[Fukushima NukeBlog Index]
May 30, 2012
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| Radioactive bluefin tuna crossed the Pacific to US San Jose Mercury News Scientists said the radiation found in the fish came from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant that was crippled by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. LOS ANGELES—Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked ... See all stories on this topic » | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Measuring Radiation Between Calls: A Smartphone for the Post-Fukushima Age Wall Street Journal (blog) Responding to demand from people concerned about radiation levels in post-Fukushima Japan, cell phone carrier Softbank Corp. has unveiled a mobile phone that can measure them. Associated Press Softbank unveils its Pantone 5 mobile devices on May 29 in ... See all stories on this topic » | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fukushima quake/tsunami disturbed upper atmosphere - NASA (No it's not HAARP Chemtrails) Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuters) - The massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Fukushima, Japan, last year wreaked havoc in the skies above as well, disturbing electrons in the upper atmosphere, NASA reported. The waves of energy from the quake and tsunami ...
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| Fukushima has positive fallout for marine science Nature.com The radioactivity is well below levels that would cause concern for human health, but the results show that fallout from the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant last year provides an unusual opportunity to track the animals, ... See all stories on this topic » | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Radioactive cesium from Fukushima found in tuna caught off US Times of India PTI May 29, 2012, 01.56PM IST TOKYO: Trace amounts of radioactive cesium released from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been found in bluefin tuna caught off the western coast of the United States, according to a study. See all stories on this topic » | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fukushima and the Pacific, is the crisis over? Electric Light & Power Could the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima prove to be a cataclysmic event? Nuclear fallout is being detected in most of the Pacific, even along the distant shores of America's coast line. Radiation has been detected in most of the Pacific kelp ... See all stories on this topic » | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| How Fukushima's radiation got into California's tuna The Week Magazine Surprisingly, bluefin tuna have carried radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear meltdown to US waters. Here's how it happened, and how it affects sushi A school of bluefin tuna: You'd have to eat 2.5 to 4 tons of California bluefin tuna in a year to ... See all stories on this topic » | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Tuna Contaminated With Fukushima Radiation Found in California ... By Justin McCurry This story first appeared on the Guardian website and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Bluefin tuna contaminated with radiation believed to be from Fukushima Daiichi turned up off the coast of California just five ... MoJo Articles | Mother Jones | ||
| New Report Unveils the Impact of Fukushima Radiation on Marine ... By Timon Singh According to a report published in the highly-respected journal PNAS, the levels of radiation caused by the Fukushima nuclear disaster and experienced by marine organisms throughout the food chain are well below levels which could cause ... INHABITAT | ||
| Fukushima inquiry: I felt helpless, says former PM | guardian.co.uk ... By admin Naoto Kan urges Japan to abandon nuclear power as the industry attempts to bring closed reactors back into operation Justin McCurry in Tokyo Japan's prime. peacenews.org | ||
| Bluefin tuna record Fukushima radioactivity - Care2 News Network By Sophie Morgan Pacific Bluefin tuna caught off the coast of California have been found to have radioactive contamination from last year's Fukushima nuclear accident. Care2 News Network | ||
| Fukushima Radiation Now Detected in the U.S. Food Supply ... By mpeters Scores of experts and analysts have feared for months that it would happen, and now it has: Radiation from the heavily damaged nuclear power plants at Japan's Fukushima complex has made it into the seafood chain off the coast of America. EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of... |
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May 29, 2012
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| Fukushima Radiation in Bluefin Tuna Expected to Fall BusinessWeek By Stuart Biggs on May 29, 2012 Radioactive material found in bluefin tuna that swam or fed in waters off the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan is likely to decrease over time as the material dilutes in the ocean, scientists said. the bluefin’s metabolism, which should excrete cesium at a rate of about 2 percent per day, Bluefin can grow as long as 3 meters (9.8 feet), and have been proven to travel as far as 45,000 miles in 16 months, Cesium levels found in the post-Fukushima bluefin were less than the radioactive doses naturally occurring in the fish from isotopes including potassium 40 See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Fukushima Radiation in Bluefin Tuna Is Expected to Decline Bloomberg Radioactive material found in bluefin tuna that swam or fed in waters off the crippled Fukushimanuclear plant in Japan is likely to decrease over time as the material dilutes in the ocean, scientists said. A study of 15 Pacific bluefin caught off San ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Softbank unveils post-Fukushima radiation smartphone Reuters TOKYO (Reuters) - Mobile phone operator Softbank Corp said on Tuesday it would soon begin selling smartphones with radiation detectors, tapping into concerns that atomic hotspots remain along Japan's eastern coast more than a year after the Fukushima ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Japan starts atomic watchdog debate, reactor decision nears Reuters The push to create a nuclear regulatory agency is part of Tokyo's efforts to allay public concerns about safety as it nears a decision on restarting some of its idled reactors, all of which have been shut down in the 14 months since Fukushima. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Nuclear Tuna Is Hot News, But Not Because It's Going To Make You Sick NPR (blog) Really, it seems just plain daffy to ignore a new study that says some Pacific bluefin tuna picked up traces of radioactive material from the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year and brought it across the Pacific Ocean. And while, as a rule, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Bluefin Tuna Radiation: Is There A Health Risk? Huffington Post Scientists believe that the radiation -- in the form of the isotopes, caesium-137 and caesium-134 -- came from the Fukushima nuclear meltdown in March of 2011. The rates of caesium-137 and caesium-134 were elevated about 3 percent, compared to previous ...The rates of caesium-137 and caesium-134 were elevated about 3 percent, compared to previous years in muscle samples taken from 15 two-year-old bluefin tuna caught off the coast of San Diego, Calif.
"That's definitely the mark of Fukushima,"..."Most likely, the [tuna] would have eaten some contaminated fish off the coast of Japan and then swam across the Pacific ocean."..In fact, according to the data, rates of caesium-137 and caesium-134 are 35 times less than the amount of radioactive potassium, which is naturally-occurring in the fish. Radioactive potassium, along with polonium-210 are the two most common and largest radioactive compounds in our foods, but even these give off far less radiation than other natural sources we are exposed to on an annual basis: radon, which occurs naturally in soil and rock, and cosmic rays....the fish that were used in this research were caught for sport, not for food.
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| Fukushima Nuclear Radiation Found in Pacific Bluefin Tuna - Inhabitat By Leon Kaye . Low levels of radiation from last year’s Fukushima Diaichii disaster in Japan have been discovered in bluefin tuna swimming of the California coast. Scientists say the trace amounts are not necessarily harmful to people if consumed, and were far less than safety limits the Japanese government has established. But the radiation evident in the tuna caught in August 2011 surprised scientists and revealed just how quickly fish can carry these compounds faster than winds or water currents. INHABITAT | ||
| Japan's Softbank unveils radiation detecting smartphone following ... By Trevor Mogg Read 'Japan's Softbank unveils radiation detecting smartphone following Fukushima disaster' on Digital Trends. Japanese mobile carrier Softbank has... Digital Trends | ||
| Evacuee's suicide sad reminder how Fukushima continues to claim ... By saeeda A 62-year-old evacuee from Fukushima Prefecture made a brief visit to his radiation-contaminated home, walked to his shuttered shop, and then hanged himself in a storage space. The death is yet another sad reminder how the March 11, ... This Just In | ||
| cryptogon.com » Tepco Admits Fukushima Disaster Released 2.5 ... By Kevin The radiation released in the first days of the Fukushima nuclear disaster was almost 2-1/2 times the amount first estimated by Japanese safety regulators, the operator of the crippled plant said in a report released on Thursday. Tokyo Electric ...
Tokyo Electric Power said its own analysis conducted over the past year put the amount of radiation released in the first three weeks of the accident at about one-sixth the radiation released during the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
estimated meltdowns at three Fukushima reactors released about 900,000 terabecquerels of radioactive substances into the air during March.
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May 28, 2012
How Fukushima May Show Up in Your Sushi ABC News (blog) Those looking for evidence of the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan may need search no further than their next plate of sushi, Stanford University researchers report. The researchers tested 15 Pacific bluefin tuna that had migrated ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Fukushima radiation seen in tuna off California Reuters By Deborah Zabarenko | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Low levels of nuclear radiation from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima power plant have turned up in bluefin tuna off the California coast, suggesting that these fish carried radioactive compounds across the ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Tuna Carried Fukushima Radioactivity to US Coast Wall Street Journal By ROBERT LEE HOTZ Pacific bluefin tuna migrating last year from coastal Japan to the waters off Southern California contained radioactive cesium isotopes from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, scientists reported Monday. The amount of radioactivity in ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Fukushima farmers decontaminate soil, plant rice, praying for radiation-free ... Washington Post FUKUSHIMA, Japan — Last year's crop sits in storage, deemed unsafe to eat, but Toraaki Ogata is back at his rice paddies, driving his tractor trailing neat rows of seedlings. He's living up to his family's proud, six-generation history of rice farming ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Low levels of Fukushima cesium found in West Coast tuna CNN (blog) Scientists hope to test new samples of Pacific bluefin tuna after low levels of radioactive cesium from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident turned up in fish caught off California in 2011, researchers reported Monday. The bluefin spawn off Japan ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Tuna carry Fukushima radiation across Pacific to US msnbc.com Previously, smaller fish and plankton were found with elevated levels of radiation in Japanese waters after a magnitude-9 earthquake in March 2011 triggered a tsunami that badly damaged theFukushima Dai-ichi reactors. But scientists did not expect the ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Japan's Former Leader Condemns Nuclear Power New York Times TOKYO — In an unusually stark warning, Japan's prime minister during last year's nuclear crisis told a parliamentary inquiry on Monday that the country should discard nuclear power as too dangerous, saying the Fukushima accident had pushed Japan to ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Japan's ex-PM: I was frightened by nuclear crisis Seattle Post Intelligencer MARI YAMAGUCHI, AP In this aerial photo taken from the Asahi Shimbun helicopter, reactors of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant stand in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Monday, May 28, 2012. See all stories on this topic » |
| Bluefin tuna carried a little radiation from Japan to California, study says Los Angeles Times Pacific bluefin tuna carried radioactivity from Japan's 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster all the way across the ocean to the shores of California, scientists reported Monday. They didn't bring much — the levels were far lower than, for instance ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Japan Nuclear Disaster: Farmers Pray For Radiation-Free Rice Huffington Post By YURI KAGEYAMA 05/28/12 04:53 AM ET FUKUSHIMA, Japan -- Last year's crop sits in storage, deemed unsafe to eat, but Toraaki Ogata is back at his rice paddies, driving his tractor trailing neat rows of seedlings. He's living up to his family's proud, ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| #Fukushima Accident Investigation: It's Naoto Kan's Turn to Take the ... By arevamirpal::laprimavera Covering Fukushima I (Daiichi) Nuclear Accident Since March 11, 2011. Home · EX-SKF Shop ...Yukio Edano Blamed Everyone Else for Fukushima Acc... ► 05/20 - 05/27 ... #Fukushima I Nuke Plant Press Tour 5/26/2012 by IW... Telephone ... EXSKF | ||
| Low levels of Fukushima cesium found in West Coast tuna – - CNN ... By elandau Scientists hope to test new samples of Pacific bluefin tuna after low levels of radioactive cesium from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident turned up in fish caught off California in 2011, researchers reported Monday. The bluefin spawn ... | ||
| Rubble hinders decommissioning work at Fukushima No. 4 reactor By Bad Influence Bear Rubble hinders decommissioning work at Fukushima No. 4 reactor Mountains of rubble stand in the way of decommissioning the No. 4 reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, part of an unprecedented challenge facing Japan to ... A reporter from the Tokyo Shimbun described the scene on the fourth floor as looking like that of a "battlefield after being bombed." The wall facing the sea had been blown off in a hydrogen explosion on March 15 last year. "Pipes were severely bent," the reporter said. "Steel frames were also twisted and rusted. It was hard for me to believe such a thick wall was blown off over a wide area." To dismiss concerns about potential risks to the No. 4 building, TEPCO released a report on May 25 stating that the structure had an outward bulge of 3.3 centimeters in a portion of its west wall due to the hydrogen explosion, but did not pose a threat to its structural integrity. said the plant will be shielded from tsunami up to 8 meters high, as it erected a temporary breakwater up to 14 meters from the sea surface on a stretch of about 380 meters along the sea as a safeguard. But the ability of the breakwater to withstand a tsunami 13 meters high, just like the one last year, is being questioned since it was built using buckets of stones piled atop each other. The utility needs to put up a full-fledged breakwater in the future, but has yet to draw up a specific plan for one. Read more at ONTD Political: http://ontd-political.livejournal.com/9695630.html#ixzz1wYNmsuSW Read more at ONTD Political: http://ontd-political.livejournal.com/9695630.html#ixzz1wYNULGyB ONTD_Political | ||
| XE.com - Fukushima radiation seen in tuna off California Low levels of nuclear radiation from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima power plant have turned up in bluefin tuna off the California coast, suggesting that these fish carried radioactive compounds across the Pacific Ocean faster than wind or ... XE Forex News |
Tepco to remove non-radioactive Fuel From Unit 4, Look Inside Unit 1
The fuel removal platform probably doesn't work because of the explosion, but unused fuel is essentially not radioactive, at least not enough that it will harm people close by.
They would need to fix or replace the fueling platform which has enough precision to fish out each fuel assembly and put it into a cask. Then they would need to replace the over head crane which can lower the cask to ground level. Not clear if they are going to build that over-building first
They are also planning to finally take a look at Unit 1, the one that melted down and blew up the day after the earthquake. The water is probably similar to unit 2 which is dry above the downcomer pipe level, and the basement is half-flooded.
TEPCO to remove unused fuel from No. 4 reactor
The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has decided to remove 2 unused fuel rods from a storage pool at the No. 4 reactor to look for damage.
This is in preparation for the removal of a large number of the 1,
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TEPCO to check interior of crippled Fukushima No. 1 reactor
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May 27, 2012
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| Fukushima Daiichi's Unit 4 Spent-Fuel Pool Up Close Wall Street Journal (blog) 4 reactor building is seen at the Tokyo Electric Power Co's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture May 26. On Saturday, Tepco let a bunch of journalists, as well as Goshi Hosono, the minister in charge of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Japan minister says he didn't deliberately mislead Seattle Post Intelligencer Edano said the government failed to accurately grasp the extent of damage from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant and might have misinformed the public about its consequences. JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Lapses at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant worry public Pioneer Press By Hiroko Tabuchi and Matthew Wald Members of the media and Tokyo Electric Power Co. employees wearing protective suits look at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan on Saturday. (Tomohiro Ohsumi, Bloomberg) TOKYO — What passes for normal at ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Fukushima No. 4 building shown to press The Daily Yomiuri FUKUSHIMA--Tokyo Electric Power Co. opened the inside of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant's No. 4 reactor building to the press on Saturday, more than a year after it was ripped apart by a hydrogen explosion four days after the Great East Japan ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Hosono visits Fukushima plant to quell fears over No. 4's pool The Japan Times AP The environment and nuclear minister visited the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant Saturday to inspect a spent-fuel pool that has been raising safety concerns and said it appears to have been properly reinforced. The visit by Goshi Hosono, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Japan minister visits Fukushima Sky News Australia Japan minister visits Fukushima Updated: 08:53, Sunday May 27, 2012 Japan's environment and nuclear minister has visited the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant to inspect a spent fuel pool at the centre of safety concerns and says ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Prison Planet.com » Operators Admit Fukushima Radiation Levels ... By admin Fukushima plant operators are now admitting that the Fukushima radiation levels emitted from the disaster exceeds almost two and a half times the initial 'estimate' produced by Japanese safety regulators. The announcement comes after ... Prison Planet.com | ||
| Edano sensed TEPCO intended complete pullout from Fukushima ... Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yukio Edano said Sunday that it was ''clear'' that Tokyo Electric Power Co. sought to withdraw all its workers from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station at one point in the early days of the crisis ... News - Kyodo News | ||
| Fukushima: Wall of Building Holding Spent Fuel Shows - Cryptogon By Kevin What passes for normal at the Fukushima Daiichi plant today would have caused shudders among even the most sanguine of experts before an earthquake and tsunami set off the world's second most serious nuclear crisis after Chernobyl. cryptogon.com |
May 23, 2012
| UN: Fukushima workers' deaths not from radiation Fox News A year after an earthquake and tsunami triggered the Fukushima disaster, a United Nations agency preparing a report on the health effects says none of the six former reactor workers who have died since the catastrophe perished due to the effects of ... although several workers at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant were irradiated after contamination of their skin "no clinically observable effects have been reported." Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/05/23/un-fukushima-workers-deaths-not-from-radiation/#ixzz1vjrvtvf6 See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Most Fukushima radiation doses within norms: WHO Reuters GENEVA (Reuters) - Spikes in radiation caused by the Fukushima nuclear accident were below cancer-causing levels in almost all of Japan and neighboring countries had levels similar to normal background radiation, the World Health Organization said on ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| On Our Radar: Radiation at Fukushima New York Times (blog) By THE NEW YORK TIMES APThe crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan. The World Health Organization releases a preliminary estimate of the radiation doses received by the public during the meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan. estimate of theradiation doses received by the public during the meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan. They are generally below the government’s maximum recommended dose, suggesting that few cancers can be expected as a result of the releases. [Nature News] | ||
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| Fukushima like accidents to recur New York Daily News Berlin, May 23 — Nuclear disasters like that of Chernobyl and Fukushima are likely to recur once in 10-20 years, threatening Europe with the world's highest risk of radioactive contamination, says a study. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for ...: "After Fukushima, the prospect of such an incident occurring again came into question."
The researchers also determined that in the event of such a major accident, half of the radioactive caesium-137 would be spread over an area of more than 1,000 km away from the nuclear reactor.Their results show that Western Europe is likely to be contaminated about once in 50 years
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| Jeff Biggers: Fukushima Tour de Force: New Book Chronicles ... By Jeff Biggers In Devil's Tango, Pineda brings together a refreshingly bold command of the facts and myths of the nuclear industry with her extraordinary prose to offer a rare look into many of the overlooked implications of the Fukushima tragedy. The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
| Foreign Press Warns Of Potential Catastrophe At Fukushima No. 4 ... By Susie Madrak The foreign press is warning of the potential for a major catastrophe for the northern hemisphere from the remaining fuel pools at Fukushima - but the American media is strangely silent. Their focus is on Reactor 4, which is open to the ... Crooks and Liars |
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| NRC taps Japan envoy to head local office Chicago Tribune ... Region III office in Lisle, from Japan, where for nearly the last year he led the NRC's efforts to assist and support the Japanese government after an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 affected several reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi site. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Severe Nuclear Reactor Accidents Likely Every 10 to 20 Years, European Study ... Science Daily (press release) Catastrophic nuclear accidents such as the core meltdowns in Chernobyl and Fukushima are more likely to happen than previously assumed. Based on the operating hours of all civil nuclear reactors and the number of nuclear meltdowns that have occurred, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Probability of contamination from severe nuclear reactor accidents is higher ... Phys.Org Credit: Daniel Kunkel, MPI for Chemistry, 2011 Catastrophic nuclear accidents such as the core meltdowns in Chernobyl and Fukushima are more likely to happen than previously assumed. Based on the operating hours of all civil nuclear reactors and the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Study highlights how Twitter is used to share information after a disaster Phys.Org "I wanted to see if Twitter was an effective tool for sharing meaningful information about nuclear risk in the wake of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant," says Dr. Andrew Binder, an assistant professor of communication at NC State and ... See all stories on this topic » |
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May 16, 2012
| The Green Bad Idea Japan Needs Wall Street Journal These power plants have been shut down for routine maintenance but have not been restarted owing to fierce political opposition in the wake of last year's disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Nuclear enthusiasts warn of dire consequences—rolling ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Fukushima gov. asks ROK to lift travel alert The Daily Yomiuri SEOUL (Jiji Press)--Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato asked South Korea on Wednesday to remove its travel warning to the prefecture that was imposed after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Sato made the request at a meeting with South Korean First Vice ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| AP IMPACT: New US plans delay some evacuations, cut practice for major nuclear ... Orlando Sentinel The latest changes, especially relaxed exercise plans for 50-mile emergency zones, are being flayed by some local planners and activists who say the widespread contamination in Japan from last year'sFukushima nuclear accident screams out for stronger ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Fukushima's Lesson StarPhoenix In the wake of the March, 2011, accident at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, local governments across Japan are refusing to approve the startup of nuclear reactors, after each reactor shuts down for maintenance checks. Many other countries are ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| FOCUS: Shutdown of Hamaoka atomic plant leaves host town in limbo. Power Engineering Magazine The shutdown of the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station since May 14 last year after the Fukushimanuclear accident is causing anxiety about the economic prospects of the host town Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture. ''We don't see anything about prospects for an ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Fukushima hospital finds 99 percent of young children below minimum cesium level Mainichi Daily News Tests in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, have shown that 99.2 percent of tested children junior-high school age or younger and 90.1 percent of tested people high school age or older were below the minimum level for radioactive cesium. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Renouncing nuclear power will hurt nation: Manmohan Times of India He said he had ordered a comprehensive review of India's nuclear plants after last year's Fukushimadisaster in Japan. "I would respectfully submit that it would be harmful for the country's interest to pass an ordinance of self-denial that we shall ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| TEPCO knew 6 years ago about tsunami risk to Fukushima The Japan Daily Press (TEPCO), were notified in 2006 of the risks a tsunami posed to the utility's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. After the 2004 tsunami that devastated Indonesia, a session was held by NISA and several of Japan's utility companies to look at the state of ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Fukushima Radiation Release Worse than You Have Been Told ... People have been misinformed about the tragedy at Fukushima and its consequences. There is a continuing cover up, the reactors have not been stabilized, and radiation continues to be released. The Japanese College of Intravenous ... Signs of the Times | ||
| Prison Planet.com » Fukushima to Blame For Mysterious Illness ... By admin But based on the timing of the symptoms and their relation to similar symptoms in local marine life and polar bear populations, it appears as though radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster may also be a potential culprit. Prison Planet.com | ||
| Spent fuel at Fukushima Daiichi safer than asserted | ANS Nuclear ... By pbowersox By Will Davis. In recent days, a number of articles have been printed that assert that a grave danger exists at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear generating station. These articles claim that this danger exists due to the condition of the spent nuclear ...Assertion 3: The spent fuel in these plants’ spent fuel pools could ignite, leading to a massive radiological release
This assertion is patently false. First, it is important to understand that in order for the fuel to ignite, it has to get hot—and in its present condition, submerged in spent fuel pools with redundant cooling systems and filtration systems, constant remote temperature monitoring, backup generating and pumping systems in mobile units in place (on standby), and high reach concrete pump trucks on site (if necessary), there is no chance of the fuel heating up in any significant way while it is in the pools in the buildings.
We’ve seen already that it’s unlikely that the buildings would be damaged in a quake—and we can surmise, given the manpower and equipment on site, that even if any sort of equipment leak or malfunction temporarily suspended cooling for the spent fuel, that malfunction would be quickly detected and fixed. So, it’s just not likely at all that the fuel would even begin to get noticeably hot in the spent fuel pools as-is now. Temperatures of the water in the spent fuel pools is currently in the ~30 °C and under range.
In order for apocalyptic assertions of a “fuel clad ignition and fire” to occur, moreover, the clad itself would need to be heated to incredible temperatures, which just isn’t possible. Ignition of the cladding (Zircalloy-2) on those fuel elements can occur roughly at 900 ºC in the proper conditions, but it’s important to note that, depending on the surrounding conditions (presence or absence of water vapor and oxygen content of the surroundings), the material may not ignite at that temperature anyway. From NUREG /CR-4982:
An online video shows Zirc-2 tube being heated with a blow torch (probably over 2000 ºC) and not catching fire. In point of fact, while the chemistry of rapid oxidation /combustion of Zirc cladding is complex, it just would not be possible under the conditions at the site. Further, even under the wild assumption that the buildings somehow collapsed, all of the other resources on site, and remotely off site, are still available to move in and provide cooling for the fuel.
In addition, the rate of heatup of the fuel depends on how long it’s been out of a reactor. According to NUREG /CR-4982, unless the spent fuel is recently discharged from an operating reactor (within 180 days), ignition of the clad is completely impossible in any situation, regardless. Experts have calculated that the heat output presently from the hottest of the spent fuel is only on the order of several hundred watts per element—a very insignificant amount in comparison to heating the material to between 900 ºC–2000 ºC in order to ignite it.
In addition, in order for a “cataclysmic” spread of the radionuclides contained in this spent fuel to occur, we can see that a massive fire is needed to both release the material and provide a driving head (or “loft”) to spread it to the winds. It’s clear that no such fire is possible, given the above information. The assertions simply fall apart. Assertion 3: False
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| Remembering Fukushima! (Video and links) By Michael Haltman Said one source about Fukushima, "...and yet it remains at best a back page story for the establishment media which is more interested in celebrating Obama's comments about so-called gay marriage than reporting about an event that may ... The Political Commentator |
May 15, 2012
| Cherry Blossoms in Fukushima New York Times HIROSHIMA, JAPAN — The Hideyo Noguchi Memorial, a small brick building nestled by the limpid waters of Inawashiro Lake in central Fukushima prefecture, is dedicated to the extraordinary life and achievements of the region's most revered son. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Fukushima Crisis Is Completely Over After One Year (NOT!) AsianWeek It is probably impossible to safely dismantle Fukushima or restore the economy of the surrounding lands anytime in the forseeable future While by any measure the accident at Fukushima Daiichi has been severe and has negatively impacted the lives of a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Debt Crises and Fukushima Meltdown Still Shake European Power Industry, an ... MarketWatch (press release) SUGAR LAND, TX, May 15, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- The European sovereign debt crises and the FukushimaDai'ichi nuclear accident of 2011 greatly increased the cost and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Tepco Chairman Plays Down Role in Disaster Readiness, Response Bloomberg The chairman of the Fukushima Dai- Ichi atomic station's operator deferred responsibility for its readiness and response to last year's nuclear crisis, saying such measures were up to the company's president. Tokyo Electric Power Co. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| TEPCO admits hole in Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 1 RPV leaking water ... Enformable TEPCO is set to review its timetable for stabilising Fukushima on May 17 and officials indicated that the initial progress targets could slip. TEPCO now admits that the meltdown of the uranium fuel in the No. 1 reactor at Fukushima nuclear power plant ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| TEPCO chairman complains about Kan's visit to Fukushima Daiichi plant Mainichi Daily News Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata on Monday suggested that then Prime Minister Naoto Kan's visit to the Fukushima Daiichi power plant a day after the nuclear crisis erupted there in March last year hampered the handling of the crisis. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Japan nuclear fall-out: Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, posts annual ... GlobalPost The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant that was crippled by last year's earthquake and tsunami posted a $9.8 billion loss for the year to March. Anti-nuclear protesters wear masks during a demonstration outside Tokyo Electric Power ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| METI Edano: Power Cut Targets Will Change If Oi Reactors Put Back Online Wall Street Journal Such checks are required every 13 months, and public concerns about safety since the March 2011Fukushima nuclear plant accident have stopped any reactor from being restarted. The government decided last month that it was safe and necessary to restart ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Aftershocks along Fukushima, Ibaraki borders may take over 100 years to subside Mainichi Daily News It may take at least 100 years before aftershocks from the March 11, 2011 quake along the boundaries of Fukushima and Ibaraki prefectures subside, a recent study reveals. The study, compiled by Shinji Toda, an associate professor at Kyoto University's ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Japan assembly agrees to restart reactors, hurdles remain Reuters Mandatory restrictions were imposed in some regions last year after the Fukushima crisis, the worst since the 1986 Chernobyl explosion, with three reactors suffering meltdowns after the plant was hit by a huge earthquake and tsunami. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Tepco has almost $10 billion loss after Fukushima Reuters (Adds background) TOKYO May 14 (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power Co posted an annual loss of almost $10 billion as compensation claims for the Fukushima nuclear disaster brought it to the brink of bankruptcy and fuel costs soared after idling all its ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Noda's Hedged Reassurances on Fukushima Daiichi Wall Street Journal (blog) By Yuka Hayashi The biggest question for many foreigners thinking about visiting Japan is whether the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is now safe enough. Reviving their fear recently was a letter from a US senator to Japanese and American officials ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Japanese town votes to restart reactors Financial Times By Jonathan Soble in Tokyo A week after Japan switched off its last nuclear power plant in response to the disaster in Fukushima, a rural town council has approved the restart of two reactors under its jurisdiction, potentially opening the way for a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Fukushima One Year: Apocalypse Not – Nuclear No AsianWeek The mainstream media continues to ignore the heroic efforts in Japan to control the FukushimaDaiichi nuclear accident site which remains a huge mess. Some of this smells like the usual “no White Americans Were Harmed So We Don't Have to Report this” ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Tokyo Electric Posts Another Shortfalll New York Times TOKYO — Tokyo Electric Power posted an annual loss of almost $10 billion Monday, with compensation claims for the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster having brought it to the brink of bankruptcy and fuel costs soaring after it idled all its atomic ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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May 13, 2012
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| Students shun nuclear majors / Govt, industry try to foster interest in the ... The Daily Yomiuri s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. This is partly because the government's future energy policy remains unclear and the potential timing for the reactivation of idled reactors is also uncertain. Nuclear industry workers have voiced concern that if ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| 6 local heads favor restart of N-reactors The Daily Yomiuri s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Five local government leaders said they disapproved of restarting the idle nuclear reactors, while 23 refrained from stating their position on the issue. Many of the undecided leaders said they would decide based ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Tepco's Fuel Oil Use Increases More Than Fourfold in April Bloomberg (9501)'s fuel oil consumption increased more than fourfold in April as the company relies more on thermal power generation after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The utility known as Tepco consumed 541000 kiloliters (3.4 million barrels) of fuel oil ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Japan's Inpex to Boost Energy Exploration Wall Street Journal By MARI IWATA TOKYO—Inpex Corp. plans to double its investment in energy exploration to ¥300 billion ($3.75 billion) over the next five years to meet Japan's rising demand for fossil fuel in the aftermath of last year's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| TOWN ELECTION: It's Tavares, MacGregor and 'Yes' Wicked Local And the nonbinding referendum question asking selectmen to request the NRC delay the relicensing of the nuclear plant until changes have been made to address the lessons learned from theFukushima disaster, was approved by a margin of 3213 to 2222. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Though spooked by new threats, Japanese accept mass killers The Japan Times s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is actually quite low, and indeed the psychological fear is causing greater harm. Moreover, the intense focus on the perceived dangers of nuclear power may actually prevent us from seeing much more clear and ...the intense focus on theperceived dangers of nuclear power may actually prevent us from seeing much more clear and present dangers. ...the biggest killers of adults in Japan are things we understand very well and have complete control over: tobacco smoking and high blood pressure.
So why is it that these health risks are neglected, and those of nuclear power are overblown?...Interestingly, too, a second-year middle-school girl speculated that in 30 years' time Fukushima Prefecture would again be as safe as it was before the nuclear accident
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| Business freeze in nuclear-free Japan feared Taipei Times Two weeks after the last working nuclear reactor was shuttered in the wake of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant crisis, energy-hungry Japan is struggling to plug the power gap. The government has not yet issued a target on industrial power ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| New Tepco head vows to be open to public opinion Reuters (Adds Tepco confirmation of new president, Hirose comments) May 8 (Reuters) - The president-designate of Tokyo Electric Power Co, the owner of the Fukushima nuclear plant, said he would be sensitive to public sentiment when rebuilding the once-powerful ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Utility in charge of Fukushima nuclear plant appoints new management Washington Post Last year's tsunami destroyed backup generators at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, setting off the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. TEPCO faces the enormous costs of compensating victims and fixing the plant. The executives heading TEPCO ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Goodbye Nuclear Power — and Hello More Carbon? TIME The Fukushima meltdown forced the exodus of more than 100000 people from their homes, overshadowed even the tsunami that had caused it and had killed more than 20000 people, and spurred fears that Tokyo itself would need to be evacuated. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Nuclear Power On Hold In Japan WBUR There has been concern about safety since the Fukushima meltdown last year, and there are new standards for nuclear plants to withstand earthquakes and tsunamis, but none of the plants that have been taken offline for regular maintenance in the last ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| In Japan, Evacuation-Aid Pleas Dismissed Voice of America May 08, 2012 In Japan, Evacuation-Aid Pleas Dismissed Steve Herman | Seoul In Japan this past year, there has been a passionate argument about the effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster that has played out on Twitter, Facebook and other social media ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Evacuees from Fukushima survive deadly tornado The Daily Yomiuri TSUKUBA, Ibaraki--The tornado that killed a schoolboy and injured more than 60 people on Sunday, also affected 20 evacuees from the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in FukushimaPrefecture. The tornado devastated the apartment complex ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Fukushima Spa Hopes for Recovery with Geothermal Heat Power Engineering Magazine A group of baby boomer residents of the Tsuchiyuonsen area of Fukushima aims to restore the local spa resort's popularity, which was badly hit by the nuclear crisis, by introducing a geothermal power-generation system that uses hot spring water. See all stories on this topic » |
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| Renewable energy and civil society in post-Fukushima Japan | East ... By Sebastian Maslow Author: Sebastian Maslow, Tohoku University In an attempt to mitigate climate change and to enhance energy security, Japan's Ministry of Economy and Industry. East Asia Forum | ||
| Nuclear 'hot spots' detected at 20 schools in Fukushima By admin Fukushima, Japan: More than 20 schools in Koriyama city in Fukushima Prefecture, home to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, have 'hot spots' with high radiation levels on their premises, a civil group said. The finding was based ... Prison Planet.com |
May 7, 2012
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| TABLE-Japan nuclear ops (zero reactors online out of total 50) Reuters Reactors shut for maintenance have been prevented from restarting amid public safety fears due to the radiation crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which was wrecked in last year's earthquake and tsunami, triggering mass evacuations and widespread ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Japan is nuclear energy free CNN In the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, reactors have not been allowed back on. Japan is now the first major economy to see the modern era without nuclear power. Tomari Nuclear Power Plant's reactor 3 in Hokkaido shut down Saturday ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Japan summer power prospects look brighter - panel Reuters Utilities are struggling to secure stable power supplies as all 50 reactors are offline for the first time in 42 years in the wake of public safety concerns following last year's Fukushima nuclear crisis in the wake of a huge earthquake and tsunami. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Japan Nuclear Power Free After Shutdown of Last Reactor BusinessWeek Tokyo Electric Power Co. removed the four reactors at its Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear station from its operational list on April 19 due to damage caused by the March 11 quake and tsunami. The following table shows the status of the 50 reactors with ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Worst Yet to Come? Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a Ticking ... truthout More than a year after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the Japanese government, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) present similar assurances of the site's current state: ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Japan Shuts Down Last Nuclear Power Reactor CleanTechnica Just over a year since a magnitude 9.0 undersea earthquake and subsequent tsunami created a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns, and release of radioactive materials at theFukushima I Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Japan April nuclear plant usage falls to 2.0 pct Reuters Reactors entering routine maintenance have remained closed amid public fears about nuclear safety due to the radiation crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co's Fukushima Daiichi plant, wrecked in last year's earthquake and tsunami. |
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| Prison Planet.com » Fukushima reactor No. 4 vulnerable to ... By admin None of that even matters if we don't solve the problem of Fukushima reactor No. 4, which is on the verge of a catastrophic failure that could unleash enough radiation to end human civilization on our planet. (See the numbers below.) ... Prison Planet.com | ||
| Fukushima Fuel Pools Are an American National Security Issue ... By Washingtons Blog Senator: Fukushima Fuel Pool Is a National Security Issue for AMERICA After visiting Fukushima, Senator Ron Wyden warned that the situation was worse than. The Big Picture |
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May 6, 2012
| Japan now nuclear free GlobalPost (Kazuhiro Nogi /AFP/Getty Images) TOKYO, Japan — Japan's enforced separation from nuclear power began with the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi last March and was sealed late on Saturday night with the closure of its last working reactor, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Concerns mount over the growing threat from Fukushima's spent fuel – will the ... Bellona Experts say Fukushima's onsite cooling ponds contain 85 times the amount of long-lived radionuclides that was dispersed into the atmosphere when reactor No. 4 exploded at Ukraine's Chernobyl in 1986. MOSCOW - More than a year since the catastrophic ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Japan Nuclear Power-Free as Sole Reactor Shuts BusinessWeek Closing the 912-megawatt Tomari unit leaves Japan without an operating power reactor for the first time since May 1970, as plant operators carry out mandatory maintenance or additional safety checks following the Fukushima disaster. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| FOCUS: Japan's new nuclear regulatory agency still up in air Utility Products Japan entered a rare period on Sunday of having no nuclear power supply following last year'sFukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, without seeing much progress on shaping a new nuclear regulatory agency that could play a key role in ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Prison Planet.com » Senator: Fukushima Fuel Pool Is a National ... By admin Nuclear waste experts … charge that the NRC is letting this threat [of the Fukushima fuel pools] fester because acknowledging it would call into question safety at dozens of identically designed nuclear power plants around the U.S., which ... Prison Planet.com | ||
| Nuke experts: Fukushima's worst is yet to come :: News From ... By MCM More than a year after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the Japanese government, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) present similar assurances of the site's ... News From Underground |
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