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3/21/2011-The day G.Washington evacuated Yokosuka, possible explosion happened in reactor3 to melt the concrete of PCV
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Yeah, I know...
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Do you think they'll get it..?
 Quoting: Waterbug


Yeah, I think so... Istanbul is unsecure and Madrid is bankrupt...
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It would be a boon to Japan if they do get it.
I wonder how the athletes will feel about it..?
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Yeah, I know...
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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 30558272


Do you think they'll get it..?
 Quoting: Waterbug


Yeah, I think so... Istanbul is unsecure and Madrid is bankrupt...
.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 30558272


It would be a boon to Japan if they do get it.
I wonder how the athletes will feel about it..?
 Quoting: Waterbug


There is no difference to any other Town,
maybe the Air, Life and the Food is even healthier
than anywhere else!

The Flight from New York to Tokyo gives you as much
Radiation as 55 (Fifty-Five) Days here in Tokyo!

I am a known Enemy of the Olympic Games but on the other
Side they are also very helpful because Citizen-Groups are
able to increase the awareness for the social and environmental Problems!
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Do you think they'll get it..?
 Quoting: Waterbug


Yeah, I think so... Istanbul is unsecure and Madrid is bankrupt...
.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 30558272


It would be a boon to Japan if they do get it.
I wonder how the athletes will feel about it..?
 Quoting: Waterbug


There is no difference to any other Town,
maybe the Air, Life and the Food is even healthier
than anywhere else!

The Flight from New York to Tokyo gives you as much
Radiation as 55 (Fifty-Five) Days here in Tokyo!

I am a known Enemy of the Olympic Games but on the other
Side they are also very helpful because Citizen-Groups are
able to increase the awareness for the social and environmental Problems!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31644583


I think there would be some hesitancy on the part of some of the athletes.

You would not breathe many radioisotopes on a plane.

Are you on the Olympic Committee watch list..?
Why are you an enemy of the Games..?
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@Waterbug,

there are not many Airborne Radioactive Isotopes left
here in Tokyo, the majority came in the first 10 Days
after 03/11 but now they reached the normal Levels!
Source: radio-isotope.jp

2011 i bought a big HEPA-Filter
(because of your Recommendation)
and this is running with a new Mat since 2012.

I hope that someone will test this Mat soon because at the
moment i am a bit out of Money because i needed to
buy Two Tickets for Europe otherwise i just order such
a Test!
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[link to fukushimaemergencywhatcanwedo.blogspot.com.au]

something is definately up with the bellows seal at number 2 reactor....
It's life as we know it, but only just.
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something is definately up with the bellows seal at number 2 reactor....
 Quoting: Citizenperth


Yeah.. been worried about the temperature spiking,
Doesn't sound good.

Another thermometer on he top part of RPV is indicating the increasing temperature in reactor2
[link to fukushima-diary.com]

[Column] What is happening in reactor2 and what can be caused ?
[link to fukushima-diary.com]
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Violent release of materials at Fukushima Daiichi
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Several officials and experts both from Japan and abroad have warned that TEPCO has not been completely up front with the conditions at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and this footage may not help to quench those concerns.

On January 7th, around 10:15 in the morning, an enormous billowing cloud of black smoke erupted from the grounds of the nuclear power complex and headed south down the coastline.
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It's life as we know it, but only just.
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Several officials and experts both from Japan and abroad have warned that TEPCO has not been completely up front with the conditions at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and this footage may not help to quench those concerns.

On January 7th, around 10:15 in the morning, an enormous billowing cloud of black smoke erupted from the grounds of the nuclear power complex and headed south down the coastline.
 Quoting: Waterbug


rofl "An enormous, billowing Cloud, of black Smoke, erupted,
headed down the Coastline"! rofl

Yellow, pure Yellow Journalism!
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spike in fukushima radiation....

highest since may last year.... where is it coming from?....
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translated telegram to the US post first explosion... they new....

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[snip]

Several officials and experts both from Japan and abroad have warned that TEPCO has not been completely up front with the conditions at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and this footage may not help to quench those concerns.

On January 7th, around 10:15 in the morning, an enormous billowing cloud of black smoke erupted from the grounds of the nuclear power complex and headed south down the coastline.
 Quoting: Waterbug


rofl "An enormous, billowing Cloud, of black Smoke, erupted,
headed down the Coastline"! rofl

Yellow, pure Yellow Journalism!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31734927


I don't think he's making it up..
Many reports of this.
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Several officials and experts both from Japan and abroad have warned that TEPCO has not been completely up front with the conditions at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and this footage may not help to quench those concerns.

On January 7th, around 10:15 in the morning, an enormous billowing cloud of black smoke erupted from the grounds of the nuclear power complex and headed south down the coastline.
 Quoting: Waterbug


rofl "An enormous, billowing Cloud, of black Smoke, erupted,
headed down the Coastline"! rofl

Yellow, pure Yellow Journalism!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31734927


I don't think he's making it up..
Many reports of this.
 Quoting: Waterbug


But you can see it in the Video posted by CPloerb,
this is exhaust but nothing from the Reactor,
they even continue to work in the Videos after
and this would not happen in the case of a Accident!
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[snip]

Several officials and experts both from Japan and abroad have warned that TEPCO has not been completely up front with the conditions at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and this footage may not help to quench those concerns.

On January 7th, around 10:15 in the morning, an enormous billowing cloud of black smoke erupted from the grounds of the nuclear power complex and headed south down the coastline.
 Quoting: Waterbug


rofl "An enormous, billowing Cloud, of black Smoke, erupted,
headed down the Coastline"! rofl

Yellow, pure Yellow Journalism!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31734927


I don't think he's making it up..
Many reports of this.
 Quoting: Waterbug


But you can see it in the Video posted by CPloerb,
this is exhaust but nothing from the Reactor,
they even continue to work in the Videos after
and this would not happen in the case of a Accident!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31751989


I watched several different vids.
There is a lot more smoke than merely exhaust.
The intensity of wind laid the smoke down horizontally.
On a calm, windless day, there would have been a large cloud of smoke.
And there is the matter of perspective.
Although the zoomed view and poor video quality helps to minimize the event..
the true size of the area, in close-up, real-view perspective, would have been damning.
But we don't get a true perspective from tepco's cams..
That is no accident.. it is deliberate.

The remote-controlled cranes were working...
but what does that prove..?

In the case of honest reporting from tepco,
maybe we could believe it was nothing..
But, that isn't the case, is it..?
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rofl "An enormous, billowing Cloud, of black Smoke, erupted,
headed down the Coastline"! rofl

Yellow, pure Yellow Journalism!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31734927


I don't think he's making it up..
Many reports of this.
 Quoting: Waterbug


But you can see it in the Video posted by CPloerb,
this is exhaust but nothing from the Reactor,
they even continue to work in the Videos after
and this would not happen in the case of a Accident!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31751989


I watched several different vids.
There is a lot more smoke than merely exhaust.
The intensity of wind laid the smoke down horizontally.
On a calm, windless day, there would have been a large cloud of smoke.
And there is the matter of perspective.
Although the zoomed view and poor video quality helps to minimize the event..
the true size of the area, in close-up, real-view perspective, would have been damning.
But we don't get a true perspective from tepco's cams..
That is no accident.. it is deliberate.

The remote-controlled cranes were working...
but what does that prove..?

In the case of honest reporting from tepco,
maybe we could believe it was nothing..
But, that isn't the case, is it..?
 Quoting: Waterbug


You find more truth (Technical Aspect Only)
on the Tepco-Site than anywhere else!

And the Cranes are not really Remote Controlled and observed from a centralized and protected Inner-room!

I am not up-to-date about the
"Mobile Waster Burning Facility"
but i remember that she was responsible many Times
for false Alarms!
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I don't think he's making it up..
Many reports of this.
 Quoting: Waterbug


But you can see it in the Video posted by CPloerb,
this is exhaust but nothing from the Reactor,
they even continue to work in the Videos after
and this would not happen in the case of a Accident!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31751989


I watched several different vids.
There is a lot more smoke than merely exhaust.
The intensity of wind laid the smoke down horizontally.
On a calm, windless day, there would have been a large cloud of smoke.
And there is the matter of perspective.
Although the zoomed view and poor video quality helps to minimize the event..
the true size of the area, in close-up, real-view perspective, would have been damning.
But we don't get a true perspective from tepco's cams..
That is no accident.. it is deliberate.

The remote-controlled cranes were working...
but what does that prove..?

In the case of honest reporting from tepco,
maybe we could believe it was nothing..
But, that isn't the case, is it..?
 Quoting: Waterbug


You find more truth (Technical Aspect Only)
on the Tepco-Site than anywhere else!


And the Cranes are not really Remote Controlled and observed from a centralized and protected Inner-room!

I am not up-to-date about the
"Mobile Waster Burning Facility"
but i remember that she was responsible many Times
for false Alarms!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31751989


really? really? after all the lies... no msn, you are trippping on irradiated shitaki.....

go and drink some 'cleansed water from a glass' then i will believe you..... you will want to read the data we are collecting about your children their, and then tell me it is safe... data collated and documented rise in bone marrow cancers in the last three years will open your eyes.....

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Govt. studying Sea of Japan quake possibilities

A government panel has begun studying how big an earthquake could occur in the Sea of Japan, and what coastal municipalities could do to avoid tsunami damage.

Seismologists and tsunami experts joined Tuesday's meeting organized by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

Massive quakes accompanied by tsunami have occurred in the Sea of Japan off northern through central Japan.

In 1993, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake off southwestern Hokkaido triggered tsunami that devastated Okushiri Island and reached as far as western Japan and South Korea.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Ministry to monitor nuclear decontamination more strictly

TOKYO — The Environment Ministry has announced plans to ensure that Fukushima cleanup operations are henceforth carried out according to safety guidelines after local residents reported that radioactive material was being dumped into rivers.
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Crystal River in Fla...

Nuclear Plant Could Bring $100M Refund to Customers From a Wide-Ranging Settlement
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Sounds plausible..
A skeptic might be inclined to believe they would
already have that information.



Seeking gamma rays by helicopter in DC
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[snip]

Not according to a little-known arm of the U.S. government called the National Nuclear Security Administration. The agency said it is trying to measure radiation of a sort that is usually produced in nature by nuclear decay. Specifically, it is trying to measure gamma rays.

The idea, according to the NNSA, is to get an idea of Washington’s natural, normal output of gamma rays, a potentially harmful form of nuclear radiation. Such knowledge would aid in the response to a situation in which levels of radiation spiked, possibly as the result of a “dirty bomb.”
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TOKYO — The Environment Ministry has announced plans to ensure that Fukushima cleanup operations are henceforth carried out according to safety guidelines after local residents reported that radioactive material was being dumped into rivers.
[link to www.japantoday.com]
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAA.... sry...........
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Fire breaks out at Australian nuclear facility
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SYDNEY — A fire broke out at a nuclear research reactor in Sydney, but authorities said the blaze was brought under control and there appeared to be no damage to the reactors.

The fire broke out as the city sweltered through a heatwave which has triggered dozens of bushfires, but the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) said the incident was not linked to the weather conditions.

The state fire service said smoke was detected in an electrical substation at the rear of the Lucas Heights nuclear facility in southern Sydney shortly after 10:30 am (2330 GMT Monday) but the source was yet to be found.
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Fukushima “Decontamination” Measures Are Making Things Worse
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good catch WB ;


Fire breaks out at Australian nuclear facility
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SYDNEY — A fire broke out at a nuclear research reactor in Sydney, but authorities said the blaze was brought under control and there appeared to be no damage to the reactors.

The fire broke out as the city sweltered through a heatwave which has triggered dozens of bushfires, but the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) said the incident was not linked to the weather conditions.

The state fire service said smoke was detected in an electrical substation at the rear of the Lucas Heights nuclear facility in southern Sydney shortly after 10:30 am (2330 GMT Monday) but the source was yet to be found.
 Quoting: Waterbug


sweet.. educational licence indemnity:
and public announcement indemnity: release therefore in entirety as press-release:


Fire breaks out at Australian nuclear facility

(AFP) – 13 hours ago

SYDNEY — A fire broke out at a nuclear research reactor in Sydney, but authorities said the blaze was brought under control and there appeared to be no damage to the reactors.

The fire broke out as the city sweltered through a heatwave which has triggered dozens of bushfires, but the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) said the incident was not linked to the weather conditions.

The state fire service said smoke was detected in an electrical substation at the rear of the Lucas Heights nuclear facility in southern Sydney shortly after 10:30 am (2330 GMT Monday) but the source was yet to be found.

"There was smoke evident in two rooms, they're doing smoke extraction and then they're cooling," a spokesman told AFP.

"Where there's smoke there's fire, obviously, but that's all the information we have at this stage."

Two fire crews and a hazardous materials unit were on the scene but the spokesman said it did not seem to be serious and there was not thought to be any danger to the reactors themselves.

ANSTO said on-site fire wardens "extinguished what was believed to be a fire in electrical wiring", and that it posed no danger to the facility.

Lucas Heights is home to two reactors, the high flux Australian reactor which began operations in 1958 and is in the process of being decommissioned, and its successor the open pool Australian lightwater, or OPAL, which went live in 2006.

The main OPAL reactor was shut down as a precaution and will remain offline until deemed safe to resume operations, an ANSTO spokesman said.

"The OPAL reactor is shut down and is safe. The issue was dealt with within around one hour, no injuries have been reported, and there is no ongoing issue at the site," he said.

The OPAL reactor does not produce power but is used to produce medical and industrial radioisotopes, irradiate silicon used in semi-conductors, conduct mineral analysis and other scientific research.

Temperatures in Sydney are expected to hit 43 degrees Celsius (109 Fahrenheit) Tuesday -- the third-hottest mark in the city since records began.

"ANSTO is currently undertaking an investigation into the cause of the issue although it is not believed that it was linked to current weather conditions," the spokesman said.

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@ Cploerb,
i already know some Studies from France, Belgium and
Germany about the high Concentration of Leukemia and
other Cancer, you don't tell me something i didn't know!

Sadly this Studies do not work in a legal Sense,
they work only for us but cant stand in a Court
otherwise we had switched of this Plants already
in the early Eighties!

But this have nothing to do with the "Technical Aspect"
or are you that prematured and act like a wild Chicken
on Speed?
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In Japan, a Painfully Slow Sweep
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More than a year and a half since the nuclear crisis, much of Japan’s post-Fukushima cleanup remains primitive, slapdash and bereft of the cleanup methods lauded by government scientists as effective in removing harmful radioactive cesium from the environment.

Local businesses that responded to a government call to research and develop decontamination methods have found themselves largely left out. American and other foreign companies with proven expertise in environmental remediation, invited to Japan in June to show off their technologies, have similarly found little scope to participate.

Recent reports in the local media of cleanup crews dumping contaminated soil and leaves into rivers have focused attention on the sloppiness of the cleanup.

“What’s happening on the ground is a disgrace,” said Masafumi Shiga, president of Shiga Toso, a refurbishing company based in Iwaki, Fukushima. The company developed a more effective and safer way to remove cesium from concrete without using water, which could repollute the environment. “We’ve been ready to help for ages, but they say they’ve got their own way of cleaning up,” he said.

Shiga Toso’s technology was tested and identified by government scientists as “fit to deploy immediately,” but it has been used only at two small locations, including a concrete drain at the Naraha-Minami school.

Instead, both the central and local governments have handed over much of the 1 trillion yen decontamination effort to Japan’s largest construction companies. The politically connected companies have little radiological cleanup expertise and critics say they have cut corners to employ primitive — even potentially hazardous — techniques.


“In such a big undertaking, cost-effectiveness becomes very important,” said Takeshi Nishikawa, an executive based in Fukushima for the Kajima Corporation, Japan’s largest construction company. The company is in charge of the cleanup in the city of Tamura, a part of which lies within the 12-mile exclusion zone. “We bring skills and expertise to the project,” Mr. Nishikawa said.

Kajima also built the reactor buildings for all six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, leading some critics to question why control of the cleanup effort has been left to companies with deep ties to the nuclear industry.

Also worrying, industry experts say, are cleanup methods used by the construction companies that create loose contamination that can become airborne or enter the water.
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CROOKED CLEANUP: Ministry questions decontamination contractors; workers express hopelessness
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Some workers said they dumped potentially contaminated soil, leaves and water into rivers and secluded forest areas to feel they were making progress in this huge and unprecedented project in Japan.

“If we follow the rules, we can never go home,” said a decontamination worker in his 50s.

The government is not expected to review the framework of the program, which relies heavily on general contractors. Instead, it will try to ensure the ministry’s rules are followed in the decontamination process, a crucial step in the plan to reduce radiation levels and allow evacuees to return home.

To determine if rules had been broken, an Environment Ministry office in Fukushima overseeing decontamination interviewed supervisors at four major construction companies that received lucrative government contracts.





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