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New Fukushima danger zone designations allow residents to visit former homes

TOKYO — The Fukushima town of Tomioka on Monday became the eighth location near the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nucear power plant to be redesignated as part of a government plan to speed up reconstruction.

Wards within Tomioka, a formerly-abandoned town (except for one resident) in the Futaba district of Fukushima, were redesignated in a bid to allow former residents to visit their properties and begin clean-up operations, TV Asahi reported Monday.

The government hopes the new, reworded zone labels will help to mitigate fears. Towns that had formerly been designated as “No-Entry” zones or “Expanded Evacuation” zones due to the nuclear crisis triggered by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, are to be redesignated to allow for gradual rebuilding of Fukushima’s infrastructure.

The new designations include three categories, each with its own entry rules. “Return Forbidden” are closed zones with over 50 mSv of radiation dose per year. “Residence Forbidden” applies to areas with over 20 and under 50 mSv of radiation per year. Finally, “Preparing for Evacuation Cancellation” is the designation for areas registering under 20mSv of radiation per year.
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the real truth is tokyo should have been evacuated.............
 Quoting: Citizenperth


Maybe, but how and where do you move 13 million people???
[link to www.metro.tokyo.jp]
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when truth and logic make it so.........
It's life as we know it, but only just.
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Japan, EU begin building nuclear fusion facility

Japanese and European scientists have started assembling an advanced nuclear fusion testing facility in Ibaraki, northeast of Tokyo.

Nuclear fusion occurs when atom cores smash into each other at extremely high temperatures. The sun draws its vast energy from this reaction. Scientists view nuclear fusion as a next-generation energy source.

Japan and the European Union are jointly experimenting with fusion technology. About 100 people from the 2 sides attended a ceremony on Monday at Japan Atomic Energy Agency's Naka Fusion Institute.

They marked the start of the assembling of the JT-60SA testing facility. The super-conductivity base was shipped from Europe.
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Evacuated Fukushima schools still running at satellite campuses

Tatsuma Hangai is a second year student at the Fukushima Prefectural Namie High School. But he has never had classes at the school's home campus.

The 17-year-old is among over 1,000 students enrolled in eight Fukushima high schools that remain evacuated as a result of the nuclear disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi power plant that began in March 2011.

They attend classes at 11 satellite campuses instead, all located away from their original hometowns in the northeastern Japan prefecture, but the high schools' futures remain uncertain as the number of students has dropped sharply amid the prolonged evacuation.
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Impeached governor inked secret deal to construct fast breeder reactor

It is now being discovered that former governor Fitial and then Attorney General Edward Buckingham signed a deal in June of 2012, which would’ve constructed nuclear power plant in partnership with Global Energy Corporation.  The deal was only discovered last week by newly elected Governor Eloy S. Inois, who assumed his post on February 20th of this year, even though since August of last year the Saipan Tribune had been questioning the Fitial administration about rumors of a possible nuclear energy agreement, but had been stonewalled in response.
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NRC and Edison to discuss license amendment request for San Onofre Unit 2

On April 3rd, 2013, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm, officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and representatives from Southern California Edison will meet in Rockville, Maryland to discuss the utility’s plan to submit a license amendment request for the Unit 2 reactor at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.  The meeting will address the timeline for restarting the generator and the regulatory requirements involved in the process.

The NRC declined to hold this meetin in California, but will make a teleconference line available for members of the public to listen to the review process in action.
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Installation of nuclear reactor structure begins

Engineers have begun a year-long process to install the 2,000-tonne steel structure that will house the Emirates' first nuclear reactor.

At the construction site in Baraka, a coastal outpost on the way from Abu Dhabi to Doha, a special crane designed to lift heavy weights has been brought in to move the 19 massive rings, each 45 metres wide, 3 metres tall, and so heavy they take two hours to be swung into place.
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Nuclear Waste a Growing Headache for SKorea

North Korea's weapons program is not the only nuclear headache for South Korea. The country's radioactive waste storage is filling up as its nuclear power industry burgeons, but what South Korea sees as its best solution — reprocessing the spent fuel so it can be used again — faces stiff opposition from its U.S. ally.

South Korea fired up its first reactor in 1978 and since then the resource poor nation's reliance on atomic energy has steadily grown. It is now the world's fifth-largest nuclear energy producer, operating 23 reactors. But unlike the rapid growth of its nuclear industry, its nuclear waste management plan has been moving at a snail's pace.
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Oh boy... I feel better, now...



Entergy installs panel at Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in US
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Energy firm Entergy has installed a temporary cover over an opening in the reactor building at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, located in Vernon, Vermont, US.

The installation of panel follows a blowout, which opened and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Entergy told Reuters that the issue did not cause any danger.
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New Fukushima danger zone designations allow residents to visit former homes

TOKYO — The Fukushima town of Tomioka on Monday became the eighth location near the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nucear power plant to be redesignated as part of a government plan to speed up reconstruction.

Wards within Tomioka, a formerly-abandoned town (except for one resident) in the Futaba district of Fukushima, were redesignated in a bid to allow former residents to visit their properties and begin clean-up operations, TV Asahi reported Monday.

The government hopes the new, reworded zone labels will help to mitigate fears. Towns that had formerly been designated as “No-Entry” zones or “Expanded Evacuation” zones due to the nuclear crisis triggered by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, are to be redesignated to allow for gradual rebuilding of Fukushima’s infrastructure.

The new designations include three categories, each with its own entry rules. “Return Forbidden” are closed zones with over 50 mSv of radiation dose per year. “Residence Forbidden” applies to areas with over 20 and under 50 mSv of radiation per year. Finally, “Preparing for Evacuation Cancellation” is the designation for areas registering under 20mSv of radiation per year.
[link to www.japantoday.com]
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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23527116



the real truth is tokyo should have been evacuated.............
 Quoting: Citizenperth


Maybe, but how and where do you move 13 million people???
[link to www.metro.tokyo.jp]
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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23527116


Into China's vacant cities. That is if everyone in the world actually cared about each other. verysad
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TEPCO was in fact aware of the vulnerability of the temporary power panel that had been exposed to the elements.

Tepco admitted mismanagement to Yomiuri Shimbun:

This is the first time that operation of the cooling system was halted for such a long time at several core facilities all together. If you say we were complacent about making our decision and dealing with the situation, I can’t deny that.

In related news, Japanese experts say that Fukushima is currently releasing up to 93 billion becquerels of radioactive cesium into the ocean each day, the reactors have lost containment, and groundwater is flooding into the stricken reactors (delaying clean-up).

And in news which may or may not be related: “A historic number of sea lions is washing up in Southern California — Has reached ‘epidemic proportions’ — Center declares state of emergency — Feds: ‘There’s something going on oceanographically’.” See this and this for possible background on how this might be related to Fukushima.
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the real truth is tokyo should have been evacuated.............
 Quoting: Citizenperth


Maybe, but how and where do you move 13 million people???
[link to www.metro.tokyo.jp]
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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23527116


Into China's vacant cities. That is if everyone in the world actually cared about each other. verysad
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the real truth is tokyo should have been evacuated.............
 Quoting: Citizenperth


Maybe, but how and where do you move 13 million people???
[link to www.metro.tokyo.jp]
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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23527116


Into China's vacant cities. That is if everyone in the world actually cared about each other. verysad
 Quoting: SkinnyChic
clap

love
 Quoting: Waterbug


exactly......
It's life as we know it, but only just.
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6 underground tanks holding radioactive waste leaking in Washington state

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Very bad situation. Many of those tanks are
single-walled with a 20 year lifespan, which is long expired.
 Quoting: Waterbug


Yep, they will screw around till something really terrible happens. This is the ugly part no one wants to face about this power source - Storage FOREVER.
"Well-behaved women seldom make history." —Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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6 underground tanks holding radioactive waste leaking in Washington state

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 Quoting: zvezda 1


Very bad situation. Many of those tanks are
single-walled with a 20 year lifespan, which is long expired.
 Quoting: Waterbug


Yep, they will screw around till something really terrible happens. This is the ugly part no one wants to face about this power source - Storage FOREVER.
 Quoting: Southern OR


can't go near them to empty them 'somewhere else' either......
It's life as we know it, but only just.
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6 underground tanks holding radioactive waste leaking in Washington state

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 Quoting: zvezda 1


Very bad situation. Many of those tanks are
single-walled with a 20 year lifespan, which is long expired.
 Quoting: Waterbug


Yep, they will screw around till something really terrible happens. This is the ugly part no one wants to face about this power source - Storage FOREVER.
 Quoting: Southern OR


can't go near them to empty them 'somewhere else' either......
 Quoting: Citizenperth


From the article:

"None of these tanks would be acceptable for use today. They are all beyond their design life. None of them should be in service," said Tom Carpenter of Hanford Challenge, a Hanford watchdog group. "And yet, they're holding two-thirds of the nation's high-level nuclear waste."

Read more: [link to www.foxnews.com]
"Well-behaved women seldom make history." —Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. ~Edward Everett Hale
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Very bad situation. Many of those tanks are
single-walled with a 20 year lifespan, which is long expired.
 Quoting: Waterbug


Yep, they will screw around till something really terrible happens. This is the ugly part no one wants to face about this power source - Storage FOREVER.
 Quoting: Southern OR


can't go near them to empty them 'somewhere else' either......
 Quoting: Citizenperth


From the article:

"None of these tanks would be acceptable for use today. They are all beyond their design life. None of them should be in service," said Tom Carpenter of Hanford Challenge, a Hanford watchdog group. "And yet, they're holding two-thirds of the nation's high-level nuclear waste."

Read more: [link to www.foxnews.com]
 Quoting: Southern OR


now isn't that interesting, because they are.............
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6 underground tanks holding radioactive waste leaking in Washington state

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 Quoting: zvezda 1


Very bad situation. Many of those tanks are
single-walled with a 20 year lifespan, which is long expired.
 Quoting: Waterbug


Yep, they will screw around till something really terrible happens. This is the ugly part no one wants to face about this power source - Storage FOREVER.
 Quoting: Southern OR


made you famous my dear :)

[link to fukushimaemergencywhatcanwedo.blogspot.com.au]
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6 underground tanks holding radioactive waste leaking in Washington state

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 Quoting: zvezda 1


Very bad situation. Many of those tanks are
single-walled with a 20 year lifespan, which is long expired.
 Quoting: Waterbug


Yep, they will screw around till something really terrible happens. This is the ugly part no one wants to face about this power source - Storage FOREVER.
 Quoting: Southern OR


made you famous my dear :)

[link to fukushimaemergencywhatcanwedo.blogspot.com.au]
 Quoting: Citizenperth


Thanks for passing it on. This is my biggest issue with nuclear power. They just keep putting off to the next generation to deal with. This is not what I want to leave for my future grand children.
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Very bad situation. Many of those tanks are
single-walled with a 20 year lifespan, which is long expired.
 Quoting: Waterbug


Yep, they will screw around till something really terrible happens. This is the ugly part no one wants to face about this power source - Storage FOREVER.
 Quoting: Southern OR


can't go near them to empty them 'somewhere else' either......
 Quoting: Citizenperth


From the article:

"None of these tanks would be acceptable for use today. They are all beyond their design life. None of them should be in service," said Tom Carpenter of Hanford Challenge, a Hanford watchdog group. "And yet, they're holding two-thirds of the nation's high-level nuclear waste."

Read more: [link to www.foxnews.com]
 Quoting: Southern OR


It is disheartening to realize that the agencies responsible for these boondoggles in the first place are now responsible for the cleanup.

Who in their right mind would ever expect that the job will get done.. or that it will be done correctly and safely..?

What a bunch of bullshit.. that we have to pay for..
And... the safety and health issues were swept under the rug for years and years by the same people.

Hard to believe...

Tar and feathers springs to mind.
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Yep, they will screw around till something really terrible happens. This is the ugly part no one wants to face about this power source - Storage FOREVER.
 Quoting: Southern OR


can't go near them to empty them 'somewhere else' either......
 Quoting: Citizenperth


From the article:

"None of these tanks would be acceptable for use today. They are all beyond their design life. None of them should be in service," said Tom Carpenter of Hanford Challenge, a Hanford watchdog group. "And yet, they're holding two-thirds of the nation's high-level nuclear waste."

Read more: [link to www.foxnews.com]
 Quoting: Southern OR


It is disheartening to realize that the agencies responsible for these boondoggles in the first place are now responsible for the cleanup.

Who in their right mind would ever expect that the job will get done.. or that it will be done correctly and safely..?

What a bunch of bullshit.. that we have to pay for..
And... the safety and health issues were swept under the rug for years and years by the same people.

Hard to believe...

Tar and feathers springs to mind.
 Quoting: Waterbug


well, they got their nuke 'deterents'... s'pose they're happy.......
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can't go near them to empty them 'somewhere else' either......
 Quoting: Citizenperth


From the article:

"None of these tanks would be acceptable for use today. They are all beyond their design life. None of them should be in service," said Tom Carpenter of Hanford Challenge, a Hanford watchdog group. "And yet, they're holding two-thirds of the nation's high-level nuclear waste."

Read more: [link to www.foxnews.com]
 Quoting: Southern OR


It is disheartening to realize that the agencies responsible for these boondoggles in the first place are now responsible for the cleanup.

Who in their right mind would ever expect that the job will get done.. or that it will be done correctly and safely..?

What a bunch of bullshit.. that we have to pay for..
And... the safety and health issues were swept under the rug for years and years by the same people.

Hard to believe...

Tar and feathers springs to mind.
 Quoting: Waterbug


well, they got their nuke 'deterents'... s'pose they're happy.......
 Quoting: Citizenperth


Without getting into a whole thing about that..

That fact that it was necessary at the time..
debatable.. does not excuse them from their responsibility
to maintain the integrity of the environment and the
safety of the residents..
as well as future generations.

They have failed, miserably.

Makes my blood boil.
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well well well....

time analysis of fuku

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Citizenperth

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found another contributing editor from FB
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It's life as we know it, but only just.
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Citizenperth

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3D rad map 27/03/13 Fukushima

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and lmao imo..... 'another' one
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how is it that fuku is only km's away and yet the rads, when displayed in 3d, show every major town center is safe?

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another from FB

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<snip>
LEGACY: No one knows how the Fukushima disaster will affect the health of the area's children
<end snip>

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New Fukushima danger zone designations allow residents to visit former homes

TOKYO — The Fukushima town of Tomioka on Monday became the eighth location near the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nucear power plant to be redesignated as part of a government plan to speed up reconstruction.

Wards within Tomioka, a formerly-abandoned town (except for one resident) in the Futaba district of Fukushima, were redesignated in a bid to allow former residents to visit their properties and begin clean-up operations, TV Asahi reported Monday.

The government hopes the new, reworded zone labels will help to mitigate fears. Towns that had formerly been designated as “No-Entry” zones or “Expanded Evacuation” zones due to the nuclear crisis triggered by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, are to be redesignated to allow for gradual rebuilding of Fukushima’s infrastructure.

The new designations include three categories, each with its own entry rules. “Return Forbidden” are closed zones with over 50 mSv of radiation dose per year. “Residence Forbidden” applies to areas with over 20 and under 50 mSv of radiation per year. Finally, “Preparing for Evacuation Cancellation” is the designation for areas registering under 20mSv of radiation per year.
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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23527116



the real truth is tokyo should have been evacuated.............
 Quoting: Citizenperth


Maybe, but how and where do you move 13 million people???
[link to www.metro.tokyo.jp]
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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23527116


Into China's vacant cities. That is if everyone in the world actually cared about each other. verysad
 Quoting: SkinnyChic


Yep, that's the problem... China would never allow millions of Japanese citizens moving there...
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Nuclear experts issue interim Fukushima report

A panel of nuclear energy experts has released an interim report on the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. They noted that efforts to prevent a severe accident were inadequate.

The Atomic Energy Society of Japan set up the accident investigation committee last August, with the aim of examining the disaster from nuclear experts' point of view.

The panel of 40 experts from universities and research institutes issued the interim report on Wednesday.

The report said if the plant had been fully prepared in terms of safety it would have avoided releasing massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment.

But as for the cause of the accident, the report only summarized what is already known. It did not offer any new findings or analyses distinct from similar reports by the government's and the Diet's special panels.
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Death rate of senior evacuees rises in Fukushima

Researchers have found that the death rate nearly tripled among evacuees from facilities for elderly people near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

The research group from the University of Tokyo and a city-run hospital tracked 328 senior evacuees from 5 facilities in Minamisoma City. The facilities are within a 30-kilometer radius of the plant where the serious nuclear accident occurred in March 2011.

They found that 75 of them had died within 1 year. This is 2.68 times higher than the annual average death rate for elderly people staying at the facilities for 5 years before the accident.
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Nuclear regulatory body to dig deeper into cause of Fukushima crisis

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority said Wednesday that it will take on the task of further analyzing the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis to shed light on issues still open to question.

The authority decided to set up a panel, which will include NRA Commissioner Toyoshi Fuketa and outside experts, to work on pending issues not resolved by public and private-sector probes. The panel will hold its first meeting in April, the NRA said.

The discussions are expected to cover the controversial issue of whether any important equipment sustained damage due to the March 2011 earthquake, before the ensuing tsunami ravaged the plant and triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
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Is Duke Energy taking a page from the TEPCO playbook?

There have been many flood-related concerns about the safety of nuclear power plants in the United States in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, documents released through the Freedom of Information Act have shown that regulators have been concerned about the possibilities of floods overwhelming nuclear power stations for decades.  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been instructing licensees to take another look at some of the risks posed to nuclear power plants by upstream dams among a host of other potential risks.

Currently, a seven and a half foot protects the Oconee nuclear plant, but previous estimates showed that between nine and sixteen feet of increased water could be generated by flooding and threaten Oconee’s backup control system.  Last fall, two NRC risk analysis engineers Richard Perkins and Larry Criscione blasted the previous estimates and said that the NRC had been forced to heavily edit one flood report for fear of embarrassment over how long they have let the issue linger without resolution.
[link to enformable.com]
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