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

well i guess this stupid troll (im a qualified power plant engineer, nutritionist and cellular biology researchwr, but whatever!) somehow didnt see any of these alleged answers to wb's questions, so, if you'd be kind enough, can you repeat them to me please, and any others who may not be as aware as you.
here the questions are again...
much thanks : )
[link to lucian.uchicago.edu]
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Question 1: Why are nuclear reactorsfrequently clustered making problems much greater in case of emergencies? How to get to the other reactors if one melts down completely? Nuclear reactors are clustered with pairs, quadruplets or even planned clusters with six reactors located at a single site.[...]
Question 2: Why are many reactors built on tectonic fault lines, making them highly susceptible to effects of earthquakes?[...]
Question 3: Why were the back-up generators at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP located below ground level so they could be reached directly by seawater, causing malfunction and thereby preventing cooling of the reactors? [...]
Question 4: Why are used fuel rods from the nuclear reactors stored at the reactor site, preventing cooling in a case of emergency, thereby compromising security? [...]
Question 5: Why did the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) approve nuclear reactors with such poor locations and poorly designed emergency generators? [...]
Question 6: Why were pregnant women and children not evacuated earlier and for longer distances to avoid the well-known problems of effects of radiation on early development?[...]
Question 7: Why were Japanese people evacuated from an area with a radius of 30 km, when French and US citizens were advised to stay 50 km away, and airplanes owned by Air France, Alitalia and Lufthansa were re-directed from Tokyo to Osaka? [...]
Question 8: Why was the level of radioactivity in Fukushima said by the Japanese prime minister to be low, when in fact it was, and continues to be, higher than the most contaminated areas around Chernobyl, from where people are still evacuated 27 years after that accident? [...]
Question 9: Why did the chairman of the IAEA (a Japanese) first travel to Japan four days after the first accident happened in Fukushima? [...]
Question 10: Why is Tokyo Electric (Tepco) unwilling to provide information about the identity of the rescue workers and their radiation exposure?

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For importance

Always a pleasure, RP..

Engineer

Japanese..

Informed .....



Ps: i offer you a deep Bow when you
show me one Posting where i said
that i am a Japanese!

@wb, pleasures always mine man.

guess thats the best ab can do....no answers, so attack. lol
-his drawing of attention to the crisis is v.kind, but baffles me if he actually gets paid for it..? probably the best they can do -skank all round.
the last positive (aka classic credence) post about japans power reminded me of his very first posts, positive but diversionary, and as you say it aint fixed nothing, its still there, until....?
the proverbial horse has fuked off, too late.

regards and much thanks to all here keeping it real.
respect
rp : )

who gives a fuk who you are ab

since when has anything under 300 been undetectable..... lying bastards.......

You Scum?

Gumi desu!!!

@ Cp

this was the whole Body Load ( means ca. 40Kg)

I made a Mistake;
Radioactive cesium not detectable in 99% of Fukushima residents: study
Levels of cesium-137 were shown to be below the detectable threshold of 300 becquerels per kilogram of body weight for 99 percent of the residents, according to the team.

For the remaining 1 percent, or 212 people, 10 becquerels were detected. Still, their annual internal exposure would total only 0.04 millisievert, far below the government-set limit of 1 millisievert per year, the team said.
[link to www.japantimes.co.jp]

U.S.’s Unspeakable Experiments: Hundreds of pregnant women fed nuclear material — Infants drinking radioactive lemonade — “Only thing I could think of was Nazi Germany” -Official

[...] Victims included civilians, prison inmates, federal workers, hospital patients, pregnant women, infants, developmentally disabled children and military personnel — most of them powerless, poor, sick, elderly or terminally ill. Eileen Welsome’s 1999 exposé The Plutonium Files: America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War details “the unspeakable scientific trials that reduced thousands of men, women, and even children to nameless specimens.” [...]

In one Vanderbilt U. study, 829 pregnant women were unknowingly fed radioactive iron. In another, 188 children were given radioactive iron-laced lemonade. From 1963 to 1971, 67 inmates in Oregon and 64 prisoners in Washington had their testicles targeted with X-rays to see what doses made them sterile.

At the Fernald State School, mentally retarded boys were fed radioactive iron and calcium but consent forms sent to parents didn’t mention radiation. Elsewhere psychiatric patients and infants were injected with radioactive iodine.

In a rare public condemnation, Clinton Administration Energy Sec. Hazel O’Leary confessed being aghast at the conduct of the scientists. She told Newsweek in 1994: “I said, ‘Who were these people and why did this happen?’ The only thing I could think of was Nazi Germany.” None of the victims were provided follow-on medical care. [...]

Full report here
[link to enenews.com]

they love this shit for some reason.........

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 04/12/2013 09:30 AM

CP, I hope it wasn't it you?...

A bit old news... she wrote the book almost 14 years ago...
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

"18 people -- 17 American adults and one Australian child -- were injected with plutonium without their knowledge or consent."
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"The only victims who received federal compensation were the 18 people injected with plutonium."
[link to old.post-gazette.com]

Many more radiation experiments on humans here:
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
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Fukushima farmers to grow 1st rice since accident

Farmers in a town in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, are preparing to plant their first rice since the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant 2 years ago.

An agricultural corporation in Hirono Town started planting rice early this week. Seeds planted on Monday already have 2-centimeter shoots.

Local farmers were unable to grow rice in the past 2 years because the town asked them not to because of concerns about radioactive contamination.

The town planted rice on an experimental basis last year and confirmed that its radiation levels were below the government limit.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Hmm...

2 vessels carrying MOX fuel to leave France for Japan

Kansai Electric Power Co. said Friday two vessels carrying uranium-plutonium mixed-oxide fuel, known as MOX fuel, will leave a port in France shortly to deliver the fuel to its nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast.

The transportation of the MOX fuel from Port of Cherbourg in northwestern France will mark the first time that such a fuel has been shipped to Japan since the Fukushima nuclear crisis, which was triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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Workers investigate Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 Torus Chamber

On April 11th and 12th, workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station used an endoscopic camera to investigate the torus chamber in the Unit 2 reactor building.  On the second day, workers used a sediment collection device to sample water and sediment from the Torus Chamber.

Radiation levels jumped to 134 millisieverts per hour just above the surface of the water, and rust and corrosion was easily visible.  The ambient temperature in the Torus Chamber is around 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) while the water temperature is around 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius).
[link to enformable.com]



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Let me offer an amateur analysis of your interrogative.

Since I haven't offered that you have said you were Japanese, other than my little witty reparte above,
you are volunteering the supposition that dishonesty is what is at question.

To my way of thinking, that's almost a confession of same.

More so in the beginning.. you posted with a Japanese flag,
used Japanese phrasing, ideology, axioms and nomenclature..
Even your avatar and nom-de-plume, Atom Boy, lent the impression, to any person with a brain, that you were a native Japanese, giving us the inside scoop on the catastrophe..
A bird's eye view, as it were.

You did and said NOTHING to dissuade that obviously mistaken categorization.

Very much a dishonorable act.

That's just lovely.
Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy..

I knew about the testicle doom, first I've read about the pregnant women.

Some cold-hearted mofos..
Makes you wonder how they could sleep at night.

God and country, I suppose.

Yeah.... Cause that island needs more Pu on it.

TEPCO yet to nail down cause of radioactive leaks at Fukushima plant

The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said Friday it has failed to find out why radioactive water leaked from underground tanks during visual checks of an area suspected to have been the cause of the incidents.

Workers removed part of the soil covering one of the troubled tanks and checked an area where a leak detection pipe, installed close to the tank, pierces though a water-containment sheet. But they could not find any irregularities there, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.

"We have no choice but to think that the leakage occurred at another place in the case of the No. 2 tank," TEPCO spokesman Masayuki Ono said at a press conference, while noting that junctions of water-containment sheets located around the tank could be seen as other suspicious areas.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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M6.3 quake jolts western Japan, at least 23 injured

A strong quake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck western Japan early Saturday, injuring at least 23 people in five prefectures, the Japan Meteorological Agency and police said.

More than 1,200 houses mainly on Awaji Island were damaged. A crack about 40-meters long was made on the grounds of an elementary school in the city of Sumoto on the island and liquefaction phenomenon was observed in nearby coastal areas.

The agency warned of possible aftershocks with an intensity of up to lower 5 over the coming week.

No quake damage was observed at nuclear facilities in western Japan including the Ikata power plant in Ehime Prefecture, the Shimane plant in Shimane Prefecture and an atomic laboratory in Osaka, their operators said. The Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture, the only plant that currently has operating reactors in Japan, was unaffected.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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I'm glad they're getting it out of Tennessee, but I distrust
their ability to transport it safely.




DOE finalizing plans to dump man-made uranium in Nevada
[link to www.foxnews.com]

Former manager handling injury safety reviews at TVA nuclear plants gets six years
[link to www.timesfreepress.com]

State's new nuclear agency gets cloak of secrecy
[link to www.dailypress.com]

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Virginia is creating a new agency to support development of nuclear power – a move that has upset environmentalists and open-government advocates, because the entity won't have to comply with the state's Freedom of Information Act and other laws.

For the past year or so, companies that work with nuclear energy have been speaking with experts at Virginia universities with nuclear engineering programs and at industry-related nonprofit groups. The goal was to foster collaboration among nuclear-energy advocates, according to Del. T. Scott Garrett, R-Lynchburg.

In January, Garrett introduced a bill to create the Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium Authority. Sen. Jeffrey McWaters, R-Virginia Beach, sponsored companion legislation in his chamber. Both bills were passed by the General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Bob McDonnell.

No corium in there..

Where is it..?




Workers investigate Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 Torus Chamber
[link to enformable.com]

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The ambient temperature in the Torus Chamber is around 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) while the water temperature is around 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius).

DOE finalizing plans to dump man-made uranium in Nevada

WASHINGTON –  A Department of Energy plan to drag hundreds of canisters of radioactive nuclear material into the Nevada desert for a “shallow land burial” is raising safety concerns as experts worry what could happen if the security of the bomb-making material were compromised.

Energy officials told FoxNews.com the department is preparing to ship 403 welded steel containers of a man-made highly radioactive cargo to the Nevada National Security Site, about an hour northwest of Las Vegas. 

The canisters would carry about 2.6 kilograms of uranium-233 and uranium-235 – two products so dangerous that they require safety escorts and can only be handled with remote-controlled cranes. 

The radiation at the exterior of the canisters is about 300 rads (radiation absorbed dose), which categorizes it as a high-hazard level. According to Robert Alvarez of the Institute of Policy Studies, this raises serious proliferation and safety concerns.
[link to www.foxnews.com]
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350 layoffs pending at nuke plant

The operator of the San Onofre nuclear plant is moving forward with a fourth round of layoffs that began in December in an effort to trim more than 700 employees.

Southern California Edison gave advance notice under federal regulations that it will reduce staff by 250, commencing on June 3. A previous notice documented 100 layoffs starting April 26.

The twin reactor plant on the northern edge of San Diego County has been shut down since January 2012 because of a small radiation leak and the subsequent discovery of rapid wear on tubing within recently replaced steam generators.
[link to www.utsandiego.com]
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Point Lepreau operating at less than 1% capacity

More problems at the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station have had the plant operating at less than one per cent power since Wednesday night, NB Power acknowledged late Friday.

"We were at less than zero (per cent) late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning," utility spokesperson Kathleen Duguay stated in an email to CBC News.

"We have been evaluating the benefit of going to zero since early last week."

NB Power says it continues to have problems with the chemistry of the water in Lepreau's non-nuclear boilers, an issue that caused the reactor to be turned off once already in December.
[link to www.cbc.ca]
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Brazil revives nuclear power plant

ANGRA DOS REIS, Brazil (CNN) -- A government-controlled firm is forging ahead with plans to resume expansion of Brazil's nuclear power program.

The Brazilian government has authorized the company, Electronuclear, to go back to work on the nation's third nuclear power plant.

Work on the Angra 3 reactor, near Rio de Janeiro, has been stalled for 22 years by a lack of money and political issues.

But the administration of President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva is turning to nuclear power to meet electricity needs that are growing with the country's booming economy.

"Things have changed a lot, and today it's clearer to everyone that nuclear energy has a role to play in the Brazilian electrical system, just like the other forms of producing electricity, which can't be dismissed," said Leonam Guimaraes, an Electronuclear spokesman.
[link to edition.cnn.com]
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