Edano 1/17/2012 1:54:06 PM
- Power trouble halts fuel cooling systems at Fukushima nuclear plants
TOKYO, Jan. 17, Kyodo
The operation of the cooling systems for the spent nuclear fuel storage facilities at the Fukushima Daiichi and Fukushima Daini nuclear power plants temporarily came to a halt Tuesday afternoon due to power transmission trouble, their operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.
The trouble also disrupted contaminated water treatment systems at the plants, said the power company known as TEPCO. The spent fuel cooling and water treatment operations resumed later in the day, TEPCO said.
Reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, crippled by the March quake and tsunami, remained in cold shutdown as injection of water into the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 reactors continued, TEPCO said. english.kyodonews.jpby Edano 1/17/2012 1:57:26 PM - TEPCO announces 17% rise in electricity charges for companies
TOKYO, Jan. 17, Kyodo
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday it will seek an average 17 percent rise in electricity charges for corporate users to finance growing fuel costs stemming from boosting thermal power generation in the wake of the disastrous accident at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The electricity rate hikes, which take effect April 1, will affect some 240,000 contracts for 50 kilowatts or more, and boost revenue at the company known as TEPCO by 400 billion yen annually.
With all of TEPCO's nuclear reactors expected to be shut down by March for regular checkups or other reasons, TEPCO President Toshio Nishizawa said, ''If the current situation continues, we think our business condition would deteriorate further, and at no distant date, fuel procurement and stable supply of electricity may be affected.'' english.kyodonews.jpby Edano 1/17/2012 1:58:41 PM - by Edano 1/17/2012 2:00:11 PM
www3.nhk.or.jp
Preparations going on for reactor endoscopy
Preparations are under way to use an endoscope to examine the inside of a containment vessel of the damaged No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
At the No.1, 2, and 3 reactors of the plant, the nuclear fuel has melted down, but the exact state of the fuel and details of the inside of the containment vessels are yet to be confirmed. This is causing a big problem for the operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company, in its continued efforts to stabilize the cooling of the reactors and its plans to decommission them. The reactors were damaged by the March 11th earthquake and tsunami.
On Tuesday, 10 groups of 4 workers each entered the first floor of the No.2 reactor building from the northwestern side. The workers drilled a hole in the containment vessel to insert an endoscope. An industrial endoscope that can withstand high levels of radiation will be used.
The utility says the workers were exposed to up to 3 millisieverts of radiation. The company says the workers had rehearsed the job at the No. 5 reactor, the same type as the No.2, in order to minimize their exposure.
TEPCO says Tuesday's operation went smoothly and it will insert the endoscope on Thursday as scheduled. It hopes to gain the first internal view of one of the damaged reactors since the accident.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 20:26 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jpby Edano via Www3.nhk.or.jp 1/17/2012 2:02:11 PM- i have not seen any confirmation of the #2 ground drilling story in the "official" media yet.by Edano 1/17/2012 2:04:43 PM
CEREA animation of fallout dispersal
Not sure if this has been posted yet, or if CEREA is considered reliable.by bo 1/17/2012 2:14:06 PM- edano, is the page still in german?by lillymunster 1/17/2012 2:28:14 PM
- a random tweet from sunny sunnysunnynismo Mr. TS
One Leaning Tower @ June_Mizutani : @ Sunnysunnynismo No. 4 unit building that is why I lean in like that. All signs indicate that the slope is abnormal? "by lillymunster 1/17/2012 2:35:35 PM - @lillymunster yes, in very bad german.by Edano 1/17/2012 2:36:59 PM
- But wait if (^ O ^) topic in today's meeting from going in the field. I'm over 17 years from today in the Great Hanshin Earthquake. TEPCO after the earthquake that most were unable to measure earthquakes primary Nantes. I'm the primary seismic measures began after the Miyagi Prefecture Chuetsu Offshore Earthquake that occurred after the earthquake ....
One more: But has not previously ... tsunami. Today I can remember thinking such a thing of the past Tetara. In Unit 1 in a few years ago ten've had it submerged the switchboard What clad and DG emergency under water is underground turbine leaking a lot of water from the piping seawater system had been buried.by lillymunster 1/17/2012 2:39:18 PM - Two more: piping measures after that DG and emergency switchboard'm was that I'm still fictional. We oiler is "What did 終Warijan huge tsunami coming just like the pipe," I'm ... What have you been. But now it's become, I had more seriously considered at that time tsunami countermeasures.
Three more: First entry in the Unit 2 today (I say it in the field), I had a press release. A good free good hole, thanks to the topic in the workers involved. 覗Keru the inside of the PCV on 19 finally, I want to look good. 'm Working from the start in earnest from this convergence.
Went around the oiler, but I was like okay transmission trouble. But this problem is not somehow the cause will be clear .... TEPCO country and I say What I declared to the convergence of the system for multiplexing various problems .... I'm not so oiler.by lillymunster 1/17/2012 2:39:57 PM - Both posts tweets from Happyby lillymunster 1/17/2012 2:40:56 PM
- Edano are you using Chrome? I noticed some pages would auto translate without the header bar showing a translation was happening on the top of the page.by lillymunster 1/17/2012 2:46:16 PM
- Happy has a blog now blog.goo.ne.jpby lillymunster 1/17/2012 2:48:07 PM
- Child safety group in Iwaki. Current posts seem to be about trying to make sure kids in Fukushima have dust masks to wear. The group wants to give them free. There have been problems mentioned on twitter that schools are intimidating children who come to school in a mask and making them take them off. maeveherb.jugem.jpby lillymunster 1/17/2012 2:59:21 PM
- I think this means they are going into 2 today after all?
sunnysunnynismo Mr. TS
Injection in the furnace is so alive, each supply should be under repair by now with alacrity. Night work, your safe! (O ° °)by lillymunster 1/17/2012 3:02:11 PM - The same company that was spying on Atomic Annie for Areva was the one spying on Greenpeace worldradio.ch
Greenpeace has filed criminal charges against Areva for spying. This is in addition to the court case against EDF where a number of executives went to jail for spying on Greenpeace.
www.greenpeace.orgby lillymunster 1/17/2012 3:34:56 PM 
Hi all. I remember reading yesterday that there was a plan for a internet blackout in protest over some legislation that threaten to restrain internet activity regarding copyright protected material. Well, I think the protest can be cancelled. Read this.
"Sopa plans set to be shelved as Obama comes out against piracy legislation"
"Congress ready to drop Sopa vote after White House says it would not support legislation that threatens openness of internet" www.guardian.co.ukby Pedro Jesus 1/17/2012 4:37:09 PM- @Pedro Jesus Obama isn't going to sign it if sent to him. They are working on a reworking of it and PIPA is still alive in congress.by lillymunster 1/17/2012 4:56:03 PM
- @lillymunster Apparently the Obama Administration objects to any legislation that would either tamper with the structure of the internet or with the freedom of expression. I don't think any of those laws will be approved. They don't make much sense.by Pedro Jesus 1/17/2012 4:59:01 PM
- @Pedro Jesus I wouldn't 100% count any version of these out since Obama signed the bill that allows for indefinite detention without a trial by adding a signing statement to it.by lillymunster 1/17/2012 5:22:08 PM
www.houseoffoust.com #2 blue thermometer now shows temps below zero, the ultimate proof that it is really toast.
by Edano via Houseoffoust 1/17/2012 5:34:58 PM- I put together an article explaining how the US proposed laws and Japanese laws impact what we do. Let me know what people think about it, changes etc. Was planning on posting this instead of a black out tomorrow?
www.simplyinfo.orgby lillymunster 1/17/2012 6:05:10 PM 
Dead seals washing up in New Zealand au.news.yahoo.com I'm skeptical of a Fuku link for all the sick-seal reports, but can't rule it out. Pretty soon we should be hearing about the tests done on those found in Alaska.by Ian 1/17/2012 6:12:15 PM- Fukushima radiation found in finland enenews.comby lillymunster 1/17/2012 6:14:36 PM
- Greenpeace has spoken out on the US internet laws
But the spectrum covered by these texts is extremely broad and can leave a company to effectively paralyze any website in the world for as little as a violation of the reproduction of its logo without permission. And the irony is that this legal mechanism can be activated by a single complaint against the company site. No trial, no request for evidence, no court hearing.
Freedom of expression threatened the freedom to act and take action too!
For an organization like Greenpeace, the threat is obvious: the majority of online protest activities contravene the Act. Nestle, Volkswagen and Mattel have been able to take action against us in the last 12 months. Net and stop our campaigns. energie-climat.greenpeace.frby lillymunster 1/17/2012 6:34:46 PM 
Rare look inside Japan's evacuation zone into clean-up efforts and decontaminating soil: (video) www.youtube.comby MaryW 1/17/2012 6:51:06 PM- Fukushima cesium found in the Finnish forests
published in today's 17.1. at 11:37
Finnish forests are small amounts of radioactive cesium, which is from the Fukushima nuclear power plant in the March accident. Radiation and Nuclear Safety of the cesium-134 and 137 have been found in lichens, fungi as well as elk and reindeer meat. Radioactivity has not been observed in drinking water, milk and food for sale.
Radiation collected in late summer and autumn samples, which were found Fukushima cesium.
Radiation and Nuclear Safety, the accident caused by the increase in Fukushima Finnish radiation dose is negligible. Fukushima accident increased the amount of artificial radioactivity in the Finnish natural products of the highest per cent.
Other environment of artificial radioactivity from the Chernobyl nuclear accident, nuclear bomb tests in the atmosphere in 1950 - and 1960's.
Fukushima nuclear power plant accident occurred on 22 March last year. Since May, in the open air is no longer really have been an accident caused by radioactivity.
BBC News
-This is the translated source for Enenews' article.by MaryW 1/17/2012 6:54:47 PM - 1/14/2012 (9:40am): A milk sample with a best-by date of 12/29/11 has been tested and the results posted to the milk sample page. Low levels of both Cs-134 and Cs-137 were still detected in the sample.
www.nuc.berkeley.eduby MaryW 1/17/2012 6:57:01 PM - Milk sample page www.nuc.berkeley.eduby MaryW 1/17/2012 6:57:49 PM
- Another decon worker has dropped dead. ex-skf.blogspot.comby lillymunster 1/17/2012 7:00:00 PM
- google joins SOPA protests tomorrow www.businessweek.comby lillymunster 1/17/2012 7:03:26 PM
- @MaryW Berkeley makes the flawed internal - external comparison in their page. Unless your bathing in milk rather than drinking it an airplane flight and background radiation are BSby lillymunster 1/17/2012 7:05:15 PM
- 2 more people died suddenly around in Tokyo.
1. An infant living in Hayama Kanagawa had cardiopulmonary arrest. He was saved but became brain death. 2. A gospel singer (African american,40s) ,living in Tokyo died of cardiac infarct suddenly. He visited Fukushima frequently. fukushima-diary.com I wish someone would take a look into the rates of heart attacks in Japan. Is this a normal percent, or related to the nuclear explosions?
by MaryW 1/17/2012 7:05:32 PM - @lillymunster Its a safety blanketby MaryW 1/17/2012 7:06:19 PM
- radiation and heart attacks have no causal connection.by Edano 1/17/2012 7:08:04 PM
- @Edano There is at extreme doses. The ones with Fuku and Decon workers seem somewhat suspicious. What the mechanism could be i don't know. It seems like something is pushing predisposed workers over the edge.by lillymunster 1/17/2012 7:11:23 PM
CHERNOBYL HEART and CHILDREN OF CHERNOBYL
by MaryW 1/17/2012 7:19:50 PM- @Edano I really can't, at this time, rule out radiation effects on the heart. An immediate effect on the heart function seems like a 'no'. But a long-term effect, ?.by MaryW 1/17/2012 7:21:44 PM
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