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

Paraguay upset over Argentine nuclear plant near border

Argentina has upset landlocked Paraguay with its plan to build a nuclear power reactor near their common border without formal consultations.

Analysts say the Argentine decision, if implemented, could dash all hopes of a reconciliation over last year's suspension of Paraguay from the Mercosur trade bloc. Argentina and Paraguay are founding members of Mercosur but last year Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay spearheaded a diplomatic drive to push Asuncion out.
[link to www.nuclearpowerdaily.com]
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And here's one for you cp...

Australia minister calls for more uranium development

Australia's resources and energy minister has called on the country's uranium sector to increase development to meet growing global demand.

"We need industry to commit to further development of new projects to ensure that our uranium production meets global demand, particularly as demand for uranium is likely to surpass current supply," Resources Minister Gary Gray said in a speech to the Australian Uranium and Rare Earths Conference in Fremantle.
[link to www.nuclearpowerdaily.com]
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Heh, perfect headline... and the usual BS excuse...

TEPCO has a different view of safety than the public

Naomi Hirose, the president of Tokyo Electric Power Company admitted that the utility was wrong in not acknowledging that radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was leaking into the ocean for more than a month, and that the primary blame lay on lax risk management of the radioactive water.  Hirose acknowledged that TEPCO officials had suspected contaminated groundwater was moving into the Pacific for more than a month before the announcement on July 22nd, but were concerned about worrying the public and facing the ire of local fishermen.  Hiroshi Kishi, the chief of Japan’s national federation of fisheries stated that the utility had betrayed the public after denying the leaks for more than two years despite spikes in radiation levels found in underground and ocean water samples.

"Rather than proactively inform the public of potential risks, we retreated to negative thinking and tried to gather more data to ensure there was a problem because it was going to be a major announcement,” Hirose told the press. “We’ve been trying to reform, but we repeated the same mistake. Obviously, our effort is not enough. We are really sorry.”
[link to enformable.com]
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GINNA: AUTOMATIC REACTOR TRIP FROM FULL POWER

At 1419 EDT on 7/24/2013, the reactor tripped due to a reactor protection system (RPS) actuation signal from a turbine trip, which was caused by a generator trip. All control rods inserted on the trip and reactor coolant system (RCS) pressure is currently 2235 psig and stable with RCS temperature stable at 547 degrees F. Decay heat is being removed by steam dumps [to the main condenser] and auxiliary feedwater which auto started as expected.

The cause of the generator trip is under investigation. The plant will remain in Mode 3 until the cause of the trip is determined.

NRC Notified By: TOM FOUTS
10 CFR Section: 50.72(b)(2)(iv)(B) - RPS ACTUATION - CRITICAL
50.72(b)(3)(iv)(A) - VALID SPECIF SYS ACTUATION
RX Type: [1] W-2-LP
[link to www.nucpros.com]
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BSOD version 2?...

Bill Gates' nuclear firm plans hot, salty push into power
And a royalty payment from every home

The nuclear power firm being hailed by Bill Gates as the answer to mankind's future energy needs is planning a proprietary approach to an old atomic idea to further its global ambitions.

TerraPower is an offshoot of patent holding company Intellectual Ventures, which was co-founded by former 14-year Microsoftie Nathan Myhrvold. It was showcased by Bill Gates at TED in 2010 and the main area the firm is working on is a traveling-wave reactor (TWR).

A TWR mostly burns depleted uranium fuel, which is stacked in a long candle-like column and then ignited with a cap of enriched uranium. Such a fission reactor would take 50-100 years to burn itself down, with virtually no maintenance required or spent fuel to dispose of, and proposed power plants could produce 300MWe and 1,000MWe cheaply and simply.
[link to www.theregister.co.uk]
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40 good years and one bad day - Arnie Gundersen


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Thread: OK, this is off the shelf from the Inspector of Unit 4 at Fukushima.....My Insider is now clear... the man who did the Fuku investigation work
that is mind blowing evidence right there (from a source)

Thread: Tokyo lie. Plain. Simple. Easy for everyone to see. Rads you cannot live in...

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 07/27/2013 01:41 AM

ooooooooooh, Huge slap on wrist.. nothing more though....

"Tepco: no plan for Fukushima nuclear cleanup, don’t know what they’re doing
by Christina MacPherson
VIDEO Anger mounts at Fukushima plant operator over radiation leaks [link to www.euronews.com] Anger is growing at the operators of Fukushima, as an increasing number of reports indicate that Japan’s crippled nuclear plant does not have radiation risks under control.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which runs Fukushima, admitted on Monday that contaminated water could be leaking into the sea. The firm had persistently denied that this was the case, despite repeated warnings from nuclear experts and marine biologists.

Dale Klein, Chairman of the Nuclear Reform Monitoring Committee criticised the firm for how it has been communicating with the public:

“These actions indicate that you do not know what you’re doing, and that you do not have a plan, and you’re not doing all you can to protect the environment and the people,” Klein told TEPCO. Anger is growing at the operators of Fukushima, as an increasing number of reports indicate that Japan’s crippled nuclear plant does not have radiation risks under control."

NRC: Cracks in steam generator tubes at nuke plant
[link to www.seacoastonline.com]


The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued an information notice to all U.S. nuclear power plant operators based on issues discovered at the Seabrook Station nuclear power plant last year.

The notice concerns stress- and age-related cracking found in the local plant's steam generator tubes and comes a decade after Seacoast residents first heard a warning concerning problems with the tubes.

"Our steam generators are operating normally," Seabrook Station spokesman Al Griffith said Tuesday in response to questions about the latest NRC notice. "(Via this notice) the NRC is asking other plants to take the same rigorous (review and inspection) approach as we take."

Griffith said this approach helped plant personnel locate cracked steam generator tubes at the Seabrook plant in 2012.

Officials: Gas is likely leaking from containment vessel of Fukushima Reactor No. 3 — “It was observed as the steam”
[link to enenews.com]

68% of firms handling decontamination in Fukushima violated labor laws
[link to mainichi.jp]

Expert team studies fault at Ohi plant

Japan's nuclear regulator began a 2-day survey of a fault running beneath the nuclear plant in Ohi, Fukui Prefecture, on Saturday.

Scientists and a team from the Nuclear Regulation Authority examined the geology of a trench that was dug near the plant's Number 3 reactor to decide if the fault is active.

The NRA had already conducted 2 inspections since last November. Opinion remains divided on the status of the fault that runs from north to south on the plant's premises.

In the 3rd survey that began on Saturday, the team studied strata of the wall and the fault found on the bottom of a newly dug trench to the south of the Number 3 reactor.
The trench is about 70 meters long and 40 meters deep.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Radiation in water leakage at Fukushima plant as high as 2011 crisis

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Saturday it has detected 2.35 billion becquerels of cesium per liter from water in an underground passage at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that is seeping into the sea, roughly the same level as seen in a contaminated water leak into the sea in April 2011 shortly after the nuclear disaster the preceding month.

The water sample taken Friday from a trench contained 750 million becquerels of cesium-134 and 1.6 billion becquerels of cesium-137 per liter, while 750 million becquerels of other radioactive substances were detected, according to TEPCO.

The trench, which is believed to be the source of the latest water leakage into the sea, is located below the No. 2 reactor turbine building.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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Even with low rad readings, particulate can be inhaled.

WSJ: Extreme contamination found at Fukushima plant — Cesium over 2 billion Bq/liter; Millions of times above limit — Tepco ‘trying’ to stop it leaking into ocean — ‘Probably’ from melted reactor core
[link to enenews.com]



EXSKF: 5,000 cubic meters, or 5,000 tonnes of this water is in the trench.

Note: 5,000 cubic meters of water is equal to 5 million liters. One liter was found to contain 2.35 billion becquerels of cesium. If this concentration is consistent, the total amount would be nearly 12 quadrillion becquerels of cesium in this one trench.

For Unit 4 explosion and melt through 1.2.3 Unit of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
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Updated Jun 21, 2011 10:00

May 12, 2011, TEPCO admitted (core melt) melt down from past February after the accident.
I was investigated melt down melt-through of Unit 1.
TEPCO, does not expose the data of 3/11 19:30 previously for water level and pressure of the reactor.
Further, it does not expose the data in the 3/20 22:00 previously also temperature data.
Therefore, no choice but to guess situation immediately after the accident.
I , report of October [National Institute of JNES '22 (BWR) Heisei analysis of 2009 year earthquake level 2PSA] from data,
I tried to think of an accident of Unit 1 to choose the case closest to the accident of Unit 1 of this time.
It has been trying to adopt the [accident progress analysis of 2.1 BWR-3 Mark Ⅰ type reactor facility] Since the BWR-3 Mark Ⅰ is Unit 1,
I've given up there is an assumption that can not be inserted control rods.
Assumption at this time, the event of (C) subcritical ensure failure (AE) and water injection failure of large LOCA pressure vessel damage during the event (RVR),
Composite events (B) is obtained by superimposing all AC power loss can occur during an earthquake is high it is (ABCE).
The analysis result, the fuel falls, try reactor pressure vessel damaged in about 0.9 hours, it is overtemperature damage containment about 9.6 hours to about 0.7 hours.
It must be considered as a case of the earliest meltdown.
This time, I was paying attention to, it is progress [accident analysis 2.2 BWR-4 Mark Ⅰ reactor facilities (500 000 kWe class)].
In the event of loss of power (TBU), is the loss of power by an earthquake, failure to reactor water injection by high-pressure injection system (RCIC, etc.).

Kyodo News: Extremely contaminated water is seeping into Pacific Ocean from under Fukushima Reactor No. 2 turbine building — Tepco: We believe ir’s staying in trench
[link to enenews.com]


July 27, 2013: Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Saturday it has detected 2.35 billion becquerels of cesium per liter from water in an underground passage at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that is seeping into the sea [...] The trench, which is believed to be the source of the latest water leakage into the sea, is located below the No. 2 reactor turbine building. [...]

THANKS for the continued updates/analysis of the situation, Waterbug and Sweden ! Beginning to believe Citizen Perth; we ARE now doomed to a slow death by cumulative radiation, unless some miracle 'outside' intervention occurs.

Eagle

Hi E!

For a long time I felt that better people would step in
and take control of the crisis.

If they did.. how much worse off would we be if they hadn't?
If they did not.. how much better off would we be if they had?

It is what it is.

I feel like an observer at my own funeral..

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Mysterious giant magnet attracts rock-star status
[link to www.ktvn.com]


The 50-foot-wide, 15-ton electromagnet attracted a sensation wherever it went during its slow, delicate 3,200-mile journey from New York to suburban Chicago. The land-and-sea trip culminated when scientists threw a rock star's welcome for the mysterious, shrink-wrapped cargo on Friday as it arrived at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to help study blazing-fast particles.

Improved nuclear fuel-rod cladding might prevent future Fukushimas

A substitute for traditional zircaloy could greatly reduce the danger of hydrogen explosions.
[link to web.mit.edu]



That hydrogen buildup was the result of hot steam coming into contact with overheated nuclear fuel rods covered by a cladding of zirconium alloy, or “zircaloy” — the material used as fuel-rod cladding in all water-cooled nuclear reactors, which constitute more than 90 percent of the world’s power reactors. When it gets hot enough, zircaloy reacts with steam to produce hydrogen, a hazard in any loss-of-coolant nuclear accident.

[Insight] Data doesn’t show Tepco dumping contaminated water to the sea, but it’s worse than that.
[link to fukushima-diary.com]

This!

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By WILLIAM SPOSATO And MARI IWATA
TOKYO—Extremely high concentrations of radiation have been detected in water from near one of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. 9501.TO -0.94% said Saturday.

The levels recorded haven't been seen since soon after the March 2011 disaster, it added.

The radiation is millions of times higher than Japan's acceptable limit under normal circumstances.

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Tepco Under Fire Again Over Nuclear Accident Site
Radiation of 750 million becquerels a liter of cesium-134 and 1.6 billion becquerels a liter of cesium-137 was recorded, Tepco said. The normal limits for the two potentially harmful isotopes are 60 and 90 becquerels, respectively. In April 2011 a combined 1.8 billion becquerels was recorded.

"The level of radioactivity is potentially serious but the impact would depend on where it is found," a Tepco official said. The sample came from a trench near the No. 2 reactor turbine building, the utility said.
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[link to online.wsj.com]

Thread: U.S DOCTORS: Fukushima Radiation Must Be Monitored (AMA) (bout time).......

Thread: Revised charts video by ms milky: from the Ashai : 'no explanation'... TEPCO 'VERY SRY'... again....

Thread: YAY! Fukushima veggie campaign kicks off for the year!!!!... Nom Nom Nom....

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 07/28/2013 02:17 AM

cover-up of leukemia deaths from fuku..

[link to fukushimaemergencywhatcanwedo.blogspot.com.au]

6 out of 10 evacuees DIE from leukemia... a rare type of cancer which "normally" affects 1 in 100,000... no cause for concern, WHAT coverup you ask?

Thread: Kristen Iversen - Full Body Burden - Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats.. Author Read.. mite want to bookmark this

LOOOONG video, but really interesting....

sry for reposting threads, but more people see them on the 'outside' :)

carry on all

xooxoxxo