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ICE WALL
Tepco unable to create ice wall to contain radioactive water at Fukushima No. 1
JIJI
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday that it has failed in an attempt to create an ice wall in a section of an underground tunnel connected to a damaged reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 power station to block the escape of high-level radioactive water.
Since July, Tepco has injected more than 400 tons of ice and dry ice to freeze radioactive water in a section that connects the tunnel, used to run cables, with the turbine building of reactor 2, one of three reactors that suffered core meltdowns in March 2011.
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But the temperature inside the section did not fall low enough despite the use of large amounts of coolants, officials said at a meeting with the Nuclear Regulation Authority, acknowledging that the strategy did not work.
Tepco now plans to use filler, from mid-September at the earliest, to slow the flow of water in the unfrozen part of the section. The move is expected to facilitate the freezing of the remaining section.
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[link to www.japantimes.co.jp]
Tokyo Press Conference: Gov’t is committing crimes against humanity; Fukushima children living in war zone and can’t leave
Tokyo Press Conference: Gov’t is committing crimes against humanity; Fukushima children living in war zone and can’t leave — Childhood cancer developing much faster than Chernobyl; Rate now 14 times higher — Parent: “I’m revealing the reality of what’s going on… it’s only way to get rid of the criminals”
Press Conference at The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan, August 18, 2014:
Toshio Yanagihara, attorney representing Fukushima children and their parents
5:00 — Thyroid cases after Chernobyl in Belarus — comparing that with the present situation in Fukushima, [here] there’s 14 times [the rate] of children with thyroid cancer.
6:00 — Fukushima prefecture’s announced that the massive number of thorough screenings [is the reason why there's] more numbers of people with cancer — but we found that doubtful. In Fukushima prefecture, the west part of Fukushima compared to those areas that are closer to the nuclear power plant, there are about ¼ or even 1/5 the people who are found with thyroid cancer.
7:00 — June 10th of this year, the Fukushima committee in charge of researching thyroid cancer admitted for the first time that the suspicion of malignancy is due to the lymph node metastasis. This is the common thing that was found after the Chernobyl accident.
8:00 — In Fukushima right now, we see that the number of the children found with thyroid cancer — and the scale of this catastrophe is ongoing — it is going much faster than it was in the Ukraine after Chernobyl.
11:45 — The announcement from the Sendai high court from April 2013 that the Fukushima children’s lives are threatened… this didn’t cause Fukushima or the Japanese government to help provide support.
16:15 — We emphasis that the Japanese government is discriminating against the Fukushima children, and in the international [court], we can say this is a crime against humanity. This is Japan’s most important and most criminal human problem that we’re facing right now.
17:15 — Fukushima is a war zone, and children have a right to be evacuated to a safer place… In Japan, this present situation is the most harsh child-rearing situation in the world.
19:15 — They’re supposed to support and evacuate children from Fukushima during this war zone… It must be argued at the international court that this is a crime against humanity. We would like to take this case to the International Criminal Court, and we’re preparing for that.
Katsumi Hasegawa, parent of two young children who evacuated from Koriyama (60km from Daiichi)
22:45 — We currently live in Shizouka prefecture where we evacuated to in August 2011 — my pregnant wife and 5 year-old son… Why did the Japanese government contain us in the no-go zone 20 or 30 km radius, while many foreign countries had told residents within 80 km from Fukushima Daiichi to evacuate?
35:00 – I’m a parent of children, and I’m an adult whose living at the time of this accident — this era. I would like to reveal the reality of what is going on. And I would like to do my best, even if I’m starting right now, I would like to do my best. That is my responsibility, and that is the only way to get rid of the criminals — and irresponsibility that we have committed already… Even though raising my voice is hard, I know that there are things that we need to do. Thank you.
36:30 — Lucy Birmingham, FCCJ president: Thank you so much. OK… wow.
Watch the press conference and Q&A here
[link to www.youtube.com (secure)]
KURATAS IS COMING TO FIX FUKUSHIMA LEAKS!
Japanese Government And Private Sector Develop Custom-Like Robot To Fix Fukushima Leaks
Tokyo| The Japanese Government has unveiled this morning it’s first customized version of the Kuratas, a 4.4 ton remote-controlled robot that could solve the problem of risking human lives in the process of removing nuclear fuel rods from the heavily damaged reactor building at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant.
Japanese company Suidobashi Heavy Industry that already develops the 13-foot diesel-powered mechanized robot worked with the Japanese Government to customize the iron giant for nuclear leaking detection and removal of nuclear rods, an idea that could accelerate the process and put humans out of harms way, explains Wataru Yoshizaki, roboticist and inventor of the original prototype.
“The moment I saw the tragedy of Fukushima unravelling in front of my eyes, I knew my Kuratas could play a major part in solving my country’s horrific dilemma” remembers the inventor. “At first, authorities were cold to the idea, but eventually, they understood it was possibly their only way out” he adds.
Straight out of a science fiction novel, the 4-ton robot can withstand levels of heat and radiation over 1,000 times superior to a human being
At an estimated value of 200 M Japanese Yen (JPY) or 2 M$ US dollars, the four prototypes should be set to run as soon as February 2015, admits a spokesman for the japanese ministry of Technologies.
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