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

NPR: Melted reactor cores’ radioactivity being carried out to sea — Expert warns saltwater will flow into Fukushima plant if ice wall is installed; “Even if it works, it might not be a good thing… can have ‘unintended consequences’” (AUDIO)
[link to enenews.com]

Radio: In the history of science we’ve never seen anything like this Fukushima plume heading across Pacific to U.S. and Canada — Why is Japan allowed to get away with contaminating ocean? (AUDIO)
[link to enenews.com]

Pro-Nuclear Journalist: “It’s shocking we don’t know where the fuel is” at any of the 3 reactors that had meltdowns at Fukushima (AUDIO)
[link to enenews.com]

Guess which thread got this amount of hits at my blog from japan yesterday?....

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United Kingdom 18
Australia 16
Germany 14
Indonesia 10
Netherlands 9

I'll bite. This one..?

Japan Prime Minister’s Fiction vs. Fact: Fukushima contamination has never done any damage to Tokyo; Radioactive water at plant was “blocked” — Study: Tokyo was contaminated — Experts: Radioactive water is constantly flowing out to sea and almost impossible to stop
[link to enenews.com]

Radio: Problems looming at Fukushima plant; Soil unstable, risk of liquefaction — CBC: If fuel pool comes down, release could be dozens of times larger than Chernobyl (AUDIO)
[link to enenews.com]

Gundersen: Spent fuel likely to break when pulled from Fukushima Unit 4 pool — Racks have been distorted; Fuel rods overheated — Suspects some will be stuck there for long, long time (AUDIO)
[link to enenews.com]

“Seawater is being poisoned at a continuous rate” from Fukushima plant — Source of life on which our lives depend is being corrupted
[link to enenews.com]

Nuclear Consultant: They will have to maintain Fukushima ice wall for hundreds of years if ever installed (AUDIO)
[link to enenews.com]

Reports: New site with high levels of radiation at Fukushima — Urgent problem says IAEA, experts to examine massive water build-up — Found ‘immediately after’ Olympic speech claiming it’s under control — May stop plan to dump groundwater in sea
[link to enenews.com]

Column: Yucca Mountain and the U.S. Constitution
[link to www.aikenstandard.com]



The recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals regarding the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository was a major victory for both Aiken County and the Constitution. Whether this decision will jump start the mothballed facility remains unknown.

The 2-to-1 decision, written by Judge Brett Kavanaugh and joined in a concurring opinion by Judge Arthur Randolph, granted a writ of mandamus forcing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to continue the licensing process for the Yucca Mountain facility.

The chain of events leading to this decision began in 2010 when Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko, a former aide to Yucca Mountain opponent Sen. Harry Reid, violated the Nuclear Waste Policy Act.

Spread of contamination likely to prevent TEPCO from pumping groundwater into the ocean
[link to enformable.com]

TEPCO told reporters on Monday that groundwater from a monitoring observation well at Fukushima Daiichi was found to contain extremely high levels of radiation including 3,200 becquerels of beta-emitting materials per liter. This most recent finding will likely affect TEPCO’s plans reported last week to pump groundwater into the ocean before it reached the crippled reactor buildings. The contaminated monitoring well is less than 150 yards from where the pumping well is installed.

This one was part of it, but the one with japanese prime minister for olympics, but yes, links to argument went straight here ;)

I was just joking.
Figured it was the Olympic thing.

That has me dumbfounded, in a way.
How can they get away with such blatant lies..?

dunno man, they did it on Chanel 7 today to... damn.... the knew, news.....

i'm finding more and more news jaw-droppingly stupid.....

Japan elects not to prosecute former TEPCO executives and government officials for handling of Fukushima disaster
[link to enformable.com]


It is not hard to find people in Japan who disagree with the prosecutor’s decision. Toshitsuna Watanabe is the mayor of Okuma Town in Fukushima Prefecture, one of the towns which has been evacuated due to high radiation levels; he is just one of the people living in Japan who feel that the delayed responses during the early stages of the accident allowed the damage to worsen.

The residents of Fukushima who filed the criminal complaints still have recourse available; they plan to take the matter up before a prosecution inquest panel, which is comprised of randomly-selected citizens.

S.Korea vying to win Vietnam's nuclear project

South Korean President Park Geun-hye is in Vietnam where she has made a pitch for projects to build nuclear power plants in the country.

Park met Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang in the capital Hanoi on Monday. She is being accompanied by 79 senior South Korean corporate officials on her visit to the country.

Park and Sang spoke to reporters after discussing bilateral cooperation mainly in economic areas.

Park expressed hope for winning orders from Vietnam for nuclear plant construction projects. She said the 2 sides agreed that South Korea's experience in nuclear power development and technologies would contribute to fostering Vietnam's nuclear power industry.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Decontamination delay affects evacuees

A major delay in the government's decontamination efforts in areas around the Fukushima Daiichi plant is seriously affecting the lives of evacuees who hope to return to their homes.

The Environment Ministry on Tuesday admitted that it cannot finish the project in 7 cities and towns by its initial deadline set for the end of next March.

The ministry attributes the delay to difficulty in obtaining agreements from evacuees living in different locations, and securing sites to store radioactive soil.

In Iitate Village, only 3 percent of the houses have been decontaminated despite the ministry's initial plan to finish the work for the village by next March.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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TEPCO invites U.S. nuclear expert to address Fukushima nuclear issue

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday it will invite U.S. nuclear expert Lake Barrett to provide advice on how to deal with radiation-contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Barrett, who helped control the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident as an official of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will attend Friday's meeting at TEPCO's head office on the matter.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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Taiwan's 4th nuclear plant might be ready for loading fuel rods in Sept.: ministry

Taiwan's problem-plagued fourth nuclear power plant located in the densely populated north of the island may be ready for loading of fuel rods as early as this month, if testing of the fueling platform is completed as planned, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said Tuesday.

Victor Sung, deputy director of the ministry's Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant project office, said testing of the refueling platform was scheduled to be completed by August, but has been pushed back to the end of September.

"Once the testing is over, the fourth nuclear power plant (in Lungmen, New Taipei City) will have the capacity to load fuel rods and replace spent fuel rods," he said.
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]
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Important information for Mums and Dads
[link to technologypals.com.au]

More bad news...



Detection of radioactive Iodine I-129 in roof gutter moss Australia.
[link to sccc.org.au]


If my assessment is correct, this Southern Hemisphere detection is not a good sign. This is a lot of Iodine I-129. The other possibility is it is Lead Pb-210, or a mixture of both. The main peak is much closer to 40 keV than to 47 keV for lead Pb-210. I have tested this sample with different software, and calibrated a number of times, it very much looks like I-129.



This means it is bio-accumulating. So even though our background levels have not risen a lot, bio-accumulations could present a more serious issue. The moss also had some other material mixed in with it, that it was growing on, leaves and other organic matter. This test result also suggests that there would be more 1-129 in fallout in the Northern Hemisphere.

I have discussed this test result with some of my contacts here.

and yet how much is spent to stop people from smoking - and mainstream media ignores Fukushima....

Societal behavior is full of paradoxes.

yeah, but i believe it to be social engineering..

Definitely a factor. No doubt.

Japan Nuclear Expert: I was “flabbergasted” by Olympic speech — Fukushima reactors are actually destroyed and constantly leaking in ocean — Contamination dumping into sea — PM: “It’s contained in 0.3 km² area of harbor”
[link to enenews.com]

AFP: Fears that Fukushima melted reactor cores have “eaten through” concrete of containment vessels — Tepco plan claims fuel to be removed at same time as 2020 Olympics in Tokyo
[link to enenews.com]

NHK: Contaminated water problem “getting more serious” at Fukushima — Gov’t task force on nuclear waste flowing into Pacific Ocean
[link to enenews.com]