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

"We Work The Black Seam"


This place has changed for good
Your economic theory said it would
It's hard for us to understand
We can't give up our jobs the way we should
Our blood has stained the coal
We tunneled deep inside the nation's soul
We matter more than pounds and pence
Your economic theory makes no sense

One day in a nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can't control
And bury the waste in a great big hole
Power was to become cheap and clean
Grimy faces were never seen
But deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen
We work the black seam together

The seam lies underground
Three million years of pressure packed it down
We walk through ancient forest lands
And light a thousand cities with our hands
Your dark satanic mills
Have made redundant all our mining skills
You can't exchange a six inch band
For all the poisoned streams in Cumberland

One day in a nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can't control
And bury the waste in a great big hole
Power was to become cheap and clean
Grimy faces were never seen
But deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen
We work the black seam together

Our conscious lives run deep
You cling onto your mountain while we sleep
This way of life is part of me
The is no price so only let me be
And should the children weep
The turning world will sing their souls to sleep
When you have sunk without a trace
The universe will suck me into place

One day in a nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can't control
And bury the waste in a great big hole
Power was to become cheap and clean
Grimy faces were never seen
But deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen
We work the black seam together

The good news is this one does not have any invasive species on it.

nice work :)


this is just the beginning of post-fukushima, and post japan assessments....

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 12/29/2012 09:43 PM

[link to fukushimaemergencywhatcanwedo.blogspot.com.au]

chernobyl is running out of time for new sarcophocus

Experts yet to reach conclusion on crush zone

Experts from Japan's nuclear regulatory body are trying to determine whether there are any active faults running underneath the country's only online nuclear power plant.

A Nuclear Regulation Authority team ended a 2-day survey at the Ohi plant in Fukui Prefecture on the Sea of Japan on Saturday.

The 5-member team, led by the regulatory body's commissioner Kunihiko Shimazaki, examined a recently dug trench in the northern part of the plant's premises.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Abe pledges to fully support decommissioning work

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he intends to speed up the decommissioning of the reactors at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as much as possible.

After inspecting the plant on Saturday, Abe told the workers that Fukushima, and Japan as a whole, will only be on the road to recovery after the workers succeed in decommissioning the plant. He pledged to provide full government backing.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Nowhere to use Japan's growing plutonium stockpile

ROKKASHO — How is an nuclear-powered island nation riddled with fault lines supposed to handle its nuclear waste? Part of the answer was supposed to come from this windswept village along Japan’s northern coast.

By hosting a high-tech facility that would convert spent fuel into a plutonium-uranium mix designed for the next generation of reactors, Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture was supposed to provide fuel while minimizing nuclear waste storage problems. Those ambitions are falling apart because years of attempts to build a “fast breeder” reactor, which would use the reprocessed fuel, appear to be ending in failure.
[link to www.japantoday.com]
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Mitsubishi-Areva Alliance to Bid for Turkey's Second Nuclear Plant

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd and French utility Areva SA are preparing to place a bid for an upcoming order to build a nuclear power plant in Turkey, a Turkish government official recently told the Nikkei.

Mitsubishi Heavy and Areva plan to sell the Atmea 1, a midsize nuclear reactor the two sides have jointly developed, through negotiations between the Japanese and Turkish governments, Dow Jones Newswires reported.

The bid for the NPP to be built in Turkey's Black Sea city of Sinop will be the French-Japanese alliance's second attempt to export nuclear reactors to a country in the Middle East, following the successful sale of reactors in Jordan.
[link to www.nucpros.com]
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All of the webcams links I have for Fukushima NPP are down...

This one works for me:

[link to www.tepco.co.jp]
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Hi ya Sweden!

Hi SOR and Happy New Year!!!


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Happy New Year to you! Since Bug is on leave I will try to find more info to post. The problem I have is the time delay on the west coast. You all seem to find the info well before I do.

buggy-chan and all... happy new year....

Japan Tsunami Marine Debris: Confirmed Sightings
[link to marinedebris.noaa.gov]

Happy New Year to Everyone! Hard to believe this has been ongoing for almost 2 years now.

seems like we are our own mini-conspiracy ;)... even own our own AB... lmfao.... (happy new year to you lot as well)....

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 12/30/2012 10:55 PM

I wish it was an easily debunked conspiracy. Truth is, we will know more many years from now. Nuclear Power, the gift that keeps on giving!

to be honest same.. if only AB and friends would consider the fact that the care is about the future, and not scare mongering.....

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 12/31/2012 12:12 AM

Demonstrators protest Abe Cabinet review of zero nuclear policy
Anti-nuclear energy demonstrators defied the drizzly weather in front of the Prime Minister's Office on the evening of Dec. 28, marking their first weekly protest since the second Abe Cabinet took office earlier this week.

Filling the sidewalks near the premier's office in Tokyo's Nagatacho district, the demonstrators repeatedly chanted, "No to nuclear power" and "Listen to the voices of the people," in protest against the new administration's announced review of the previous Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)-led government's pledge to end nuclear power in Japan by the 2030s.

"Before bringing Japan back to what it was, first bring Fukushima back to us," read one of the placards raised by demonstrators, apparently poking fun at Abe's House of Representatives election campaign slogan of "regaining Japan."

A 64-year-old taxi driver from Tokyo's Edogawa Ward took a day off work to join the protest, thinking, "I should demonstrate my will."
[link to mainichi.jp]

Japanese researchers make radioactive cesium glow in dark with new compound
Japanese scientists unveiled a chemical compound on Dec. 20 that causes cesium to glow pale blue when exposed to ultraviolet light -- possibly making detection and cleanup of the radioactive element from the Fukushima nuclear disaster more efficient.

"We can now confirm contaminated spots that hitherto went undetected, and also bring down decontamination costs significantly," said Taizo Mori, a researcher at the National Institute for Material Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, where the compound was developed.

Cesium 137 was one of the primary radioactive contamin10+件ants released in the nuclear disaster, triggered by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.
[link to mainichi.jp]

Noticeable earthquakes in Japan top 3,000 in 2012

The Japan Meteorological Agency says the number of noticeable earthquakes across the country this year topped 3,000. It says nearly 60 percent of them were aftershocks from last year's giant quake.

The agency said, as of Sunday, 3,134 quakes had been felt across Japan. That's about 1,000 more than the annual average from 2001 to 2010.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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New search engine for March 11 archives

The Japanese government will set up an Internet search engine to provide easier access to the digital archives for the March 11th earthquake and tsunami.

The internal affairs and communications ministry and the National Diet Library will begin operating the search engine in March next year.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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U.S. nuclear special team sent to Japan right after 3.11

The United States sent a special nuclear response team trained to handle nuclear accidents and terrorism to Japan right after the outbreak of the March 2011 nuclear disaster, but Japan was slow to make use of radiation data from the unit, according to U.S. and Japanese government sources.

This was the first dispatch of the Consequence Management Response Team (CMRT) for an emergency outside the United States. The team, affiliated with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a semi-autonomous agency of the Energy Department, is tasked with dealing with nuclear accidents and terrorism in the United States by detecting and analyzing radiation contamination.

The Japanese government, however, did not acknowledge the significance of the team's mission and failed to immediately utilize the initial data provided by the team for evacuation of residents living around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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Abe intends to allow new nuclear reactors

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed willingness Sunday to build new nuclear reactors, abandoning the goal set by the previous Democratic Party of Japan-led government to terminate nuclear power plants in the 2030s.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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Happy New Year everyone!

To You too!!!

Fishy, SO, CP ... I don't know what to say.

Fishy...thank you for the upgrade.
I did not expect that..

I came back to wish you all a happy new year..
Your support is very gratifying and I'll try to be worthy of it.

I have been a little burned-out, lately.
Feel much better about it, now..

Once again... thanks very much.

welcome back buddy :)

made me smile :)

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 12/31/2012 10:34 PM

to keep track of it.