Published: April 25th, 2012 at 7:28 pm ET
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Title: Fault under nuclear plant feared active / Doubt cast on reactivation of Tsuruga plant
Source: The Yomiuri Shimbun
Date: Apr 26, 2012
A panel of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) has suggested that faults beneath the Tsuruga nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, may be active–potentially putting the plant in violation of the government’s criterion that prohibits building nuclear reactors above active faults. [...]However, the Great East Japan Earthquake changed the stress patterns applied to the layers of rock beneath Japan, and it may now be easier for earthquakes to be triggered by different mechanisms from past ones. Therefore, reexamination of past research on faults has become necessary. [...]
Thus it has become extremely uncertain whether the plant’s reactors will be able to be reactivated.
Experts have also voiced doubts about interlocking active faults beneath Monju, a fast breeder reactor of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency in Tsuruga; Hokkaido Electric Power Co.’s Tomari nuclear power plant; Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture; and Chugoku Electric Power Co.’s Shimane nuclear power plant in Matsue. [...]
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Title: Fault lies beneath Japan nuclear reactor
Source: UPI
Date: April 25, 2012
An active geological fault lies directly beneath one of two reactors at a nuclear power plant in western Japan, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.The nuclear watchdog agency’s finding, announced Tuesday night, reverses an earlier assessment, and if the fault is confirmed as active, Japan Atomic Power Co. would be forced to decommission the No. 2 reactor at the Tsuruga nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture, The Japan Times reported. [...]
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Published: April 25th, 2012 at 7:28 pm ET
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Fault line or not, no nuclear plant is safe. Crap technology, that mutates living things, is what it is.
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http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1849092/pg1
Watch the video. No clue for an external link. MSM is beginning to put out the real news.
Also sunspot has a strong gamma field that can harbor x class flares (the sunspot is currently earth directed. And three times the size of earth)….
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Gottcha AGR on HP thread.
Night all. Had dinner and i'm beat now.
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Posted at F311WD's too. Another day, another WORLD WIDE DISASTER by way of Daiichi Fukushima Japan.
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Higashicori nuclear power plant also is on an actve fault:
“Although the plant was in maintenance shutdown during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, the April 7th aftershock caused the loss of all external power and the plant had to switch to backup power to supply cooling to the spent fuel pool where the reactor's fuel rods were being stored.[4][5]
“On 24 October 2011 a research group under professor Mitsuhisa Watanabe of the University of Toyo published a report that raised questions about the seismic safety of the plant-site. A number of faults are present under the complex and in this study it is unclear whether these faults might be active, as some experts noted recently in the NISA safety-screening process. In the study, the researchers said that certain characteristics are typical for the existence of active faults under the plant site, when they analyzed the surveys conducted by the two utilities for constructing the reactors there. Tohoku Electric and TEPCO, denied that there were active faults, and said that the faults were shaped by the swelling of water-bearing strata. Professor emeritus from Hiroshima University, who took part in the analysis, criticized the utilities for this denial. The new report might have an effect on the decision whether to resume operations of the reactor, and could also affect the earthquake-proof safety screenings of other nuclear plants. [6]…”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higashid%C5%8Dri_Nuclear_Power_Plant
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Rokkasho reprocessing nuclear plant is located on an active earthquake fault:
“In June 2008, several scientists stated that the Rokkasho plant is sited directly above an active geological fault line that could produce a magnitude 8 earthquake. But Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited have stated that there was no reason to fear an earthquake of more than magnitude 6.5 at the site, and that the plant could withstand a 6.9 quake.[8][9]…
“After the Tōhoku earthquake in March 2011, the plant ran on emergency power provided by backup diesel generators.[10] The emergency generators were not intended for long-term use.[11] Reportedly there are about 3,000 tons of highly radioactive used nuclear fuel stored in Rokkasho at current, that could overheat and catch fire if the cooling systems fail. Japanese radio reported on March 13 that 600 liters of water leaked at the Rokkasho spent fuel pool.[12] According to The New York Times, grid power was restored on March 14, 2011.[13]
“The 7 April aftershock caused the loss of grid power again until the next day.[14][15]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokkasho_Reprocessing_Plant
Rokkasho Update: Earthquake safety and criticality design flaws
http://cnic.jp/english/newsletter/nit118/nit118articles/nit118rokactive.html
http://cnic.jp/english/topics/cycle/rokkasho/index.html
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A few annoyances to get off my chest:
A Green Road. I appreciate your POV re:nuclear, however it's not really appropriate to steal every thread to advertise your website and it's piles of articles. It's disrespectful to the topic at hand for one thing. It's generally considered to be spam. Others here I've noticed do that too. It's as if the the subject of the thread didn't exist for them. They seem to be there to draw attention away from the topic. Most blogs would not put up with this. Anyway most blogs have a way to put a link to your site in your handle. Maybe that would work.
While I'm on the subject, another thing if I can. Of course this subject is very important and alarming however some posters continual melodramatic histrionics really wears thin. Shouting in all caps. the shrill whining, they seem to be trying to get everyone to pay attention to them.
Just my 2c worth. Carry on.
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To say that an ELE is important is rather an understatement. You can skip over any statement you don't want to read. AGreenRoad isn't advertising his website. He is providing links that have pertinent information to the thread at hand. Very easy to skip over links. enenews.com also has pertinent links under every news story. Until the government represents the people and stops subsidizing with the taxpayers money and stops providing an escape from liability to the nuclear industry all these links will continue to be pertinent and informative.
When the MSM starts adequately covering the most important news story and politicians start campaigning totally against nuclear power and weapons then these links may become redundant.
Right now they are providing the information necessary for the life of the planet and all on it including the remediation of the failing world economy.
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Hi Ron, it pisses me off too, which is why I don't post here much. Looking forward to hearing more from you.
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What kind of twisted psychopaths build a nuclear plant on an active fault? Seriously don’t you just wonder what kind of mental disorder allows for this? You know how the “I.T.” industry seems to attract a lot of Asperger type personalities. Maybe the nuke industry attracts psychopathic personalities.
Aspects of the psychopath from Wikipedia, “LACK OF EMPATHY: Psychopaths possess a general lack of empathy. It includes deficiencies in comprehension and appreciation of others’ experiences and motivations, lack of tolerance of differing perspectives and diminished understanding of the effects of own behavior on others. At an extreme they are simply unable to understand the emotional states of other people, except in a purely detached, intellectual sense. Other people are thus little more than objects for their personal gratification. They are not disturbed by the suffering of others, nor do they take pleasure in making others happy. This callousness extends to everybody, family and strangers alike. They neglect other people's needs and desires and can casually inflict extreme cruelty. LYING AND MANIPULATION: Psychopaths are pathological liars. Their relationships with other people are practically defined by manipulation and exploitation. The psychopath sees no reason why he should be honest or caring towards other people. They typically become very good at lying, sometimes fooling experienced interrogators. Etc… LACK OF REMORSE: …profound inability to feel remose etc…"
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enoughalready45, I think the story is not that the designers sought out places with known active fault lines to build their plants. Rather it is that the fault line under this existing plant is now believed to be potentially active.
The nuke community has done some terrible things, but I don't think they have been deliberately building on known active fault lines. Deliberately building catastrophically dangerous technology in inappropriate locations, yes….
As for your psychopath hypothesis, how about this version? I commented a while back about the strong presence of former nuke submarine officers in the civilian nuke community. Without alleging pathology, I suggest that group has a set of relevant attributes: unwavering confidence in nuke technology; unquestioning willingness to follow orders; fierce loyalty to in-group community; sense that "outsiders" don't understand; acceptance of the possibility of nuclear armageddon if "necessary", and readiness to participate if "required", comfort level with isolation from the natural environment, and on and on. These are exactly the attributes one might want in a nuke submarine officer (if one wanted nuke submarine officers) but they add up to a disastrous profile for "the guys in the local electric utility". In short, I think the military/civilian nuke links account for much of the industry's behavior.
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Its the investors who are holding the governments hostage. And both investors and former submarine officers lack the education of nuclear engineers and the technicians who see everyday the manipulation of the lack of safety and the shortchanging of parts. It is the technicians and the people living near the nuclear facilities who have sky-high cancer rates and other health problems coming from the radiation spewed out every day from every nuclear facility.
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I see that The Blue Light's and my reply to Ron above has been deleted. Does Admin have an explanation?
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looking into it
UPDATE: Can't find the missing comments. Something happened as I've received another similar report, however the solution is not clear. Please let me know if the problem continues.
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Okay. I think it's time for Japan to start a new field work. Nuclear power plant decommissioning. It's time to accept the fact that nuclear is the worst way on the planet to boil water (make nuclear weapons). I think they should call in Arnie Gundersen and consult with him about this process seeing that he is an expert and to my knowledge has the only accredited handbook on how do do this. Specifically tailored to the mk1 BWR. I think the energy companies should foot the bill instead of ratepayers. Without help from the government. Taking into consideration that the goverments money is really the citizens' money. Change the power grid to be more user friendly and less susceptible to natural disaters and terrorism. Nuclear is a giant fail and has proven itself so repeatedly. I don't know what it's going to take at this point.
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find the melted cores of fuku. where are they? until they either find them or announce where they are, speculation on anything other than evacuation is useless. and of course emotions are to blame for this missing fundamental information. there are some very good ideas here on what to do about the cores based on where the inventer thinks the cores might be and what shape they might be in. but again, without the big missing fact. so the discussion about starting tsugara or any other npp because it's near this or that,,let's find the fuku cores and daini cores, onagawa cores, tokai cores before adding any more cores to the missing core list!
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Hi Ron and The Blue Light. Our posts have gone missing and according to Admin "the solution is not clear". They are even missing from the New Comment archive, where they were still present yesterday. You will have to draw your own conclusions, I'm afraid.
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