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Thread: Japanese Diplomat: We are facing global catastrophe over next 40-100 years because of Fukushima nuclear disaster

I checked the Page yesterday and confirmed it with my Wife,
this point of Measurement is not one of the Reactors but one
"Administrative Building"!

Do you saw the real Amounts and how low they are already
or is your basic Concept to look only for the bad things in your Life

Reports began to appear in April that the tanks has been leaking radioactive waste into the groundwater. According to the TEPCO announcement, a two-month operation was carried out to move 23,000 tons of contaminated water to above ground tanks, Fuji TV reported Monday.

Iran's heavy-water reactor nearly completed

The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization suggests the construction of a heavy-water nuclear reactor is nearly finished.

Iran's state-run media reported on Sunday Fereydoun Abbasi visited the western Iranian city of Arak on Sunday with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Abbasi said the workers at the reactor made significant progress installing the container of the reactor during their visit. He added that they will conduct tests at the reactor ahead of the start of its operation next year.

Heavy-water nuclear reactors enable the easier extraction of plutonium that can be used for nuclear weapons from spent nuclear fuel. The UN Security Council has demanded Iran refrain from such activity.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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BS???

Decontamination at schools almost completed

A Japanese Environment Ministry survey has revealed that almost all of the designated municipalities in eastern Japan had completed decontamination of schools by the end of March. The decontamination was conducted using government money.

The survey investigated 58 municipalities in eastern Japan. The survey did not include municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture.

The ministry examined the progress of decontamination at educational facilities such as schools, kindergartens, and nursery schools.

Of the 1,587 facilities to be decontaminated, the survey found 98 percent, or 1,555 had been completed.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Precooked instant rice?...

Rice planted in decontaminated paddy in Nagadoro

People in a village in Fukushima Prefecture have planted rice seedlings in a decontaminated paddy to see if they can resume commercial farming there.

The test planting took place in a 500-square-meter paddy in the Nagadoro District of Iitate Village on Monday.

Nagadoro is the only district in the village listed as uninhabitable for the next 5 years by the central government. Radiation readings top 50 millisieverts per year.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Families of deceased hospital patients sue TEPCO

The families of hospital patients who died in the confusion of the evacuation from the Fukushima nuclear plant accident have filed a joint lawsuit against the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company.

The lawsuit is being brought by the families of 4 people who were in Futaba Hospital and an adjacent nursing home in Okuma town at the time of the accident. The facilities are about 4 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, and within the evacuation zone.

They are demanding about 300,000 dollars each in damages.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Abe to step up nuclear technology export drive

TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to sign a nuclear cooperation deal with the Czech Republic this month, as Tokyo looks to build up its exports of the technology.

Abe and Czech President Milos Zeman have all but agreed to sign a memorandum of understanding on mutual nuclear technology cooperation when they meet in Poland on June 16, according to a Nikkei business daily report.

It will also make U.S. nuclear plant builder Westinghouse Electric, a unit of Japan’s Toshiba Corp, the top candidate to win a $10 billion contract to build two nuclear reactors in the Central European country, the daily said.
[link to www.japantoday.com]
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Japan eyes earlier start of melted fuel removal at Fukushima plant

The government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday they may be able to start removing the melted fuel inside the crippled nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi complex within the first half of fiscal 2020 by improving work efficiency, around 18 months earlier than initially planned.

The schedule was included in a draft version of a revised road map toward decommissioning the Nos. 1 to 4 reactors at the plant, but prospects are unclear because technology must be developed to perform the work.

The fuel inside the Nos. 1 to 3 units is believed to have melted through the reactor pressure vessels and been accumulating in the outer primary containers, making the task of defueling more challenging than in the case of the 1979 Three Mile Island accident in the United States.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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Fukui gov. wants SDF troops deployed to sites with nuclear reactors

Fukui Gov. Issei Nishikawa asked the Defense Ministry on Monday to permanently deploy Japanese Self-Defense Forces troops to areas in Fukui Prefecture, home to the largest number of nuclear reactors in Japan.

Nishikawa asked Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera at the ministry's headquarters in Tokyo to have Ground Self-Defense Force and Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel stationed in Fukui to brace for a possible nuclear disaster or terrorist attack on nuclear power plants, according to prefectural officials.

Fourteen nuclear reactors are located in Fukui.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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You can find additional Information on the MEXT Site (Official)
[link to www.mext.go.jp]

The problem is that I don't believe you... or Tepco.

Fool me once...


And what does seeing have to do with measurements..?

Last Edited by Waterbug on 06/10/2013 02:07 PM

Hmm, the results you're linking to are all from 2011... !?...
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Nothing new, just to keep it going...

Time is of the essence at Hanford site | As It Turns Out

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation, along the Columbia River in Benton County, was built in our own back yard in 1943 to produce plutonium as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project.

Hanford’s 56 million gallons of the most contaminated nuclear waste in the western hemisphere is a true horror story.

There are 177 storage tanks holding this waste; 149 of these are older single-shell carbon steel tanks, some there since the 1940s. Many have a life span of merely 20 years. There is no surprise that tanks are decaying.
[link to www.kingstoncommunitynews.com]
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Old news but funny... or maybe not so funny...

Radioactive mouse hunt follows radioactive rabbit discovery at Hanford

RICHLAND, Wash. -- After catching a radioactive rabbit just north of Richland, Hanford workers now are on the hunt for a radioactive mouse.
[link to www.oregonlive.com]
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The 114 Microsievert is also sampled from Tepco and you mentioned it,
a bit selective,, isn't

"Additional Information"!

For new Info you need to wait until a English Version is available
but i can tell you that the Levels are less Radioactive than in 2011!

8,900 Rad Per Hour...

CLARIFICATION: DOE States Hanford 8,900 Rad Per Hour Soil Discovery Did Not Impact Workers, Water, Air, But Radioactive Rabbit Killed, Mouse Hunt Underway

YAKIMA, Wash. (HNN) – A rabbit and a rodent appear to have acquired contamination possibly from a site at or near the 327 Building where hot cells have been previously pulled and contaminated soil found. A radioactive rabbit has been caught north of Richland and workers have set traps for a radioactive mouse. The search comes after radioactive rabbit and mouse droppings were found in a section of the site not open to the public.

According to an Associated Press report, Hanford workers checked 18 rabbits which had been trapped or shot with pellet guns. The contaminated rabbit was killed and disposed of as radioactive waste, Oregonlive.com reported.

As of a November 18, 2010 report, suspicions rested on the animals drinking a common source of radioactive cesium or that a mouse wandered through the radioactive rabbit’s droppings.

Pertaining to an earlier story on HNN related to Hanford and the gaseous diffusion plants, the Department of Energy asked HNN to clarify a statement. The story told of the finding 8,900 rad per hour soil beneath the 324 Building. Although this is ten times the lethal limit on contact, spokesman Nelson emphasized that because the soil sits under a building the workers are shielded from the radiation and the radiation was not released into the air. Workers and air toxicity are two of the three biggest concerns, the final one is migration to groundwater, Nelson said.
[link to archives.huntingtonnews.net]

Into the groundwater and then into the river...
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Ok, I'll wait... it would be very surprising if the levels aren't lower 2 years later and after "decontamination" has been done, the big question is how much lower...
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I'm referring to their measurements... doesn't mean I believe them.

The new order also includes MarkII reactors...

"The agency’s Order today supersedes a March 2012 Order for the 31 reactors with “Mark I” and “Mark II” containments to install or improve their “hardened” venting systems. The enhanced Order requires the vents to handle the pressures, temperatures, hydrogen concentrations and radiation levels from a damaged reactor. The enhancements also ensure plant personnel can operate the vents safely if the reactor core is damaged."

[link to adams.nrc.gov]

Search for ML13130A067


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@ Sweden,

we have a Meeting soon and there is a PTA-Group from Tohoku
who collect Radiation and Sickness Data, i will ask them for new printed Material!

Merci. Good news.

Fairewinds: Radiation levels actually rising in Fukushima — Started going up again last fall







Thread: Japanese Diplomat: We are facing global catastrophe over next 40-100 years because of Fukushima nuclear disaster

What "a Friend" (Uncle?) of Chiho-Kun detected is more than questionable,
no Information about the Measurement and how it was done!

I think everyone with a GC know where he need to look for "Above the Average" Detection!

And i think A. Gundershill, who lives very well from his Fearmongering,
is wrong too, please have a Read:

Cesium-137 deposition and contamination of Japanese soils due to the Fukushima nuclear accident
Source: [link to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Ha ha.. good one.

snip from your link



This article has been corrected.

See Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 April 30; 110(18): 7525.

Cesium-137 deposition and contamination of Japanese soils due to the Fukushima nuclear accident

Teppei J. Yasunari, Andreas Stohl, [...], and Tetsuzo Yasunari

I know, this is the reason why this Soil Story is still up on my Pad,
otherwise i may missed it in the Depth of my HDD!

Do you read it or are you reacting just like a tiny Wan-Chan
(WWW). {Japanese lol}

Yeah, I read it.
Just found the disclaimer amusing. Had to share.

@ WB,
and what do you think?