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Anonymous Coward User ID: 28515904 Sweden 12/09/2012 12:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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] . |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28515904 Sweden 12/09/2012 12:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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] . |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28515904 Sweden 12/09/2012 12:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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] . |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28515904 Sweden 12/09/2012 12:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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] . |
Citizenperth User ID: 29497572 Australia 12/09/2012 11:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [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 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: 29497572 Australia 12/09/2012 11:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Tongue in cheek reactor contemplation... [link to endthelie.com] 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 |
Southern OR User ID: 20471008 United States 12/10/2012 12:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Residents shocked by uranium facility that has been hiding in plain sight Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28515904 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] . 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. "Well-behaved women seldom make history." —Laurel Thatcher Ulrich I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. ~Edward Everett Hale |
Citizenperth User ID: 29497572 Australia 12/10/2012 01:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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] 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 12/10/2012 10:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What Are The Consequences Of Siting A Nuclear Plant In a Seismically Active Area? [link to www.fairewinds.org] |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 12/10/2012 10:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | From the 'cover your ass' file.. March 17th, 2011 – Some US Spent Fuel Pools are simply not seismically qualified [link to enformable.com] |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 12/10/2012 10:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hydrogen concentration of reactor1 still keeps increasing [link to fukushima-diary.com] |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 12/10/2012 10:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [Express] Photographer “Reactor4 looked like it was about to fall down” [link to fukushima-diary.com] |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 12/10/2012 10:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [Mutation] Cicada with a leg on the head, white external tumor on abdomen, deformed wings [link to fukushima-diary.com] |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 12/10/2012 10:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to enenews.com] |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 12/10/2012 10:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Asahi: Fukushima workers report exploitation — Told to be like kamikaze — Large numbers leaving — “I wonder if we can raise children” [link to enenews.com] |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 12/10/2012 10:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NYTimes: Bags of radioactive waste sitting along Fukushima coastline — “There isn’t going to be another tsunami” says worker [link to enenews.com] |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 12/10/2012 11:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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] [snip] 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. |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 12/10/2012 11:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | COUNTDOWN TO DEC. 16: Fukushima still divided over radiation hazard [link to ajw.asahi.com] |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 12/10/2012 11:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to enformable.com] |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 12/10/2012 11:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Meteorological agency revised the M7.3 to be M7.4, “It was something different from a simple outerrise earthquake” [link to fukushima-diary.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 28515904 Sweden 12/10/2012 12:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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] . |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28515904 Sweden 12/10/2012 12:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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] . |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28515904 Sweden 12/10/2012 12:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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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