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Post by clone on Mar 20, 2011 13:31:40 GMT -8
No. 3 - Fukushima’s Spent Fuel, The Reactors Are Not The Only Issue/update Fukushima #2 has exploded Mon Mar 14, 2011 at 06:30 PM EDT. The threat of a fission explosion at the Fukushima power facility emerged today when the roof of the number three reactor exploded and fears that a spent fuel pool, located over the reactor, has been compromised. The pool, designed to allow reactor fuel to cool off for several years, was constructed on top of the Fukushima reactors instead of underground. As of 2010, there were **3450 fuel assemblies** in the pool at the number three reactor. www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/14/956398/-Fukushima%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%99s-Spent-Fuel,-The-Reactors-Are-Not-The-Only-Issue Two of six Fukushima nuclear reactors declared safe Updated: Sun Mar. 20 2011 14:22:37. Tokyo Electric Power Company said Units 5 and 6 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant had been declared safe, after pumping water into the reactors pools for days and bringing temperatures under control... The units were the least problematic of the facility's six reactors, but marks a minor advance in efforts the stop the nuclear plant from leaking radiation. The Fukushima plant still has four reactors overheating, after an earthquake-triggered tsunami shut down its cooling systems nine days ago. edmonton.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110320/japan-nuclear-reactors-110320/20110320/?hub=EdmontonHomeUS charter flights begin to leave Japan Washington offers American military families flights out amid nuclear crisis updated 3/17/2011 7:19:04 PM ET www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42124586/ns/world_news-asiapacific/?GT1=43001Power cable connected to reactor / Link may allow control room use (Mar. 21, 2011) In an effort to restore power at the crippled No. 2 reactor of Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. has successfully connected a power cable with the reactor, raising hope the utility will be able to activate the central control room. www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110320003206.htm
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Post by clone on Mar 21, 2011 20:45:54 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Mar 23, 2011 4:36:21 GMT -8
23 March 2011 Last updated at 07:50 ET Tokyo water 'unfit for babies' due to high radiation www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12825342Radioactive iodine levels in some areas were twice the recommended safe level. People in Fukushima prefecture, where the nuclear plant is located, have been told not to eat certain vegetables because of contamination worries. Workers have been temporarily evacuated from the plant after black smoke was seen rising from reactor No 3.
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Post by clone on Mar 24, 2011 19:18:18 GMT -8
« Breaking news on NHK at 7pm ET: Smoke/steam rising from all 4 reactor units — Workers evacuated (VIDEO) UPDATE: Neutron beams suggest uranium and plutonium have leaked and nuclear fission has occurred March 23rd, 2011 at 02:20 PM Controversy? 500 millisieverts per hour at No. 2 says TEPCO spokesman, 500 microsieverts says Japan nuclear agency — 100 millisieverts beyond 30 km radius says Edano » UPDATE HERE: March 24, BBC: Neutrons are emitted during a “nuclear chain reaction” — March 20, Kyodo: “Nuclear chain reaction” feared at spent fuel pool … TEPCO said, meanwhile, it had observed neutron beams, a kind of radioactive ray, 13 times on the premises of the Fukushima plant over the three days from March 13, but they were not at a dangerous level. # Black smoke billows from No. 3 containing plutonium — “We don’t know the reason” (PHOTO) # Nuke Expert: “It’ll be like somebody dropped a bomb” if melted fuel rods breach reactor vessel — “A big cloud of very, very radioactive material above the ground” enenews.com/update-neutron-beams-suggest-uranium-and-plutonium-have-leaked-and-nuclear-fission-has-occurred
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Post by clone on Mar 25, 2011 17:51:21 GMT -8
Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Updates on Fukushima reactors and aftermath of Japan earthquake. Updated 11:00 am, Friday, March 25, 2011. Greenpeace Germany analysis places Fukushima disaster at Level 7 on international scale--comparable to Chernobyl. www.nirs.org/fukushima/crisis.htm
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Post by clone on Mar 25, 2011 18:23:42 GMT -8
UNBELIEVEABLE ground movement - Japan area - LIQUIFACTION Japan, March 11, 2011 --- seismic zone activity in south central Japan. Liquifaction.. the ground swelling and contracting.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRCM8oJ2DlY
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Post by clone on Mar 25, 2011 19:19:57 GMT -8
Did TEPCO hire homeless to work at Fukushima? And higher temps at No. 1 - 2011年3月23日 The day before, in Hitachinaka City, Ibaraki Prefecture, the highest values were recorded, although down slightly, 12,000 becquerels of cesium, iodine and 85,000 becquerels, still higher values are recorded. Fukushima and Miyagi can not be measured. seetell.jp/2011/03/did-tepco-hire-homeless-to-work-at-fukushima-and-higher-temps-at-no-1/Radioactive water detected in 6 prefectures, cesium in vegetables in Tokyo - 2011年3月25日 The governments of Tokyo, Fukushima, Ibaraki, Chiba, Saitama and Tochigi prefectures have detected more than 100 becquerels of iodine per liter of water, above the safety level for infants under 12 months. But the water is safe for adults because it’s not above the 300 becquerel safety limit for them. seetell.jp/2011/03/radioactive-water-detected-in-6-prefectures-cesium-in-vegetables-in-tokyo/
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Post by clone on Mar 26, 2011 20:50:22 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Mar 27, 2011 12:28:34 GMT -8
Whew! Only 1000 millisieverts per hour. Data mistake: radiation in water near crippled nuclear reactor not 10 million times higher than normal March 28, 2011 - 7:12AM The operator of a crippled nuclear plant in Japan has retracted an announcement that radiation in water near one of the reactors was 10 million times higher than normal, Jiji Press reports. Tokyo Electric Power [TEPCO] said the mistake was due to confusion between readings of iodine and cobalt in the water. Earlier TEPCO said radiation of more than 1000 millisieverts per hour had been detected in puddles of water thought to have leaked from the the number two reactor at its Fukushima Daiichi plant. www.smh.com.au/environment/data-mistake-radiation-in-water-near-crippled-nuclear-reactor-not-10-million-times-higher-than-normal-20110328-1cc79.html
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Post by ac on Mar 27, 2011 16:51:41 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Mar 31, 2011 23:10:43 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Apr 2, 2011 22:12:02 GMT -8
Japan Struggles to Plug Leak as Radioactive Water Seeps Into the Sea Published: April 2, 2011 The leak, found at a maintenance pit near the plant’s No. 2 reactor, is a fresh reminder of the dangerous side effects of the strategy to cool the plant’s reactors and spent fuel storage pools by pumping hundreds of tons of water a day into them. While much of that water has evaporated, a significant portion has also turned into dangerous runoff. www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/world/asia/03japan.html
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Post by clone on Apr 4, 2011 20:31:34 GMT -8
Japan engineers knew tsunami could overwhelm Fukushima Nuke plant 30 March, 2011 TOKYO: Over the past two weeks, Japanese government officials and Tokyo Electric Power executives have repeatedly described the deadly combination of the most powerful quake in Japan’s history and the massive tsunami that followed as “soteigai,” or beyond expectations. When Tokyo Electric President Masataka Shimizu apologised to the people of Japan for the continuing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant he called the double disaster “marvels of nature that we have never experienced before”. But a review of company and regulatory records shows that Japan and its largest utility repeatedly downplayed dangers and ignored warnings — including a 2007 tsunami study from Tokyo Electric Power Co’s senior safety engineer. www.columnspk.com/japan-engineers-knew-tsunami-could-overwhelm-fukushima-nuke-plant/Japan nuclear crisis fans primal fear here - Monday, April 4, 2011 at 1:37 p.m. The skepticism is usually tied to memories of transformative and ominous events in the 20th century, including the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, dozens of above- and underground atomic tests from Nevada to atolls in the Marshall Islands, and Cold War-era fears that Earth was a push of a button away from a nuclear holocaust... In another comparison, an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 people die in the U.S. each year from air pollution caused by the burning of coal and oil to produce electricity. www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/apr/04/japan-nuclear-crisis-fans-primal-fear-here/
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Post by veg on Apr 5, 2011 18:31:17 GMT -8
Japan's ocean radiation hits 7.5 million times legal limit High readings in fish prompt the government to establish a maximum level for safe consumption. April 5, 2011, 4:39 a.m. Reporting from Tokyo— The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday that it had found radioactive iodine at 7.5 million times the legal limit in a seawater sample taken near the facility, and government officials imposed a new health limit for radioactivity in fish. The reading of iodine-131 was recorded Saturday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. Another sample taken Monday found the level to be 5 million times the legal limit. The Monday samples also were found to contain radioactive cesium at 1.1 million times the legal limit. The exact source of the radiation was not immediately clear, though Tepco has said that highly contaminated water has been leaking from a pit near the No. 2 reactor. The utility initially believed that the leak was coming from a crack, but several attempts to seal the crack failed. www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-japan-nuclear-20110406%2C0%2C2697428.story
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Post by clone on Apr 5, 2011 18:34:23 GMT -8
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