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Very bad and sad...

Cesium highest in plankton gathered at 25 degrees N. latitude

A team of Japanese researchers said Tuesday they have detected radioactive cesium released from the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in plankton collected from all 10 points in the Pacific it checked, and found the highest levels at around 25 degrees north latitude.

Researchers at the state-run Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology were among the team members who released a report on their findings at the six-day meeting of the Japan Geoscience Union which began Sunday at the Makuhari Messe international convention center in Chiba, east of Tokyo.

Minoru Kitamura, a marine ecologist and senior researcher at the agency, said plankton are thought to play a key role in the dispersion of the cesium because they are eaten by bigger fish.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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Should last for at least another 30 years...

Bill approved to file suits against TEPCO after 3-yr limit runs out

The House of Representatives approved a bill Tuesday to enable those affected by the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi complex to file suits seeking damages from its operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. even after the three-year statute of limitations on doing so runs out.

The bill will be enacted during the current Diet session following approval by the House of Councillors.

While a government organization has been mediating settlement talks between the affected people and TEPCO, some claims may become invalid after next March, the third anniversary of the disaster, if deals are not reached.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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This is a big Problem but as my Grandmother always said:
"You can't have everything"!

With the Location of the Plant we had soooo much Luck,
the most Emission went to the Sea and not on Land
but directly in to the Kuroshio Current:
[link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]
[link to swfsc.noaa.gov]

This Current is a massive Whirlpool directly in front of Nippon and she is very warm. ca. 25 Celsius!

This mean we can observe a Production of Phytoplankton
in really huge Eddies (the Whirlpools)
The Kuroshio is a warm current (24 °C annual average sea surface temperature), about 100 km wide and produces frequent small to meso-scale eddies. The Kuroshio Current is ranked as a moderately high productivity ecosystem (150-300 gCm−2y−1) based on SeaWiFs global primary productivity estimates. The coastal areas are highly productive and the maximum chlorophyll value is found around 100 meters depth.

There are indications that eddies contribute to the preservation and survival of fish larvae transported by the Kuroshio. Plankton biomass fluctuates yearly and is typically highest in the eddy area of the Kuroshio’s edge. Warm-core rings are not known for having high productivity. However, the biology of the warm-core rings from the Kuroshio Current show results of productivity equally distributed throughout for a couple of reasons. One is upwelling at the periphery; the other is the convective mixing caused by the cooling of surface water as the ring moves north of the current.

The thermostad is the deep mixed layer that has discrete boundaries and uniform temperature. Within this layer, nutrient-rich water is brought to the surface, which generates a burst of primary production. Given that the water in the core of a ring has a different temperature regime than the shelf waters, there are times when a warm-core ring is undergoing its spring bloom while the surrounding shelf waters are not.

There are many complex interactions with the warm-core ring and thus lifetime productivity is not very different from the surrounding shelf water.

A study in 1998 found that the primary productivity within a warm-core ring was almost the same as in the cold jet outside it, with evidence of upwelling of nutrients within the ring. In addition, there was discovery of dense populations of phytoplankton at the nutricline in a ring, presumably supported by upward mixing of nutrients.

Furthermore, there have been acoustic studies in the warm-core ring, which showed intense sound scattering from zooplankton and fish populations in the ring and very sparse acoustic signals outside of it.

Copepods have been used as indicator-species of water masses. It has been suggested that copepods have been transported from the Kuroshio Current into southwest Taiwan through the Luzon Strait. The Kuroshio intrusion through the Luzon Strait and further into the South China Sea may explain why copepods show a very high diversity in adjacent waters of the intrusion areas.

The Kuroshio Current intrusion has a major influence on C. sinicus and E. concinna, which are two copepod species with higher index values for winter and originate from the East China Sea. During the southwestern monsoon, the South China Sea Surface Current moves northward during the summer toward the Kuroshio Current. As a result of this water circulation, the zooplankton communities in the boundary waters are unique and diverse.

All the Fishes love this Condition!

When i am right the 25 degrees N. latitude is the exact Area
where all this Stuff moves to the East (USA/ Canada)

Damned, i knew it

CHART OF THE DAY: Thanks To Abenomics, Japan's Most Controversial Company Is Up 400% This Year
Here's a pretty shocking chart: it's the share price of TEPCO, the beleaguered Japanese power company at the center of the Fukushima nuclear disaster that followed from the Japanese earthquake in April 2011.

Year-to-date, the stock is up 396%. In recent days, it's gone absolutely vertical in the past few days on speculation that the company will at last power up its nuclear reactors again, which have been shut down since the disaster.

Tepco shares yesterday rose 16 percent to 726 yen after the Yomiuri newspaper reported the utility will apply to the Nuclear Regulation Authority for a restart of No. 1 and No. 7 units at the Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant in northern Japan in July.

Tepco denied the Yomiuri report and said the utility is still designing a filtered vent system, part of the new safety requirements to be set by the nuclear safety watchdog. The company can’t say when it can complete the installation.

[link to www.businessinsider.com]

I agree, plankton is more or less the start of the food chain... everything living in the ocean will be affected and finally sushi (which I love) will be dangerous to eat... I don't care... I'm old and don't care, as long as I can have my sushi a couple of years more or less in this insane world doesn't matter...
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Firm to appeal nuclear plant whistleblower case

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An engineering firm accused of firing a whistleblower for reporting unsafe conditions at an eastern Kansas nuclear power plant plans to appeal the ruling by federal regulators, the firm said Monday.

The Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found Enercon Services violated whistleblower protections when it retaliated against an engineer for raising concerns during construction work at the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant in Burlington.

The company was ordered to pay $261,152 in back wages, damages and interest, plus attorney’s fees. OSHA found it violated the whistleblower protections of the Energy Reorganization Act (ERA), OSHA said Monday.

“Professionals who work in the nuclear power industry have a right and responsibility to express their professional opinion and report safety-related concerns,” OSHA acting regional administrator Marcia Drumm said in a news release. “The department’s responsibility is to protect all employees from retaliation for exercising basic worker rights. The ERA protects the workers, who, in turn, protect the public.”
[link to www.ksn.com]
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Shut it down before it's too late...

Feds again delay San Onofre nuclear plant restart decision

Federal regulators have indefinitely delayed a decision on the proposed restart of the offline San Onofre nuclear power plant in Southern California, raising new questions Monday about whether the twin reactors will produce electricity again.
    
The plant, on the seaside border of San Diego and Orange counties, has been dark since January 2012, after a small radiation leak led to the discovery of unusual damage to hundreds of tubes that carry radioactive water.
[link to www.scpr.org]
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Another one bites the dust...

Kewaunee fuel rods removed from reactor

CARLTON — Nuclear fuel rods were removed from the reactor at Kewaunee Power Station last week and a majority of contractors left the plant Friday.

Dominion Resources said in October it would shutter the plant after failing to find a buyer during an 18-month search.

The fuel rods will remain in the spent fuel pool in the plant for at least seven years, after which they will be put into dry-cask storage on the site.

The plant contracted with hundreds of temporary workers to help prepare the plant for permanent shutdown.
[link to www.greenbaypressgazette.com]
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[link to enenews.com]


Tepco: M6 quake caused leak at Fukushima Daiichi — Water coming from pipe of Units 5, 6



This is a follow-up report on the statuses of Fukushima Daiichi and Daini Nuclear Power Stations after the earthquake occurred in the offshore of Fukushima Prefecture (M5.9) at around 2:48 PM on May 18.

At around 4:10 PM in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, a TEPCO employee found water dropping from an overflow pipe of Units 5-6 RO treated water tank (D7 tank) where the leakage was found yesterday on the site patrol after the earthquake. [...]

Energy companies to build thermal power plant

Two of Japan's biggest energy companies are cooperating to build a thermal power plant.

Officials at Tokyo Electric Power Company and Chubu Electric Power Company are in the final stages of negotiating the deal. They reportedly plan to sell the electricity outside their respective service areas.

This is a rare move for Japanese power companies, which are strictly regulated.

The 600-thousand-kilowatt coal-fired generator would be built in TEPCO's thermal power compound north of Tokyo.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Hundreds of Miyagi residents seek equal compensation as Fukushima

TOKYO — Hundreds of people living just outside Fukushima Prefecture say they have been denied adequate compensation after the country’s 2011 nuclear disaster despite suffering elevated radiation levels.

Nearly 700 residents from Hippo district in Miyagi Prefecture, just northeast of Fukushima, filed a claim Tuesday with a government arbitration office demanding that they be given the same compensation as residents of Fukushima.

The government’s basic compensation scheme only covers Fukushima residents, which critics say is an attempt to minimize costs.
[link to www.japantoday.com]
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Nuclear regulators acknowledge fault below Tsuruga reactor is active

The Nuclear Regulation Authority accepted on Wednesday an assessment that a reactor at the Tsuruga plant in western Japan is sitting above an active fault, making it increasingly difficult for the facility to resume operation.

It is the first time Japan's regulatory authorities have acknowledged an existing reactor is located above a fault feared to move in the future, according to an NRA official. The judgment may leave plant operator Japan Atomic Power Co. with no option but to scrap the No. 2 reactor.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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IAEA to open nuclear emergency response training center in Fukushima

The International Atomic Energy Agency will open a nuclear emergency response training center in Fukushima city next Monday, Fukushima Prefecture said Wednesday.

An IAEA official will be stationed at the Capacity Building Center to conduct three annual sessions for trainees from Japan and other countries.

Over four days from next Tuesday, the center will hold a session for some 40 people from 18 countries to monitor radiation, and collect and analyze soil samples around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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Thanks To Abenomics, The Company At The centre Of The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis, Has Surged Nearly 400% This Year

Here’s a pretty shocking chart: it’s the share price of TEPCO, the beleaguered Japanese power company at the centre of the Fukushima nuclear disaster that followed from the Japanese earthquake in April 2011.

[link to static.businessinsider.com]

Year-to-date, the stock is up 396%. In recent days, it’s gone absolutely vertical in the past few days on speculation that the company will at last power up its nuclear reactors again, which have been shut down since the disaster.

Bloomberg’s Tsuyoshi Inajima has the details:

Tepco shares yesterday rose 16 per cent to 726 yen after the Yomiuri newspaper reported the utility will apply to the Nuclear Regulation Authority for a restart of No. 1 and No. 7 units at the Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant in northern Japan in July.
[link to au.businessinsider.com]
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since 2011.. fuck they are fast.........

where's AB to say it was timely.....


In Red!
Because it makes more sense!
And you all boo-hoo because you are wrong!

I swim in the oceans!
using red colors
you do not know the situation!
we all swim in spent fuel pool!
yada yadah!



rant off.....

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 05/22/2013 10:41 AM

Palisades Nuclear Power Plant to replace bottom of leaking tank, remains shut down

SOUTH HAVEN, MI -- A repair plan has been developed for the damaged safety injection refueling water tank that shut down Palisades Nuclear Power Plant earlier this month.
After finding a small crack along a nozzle weld at the bottom of the tank, Palisades officials have decided to completely replace the tank bottom, according to spokesperson Lindsay Rose.

The facility was shut down May 5 after the leaking tank was discovered. The leak released a small amount of radioactive water into Lake Michigan.
[link to www.mlive.com]
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What a joke...

Japanese officials visit Hanford to learn nuclear cleanup strategies

The people overseeing the cleanup of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster are learning some valuable lessons from the long-running cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. A Japanese government delegation recently toured some of the southeast Washington site this week.

In Japan, workers in gloves and masks are grinding down sidewalks and roads, wiping down rooftops and bagging contaminated soil. Now, the problem is where to put all that radioactive waste from Fukushima.
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that'll help after there 5.6 broke their cooling pipes yeah?.. ffs....

You see, you don't understand much of the Situation in Fukushima because you are a uninformed Wimp!

There was not much Infrastructure left after the Quake+ the Tsunami, many Roads was broken, even the Train is just running again (a few Months)

But you need Infrastructure when you want to train People,
specially People from foreign Countries!

For People with a Obsessive–compulsive Disorder it is very difficult to understand this but they need to breath in and breath out!

Cherry Tomatoes and Asparagus, From Fukushima to Thailand
don't quite understand the psychology of some of the farmers in Fukushima in the past two years. From what's been reported and what I've known in blogs and tweets, they are angry that fickle consumers outside their prefecture are still fanning the "baseless rumors" that their produce is contaminated with radioactive materials from the biggest nuclear accident in Japan in history, and they are determined more than ever to keep producing anything they like and demand that consumers buy them, because they have to make living. I'm sure there are conscientious farmers who would rather not farm, but they are not vocal.

"Eat and support" is now clearly being expanded to foreign countries, with Thailand to start.

For some time, the Fukushima prefectural government and Fukushima JA seem to have been targeting Thailand, which receives 70% of foreign economic aids from Japan, according to Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. First, it was Fukushima peaches. Then apples, pears, then persimmons. Now, Fukushima will sell fresh cherry tomatoes and asparagus to wealthy Thais.

[link to ex-skf.blogspot.jp]

Hanford is not a good place to learn from. Unless they want to learn from Hanford's mistakes.

Stricken Japan Nuke Plant Struggles to Keep Staff
Keeping the meltdown-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan in stable condition requires a cast of thousands. Increasingly the plant's operator is struggling to find enough workers, a trend that many expect to worsen and hamper progress in the decades-long effort to safely decommission it.

Tokyo Electric Power Co., the utility that runs the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant that melted down in March 2011 after being hit by a tsunami, is finding that it can barely meet the headcount of workers required to keep the three broken reactors cool while fighting power outages and leaks of tons of radiated water, said current and former nuclear plant workers and others familiar with the situation at Fukushima.

Construction jobs are already plentiful in the area due to rebuilding of tsunami ravaged towns and cities. Other public works spending planned by the government, under the "Abenomics" stimulus programs of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is likely to make well-paying construction jobs more abundant. And less risky, better paid decontamination projects in the region irradiated by the Fukushima meltdown are another draw.

Some Fukushima veterans are quitting as their cumulative radiation exposure approaches levels risky to health, said two long-time Fukushima nuclear workers who spoke to The Associated Press. They requested anonymity because their speaking to the media is a breach of their employers' policy and they say being publicly identified will get them fired.

Read more at: [link to abcnews.go.com]

It's obvious, Japan hates Thailand and needs some money to prop up it's nuke industry...





Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 05/23/2013 06:37 AM

Don't worry, the Yakuza can always get more workers off the bread-line


Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 05/23/2013 06:00 AM

Fukushima prefecture mountains in blue bags

Oh Yes, you are right,
why are we so blind and you so hyper-smart?

How do they do this, how do the Japanese Farme
produce uncontaminated Fruits
while the whole World is watching them?


Your imagination is simply wrong!

I'm not convinced... so far all tested robots have stumbled and can't get up again or have been irradiated to "death"...

Robot for nuclear decommissioning

The government and Tokyo Electric Power Company say they plan to build a facility to develop a robot to help decommission the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Radiation levels in the plant are too high for workers to remove melted nuclear fuel rods.

The government and TEPCO say they will develop a robot that can be operated remotely. They plan to build the facility in a town in Fukushima Prefecture, about 20 kilometers from the crippled plant.

The facility will include a life-size model of the containment vessel.

Workers will be trained to operate the robot at the facility.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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German statesman cites merits of closing reactors

A German politician, who is visiting Japan, says scraping nuclear reactors and turning to renewable energy would be an economically sound choice. German officials have decided to shut down all the nuclear reactors in the country by 2022, following the 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

In an interview with NHK on Wednesday, the President of the German Bundesrat, Winfried Kretschmann, explained about his country's efforts to terminate its nuclear power generation.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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maybe this will get attention here if it hasnt already,

the US now has its own Fuckushima, well not similar, but nukefuckfucked...

Thread: Fucked NUKE LEAK: Hanford officials hid leak evidence from advisory panel.

basically the worst shit in the world is dumping into the columbia and washington rivers... and has been since their last 'inspection'