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Fukushima Rad News 4/22/13: Rats Stop Spent Fuel Pool Cooling System For A Third Time

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Published on 22 Apr 2013

Dead rats halt Fukushima cooling system

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant briefly switched off a spent fuel cooling system on Monday after it found dead rats near a transformer.
Tokyo Electric Power Company says a worker found 2 dead rats in a box of an outdoor transformer connected to the cooling system for a spent fuel pool. One of them had apparently been electrocuted.
TEPCO halted the system at the No.2 reactor for about 4 hours until workers confirmed that it was working normally.
Company officials say the pool’s water temperature was 14 degrees Celsius when they restarted the system, and that this is far lower than its internal safety limit of 65 degrees.
Last month, a rat wandered into an outdoor switchboard at the plant and caused a power failure of up to 29 hours at spent fuel pools and some other facilities.
Monday’s trouble occurred as the plant operator is taking steps to keep small animals away from key electrical devices. The utility says it has not yet implemented measures for the transformer at the No.2 reactor.

IAEA ends review of Fukushima decommissioning plan
The International Atomic Energy Agency says the main and most immediate challenge in decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station is managing the accumulated radioactive wastewater.
An IAEA team of experts has wound up eight days of checking Japan’s efforts to decommission the crippled plant. The team conducted interviews with government and TEPCO officials and visited the site.

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Fukushima produces first thesis on effects of internal radiation exposure on children
TOKYO —
A thesis which assesses the risks of internal radiation exposure within Fukushima Prefecture following the explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, suggests that the effects of internal radiation fall far below that recorded after Chernobyl.http://www.japantoday.com/category/na…
40% of radiation posts incomplete
About 40 percent of fixed-type monitoring posts installed in 21 prefectures to measure radiation levels in the atmosphere have not been equipped with an emergency power source such as a generator, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
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Western NY toxic sites could endanger Great Lakes
Thirty-five years after underground toxics turned the Niagara Falls neighborhood of Love Canal into a ghost town, researchers are warning that Western New York is still home to nearly 800 hazardous waste sites that could someday lead to big trouble, not only for local residents, but for the entire Great Lakes region.

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Fallout From Long Ago Is Haunting the Present
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April 22, 2013 - Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized