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ACRO: The Fukushima disaster from day to day

Translated from french

Posted on December 14, 2012

Thursday, December 13:
• While an international conference organized by the IAEA is expected this weekend in Koriyama, Fukushima province. Against a conference in Tokyo organized by associations that require the permanent cessation of the nuclear industry. Another is in Koriyama organized by mayors opposed to nuclear power. A manifestion is also planned in Tokyo in Hibiya Park and the next in Koriyama. On Sunday 16th, the Japanese are also eligible to vote.

• The Ministry of Science and Technology is still hoping to save the Monju breeder when he does not, it is proliferating, it is probably an active fault, the safety culture is absent … In short, it is very dangerous, but it can produce weapons-grade plutonium … The Department has attempted to establish a research program to justify the continuation of the program.
The NRA has intimate Monju operators to improve security and resolve serious maintenance problems that have been identified.

• At a hearing by the Ministry of Industry about its desire to increase its rates, Kyushu Electric has claimed that it will sell its electricity 35.64% more expensive on average (admire the precision!) If no nuclear reactor restarts. Currently, the company requests an average increase of 8.51% to 14.22% for households and companies capitalizing on the fact that four of its six reactors will be restarted.
Kansai Electric (KEPCO) is not left table and also four nuclear reactors restarted its application to estimate average increase of 11.88% for households.

• After Oi and Tsuruga, it was the turn of faults in the central province of Higashidori in Aomori be oscultées by the group of experts set up by the NRA. Along the fault s-19, there was a shift of 90 cm. The operator, Tohoku Electric Power Company, says that this is not due to seismic activity but swelling layers due to water absorption.Experts have serious doubts about this explanation. After the inspection, they think rather that the movement is due to an active fault near. The inspection continues Friday and the verdict is expected within a week.

• After repeatedly deceived and its corrections, the NRA has issued new cards to predict the impact of radioactive fallout in the event of a major accident in the 17 nuclear power plants in the country. The biggest changes are for the central Genkai (Saga province) and Sendai (Kagoshima), both on the island of Kyushu and the Tomari plant in Hokkaido. A Kyushu is the compass that was false and Hokkaido precipitation.
These maps are based on the standard exhaust IAEA is 100 mSv in the first week. But the NRA wants to set a threshold twice as low as the criterion, which corresponds to a dose rate of 500 microsieverts per hour at which the evacuation is ordered.

Wednesday, December 12:
• TEPCO has posted videos after the investigation carried out in the reactor building No. 2 with the quadruped robot. She found no leak. However, the reactor No. 2 is leaking and TEPCO still do not know where.

• Always leaks in the turbine building # 3. Contaminated water that has leaked is 11 600 Bq / L for both cesium.
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See www.acro.eu.org

December 15, 2012 - Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized