Published: May 3rd, 2012 at 11:02 am ET
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Japan to shut down its last nuclear reactor
Telegraph
Julian Ryall
03 May 2012
[...] public opinion has turned fiercely against nuclear power since the Great East Japan Earthquake and the massive tsunami that it triggered which destroyed the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant [...][...] in the days and weeks immediately after the disaster, massive amounts of radioactivity – including caesium-137, with a half-life of 30 years – penetrated the ground and escaped into the air and the nearby waters of the Pacific Ocean.
The public backlash has been fierce and no local government has yet caved in to pressure to approve a reactor restarting after undergoing the legally mandated periodic safety checks. [...]
On Wednesday, Jakucho Setouchi, a novelist and Buddhist nun joined a hunger strike in front of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo.
Setouchi, 89, wore a message reading “No to reactivation” pinned to her habit and vowed to continue her hunger strike until the Tomari plant goes off-line on Saturday evening.
Toru Hashimoto, Osaka mayor
- “I am against restarting the Oi reactors right now. Restarting them based just on the results of the stress tests is impossible.”
- “All sorts of questions, including safety concerns and whether or not there will be electricity shortages without them, have to be considered.”
Published: May 3rd, 2012 at 11:02 am ET
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Turned fiercely against nuclear power, as they should. And citizens of the rest of the world must do this as well. We don't want radiation. Nuclear reactors must be outlawed.
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Posted. Langley just posted this:
TIMELINE WHEN THE DEBRIS WILL HIT WEST COAST
http://media.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/photo/10518934-large.jpg
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arghhhhhhh!
"..Workers from Tokyo Electric Power Co. have been able to bring the four damaged reactors to a state of cold shutdown, meaning that temperatures within the reactor chambers are below 100 degrees Centigrade (212 Fahrenheit) and therefore no longer releasing radioactive steam…."
didnt mention green actions etc petition to the UN concerning SP4??
didnt mention the petition to the UN for the children of fukushima either!
grrrrrrr!
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JAPAN IS WAKING UP … even if it is only the eighty-nine-year-old women …
Now how about the good old US of A. Anyone. Thanks to the heroes of ENENEWS, and I include all the posters, there is some hope amid the gallows humor.
The nuclear cabal is unmasked, uninsurable, unnecessary and a cover for bombs. Is there any doubt left? Those in favor of nuclear are as in a trance, on a strong drug, and they need our help in going straight. That is the only explanation that makes sense.
Now here's the bad news: because of their legal liability exposure, pro-nuclear managers, like Jeffrey Immelt, cannot admit to being wrong. If they admit they shouldn't have built the Mark I BWR then they must accept culpability in a civil suit and open themselves up to unlimited punitive damage awards. So our leaders are trapped in a hopeless campaign of lies; unable to admit they were wrong … kind of like Napoleon in the Kremlin … and we all know how that turned out.
Trapped by laws into remaining obstinate in the face of awkward reality. What a country!
Stay strong everyone. In love and peace to all. The truth will out.
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CIVIL SUIT!! This was talked about here and f311wds. I dont know what was concluded. But why couldn't we? WORLD CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT! Peace Ned.
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Danger from the cooling pond
Der Spiegel has a front page article on Senator Wyden and the state of unit 4's SFP:
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/technik/0,1518,831078,00.html
A Swedish expert claims confirms that Tepco has no clue what is going on…google translate works ok for the text!
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Vacation……
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And great article.
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There are reasonable ways to actually get rid of radioactive elements, causing them to quickly decay to stable isotopes.
But the cartel doesn't want to change from the money grubbing ways that it knows. Sheesh, they didn't even change from uranium to thorium. Thorium is still dangerous, BUT way better than uranium. Their inability to change just shows that the greed of looking for the cheese in all the old places is just too strong. Too big of an infrastructure in scientific knowledge and processes, and therefore it never changed, even though it could have fairly easily changed for the better.
Hence once reason that nuke must go. They deceive by hiding behind their "grand science" while avoiding improvements.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/05/roy-process.html
h/t whoopie
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hi stock, from previous post:
The Blue Light.
May 3, 2012 at 1:47 pm
The problem with this system is that it will only change 1% of a milligram sample. When it is tried on larger samples the decay heat builds up too rapidly. The brown gas flame is around 100 times less efficient, in fact most laboratories who have tried it have failed to get any result at all. What you have to remember is that the radiation is not removed it is just released all at once. This is something that is being actively researched, the possible money to be made from a successful idea are just too big for the nuclear industry to ignore.
fireguyjeff May 3, 2012 at 1:24 pm
Reply to Whoopie:
Back around 1981 when I was in engineering school, I remember a technical journal news story coming out about a guy from India who supposedly had figured out a way to neutralize radioactive elements. It sounded a bit "out there". I waited for years to see anything come from it. Nothing did.
The essence of this new story sure seems like it is the same guy.
So here is the big red flag on this story.
<strong>The Roy Process Patent application, apparatus & theory, which contains completed calculations for transmuting Pu 239, Sr 90 and Cs 137, can only be seen by scientists representing a company capable of realization who contracts with us.</strong>
What this says (to me) is that they have not actually applied for a patent yet. It is idea only. That they are holding this concept hostage for business…
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Hi OMNIVERSLING( a transcendental being, engaged in symbiosis?),
That is a very insightful read on your part!
This issue is a potential goldmine of salvation for the children of tomorrow.
Any idea can be improved upon, made more powerful and efficient. Even if one form of transmutation is 100 times less efficient, EFFICIENCY doesn't MATTER. All that matters is to be made aware of the "mechanism of interaction", for lack of a better word (causality?).I have YET to find ANY empirical data to support being dissmissive of this possible solution. Identifying the "mechanism" that allows us to neutralize radiation is the light @ the end of the tunnel. All we need is a big enough pot, to fit enough creative minds into and let solution simmer and grow………..
Eventually we will develop a miniture, m.a.s.e.r.-like device that could be carried aloft aboard all orbiting satelites to neutralize the last 60+ years of environmental silliness on this planet.LOL
By the way, how DO you keep track of all those important posts? If I was one tenth as organised as you…………………
PEACE
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I can only see a disaster like Japans causing any nuke backlash here in N.A. Its entrenched within govt more deeply than anyone realizes. The moronic public takes whatever the liars feed them. This is poisons origination, exported the world over. Candu is poisoning Canada slowly but surely. Here in London the stuffed Councillors voted 10-5 to keep fluoridation, how cud we ever shut down reactors without a calamity? We taught our children to trust the liars/gov't, now we pay with their lives .
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In the name of trying to protect its shareholders, TEPCO has commited a crime against humanity, Japan's and the world's humanity, like none other in history. Japan's government has been willing to protect those shareholders as well. There is more than enough reason to revolt against the TEPCO shareholders, TEPCO and the Japanese government and other world governments and nuclear authorities complicit in hiding the extent of this horrific environmental calamity from full world attention.
I now see that using the usual news sources (sadly, including NPR) as one's sole source of information is like being an infant awaiting to be spoon fed by a parent or some surrogate caretaker. As an adult, I will choose where I get my "food"/news source.
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