Published: October 24th, 2012 at 11:18 am ET
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Title: Fukushima situation stable but still precarious: regulator
Source: Reuters
Reporting by Fredrik Dahl; editing by Jane Baird
Date: Oct 24, 2012
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“Overall, the conditions there have been maintained rather in a stable condition … but there is no denying that the whole situation remains precarious of course,” said Kenzo Oshima, a commissioner at Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA).
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“A lot of precaution, a lot of care, a lot of attention is still very much needed,” he told reporters after meeting U.N. nuclear agency chief Yukiya Amano in Vienna.
In April, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden said after visiting the site that Japan, with assistance from the U.S. government, needed to do more to move spent fuel rods out of harm’s way.
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When a Reuters journalist went to the plant this month, workers were seen putting together water filtration systems and shifting equipment near the reactors, two of which remain capped by twisted steel and damaged concrete.
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Published: October 24th, 2012 at 11:18 am ET
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Stable but precarious. Got it.
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This "stable but precarious" Fukushima doublespeak could be applied to other topics as well:
1. The economy is stable but precarious.
2. The weather is stable but precarious.
3. Job creation has been stable but precarious.
4. Relations with country X are stable but precarious.
5. The price of gas is stable but precarious.
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Oh, brilliant, corium pudding!
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Nothing else has blown up, sunken or fallen, or went critical that we know of or will speak of. The 'daily radioactive emissions' remain steady with some intermittent fluctuating.
Where 'precarious' means…
Even… If we did know where the 3 melted cores were located.
or… If the Fuel Pools were not damaged beyond repair or broken fuel rods removed anytime soon.
or… If persistent earthquakes and possible tsunami threats didn't loom constantly.
or… If humans could get near Units 1 through 3 to even make an assessment much less a solution.
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Most likely their current orders are:
1. Keep the number of explosions and fires to a minimum and react to 'other' emergency events as they happen.
This is about all they can really do.
2. Avoiding 'the appearance' of complete site abandonment. It's a facade to buy time.
This could be their main purpose at this point.
(Just my opinion.)
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+311 CA. I couldn't have summed it up any better.
Tepkill's Oxymoron of the Day:
Blobzilla, her twin sisters and their former swimming pools:
The situation is "stable" yet "precarious".
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Well said, accept, i still don't get the Blobzilla thing. Especially with Blobzilla being a girl with sisters, though, i guess the radioisotopes are considered producing daughters for some reason instead of brothers. But, doesn't the reactor look a bit more on the phallic side? I mean, did it actually have to be modeled after an erect member in order to get nuclear fission? Can someone please explain?
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Stable in nuclear terms means that the next release of radiation hasn't occurred…yet.
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Well said everyone!
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Radioactivity in the body is stable but makes life precarious.
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Whatch out for the Powers of the SUN , ICARUS , or its gonne get PRECARIOUS for you !
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How much did the utility corp pay to get this ad placed at the top of this page? How about transparency please?
Ad: "San Onofre is committed to keeping SoCal safe and prepared."
Hopefully, ENEnews readers all know that San Onofre is extremely dangerous, and they're trying to reopen it.
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