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Second survey at Ohi nuclear plant

Experts from Japan's nuclear regulatory body have conducted a second inspection at the country's only online nuclear power plant, to determine whether fissures at the facility are active faults.

The five-member Nuclear Regulation Authority team inspected a trench on Friday at the Ohi plant in Fukui Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan.

In the first inspection in November, the team was unable to determine whether or not one of the fissures beneath the plant was an active fault.

The team ordered the plant's operator, Kansai Electric, to double the length of the trench to 100 meters for further inspection.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Fault survey at Ohi plant may take months

A senior official from Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority has suggested surveys at the country's only online nuclear plant may take months before experts determine whether fissures at the facility are parts of an active fault or not.

Kunihiko Shimazaki, a commissioner from the regulatory body, made the announcement on Friday, after a 5 member team he is leading conducted an inspection at the Ohi plant in Fukui Prefecture on the Sea of Japan.

Shimazaki said the team plans to analyze what they have studied at the trench dug in the northern part of the plant's site, but he added a conclusion won't be easy to obtain.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Toshiba in talks to sell 16% of Westinghouse

TOKYO--Toshiba Corp. is in talks with three parties about selling up to a 16% stake in Westinghouse Electric Co., in which it owns 67%, but intends to keep a controlling stake in the U.S. manufacturer of nuclear power facilities, Toshiba's president said Thursday.

The three parties "have made very good offers," President Norio Sasaki told Dow Jones Newswires. The parties include companies outside the U.S., he added.
[link to www.marketwatch.com]
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Mayor of evacuated town opposes restart of nuclear plants

The mayor of a town that remains off-limits after last year's Fukushima nuclear crisis renewed his opposition Friday to future restarts of nuclear power plants in Japan.

"The government's apparent stance to give priority to restarts hurts the feelings of people in Fukushima Prefecture," Tomioka Mayor Katsuya Endo told a meeting with senior vice environment ministers of the Cabinet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched Wednesday.

"Fukushima is absolutely opposed to the government's plan to restart nuclear plants without consensus based on people's discussions," Endo told Shinji Inoue and Kazunori Tanaka from Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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Rosatom begins building Chinese reactor

On Thursday Rosatom will begin pouring concrete for the foundation of the third unit at the Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant in the People’s Republic of China.

This unit will be similar to the first two units at the location whose reactors are rated at 1060 Mega Watts.

According to the head of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko, by the end of 2017, the new reactor will be operational.
[link to www.nucpros.com]
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Xcel Energy seeks Kewaunee nuclear plant workers

Excel operates the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant near Red Wing, Minn., and Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant near Monticello, Minn. Each is within 60 miles of Minneapolis-St. Paul.

The job fairs will be noon to 8 p.m. each day at Country Inn & Suites, 850 Kepler Drive, in the I-43 Business Center.

Applicants are asked to bring several copies of their resumes. Job openings can be found at jobs.xcelenergy.com.

Kewaunee Power Station owner Dominion Resources plans to shut down the nuclear plant in the Kewaunee County town of Carlton in spring 2013.
[link to www.nucpros.com]
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Old news that already has its own threads... just another source...

8 U.S. sailors sue Japanese gov't, TEPCO for lying about radiation

SAN DIEGO — Eight crew members of the USS Ronald Reagan are suing the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) for lying to them about the radiation levels to which they were exposed during rescue operations near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant last year.

In a suit filed in San Diego this week, lead plaintiff Lindsay R Cooper accused TEPCO of intentionally concealing the dangerous levels of radiation in the environment from U.S. Navy rescue crews working as part of “Operation Tomodachi” off the coast of the Tohoku region following the devastating series of earthquakes and tsunami that resulted in the nuclear disaster of March 11, 2011.

In a suit filed in San Diego this week, lead plaintiff Lindsay R Cooper accused TEPCO of intentionally concealing the dangerous levels of radiation in the environment from U.S. Navy rescue crews working as part of “Operation Tomodachi” off the coast of the Tohoku region following the devastating series of earthquakes and tsunami that resulted in the nuclear disaster of March 11, 2011.

According to Courthouse News Service, the plaintiffs assert that the government and TEPCO possessed data about the radiation leakage that they suppressed, thus willfully exposing Navy rescue workers of the U.S.S Ronald Reagan, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier based in San Diego, to dangerous levels of radiation. The suit claims that TEPCO covered up data
suggesting that rescue workers would be exposed to the same amount of radiation that resulted in cancer at Chernobyl.

The sailors are each seeking $10 million in compensatory damages and $30 million in punitive damages for fraud, negligence, strict liability, failure to warn, public and private nuisance and defective design, Courthouse News Service reported. The suit also calls for TEPCO to establish a fund of $100 million to pay for the medical expenses of crew who they say face “additional and irreparable harm to their life expectancy, which has been shortened and cannot be restored to its prior condition.”
[link to www.japantoday.com]
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Abe inspects crisis-hit Fukushima nuke plant

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday inspected the Fukushima Daiichi plant in northeastern Japan, where the country's worst nuclear crisis has unfolded.

His trip to the plant in Fukushima Prefecture immediately after he launched his Cabinet Wednesday is aimed at demonstrating his government is serious about speeding up postdisaster reconstruction efforts while tackling other key issues such as reviving the country's stagnant economy, his aides said earlier.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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Japan to cautiously turn to nuclear power after bitter experience

Japan appears to be heading toward a gradual revival of nuclear power generation under a new government supportive of retaining it, but the outlook for the industry in 2013 is unclear with antinuclear sentiment still lingering among the public after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster.

The new government led by the Liberal Democratic Party has already signaled that it has no intention of following in the footsteps of the Democratic Party of Japan government over energy policy. The previous government aimed at phasing out nuclear power in the 2030s.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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The IDIOTS who KNEW about the nuclear disaster were NOT willing to face reality at the time OR, admit they DON'T have the educational level in nuclear physics to make ANY reasonable conclusions.

I went to several neighbors, closest with two VERY young children, and gave them a sheet with all the remedies listed by Emerald Eyes in early April, 2011 for reducing the affects of some of the fallout particles, what gets them OUT of the body faster, and/or interferes with their affect on the cells of the body.

The one with the small children was polite BUT, asked NO INTELLIGENT questions or ever followed up on my paper that I know of. Another 'shot the messenger' to relieve his two brain cell confusion, which he assumed didn't show

They will get NO future help from me or mine, when CUMULATIVE radiation surpasses the 50 rad mark and symptoms show up. SAD for the kids, but that is their choice when confronted with LACK OF knowledge on deadly subjects.

Expect very soon we will have a LOT MORE radiation fallout when reactor 4 goes down.

Eagle

can inform only.... this is our ELE..... plain and simple for anyone with half a brain.....

@ Cp., you are more than childish,
you are like a "Elenintard" who can't
face Reality!

Do you know how much Radiation you need
to kill all of us?

Maybe you misunderstand the Term "Extinction"!

The Humankind will not vanish because of F'Shima,
this is impossible.

Many People will die but in the big Statistics
it will be only a small Number!

What is happening with Buggy-Chan?
Anger, Trouble and Fear tooooo much?

There is a red Horizon and the Sun comes
back sooner or later,
remember: "Fear is the real danger"!

Come back!

Many People will die but in the big Statistics
it will be only a small Number!

happy with that?.. did your ancestors say the same thing back in WWII?

sorry AB... again... you have no honour..... and bring shame upon your people and children, by directly supporting the cause of their demise.....



sad........ you seem to show that your race doesn't change

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 12/29/2012 02:23 AM

He's quoting Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 inaugural address.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.."

[link to historymatters.gmu.edu]

Not quoting but paraphrasing FDR's speech.

bit of an 'oopsie' then for him.....

Or maybe it's the Bene Gesserit from Dune.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. etc.

or another recent obfusication.....



don't forget the children.....
;)

You are sooooooo stupid, it is unbelievable,
here this is your Mother

Why do you not try to live instead of only talking about?
There are many things to do, more that Copy and Paste
this phunny Blog!

Go and study something medical to help the harmed People,
become smart and get involved in to the Politics
or use a Weapon and/or Bombs to make it clear that you
are not a boring Small-talker!

In Theory everything is sooooooo simple
but how we can integrate this into our Reality?

As long as you just talk as long you are just a Puppet,
a more than noisy one and far away from Reality!

And my Race is not important, you Nazi-Pig!

You know that i am not a Japanese and you don:t
know where i am coming from but this is so typical
for the schizoid People like you,
your Argumentation is based on Illusions, Ideas and
wrong Assumptions, go and take your Medicine,
open a Beer and shut up!

wow!.. ranting much???????

go take your medication and chill, contemplate the word honour.....

your parent-suns must be embaressed and ashamed... you bring much dishonour to your people....




Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 12/29/2012 03:25 AM

I do not need Psycho-Pharmaca,
it is you who use it because of your Anxiety-Attacks
and you add a lot of Alcohol,
this is the and your Area where you should be active!

Who are my People and what this have to do with the Topic?


When you want to troll do it in your own Threads
and don't ban me!

honestly, and compassionately, you need help.. step away from your computer, and speak to careing people, they are available there (i checked), 24/7 on the nuclear hotline...

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 12/29/2012 05:15 AM

Abe visits Fukushima plant; pledges full support for clean-up effort

FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI — The clean-up at Fukushima after its tsunami-sparked nuclear meltdowns is unlike anything humanity has ever tried, Japan’s prime minister said Saturday during a tour of the plant.

“The massive work toward decommissioning is an unprecedented challenge in human history,” the newly-elected Shinzo Abe said. “Success in the decommissioning will lead to the reconstruction of Fukushima and Japan.”

Dressed in a protective suit and wearing a face mask, Abe was taken by bus to see two of the damaged reactors.
[link to www.japantoday.com]
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M5 quake strikes off Fukushima

TOKYO — An earthquake with a magnitude of 5 struck off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture on Saturday afternoon. There was no tsunami alert and no injuries were reported.

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the quake struck at 4:19 p.m. Its epicenter was at a depth of 50 kilometers off the Fukushima coast. The quake measured 4 near the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, but operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said there was no danger at the plant.
[link to www.japantoday.com]
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Dock on Washington shore resembles one from Japan

A scientist who examined the dock that recently washed ashore on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula says it looks just like another one that came ashore on a Pacific Northwest beach last summer, suggesting it also is a piece of tsunami debris from Japan.

John Chapman, an assistant professor of fisheries at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center, said Friday the Washington dock found earlier this month has the same dimensions and configuration as the one found near Newport, Oregon. The Oregon dock broke loose from a Japanese fishing port in 2011.
[link to www.japantoday.com]
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Japanese-French JV seeks Turkey nuclear reactor order

A joint venture between Japanese Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd and its French partner Areva SA is preparing to offer to sell Ankara nuclear reactors to be installed in a planned second nuclear power plant in Turkey, The Nikkei reported on Thursday, quoting an anonymous Turkish government source.

The Turkish government official, who spoke to Nikkei, claimed that a joint venture (JV) of Mitsubishi and Areva, named Atmea, has mulled offering to sell middle-sized reactors to Turkey. The JV had earlier sold a similar nuclear reactor to Jordan.
[link to www.nucpros.com]
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