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

[link to www.japantimes.co.jp]


Japan could restart some nuclear reactors next summer: NRA

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Kyodo


The secretariat of the Nuclear Regulation Authority may start preliminary safety checks on offline reactors next spring, paving the way for some to be restarted by summer, sources said Thursday.

The NRA plans to adopt new safety standards for nuclear plants next July in response to the Fukushima No. 1 meltdown disaster that started in March 2011, while 48 of the nation's 50 commercial reactors remain offline amid safety concerns. The two in operation, started back up in July, are running under tentative standards.

To make safety inspections under the new standards efficient, the secretariat plans to launch preliminary checks next spring when an outline of the new standards becomes available, the sources said.

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nuclear free *cough....

mind you, you can't just switch them off..... the real dilmma, world wide is 1. the catastrophe and 2. what to do with them all, this should be a paramount world-wide issue....

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 12/06/2012 11:41 PM

nice thread if you miss the pin about hawaii.. Thread: Hawaii doctors finding uranium in people’s urine —

Major quake strikes off Japan, setting off small tsunami
[link to www.cnn.com]

just in 7 offs fuku... doorbert thread..

But this means nothing

Nice quotes from Gundersen, Waterbug !

He 'shoots straight' and HITS the target !

Eagle

Medvedev, Wen agree on nuclear power cooperation

The leaders of Russia and China have agreed to expand energy cooperation, including the construction of 2 nuclear reactors at a power plant in China.

The protocol to build the reactors was signed by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao when they met in Moscow on Thursday.

Russia's state nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom, says the construction of 2 new reactors will begin later this month at the Chinese nuclear plant in Jiangsu Province.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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TEPCO releases radiation exposure by age groups

Tokyo Electric Power Company says a teenage worker at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was exposed to radiation levels at least 50 times higher than Japan's maximum permissible dose for the general public.

The annual maximum radiation exposure limit for the public is set at one millisievert.

The utility company disclosed data on Thursday that it submitted to the World Health Organization in March. The data includes details of the radiation doses that workers were exposed to at the plant.

A total of 20,103 workers took part in post-disaster operations between March 2011 and the end of January this year.

The youngest was aged 18 while the oldest was 84. Those in their teens numbered 64. One of them was exposed to a cumulative radiation dose of 56.89 millisieverts, the highest for his age group.

A TEPCO employee in his 30s received 678.8 millisieverts, the highest dose among all the workers.

Those in their 20s were exposed to an average dose of 15.86 millisieverts, the highest among all the age groups.

Workers in their 40s were the largest group at 5,893. They had an average exposure of 11.64 millisieverts.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Robot with deft arms developed for decommissioning

A Japanese company has developed a robot that can accomplish complex tasks despite high radiation. This kind of robot is necessary to decommission reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries unveiled the robot in Kobe, western Japan on Thursday.

The robot is built on a platform with tracks on the side. These enable it to move over debris.

The robot is equipped with 2 arms that can perform work as complicated as human arms are able to do. The arms can be fitted with various tools to sever and remove broken pipes and rubble at the damaged Fukushima reactors.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]

Video at link.
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Dangerous fault alleged 25 years ago at Shika nuclear plant site

Experts had said there was a dangerous fault at the planned site of the Shika nuclear plant in Ishikawa Prefecture in 1987, well before a similar suspicion arose earlier this year, according to government documents given Friday.

The previous claim had been left unaddressed until the government stated in July that a fault beneath the first reactor of the two-reactor nuclear plant was active and dangerous, triggering a detailed survey by the plant's operator, Hokuriku Electric Power Co.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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Both webcams capture strong quake rattling Fukushima Daiichi (VIDEOS)
[link to enenews.com]

Sellafield to create 500 extra jobs to speed up decommissioning of reactors

Nuclear firm's announcement comes as government scales down its own expectation of new reactors being built in UK

Up to 500 jobs are to be created at Sellafield in Cumbria – recently described as a "nuclear slum" – to speed up work on decommissioning radioactive plant and equipment dating back to the beginning of the cold war.
[link to www.nucpros.com]
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Tennesee Valley Authority Pressed for Details on Nuclear Plant Flood Safety

Nuclear power plant regulators want more specific information from Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)  on how the utility plans to protect reactors in case of severe flooding.

According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission heard TVA’s flood plans earlier this week and scheduled another meeting on Dec. 13, seeking more information.

An NRC project manager at the meeting in Atlanta asked why the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant at Spring City, Tenn., should be allowed to continue operating, saying a ring of temporary crushed stone baskets has gaps.
[link to www.insurancejournal.com]
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In-Focus: Japan – Paving way for reactor restarts next summer – NRA to be investigated
[link to enformable.com]

20,000 workers..?



TEPCO releases worker radiation exposure data to WHO
[link to enformable.com]

Japan meteorological agency warns potential M8.0 to hit east coast of Japanese island
[link to fukushima-diary.com]

Fukushima workers patrolled in the plant, detailed investigation for tomorrow morning
[link to fukushima-diary.com]

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There’s no problem with important equipment in Fukushima plant at this moment. Recently a lot of leakage detectors are set but they didn’t detect any problem. If there’s no emergency, more detailed investigation will be conducted when it’s bright tomorrow.

I was just looking at this again..
21 quakes..aftershocks.. whatever.. starting with the 7.3.

They are all in the same general area as the 7.3 except for one to the northwest a bit.
The quakes are usually spread out randomly. This is different.

If you go to the end of the simulation.. it will list them all for rollover view.

There hasn't been anything over a 7 since july of 2011..
I don't think this is over, considering this..

Japan meteorological agency warns potential M8.0 to hit east coast of Japanese island
[link to fukushima-diary.com]


Related article..[Column] Significant similarity between M7.3 of 12/7/2012 and M7.3 of 3/9/2011
[link to fukushima-diary.com]

Check 1:05 -


[link to www.youtube.com (secure)]

The vid is sped-up a bit...
Lot of movement.
I wonder how close it came to toppling..?

it didn't come close at all,,, the crane was being moved...

You guys are unreal..

Yeah.. you're right.
I didn't watch the whole vid the first time..
I assumed it was related to the 7.3..
Just watched it.

You don't have to be a douche about it.. hoser.
I don't watch the fucking Tepco wonder-cams and I seldom watch vids...
for that very reason.

Why don't you become the new official fact-checker..?

coming to a nuke protest near you?

[link to www.japantoday.com]

just a thought.... every river starts with a raindrop....

sry to repost blah.. etc.. but to avoid copyright.. AWESOME speech about the fuku dilemma...

"Truth about the fukushima 50"


[link to fukushimaemergencywhatcanwedo.blogspot.com.au]

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 12/08/2012 07:15 AM

Russia to build new gas pipeline to Europe

Russia has begun building a new pipeline to supply natural gas to Europe.

The 900-kilometer line is called South Stream. It will link southern Russia and eastern Bulgaria across the bottom of the Black Sea.

A groundbreaking ceremony took place in the Russian Black Sea resort town of Anapa, a starting point of the pipeline, on Friday. Russian President Vladimir Putin and leaders of other countries attended.

Putin said South Stream will create conditions for safe and unlimited deliveries of Russian gas to its key consumers in Europe.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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No problems reported at nuclear plants after quake: IAEA

VIENNA — The U.N. atomic agency said it had been informed by Japanese authorities that no problems had been detected at nuclear power plants in the region nearest to the epicenter of Friday’s earthquake.

A 7.3 magnitude quake centered off northeastern Japan shook buildings as far away as Tokyo and triggered a one-meter tsunami in an area devastated by last year’s Fukushima disaster, but there were no reports of deaths or serious damage.
[link to www.japantoday.com]
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Hiroshima mayor, governor protest U.S. subcritical nuclear test

Hiroshima Gov. Hidehiko Yuzaki and Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui condemned the United States on Friday for conducting a subcritical nuclear test at a Nevada test site Wednesday, sending their letters of protest to U.S. President Barack Obama.

Matsui, the mayor of the city that suffered the world's first atomic bombing in World War II, said in his letter of protest that the test can be taken as expression of the United States' intention to keep possessing nuclear weapons and runs counter to the wish of many people for abolition of nuclear weapons.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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No thats ok you can be the official, your thread, you have it all under control i think.

I was just pointing it out because i do read what is posted and well i do like to watch the vids people post if that is ok.

Good job..

Oh! and also was not being a douche, OP