*** Fukushima *** and other nuclear-----updates and links

Clinton in Prague to lobby for Westinghouse nuclear bid

PRAGUE, Dec 3 - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will seek to convince Czech leaders of the advantages of picking U.S. firm Westinghouse over a Russian rival as the contractor for a $10 billion nuclear reactor project in meetings in Prague on Monday.

U.S. officials traveling with Clinton to Prague said the Temelin nuclear power project could bring as many as 9,000 jobs to the United States and would help diversify the Czech Republic's energy supply away from Russia.

Westinghouse, a unit of Japanese firm Toshiba Corp, is competing with Russia's Atomstroyexport, which is bidding in a consortium with a Russian-owned Czech group.
[link to www.nucpros.com]
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Darlington power plant refit re-ignites nuclear debate

Starting Monday at a church in Courtice, near Oshawa, Ontario Power Generation will make the case for performing a multi-billion-dollar mid-life refit of its Darlington nuclear generating station.

And the hearings by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission will give opponents of nuclear power a chance to state their views.

Dozens of groups and individuals who both oppose and support the project have already lined up to address the hearings.

It’s a massive undertaking to overhaul the station’s four reactors, work that will extend the life of the station until mid-century. Two years ago, Ontario’s ministry of energy gave a ballpark cost estimate of $6 to $10 billion.
[link to www.thestar.com]
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Complete..? Attempt to remove is more fitting.

Big dreams...

They will need to pick up the pace, slightly.
That pesky radiation is slowing them down.

Government’s hospital “will not report the truth about the conditions of our health” -Fukushima restaurant owner
[link to enenews.com]

Here's my expert opinion...
Shut those sonuvabitches down for good.

There ya go.




Experts continue investigation into active faults at Tsuruga plant
[link to mainichi.jp]

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With a major active fault called Urazoko already confirmed to be located around 250 meters from reactor buildings, it is feared that other faults running underneath the reactors could move in conjunction with the Urazoko fault.

If the Nuclear Regulation Authority decides that the reactors are sitting above faults that could move in the future, the plant's Nos. 1 and 2 reactors are unlikely to be allowed to resume operation and may be scrapped.

Oh, i do this mostly always but many other
People just look and read the Headlines,
this led to misinterpretations and you could
avoid this just by adding more Information,
and this is easy for you!

Also do not forget that many Sources keep
their Articles only for ca. 3 Months online,
some not even that long.

This mean that when People use this Thread
for Research they can't really understand it
and they get even more fear because of
your chosen Headlinez!

Well.. if I were getting paid to do this.. I'd be more thorough.
As it is.. I'm not.

We aren't promoting fear..
Your accusation pisses me off.
Why don't you go somewhere else with that crap..

According to you, there are plenty of fear-mongerers out in the wild, wild web..

Go get'em.. sport.

@Waterbug,
Fukushima alone is already bad enough
but with the Bs Reports from Cp and just
the Headlinez from you it become really bad,
much more bad than in the Reality!

Why do you really want to do this?
Why do you need to create even more fear?
Do you know that normal People have a limit
and when there even comes more they just
close them self up and avoid this Topic,
this should not happen but you can do what
ever you want because it is your Thread
but accept my Critique!

The only one who get a benefit is the Nuclear
Machinery but not us!

Look..

The news orgs. are in it for the money, in most cases.
They attract viewers.. sell ads..
Of course they are going to sensationalize a bit..
That is a given.. I don't write the headlines.

To say that my posting headlines and links is adding to the fear is ludicrous..
This isn't kindergarten.

And, anyway... people NEED to be shocked into reality.
Video games, porn and TV are fantasy.
This is real..

With all of the pro-nuke rhetoric floating around..
A little counter-balance is appropriate.
Most reasonable people will seek the middle ground.

Last Edited by Waterbug on 12/03/2012 12:40 PM

There should be a law that if they take down the original link then one could post the complete text. At least people could save interesting text for themselves. I do.

....or post 49% on one blog, and 49% on another blog, and if the original link disappears, offer the hook-up between the two blogs. Complicated, but where there's a will there is a way.

Fukushima I Nuke Plant Reactor 3:
Radiation Level Gone Up Since November Last Year,
to 4.78 Sieverts/Hr Near NE Equipment Hatch
[link to ex-skf.blogspot.com]

already being done, i have a building of complete articles that i don't release to the web but have stored on several servers. am saving them for that probable eventuality.

i also find this paradigm of reporting extremely interesting. on the one hand we are scolded no matter what we report... and yet there are only a handful of people willing to take the burden on...

bug, sweden, ene-news, sfk, caldicot, iroi, fairwinds, myself, abc news australia et al... of course we derive information from these sources as they are the small amount of reporters scouring the internet for the scant pieces of information and linking them in a timely manner....

i shudder to think of where the world's voice would be if you took this little legion away....

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 12/03/2012 06:52 PM

you dont get it do you?
you are not a reporter, you dont go to ground zero and do your research,Youve never even been toi Japan.You simply cherry pick information that meets your "fear" agenda and then you come to GLP and give negative titles to your threads and "were all fucked, hate Japan" opinions/summaries.

Your just playing a game, you are not a Fukushima reporter.You and all the people posting on Fukushima aren't achieving anything.

you must be one dim individual to still be getting kicks out of this monotonous game you play.

bored????.. stop playing...

bored????.. stop playing...

"go to ground zero"? LMAO.. even their robots can't... got it?

here's a tip.. stop clicking the link ;) you'll be happier, less stressed and ranty, which will improve your resistance to radiation....

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 12/03/2012 09:41 PM

Corrosion At Fukushima Daiichi Explained

December 2nd, 2012 | Add a Comment
[Translate]

A very critical factor in the aftermath of the nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima is stress and corrosion on metal parts of the reactors themselves and also the spent fuel and fuel pools. In this paper we look at corrosion factors and also the actual pipes in use at Daiichi for the ongoing watering effort.
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Summary

TEPCO faces a major challenge to keep these existing pipes clear and working for the next 10 years. We did not find any records of these pipes being replaced at units 1-3 at Fukushima Daiichi NPP. The feedwater and core spray rings inside the reactors were replaced as part of the shroud replacement work that was done at units 1-3 between 1997 and 2001. (4) The pipes are about 42 years old and have suffered the extreme conditions of the triple meltdown accident. TEPCO has not proposed any plan for dealing with this issue.


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[link to www.simplyinfo.org]

UN General Assembly adopts non-nuclear resolution

The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution calling for the abolition of nuclear arms. The document also urges North Korea to halt its nuclear development.

The resolution was co-sponsored by 99 countries, with Japan taking the initiative.

In a vote on Monday, the resolution was backed by a strong majority of 174 nations, including nuclear powers --- the United States, Britain, France and Russia.

North Korea was the only dissenter, while 13 nations abstained, including China and Iran.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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More than 80% of homes remain contaminated

Radioactive decontamination following last year's nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant has not been completed at more than 80 percent of homes.

Japan's environment ministry studied the progress of government-funded removal of radioactive substances being undertaken by 58 cities, towns and villages in 7 prefectures around Fukushima as of the end of August.

It says work had been completed at 69 percent of educational facilities such as schools and childcare centers that were scheduled for decontamination.

51 percent of roads had been treated.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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TEPCO brings Fukushima No. 4 reactor fuel assembly removal forward to 2014

TOKYO — The government and Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) have announced plans to remove 1,533 fuel assemblies from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant No. 4 reactor by 2014, a year ahead of schedule.

The change in schedule was announced in response to concerns that the building currently suspending the spent fuel pool above No. 4 reactor may be structurally unsound, NTV reported Tuesday.

TEPCO in June reported that the building was tilting and bulging in several places, causing fears that it could collapse, dumping thousands of fuel rods into the earth.

According to TEPCO, the No. 4 reactor was offline when the tsunami struck on March 11, 2011. As a result, 202 fresh fuel assemblies and 1,331 spent fuel assemblies were placed into the pool before the meltdowns occurred. Each assembly contains 50 to 70 rods.
[link to www.japantoday.com]
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Noda, Abe kick off election campaign in Fukushima

IWAKI — Japan’s election campaign kicked off Tuesday with leaders of the two biggest parties in Fukushima, setting the tone for a poll likely to be dominated by the future of nuclear power after last year’s atomic disaster.
[link to www.japantoday.com]
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Britain to return radioactive waste to Japan around Feb.

Three Japanese utilities said Tuesday that 28 canisters of high-level radioactive waste produced through the reprocessing of their spent nuclear fuel in Britain will be returned to Japan around February.

It will be the third time that vitrified radioactive waste will be brought back from Britain. Japan's spent fuel has also been handled in France, but all of the high-level radioactive waste created there had been transferred to Japan by 2007.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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Worker survey reveals questionable hiring at Fukushima nuclear plant

A recent survey of workers at the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station indicated questionable hiring practices, with nearly half saying they received work assignments from companies other than those paying them wages, and some asked to falsely state their employers.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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Or in the sinkholes appearing all over the US.

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FORT CALHOUN: INADEQUATE RAW WATER PUMP ANCHOR EMBEDMENT

The raw water pumps (AC-10A/B/C/D) base plate support anchors were discovered by Fort Calhoun Station personnel to have inadequate embedment to support existing analysis. Plant drawing specify a j-bolt type of anchor with a required 16 inch embedment. Actual plant configuration was found to be a j-bolt type anchor with a 9 inch embedment.
[link to www.nucpros.com]
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Nuclear power reactor shut down due to storm in Romania

The No. 1 reactor of Nuclear Plant in Cernavoda was stopped Monday due to storm, said Romania's State Secretary of the Ministry of Economy Rodin Traicu.

Due to high intensity storm in the area that caused disruptions in electricity transmission lines, transformer of the No. 1 reactor automatically tripped, disconnecting the unit from the National Energy System Monday morning, said also a release of the company in Cernavoda of Constanta County, 160 km east of the capital Bucharest.
[link to www.nucpros.com]
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