UK nuclear experts to help with Fukushima decommissioning

UK nuclear experts to help with Fukushima decommissioning – Lady Barbara Judge

Feb 03, 2014 Ida Torres

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A team of nuclear experts from the United Kingdom will serve as consultants in the ongoing decommissioning process at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Lady Barbara Judge, the former chair of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and now the deputy chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO)’s Nuclear Reform Monitoring Committee, is the one organizing the information exchange that is seen as a step that can help move forward the process that is expected to take decades to finish.

The engineers from Sellafield, the site of Britain’s worst nuclear accident, will be traveling to Japan to advise on how to effectively decommission the plant. The Fukushima plant experienced a catastrophic meltdown in 2011, in the midst of the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami. Judge believes that Japan will greatly benefit from the knowledge and experience of the engineers, and Britain in return, will also gain from learning about Japan’s nuclear industry. Japanese companies like Toshiba and Hitachi are actually helping plan the building of new nuclear power stations in the UK, the first to be built in decades. Toshiba in fact is buying a 60% stake in NuGeneration, a UK firm that will be building three plants in West Cumbria.

TEPCO is hoping that bringing in the decommissioning experts and Judge’s direction will help rebuild the trust of the Japanese people in them, after many perceive that they are making a mess out of dealing with the clean-up at the plant. They plan to launch a new subsidiary by April 1 that will be in charge of the decommissioning and decontamination of the crippled plant. This will be headed by a Japanese nuclear expert and the British engineers will serve as advisers.

February 3, 2014 - Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized

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Can it really be true that Lady Judge, a wafer-thin 68-year-old with a ruffed collar and a French bun, is the saviour of Japan’s nuclear industry – and, arguably, its economy too?

Granted, the American-born Brit radiates formidability: her glance, down an immaculately powdered nose, has the penetration of a gamma ray. And she was once dubbed “The Atomic Kitten” by Private Eye. But let’s face it, the Japanese aren’t known for taking their problems to foreigners, especially not to women.

Yet for 16 months Judge has been advising the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) on handling its most toxic problem: the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

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Meanwhile, Judge is determined to export British expertise – the UK is still among the best at decommissioning – to Japan. “Helping the Japanese will also help the Brits,” says Judge. “We will benefit from working in Japan, the nuclear industry will benefit, and R&D will flourish in both countries”……

Comment by arclight2011part2 | February 3, 2014 | Reply
Last I heard it wason cold shutdown. Whatever that means. Now they need more help. Its obvious we havve been lied to all along.

The best move to make on an individual level is to decontaminate yourself.

I live on the West Coast, ate a ton of sushi. I started to feel bad, with chest pains, and was worried about radiation in my body.

I am now using:
-bentonite clay-sprinkle on food
-Vitapect tablets-developed by the EU as atreatment after Chernobyl to remove cesium from the body.
-sodium alginate tablets to remove strontium

I have started to feel better, though I wont be eating a lot more sushi.

Comment by vitapect guru | February 3, 2014 | Reply
Quote: “wont be eating a lot more sushi” ???
Will you instead be eating a little more sushi?
Was that a cloaked spam?

I live on West Coast, was offered free sushi over a year ago and said “Fuku, NO!”
Chest pains have abated now that i avoid mushrooms, dairy, pork & beef as well as avoiding california produce, no thanks to shithead doctor(s).
BC Hothouse is at least grown indoors. California now in drought. Low water means more crap in water irrigated to plants! Mexican produce out of question too. If we wouldn’t drink the water, why the hell would we eat their produce?

Thanks, Arc!

Comment by Dud | February 3, 2014 | Reply