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

Good news, but about that spent fuel????

not to worry!
they plan on finding a long term storage facility any century now ;)



Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 07/17/2013 09:58 PM

The spent fuel is the major long-term problem.
I'd really like it if they would also realize that shutting down the
out-dated reactors should be priority one..

Many of these reactors are also flood risks, due to upstream dams.

They can't dodge Murphy indefinitely.

more steam:
[link to fukushimaemergencywhatcanwedo.blogspot.com.au]

Nuclear Event in Japan on Thursday, 18 July, 2013 at 07:58 (07:58 AM) UTC.

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Steam has been spotted in a reactor building at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, its operator said Thursday, but stressed there is no sign yet of increased radiation. The incident, which Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said was not "an emergency situation", is the latest event serving to underline how precarious the plant remains more than two years after it was wrecked by a tsunami. "Steam has been seen around the fifth floor of the Reactor 3 building," a spokesman at TEPCO said. The roof of the building was blown off in a hydrogen explosion in the days after the March 2011 meltdowns, sparked when cooling systems were flooded with seawater after a huge undersea quake. "(The steam) was drifting thinly in the air and it's not like a big column of steam is spurting up," the spokesman said. "Neither the temperature of the reactor nor readings at radiation monitoring posts have gone up. "We do not believe an emergency situation is breaking out although we are still investigating what caused this." The pool is on the fifth floor and stores devices and equipment removed from the reactor before the disaster as part of regular operations.

TEPCO said it had confirmed the reactor remained subcritical at 9.20am (0020 GMT), one hour after the steam was first spotted. Criticality is the term used for reactors in which there is a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. Workers were continuing to pump water into the reactor and fuel pool as part of on-going cooling efforts, the company said, adding it would measure dust near the building as well as the air above it to gauge radiation levels. A 9.0 earthquake and the resulting massive tsunami in March 2011 knocked out cooling systems at Fukushima Daiichi, causing the meltdowns of reactors. Tens of thousands of people were forced from their homes by the threat of radiation in the planet's worst nuclear accident for a generation. TEPCO is struggling to manage the clean-up, which scientists say could take up to four decades to complete. The steam is the latest in a growing catalogue of mishaps that have cast doubt on the utility's ability to fix the world's worst atomic disaster in a generation. A series of leaks of water contaminated with radiation have shaken confidence, as did a blackout caused by a rat that left cooling pools without power for more than a day. The company has admitted in recent weeks that water and soil samples taken at the plant are showing high readings for potentially dangerous isotopes, including caesium-137, tritium and strontium-90. Japan's nuclear watchdog said last week the Fukushima reactors are very likely leaking highly radioactive substances into the Pacific Ocean. Members of the Nuclear Regulation Authority voiced frustration at TEPCO, which has failed to identify the source and the cause of spiking readings in groundwater. NRA officials are urging TEPCO to offer more detailed and credible data and make efforts to better explain to the public what it knows. Most of Japan's nuclear reactors remain off-line, largely due to public distrust of the industry. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, as well as utilities, are hoping to restart them.
[link to hisz.rsoe.hu]

Not looking good for the tomato plants..lol

Want Giant Tomatoes?... without radiation or Monsanto add-ins... lol...



[link to www.youtube.com]
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Nuclear experts in 2nd day of Monju fault survey

Japan's nuclear regulators on Thursday continued their geological survey at the site of a fast-breeder reactor on the Sea of Japan coast. They are trying to find out if there are any active faults that pose safety risks.

Nuclear Regulation Authority Commissioner Kunihiko Shimazaki and 3 other experts began their 2-day survey at the prototype Monju reactor in Fukui on Wednesday.

Thursday's survey focused on a linear fissure found in an off-site area southeast of the reactor. Some experts suspect the fissure to be part of an active fault.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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U.S. utility begins legal dispute against Mitsubishi over atomic plant

Southern California Edison, an electric utility company that retired the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station last month, said Thursday it has served a notice of dispute to Mitsubishi Heavy Industry Ltd., holding the Japanese company accountable for manufacturing defective steam generators that led to the closing of the station.

The utility said in a press release MHI and Mitsubishi Nuclear Energy Systems "seriously breached" the contract failing to deliver what it promised.

The notice is a step toward filing a damages lawsuit.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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Press release:

Southern California Edison Serves Formal Notice of Dispute to Mitsubishi over Defective Steam Generators at SONGS

Posted July 18, 2013

ROSEMEAD, Calif., July 18, 2013 — Southern California Edison (SCE) has served a formal Notice of Dispute on Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., and Mitsubishi Nuclear Energy Systems (together, "Mitsubishi") which seeks to hold Mitsubishi accountable for designing and manufacturing defective Replacement Steam Generators (RSGs) at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS).

"Our action is about making sure that Mitsubishi takes responsibility for providing the defective steam generators that led to the closing of SONGS," said Ron Litzinger, president of SCE.

Although Mitsubishi warranted the generators would operate reliably for 20 years, SCE was required to take SONGS offline in January 2012 when one of the Mitsubishi RSGs experienced a radioactive coolant leak after less than a year of operation. Although its contract with SCE required Mitsubishi to repair the RSGs "with due diligence and dispatch," SCE's Notice of Dispute alleges that Mitsubishi failed to do so.
[link to www.songscommunity.com]
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Did you know that the US built a floating NPP some 50 years ago?...

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

[link to en.wikipedia.org]
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wow, a converted liberty ship... they were hacked together.....

News from Chernobyl:

rad doses.. the new norm....

cure cancer with radiation.... FY!

Survey: Most Japanese think Fukushima nuclear accident not settled
The vast majority of Japanese, 94 percent, think the nuclear accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant triggered by the earthquake and tsunami two years ago has not been put under control, a survey showed.

A research team led by Hirotada Hirose, a professor emeritus of Tokyo Woman's Christian University, sent out questionnaires in March to 1,200 people across the nation ranging in age from 15 to 79.

According to the survey, 94 percent said that they thought the nuclear accident had not been settled. When asked for reasons, many responded that radioactive substances were still leaking from the stricken plant.

Source: [link to ajw.asahi.com]

Japanese are awake but the majority in the West is not.

trying

ooohh... trouble in bollywood?

Court rules that a plant can go critical for testing, regardless of missing 'stuff', electrical deaths, and no fall back planning



[link to in.news.yahoo.com]

<1st sampling: Dust analysis result at the north side of a space above the reactor at Unit 3 Reactor Building (horizontal direction)>
Iodine 131: below the detection limit
Cesium 134: 1.1×10-4Bq/cm3
Cesium 137: 2.4×10-4Bq/cm3

<1st sampling: Dust analysis result at the north side of a space above the reactor at Unit 3 Reactor Building (vertical direction)> (Previously announced)
Iodine 131: below the detection limit
Cesium 134: 4.0×10-5Bq/cm3
Cesium 137: 7.1×10-5Bq/cm3

<2nd sampling: Dust analysis result at the north side of a space above the reactor at Unit 3 Reactor Building (vertical direction)>
Iodine 131: below the detection limit
Cesium 134: 1.2×10-5Bq/cm3
Cesium 137: 1.7×10-5Bq/cm3

<2nd sampling: Dust analysis result at the north side of a space above the reactor at Unit 3 Reactor Building (horizontal direction)>
Iodine 131: below the detection limit
Cesium 134: 1.5×10-5Bq/cm3
Cesium 137: 4.9×10-5Bq/cm3

<Dust analysis result at the northeast side of a space above the reactor at Unit 3 Reactor Building (vertical direction)>
Iodine 131: below the detection limit
Cesium 134: 5.3×10-5Bq/cm3
Cesium 137: 9.9×10-5Bq/cm3

<Dust analysis result at the northeast side of a space above the reactor at Unit 3 Reactor Building (horizontal direction)>
Iodine 131: below the detection limit
Cesium 134: 1.3×10-4Bq/cm3
Cesium 137: 2.7×10-4Bq/cm3

<Recent dust analysis result at the northeast side of a space above the reactor at Unit 3 Reactor Building (sampled on July 4)> (Previously announced)
(Vertical direction)
Iodine 131: below the detection limit
Cesium 134: below the detection limit
Cesium 137: 3.6×10-5Bq/cm3

(Horizontal direction)
Iodine 131: below the detection limit
Cesium 134: below the detection limit
Cesium 137: 2.5×10-5Bq/cm3

Please visit our web page for the sampling results.
[link to www.tepco.co.jp]

obfuscation

tepco

i'd refer you here, but you already know... gunna smoke your posts now....



how's the restart campaign going there... genocidal bastards?.. what? not got the balls to stop a poorly veiled WMD program?

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 07/19/2013 06:50 AM

Blubber ploerb, aka Mr. Wasintokyoandsawitall, with PhD and 4 Geiger-Counter: above your daily minimum Level of Alcohol?

tepco

i'd refer you here, but you already know... gunna smoke your posts now....



how's the restart campaign going there... genocidal bastards?.. what? not got the balls

missed you man, they send you for failure retraining 101?


BAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAA

FUCK YOU genocidal company... s'cuse me, i'll make a new post just for you.....

We at TEPCO eh?


Ahahahhaha... shill suicide...

i think they put him through retraining, given his silence.... his renewed efforts are an epic fail ;)

[...] vapor on fifth floor near MOX in fuel pool [...] Reactor 3, is the only one at the plant to use the highly lethal mixed uranium-plutonium oxide (MOX) fuel, some of which is in its spent-fuel pool near the top of the reactor. “Steam has been seen around the fifth floor of the reactor 3 building,” a Tepco spokesman said. The pool is on that floor. [...]

Straight from the horse's mouth-
[link to www.japantimes.co.jp]

Do you understand that this Data above (our Tepco) is about this Inciden?

tepco

i'd refer you here, but you already know... gunna smoke your posts now....



how's the restart campaign going there... genocidal bastards?.. what? not got the balls

Piss off, I'm trying to post an article. Nothing about that data set comforts me in the least. It's all dust analysis, and doesn't say shit about what's in the vapor.