NJ Nuclear Plant Shutdown After Radioactive Water Leak. (includes video) August 23, 2013 By Mike DeNardo SALEM, N.J. (CBS) – The Salem Unit-One nuclear plant in South Jersey remains shut down, after radioactive water leaked in a containment building Thursday night. Salem’s Unit-One nuclear plant was shut down around 7:30 p.m., when radioactive water started to leak, says Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokeswoman Diane Screnci:
“They had a valve on one of the systems within the containment. And that valve was leaking, and it reached what are called their technical specification limits, and caused them to begin a shutdown.”
The leak was measured at four gallons a minute — above the one gallon per minute threshold to force a shutdown…. http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/08/23/nj-nuclear-plant-shutdown-after-radioactive-water-leak/
August 24, 2013
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Heysham nuclear reactors shut down for second time http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-23808744 23 Aug 13
EDF said the plant was shut down as a precaution
Nuclear reactors have been shut down for the second time in three months at a plant in Lancashire.
Two reactors at Heysham 1 nuclear power station were shut down after an electrical fault in a gas turbine set off a sprinkler system on Thursday.
Firefighters were called at 22:27 BST and four crews were sent to the scene from Lancaster, Bispham and Fulwood.
EDF Energy, which operates the plant, said it had been shut down as a precaution.
Lancashire Fire Service said 20 firefighters attended the scene but were not needed.
Ian Stewart, Heysham 1 station director, said: “We will be assessing the generators today, and we will then be looking at bringing the two reactors back on line.”
A reactor was shut down in May after smoke was seen coming from a turbine due to smouldering lagging.
August 24, 2013
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Nuclear leak no threat to Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic bid, CBC News, 23 Aug 13, Tokyo Governor Naoki Inose maintains there is “absolute safety” A leak of highly radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant will not affect Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics, Tokyo Governor Naoki Inose said Friday….”Regarding food and water in Tokyo, there is absolute safety and the data is available,” Inose said. “As far as hosting the Games, the situation in Fukushima will not affect Tokyo.”
Tokyo, Istanbul and Madrid are bidding to host the 2020 Olympics.
The IOC will select the host city by secret ballot on Sept. 7 in Buenos Aires, Argentina……http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/story/2013/08/23/sp-ioc-olympics-2020-olympic-summer-games-tokyo.html
August 24, 2013
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Don’t Believe UV Radiation Levels are “Off the Charts”? http://www.zengardner.com/dont-believe-uv-radiation-levels-are-off-the-charts/#sthash.YbDkFkJB.dpuf Zengardner.com , August 23rd, 2013. Massive UV Levels Are Not So Easy To Hide. (Even if the disinfo agents lie about the facts) Dane Wigington geoengineeringwatch.org
Most have already noticed how incredibly hot the sun feels in recent years. Bark is literally being burned off of trees in countless locations. Plants are stunted, gardens don’t produce in many regions, etc. Would global geoengineering negatively affect the ozone layer?
Yes
https://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/news/942/stratospheric-injections-counter-global-warming-could-damage-ozone-layer
How many lies have we been told by the government, its agencies, main stream media, and paid dis-information trolls. Who do we believe? Do we believe them when they tell us all their readings on UV radiation show everything is fine? Even when we can feel with our own skin and senses the sun is too hot?
Increasing UV radiation from ozone layer depletion
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_linda_sc_080421_dangerous_ozone_depl.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15092929
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16440613
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/10/nature-reports-largest-ozone-hole-ever-in-northern-hemisphere/1
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/essay_weatherhead.html
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/10/02/unprecedented-ozone-hole-opens-over-canadian-arctic/
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/hole-in-ozone-over-northern-hemisphere-largest-ever-seen-in-2011/
Do the “liars” lie about other things as well? What about nuclear fallout? Even after Fukushima blows and continues to spew radiation to this day, and is still getting worse? Do we believe government agencies, dis-information people and all their phony statements and impressive graphs of totally fictitious data telling us everything is “normal”? How about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, lots of charts, graphs, and phony data there, more than anyone could even begin to digest. “Data” saying everything is “safe” from too many sources to list, yet marine life and people continue to die in the gulf day in and day out in spite of everything being “fine”. What about the Exxon Valdez? How about the lead that used to be put in gasoline? That was fine till it wasn’t. DDT, that was completely safe we were told. ”Agent Orange”? Vaccines? Cell Phones? Smart Meters? Safe, safe, safe, no need to worry. The cancers and diseases being caused “are not related” many dis-information people and agencies say.
How about geoengineering? Is it really going on? Well, “it can’t be because the government says it isn’t so”. They would never lie to us, would they? Even NASA says the chemical covered skies from global geoengineering are “safe and normal”. They have even set up special courses to teach our kids such despicable lies.
If UV radiation had gone “off the charts”, what might it do to our aquatic friends? Lets start with global plankton populations, the foundation for life on earth. Even NASA says high UV radiation would be really bad for these microscopic organisms.
http://www.gma.org/surfing/human/ozonephyto.html
http://www.eco-action.org/dt/ozone.html
August 24, 2013
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Tohoku pitched for ¥1 trillion collider
Researchers promoting a project to build a 30-km-long straight linear accelerator aimed at answering questions about the beginnings of the universe, named the International Linear Collider, said Friday they have chosen the Kitakami mountain area in the Tohoku region as a candidate site., But whether the government will invite the project remains to be seen due to the high cost, forecast at more than ¥1 trillion. About half of that amount is expected to be borne by the host state.
August 24, 2013
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Tepco testing tainted earth at No. 1 plant Utility begins digging ground to assess extent of contamination Japan Times, JIJI, KYODO, AFP-JIJI AUG 23, 2013 FUKUSHIMA – Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Friday started digging up soil tainted with highly radioactive water discharged from a storage tank at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant to test its radiation levels.
The utility will dig areas measuring 12 sq. meters in total to a depth of 40 to 50 cm where pools of leaked radioactive water formed, and then measure levels to determine how far the contamination has spread and how much soil needs to be removed.
Some 300 tons of highly radioactive water recently spewed into the Pacific from one of 26 tanks built in an area just 500 meters from the plant’s seawall. The tanks are surrounded by dikes, but some 120 liters of the water leaked outside of them, making it necessary to collect soil to prevent the contamination from spreading……. Groundwater that mixed with the tainted water has already flowed to the ocean, and Tepco said Friday it has launched an operation to pump it out of 28 wells….. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/23/national/tepco-testing-tainted-earth-at-no-1-plant/#.UhleVNJwonF
August 24, 2013
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World of advertising undergoes digital change By Chris Betros EXECUTIVE IMPACT AUG. 19, 2013 Takahiro Uchinaga, CEO of Isobar Japan TOKYO —
The world of advertising has seen many innovations in recent years as the media landscape changes. The changes are being driven by digital communications.
One of the companies at the forefront is the Aegis Media Group, a global communication agency established in 2003 (and bought by Dentsu), that operates in over 30 markets with digital at its heart. One of the group’s subsidiary companies is Isobar, a professional full support digital marketing group working on strategic planning, creative system planning, media planning, analytics, consulting and application service, to support clients with technology all over from the world.
Isobar’s global clients include Kellogg’s, adidas, Reebok, Disney and P&G, while its Japan-based clients include Panasonic, Fujitsu, Casio, H.I.S., Jetstar and Pernod Ricard. Continue reading →
August 24, 2013
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Patrick J. Kiger
For National Geographic
Published August 21, 2013
Image source ; 90Sr is a fission product arising from fission of 235U, 238U or other heavy nuclei. Secular equilibrium with the daughter product 90Y occurs within several half lives and beyond this their activities are equal. It may be contaminated by 89Sr, which has a much shorter half life of 50.5 days. Due to the long half life of 90Sr, if disposal is required procedures similar to 137Cs should be followed.
Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist as the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts who has studied radiation leakage from the Fukushima plant, said he is concerned about the lack of data on levels of strontium-90 in the waters off Fukushima http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2011/0317/Japan-nuclear-crisis-sparks-calls-for-IAEA-reform [The IAEA are responsible for the testing of the Pacific after the Daichi meltdowns Arclight2011] .
He said that the groundwater now leaking into the Pacific—including, possibly, some contamination from leaking tanks—might now have much higher levels of that particular substance. Strontium-90 has potentially greater health risks than cesium isotopes because it becomes concentrated in the bones of fish and humans, he said.
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When the company belatedly revealed last month the daily leakage of radioactive groundwater into the Pacific Ocean, a problem that outside scientists have long suspected,
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The development prompted Japanese government officials to step in and take a more direct role: The government announced last week that it is considering spending 50 billion yen ($410 million) to finance construction of a frozen soil barrier—also known as an ice wall—in an effort to block the groundwater from the plant from reaching the ocean. (See related story: “Can an Ice Wall Stop Radioactive Water Leaks From Fukushima?“) That technology has long been used in the mining and construction fields, and reportedly performed well in containing radioactive water in a U.S. government test project in the early 1990s, but has never been used on a large scale at a nuclear power plant.
“This leak is very serious,”
said Dr. Janette Sherman, an Alexandria, Virginia-based physician who specializes in radioactive and toxic exposure. Dr. Sherman, who edited an in-depth study of health effects on cleanup workers in the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the former Soviet Union, said she is concerned that the cleanup crew at Fukushima Daiichi may face long-term health risks.
She also raised the prospect of the radiation’s as-yet unknown effects on fish and other marine life in the Pacific.
[No mention of the unfolding Thyroid epidemic? Arclight2011]
Buesseler said he was concerned that the high level of radiation from the leaking tank might just be a harbinger of what is to come if more of the other temporary tanks begin to fail. But he’s even more worried by revelations of leaks and other problems at the plant, which lately have been coming with dismaying frequency.
“There is still a lot of contamination at Fukushima—in the land, in the buildings, and now from these tanks,” Buesseler said.
“Every bit of news that we’ve been getting is that the [radioactivity] numbers are going up.”
“I’m becoming less confident that [TEPCO] can contain the problem,” he said.
Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority shares Buesseler’s concern, warning that the latest leakage problem might be beyond TEPCO’s ability to cope [Dont mention the IAEA = Arclight2011]
“We should assume that what has happened once could happen again, and prepare for more,”
watchdog chairman Shunichi Tanaka told a news conference, BBC News reported. “We are in a situation where there is no time to waste.”
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/08/130821-fukushima-latest-leak-how-is-it-different/
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…Sullivan said Japan, which suffered a terrible nuclear disaster in 2011, “lacked the controls that the U.S. or France has” on nuclear power and storage…
August 23rd, 2013| by Geoff Pender
The Mississippi Energy Institute is making a pitch to politicians and business leaders that Mississippi get into the used nuclear fuel storage business.
MEI will make a presentation Monday to the state Senate Economic Development Committee, then have a closed meeting with business and political leaders.
Proponents say that since opponents appear to have shot down federal government plans to store the country’s nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nev., there’s an opportunity for Mississippi to bring billions of dollars and thousands of jobs by storing it here.
They say that because the federal government has moved so slow in creating centralized storage sites, nuclear plants, such as Grand Gulf in Port Gibson, are storing their used nuclear fuel in aboveground casks onsite.
But environmentalists say the idea is a bad one, and note the uproar a similar proposal to store nuclear waste in the Richton salt domes caused in Mississippi in the 1980s.
“When the U.S. decides to have a nuclear power renaissance, tremendous industry will come from that – there will be huge investment and job creation,” said Patrick Sullivan, president of the Mississippi Energy Institute. “Whatever the next renaissance in nuclear technologies will be, we believe it will take place adjacent to consolidated storage facilities.”
State Sierra Club spokesman Louie Miller said: “You’ve got to be kidding me. We went through this fight 30 years ago. Does Mississippi not have a bad enough image problem nationally without becoming a radioactive dump for the U.S. and probably the rest of the world? … I don’t care how many jobs it creates, if any. Think of how many it would destroy. This is a bad idea. This is something you don’t want in your backyard.”
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August 24, 2013
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The nuclear-power boondoggle
http://onlineathens.com/opinion/2013-08-23/sikora-nuclear-power-boondoggle
A recent letter to the editor headlined “Nuclear obstructionism unwarranted” said that Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal blamed opponents of nuclear power for using many avenues of obstruction and then complaining about the increased costs, which are the result of their obstructionism.
The writer is referring to a Banner-Herald story headlined “Deal knocks opponents of nuclear energy” in which the governor was apparently talking through his hat, in the letter writer’s view, when he blamed nuclear opponents for running up the costs of nuclear plant construction. In the same story, Georgia Power executives are quoted as saying that the reasons for cost overruns are a longer than expected wait for a construction license and a delay by a Louisiana vendor in completing needed components due to misplaced quality-control records.
Nuclear energy is the most expensive electric power source there is, and it keeps on costing long after the power is used. It costs a lot of money just to store nuclear waste safely, for periods of time incomprehensible to most people. Any cleanup required is astronomically expensive. The Three Mile Island accident took 12 years and close to a billion dollars to clean up, and the Fukushima Daiichi cleanup is estimated to go as high as $112 billion and take 50 years.
The disaster at Fukushima was caused by hydrogen explosions when the electric power for pumping cooling water to the reactor cores and nuclear waste storage pits failed because the generators in the basement of the building were flooded.
The question arises: What kind of geniuses would put critical power generators in the basement of a nuclear plant built on the very edge of the sea of a tsunami-prone country?
The answer: The same kind of geniuses who would build the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in California directly on an earthquake fault line, or like those who caused Duke Energy Florida to have to shut down the Crystal River nuclear plant in 2009 due to damage to the reactor’s containment structure caused during a power upgrade and replacement of the unit’s steam generators. The damage was severe enough to lead to a decision to retire the whole plant. Now that’s a real waste of money!
It makes one wonder how well thought-out this whole nuclear-power boondoggle is.
Walter B. Sikora
August 24, 2013
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