Published: July 31st, 2012 at 12:36 pm ET
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Nuclear Energy Institute: “The plant is situated high above the port city of Onagawa, so flooding at the facility was not a problem.”
Title: Japan utility gets $12.8B nuclear crisis bailout
Source: AP
Author: MARI YAMAGUCHI
Date: July 31, 2012
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On Tuesday a group of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency inspected a nuclear power plant just north of Fukushima
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The three reactors at the Onagawa plant, about 120 kilometers (74 miles) north of Fukushima Dai-ichi, suffered temblors that exceeded their design capacity and the basement of one of its reactor buildings flooded, though the plant was able to maintain its cooling capacity. The reactors shut down without any damage to their cores.
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Title: IAEA inspects reactor building at Onagawa plant
Source: NHK World
Date: Jul. 31, 2012
A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency has begun inspecting facilities at a nuclear plant in northeastern Japan to assess damage from last year’s March 11th earthquake.
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On Tuesday, the inspectors checked pipes and other equipment at the Onagawa plant’s No. 2 reactor building.
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The team also plans to enter other reactor buildings and interview employees of the Onagawa plant’s operator
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NHK Transcript
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Experts from the IAEA are… trying to find out how the Onagawa facility weathered last year’s tsunami…
Experts checked a heat exhanger at one reactor. They looked at a cooling system that was flooded by the tsunami…
The team at Onagawa will go inside all three reactors to examine how piping, cooling devices, and fuel pools performed during the disaster. They plant to release their findings when they finish their work next week.
Watch the video here
Published: July 31st, 2012 at 12:36 pm ET
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Exceeded their design capacity then they must never be restarted and decommissioned, logic dictates.
Please study facility to determine effects of earthquake on plant since tsunami did not affect operation and if you find serious flaws in design close all effected reactors, pull their licenses that's your job and obligation.
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the entire nuclear power industry is a mess, let's just recognize it, write off the investments
and get cracking on renewables.
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"Nuclear Energy Institute: 'The plant is situated high above the port city of Onagawa, so flooding at the facility was not a problem.'”
I love the Nuclear Energy Institute. I can use it to show what the nuclear industry thinks science is. Adherents of the nuclear religion talk about the NEI as though it were some sort of fountain of truth, when in fact it can be shown to be no more reliable than the average advertising agency.
But it is just a self-proclaimed wizard, promoting the mythology of a modern, but very worn-out, cult. The Japanese learned it was mythology, much to their distress. We, in the US, will also learn, sooner or later. My hope is that their lies get exposed effectively before their spent fuel does.
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The fire in a turbine building at Onagawa Npp..happened in a close time period..as the fire at the Cosmo Oil.
" A fire was put out at a turbine building at Tohoku Electric’s Onagawa plant, and there was no radiation leak, said Satoshi Arakawa, a spokesman. Three reactors were shut."
A state of emergency issued..March 14 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btd7gmg-WN4
April 8 2011..
Water leaks..
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/08/us-japan-leak-idUSTRE7370R320110408
"Situated high above the port city of Onagawa..
Here it can be seen this is clearly not the truth..
http://pstuph.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/onagawa-nuclear-plant-radioactive-water-leak/
This is the state of Onagawa after the tsunami…
The reacotors at shoreline ..unaffected..?
BS.
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The North Anna NPP in Virgina is near Mineral, Virginia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Anna_Nuclear_Generating_Station
Last August, there was a 5.8 earthquake within 5+ miles:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/se082311a.php
The earthquake was twice what the plant was designed for:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/quakes-jolts-double-nuke-plants-design/story?id=14469070#.UBhzCYf-2So
So, the plant (fairly new) was only designed for a 2.9 quake. I suppose the older plants are designed for less?
Jus' saying . . .
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On 3/11; 15 – 24 Nuclear Reactors In Japan Were Damaged, Not 3 or 4; via A Green Road http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/14-nuclear-reactors-at-4-japan-sites.html
Fukushima; Today's Titantic and Costa Concordia; via A Green Road http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/fukushima-todays-titantic-and-costa.html
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There is no trust anymore. It will never come back.
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