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

i wonder if these things will actually work? nice if they did... world wide sales, mass production and should be kept on every site.... like fire engines at airports....

< wonders why it's not global news though... this should be epic news and in all the science papers... bit sceptical....

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 01/04/2012 12:08 AM

Good place to do that.

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plenty of guinea pigs.....

The devil is in the details, innit?

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Wouldn't post. NY Times. Pretty good.

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A-bomb victims' cenotaph attacked with gold paint
Japanese police are searching for a man suspected of defacing with paint the cenotaph for A-bomb victims in the Hiroshima Peace Park.

A security camera installed in the park shows the man coming out of the compound around 1:00 AM on Wednesday, about the time an alarm sounded.

The police say footage from that time shows no one else's presence.

They say gold paint covered the engraved sentence reading: "We will never repeat the same mistake."
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Futaba mayor opposes radioactive soil storage
The mayor of Futaba Town in Fukushima Prefecture says he opposes the government's plan to build a facility for storing radioactive waste soil in Futaba County.

Mayor Katsutaka Idogawa expressed for the first time his opposition to the facility in his New Year address to town employees on Wednesday.

The mayor said he cannot accept the facility because townspeople who evacuated would not be able to return once it is built.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Fukushima students back after New Year holidays
Elementary and junior high school students in Fukushima City have returned to class earlier than usual after the New Year break.

Most of the city's schools held ceremonies on Wednesday to mark the beginning of the 3rd term.

Their break was 5 days shorter than usual to make up for a longer summer holiday. The summer break was extended because of the March nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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[link to www.ft.com]


Farmers in Fukushima count the cost

It was a problem the Saito family had never faced in all their years of farming: what do you do with radioactive spinach?

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Ms Saito says there is deep anger at Tepco and the government for failing to prevent the crisis and for leaving farmers to deal with their radiation problems largely alone.

“Everyone feels absolutely furious, it just bubbles inside,” she says. “We feel like we could explode.”


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I can't help that feel this will all come out in mainstream soon. The Japanese citizens are going to be heard.

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Post-Fukushima era begins for France
04 January 2012
EDF's fleet of 58 reactors needs upgrades 'as quickly as possible' to be sufficiently robust in extreme situations, said France's nuclear safety regulator.
[link to www.world-nuclear-news.org]

Post-Fukushima: Signs Of A New Surge In Nuclear Plant Construction

Fukushima raised serious questions about nuclear safety and prompted a global building freeze on new atomic power plants. But as 2012 begins, it is becoming clear that the freeze is beginning to thaw. And the BRICS nations will lead the way.

[link to www.worldcrunch.com]

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NUCLEAR AWAKENING
Mothers first to shed food-safety complacency


Third of five parts — The disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and the threat of radioactive fallout changed the lives of many people, including Mizuho Nakayama and other mothers of young children whose primary goal suddenly became that of keeping their kids out of harm's way.

[link to www.japantimes.co.jp]

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Wonder how long until our grocery shelves have the radiation listed with the price, as pictured in that article?

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NRC SEEKS PUBLIC COMMENT ON ASSUMPTIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY OF EXTENDED STORAGE OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL
[link to www.nrc.gov]

200 year commitment

He's pissed.

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They don't want mine.

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This is the big one for me. Even if nothing bad happens at a given plant, there is still spent fuel that must be stored for 200 years. Nuclear has got to be the most expensive form of energy ~ period.

The thing is is that the nuclear industry has known about a solution to this problem all along, and have always been unwilling to handle this waste in the wisest way.

Basically all types of spent fuel can be reduced down in a fraction of their normal fission rate in a series of specially designed step-down reactors, which still produce energy, but at diminishing returns with each lower level reactor. But the 200 years gets cut down to say 15 years.

The low level waste could then be mixed in with many parts concrete slurry, and I would suggest, be injected back into used up uranium mines, at lower radiation levels than it was removed at.

This is how India does it now.


There... Problem Solved...

(sort of..., but the devil is in the details and there are lots of opportunities for releases in processing... Let's see. Build a bunch of step-down reactors, that return less money than they cost, and then how many Homer Simpsons are required to operate them?)


but I am still anti-nuclear, for the practical reasons that we all know too well now.

The mainstream nuclear industry had the option to do this technology with a FAR safer methodology in both reactor design, and in waste decontamination, (which is possible, but it costs), than what they chose to take, (which is a technology best designed to serve military needs), and now we know much sooner what nuclear disaster is all about.

So the situation and the politics have been Fuked all along on various levels.

Last Edited by ehecatl on 01/04/2012 08:58 PM

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That is the crux of the problem. Science meets soldier. Better and better ways to annihilate. No moral control.

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The Fukushima black box

[link to www.economist.com]

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Along that switchback road the day after the earthquake and tsunami on March 11th 2011, it took Namie’s residents more than three hours to drive 30km (19 miles) to what they thought was the relative safety of Tsushima, a secluded hamlet. What they did not know was that they were heading into an invisible fog of radioactive matter that has made this one of the worst radiation hotspots in Japan—far worse than the town they abandoned, just ten minutes’ drive from the gates of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant. It was not until a New York Times report in August that many of the evacuees realised they had been exposed to such a danger, thanks to government neglect.


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Domestic robots failed to ride to rescue after No. 1 plant blew

According to experts, the biggest reason Japanese robots such as Honda's Asimo were not used early on was their vulnerability to high radiation levels, which could damage their integrated circuits.

[link to www.japantimes.co.jp]

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Tokyo exodus nuke report's worst scenario
'Migration' plan mulled at height of atomic crisis
[link to www.japantimes.co.jp]
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Kondo drafted the report after Kan asked him for a "worst-case situation," Kondo told The Japan Times on Thursday.

Kondo's scenario is based on the assumption that another hydrogen explosion would have further damaged reactor 1, releasing more radioactive fallout into the environment and forcing the entire plant to evacuate.

With no workers to control the situation, the cooling systems at reactors 1, 2 and 3 would be unrepairable and the spent-fuel pool in reactor 4 would collapse as the rods melted through its concrete walls, the report said.

It's not anything like SPEEDI," said Kondo, SPEEDI's results were initially withheld from the public.

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They didn't warn the people...
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June Beetles Conscripted Into Cyborg Army
[link to www.foxnews.com]

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From surveillance and explosives detection to search and rescue missions, micro UAVs could be useful for a range of defense and security applications. They would have proved handy last year for monitoring the flooding in Pakistan and Thailand, or for inspecting the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after Japan’s earthquake -- disaster areas where a micro UAV could be deployed rather than risk human life.

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June bugs. Whodathunk?

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Japan to put robots to work on futuristic farm in tsunami zone

[link to news.nationalpost.com]

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LMFAOOOOO!!!!!

so, the robots are going to eat this shit right?




right?

Japan Isn’t Giving Away Those 10,000 Free Flights After All
The plan received widespread media attention, but the big-budget deal was quashed by Japan's government.


Read more: [link to newsfeed.time.com]

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awwww...... now we don't get to see all those shills proving all this is just a daydream by volunteering and taking photos at fuku.......

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has rejected a bid by Entergy, owner and operator of the Indian Point nuclear power plant on the Hudson River, to reverse an order to complete legally-required analyses of the facility's severe accident mitigation measures before it can be relicensed.

[link to www.ens-newswire.com]

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A giant bluefin tuna was sold for a record price of JPY 56.49 million (EUR 566.350/USD 736,500) in the traditional first auction of the year at the Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo.

The fish, which weighted 269 kg, was captured off the coast of Oma, in the province of Aomori.

[link to www.fis.com]

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$2737.91 per kilogram. $27.38 per gram. $766.64 per ounce.

I'll take a quarter of a gram, please. $7.00.

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read that one... prob cause it glows so pretty at night....