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Scientists setting radiation exposure limits took utility money: probe

TOKYO — Influential scientists who help set Japan’s radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country’s nuclear plant operators to attend overseas meetings of the world’s top academic group on radiation safety.

The potential conflict of interest is revealed in one sentence buried in a 600-page parliamentary investigation into last year’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster and pointed out to The Associated Press by a medical doctor on the 10-person investigation panel.
[link to www.japantoday.com]
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Nuclear giant EDF postpones decision on new Hinkley Point reactor

he troubled French nuclear giant EDF has postponed its decision on whether to build a new power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset.

The delay puts the nuclear renaissance at the heart of the UK government's energy plans into further doubt after a difficult week in which EDF was hit by cost overruns and the exit of its partner from a key French project.
[link to www.nucpros.com]
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APNewsBreak: Dispute Over Records at Nuclear Plant

A federal board Friday ordered the operator of a shuttered nuclear power plant in California to turn over dozens of pages of documents that were withheld when the company submitted a plan to restart one of its damaged twin reactors.

The records at issue were prepared by industry experts who have helped Southern California Edison investigate why the San Onofre plant's nearly new steam generators caused excessive wear to hundreds of tubes that carry radioactive water.
[link to abcnews.go.com]
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Residents shocked by uranium facility that has been hiding in plain sight

For almost half a century residents of a west-end community in Toronto have lived side-by-side with a uranium processing facility, without ever noticing it. But the years of blissful ignorance have seemingly come to an end and this ‘new’ knowledge of the plant has left many in the community afraid and pushing for change.

In a nondescript, four-floor building on Lansdowne Avenue, just north of Dupont Street, a G.E. Hitachi Canada facility has been turning uranium – found in small amounts in rocks, soil, water and plants – into pellets, to be used in the production of nuclear fuel, for decades. (Uranium, in its natural form, emits low-levels of radiation.)
[link to www.theglobeandmail.com]
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[link to forwhatwearetheywillbe.blogspot.com.au]

another repost :).. the more that know the more will know...

"Fukushima in danger of explosions".....

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 12/09/2012 11:12 PM

Tongue in cheek reactor contemplation...

[link to endthelie.com]

Wow, that would really make you think about your neighbors. You would think they would have to provide a notice for zoning approval. That is how it is here, they post a sign on the property for zoning change and they must notify neighbor property holders within a certain range (varies depending on the zoning change). All neighbors have the chance to voice their opinions before the zoning change is approved.

hmm.. 'how to safely transport uranium oxide or yellow cake' in australia.... a lot of 'improbales' and 'unlikely's' in there.... astonoshing.....

[link to www.aua.org.au]

What Are The Consequences Of Siting A Nuclear Plant In a Seismically Active Area?
[link to www.fairewinds.org]

From the 'cover your ass' file..



March 17th, 2011 – Some US Spent Fuel Pools are simply not seismically qualified
[link to enformable.com]

Hydrogen concentration of reactor1 still keeps increasing
[link to fukushima-diary.com]

[Express] Photographer “Reactor4 looked like it was about to fall down”
[link to fukushima-diary.com]

[Mutation] Cicada with a leg on the head, white external tumor on abdomen, deformed wings
[link to fukushima-diary.com]

Japan Times column on nuclear mutations: Professor seeing ‘increase in negative effects’ from Fukushima since last year — Report of insect with leg growing from head (PHOTO)
[link to enenews.com]

Asahi: Fukushima workers report exploitation — Told to be like kamikaze — Large numbers leaving — “I wonder if we can raise children”
[link to enenews.com]

NYTimes: Bags of radioactive waste sitting along Fukushima coastline — “There isn’t going to be another tsunami” says worker
[link to enenews.com]

We will never know the true amounts of radiation absorbed by these workers.
The workers, truth and medical science suffer the more for it..
Good job, tepco...





Japan utility admits murky hiring at nuclear plant
[link to www.google.com]

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The head of the utility behind Japan's nuclear crisis acknowledged Monday that hundreds of workers at the contaminated Fukushima Dai-ichi plant were mobilized through a murky hiring system.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose attributed the hiring problem to high worker turnover at the highly contaminated worksite, adding that the problem became prevalent as the company desperately tried to recruit workers willing to take jobs with high risks of radiation exposure.

Hirose said TEPCO is working to fix the hiring problem, which he attributed to an industry-wide hierarchical contract system. But he said that the deep-rooted industry practice cannot be changed overnight, and that a full overhaul will be difficult.

About one-quarter said their employers never notified them of their radiation exposure details.

COUNTDOWN TO DEC. 16: Fukushima still divided over radiation hazard
[link to ajw.asahi.com]

NRA experts agree fault under Tsuruga plant active – Japan Atomic Power calls outcome “totally unacceptable” and vows to counter assessment
[link to enformable.com]

Meteorological agency revised the M7.3 to be M7.4, “It was something different from a simple outerrise earthquake”
[link to fukushima-diary.com]

There shouldn't be, IMO.. I really don't know.
I would anticipate a thorough pat-down, though..

Tsuruga nuclear power plant may be on active fault

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority has determined that faults running underneath the Tsuruga nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture are active.

The NRA Chairman Shunichi Tanaka said the body cannot give a permit to restart the plant's reactors, which have been off-line since last year's nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

This comes after NRA official Kunihiko Shimazaki and 4 other experts carried out an on-site inspection earlier this month to see whether crush zones under the Tsuruga plant are actually active faults.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Maybe two active faults under Tsuruga...

Active fault under Tsuruga nuclear power plant

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority and other experts will hold discussions Monday on whether another active fault exists beneath the Tsuruga nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture.

The Tsuruga nuclear plant is the only one in Japan that has an active fault running beneath it.

If another fault underneath the plant's reactors is determined to be active the plant will be barred from restarting.

Regulation Authority official Kunihiko Shimazaki and 4 scientists examined the plant on the Japan Sea coast on December 1st and 2nd.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Govt. decides most of Okuma Town unfit for living

The Japanese government has declared most parts of a town that hosts the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant as unsuitable to live in for the foreseeable future.

The decision is part of the government's reclassification of 11 municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture affected by radiation from the plant. The 11 municipalities are being reclassified into 3 zones based on radiation levels.

All 11,000 residents in Okuma Town have been living outside the town since it was declared a no-entry zone in the immediate aftermath of the nuclear disaster.

The government says 96 percent of the town's residential areas have been reclassified as unsuitable to live in for an unknown length of time.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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You should contact the airline for do's and don'ts..
They can get pissy.