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

Did find this.


[link to www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com]

Sounds like they are saying if you get exposed to Iodine 131 just put your head in a mircowave you be ok.

6 months after meltdown, Fukushima remains off-limits

To put the disaster in perspective, the amount of cancer-causing cesium leaked from the destroyed Fukushima plant is equal to about 15,000 terabecquerels: an amount 168 times larger than the cesium released from the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima in 1945.


Around 3,000 workers are on the disaster site each day, cleaning up debris that remains. Workers have also installed filtration systems that decontaminate radioactive water and pump it back into the core to cool the reactors.

Crews are also amassing a huge, polyester tent over the Unit 1 reactor, which continues to seep radiation. The tent will stand 54 metres tall and will be 47 metres in length when finished. Held aloft by metal frames, it's expected that the two other damaged reactors will be housed in the same manner.

The shrouds will hopefully trap radiation in the short-term, but at some point, the uranium from the reactors will have to be moved to a secure location. But where and how remain troubling questions.

Complicating matters, it could be years until investigators can actually open the reactors and investigate the meltdown.

At the 14th International Congress of Radiation Research in Poland this month, Imperial British specialist Gerry Thomas said that the damaging psychological aftermath of the Japanese disaster could linger for years, much like the radiation.

"We've got to stop these sorts of reports coming out, because they are really upsetting the Japanese population," he said, referring to a British report that predicted a million people could die from ongoing radiation contamination.

[link to m.ctv.ca]

Japan atomic leak 3 times first estimate

A report to be presented Sept. 19 to the Atomic Energy Society of Japan says the amount of radiation in water that leaked from damaged reactors at the Fukushima power plant and airborne radioactive materials that fell into the Pacific Ocean was three times initial estimates, the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported.


The research paper said not all radioactive elements were included in the estimate, meaning the amount of radiation dispersed could be even higher.Read more: [link to www.upi.com]

Not enough whole body counters to go around

Public denied access to devices that check internal radiation levels



Kazue Suzuki, a Greenpeace Japan official, has called for radiation checks using whole body counters to be carried out on everybody in Fukushima and its neighboring prefectures.

"We checked the urine of 10 randomly selected people in the city of Fukushima, which is not designated as an area where residents have to evacuate, and all 10 of the samples were found to contain radioactive cesium. That's a big warning sign," Susuki said.

But municipalities outside Fukushima Prefecture haven't been checking residents' internal radiation levels and have no plans to do so anytime soon, claiming it is an unnecessary measure.

"The central government leaves the decision on checking residents' internal exposure up to municipalities," said Hirotaka Oku of the technology ministry, adding that it has no plans to order or import any whole body counters.

[link to search.japantimes.co.jp]

Japan Update 9/11: Death Toll 23186 – Nuclear Crisis 6-Mo. Anniversary

In an interview, former Prime Minister Nyoto Kan accused TEPCO, the owner of the Dai-ichi reactors, of wanting to simply abandon the plant, allowing the meltdown to continue to completion, releasing many times the Chernobyl radiation amounts into the environment. Had that been allowed, Kan said, "Tokyo would now be a ghost town, and the nation might have collapsed."

- undoubtedly.

Prime Minister Noda, who replaced Kan a week ago, has endured his first Cabinet crisis, and it is associated with Dai-ichi. Industry minister Yoshio Hachiro resigned Saturday after rubbing against a reporter and saying, "I could be contaminating you."

The crisis itself is not abated. "We are barely keeping the reactors under control and the situation is still difficult," Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency spokesman Yoshinori Moriyama said in Tokyo.

- understatement of the year. under control, my ass.

Plugging leaks will end crisis, not cold shutdown: analysts

Evacuees' health said at risk if they return home after 'Step 2' achieved



Asked if the containment vessels can take another quake, the Tokyo Institute of Technology's Ninokata said he believes the impact would likely be distributed evenly through the structure without widening existing cracks or holes.

But if the impact somehow focuses on parts damaged by the March 11 disasters, there could be further damage, he said.

"The containment vessel is what really ensures the safety of a nuclear reactor," Ninokata said, warning that if radioactive materials are still leaking out, allowing residents to return would risk harming their health.

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[link to search.japantimes.co.jp]

The containment vessels -which are breached.

Blast at French nuclear site kills 1, injures 4

One person was killed and four injured in an explosion Monday at a nuclear waste facility, an accident authorities were quick to downplay but which caused environmentalists to push for rethinking nuclear policy amid worldwide jitters over Japan's nuclear catastrophe.

[link to www.ajc.com]

Plans to sell Fukushima produce in Fukuoka mall abandoned over criticism

FUKUOKA -- Plans to sell produce from Fukushima Prefecture in a shopping mall here to support the prefecture in the wake of the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and ensuing nuclear crisis have been abandoned amid a stream of complaints and threats.

Citizens group Fukushima Shop Project, which was behind the plans, said a booth selling produce from Fukushima Prefecture was due to open in the Marinoa City Fukuoka shopping mall in Fukuoka's Nishi Ward on Sept. 17. However, after the plans became public, organizers received a stream of email complaints, including one that said, "Don't bring Fukushima's contaminated agriculture products here," and another that threatened to launch a boycott campaign.

[link to mdn.mainichi.jp]

Tokyo Elec. Power : (Sep 12,2011)
Nuclide Analysis Results of Radioactive Materials in Seawater taken near Intake Canal of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
(for the data collected on September 11)


On September 11, 2011, we conducted sampling of the seawater near the intake canal of Units 1 to 4 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and analyzed the samples. As a result, some radioactive materials were detected as described in the appendix.

We informed Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) and the government of Fukushima Prefecture of the results above today. We will continue to conduct same kind of samplings.
[link to www.4-traders.com]

A nuclear accident at the sprawling and historic Marcoule site, twelve miles north of scenic Avignon, France, killed one worker and injured four others, according to the French Nuclear Authority.

The workers were operating a high temperature industrial oven that burns low-level nuclear waste in a sealed building when the unit blew up. The worker who was killed was burned so badly his body was carbonized, according to officials. Another worker was seriously injured and three others received less serious injuries.

French authorities say no radiation was released outside the Marcoule site and all radiation is contained in the building. It should be noted that the French government and their government-controlled nuclear companies have a long history of poor transparency when it comes to reporting radiation-related accidents and leaks. Much of the French national economy is dependent on these companies providing electricity and exporting nuclear technology and fuel.

[link to www.dcbureau.org]

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The Marcoule site is to French nuclear weapons production what the Savannah River Site (SRS) in Aiken, South Carolina, is to the U.S. Department of Energy. Both SRS and Marcoule have deep connections to the French nuclear fuel and reactor company Areva. The U.S. government is investing more than $5 billion in a MOX fuel fabrication plant at SRS paying Areva to provide the technology and manage the construction. The American plant is behind schedule and over budget.

DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which runs the U.S. nuclear weapons program, touts MOX as the solution for arms control by claiming the new SRS MOX plant will be able to take old weapons grade plutonium from around the world and convert it into civilian reactor fuel to produce electricity. One State Department official told National Security News Service “that MOX is the United States’ answer to nonproliferation.” So far there are no paying customers for the reactor fuel. A less powerful version of that fuel that was loaded into Fukushima Reactor Number Three a year ago was dispersed into the Japanese environment after the March 2011 explosions and reactor meltdowns following the earthquake and tsunami.

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The reports are upsetting the population? How about the lack of a good plan, only using the Japlans in this terrible event!

Fuku Unit 3 wallpaper...

[link to cryptome.org]

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Still looks rough. Bet they can't wait to get it covered up.

First of all, I will give you a big thumbs up, waterbug, for keeping on, keeping on! keep it up.

I just read that "they" are planning for a "possible" "massive" release, of radionuclides, in the very near future!

This ^, is what I have been fearing, and waiting for.

Everyones talked about the "china syndrome", but I have another, possibly greater worry. And that is that the corium is eventually going to slowly melt into the ground water. Causing not the massive unbelievably huge explosion that people are speculating, but instead a geyser of steam, gushing out endlessly, out of each, and eventually ALL six reactors!

The rate of radiation pouring out every day has apparently been increasing ten fold. Which makes logical sense.
They were talking becqerals, then gigabecqerals, then terabecqerals, and now I think its perabecqerals! Which is according to a very smart friend of mine, 1000 x 1000 more to the power of, or "in order of magnitude greater"

Im not the smartest tool in the shed, and please exuse my dreadfull spelling. I asked my friend "what comes after perabecqerals??" and he said, "well, they will have to invent a new term"

So together with the knowledge that the melted coriums radiation "grows" "climbs" "increases" etc for the first 250,000 years!! (the first "halflife" being the worst) and the fact that air measurements are doubling, quadrupling, etc every month, it wont be long at all I think before my feared geysers start erupting.

People have spoken about the "fog" incidents on the webcams. I have seen this, when all at once an extremely dense "fog" suddenly covered the site. This to me, says that when the corium finally finds a suitable water source, well, hello old faithful.

And when I read today about plans, and letting people in the outer exclusion zone know that soon there "may" be further massive releases, I shivered inside. My personal, albeit, naive, and ignorant, belief, is that the best thing that could happen actually is an enormous explosion!!
I really think that is would be the best outcome at this stage. Simply because, the areas contaminated allready are going to remain so for thousands of years, so, it doesnt matter now if they were further contaminated. But the staedy non stop geyser like, steam eruptions from all six, would continue perhaps forever, with the rates of radiation INCREASING for 250,000 years, which says to me, the end of japan, then all "local" asian countries and finally the world at large!!

I also cannot beleive that people around me are worried about elections and homeloans when this is happening.

I am also worried about these so called "tents" they are planning on erecting. What on earth do they think that this will achieve? It is, to me, inconcievable that this "short term" "solution" is going to work at all.

I think that they are "forgetting" about the suspended fuel pools. Which WILL eventually collapse, given what intense radiation does to metal. By covering the buildings with a "blanket" the radiation, "ever increasing" will destroy them.

I dont know much in technical terms. But I can see a vision in my mind, or should I say nightmare?
Cheynoble, and its "cover" is a disaster by itself. With temperatures close to 200 celcius, 25 years later, what on earth do they think will happen with fukushima.
Condesation alone will cause the inside of the "tents" to become enormously "hot" given that they havnt been able to fully explore the buildings as it is due to massive readings........

There are other nuclear sites within cooee of fukushima, how long before they cant get near them? even with utterly suicidal workers?

Good ol Arny Gunderson was saying yonks ago the worst of the releases was back in march, and that these so-called tents would help in containg releases.......

I think hes wrong. At least on that score. (dont get me wrong, I think hes awesome)

So finally to get to the point, recap etc
the worst is yet to come, in my mind, and that worst is just around the corner. The reality of the situation is frightening and way to real for people to contemplate.
We are watching what could well be the end of our civilisation, and even human life itself. I realise that sounds dramatic, even a little paranoid, but this situation is, in my mind, as bad as world war three, nuclear war etc.

We are talking here about world wide nuclear fallout in every sense of the word.

No, Im not going to slash my wrists, Im just here for the ride.

peace.................

Solar Flare Could Unleash Nuclear Holocaust Across Planet Earth, Forcing Hundreds of Nuclear Power Plants Into Total Meltdowns

[link to au.ibtimes.com]

- Serious doom.

Thieves target deserted Fukushima homes
[link to www.abc.net.au]

Heh, hopefully the looters get cancer sooner or later... true justice...

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Seems silly but people do stupid shit.

NRC declines to suspend review of Pilgrim license

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission yesterday rejected a request by state Attorney General Martha Coakley that it suspend a review of whether the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth should have its operating license renewed for another 20 years in the aftermath of the Japan nuclear crisis.

[link to www.boston.com]

- If the NRC won't even heed the AG's request, we don't have a chance. Lot of people up there....

If America waits for nuclear regulations, we'll have our own Fukushima

During hurricane Irene, emergency sirens malfunctioned at three nuclear plants: Oyster Creek (in New Jersey), Peach Bottom (in Pennsylvania), and Calvert Cliffs (in Maryland). Indian Point in New York was slapped with a permit violation when heavy rains led to an overflowing discharge canal. At Maryland’s Calvert Cliffs a large piece of aluminum siding slammed into a transformer, forcing a plant shutdown. We got off lightly, all things considered.

After the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe on March 11, the NRC told America’s nuclear operators to do a series of checks on their reactors – most of which are nearing the end of their original 40-year licensed operating lives. It followed that up by sending inspectors to evaluate the operators’ work. What the NRC inspectors found is that many aging nuclear plants are ill-prepared to cope with a serious accident – that is, one involving a total loss of power over an extended period.

[link to www.alaskadispatch.com]

- Their own inspectors are dis-regarded by the NRC. They never deny renewals. They rarely give fines, if ever.

We're screwed unless we get a nuclear regulatory org. that is unbiased and visionary.

here this is the colour of nuclear and holy atmosphere with a sun air together with salt and white sand.




(if you do not play the video btw)

Japan Atomic Energy Body Sees Technical Hurdles Ahead .

Removing the fuel from the spent-fuel pools and the reactors is vital to ensuring there will be no radiation leakage from the quake-ravaged facility. Experts fear that their structures might have been weakened by the heat and radiation from the damaged fuel and the large amount of seawater that was poured into them as an emergency measure to cool down the fuel.

The most difficult challenge facing Tepco is how to plug leakages in the primary containment structures of the damaged reactors.

Numerous technical challenges need to be solved before Tepco begins the fuel removal, Nakamura said. New robots have to be built capable of undertaking operations to probe the conditions inside the containment vessels, identify and plug the leakages, and remove the fuel, he said. Tepco also needs to find ways to prevent any new nuclear reaction, which could happen if the fuel is not adequately cooled during the entire process.

[link to online.wsj.com]

EU under fire for "contaminated" food imports from Japan

[link to www.agra-net.com]

Most cesium in forests found 'on fallen leaves'

The cumulative amount of radioactive cesium in living leaves at the cedar forest was found to be higher than in the broad leaf forest. However, in fallen leaves at the broad leaf forest, the cumulative amount of radioactive cesium was three times to six times higher than in fallen material at the cedar forest.

Of the cumulative quantity of radioactive cesium in the cedar forest, about 50 percent to 90 percent was found to be concentrated on fallen branches. In the broad leaf forest, more than 90 percent of radioactive cesium was found to be accumulated on fallen leaves, according to the research.

The result likely indicates that larger amounts of radioactive cesium contaminated ground covered with fallen leaves in the broad leaf forest because there were fewer living leaves in the forest in March, when the crippled nuclear plant began spewing large quantities of radioactive material.

[link to www.yomiuri.co.jp]

Radioactive Cesium Spreads Over Wide Area in Japan Disaster

High concentrations of radioactive cesium 137 have spread over thousands of square miles since the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi atomic facility began more than six months ago, but area's size appears to be dwarfed by the region similarly affected by the 1986 Chernobyl incident, the Asahi Shimbun reported (see GSN, Sept. 13).

The Fukushima plant was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that left Japan with more than 20,000 people missing or dead. Radiation releases on a level not seen since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster forced the evacuation of about 80,000 residents from a 12-mile ring exclusion zone surrounding the site.

More than 4,970 square miles of land have received at least 30,000 becquerels of cesium per square meter since the start of the Japanese nuclear crisis, according to an aerial survey released last Thursday by Japan's Science Ministry. By comparison, roughly 90,100 square miles received 37,000 becquerels of the material per square meter after the 1986 event in Ukraine.

Still, the Japanese government could increase its calculation of the area affected by high-level cesium 137 contamination as it revises measurements and collects data outside the five prefectures examined in the latest survey, according to the Asahi Shimbun. Cesium 137 decays at a rate of roughly 50 percent over three decades (Hiroshi Ishizuka, Asahi Shimbun I, Sept. 14).

In addition, quantities of the contaminant that fell over the ocean have a high probably of returning to Japan in two to three decades, Kyodo News quoted specialists as saying on Wednesday. The plant emitted 3,500 terabecquerels of cesium 137 straight into the ocean in March, April and May, and around 10,000 terabecquerels of the material that entered the ocean from the atmosphere, the experts calculated (Kyodo News/Mainichi Daily News, Sept. 14).

[link to www.globalsecuritynewswire.org]

Ninzrez has a great solar thread going. They watch all the flares:
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