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Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 09/24/2012 11:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to enformable.com] [snip] Around 11:07 AM on September 22nd, while working on removing debris from atop the crippled reactor building, a heavy thousand pound steel frame was knocked into Reactor 3′s spent fuel pool. The steel frame was located on the south-eastern pool side, and it was hit by the tip of a crane during debris removal work. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 24001598 Sweden 09/24/2012 11:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Amazing. They act like they are performing a public service rather than fulfilling their responsibilities... Quoting: Waterbug Removing nuclear waste, one shipment at a time [link to www.lanl.gov] "The Lab's 1,000th shipment of transuranic waste recently left Los Alamos, on its way to a permanent repository near Carlsbad, NM." Heh, guess people in Carlsbad are pissed off... house prices going down even more... . |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 09/24/2012 11:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Mo' money.. give us mo' money. Congress OKs $100M for Piketon plant [link to www.chillicothegazette.com] [snip] Even with the $100 million that brings the government's contribution to the project to $188 million so far, the project remains uncertain. USEC officials have said they still need about $92 million from Congress to finish the Centrifuge project and move toward commercialization of the uranium enrichment technology, as envisioned by an agreement with the federal Department of Energy. |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 09/24/2012 11:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I know... it's depressing. Nuclear Power Part II: Waste, No Solution So Far [link to chapelboro.com] [snip] Gamma rays, beta particles, and to a lesser extent, alpha particles, are extremely hazardous to your health. The explanation for this could fill an entire book, so let me give you the short version. The high energies of gamma rays and beta particles allow them to penetrate into your body where they can cause molecular damage. Some of the damaged molecules are DNA. DNA damage from nuclear radiation can result in a number of different cancers, particularly thyroid cancers and leukemia. While nuclear power plants generate a variety of radioactive wastes, by far the most difficult to manage are the spent fuel rods. Spent fuel rods contain unutilized uranium as well as a mixture of different radioactive elements which are members of the uranium-235 decay chain. The fuel rods will continue to pose serious danger to human health for millions of years. The world has already generated a staggering amount of nuclear waste to which we are adding approximately 12,000 tons per year. All of this has occurred without a clear plan to manage the waste. While we continue to evaluate the potential long-term storage options, most of the world’s nuclear wasted is staged in temporary above-ground storage facilities where it has been incorporated into glass and ceramic composites, sealed in metal containers, and encased in concrete. This storage approach is sufficient to protect us from radiation in the short term, but is not sufficient to isolate the waste for the millions of years that will be necessary. |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 09/24/2012 11:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | These people are uninformed, misinformed or just stupid... Two thirds support nuclear in the USA [link to www.neimagazine.com] [snip] The survey found that American strongly favouring nuclear energy outnumber those strongly opposed by a two-to-one ratio, 29% versus 14%. Figures are up on a poll conducted in September 2011, six months after the Fukushima accident, when 62% of American favoured nuclear energy, with 35% opposed. |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 09/24/2012 11:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | or risk contaminating the world further with it.. Some choice. A Melting Greenland Weighs Perils Against Potential [link to www.nytimes.com] [snip] The Arctic is warming even faster than other parts of the planet, and the rapidly melting ice is causing alarm among scientists about sea-level rise. In northeastern Greenland, average yearly temperature have risen 4.5 degrees in the past 15 years, and scientists predict the area could warm by 14 to 21 degrees by the end of the century. Already, winter pack ice that covers the fjords is no longer stable enough for dog sledding and snowmobile traffic in many areas. Winter fishing, essential to feeding families, is becoming hazardous or impossible. |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 09/24/2012 11:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Months ago. Tepco is just now reporting it. Tritium leakage from reactor 5 and 6 [link to fukushima-diary.com] |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 09/24/2012 11:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Amazing. They act like they are performing a public service rather than fulfilling their responsibilities... Quoting: Waterbug Removing nuclear waste, one shipment at a time [link to www.lanl.gov] "The Lab's 1,000th shipment of transuranic waste recently left Los Alamos, on its way to a permanent repository near Carlsbad, NM." Heh, guess people in Carlsbad are pissed off... house prices going down even more... . I wonder what they mean by 'permanent'? Certainly not what the word actually means. |
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Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 09/24/2012 12:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The pro-nukers don't stand a chance. Those posters are informed and angry.. as they should be. It is great to see so many have joined the fight. Wasn't that way not so long ago. If nothing else, Fuku has awakened a sleeping giant. We are not all of us ignorant sheep... as much as the nukesters would like to believe it to be so. Alas, all of our protestations mean zilch if tptb continue their quixotic quest to make nuclear power generation the standard for the future.. despite the expense, danger and insanity of it all. |
the mighty Atom User ID: 23715861 Japan 09/24/2012 12:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Looks like the typical Hunting down of Someone with a different Opinion, that Page (Enenews) is a bad Place when you look for real Information and unbiased Discussion! Arnie need to provide Proof of his Claim, he know how the World is running. When he fail again (like after the claim that Street-Dirt from Tokyo is Radioactive Waste) he will lose even the last bit of his Credibility! G.Y.!B.E. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1076086 Germany 09/24/2012 12:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I know... it's depressing. Quoting: Waterbug Nuclear Power Part II: Waste, No Solution So Far [link to chapelboro.com] [snip] Gamma rays, beta particles, and to a lesser extent, alpha particles, are extremely hazardous to your health. The explanation for this could fill an entire book, so let me give you the short version. The high energies of gamma rays and beta particles allow them to penetrate into your body where they can cause molecular damage. Some of the damaged molecules are DNA. DNA damage from nuclear radiation can result in a number of different cancers, particularly thyroid cancers and leukemia. While nuclear power plants generate a variety of radioactive wastes, by far the most difficult to manage are the spent fuel rods. Spent fuel rods contain unutilized uranium as well as a mixture of different radioactive elements which are members of the uranium-235 decay chain. The fuel rods will continue to pose serious danger to human health for millions of years. The world has already generated a staggering amount of nuclear waste to which we are adding approximately 12,000 tons per year. All of this has occurred without a clear plan to manage the waste. While we continue to evaluate the potential long-term storage options, most of the world’s nuclear wasted is staged in temporary above-ground storage facilities where it has been incorporated into glass and ceramic composites, sealed in metal containers, and encased in concrete. This storage approach is sufficient to protect us from radiation in the short term, but is not sufficient to isolate the waste for the millions of years that will be necessary. My opinion is, that we have to send it inside of our Earth. Earth inside is well radioactive, too, so, why not put it there? But it is till today not possible for humans to do this. Much nature elements here on our Earth are radioactive more than we usually know. I say just: good luck!:hf: |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 09/24/2012 12:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Looks like the typical Hunting down of Someone with a different Opinion, that Page (Enenews) is a bad Place when you look for real Information and unbiased Discussion! Arnie need to provide Proof of his Claim, he know how the World is running. When he fail again (like after the claim that Street-Dirt from Tokyo is Radioactive Waste) he will lose even the last bit of his Credibility! I think it is quite ironic that you question anyone else's credibility. |
the mighty Atom User ID: 23715861 Japan 09/24/2012 12:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Looks like the typical Hunting down of Someone with a different Opinion, that Page (Enenews) is a bad Place when you look for real Information and unbiased Discussion! Arnie need to provide Proof of his Claim, he know how the World is running. When he fail again (like after the claim that Street-Dirt from Tokyo is Radioactive Waste) he will lose even the last bit of his Credibility! I think it is quite ironic that you question anyone else's credibility. There is no need to do Politics here! My Credibility is low but i am right, you mostly don't but since you stopped your interpretations of the happenings in and around Daiichi it get better with you!! G.Y.!B.E. |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 09/24/2012 12:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I know... it's depressing. Quoting: Waterbug Nuclear Power Part II: Waste, No Solution So Far [link to chapelboro.com] [snip] Gamma rays, beta particles, and to a lesser extent, alpha particles, are extremely hazardous to your health. The explanation for this could fill an entire book, so let me give you the short version. The high energies of gamma rays and beta particles allow them to penetrate into your body where they can cause molecular damage. Some of the damaged molecules are DNA. DNA damage from nuclear radiation can result in a number of different cancers, particularly thyroid cancers and leukemia. While nuclear power plants generate a variety of radioactive wastes, by far the most difficult to manage are the spent fuel rods. Spent fuel rods contain unutilized uranium as well as a mixture of different radioactive elements which are members of the uranium-235 decay chain. The fuel rods will continue to pose serious danger to human health for millions of years. The world has already generated a staggering amount of nuclear waste to which we are adding approximately 12,000 tons per year. All of this has occurred without a clear plan to manage the waste. While we continue to evaluate the potential long-term storage options, most of the world’s nuclear wasted is staged in temporary above-ground storage facilities where it has been incorporated into glass and ceramic composites, sealed in metal containers, and encased in concrete. This storage approach is sufficient to protect us from radiation in the short term, but is not sufficient to isolate the waste for the millions of years that will be necessary. My opinion is, that we have to send it inside of our Earth. Earth inside is well radioactive, too, so, why not put it there? But it is till today not possible for humans to do this. Much nature elements here on our Earth are radioactive more than we usually know. I say just: good luck!:hf: I agree. If subduction were a little faster... we could throw it all in the Mariana Trench. Buried miles into the earth would be a much better place than fuel ponds and storage casks on the surface. There is always the worry of groundwater contamination.. but we already have that, anyway. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 24180316 United States 09/24/2012 12:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So.. we have to decide whether to continue the use of nuclear power to combat global warming.. Quoting: Waterbug or risk contaminating the world further with it.. Some choice. A Melting Greenland Weighs Perils Against Potential [link to www.nytimes.com] [snip] The Arctic is warming even faster than other parts of the planet, and the rapidly melting ice is causing alarm among scientists about sea-level rise. In northeastern Greenland, average yearly temperature have risen 4.5 degrees in the past 15 years, and scientists predict the area could warm by 14 to 21 degrees by the end of the century. Already, winter pack ice that covers the fjords is no longer stable enough for dog sledding and snowmobile traffic in many areas. Winter fishing, essential to feeding families, is becoming hazardous or impossible. Global warming?...I thought it was climate change? |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 09/24/2012 12:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Looks like the typical Hunting down of Someone with a different Opinion, that Page (Enenews) is a bad Place when you look for real Information and unbiased Discussion! Arnie need to provide Proof of his Claim, he know how the World is running. When he fail again (like after the claim that Street-Dirt from Tokyo is Radioactive Waste) he will lose even the last bit of his Credibility! I think it is quite ironic that you question anyone else's credibility. There is no need to do Politics here! My Credibility is low but i am right, you mostly don't but since you stopped your interpretations of the happenings in and around Daiichi it get better with you!! Any mistakes I made in interpreting are not due to any actions on my part. I stopped because of erroneous, misleading and outright lying on Tepco reports... Can't interpret bad information other than exposing it as falsified. Many of my past statements were borne out as truth as the facts were later presented. Your own lack of credibility is your own doing. |
the mighty Atom User ID: 23715861 Japan 09/24/2012 01:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I stopped because of erroneous, misleading and outright lying on Tepco reports... Quoting: Waterbug Can't interpret bad information other than exposing it as falsified. I told you that already in the last Year but you didn't listen, but good that you learned it finally! Last Edited by the mighty Atom on 09/24/2012 01:01 PM G.Y.!B.E. |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 09/24/2012 01:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So.. we have to decide whether to continue the use of nuclear power to combat global warming.. Quoting: Waterbug or risk contaminating the world further with it.. Some choice. A Melting Greenland Weighs Perils Against Potential [link to www.nytimes.com] [snip] The Arctic is warming even faster than other parts of the planet, and the rapidly melting ice is causing alarm among scientists about sea-level rise. In northeastern Greenland, average yearly temperature have risen 4.5 degrees in the past 15 years, and scientists predict the area could warm by 14 to 21 degrees by the end of the century. Already, winter pack ice that covers the fjords is no longer stable enough for dog sledding and snowmobile traffic in many areas. Winter fishing, essential to feeding families, is becoming hazardous or impossible. Global warming?...I thought it was climate change? Semantics.. parsing. Global warming to me means warming of the globe, literally. Political posturing has made the term erroneously synonymous with man-made effects. Climate is always in a state of flux.. this is normal. Balance is achieved in this way amongst the multitude of factors affecting it. My thoughts on this are that man has had some influence in a small way in relation to the normal progression of climatic flux.. but is not the overwhelming factor it has been portrayed to be by those attempting to profit from it or sway public opinion for the benefit of their agendas. This includes the nuclear industry and their push for nuclear power generation as the savior of humanity. Bullshit, I say. Since earth was formed, climate has morphed until it is what we know it to be. The climatic cycles experienced by man are a miniscule segment when compared to the overall evolution of our systems. Earth gets hot.. earth gets cold.. and so on. |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 09/24/2012 01:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I stopped because of erroneous, misleading and outright lying on Tepco reports... Quoting: Waterbug Can't interpret bad information other than exposing it as falsified. I told you that already in the last Year but you didn't listen, but good that you learned it finally! I don't recall you ever admitting that Tepco was falsifying data.. So.. what happened..? Tepco fire you..? You had a change of heart..? Found a girlfriend..? What..? |
the mighty Atom User ID: 23715861 Japan 09/24/2012 01:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I stopped because of erroneous, misleading and outright lying on Tepco reports... Quoting: Waterbug Can't interpret bad information other than exposing it as falsified. I told you that already in the last Year but you didn't listen, but good that you learned it finally! I don't recall you ever admitting that Tepco was falsifying data.. It is not up to me "to admit" something! I am just me. G.Y.!B.E. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 24001598 Sweden 09/24/2012 04:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | PQ blasted for closing nuclear reactor The new Quebec government's decision not to refurbish the province's only nuclear power plant — which will force it to shut down by the end of the year — has workers peeved and the leader of the Opposition crying foul. [link to www.cbc.ca] . |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 24001598 Sweden 09/24/2012 04:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Nuclear energy: Who's advancing and who's retreating TOKYO: After Germany and Switzerland, Japan on Friday became the third country to call time on nuclear energy, a decision motivated by last year's earthquake-induced Fukushima disaster. Following is a checklist of the main countries retreating on nuclear power, and those who intend to push ahead with it. [link to articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com] . |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 24001598 Sweden 09/24/2012 04:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | First U.S. Laser Enrichment License Expected by Month’s End WASHINGTON -- Following action by a key federal body on Wednesday, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is expected by the end of this month to issue the nation’s first commercial license for a laser-based means of atomic fuel production. [link to www.nti.org] . |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 09/24/2012 04:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | PQ blasted for closing nuclear reactor Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24001598 The new Quebec government's decision not to refurbish the province's only nuclear power plant — which will force it to shut down by the end of the year — has workers peeved and the leader of the Opposition crying foul. [link to www.cbc.ca] . I can say this.. the Quebecois are self-serving. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 24001598 Sweden 09/24/2012 04:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Management Change at Fort Calhoun Station Omaha Public Power sent a letter dated September 10, 2012 to the NRC notifying them of the management change at the station. An Operating Services Agreement between Exelon Generation Company, LLC (as Contractor) and Omaha Public Power District (as Owner), dated as of August 17, 2012 ("the OSA"). [link to www.nucpros.com] . |
citizenperth User ID: 23692180 Australia 09/24/2012 07:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I stopped because of erroneous, misleading and outright lying on Tepco reports... Quoting: Waterbug Can't interpret bad information other than exposing it as falsified. I told you that already in the last Year but you didn't listen, but good that you learned it finally! I don't recall you ever admitting that Tepco was falsifying data.. It is not up to me "to admit" something! I am just me. wow, yer back..... after admitting that you got paid by TEPCO.... what?.. they run out of sushi coupons?.... thankfully your posts are moot points and you have already been outted many months ago...... and about being political?.... surely you jest.... thanks for dropping by with some more factual additions to the debate... not... Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 09/24/2012 09:09 PM 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 |
citizenperth User ID: 23692180 Australia 09/24/2012 09:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 12421.1 Bq/Kg from black substance in Gunma “It’s everywhere in the city” Posted by Mochizuki on September 24th, 2012. 12421.1Bq/Kg was measured from black substance in Tomioka city Gunma. Tomioka city Gunma is about 230km from Fukushima plant. [link to fukushima-diary.com] Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 09/24/2012 09:06 PM 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 |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 09/24/2012 09:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 12421.1 Bq/Kg from black substance in Gunma “It’s everywhere in the city” Quoting: citizenperth Posted by Mochizuki on September 24th, 2012. 12421.1Bq/Kg was measured from black substance in Tomioka city Gunma. Tomioka city Gunma is about 230km from Fukushima plant. [link to fukushima-diary.com] These reports are becoming commonplace.. Very sad. |