nuclear-news

Fukushima Rad News 5/23/13: 56,000 Bq/m3 of Strontium-90 Reactor 2; Robot For Decommissioning

MissingSky101

Published on May 23, 2013

NRA: Tsuruga nuclear plant built on active fault
Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has officially endorsed a report by its expert panel that said a reactor in Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, sits on an active fault.
NRA Chairman Shunichi Tanaka announced the conclusion at a meeting on Wednesday. He said his organization takes seriously the result of the expert panel’s probe into the Number 2 reactor at the Tsuruga nuclear power plant, which was released last week.

Robot for nuclear decommissioning
The government and Tokyo Electric Power Company say they plan to build a facility to develop a robot to help decommission the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Radiation levels in the plant are too high for workers to remove melted nuclear fuel rods.

Finland to bury nuclear waste underground
Country plans to solve problem of disposing radioactive waste permanently by using tunnels.
Finland has struggled with disposal of radioactive waste for decades, with temporary storage sites requiring constant monitoring.

Stricken Japan Fukushima nuclear plant struggles to keep staff
AP | May 23rd, 2013, 7:43am
Keeping the meltdown-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan in stable condition requires a cast of thousands. Increasingly the plant’s operator is struggling to find enough workers, a trend that many expect to worsen and hamper progress in the decades-long effort to safely decommission it.
http://www.scpr.org/news/2013/05/23/3…

http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/05/th…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=…

http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/05/56…

http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/05/pl…

[Major leakage] Tritium detected from 13 of 14 observation holes, “To be discharged to the sea”
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/05/ma…

Mayor of Fukushima-devastated town: Say no to nuclear energy
http://www.bellona.org/articles/artic…

Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for May 21st to May 22nd, 2013
http://www.greenpeace.org/internation…)

San Onofre Power Plant And It`s Potential Fallout In A Disaster
Thu, May 23, 2013, 6:55pm EDT
What would happen in the event of different natural disaster striking San Onfore, specifically the environmental and economic fallout of how a tsunami, earthquake, etc. would impact the region.

Fukushima breaking news A historical NUCLEAR . S.O.N.G.S PUBLIC Hearing
Kevin Blanch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9et0x…

Expert: “Incipient collapse” of radioactive waste tanks possible at U.S. nuclear site (AUDIO)
http://fairewinds.org/podcast/great-h…

http://enenews.com/report-terrorist-a…

http://enenews.com/object-dropped-nuc…

Countdown to Nuclear Ruin at Paducah
Disaster is about to strike in western Kentucky, a full-blown nuclear catastrophe involving hundreds of tons of enriched uranium tainted with plutonium, technetium, arsenic, beryllium and a toxic chemical brew. But this nuke calamity will be no fluke. It’s been foreseen, planned, even programmed, the result of an atomic extortion game played out between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the most failed American experiment in privatization, the company that has run the Paducah plant into the poisoned ground,
http://ecowatch.com/2013/countdown-to…

IAEA Outlines ‘Challenges And Uncertainty’ For Fukushima Decommissioning
24 May (NucNet): Relatively stable cooling of fuel and fuel debris in the reactors and spent fuel pools has been established at Fukushima-Daiichi, but there are still “several challenges” to be met before “a sustainable situation” is achieved at the plant, the International Atomic Energy Agency has said.
http://www.nucnet.org/all-the-news/20…

May 24, 2013 - Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized