Another thermometer at Fukushima No. 2 reactor apparently not working
FUKUSHIMA, Japan, April 15, Kyodo
Tokyo Electric Power Co. indicated Sunday another thermometer may be malfunctioning at the bottom of the No. 2 reactor vessel at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex as the plant operator observed abnormal temperature readings the previous day.
The thermometer was deemed unavailable for use when it showed an abnormally high electrical resistance level following a sudden increase of temperatures to 60 C on Saturday morning, leaving only one temperature measurement device working properly at the bottom of the reactor vessel, the utility said.
In February, another of the three thermometers at the bottom of the vessel was found to have malfunctioned after showing a surge in temperatures.
Pool Near U.S. City Contains More Radioactive Cesium than Released By Fukushima, Chernobyl and All Nuclear Bomb Tests COMBINED
04/12/2012
Radioactive Fuel Fires: Not Just a Japanese Problem
“The spent fuel pools at Fukushima are currently the top short-term threat to humanity.
“But fuel pools in the United States store an average of ten times more radioactive fuel than stored at Fukushima, have virtually no safety features, and are vulnerable to accidents and terrorist attacks.
“If the water drains out for any reason, it will cause a fire in the fuel rods, as the zirconium metal jacket on the outside of the fuel rods could very well catch fire within hours or days after being exposed to air. See this, this, this and this. (Even a large solar flare could knock out the water-circulation systems for the pools.)
“The pools are also filling up fast, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission….
“The New York Times notes that squeezing more rods into pools may increase the risk of fire:
“’The reactor operators have squeezed spent fuel more tightly into the pools, raising the heat load and, according to some analyses, raising the risk of fire if the pools were ever drained.’
Nice find, anne. The "visual tour of the fuel pools of Fukushima" is a good feature within the site. Zerohedge readers are not yet generally aware of Fukushima – it's great to see the story there.
Some of the reader comments there remind me of Enenews commenters from a year or more ago, as people just started to "get it". Here's a sample:
Bad form by lawmakers
April 13, 2012
If you were waiting for confirmation the super-majority ofDemocrats and their allies in Montpelier are drunk with power,we now have it. Recently an invitation went out to all legislatorsto celebrate March 21 as the proposed closing ofVermont Yankee. I’m all for our legislators taking a breakfrom a long day of raising our taxes and fees, but a partyto celebrate closing Yankee at the Statehouse? Really?
The very place where our representatives conduct the people’sbusiness had VPIRG and the Yankee Decommissioning Alliancehost legislators celebrating with glee the prospect of throwing600 Vermonters out of work. I hope they had the lights off.
Whatever your opinion of the politics of Vermont Yankee,the hubris displayed by these extreme environmental lobbyistsand our Legislature is …
I was idly looking at Fukushima on Google Earth when I noticed an ad: "Warning and notification. Inside and around nuclear power plant. Proven solution for sale." with a link to telegrafia.eu
It's the real thing, apparently. What struck me is how hopelessly inappropriate it is (not the tacky ad, but the world-view it revealed about how best to deal with uncontrollable forces).
Sample from the site:
"It is appropriate to use this solution if the following is required:
extremely reliable and safe solution;
physically divided dispatching centre and the emergency control centre;
extremely short activation times and activation confirming times for large number (hundreds) of sirens;
reliable sound distribution in the interiors with many partitions;
maximum automation of the announcement-following processes (automatic calling in the people in charge, informing the institutions involved etc.);
effectivity of the invested money and good ratio between the costs and the received value"
Our lives are in the hands of people like these, who apparently genuinely believe that sirens and "automatically calling the people in charge" will make things "safe".
Radiation from Japan's damaged reactors posed little risk in Oregon despite Portland 'hotspot'
Published: Friday, April 13, 2012, 10:15 PM Updated: Saturday, April 14, 2012, 8:57 AM
Joe Rojas-Burke, The Oregonian By Joe Rojas-Burke, The Oregonian
****Tests of milk from West Coast dairy cows found radioactivity levels of 0.8 pico-Curies per liter attributable to the Fukushima accident. That's about 1,000 times lower than the amount routinely measured in milk in Oregon during the 1960s era of nuclear weapons testing by the U.S. and Soviet Union. The radiation levels in milk after Fukushima were 5,000 times lower than the amounts considered problematic by the Food and Drug Administration.
The amount of harmless, naturally occurring radioactivity in milk (from the ever-present potassium-40 that's taken up by plants from the soil) averages about 1,500 picoCuries per liter in Oregon.
Steam clouds escaping from the damaged reactors contained iodine-131 and a few other radioactive isotopes, such as cesium-137. Airborne dust collected these elements and winds carried them across the ocean, depositing the largest amounts on the West Coast, followed by sites in the Rocky Mountains. ****
Yes, but their logic is flawed. Bioaccumulation is ignored. We're already at huge amounts of 300-1000 year toxicity for cesium from 60 years of a-bomb testing. Now we add more poison and they can't stop the bomb-maker at Daiichi… It fires one off every hour on the hour.
Despite their insistence they have "stepped" up testing they have refused to release their results until they wish to attempt to refute the data of one courageous researcher.
BTW mr-stepper-uppers…when have you tested and released data on migratory salmon and tuna? Waiting to refute some hero later?
When governments stall 13 months on critical data…frankly many of us do not trust you anymore than the Japanese people trust their liars in office.
Agreed. And for *accurate* radiation information there has to be an ongoing and current reporting of numbers. Exactly to account for the accumulation and there also has to be an extension of the types of contaminants being tested and accounted for, right?
I thought it was interesting it was being addressed and published in Oregon. I love that place.
F311WDogs just now TRANSLATED TOO!!
Interview with woman living on Cesium 137 & Strontium 90 irradiated soil by Chernobyl, in Belarus. 5 Ci / km2 – 185,000 Becquerel per m². April 4th 2012. What is the situation now, what was it then? Belarus calls Cesium 137 and Strontium 90 areas as these "clean". Same in Japan. A crime. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mMylOrrv-M
Hmm.. I wonder if this plant might have actually been retrofitted, or in that process, for um say.. Mox? Just dots floating about.. anybody have any thoughts? the hairs on the back of my neck stood up ..and how many other plants are up to no good or "a series of equipment and design changes to the generators" that are "unreported to authorities"
"Among the modifications, the report said the tube alloy was changed, bracing was redesigned and more tubes were added. It said the company never disclosed that such extensive changes were made, instead describing it as an exchange of similar equipment that allowed [the plant operator] SCE “to avoid the requisite NRC oversight of a steam generator replacement.”"
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and me:
MORE Nuclear Baloney from the Japanese Gov't…
How about this nuclear PITCH:
YEN for Radiation, Visit (Fukushima) Northern Japan…
The light of truth never dims, never blinks and will always shine as bright as the Sun.
We have known since the sixties, the effects of low level radiation on all life. There is NO safe dose!
The data has been collected, long ago. The research has been done, long ago. The information was presented to the world, long ago.
No one listened. No one took notice. They only took cash.
Now, the piper has come for payment. The masses will pay with their loved ones lives. The result always equals the sum of the parts.
Harry Shearer's Le Show, and the segment "Clean, Safe, and Too Cheap to Meter," with Atty the Atom. As far as I know, it is the only weekly review of nuclear on radio or tv. Shearer is a multi-millionaire from his work on the Simpsons (he is Mr. Burns, lol, and others), but he still works on this show. "The Apologies of the Week" segment is usually funny.
Nuclear Power Is Expensive and Bad for the Environment … It’s Being Pushed Because It Is Good For Making Bombs
Since the 1980s, the U.S. Has Secretly Helped Japan Build Up Its Nuclear Weapons Program … Pretending It Was “Nuclear Energy” and “Space Exploration” …
As demonstrated below, nuclear energy is expensive and bad for the environment.
The real reason it is being pushed is because it is good for helping countries like Japan and the U.S. build nuclear weapons.
Jebus, imagine how much money there is from selling nuclear weapons on the black market.
That is the real and only reason we have this plague of nuclear power. It is phenomenally expensive, and no one would insure the NPP's without taxpayer subsidies. Renewables are safer and cheaper.
God only knows how many nuclear bombs are out there, and who's got them.
LQQK !
Fukushima Radiation On US West Coast – Mainstream Media Coverup
The mainstream media and the federal government will soon have the blood of the world on it’s hands.
Radiation from the Fukushima Nuclear Plant disaster in Japan is now actively in the ecosystem all along the North American west coast… even the sea weed is now radiated. The Vancouver Sun reported one year ago that the seaweed tested from waters off the coast of British Columbia were 4 times the amount considered safe. No further test results were released after the initial report.
The governments of the United States and Canada are not conducting tests for radioactivity – at least not to the knowledge of the public. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has agreed to continue purchasing seafood from Japan, despite the fact that the food is not being tested for radioactive contamination. Last November, independent testing in Japan showed 65 per cent of the catches tested positive for cesium (a radioactive material). Instead of refusing to purchase the poisoned fish, food safety agencies in both the United States and Canada have simply raised the “acceptable level of radiation.” We can’t go offending the Japanese after promising to buy their tainted goods, now can we?
After the North American governments refused to fund testing, oceanographer Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at the non-profit Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Mass, along with Nicholas Fisher, a marine…
'Does a regulatory body track reported cases in Singapore?'
MS JULIA YAP: 'Recently, there were online stories of Singaporeans who felt unwell upon returning from short holidays in Japan, only to be told by doctors that they were suffering from radiation sickness and could not conceive for up to 10 years. While these stories may have no basis in fact, have there been any reported cases of radiation sickness among Singaporeans who have travelled to or lived in Japan since March last year? Are doctors here obliged by regulations to report cases of radiation sickness to the authorities? Does a regulatory body track reported cases of radiation sickness in Singapore?'
Hi Majia
I hope all is well with you and yours.
I agree, it could be "just" salmonella, but in these times we are enduring, trust has been breeched so many times. I am from the camp of question "all authority". Proof is what I trust in lately.
dolphins migrate north and south west coast, but fish the eat mugrate west to east and back again, quite likely dophines may have eaten bad seaffood from Japam ?
Hi Whoops, thanks for posting that. It's ALL OVER the news over here – again, they take insanity to a whole new level!!
On the other hand – by sending that letter to the EU, the nukers de facto admitted that they can't survive without subsidies….
Oh I know! Incredible read!! Down the Rabbit Hole Nukes go! Mother flackers!! EXPLOSIVE PIECE! NO MORE OF MY TAXES OR GERMAN'S TAXES! NO MORE SUBSIDIZING THESE NPP'S!!
2 MORE GOOD ONES JUST CAME THROUGH
Man Made Earthquakes and More: Hank hits you with a ton of news this time – Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has… http://t.co/kbnAKWu5 #fukushima
#Fukushima: Never Hurts to Look Back THEORY OF FUKUSHIMA — Finnish Scientist (HAARP quake, meth…: http://youtu.be/JAUY-Y3Kiek
NuclearCrimes.org Advisory for Banning Pacific Seafood in Diet:
April 11, 2012
Since the summer of 2011, U.S. scientists have observed several dozen living and dead Pacific Ocean marine mammals with a strangely similar condition of skin sores and hair loss. These animals may be suffering from 'beta burns,' which are caused by significant external exposure to 'beta emitters' such as radiostrontiums, which were released in copious quantities to the Pacific Ocean at Fukushima Daiichi in 2011. Note that in April 2011 three TEPCO workers sustained radiation injuries to their feet while in standing water. TEPCO ignored the obvious culprit of these 'beta burns,' strontium-89 and/or strontium-90, both 'beta-emitters' commonly found in nuclear spent fuel. These beta-emitters, upon contact with a victim, can cause external injuries including hair loss, sores and lesions. These and other radioactive isotopes from Fukushima now found throughout the Pacific Ocean are also available for internal contamination of sea plants and animals… Our concern is that fish harvested this season along North America's Pacific coastline may be contaminated with unsafe levels of radioactivity…
The best public health option is to ensure no radioactive foods enter the marketplace. But since there is absolutely no adequate monitoring in place for Pacific Ocean seafood, all seafood from the Pacific should be avoided.
California, Finland, Canada, Australia Hit By Radiation
The University of California at Berkeley detected cesium levels in San Francisco area milk above over EPA limits … and even higher than they were 6 months ago.
Finnish public television says that cesium from Fukushima has been detected in lichens, fungi and elk and reindeer meat in Finland.
The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency confirmed a radiation cloud over the East Coast of Australia.
The West Coast of Canada is getting hit by debris from Japan … and at least some of it is likely radioactive.
The authors of the controversial … http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/fukushima-radiation-spreads-worldwide.html
A nearly 1000-fold increase for exposure to strontium-90;
•A 3000 to 100,000-fold hike for exposure to iodine-131; and
•An almost 25,000 rise for exposure to radioactive nickel-63.i
The new radiation guidelines would also allow long-term cleanup thresholds thousands of times more lax than anything EPA has ever judged safe in the past. Under long-established EPA policy, in conformity with long-accepted international standards on “acceptable” amounts of radiation these proposed changes would increase the permissible amounts of radiation to levels where 25% of those exposed to these “new acceptable levels” would develop cancer based on the EPA’s own numbers.ii …
Press Release (Apr 16,2012)
General Plan and Start of Main Work of the Cover for Fuel Removal of Unit 4 in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
Based on "Mid-to-Long-Term Roadmap towards the Decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 1-4" which was announced on Dec. 21, 2011, we started the preparation work for the installation of the cover for fuel removal of Unit 4 on Mar. 23, 2012.
We would like to inform that we will start the main work for the installation of the cover for fuel removal on Apr. 17.
As the first step of the main work, we will conduct the foundation improvement work in order to strengthen the foundation which supports the foundation of the frame for supporting the crane which is a part of the cover for fuel removal.
At the same time, we will conduct the countermeasure to prevent rainwater from penetrating into Unit 4 Reactor Building.
The "the countermeasure to prevent rainwater from penetrating into Unit 4 Reactor Building." are more important at this time IMO, because the rainwater and groundwater below the Complex makes the soil much less stable…
Morning CaptD. Always a pleasure to see you. See this? TRILLION DOLLAR DISATER
Japan lenders ready to back Fukushima operator Tepco, but wary http://reut.rs/yAzbjL via @reuters
Koodankulam, India: hundreds arrested, imprisoned for resisting new nuke plant; hunger strikes; govt using terrorist charges against non-violent protesters! Funds needed to help keep protest going! What brave strong people! http://www.dianuke.org/latest-updates-from-koodankulam/
On the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, The Japan Times yesterday ran an editorial titled “The Titanic and the Nuclear Fiasco” which stated: “Presenting technology as completely safe, trustworthy or miraculous may seem to be a thing of the past, but the parallels between the Titanic and Japan’s nuclear power industry could not be clearer.”
“Japan’s nuclear power plants were, like the Titanic, advertised as marvels of modern science that were completely safe. Certain technologies, whether they promise to float a luxury liner or provide clean energy, can never be made entirely safe,” it said.
It quoted from a piece by Joseph Conrad written after the Titanic sank in which he noted the “chastening influence it should have on the self-confidence of mankind.” The Japan Times urged: “That lesson should be applied to all ‘unsinkable’ undertakings that might profit a few by imperiling the majority of others.”
Yes, the same kind of baloney behind the claim that the Titanic was unsinkable is behind the puffery that nuclear power plants are safe. The nuclear power promoters are still saying that despite the sinking of atomic Titanics: Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and now the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plants.
In fact, underneath the PR offensive are government documents admitting that nuclear power plants are deadly dangerous.
Another excellent Karl Grossman article.. he goes on to share..
The NRC response: “In a population of 100 reactors operating over a period of 20 years, the crude cumulative probability of such an accident would be 45%.” But then it went on that this might be off by “a factor of about 10 above and below.” Thus, the chances of a meltdown during a 20-year period among 100 U.S. nuclear plant plants (there are 104 today) would be about 50-50
Question of the day
Reactor 4 was shut down at time of accident and did not react the same as other melt downs, something different happened, what.
Could it have imploded rather that exploded, the reactor buildings are connected, could something have happened in other building that consumed all the O2 in reactor 4 and caused implosion .
Unit SCRAM Code RX CRIT Initial PWR Initial RX Mode Current PWR Current RX Mode
1 M/R Y 100 Power Operation 0 Hot Standby
Event Text
MANUAL REACTOR TRIP DUE TO LOW MAIN FEEDWATER FLOW
"At 1346 EDT, Vogtle Unit 1 reactor was manually tripped from 100% power due to Main Feedwater Pump 'B' discharge flow lowering unexpectedly. All control rods fully inserted. AFW system automatically actuated as expected. System responses allowed for an uncomplicated reactor trip response. Plant is stable in Mode 3 during cause investigation."
The electrical lineup remained normal. No safety valves lifted due to the trip. Decay heat is being removed via the steam dumps to the main condenser.
I saw that Cataclysmic. Fortunately, a coalition of 9 anti-nuke groups are NOT taking the NRC's dictatorship lying down! They will be fighting the decision in federal court:
And I expect the folks behind the California initiative to shut down the two remaining NPPs that just failed won't give up either and will be back with a new initiative faster than you can say "SHUT THEM ALL DOWN! "
We won't give up until they are ALL shut down and no longer posing a deadly hazard to our children and all life on this planet! The tide is turning and it is only a matter of time…Keep the faith!
Power Reactor Event Number: 47837
Facility: PALO VERDE
Region: 4 State: AZ
Unit: [ ] [ ] [3]
RX Type: [1] CE,[2] CE,[3] CE
NRC Notified By: MICHAEL KOHRT
HQ OPS Officer: JOHN KNOKE Notification Date: 04/15/2012
Notification Time: 17:13 [ET]
Event Date: 04/15/2012
Event Time: 12:20 [MST]
Last Update Date: 04/15/2012
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY
10 CFR Section:
50.72(b)(2)(iv)(B) – RPS ACTUATION – CRITICAL
Person (Organization):
VINCENT GADDY (R4DO)
Unit SCRAM Code RX CRIT Initial PWR Initial RX Mode Current PWR Current RX Mode
3 M/R Y 0 Startup 0 Hot Standby
Event Text
MANUAL REACTOR TRIP DUE TO CONTROL ROD DEVIATION DURING STARTUP
"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 April 15, 2012 at approximately 1220 Mountain Standard Time (MST), Palo Verde Unit 3 was manually tripped during low power physics testing.
"While conducting low power physics testing following a refueling outage, Regulating Group 1 rods were being inserted while simultaneously diluting to maintain a constant power level below the Point of Adding Heat. While inserting rods one rod deviated from its subgroup when it…
Part 21 Event Number: 47833
Rep Org: MITSUBISHI NUCLEAR ENERGY SYSTEMS
Licensee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD
Region: 1
City: ARLINGTON State: VA
County:
License #:
Agreement: Y
Docket:
NRC Notified By: EI KADOKAMI
HQ OPS Officer: JOHN KNOKE Notification Date: 04/13/2012
Notification Time: 15:58 [ET]
Event Date: 04/13/2012
Event Time: [EDT]
Last Update Date: 04/16/2012
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY
10 CFR Section:
21.21(a)(2) – INTERIM EVAL OF DEVIATION
Person (Organization):
BLAKE WELLING (R1DO)
KATHLEEN O'DONOHUE (R2DO)
DAVID HILLS (R3DO)
VINCENT GADDY (R4DO)
PART 21 GROUP (EMAI)
Event Text
PART 21 INTERIM REPORT – STEAM GENERATOR TUBE WEAR
This interim Part 21 is in regard to San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Unit 2, Steam Generator replacement.
"During the first refueling outage following steam generator replacement, eddy current testing identified ten total tubes with depths of 90 to 28 percent of the tube wall thickness. Some of the affected tubes were located adjacent to retainer bars. The retainer bars are part of the floating anti-vibration bar (AVB) structure that stabilizes the u-bend region of the tubes.
"Other tubes in the two steam generators had detectable wear associated with support points elsewhere in the AVB structure. Each steam generator has 9727 tubes with an 8 percent (778 tubes) design margin for tube plugging.
PU 238 is in pacemakers??? Another interesting "event"…..
PATIENT BURIED WITH PLUTONIUM-238 PACEMAKER
A former patient at St. John Macomb-Oakland Hospital expired on 1/31/12 and the body was released to the family for burial. The patient had a Medtronic pacemaker with a radionuclide of Plutonium-238. The RSO at Sinai-Grace Hospital notified the NRC of this event.
There is no planned action to recover the pacemaker from the buried patient.
THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "CATEGORY 3" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL
Category 3 sources, if not safely managed or securely protected, could cause permanent injury to a person who handled them, or were otherwise in contact with them, for some hours. It could possibly – although it is unlikely – be fatal to be close to this amount of unshielded radioactive material for a period of days to weeks. These sources are typically used in practices such as fixed industrial gauges involving high activity sources (for example: level gauges, dredger gauges, conveyor gauges and spinning pipe gauges) and well logging. For additional information go to http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1227_web.pdf
FITNESS FOR DUTY – A CONTRACT SUPERVISOR TESTED POSITIVE ON A DRUG TEST
A non-licensed contract supervisor tested positive for illegal drugs on a random fitness-for-duty test. The individual's access has been terminated. Contact the Headquarters Operations Officer for additional details.
Fire at Grand Gulf, MS Nuke Plant, cause undetermined…..
Power Reactor Event Number: 47825
Facility: GRAND GULF
Region: 4 State: MS
Unit: [1] [ ] [ ]
RX Type: [1] GE-6
NRC Notified By: SCOTTY BEACH
HQ OPS Officer: CHARLES TEAL Notification Date: 04/11/2012
Notification Time: 20:03 [ET]
Event Date: 04/11/2012
Event Time: 18:26 [CDT]
Last Update Date: 04/11/2012
Emergency Class: UNUSUAL EVENT
10 CFR Section:
50.72(a) (1) (i) – EMERGENCY DECLARED
50.72(b)(2)(xi) – OFFSITE NOTIFICATION
Person (Organization):
VINCENT GADDY (R4DO)
ELMO COLLINS (RA)
BRUCE BOGER (NRR)
JOSEPH GIITTER (NRR)
WILLIAM GOTT (IRD)
Unit SCRAM Code RX CRIT Initial PWR Initial RX Mode Current PWR Current RX Mode
1 N N 0 Refueling 0 Refueling
Event Text
UNUSUAL EVENT DUE TO A FIRE IN THE 'A' MAIN CONDENSER
"At 1811 [CDT] hours a fire was reported inside the 'A' Main Condenser. The fire brigade was dispatched to combat the fire and the area was evacuated.
"An Unusual Event (HU4) was declared at 1826 [CDT] hours due to the fire being in the Protected Area boundary and not extinguished within 15 minutes of detection.
"The Claiborne County, Mississippi Fire Department was notified to provide assistance.
"At 1847 [CDT] hours the fire was reported to be extinguished.
"The Unusual Event was terminated at 1900 [CDT] hours."
The source of the fire is still under investigation. There were no personnel injuries.
F311W'DOGS:
CHECK THIS OUT! http://www.facebook.com/groups/fukushima311watchdogs/ this is a photo of a visitor that came to the house today. he had an injection in his arm for a "nuclear stress test" – to check his heart. the geiger spiked to over 10,000 CPM, but the pause in my camera didn't catch that reading. in the interest of not making him too nervous i only took a few pics. the gegier moved to the next scale — 10 X something, didn't have time to look closely, too freaked out being so close to the guy. freaked him out too when i told him what normal background levels are here…. this photo is in CPM, over 9,000 CPM on his arm. photo was taken with the geiger several inches from his arm – the readings increased with increased proximity but i didn't want to contaminate the geiger and the guy was moving his arm around unpredictably talking to someone on the other side of the room.
IS THERE NOTHING THEY WONT RAPE?!?!? IS NOTHING SACRED??
#Fukushima: WTH? As Ice Cap Melts, Militaries Vie For Arctic Edge http://huff.to/JpEHfE via @huffingtonpost
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Thanks, e.s.
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Happy Birthday Anne! Thanks for all you do!!
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Thanks, Whoopie. It isn't actually my birthday. This is a joke.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQnRCZFmH3I&feature=related
IAEA evaluations of FUkushima accident with the video commets
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Anne congrats on your healthy great grand-baby.
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Another thermometer at Fukushima No. 2 reactor apparently not working
FUKUSHIMA, Japan, April 15, Kyodo
Tokyo Electric Power Co. indicated Sunday another thermometer may be malfunctioning at the bottom of the No. 2 reactor vessel at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex as the plant operator observed abnormal temperature readings the previous day.
The thermometer was deemed unavailable for use when it showed an abnormally high electrical resistance level following a sudden increase of temperatures to 60 C on Saturday morning, leaving only one temperature measurement device working properly at the bottom of the reactor vessel, the utility said.
In February, another of the three thermometers at the bottom of the vessel was found to have malfunctioned after showing a surge in temperatures.
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Pool Near U.S. City Contains More Radioactive Cesium than Released By Fukushima, Chernobyl and All Nuclear Bomb Tests COMBINED
04/12/2012
Radioactive Fuel Fires: Not Just a Japanese Problem
“The spent fuel pools at Fukushima are currently the top short-term threat to humanity.
“But fuel pools in the United States store an average of ten times more radioactive fuel than stored at Fukushima, have virtually no safety features, and are vulnerable to accidents and terrorist attacks.
“If the water drains out for any reason, it will cause a fire in the fuel rods, as the zirconium metal jacket on the outside of the fuel rods could very well catch fire within hours or days after being exposed to air. See this, this, this and this. (Even a large solar flare could knock out the water-circulation systems for the pools.)
“The pools are also filling up fast, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission….
“The New York Times notes that squeezing more rods into pools may increase the risk of fire:
“’The reactor operators have squeezed spent fuel more tightly into the pools, raising the heat load and, according to some analyses, raising the risk of fire if the pools were ever drained.’
“Indeed, the fuel pools and rods at Fukushima appear to have “boiled”, caught fire and/or exploded soon after the earthquake knocked out power systems….”
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-15-12/pool-near-us-city-contains-more-radioactive-cesium-released-fukushima-chernob
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Nice find, anne. The "visual tour of the fuel pools of Fukushima" is a good feature within the site. Zerohedge readers are not yet generally aware of Fukushima – it's great to see the story there.
Some of the reader comments there remind me of Enenews commenters from a year or more ago, as people just started to "get it". Here's a sample:
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Sun, 04/15/2012 – 06:51 | 2346282 Money 4 Nothing
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I don't get it? What's these pictures have to do with a Nuclear Reactor? Looks like small destroyed small buildings.
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Ooh….ahh….
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Sun, 04/15/2012 – 05:41 | 2346245 Element
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Duct tape … lots of it."
Consciousness-raising has a LONG way to go for the public at large.
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Bad form by lawmakers
April 13, 2012
If you were waiting for confirmation the super-majority ofDemocrats and their allies in Montpelier are drunk with power,we now have it. Recently an invitation went out to all legislatorsto celebrate March 21 as the proposed closing ofVermont Yankee. I’m all for our legislators taking a breakfrom a long day of raising our taxes and fees, but a partyto celebrate closing Yankee at the Statehouse? Really?
The very place where our representatives conduct the people’sbusiness had VPIRG and the Yankee Decommissioning Alliancehost legislators celebrating with glee the prospect of throwing600 Vermonters out of work. I hope they had the lights off.
Whatever your opinion of the politics of Vermont Yankee,the hubris displayed by these extreme environmental lobbyistsand our Legislature is …
http://www.timesargus.com/article/20120413/OPINION02/704139961/0/ARCHIVES
Vwey good comment section of replies !
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I was idly looking at Fukushima on Google Earth when I noticed an ad: "Warning and notification. Inside and around nuclear power plant. Proven solution for sale." with a link to telegrafia.eu
It's the real thing, apparently. What struck me is how hopelessly inappropriate it is (not the tacky ad, but the world-view it revealed about how best to deal with uncontrollable forces).
Sample from the site:
"It is appropriate to use this solution if the following is required:
extremely reliable and safe solution;
physically divided dispatching centre and the emergency control centre;
extremely short activation times and activation confirming times for large number (hundreds) of sirens;
reliable sound distribution in the interiors with many partitions;
maximum automation of the announcement-following processes (automatic calling in the people in charge, informing the institutions involved etc.);
effectivity of the invested money and good ratio between the costs and the received value"
Our lives are in the hands of people like these, who apparently genuinely believe that sirens and "automatically calling the people in charge" will make things "safe".
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Radiation from Japan's damaged reactors posed little risk in Oregon despite Portland 'hotspot'
Published: Friday, April 13, 2012, 10:15 PM Updated: Saturday, April 14, 2012, 8:57 AM
Joe Rojas-Burke, The Oregonian By Joe Rojas-Burke, The Oregonian
http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2012/04/radiation_levels_in_portland_a.html
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****Tests of milk from West Coast dairy cows found radioactivity levels of 0.8 pico-Curies per liter attributable to the Fukushima accident. That's about 1,000 times lower than the amount routinely measured in milk in Oregon during the 1960s era of nuclear weapons testing by the U.S. and Soviet Union. The radiation levels in milk after Fukushima were 5,000 times lower than the amounts considered problematic by the Food and Drug Administration.
The amount of harmless, naturally occurring radioactivity in milk (from the ever-present potassium-40 that's taken up by plants from the soil) averages about 1,500 picoCuries per liter in Oregon.
Steam clouds escaping from the damaged reactors contained iodine-131 and a few other radioactive isotopes, such as cesium-137. Airborne dust collected these elements and winds carried them across the ocean, depositing the largest amounts on the West Coast, followed by sites in the Rocky Mountains. ****
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At least some of the *numbers* they are working by are becoming clearer.
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Yes, but their logic is flawed. Bioaccumulation is ignored. We're already at huge amounts of 300-1000 year toxicity for cesium from 60 years of a-bomb testing. Now we add more poison and they can't stop the bomb-maker at Daiichi… It fires one off every hour on the hour.
Despite their insistence they have "stepped" up testing they have refused to release their results until they wish to attempt to refute the data of one courageous researcher.
BTW mr-stepper-uppers…when have you tested and released data on migratory salmon and tuna? Waiting to refute some hero later?
When governments stall 13 months on critical data…frankly many of us do not trust you anymore than the Japanese people trust their liars in office.
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Agreed. And for *accurate* radiation information there has to be an ongoing and current reporting of numbers. Exactly to account for the accumulation and there also has to be an extension of the types of contaminants being tested and accounted for, right?
I thought it was interesting it was being addressed and published in Oregon. I love that place.
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F311WDogs just now TRANSLATED TOO!!
Interview with woman living on Cesium 137 & Strontium 90 irradiated soil by Chernobyl, in Belarus. 5 Ci / km2 – 185,000 Becquerel per m². April 4th 2012. What is the situation now, what was it then? Belarus calls Cesium 137 and Strontium 90 areas as these "clean". Same in Japan. A crime. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mMylOrrv-M
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California Nuclear Accident: Caused By a Secret Attempt to Ramp Up Production?
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/was-the-california-nuclear-accident-caused-by-an-attempt-to-try-to-secretly-ramp-up-production-to-avoid-scrutiny.html
Hmm.. I wonder if this plant might have actually been retrofitted, or in that process, for um say.. Mox? Just dots floating about.. anybody have any thoughts? the hairs on the back of my neck stood up
..and how many other plants are up to no good or "a series of equipment and design changes to the generators" that are "unreported to authorities"
"Among the modifications, the report said the tube alloy was changed, bracing was redesigned and more tubes were added. It said the company never disclosed that such extensive changes were made, instead describing it as an exchange of similar equipment that allowed [the plant operator] SCE “to avoid the requisite NRC oversight of a steam generator replacement.”"
Again I say.. SHUT THEM DOWN! NO NEW NUKES!
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+1000000000000000000
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Posted by WeMustDoBetter on HP:
See this guys? CNN: “Sounds unbelieveable, but it’s true” — Japan paying for travelers to visit Fukushima — $63 to shar… http://bit.ly/HIEzgf
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and me:
MORE Nuclear Baloney from the Japanese Gov't…
How about this nuclear PITCH:
YEN for Radiation, Visit (Fukushima) Northern Japan…
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The light of truth never dims, never blinks and will always shine as bright as the Sun.
We have known since the sixties, the effects of low level radiation on all life. There is NO safe dose!
The data has been collected, long ago. The research has been done, long ago. The information was presented to the world, long ago.
No one listened. No one took notice. They only took cash.
Now, the piper has come for payment. The masses will pay with their loved ones lives. The result always equals the sum of the parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKnBawYTA48
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=-hjwegx0QPc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMydX6gAHlo
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Harry Shearer's Le Show, and the segment "Clean, Safe, and Too Cheap to Meter," with Atty the Atom. As far as I know, it is the only weekly review of nuclear on radio or tv. Shearer is a multi-millionaire from his work on the Simpsons (he is Mr. Burns, lol, and others), but he still works on this show. "The Apologies of the Week" segment is usually funny.
http://harryshearer.com/news/le_show/player/?id=865
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Nuclear Power Is Expensive and Bad for the Environment … It’s Being Pushed Because It Is Good For Making Bombs
Since the 1980s, the U.S. Has Secretly Helped Japan Build Up Its Nuclear Weapons Program … Pretending It Was “Nuclear Energy” and “Space Exploration” …
As demonstrated below, nuclear energy is expensive and bad for the environment.
The real reason it is being pushed is because it is good for helping countries like Japan and the U.S. build nuclear weapons.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/04/nuclear-power-is-expensive-and-bad-for-the-environment-it-is-really-being-pushed-because-it-is-good-for-making-bombs.html
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Jebus, imagine how much money there is from selling nuclear weapons on the black market.
That is the real and only reason we have this plague of nuclear power. It is phenomenally expensive, and no one would insure the NPP's without taxpayer subsidies. Renewables are safer and cheaper.
God only knows how many nuclear bombs are out there, and who's got them.
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And someday God will tell us how many there are, one last time…
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LQQK !
Fukushima Radiation On US West Coast – Mainstream Media Coverup
The mainstream media and the federal government will soon have the blood of the world on it’s hands.
Radiation from the Fukushima Nuclear Plant disaster in Japan is now actively in the ecosystem all along the North American west coast… even the sea weed is now radiated. The Vancouver Sun reported one year ago that the seaweed tested from waters off the coast of British Columbia were 4 times the amount considered safe. No further test results were released after the initial report.
The governments of the United States and Canada are not conducting tests for radioactivity – at least not to the knowledge of the public. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has agreed to continue purchasing seafood from Japan, despite the fact that the food is not being tested for radioactive contamination. Last November, independent testing in Japan showed 65 per cent of the catches tested positive for cesium (a radioactive material). Instead of refusing to purchase the poisoned fish, food safety agencies in both the United States and Canada have simply raised the “acceptable level of radiation.” We can’t go offending the Japanese after promising to buy their tainted goods, now can we?
After the North American governments refused to fund testing, oceanographer Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at the non-profit Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Mass, along with Nicholas Fisher, a marine…
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http://coupmedia.org/toxins/fukushima-radiation-on-us-west-coast-mainstream-media-coverup-0304
sorry the link got dropped… arg !
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Radiation sickness
'Does a regulatory body track reported cases in Singapore?'
MS JULIA YAP: 'Recently, there were online stories of Singaporeans who felt unwell upon returning from short holidays in Japan, only to be told by doctors that they were suffering from radiation sickness and could not conceive for up to 10 years. While these stories may have no basis in fact, have there been any reported cases of radiation sickness among Singaporeans who have travelled to or lived in Japan since March last year? Are doctors here obliged by regulations to report cases of radiation sickness to the authorities? Does a regulatory body track reported cases of radiation sickness in Singapore?'
http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_788517.html
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First we have:
Tuna linked to salmonella outbreak in 20 states
http://fox6now.com/2012/04/15/tuna-linked-to-salmonella-outbreak-in-20-states/
Now we have:
Dole recalls west coast bagged salads for salmonella risk
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/dole-recalls-bagged-salads-salmonella-risk-16145227
My flags are up full!!!
If anyone has one of these sealed bags of salad in the article, do not throw it away!
Contact Arnie Gundersen, contact@fairewinds.com for advice on where to send it, to get it tested for possible radiation contamination.
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Hi Jebus
You may have missed our long discussion about illnesses last night.
http://enenews.com/asahi-cesium-172-times-govt-limit-miyagi-tea-will-health-problems-after-being-consumed-radiation-professor-1100-already-sold
There has been rampant "stomach" flu symptoms in Phoenix that have not been diagnosed even when people get tested.
It is possible it is a norovirus, or it could be something else entirely.
People are really suffering with it for weeks and losing weight.
Majia
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Hi Majia
I hope all is well with you and yours.
I agree, it could be "just" salmonella, but in these times we are enduring, trust has been breeched so many times. I am from the camp of question "all authority". Proof is what I trust in lately.
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dolphins migrate north and south west coast, but fish the eat mugrate west to east and back again, quite likely dophines may have eaten bad seaffood from Japam ?
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/2010/519/300_more_dead_dolphins_found_in_northern_Peru_7_min.VIDEO.html
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/2009/229/Horse_deaths_baffle_vets,_southwest_Western_Australia.html
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1969/005/Over_3_thousand_dead_dolphins_found_on_beaches_in_northern_Peru.html
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Leuren Moret interview with me and James Fetzer.
http://radiofetzer.blogspot.com/2012_03_01_archive.html
It is a couple weeks old, but perhaps a good summary otherwise…
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Thanks very much, majia.
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Evacuated Horses Return To Fukushima
http://www.houseofjapan.com/local/evacuated-horses-return-to-fukushima?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
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For those living in Germany:
No to nuclear subsidies from the EU Petition
http://www.ausgestrahlt.de/mitmachen/atom-subvention.html
OT Google Co-Founder: Internet Freedom Facing Greatest Threat Ever http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/15/sergey-brin-internet-freedom-threatened_n_1427325.html
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Whoopie – how cool is it that you're posting German online petitions! Thanks! Signed!!
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GOOD BB! I KNEW YOU'D LIKE THAT. IT CAME THROUGH F311WD'S!
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Solar power cheaper than nuclear in North Carolina.
I just received this as a news story, but I see it is datelined from 2010. It is encouraging in any case.
http://inhabitat.com/solar-power-is-cheaper-than-nuclear-for-the-first-time/
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Md just brought these 2 up at HP
Renewables Driving Electricity Prices below $0 Some Afternoons
http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/15/renewables-driving-electricity-prices-to-negative-some-afternoons-cutting-into-baseload-power-plants-market-share/ $0 !! $ZERO!!!
Wind energy to bring 500,000 jobs to Europe by 2020
http://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/wind-energy-to-bring-500000-jobs-to-europe-by-2020/853067/
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Very interesting piece:
Germany Faces Another Fight With The Rest Of Europe Over Nuclear Power – Business Insider http://bit.ly/J4ORFK
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Hi Whoops, thanks for posting that. It's ALL OVER the news over here – again, they take insanity to a whole new level!!
On the other hand – by sending that letter to the EU, the nukers de facto admitted that they can't survive without subsidies….
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Oh I know! Incredible read!! Down the Rabbit Hole Nukes go! Mother flackers!! EXPLOSIVE PIECE! NO MORE OF MY TAXES OR GERMAN'S TAXES! NO MORE SUBSIDIZING THESE NPP'S!!
2 MORE GOOD ONES JUST CAME THROUGH
Man Made Earthquakes and More: Hank hits you with a ton of news this time – Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has… http://t.co/kbnAKWu5 #fukushima
#Fukushima: Never Hurts to Look Back THEORY OF FUKUSHIMA — Finnish Scientist (HAARP quake, meth…: http://youtu.be/JAUY-Y3Kiek
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NuclearCrimes.org Advisory for Banning Pacific Seafood in Diet:
April 11, 2012
Since the summer of 2011, U.S. scientists have observed several dozen living and dead Pacific Ocean marine mammals with a strangely similar condition of skin sores and hair loss. These animals may be suffering from 'beta burns,' which are caused by significant external exposure to 'beta emitters' such as radiostrontiums, which were released in copious quantities to the Pacific Ocean at Fukushima Daiichi in 2011. Note that in April 2011 three TEPCO workers sustained radiation injuries to their feet while in standing water. TEPCO ignored the obvious culprit of these 'beta burns,' strontium-89 and/or strontium-90, both 'beta-emitters' commonly found in nuclear spent fuel. These beta-emitters, upon contact with a victim, can cause external injuries including hair loss, sores and lesions. These and other radioactive isotopes from Fukushima now found throughout the Pacific Ocean are also available for internal contamination of sea plants and animals… Our concern is that fish harvested this season along North America's Pacific coastline may be contaminated with unsafe levels of radioactivity…
The best public health option is to ensure no radioactive foods enter the marketplace. But since there is absolutely no adequate monitoring in place for Pacific Ocean seafood, all seafood from the Pacific should be avoided.
http://www.nuclearcrimes.org/
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Good find Bobby. I'll post that at HP. I must have missed it last week.
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You should not live near the sea for the mist, fog and moist air including rain !
Orographic effects
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain
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Areva Solar – looks like they plan to land on their feet, no matter what happens.
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/04/areva-solar-to-build-asias-largest-csp-plant?cmpid=rss
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Fukushima Radiation Spreads Worldwide
California, Finland, Canada, Australia Hit By Radiation
The University of California at Berkeley detected cesium levels in San Francisco area milk above over EPA limits … and even higher than they were 6 months ago.
Finnish public television says that cesium from Fukushima has been detected in lichens, fungi and elk and reindeer meat in Finland.
The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency confirmed a radiation cloud over the East Coast of Australia.
The West Coast of Canada is getting hit by debris from Japan … and at least some of it is likely radioactive.
The authors of the controversial …
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/fukushima-radiation-spreads-worldwide.html
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Good God, I just saw on news that Ryan O'neil (Fawcett) has stage 4 prostate cancer. He just finished with a battle with LEUKEMIA (yes!) now this.
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Ryan O'Neil has stage 4 prostate cancer
1 day ago … I was just watching TV and a reader came across below and stated that he had stage 4 prostate cancer. This is not good. It means that it has …
http://247sports.com/Board/59419/Ryan-ONeil-has-stage-4-prostate-cancer-9025506/1
Ryan O'Neal reveals he has been diagnosed with stage four …
2 days ago … And Ryan O'Neal has revealed he has another fight on his hands after … Recommended treatment for localised stage four prostate cancer involves a …. All the best Mr O'Neil who starred in Love Story with my beloved uncle.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2129600/Ryan-ONeal-reveals-diagnosed-stage-prostate-cancer.html
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Whoopie,
I would think it will be a resonable asumption we will be seeing many starrs coming down with ills from FUKU !
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Thanks for the link doc. Damn we HAVE TO GET THE WORD OUT FUKY WILL BE KILLING MORE AND MORE PEEPS!
so fucking sad.
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Celebrity deaths, hospitalizations, illness, major news, background information and some trivial stories. List of deaths by year, month, and category.
http://www.hollywoodmemoir.com/
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A nearly 1000-fold increase for exposure to strontium-90;
•A 3000 to 100,000-fold hike for exposure to iodine-131; and
•An almost 25,000 rise for exposure to radioactive nickel-63.i
The new radiation guidelines would also allow long-term cleanup thresholds thousands of times more lax than anything EPA has ever judged safe in the past. Under long-established EPA policy, in conformity with long-accepted international standards on “acceptable” amounts of radiation these proposed changes would increase the permissible amounts of radiation to levels where 25% of those exposed to these “new acceptable levels” would develop cancer based on the EPA’s own numbers.ii …
http://www.collapsenet.com/free-resources/collapsenet-public-access/item/723-fallout?tmpl=component&print=1
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The Cali antinuke initiative FAILED?
Just ….. wow.
Can't believe it.
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California's brains are retarded!
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"Driving Final Nail in Coffin of "Nuclear Renaissance"" – an irresistible headline fragment.
http://news.yahoo.com/report-addressing-flaws-nuclear-safety-likely-drive-already-170111222.html
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Press Release (Apr 16,2012)
General Plan and Start of Main Work of the Cover for Fuel Removal of Unit 4 in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
Based on "Mid-to-Long-Term Roadmap towards the Decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 1-4" which was announced on Dec. 21, 2011, we started the preparation work for the installation of the cover for fuel removal of Unit 4 on Mar. 23, 2012.
We would like to inform that we will start the main work for the installation of the cover for fuel removal on Apr. 17.
As the first step of the main work, we will conduct the foundation improvement work in order to strengthen the foundation which supports the foundation of the frame for supporting the crane which is a part of the cover for fuel removal.
At the same time, we will conduct the countermeasure to prevent rainwater from penetrating into Unit 4 Reactor Building.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/2012/1201934_1870.html
They're gonna build a tent over part of #4 building and try to remove the fuel.
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The "the countermeasure to prevent rainwater from penetrating into Unit 4 Reactor Building." are more important at this time IMO, because the rainwater and groundwater below the Complex makes the soil much less stable…
Good Luck Japan!
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Morning CaptD. Always a pleasure to see you. See this? TRILLION DOLLAR DISATER
Japan lenders ready to back Fukushima operator Tepco, but wary http://reut.rs/yAzbjL via @reuters
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I hope the new strong construction does not act like a "can opener" upon the #4 Complex if they have another huge quake…
I can believe that they are not "surrounding" the SFP instead of just building above it!
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http://enenews.com/?p=30642
PM Noda pushed to protect TEPCO since 3/11/11
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Koodankulam, India: hundreds arrested, imprisoned for resisting new nuke plant; hunger strikes; govt using terrorist charges against non-violent protesters! Funds needed to help keep protest going! What brave strong people!
http://www.dianuke.org/latest-updates-from-koodankulam/
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#Fukushima: Yahoo!! Austria will be nuclear-free future
16th April 2012 16:47 http://derstandard.at/1334530846829
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Can we avoid sinking our atomic Titanics?
On the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, The Japan Times yesterday ran an editorial titled “The Titanic and the Nuclear Fiasco” which stated: “Presenting technology as completely safe, trustworthy or miraculous may seem to be a thing of the past, but the parallels between the Titanic and Japan’s nuclear power industry could not be clearer.”
“Japan’s nuclear power plants were, like the Titanic, advertised as marvels of modern science that were completely safe. Certain technologies, whether they promise to float a luxury liner or provide clean energy, can never be made entirely safe,” it said.
It quoted from a piece by Joseph Conrad written after the Titanic sank in which he noted the “chastening influence it should have on the self-confidence of mankind.” The Japan Times urged: “That lesson should be applied to all ‘unsinkable’ undertakings that might profit a few by imperiling the majority of others.”
Yes, the same kind of baloney behind the claim that the Titanic was unsinkable is behind the puffery that nuclear power plants are safe. The nuclear power promoters are still saying that despite the sinking of atomic Titanics: Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and now the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plants.
In fact, underneath the PR offensive are government documents admitting that nuclear power plants are deadly dangerous.
http://enformable.com/2012/04/can-we-avoid-sinking-our-atomic-titanics/
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Another excellent Karl Grossman article.. he goes on to share..
The NRC response: “In a population of 100 reactors operating over a period of 20 years, the crude cumulative probability of such an accident would be 45%.” But then it went on that this might be off by “a factor of about 10 above and below.” Thus, the chances of a meltdown during a 20-year period among 100 U.S. nuclear plant plants (there are 104 today) would be about 50-50
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Nuclear Sunset — The Last Straw of the Nuclear Lobby? http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/16/nuclear-sunset-the-last-straw-of-the-nuclear-lobby/
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We Are All Radioactive – Chapter 3 "Reconstruction" – Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2012/04/16/we-are-all-radioactive-chapt.html via @BoingBoing
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I'm sure this was posted last month…
I was just taking a second look.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=9Hnfz06kDiU
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Question of the day
Reactor 4 was shut down at time of accident and did not react the same as other melt downs, something different happened, what.
Could it have imploded rather that exploded, the reactor buildings are connected, could something have happened in other building that consumed all the O2 in reactor 4 and caused implosion .
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Steam venting in Georgia…….
Power Reactor Event Number: 47836
Facility: VOGTLE
Region: 2 State: GA
Unit: [1] [ ] [ ]
RX Type: [1] W-4-LP,[2] W-4-LP
NRC Notified By: JEFF TODD
HQ OPS Officer: JOHN KNOKE Notification Date: 04/14/2012
Notification Time: 16:12 [ET]
Event Date: 04/14/2012
Event Time: 13:46 [EDT]
Last Update Date: 04/14/2012
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY
10 CFR Section:
50.72(b)(2)(iv)(B) – RPS ACTUATION – CRITICAL
50.72(b)(3)(iv)(A) – VALID SPECIF SYS ACTUATION
Person (Organization):
KATHLEEN O'DONOHUE (R2DO)
Unit SCRAM Code RX CRIT Initial PWR Initial RX Mode Current PWR Current RX Mode
1 M/R Y 100 Power Operation 0 Hot Standby
Event Text
MANUAL REACTOR TRIP DUE TO LOW MAIN FEEDWATER FLOW
"At 1346 EDT, Vogtle Unit 1 reactor was manually tripped from 100% power due to Main Feedwater Pump 'B' discharge flow lowering unexpectedly. All control rods fully inserted. AFW system automatically actuated as expected. System responses allowed for an uncomplicated reactor trip response. Plant is stable in Mode 3 during cause investigation."
The electrical lineup remained normal. No safety valves lifted due to the trip. Decay heat is being removed via the steam dumps to the main condenser.
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huh.. you mean the same plant NRC rejected a request from environmental groups to delay the addition of two new reactors at Plant Vogtle at? Huh? Hope this gives them lots of Ammo..http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2012-04-16/nrc-rejects-groups-request-halt-plant-vogtle-expansion
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I saw that Cataclysmic. Fortunately, a coalition of 9 anti-nuke groups are NOT taking the NRC's dictatorship lying down! They will be fighting the decision in federal court:
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/221667-activists-to-challenge-vogtle-license-in-federal-court
And I expect the folks behind the California initiative to shut down the two remaining NPPs that just failed won't give up either and will be back with a new initiative faster than you can say "SHUT THEM ALL DOWN! "
We won't give up until they are ALL shut down and no longer posing a deadly hazard to our children and all life on this planet! The tide is turning and it is only a matter of time…Keep the faith!
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Steam venting in Arizona……
Power Reactor Event Number: 47837
Facility: PALO VERDE
Region: 4 State: AZ
Unit: [ ] [ ] [3]
RX Type: [1] CE,[2] CE,[3] CE
NRC Notified By: MICHAEL KOHRT
HQ OPS Officer: JOHN KNOKE Notification Date: 04/15/2012
Notification Time: 17:13 [ET]
Event Date: 04/15/2012
Event Time: 12:20 [MST]
Last Update Date: 04/15/2012
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY
10 CFR Section:
50.72(b)(2)(iv)(B) – RPS ACTUATION – CRITICAL
Person (Organization):
VINCENT GADDY (R4DO)
Unit SCRAM Code RX CRIT Initial PWR Initial RX Mode Current PWR Current RX Mode
3 M/R Y 0 Startup 0 Hot Standby
Event Text
MANUAL REACTOR TRIP DUE TO CONTROL ROD DEVIATION DURING STARTUP
"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 April 15, 2012 at approximately 1220 Mountain Standard Time (MST), Palo Verde Unit 3 was manually tripped during low power physics testing.
"While conducting low power physics testing following a refueling outage, Regulating Group 1 rods were being inserted while simultaneously diluting to maintain a constant power level below the Point of Adding Heat. While inserting rods one rod deviated from its subgroup when it…
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Info from Mitsubishi on tube wear at San Onofre….
Part 21 Event Number: 47833
Rep Org: MITSUBISHI NUCLEAR ENERGY SYSTEMS
Licensee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD
Region: 1
City: ARLINGTON State: VA
County:
License #:
Agreement: Y
Docket:
NRC Notified By: EI KADOKAMI
HQ OPS Officer: JOHN KNOKE Notification Date: 04/13/2012
Notification Time: 15:58 [ET]
Event Date: 04/13/2012
Event Time: [EDT]
Last Update Date: 04/16/2012
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY
10 CFR Section:
21.21(a)(2) – INTERIM EVAL OF DEVIATION
Person (Organization):
BLAKE WELLING (R1DO)
KATHLEEN O'DONOHUE (R2DO)
DAVID HILLS (R3DO)
VINCENT GADDY (R4DO)
PART 21 GROUP (EMAI)
Event Text
PART 21 INTERIM REPORT – STEAM GENERATOR TUBE WEAR
This interim Part 21 is in regard to San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Unit 2, Steam Generator replacement.
"During the first refueling outage following steam generator replacement, eddy current testing identified ten total tubes with depths of 90 to 28 percent of the tube wall thickness. Some of the affected tubes were located adjacent to retainer bars. The retainer bars are part of the floating anti-vibration bar (AVB) structure that stabilizes the u-bend region of the tubes.
"Other tubes in the two steam generators had detectable wear associated with support points elsewhere in the AVB structure. Each steam generator has 9727 tubes with an 8 percent (778 tubes) design margin for tube plugging.
"Discovery…
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PU 238 is in pacemakers??? Another interesting "event"…..
PATIENT BURIED WITH PLUTONIUM-238 PACEMAKER
A former patient at St. John Macomb-Oakland Hospital expired on 1/31/12 and the body was released to the family for burial. The patient had a Medtronic pacemaker with a radionuclide of Plutonium-238. The RSO at Sinai-Grace Hospital notified the NRC of this event.
There is no planned action to recover the pacemaker from the buried patient.
THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "CATEGORY 3" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL
Category 3 sources, if not safely managed or securely protected, could cause permanent injury to a person who handled them, or were otherwise in contact with them, for some hours. It could possibly – although it is unlikely – be fatal to be close to this amount of unshielded radioactive material for a period of days to weeks. These sources are typically used in practices such as fixed industrial gauges involving high activity sources (for example: level gauges, dredger gauges, conveyor gauges and spinning pipe gauges) and well logging. For additional information go to http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1227_web.pdf
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Turkey Point Nuke Plant in Florida…
FITNESS FOR DUTY – A CONTRACT SUPERVISOR TESTED POSITIVE ON A DRUG TEST
A non-licensed contract supervisor tested positive for illegal drugs on a random fitness-for-duty test. The individual's access has been terminated. Contact the Headquarters Operations Officer for additional details.
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Fire at Grand Gulf, MS Nuke Plant, cause undetermined…..
Power Reactor Event Number: 47825
Facility: GRAND GULF
Region: 4 State: MS
Unit: [1] [ ] [ ]
RX Type: [1] GE-6
NRC Notified By: SCOTTY BEACH
HQ OPS Officer: CHARLES TEAL Notification Date: 04/11/2012
Notification Time: 20:03 [ET]
Event Date: 04/11/2012
Event Time: 18:26 [CDT]
Last Update Date: 04/11/2012
Emergency Class: UNUSUAL EVENT
10 CFR Section:
50.72(a) (1) (i) – EMERGENCY DECLARED
50.72(b)(2)(xi) – OFFSITE NOTIFICATION
Person (Organization):
VINCENT GADDY (R4DO)
ELMO COLLINS (RA)
BRUCE BOGER (NRR)
JOSEPH GIITTER (NRR)
WILLIAM GOTT (IRD)
Unit SCRAM Code RX CRIT Initial PWR Initial RX Mode Current PWR Current RX Mode
1 N N 0 Refueling 0 Refueling
Event Text
UNUSUAL EVENT DUE TO A FIRE IN THE 'A' MAIN CONDENSER
"At 1811 [CDT] hours a fire was reported inside the 'A' Main Condenser. The fire brigade was dispatched to combat the fire and the area was evacuated.
"An Unusual Event (HU4) was declared at 1826 [CDT] hours due to the fire being in the Protected Area boundary and not extinguished within 15 minutes of detection.
"The Claiborne County, Mississippi Fire Department was notified to provide assistance.
"At 1847 [CDT] hours the fire was reported to be extinguished.
"The Unusual Event was terminated at 1900 [CDT] hours."
The source of the fire is still under investigation. There were no personnel injuries.
The licensee notified…
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F311W'DOGS:
CHECK THIS OUT! http://www.facebook.com/groups/fukushima311watchdogs/ this is a photo of a visitor that came to the house today. he had an injection in his arm for a "nuclear stress test" – to check his heart. the geiger spiked to over 10,000 CPM, but the pause in my camera didn't catch that reading. in the interest of not making him too nervous i only took a few pics. the gegier moved to the next scale — 10 X something, didn't have time to look closely, too freaked out being so close to the guy. freaked him out too when i told him what normal background levels are here…. this photo is in CPM, over 9,000 CPM on his arm. photo was taken with the geiger several inches from his arm – the readings increased with increased proximity but i didn't want to contaminate the geiger and the guy was moving his arm around unpredictably talking to someone on the other side of the room.
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IS THERE NOTHING THEY WONT RAPE?!?!? IS NOTHING SACRED??
#Fukushima: WTH? As Ice Cap Melts, Militaries Vie For Arctic Edge http://huff.to/JpEHfE via @huffingtonpost
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RadChicks Fallout Forecast & Warning ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNWm9QFTw4g
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Japan Fallout Forecast ~ http://ggtms.com/you9.cgi?youtubeid=gELpXbIbtPc&type=3
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"The Nuclear Literacy Project has officially opened its virtual doors for visitors. This collaborative effort has been several months in the making with a number of talented hands ensuring that the the unveiling would be a real success.
The site is designed to appeal to curious people who do not have preconceived notions, but really want to learn more about nuclear energy and radiation."
http://nuclearliteracy.org/
…mmmhmm… designed for just such peoples.
the homepage image has a pretty young scientist- with an only slightly condescending smile- holding this hand-written sign:
"NUCLEAR
MAKES OUR
AIR CLEAR"
(!?!!??)
http://nuclearliteracy.org/
via: http://atomicinsights.com/2012/04/nuclear-literacy-project-goes-live.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AtomicInsights+%28Atomic+Insights%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
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thanks for the heads up etwas.
'appeal to curious people who do not have preconceived notions'
hmmm.. notions that nukes are deadly and dangerous and should not be used on planet earth.
'makes our air clear' what friggin bollocks. 'gives your children brain tumors' is what the placard should say.
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i had a look at the nuke site.
there is no comment section (surprise).
but there is an email subscribe form.
can I suggest you might want to subscribe with email addresses like – downwithnukes@nonukes.net (mine wasn't that polite).
hey, i know it's a dirty tactic, but considering what we are up against, it's creating some nuisance value and noise.
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richard: very dirty tactic of subscribing to the "no comment section"
i like it!
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One year ago today here on ENENEWS ~
~ “Smoke at another Japan nuclear plant” — Run by TEPCO
~ So much “mud” in reactor No. 1, it’s preventing water from getting into core
~ State and city NOT testing drinking water for radioactivity because of EPA — EPA is “taking the lead”
~ New TEPCO footage shows smoke/steam rising from reactor buildings — (AERIAL VIDEOS)
~ AP: Sharp rise in radioactivity levels signal possibility of new leaks
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