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

We haven't learned a thing from fuku..
Just a matter of time and circumstance.



Homeowner shuts down U.S. nuclear plant for 3 days — Tree fell onto transmission line after being cut down (VIDEO)
[link to enenews.com]

i paid for it shhh.. check your inbox? junk folder?

Highly Radioactive Piece Emitting 3,400 Microsieverts/Hour (Beta/Gamma) Surface Radiation Found in Naraha-machi in #Fukushima During Decontamination Work to Return Residents

The town was designated as "no-entry" zone until August 10, 2012. The area where this tiny piece, with surface contamination of more than 100,000 cpm (meaning their survey meter went overscale), according to TEPCO, was found is currently designated as "Area preparing for the lifting of the evacuation order" (i.e. residents can return).

[link to ex-skf.blogspot.ca]

[link to fukushimaemergencywhatcanwedo.blogspot.com.au]

Australian legacies....

Niigata governor opposes nuke plant restarts, criticizes TEPCO
The governor of Niigata Prefecture lashed out at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s decision to apply for the restarts of two nuclear reactors, stating that the utility, operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, cannot be trusted.

“There is no greater disregard for local people than this,” Governor Hirohiko Izumida told reporters on July 2 at the prefectural government office about TEPCO's intent to restart two reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture. "It is an act to completely destroy a relationship of trust."

Izumida criticized TEPCO for determining a course of action without providing an explanation to local governments and communities.

“Who could trust such a company?” the governor said.

[link to ajw.asahi.com]

Japan Nears Switching on Reactors After Tepco’s Meltdown: Energy
A countdown is starting in Japan for restarting some of the 48 nuclear reactors that were idled after the 2011 Fukushima meltdowns caused the worst atomic accident since Chernobyl.

The nation’s Nuclear Regulation Authority will receive applications for switching on plants starting July 8, and more than five utilities plan to seek permits. Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the wrecked Dai-Ichi plant that spread radiation in the Fukushima area, said yesterday it will seek permission to start its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant as soon as possible. Its shares jumped 19 percent yesterday.

[link to www.bloomberg.com]

remember atom-boy-who-is-baned-tepoc-twat ;)....

kruschov said 'we will bury you'

@Cblubberploerb, who-is-a-Son-of-dancing-Banana



You are so deadly wrong u must be a real Shill or soooo sick

remember atom-boy-who-is-baned-tepoc-twat ;)....

kruschov said 'we will bury you'

The Death is a Master from Canatard and Australia
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World Uranium Mining Production 2012
Kazakhstan produces the largest share of uranium from mines (36.5% of world supply from mines in 2012), followed by Canada (15%) and Australia (12%).

[link to www.world-nuclear.org]

Good that we have Mr.Wasintokyoandsawitall,
he may explain his Double-Moral Standarts
but i doubt it because he is sooooooooo baka.

Wonder if we'll ever see the results....?



Rad Alaska

The National Nuclear Security Administration this week said it had completed an exercise in conjunction with the U.S. Coast Guard and the Alaska Aerospace Corp. The exercise was to "validate the use of NNSA Aerial Measuring System (AMS) sensing equipment on board a Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter based at Air Station Kodiak, Alaska," the federal agency said in its announcement.
[link to blogs.knoxnews.com]

Group: MOX exposed to cyber attacks
[link to www.aikenstandard.com]

PSST… A Non-Classified Secret from Dept. of Energy Budget Analysis

Analyzing US Department of Energy’s Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Request, two thirds of DOE’s annual spending has “gone to maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons complex and cleaning up its environmental legacy”. Weapons research and production modernization has an estimated cost of $167 billion over 20 future years.

In fact, a Mixed Oxide Program (MOX) has been started at DOE’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Costing at least $4.8 billion and ten years behind schedule, the report states U.S. nuclear utilities are “balking at using MOX fuel”. Why? That’s how one of the most damaged reactors at Fukushima was fueled.

Greenpeace called the manufacture of MOX fuels political.
[link to www.huntingtonnews.net]

On this week’s podcast we interviewed Terry Lodge, a trial lawyer with significant experience working on nuclear issues. We have worked with Terry on cases involving San Onofre, Fermi, and Davis Besse, and today he joins us to discuss the challenge of participating meaningfully with the NRC. Is the NRC doing their job to protect citizens, or have they designed a byzantine system to thwart the public and protect the industry?
[link to fairewinds.org]

Answers demanded after Pacific nuclear testing revelations

People exposed to nuclear testing in the Pacific are demanding answers after revelations the radiation fallout was more widespread than first thought.

Newly declassified French military documents released today detail the 46 atmospheric nuclear tests conducted at Mururoa and Fangataufa in French Polynesia between 1966 and 1974, revealing that warships near the tests were hit by higher levels of radioactivity than known.
[link to tvnz.co.nz]

All β nuclide level increased to be 4,300,000 Bq/m3 at 6m from the sea, “1.4 times much as 3 days ago”
[link to fukushima-diary.com]

Fukushima Plant Operator Intends to Restart Reactors Elsewhere

TOKYO — The operator of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said Tuesday that it would ask regulators to allow it to restart two reactors at a separate site in eastern Japan, even as problems with the company’s cleanup in Fukushima continue to multiply.
[link to www.nytimes.com]

Thanks again CP but what inbox and junk folder?... as I told you I'm not a registered user at GLP...
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Never heard of it until today... comments?...

Nuclear Waste Adventure Trail

Weldon Spring, Missouri

The largest explosives factory in America once stood on land just south of Weldon Spring, Missouri. Ten years later, the same property was occupied by a plant that refined uranium for Cold War nuclear bombs. The site was abandoned in the late 1960s. Twenty years later, when the EPA showed up, what they found was a big, filthy mess.

What do you do with 1.48 million cubic yards of PCBs, mercury, asbestos, TNT, radioactive uranium and radium, and contaminated sludge and rubble? Rather than haul it west into a desert, the Weldon Spring management team hit upon a novel solution: they would entomb it right where it was, inside a man-made mini-mountain.

Today, you can climb it as a tourist attraction.
[link to www.roadsideamerica.com]
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N.Korea remains positive about nuclear talks

A North Korean diplomat is heading for Russia in the hope of resuming the stalled six-party talks on the North's nuclear program.

First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan will fly to Moscow on Wednesday after a stop in Beijing.

Kim is due to meet senior officials of the Russian Foreign Ministry to ask for their assistance in restarting the six-party talks. These have been stalled for 4-and-a-half years.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Nuclear authority allows 2 reactors to stay online

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority has approved the safety of the only 2 nuclear reactors currently operating in the country.

NRA officials say the Number 3 and 4 reactors at the Ohi nuclear power plant will remain online until their next regular maintenance check in September.

NRA members at a meeting on Wednesday approved a report stating the Ohi plant on the Sea of Japan coast poses no immediate threat to safety.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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New land survey for radiation storage sites

The environment ministry says it will conduct surveys of land in a town near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant in an effort to locate a suitable storage site for radioactive soil and debris.

Senior Vice Environment Minister Shinji Inoue notified the mayor of Naraha Town, Yukiei Matsumoto, of the plan on Wednesday.

The government will conduct surveys at 10 candidate sites in the town's Namikura district starting in the middle of July. Officials say they obtained permission from landowners.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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TEPCO: Corrosion may be responsible for leak

The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says chemical corrosion was likely to blame for a leak in a new filtering system.

Tokyo Electric Power Company workers found the leak last month in the welding of a tank. The vessel holds contaminated water and is part of a system designed to remove radioactive materials.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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It's not the "World's first floating wind turbine" but still a a move in the right direction...

World's first floating wind turbine arrives in Fukushima

FUKUASHIMA — Fukushima, site of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and one of the areas hardest hit by the Tohoku earthquake of March 11, 2011, has now become home to the world’s first floating wind turbine power generators.

The turbine, to be used for generating power off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture, was towed out of Tokyo Bay on June 28 to a deep-sea site where it arrived on July 1. The turbine and its platform are to form part of an experimental, floating power sub-station, according to TV Asahi.

The turbine, made by Hitachi Ltd and assembled in Chiba, is expected to produce 2 megawatts of electricity, enough to power around 600 homes.
[link to www.japantoday.com]
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Wrongful death suit filed in wake of fatal accident at Arkansas Nuclear One

On Easter Sunday, March 31st, 2013, 24-year-old Wade Walters was working at the only nuclear power plant in Arkansas owned by Entergy, as operators were removing the Main Turbine Generator Stator.  The stator device, which weighs over 500 tons, fell and killed Wade, injured others, and caused a loss of off-site power.

This week, the family of Wade Walters filed a wrongful death lawsuit which states; “This is an action for wrongful death, ordinary negligence, negligent hiring, negligent training, negligent supervision, negligent retention, negligent hiring of an independent contractor, for declaratory judgment, and for punitive damages, stemming from multiple incidents of recklessness and negligence that lead to the collapse of an industrial crane on Easter Sunday, 2013, killing Wade Walters.”

The suit is filed against Bigge Group Inc, Biggie Power Constructors, Biggie Crane and Rigging Co., Siemens Energy Inc, DP Engineering Inc, Entergy Arkansas Inc, Entergy Operations Inc, and three unidentified individuals.
[link to enformable.com]
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PALO VERDE: NOTICE OF UNUSUAL EVENT DUE TO EXPLOSION IN A NON-SAFETY RELATED LOAD CENTER

The following event description is based on information currently available. If through subsequent reviews of this event additional information is identified that is pertinent to this event or alters the information being provided at this time a follow-up notification will be made via the ENS or under the reporting requirements of 10CFR50.73.

On 7/2/2013, at approximately 2027 MST, Palo Verde Unit 1 experienced a reactor power cutback from 100% rated thermal power due to explosion [in a non-safety related load center (1ENGNL02)]. The unit was at normal temperature and pressure prior to the cutback.

At 2035 [MST] PVNGS Unit 1 declared an Unusual Event due to the explosion EAL HU 2.2.

Unit 1 is stable at 61% rated thermal power. No ESF actuations occurred and none were required. The event did not result in any challenges to the fission product barrier or result in any releases of radioactive materials. There were no adverse safety consequences or implications as a result of this event. The event did not adversely affect the safe operation of the plant or health and safety of the public."

* * * UPDATE ON 7/3/13 AT 0229 EDT FROM JEONG LIM TO PETE SNYDER * * *

Palo Verde Unit 1 is stable at 58% rated thermal power and is implementing abnormal operating procedures for reactor power cutback due to loss of one Main Feedwater Pump and degraded electrical power due to loss of non-class 13.8kV load center 1ENGNL02. Load center 1ENGNL02 was damaged from an apparent electrical malfunction that originated within the load center. The 13.8kV supply breaker to load center 1ENGNL02 tripped to deenergize the load center. Palo Verde Fire Department personnel responded but determined that the load center was deenergized and no fire existed and no extinguishing agents were applied. No damage to other equipment in proximity to load center 1ENGNL02 was identified during a preliminary inspection of the area around the damaged load center.

The NRC Resident Inspector has been notified.
[link to www.nucpros.com]
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Another Vogtle Reactor Deadline Passes: Taxpayer Advocates Warn Government Keeps Pushing Bad Deal That Wall Street Won’t Touch

Think Washington has learned its lesson after Solyndra? Think again. The nonpartisan budget watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) pointed out that another deadline has passed for the U.S. government, Southern Company, and other entities involved in the controversial Vogtle nuclear reactor project to reach agreement on loan guarantee terms.



Even as the end of June deadline for reaching agreement on loan guarantee terms comes and goes, Washington continues to woo Southern and its utility partners – while nearly every major Wall Street rating firm has downgraded Southern and the related entities due to increased risks and financial uncertainties associated with the Vogtle project, which could cost taxpayers 15 times that of the Solyndra deal.
[link to www.southeastgreen.com]

More than likely a piece of reactor 3 debris. The MOX reactor.
Hell of a blast. Seven kilometers away. 4.3 miles.


Extremely radioactive piece of debris found in 7km from Fukushima nuclear plant “3.4 mSv/h”
[link to fukushima-diary.com]

steam anyone?

5.0 Fukushima

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Notice! This is a computer-generated report - this event has not reviewed by a seismologist!
EDIS Number: EQ-20130703-337156-JPN
Magnitude: 5.0
Mercalli scale: 5
Date-Time [UTC]: Wednesday, 03th July 2013 at 03:06 PM
Local Date/Time: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 at 00:06 at night at epicenter
Coordinate: 37° 20.772, 141° 28.506
Depth: 12.40 km (7.71 miles)
Hypocentrum: Shallow depth
Class: Moderate
Region: Asia
Country: Japan
Location: 44.71 km (27.78 miles) - of Namie, Fukushima, Japan
Source: USGS
Generated Tsunami: Not or no data
Damage: Not or no data
The potential impact of the earthquake
Almost everyone feels movement. Sleeping people are awakened. Doors swing open or close. Dishes are broken. Pictures on the wall move. Small objects move or are turned over. Trees might shake. Liquids might spill out of open containers.

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