Published: January 11th, 2012 at 5:43 am ET
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Interview with TEPCO president Toshio Nishizawa, The Denki Shimbun, Jan. 11, 2012:
[...] What are your thoughts looking back on the last year?
“The accidents at the Fukushima I and II nuclear power stations have caused great inconvenience and anxiety to people in the Fukushima area and society as a whole. I again extend our sincere apologies. Since March 11 last year, we have been making frantic efforts to address our challenges while continuing to move forward and deliberate solutions. [...]
Did Nishizawa make a mistake? Rather unlikely, as he made a similar statement two months ago: Tepco President apologizes for accident at Fukushima DAINI nuclear plant... not just Daiichi
Daini was in the news earlier this week: Fukushima *DAINI* reactor has broken containment vessel, says Tokyo Professor -- Probably caused by quake, not tsunami
More about Fukushima Daini:
- Report: Smoke seen rising from Fukushima Daini after quake but before tsunami
- New data shows Fukushima Daini nuke plant prepared to vent steam from all four reactors -- Feared that containment vessels might be damaged by pressure
- ANOTHER NUKE PLANT: Fukushima Daini has 3,000 tons of radioactive water in reactor buildings
Published: January 11th, 2012 at 5:43 am ET
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10 reactors confirmed?
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I think it’s just one reactor at DAINI which is consider 1 or 2? Don’t recall off hand. Anyway, what is the total count now I’m losing track.
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Nuclear power plant accident in Fukushima (after the earthquake in Japan 03/11/2011)
EVALUATION OF ACCIDENT RATE INES
Japanese regulatory body for nuclear safety (NISA) has increased the assessment of nuclear power plant accident in the Fukushima Daiichi on Mon INES level 7, the highest level of this scale. The increase in assessment does not increase risk, just a new assessment of the accident on the basis of new data on releases from previous weeks.
Assessment by INES for each unit Fukushima plants are as follows:
Fukushima Daichi, units 1, 2 and 3 of INES level 7 (increased from 5)
Fukushima Daichi, Unit 4 INES level 3
Fukushima Dain, units 1, 2 and 4 INES level 3
The Slovenian Nuclear Safety Administration, 29.4.2011
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sl&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ursjv.gov.si%2Fsi%2Finfo%2Ffukushima%2F
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i wonder if he keeps apologizing about both just to down play daiichi. damage control.
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he apologizes because he knows we’re already ded?
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time is short and i’m trying to live it up the best i can while limiting our exposure(not an easy task).
partying like it’s 99′ and doing things i’ve always wanted.
trips,sights,and spending as much quality time as possible with love ones.it’s only at the end that i realized i had sooooo much to lose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmeUuoxyt_E
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This is not the first time Daini has been mentioned.
I can see how people missed it, as Daini and Daiichi to me, look alike in the spelling.
DAINI>>>http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=4496
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I thought you wrote, “they look alike in the spewing”. Just sayin’
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Hi StillJill
From what I understand, there are 6 reactors at Daiichi, and 4 reactors at Daini.
I really don’t know the exact count of radiation reactor monsters that are causing trouble.
One in trouble, is one to many for me.
They all spew, even when they are not in trouble.
Why do they call them plants, the don’t grow, they kill.
~END NUCLEAR PLANTS~
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Hello all
I’m new to registering at enenews but I’ve been following for 7 months on this site ,
it’s quite freaky how a nuclear disaster of such a scale can be forgotten , even though everyone on the planet with a television probably watched and knows about what happened in march last year.
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Hi Grope That Soap,
Welcome, Agree +100
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I do agree that it has been mention, and everyone should be aware of what has happened. It hasn’t been mentioned enough and in depth. We need more information.
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The power of denial should never be underestimated.
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@Grope That Soap, may I ask, Are people you know generally aware the nuclear part of the disaster is still happening?
Welcome.
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Close friends , family mainly . I find it strange though how surprised people are when I speak to them about it. I’m researching fukushima for an extended A level project for collage and the response to questions is almost always ‘Wasn’t that over in march’ or what’s wrong with the tuna?’ People are in serious denial my guess is the reliance on mainstream media or that people simply feel that they are safe where they are. I’m in the UK which is probably as far from Japan as you get yet i’m still taking precautions
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@Grope -Good for you! Good luck with the college project! What’s the focus of it? (never mind if that’s too nosy!)
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Explanation of how the accident happened , details on reactors the plant itself . But mainly on what was missed that we already knew before with nuclear disasters , accidentally or deliberately and what people do not realise or even know about how serious the situation is and will be for the rest of there lives.
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hi grope
maybe you could post it one discussion forum for the crew here to tweak! that might be fun? and offer you some extra research possibilities maybe?
in any event good luck with the essay! cc a copy to all the environment staff at the guardian.. two of them are a bit anti nuke though dont know which two! email admin at llrc and ask chris busby or one of his staff who might be the two friendly faces there.
they might be able to point you in the right direction maybe! at least the essay should get a bit of mileage in and stimulate a bit of grey matter for those that come across it!!
peace
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Welcome : )
Yes the Old “Elephant in the living room” no one to or see or talk about !
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Hi xdrfox
Exactly, and no one wants to believe it can reach them.
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WSP, Hi how have you been and AZ. ?
Yes but it will deliver a crushing blow when the weight of the reality sinks in at the damage’s done !
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Thank you for asking xdrfox. Hanging in there, trying to keep my head from exploding and quiet my cough that I have had for months.
AZ looks beautiful, just don’t breathe in the dust..lol..
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WSP,
You may be glad to have a cough, expelling any nasties that may try to roost ! Body defense system !
How’s that house thing going ?
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Hi xdrfox
My cough isn’t expelling anything except for blood once, it just makes my head and throat hurt worse.
What house thing?
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WSP,
Do you think other plants have had partial meltdowns there ?
Blood, not good !!
House, may have been someone else I was thinking of !
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xdrfox, if I have to guess, I would say, probably.
Not sure it matters, I think Daiichi was bad enough.
Don’t worry, blood only happened once with a bad coughing spell. Thank you)))
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Hi XDrFox,
Would you please re-post the link the the articles page? Went there yesterday then lost the link when I was trying to bookmark it. Got a phone call, had to leave, then my browser crashed! That was the link to mass animal deaths.
Did you post at article about dead animal on beach in Tokyo?
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Hi, HoTaters,
Here you go !
Mass Animal Deaths
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/stories/by/0000000000004882
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Au contraire, think of all the silver, plutonium, americium, and too many to list that are being created. Truly a Devils Brew way beyond witches broom. IMHO NO NUKES
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This is another example of the almost total media blackout regarding FUKU, both Daini and Daichi.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, pulling the strings.
Focus on the play show… where we show you what to believe, how to think and what to pay attention to…
Ask no questions of authority. Demand no answers. Listen ONLY to mass media news.
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Daini had much the same things happen to it, if not EXACTLY the same as Daichi, for the exact same reasons.
The only difference in my mind, (until proven otherwise) is that Daini never got into the news, and Daichi did just a little bit, enough for people to know the name Fukushima.
As far as I am concerned, when the company and government admit once reactor melted through, that means at least four melted through.
When they say they had to release 3000 tons of radioactive water to the ocean from Daini, multiply that by a factor of ten to one hundred if not more.
Daini had to ‘vent’ steam and radiation, just like Fukushima.
Daini had loss of power, fires, and possibly explosions.. Since it was never in the news, we do not know if the place even exists anymore. It might be totally destroyed much like Daichi.
My bet is that that there are ten reactors or more in trouble, with at least melt downs, possibly melted through, with at least one reactor blown up and out, between Daini and Daichi.
Now we deal with the spent fuel pools. What is the total amount of spent fuel pools between the both of them, and how many are in trouble, melted down or blew up? We know based on photographs that at least one blew up Daichi #3, and at least one melted, possibly more.. Can we assume ten of those are in trouble as well?
Until proven otherwise we can count on 40 spent fuel pools and reactors in trouble right now, between Daichi and Daini…
How much total tonnage of out of control radioactive fuel between them, including spent fuel pools?
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Hi AGreenRoad
From the pictures and readings, Daiichi looks like all the reactors are toast to me.
DAINI, I have no clue how the 4 reators are, but it would not surprise me if you are right.
I think with Daiichi was enough to micro wav us all anyway.
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Time to rise up people.
Better active today than radioactive tomorrow.
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Make that 20 total, spent fuel pools and reactors, in trouble, melted down, melted through or blown up…
Prove otherwise TEPCO.. Let some independent experts examine all facilities in depth, hold nothing back. Don’t just do ‘drive by’s’.
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20 reactors have had meltdowns? This is certainly news to me. Also considering the fact that their is only 10 reactors period in Fukushima. Reports can only confirm 3 have exploded. All reactors are daini have reported to reach cold shutdown by March 15, 3 days after the accident. With all major cooling functions rendered operable as of Jan 5.
I think they have damage, but nowhere near the situation of Daiichi. Rather, Know, considering they have several thousand tons of radioactive water.
Mind you, also at Daiichi, Reactor 4 was unloaded. Its core is in the SFP.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/betu12_e/images/120105e3.pdf
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Might help to read:
“Make that 20 total, spent fuel pools and reactors…” When you count both SFP and reactors, the number may be more if you count the Common Spent Fuel Pool at Fuku Daiichi. Does Fuku Daini have a Commont Spent Fuel Pool. And then there are Tokai NPP and Onagawa NPP.
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Should we listen to the official reports from the company? These same reports do not confirm ANY nuclear explosions or radiation releases due to them, and these same reports also deny that any melt throughs happened until very recently.
Most emphasis in these ‘official’ reports is on ‘cold shutdown’, not on explosions, radiation releases, high radiation levels, ongoing spikes in radiation, corium locations, or much reality at all.
Is this the source that we are to believe and trust?
Yes, they might be right, but after all of the coverups, false information, and misdirection, I hesitate to go where they take me.
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When will the Japanese people demand that TEPCO be nationalized
… and then run the Electrical GRID for their benefit,
… Instead of only TEPCO’s shareholders?
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Japanese citizens and many of those of the rest of the world,
… wait in fear because of what TEPCO and the Japanese Gov’t.
… are trying to do to stop this Eco-Disaster…
That is the bottom line and no amount of
… “reports or reviews or Nuclear theory” makes that any better.
Do any of US actually know what the situation is on the ground?
I sure don’t, but I know that because TEPCO has lied, concealed
… and played the Japanese People’s SAFETY down, while trying to save
… TEPCO profits instead, we all have much to fear from THEM!
If someone told me 10 MONTHS ago that I would be sitting on the edge
… of my chair, and blogging to save the Japanese people from their Utility
… TEPCO & their Gov’t. overseers I would have thought they were crazy!
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FYI for those who may not know…
Dai-ichi = number one
Dai-ni = number two
Inconvenience?!!?!?!
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Thanks, seems obvious now that you point it out but I sure missed it and I do know how to count to 3 in Japanese.
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grrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!
looks like the government is disrespecting the local residents too!!
only cheap labour for TEPCO maybe??
Unemployment benefits won’t be extended to those who lost jobs due to March 11 disaster
National Jan. 11, 2012
“Many victims lost their livelihoods in the coastal areas of Iwate, Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures, after the devastating tsunami struck the region on March 11 last year. Following the disaster, unemployment benefits in certain coastal areas and in the exclusion zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were granted a special extension.
Last October, 1,307 residents in the region petitioned the government to extend the unemployment benefits because work was not available, but the labor ministry said this week said that it would not extend benefit payments, TV Asahi reported. It is thought that a further 2,700 recipients will lose their unemployment welfare payments from next month.
Last October, the ministry extended the first benefit period by 90 days for unemployed people in 55 municipalities in Fukushima, Iwate and Miyagi prefectures. At that time, Labor Minister Yoko Komiyama said that further extending unemployment aid would not motivate the jobless to look for work. She said the government would take steps to help unemployed people in the Tohoku area find new jobs. “
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/unemployment-benefits-wont-be-extended-to-those-who-lost-jobs-due-to-march-11-disaster-2?utm_campaign=jt_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=jt_newsletter_2012-01-11_PM
historical fact
the three most contaminated countries of the world, belarus, kazahkstan and now eastern? japan, have the trappings of a facist state. coincidence? any connecting issue here.. the need to keep the population in place and subservient.. check out the political situations in these places and activists are dead or in jail.. japan is heading in that direction.. i hope not!!
prepare!
banzai!
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Well we know one is dead. Haven’t heard any updates on the “investigation” into the guy with the shot gun blast to the chest.
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First this:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-11/tepco-said-to-seek-2-trillion-yen-in-loans-to-stay-solvent.html
===> And Now this:
UPDATE: Tepco Shares Erase Losses to Surge 24%, Most in Three Months
http://is.gd/Ctsep7
From comment:
Follow the TEPCO bailout; the Nuclear Fix is in…
The BIG MONEY will be made by TEPCO insiders,
… while all the Japanese people continue to just collect radiation!
RE:
“The banks are hedging their bets,” said Penn Bowers, a Tokyo-based utilities analyst with CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. “They know that the ultimate entity holding the key to this is the government and that’s who you need to be nice to.”
TEPCO is “connected” with the Yakuza and they are connected to the Government, so this will be a win-win-win for them but yet another huge loss to Japan!
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The confusion of Daiichi and Daini has held very well…
Daini..
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fukushima_II_Nuclear_Power_Plant
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Bet the Yakuza ..works very well with our CIA and State Dept.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRo9JG5uW8Q
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Many people here know this video, but it will be interesting to see once again how a former worker describes the company and its behaviour:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDYITvGlCZg
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Great video about low dose radiation and what it really means… from a former worker who experienced ‘safe’ levels of radiation .
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3/13/2011..”On Sunday, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said that the cooling system had failed at the No. 3 unit and that core melting was presumed to be underway at both downed reactors. The cooling systems for three more reactors were down at nearby Fukushima Daini, but Edano said the situation was less dire there for the moment
A total of six reactors between the two plants are reported to be battling reactor coolant loss, said the ITAR-TASS Russian news agency on Sunday.
One hundred and ninty people have been reported as being in hospital with radiation poisoning, Slivyak said.”
http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2011/mox_reactor_coolant_loss
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Fuku site #2 had cooling issues on 1,2,&4. But #3 had explosion and a fire in the turbine building at the Dani location.
BUT!
as you will see during second half this link….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEFt9p7-Dxo&feature=related
the OTHER plant on the WEST coast owned by Tepco DOES explain WHY they are finding the contamination they are right now.
That plant “Kariwa” had quake fractures in past ON SITE! Thinking it’s hosed now!
Best info says #’s 7, then #6 were restarted in 2009… #5 is no news… #1-4 it seems were too broken to pass restart tests.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=mcafee&va=Kashiwazaki-Kariwa+Nuclear+Power+Plant
images of site and past damage there…
Also, one must remember that rods can’t be just pulled-out of pools or core… transfer ALWAYS takes place with them emersed in coolant. They would heat and fracture the zirconium otherwise. The rods shown on cam being removed from #4 pool by the crane…? “THESE are of NON-STANDARD design!”
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I’m assuming it’s a Kansai Nuclear Power Plant… a new-gen that is dishing-out the second plume in the graph. THAT is NOT something that ANYONE in the Nuke industry would like to have known!
hard to tell just where it’s located… lot in oner place, and they have old-new mix at some locations….
http://www.nucleartourist.net/world/japan.jpg
may be justification of the heilos moving @ tokyo… they are down-wind of it, and is sure-fire reason for USA moving resources out of tokyo back at the start.
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