Published: October 22nd, 2012 at 9:45 am ET
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Mr. Yastel Yamada, a retired engineer and founder of the Fukushima Skilled Veterans Corps
Uploaded by: Sujoy Sarkar
Filmed: Oct. 18, 2012 at Chabot College
Uploaded on: Oct. 18, 2012
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- No plan to replace with steel pipe
- Just makeshift, temporary system
- Leaks from piping penetrating groundwater and leaking into the sea
- No time or no money to work the same as normal
- No plan to replace temporary sea wall over longterm decommissioning schedule
- No plan to replace or install permanent infrastructure
- One big reason is Tepco is a private company, profit-oriented company. They want to save the money. They don’t want to spend on such non-profitable work.
(Subscription Only) Title: TEPCO continued donations to villages after Fukushima nuclear accident
Source: THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
Authors: Yo Noguchi and Satoshi Otani
Date: October 22, 2012
[Tepco] continued to dole out large sums to rural villages hosting nuclear power facilities even after the company was supposedly strapped for cash because of the Fukushima nuclear accident.
Documents obtained by The Asahi Shimbun showed that TEPCO paid 76 million yen ($960,000) to Higashidori, Aomori Prefecture, where a nuclear power plant is being constructed. [...]
TEPCO also paid about 270 million yen to Rokkasho, also in Aomori Prefecture, after the nuclear accident started, according to the documents.
The company said the payments to the villages were not donations and insisted that the money provided to Higashidori was part of construction expenses for building the nuclear plant.
But in July, industry ministry officials who were appraising TEPCO’s application to raise household electricity rates concluded that the payments to the two villages “were of a nature close to donations or expenses to improve relations with local communities that were not necessary for the supply of electricity.” [...]
TEPCO this year raised electricity rates for its customers [...]
Published: October 22nd, 2012 at 9:45 am ET
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They're trying to get back in the black. They can't do that if they spend a lot on decommissioning.
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"One big reason is Tepco is a private company, profit-oriented company." The problem is at least spoken aloud in Japan. TEPCO is more interested in bribes to keep village governments cooperative with the nuke agenda, than it is addressing the accident. This will assure the repeated failure of cooling systems as the plant for years to come. Yea TEPCO! (Except that when Building4 collapses, we will all suffer for TEPCO's failures.)
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The deception runs around the world in a huge spider web.
Windscale, Sellafield; Biggest Covered Up UK Nuclear Disaster; via A Green Road http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/windscale-biggest-covered-up-uk-nuclear.html
United States Circumvented Laws To Help Japan Accumulate Tons of Plutonium
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/09/united-states-circumvented-laws-to-help.html
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After the disaster of 311a normal person would question the logic behind nuclear power plants and see the damage they have done to the people and land of Japan, these weasels want to build more and promote them all in the name of profit and the meek will inherit the earth ha and the radiated will inherit the earth that is cancerous.
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RED ALERT tying to verify does anyone have any info. Thank you in advance. http://youtu.be/uWZr3b3Me-w
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RE: Red Alert
I agree that we need to assemble evidence to figure out whether this alert is true.
Evidence:
The EPA radnet levels have spiked.
The Tepco Fukushima webcam looks "normal."
Any other info anyone?
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The fuss seems to originate with a Michael Eckstein:
http://thecontrail.com/m/blogpost?id=4744723%3ABlogPost%3A321083
He has been in the Fukushima limelight before:
http://www.kesq.com/San-Diego-Man-Trapped-Near-Japan-s-Nuclear-Power-Plant/-/233230/491492/-/12n40ql/-/index.html
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2011/March/San-Diego-Man-Trapped-Near-Japan-Reactors/
Odd time sequences in all three stories.
I've seen nothing whatsoever to corroborate his claims.
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I wouldn't be worried either EXCEPT for those spiking rad levels that have been reported in Japan and the US recently, both by independents and by govs.
I've been stressed for the last 2 weeks about these spiking levels.
Why are they going up?
Something must be happening, but I have no idea whether there are in fact fires or whether the work and grass-fire at the plant have stirred up radioactive dust…
I've also wondered whether the spiking rad levels in the US are a result of the jet stream moving down, as it always does at this time of year.
????????????
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majia: Tokyo radiation is "normal". I know, the report indicates eastery winds at Fuku. Admin will start a thread on this if his sources confirm plant evacuation. I'm withholding judgement on this for now. Disturbing that source can see clouds of smoke from his vantagepoint.
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PhillipUpNorth
I've been going over Fukushima Diary's validated headlines and I think something may have happened at reactor 1
I'll post all of my assembled links at my blog as soon as I'm done. I'm going back through late Sep.
Rad levels started jumping in September in areas of the US
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Do you have an measuring station where you see these levels spiking, majia? I haven't worked on the numbers recently, but RadNet and CEMP seem to show the somewhat expected seasonal variation due to jetstream shift and temperature.
There were previous permanent ramps of a few percent after 1999 and 2004 (gross gamma). Its hard to see a permanent ramp – yet – after Fukushima just eyeballing the numbers.
The cumulative 'permanent' increase since 1999 was close to the EPA's 10 mRem/yr (1.7uRem/hr) old annual external dose equivalent guideline. This was using numbers through last spring and my specious statistical math. The only significance of 10 mRem/yr was the EPA's claim that this would only account for a one in ten thousand increase in cancer risk. 'Gross gamma' from air is a horriblly imprecise measure to use for risk, but that's the only readily available number I have.
No idea what the new EPA guidelines will be, but I expect them to be TEPCO-ized for the benefit of the U.S. nuclear industry.
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I've seen analysis of the EPA'S Phoenix and Corvallis laboratory analysis data for 2011 as compared to 2010
2011 was higher.
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majia: First thing to do is to date for the radiation uptick in Japan. This came to my attention on Thursday or Friday last, and I posted with a link to the Chart. And we need to confirm the source, if there have been SFP fires, or problems under the Unit1 tent. I just Googled, and the only references for "spent fuel pool fires" in the past day all refer back to this source:
http://thecontrail.com/profiles/blogs/red-alert-fukushima-spent-fuel-pools-exploded-on-fire-now.
This means, there is no independent confirmation. I am tempted to just ignore the report of fires in SFPs. We have been running about 6 US cities at above 50 cpm all day on Radiation Network, which is a high average. Fuku Diary is looking, and nothing from Dutchsinse, who would get right on this were their something different going on. Seems like more is going on than a seasonal shift in the jetstream, PavewayIII.
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They were climbing into the end of 2010 and dropping into the end of 2011 (U.S. averages – I have not seen Phoenix and Corvallis data). That somewhat masks the actual impact of Fukushima. Which brings up another question, "Why were they going up so much in 2010 well before Fukushima?"
Here's Japan levels realtime (mix of government sensors and civilian readings). Nothing too interesting besides the high Futuba reading:
http://japan.failedrobot.com/#
Futuba has been high for a while:
https://cosm.com/feeds/20975?pachube_redirect=true
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Could the spikes have anything at all to do with the big explosion event that happened in Russia? Just wondering aloud … if this might be the connection.
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U.S. and Europe are downwind from Daiichi, receiving radiation for years to come.
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RED ALERT: FUKUSHIMA SPENT FUEL POOLS EXPLODED, ON FIRE NOW, RADIATION LEVELS SPIKING MASSIVELY
http://thecontrail.com/profiles/blogs/red-alert-fukushima-spent-fuel-pools-exploded-on-fire-now
I think we are screwed if this is TRUE!
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have to sign in to see anything at this source…
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I bet the higher readings might be related to what happened in Russia.
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Ozyorsk – Kyshtym – Mayak Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Center Disaster And Coverup; via A Green Road http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/ozyorsk-kyshtym-mayak-nuclear-waste.html
La Hague; France's Nuclear Waste Nightmare; via A Green Road http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/la-hague-nuclear-waste-nightmare.html
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Normal 'background' radiation includes all nuclear plants releasing radiation, PLUS numerous accidents EVERY YEAR.
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