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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 16292898  United States05/21/2012 11:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 11432405  Sweden05/22/2012 10:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | IAEA, Iran agree on nuclear inspection methods The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says an agreement has been reached with Iran on ways to verify the country's suspected nuclear arms development. IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano told reporters in Vienna on Tuesday that the 2 sides will soon sign documents for the agreement. [link to www3.nhk.or.jp] . |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 11432405 Sweden05/22/2012 10:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Only 2 towns support restart of Oi nuclear plant in Fukui Only two of the 11 municipalities within a 30-kilometer radius of Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture are supporting the restart of it, according to a recent Kyodo News poll. While Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is expected to make a final decision soon to restart two nuclear reactors at the Oi plant, the poll indicates that relevant local governments' acceptance as a precondition for the restart has failed to make progress. [link to english.kyodonews.jp] . |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 11432405 Sweden05/22/2012 10:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | N. Korea hints at nuke test if U.S. steps up pressure for sanctions North Korea indicated Tuesday it will carry out a nuclear test if the United States and its allies step up pressure for tougher sanctions against Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile programs. ''If the U.S. persists in its moves to ratchet up sanctions and pressure upon us despite our peace-loving efforts, we will be left with no option but to take counter-measures for self-defense,'' a Foreign Ministry spokesman was quoted by the official Korean Central News Agency as saying. [link to english.kyodonews.jp] . |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States05/22/2012 11:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Gregory Jaczko Tried to Stand Up to Nuclear Industry; New Regulatory Chair Also Must Prioritize Public Health and Safety [link to www.citizen.org] [snip] News today of Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chair Gregory Jaczko’s pending resignation is a terrifying example of industries trying to wreak havoc on those who regulate them – and winning. Jaczko sought to create tougher rules for the nuclear industry in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster last year. But the nuclear industry wanted Jaczko gone from Day One. Jaczko stood alone. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States05/22/2012 11:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.rollcall.com] [snip] Gregory Jaczko, a former Reid aide and opponent of using the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, announced Monday morning that he would resign, capping months of infighting at the agency in charge of safeguarding nuclear power plants. The other four members of the commission accused him last year of abusive behavior, while Jaczko’s allies retorted that he was being unfairly singled out because of his aggressive regulation of the industry. But Jaczko won’t be leaving immediately. He made his resignation effective once the Senate confirms a successor, complicating efforts by the nuclear industry and Republicans to replace him with someone friendlier to the industry. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States05/22/2012 11:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Oversight board cites concerns over SRS Building 235-F [link to www.aikenstandard.com] [snip] The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board report said Building 235-F, a building that houses partially deactivated processing lines and is typically not occupied, contains a "significant quantity" of plutonium-238, which is in a fine powder form that is highly dispersible and increases the potential dose that could accompany a radiological release. Due to the potential dose consequences that on-site workers or the general public could receive, "it is unacceptable for the residual contamination within Building 235-F to continue to remain unaddressed," the report concluded. Electrical failures within the aging facility also could result in a fire, the report said, which could be prevented by eliminating potential igniting sources and controlling the amount of combustibles in the facility. ~ Nice to know we have another disaster waiting to happen. I wonder how much P-238 they consider to be 'a significant quantity' .. ? Enough to kill a few million? A billion? ~ U.S. Plans to Produce Plutonium-238 in Idaho [link to www.npr.org] [snip] August 4, 2005 Fifteen years ago, the United States stopped making plutonium-238, one of the most toxic substances known to man. It can be fatal to inhale so much as a speck of the radioactive isotope. But now, citing national security needs, the government is preparing to start making it again at a federally owned site in the Idaho desert. Plutonium-238 is far more radioactive than its cousin, plutonium-239, which is used in bombs. It's so radioactive, it stays hot to the touch for decades. It is useless for commercial nuclear power plants, but ideal to make small, long-lasting batteries for devices such as space probes and espionage equipment. ~ Oh boy.. ~ |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States05/22/2012 11:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Inviting U.S. firm group for decontamination in Fukushima [link to www.shimbun.denki.or.jp] |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States05/22/2012 11:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Brain shrinkage seen in Tohoku PTSD cases [link to www.japantimes.co.jp] [snip] Emotional stress over last year's deadly quake and tsunami in the Tohoku region caused the brains of some survivors to shrink, according to scientists in Japan who had a unique chance to study the neurological effects of trauma. On a quest to better understand posttraumatic stress disorder, the researchers compared brain scans they had taken of 42 healthy adolescents in other studies in the two years before the disasters new images taken three to four months after they hit. Among those with PTSD symptoms, they found a shrinking in the orbitofrontal cortex, a part of the brain involved in decision-making and the regulation of emotion, according to a study published Tuesday in Molecular Psychiatry, a branch of Nature. ~ Well, that explains atom-boyo and his butt-buddies...  |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States05/22/2012 12:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Water level is only 40cm from the bottom in reactor1 [link to fukushima-diary.com] [snip] The pipes to connect PCV and torus room got holes of several cm diameter. All the water injected leak from the holes and flow into the basement floor of the reactor building. It flows to the basement floor of the turbin building beside the reactor building through the pipes and cables. Tepco used to assume the water level was 1.8m but it turned out to be wrong as always. ~ |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States05/22/2012 12:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to fukushima-diary.com] ~ The morans on that thread I was on last night were trying to say there was no coverup going on..  |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States05/22/2012 12:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Pacific Ocean Is Dying: Special Report On Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe [link to www.marketoracle.co.uk] [snip] Most of the world community is still unaware of the extremely profound and far-reaching effects that the Fukushima nuclear disaster has had. If the nations of the world really understood the implications of the actual ‘fallout’ – past, current and future – the current nuclear energy paradigm would be systematically shut down. For those of us who are in the know, it is incumbent upon each of us to disseminate the relevant information/data necessary to forever close down the nuclear power industry around the globe. There is now general agreement that the state of the art of nuclear power generation is such that it was deeply flawed and fundamentally dangerous from the very beginning. This fact was completely understood to be the case by the industry insiders and original financiers of every nuclear power plant ever built. Nuclear engineers had a very good understanding of just how vulnerable the design, engineering and architecture was at the startup of this industry. Nevertheless, they proceeded with this ill-fated enterprise at the behest of who? Therefore, this begs the question, “Why would such an inherently unsafe technology and unstable design be implemented worldwide in the first place?” ~ Why, indeed.. Good article with links to more information. ~ wb |
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Spittin'Cesium  User ID: 14589973  Netherlands05/22/2012 02:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Recent Readings: 1.67 MicroSv/h Ground level,Hitachinaka,120kms from Fukushima Daiichi. Measured 19th May 2012. [link to www.youtube.com] The thing that hath been, is That which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done:and there is no new thing under the Sun. Ecclesiastes 9:1 |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 11432405 Sweden05/22/2012 09:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Active carbon made from corn core capable of absorbing cesium: researchers A group of researchers said Wednesday they have found activated carbon made from corn cores is highly capable of absorbing cesium, raising expectations that it could be used to prevent cesium contamination of farm products in the wake of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex. ''The contamination could be blocked by mixing the activated carbon with (farm) soil,'' the group of researchers from the environmental health research center of the Iwate prefectural government and from Iwate University said. [link to english.kyodonews.jp] . |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States05/22/2012 10:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Active carbon made from corn core capable of absorbing cesium: researchers Quoting: Anonymous Coward 11432405 A group of researchers said Wednesday they have found activated carbon made from corn cores is highly capable of absorbing cesium, raising expectations that it could be used to prevent cesium contamination of farm products in the wake of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex. ''The contamination could be blocked by mixing the activated carbon with (farm) soil,'' the group of researchers from the environmental health research center of the Iwate prefectural government and from Iwate University said. [link to english.kyodonews.jp] . That is some good news. Send me a couple of dump trucks full for my garden. ~ |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 11432405 Sweden05/23/2012 10:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Namie, Iitate exposed to radiation doses within 10 to 50 millisieverts Radiation doses to individuals from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis were the largest within a dose band of 10 to 50 millisieverts in the town of Namie and the village of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture, the World Health Organization said Wednesday in a preliminary estimate. [link to english.kyodonews.jp] . |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 11432405 Sweden05/23/2012 10:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Gov't tables option to halt development of Monju reactor The government presented Wednesday four options for the future of Japan's trouble-prone prototype fast-breeder reactor Monju, including one to halt its development in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis. The science ministry tabled the options at a meeting of the governmental Japan Atomic Energy Commission, which has been reviewing the nation's policy of establishing a nuclear fuel reprocessing cycle that draws heavily on use of Monju. The panel will officially study the possibility of decommissioning the reactor for the first time. [link to english.kyodonews.jp] . |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States05/23/2012 11:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 0.1-0.2 mSv: one skull X-ray for about 0.5 seconds Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1295673 0.1-0.5 mSv: one chest X-ray for about 0.5 seconds 0.3 mSv: one mammogram for about 0.5 seconds 0.6-1.7 mSv: one abdomen X-ray for about 0.5 seconds 1.5 mSv: EPA maximum for an average adult for one year 2.2 mSv: airline crew member, short flights for one year 2-4 mSv: one head CT scan for about 10 minutes 3-6 mSv: airline crew member, cross-country flights, 900 hrs/yr 3-8 mSv: one barium X-ray for about 0.5 seconds 10 mSv: cooking with natural gas (radon) for a year 5-15 mSv: one full-body CT scan for about 20 minutes 6-18 mSv: one chest CT scan for about 10 minutes 9 mSv: airline crew member, polar flights, such as Tokyo-NYC, 900 hrs/yr 13 mSv: smoking one pack of cigarettes per day for a year 20 mSv: nuclear plant worker, maximum 5-year average*+ 50 mSv: cardiac catheterization, coronary angiogram, heart x-ray studies for about 1 hour 50 mSv: nuclear plant worker, maximum total exposure in one year 50-100 mSv: changes in blood chemistry 100 mSv: lowest clearly carcinogenic level; 1 millimort 0.25 Sv: temporary sterility in men 0.50-0.55 Sv: nausea, fatigue within hours 0.70-0.75 Sv: vomiting and hair loss in 2-3 weeks 1-2 Sv: for about an hour, 0 to 5% fatal 2-6 Sv: external-immediate severe skin burns, internal-50% fatal 8-30 Sv: for about an hour, 100% fatal Namie, Iitate exposed to radiation doses within 10 to 50 millisieverts Quoting: Anonymous Coward 11432405 Radiation doses to individuals from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis were the largest within a dose band of 10 to 50 millisieverts in the town of Namie and the village of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture, the World Health Organization said Wednesday in a preliminary estimate. [link to english.kyodonews.jp] . This is misleading. 50 millisieverts is the nuclear worker annual exposure. These people have also ingested radiation in water and food. They have also breathed it in unknown concentrations. The total amount from exposure and ingestion is unknown.. Until comprehensive medical evaluation is done, we won't know. Even then, will they tell the truth? ~ |
| citizenperth User ID: 16426384  Australia05/23/2012 12:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 1-2 Sv: for about an hour, 0 to 5% fatal per hour - 24 x 70-x65..... do the numbers... It's life as we know it, but only just. [link to citizenperth.wordpress.com] sic ut vos es vos should exsisto , denego alius vicis facio vos change , exsisto youself , proprie |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 11432405 Sweden05/23/2012 03:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Six major world powers have told Iran they will ease economic sanctions if the country suspends its enrichment of uranium. Negotiators for the 5 UN permanent members --- the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France -- plus Germany began nuclear talks in Baghdad on Wednesday. [link to www3.nhk.or.jp] . |
| Spittin'Cesium User ID: 14589973 Netherlands05/23/2012 07:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 0.1-0.2 mSv: one skull X-ray for about 0.5 seconds Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1295673 0.1-0.5 mSv: one chest X-ray for about 0.5 seconds 0.3 mSv: one mammogram for about 0.5 seconds 0.6-1.7 mSv: one abdomen X-ray for about 0.5 seconds 1.5 mSv: EPA maximum for an average adult for one year 2.2 mSv: airline crew member, short flights for one year 2-4 mSv: one head CT scan for about 10 minutes 3-6 mSv: airline crew member, cross-country flights, 900 hrs/yr 3-8 mSv: one barium X-ray for about 0.5 seconds 10 mSv: cooking with natural gas (radon) for a year 5-15 mSv: one full-body CT scan for about 20 minutes 6-18 mSv: one chest CT scan for about 10 minutes 9 mSv: airline crew member, polar flights, such as Tokyo-NYC, 900 hrs/yr 13 mSv: smoking one pack of cigarettes per day for a year 20 mSv: nuclear plant worker, maximum 5-year average*+ 50 mSv: cardiac catheterization, coronary angiogram, heart x-ray studies for about 1 hour 50 mSv: nuclear plant worker, maximum total exposure in one year 50-100 mSv: changes in blood chemistry 100 mSv: lowest clearly carcinogenic level; 1 millimort 0.25 Sv: temporary sterility in men 0.50-0.55 Sv: nausea, fatigue within hours 0.70-0.75 Sv: vomiting and hair loss in 2-3 weeks 1-2 Sv: for about an hour, 0 to 5% fatal 2-6 Sv: external-immediate severe skin burns, internal-50% fatal 8-30 Sv: for about an hour, 100% fatal Namie, Iitate exposed to radiation doses within 10 to 50 millisieverts Quoting: Anonymous Coward 11432405 Radiation doses to individuals from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis were the largest within a dose band of 10 to 50 millisieverts in the town of Namie and the village of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture, the World Health Organization said Wednesday in a preliminary estimate. [link to english.kyodonews.jp] . This is misleading. 50 millisieverts is the nuclear worker annual exposure. These people have also ingested radiation in water and food. They have also breathed it in unknown concentrations. The total amount from exposure and ingestion is unknown.. Until comprehensive medical evaluation is done, we won't know. Even then, will they tell the truth? ~ Completely hounest Truth ^ I am sure that just like the Chernobyl accident,the full extent of the affects on Human Health(specifically DNA)may never be fully known nor completely understood. Last Edited by Spittin'Cesium on 05/23/2012 07:15 PM The thing that hath been, is That which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done:and there is no new thing under the Sun. Ecclesiastes 9:1 |
| the nemui Atom-Boy User ID: 16118007  Japan05/23/2012 09:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 1-2 Sv: for about an hour, 0 to 5% fatal Quoting: citizenperth per hour - 24 x 70-x65..... do the numbers... Good that no one is staying in a Area with 1- 2 Sieverts/ hour! Even the front of Daiichi Nr. 3 gives a max. of 220uSv/h! @Spitting Cesium, don't look only for the big Accidents, we have literally Giga-Bytes of Data from the People who work with the medical Material in Hospitals for example! That Data are much more usable than the NPP-Data because this People was exposed for Years! Last Edited by The real and almighty Atom-Boy on 05/23/2012 09:15 PM G.Y.!B.E. |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States05/23/2012 10:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 107.2 Bq/kg of cesium from Fukushima pork [link to fukushima-diary.com] ~ Gives a whole new meaning to 'Hot Pork Sandwich'. ~ |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States05/23/2012 10:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 1-2 Sv: for about an hour, 0 to 5% fatal Quoting: citizenperth per hour - 24 x 70-x65..... do the numbers... Good that no one is staying in a Area with 1- 2 Sieverts/ hour! Even the front of Daiichi Nr. 3 gives a max. of 220uSv/h! @Spitting Cesium, don't look only for the big Accidents, we have literally Giga-Bytes of Data from the People who work with the medical Material in Hospitals for example! That Data are much more usable than the NPP-Data because this People was exposed for Years! That's ok for exposure. The people of Namie have ingested, also. The medical people are never ingesting radioactive substances. The Chernobyl studies are more comparative. ~ |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States05/23/2012 10:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | TEPCO estimate sees more radiation than NISA's [link to www.yomiuri.co.jp] [snip] Tokyo Electric Power Co. has estimated the total amount of radioactive substances discharged from its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant measured 760,000 terabecquerels, 1.6 times the estimate released by the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency in February. One terabecquerel is equal to 1 trillion becquerels. TEPCO will include the estimate in a final report to be compiled by an in-house accident investigation committee in June. The firm has also begun explaining how it arrived at the figure to local governments in Fukushima Prefecture. ~ Interesting. That article makes it sound like the contamination and emissions are over with.. Don't think so. ~ |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States05/23/2012 11:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Water inside Fukushima No. 1 reactor may be only 40 cm deep [link to mainichi.jp] [snip] The organization of nuclear experts estimated that the water in the primary containment vessel is only 40 centimeters deep. The utility known as TEPCO has estimated the water level to be about 1.9 meters. Not disputed is the fact coolant water injected into the reactor is leaking as a result of the accident at the plant. It assumed gas is leaking from the container's upper part and the coolant water from the lower part. JNES thinks that the water injected into the reactor may be leaking from a hole located in a section connecting the primary container and the suppression pool, leaving the container with water just 40 cm in depth. ~ Holes are most likely cracks from over-pressure. Containment failure. Do you believe JNES, atom-boyo? ~ |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 11432405 Sweden05/24/2012 09:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Color footage of A-bombed Nagasaki found in US Color footage showing the victims of the atomic bombing in Nagasaki City has been found in the United States. An organization in Hiroshima City, which also experienced an atomic bombing, found the 16-mm film, which had been taken by a US military doctor between October and November in 1945. The US dropped the bomb on the city in August that year. The footage lasts some 21 minutes, capturing the landscapes of Nagasaki and Hiroshima after they were bombed. It also included nearly 20 victims who had been receiving treatment at a navy hospital in Omura city in Nagasaki Prefecture. [link to www3.nhk.or.jp] . |
