Mysterious die-off of whales in the pacific: US scientists test for radiation
TV: US scientists testing for radiation in dead whales as mysterious die-off in Pacific continues — Now 14 carcasses reported, expert warns “death toll could still rise” — “Whales may have consumed something toxic… trying to find an explanation for this unusual event” (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/tv-scientists-testing-radiation-mysterious-whale-die-pacific-continues-14-carcasses-reported-expert-warns-death-toll-could-rise-whales-consumed-toxic-trying-find-explanation-unusual-event-video?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ENENews+%28Energy+News%29
KTUU, Jul 10, 2015 (emphasis added): 5 more dead whales found in Alaska waters since June; total 14 dead; Researchers try to understand mysterious whale deaths… Kate Wynne, a Marine Mammal Specialist for the Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program, told Channel 2 News that since the June 18 announcement of the nine dead fin whales, four humpback whales and another fin whale have been found dead. According to Wynne, the five whales appeared to have been dead for the same amount of time as the previously discovered whales… After the first two whales were discovered… it triggered a response from numerous agencies… “The good news is that this has gotten a lot of us to talk toeach other, and be alert,” Wynne said… Wynne thinks the whales may have consumed something toxic… Tests on tissue from one of the whales have proven negative for domoic acid, a biotoxin, and results on two other tests, for Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) and Cesium-137 radioactivity, are still pending.
Alaska Dispatch News, Jul 10, 2015: More whales found dead in southern Alaska waters – Scientists investigating the mysterious deaths of nine endangered fin whales… report that the death toll has increased… five additional whales — one fin whale and four humpbacks — have been reported… So far, the only sample taken from any of the dead animals… came back negative for domoic acid, a toxin that is produced by algae… Results from other tests are still pending… [Scientists] have been trying to find an explanation for the unusual event. Wynne said it’s possible the toll could still rise. “The number of now-rotten carcasses may continue to climbas more people travel around the area and submit reports of carcasses they see,” she said.
AP, Jul 11, 2015: More whale carcasses found in Gulf of Alaska… [Wynne] said it’s possible that more carcasses will be reported as people continue to travel around the area.
AP, Jul 11, 2015: Whale deaths in Gulf of Alaskapuzzle scientists – More dead whales have been found in the Gulf of Alaska following the sightings of nine fin whale carcasses… five additional dead whales [were reported] over the past several weeks, including four humpbacks and one fin whale… Wynne says it’s possible that more whale carcasses could be reported soon.
CBC, Jul 11, 2015: Reports of whale carcasses off Alaska raise whale death toll to 14; Scientists don’t know what’s been killing humpback and fin whales
Watch a report from ABC San Diego on NOAA scientists on the way to study whales in Alaska
Southern Ohio’s Piketon enriched uranium plant will get on-site radioactive trash disposal
On-site Piketon uranium disposal OK’d in decades-long plan Columbus Dispatch, By Kantele FrankoAssociated Press • Monday July 13, 2015 Waste from the decontamination and decommissioning of a Cold War-era uranium plant in southern Ohio will go to an on-site disposal facility under a U.S. Department of Energy plan approved by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.The Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon produced enriched uranium until 2001, and the shutdown left behind old buildings, industrial chemicals and radioactive areas……..The disposal plan had support from local officials and lawmakers representing the area. Pike County Commissioner Blaine Beekman said the long-awaited decision is critical to get the cleanup rolling and to support lawmakers’ efforts to secure continued federal funding for the project.
But unanswered questions remain, including which types of waste will go where, said United Steelworkers local president Herman Potter, who represents hundreds of Piketon workers……..Some area residents and environmental activists also have objected.
U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican from southwestern Ohio, said the community agreed to on-site disposal to accelerate the cleanup but remains concerned about the site’s future now that the Energy Department estimates the work will take another three decades. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/07/13/on-site-disposal-okd-in-decades-long-plan.html
EPA’s Clean POwer plan is still being lobbied by the nuclear industry
The nuclear industry is still lobbying for a bailout in EPA’s Clean Power Plan. Maybe you should be lobbying too. GreenWorld, Michael Mariotte, 14 July 15
The final language of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) is supposed to be released next month, which means most of the text (and more importantly, the concepts behind it) is already completed.And, more specifically, it isn’t stopping the nuclear power industry from pushing for changes that would benefit new reactors in particular, although it still holds out some fading hope for help for its older, uneconomic and obsolete reactors as well.*Edison Electric Institute and utility CEOs and representatives from American Electric Power Co. Inc., DTE Energy, Berkshire Hathaway Energy and Duke Energy Corp.That’s a lot of heavyweight nuclear utilities right there. A bunch of other industry groups got to make their case as well……….
- *MJ Bradley & Associates and electric utilities that are members of its Clean Power Plan Initiative, including the CEOs or senior executives of Dominion, National Grid, NextEra, Exelon, PSEG, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and Calpine Corp.
- As evidence, E&E Publishing Friday published a story headlined White House opens doors to eleventh-hour pleas on Clean Power Plan. Among the bevy of recent visitors pleading their cases were:
- But that isn’t stopping industry, and the occasional environmental group, from continuing to press their cases for changes from the draft proposal.
- Oh, and NEI thinks power uprates at existing reactors should be considered “new” as well.We, however, are expecting something quite different, and you should be too: if the CPP is meant to be the nation’s first climate change roadmap, then it should be pointing the path to a nuclear-free, carbon-free energy future, not figuring out how to do more of the same failed policies of the past……….
- Fertel and NEI’s ultimate goal is to make sure the U.S. nuclear fleet doesn’t continue its recent downward trend. “He noted that currently nuclear is about 20 percent of the electricity mix in the U.S. ‘Our goal is that it never drop below 20, that it pick up and maybe be more than that, but that it’s in the 20 to 20+ range as we go forward. So that’s what we are expecting.’”
- While the public comment period ended December 1, 2014, and since unlike giant utilities and the occasional big green group the public doesn’t get access to EPA officials or the White House, we thought we’d give the public another chance to comment anyway. You can send your e-mail to President Obama and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy here, and let them know that we expect the final version of the Clean Power Plan to contain no help for nuclear whatsoever……… http://safeenergy.org/2015/07/13/the-nuclear-industry-is-still-lobbying/
Secretive South Africa hides costs of nuclear build programme
SA remains tight-lipped over nuclear build costs, Business Day Live
BY STAFF WRITER, JULY 14 2015, THE deputy director-general of nuclear energy‚ Zizamele Mbambo, made it clear on Tuesday that SA was forging ahead with its nuclear build programme‚ but kept mum on how the country’s new nuclear reactors would be financed….
Fifty trainees have been sent to China for Phase 1 nuclear training in April‚ and an additional 250 trainees will be sent to China this year.
Russia has offered 10 new scholarships for Master’s Degrees in Nuclear Technology‚ while South Korea has an existing programme to train South African students for Master’s Degrees in Nuclear Engineering.
France has put in place 14 bursaries for young people from previously disadvantaged groups. In addition‚ South African engineers already engaged in nuclear activities will pursue training in France. http://www.bdlive.co.za/business/energy/2015/07/14/sa-remains-tight-lipped-over-nuclear-build-costs
Contamination of groundwater and sea discharges
The tritium contamination of the control well No. 10 upstream of the reactors continues to rise and has just beaten two new records with 1,800 Bq / L (sampling of 6 July) and 1,900 Bq / L (sampling of 9 July).
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2015/images/pump_well_15070802-j.pdf
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2015/images/pump_well_15071101-j.pdf
These are the fourth and fifth successive records.
This exceeds the limit for dumping at sea, which is 1 500 Bq / L, but TEPCO relies on dilution with water from other wells:
The tritium contamination of the waste water dumped into the sea is around 100 Bq / L.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2015/images/weighted_average_150707-j.pdf
Further upstream, the tritium contamination of groundwater can reach 20 000 Bq / L in the E10 control well (sampling of 7 July).
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2015/images/around_h4_15070901-j.pdf
At the foot of the reactors, the tritium contamination also broke a record in the control well No. 3 with 8,500 Bq / L (sampling of 1 July)
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2015/images/2tb-east_15070601-j.pdf
The cesium also broke its own record in the control well 1-8 with respectively 170 and 670 Bq / L for cesium-134 and -137 respectively (levy of 6 July).
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2015/images/2tb-east_15070701-j.pdf
Cesium contamination of the seawater at the mouth of the port continues to oscillate.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2015/images/port_entrance_150711-j.pdf
Furthermore, Fukushima Dairy reported that the frozen underground wall in the testing phase at the foot of reactor No. 4 does not take after two months of cooling. This is bad news because TEPCO will not be able to limit groundwater infiltration leaking.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2015/07/underground-wall-not-frozen-for-2-months/
Source: L’ACROnique de Fukushima
http://fukushima.eu.org/contamination-de-leau-souterraine-et-rejets-en-mer/
Full decontamination work at soccer village
Japan’s environment ministry has started comprehensive decontamination work at a soccer training center named J-Village near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Workers started cleaning up the grounds on Monday.
The facility opened as the country’s first national soccer training center in 1997. It had drawn more than one million visitors, including national team members, before the nuclear accident in March 2011.
Since the accident, the center, which is located about 20 kilometers from the damaged plant, has been used as an operation base for decommissioning nuclear reactors.
Ministry officials ordered full decontamination work at J-Village, as they plan to relocate their operation base by the end of March, 2017.
The ministry plans to continue the work until March of next year.
The Fukushima prefectural government intends to reopen the facility as a soccer training center in April 2019. It hopes to welcome athletes competing in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
Source: NHK
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20150714_01.html
Fukushima Daiichi is using highly toxic chemical: Hydrazine
The Recent Roadmap reports on activity at the plant have shown that hydrazine is still in use. Japan has had their own reporting rules for hydrazine use since 2006. The rules require closed tanks and measures to reduce releases.
Hydrazine is considered a dangerous chemical, Some of the health problems it can create: “Symptoms of acute (short-term) exposure to high levels of hydrazine may include: irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat, dizziness, headache, nausea, pulmonary edema, seizures, coma in humans. Effects to the lungs, liver,spleen, and thyroid have been reported in animals chronically exposed to hydrazine via inhalation. Increased incidences of lung, nasal cavity, and liver tumors have been observed in rodents exposed to hydrazine.
In 2008 the US shot down a spy satellite due to the hydrazine tank on board. The 1.4 meter tank contained half a ton of hydrazine, used as rocket fuel. NASA confirmed that the risk of the frozen tank of hydrazine falling to earth, then thawing and evaporating was a serious risk to the public.
There are also serious environmental concerns:
“Due to the extreme corrosive potential of this chemical and its reactivity with moisture and oxidants, Hydrazine in the environment is of great concern. While the ecotoxicity is not known, the products of biodegradation of Hydrazine are more toxic than the parent compound. Potentially hazardous short and long term degradation products are to be expected (MSDS 2005).”
***It is also toxic to the marine environment above certain concentrations.***
TEPCO’s new report shows that they are continuing to use hydrazine in the reactors and spent fuel pools at Fukushima Daiichi. Units 3′s spent fuel pool still has open access to the environment. Unit 3′s containment vessel is known to leak to the environment through the reactor well. Units 1 and 2 have the same problem but are currently covered and have the exhaust air run through a HEPA filter bank.
Since the water injected into the reactor vessels eventually mixes with groundwater and to some extent still leaks to the ocean, this is another potential release to the environment. TEPCO reports the use of hydrazine and the intention to continue to use it through September in their new report. They also confirm the use of the chemical in all four spent fuel pools.
There is no public accounting for the amounts of hydrazine used. No estimate of how much might leak to the environment through evaporation, containment leaks or through groundwater leaks has been conducted. TEPCO has also not publicly documented if they have any way of safely removing hydrazine from the contaminated water processed at the plant site.
Source:
(587450936) roadmap cooling injection d150625_10-j.unlocked.pptx
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16MBOBw7k2FxgeWTGl_C65A_VgFBh6ptSwT39ouQm7Ik/edit#slide=id.p3
Cs-134/137 detected from all of the marine soil samples along Eastern Japan coastal area
From the report of NRA (Nuclear Regulation Authority), Cesium-134/137 was detected from 32 of 32 marine soil samples taken this May.
The sampling locations are offshore of Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki and Chiba Prefecture. The report was published on 7/13/2015.
The report says the samples were taken from 30m depth to 660m and collected by Marine Ecology Research Institute (MERI) and analyzed by Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA).
Cs-134 was not detected from only one sample. Cs-134 was measured from all the rest of the samples.
The highest reading was 164 Bq/Kg in total of Cs-134/137. The sampling location was approx. in 40km South East of Fukushima nuclear plant.
Other nuclides such as Sr-90 and U-235 were not even tested. They did not collect samples from Tokyo Bay either.
http://radioactivity.nsr.go.jp/en/contents/11000/10000/24/458_20150713.pdf
Source: Fukushima Daiichi
Cs-134/137 detected from all of the marine soil samples along Eastern Japan coastal area
Cesium 137 & Cesium 134 detected in seaweed on the West Coast of British Columbia
We have new clear precise lab results that seaweed on the West Coast of BC has both Cesium 137 and Cesium 134 radiation in it. PLEASE stop eating from the Pacific. Results are from a test sample sent in from my friend Jeff whose use of a Geiger Counter on seaweed showed distinctly elevated readings. He sent the samples to labs and these were the results.
The final result is in for the seaweed sample you sent us on June 16, 2015.
137Cs = 0.5 +/- 0.3 Bq/kg
134Cs = 0.3 +/- 0.3 Bq/kg
The 137Cs is above the limit of detection. The 134Cs is at the detection,limit which is generally considered a nondetect.
While the amount of radio cesium was low it held up after repeated analyses. Although the result is a low detect, it is nevertheless one of the few samples that shows any radioactive cesium in west coast seaweed samples. Time will tell if it is part of a trend.
Source: Mimi German from Radcast.org
Kyushu Electric expects to restart Sendai nuke reactor Aug. 10
Kyushu Electric Power Co. will have the No. 1 reactor at the Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture back online as early as Aug. 10, according to sources.
The utility will begin producing electricity several days after the restart and resume commercial operations in mid-September, the sources added July 10.
Kyushu Electric is currently undergoing the final procedures toward the restart of the reactor under the new safety standards of the Nuclear Regulation Authority. The utility began loading nuclear fuel into the No. 1 reactor in the afternoon of July 7, and completed the work before dawn on July 10.
Kyushu Electric will continue to have NRA inspections of equipment related to the reactor. It will also hold a four-day safety drill from July 27 that will replicate conditions of a severe accident at the plant, which is located in the city of Satsuma-Sendai.
Source: Asahi Shimbun
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201507110054
Fukushima Evening Radiation TV News
It is the evening TV screens in Fukushima Prefecture.
Before the accident at the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi power plant, it looked like a scene from science fiction, but unfortunately it is now in real life.
People watch the news on TV, followed by weather forecast, then by the radiation measures of the day.
A scene that shows us what is living with radiation …
This is not to discuss the measures of radioactivity viewed on the screen, because there are many debates about the veracity of the measures communicated by the local channel NHK.
The purpose here is to show the trivialization of radiation.
Special thanks to Kurumi Sugita, Nos Voisins Lointains 3.11
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These photos were published July 13, 2015 on Facebook by Mrs. Kazue Morizono resident of the city of Koriyama in Fukushima Prefecture
Fukushima 22 000 Olympic swimming pools of contaminated soil
Look closely at this picture! This is one of the great land storage sites of the contaminated soil which has been removed after the Fukushima disaster.Credit: Asahi Shimbun / getty images. This photo was taken near the town of Tomioka.
In my story in the heart of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which I visited June 12, 2015, where many bags also litter the place, I had asked the question of what would happen to them?
Knowing that there are about twenty sites where they currently are stacked.
They are called ISF, for “interim storage facility”.
It is planned that their content will be transferred “in thirty years” on a permanent site – which can not be located on the territory of Fukushima Prefecture (following an agreement between the government and local authorities).
But can we believe it? What place in Japan will then accept this storage?
Whereas radioactivity, mainly due to cesium will have decreased by only half (the half-life of radioactive cesium 137 is 30 years). And the memory of Fukushima will not yet be erased …
What form this final stockage will take? Will the soil be compacted?
For it is not a small volume that it is today. According to the IRSN (French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety), “the volume of waste related to decontamination is estimated between 28 and 55 million m3 “.
In other words, if we look for a meaningful equivalent between 11 000 and 22 000 Olympic swimming pools …
For comparison, by volume, a center like the one in Aube, France, managed by Andra, reserved for low and medium short-lived radioactive waste (in operation since 1992), has a 1 million m3 capacity and that of very low activity has a 650 000 m3 capacity.
A whole series of other questions we could ask.
The bags that we see in the photo how long will they last without being altered and spill their contents?
Will the Groundwater under those storage areas not be threatened , despite the waterproof tarpaulins (in principle) that are installed tight on the ground?
And that will really happen to the already scrapped decontaminated areas?
Will they not become re-contaminated, thanks to the rainfall which swell the streams, draining the particles coming down from the hills and mountains around …
Credit: Dominique Leglu. Seoul, June 10, 2015, World congress of science journalists (WCSJ). At the lectern, Toshihide Ueda (right) shows the photo of the storage site of the city of Tomioka, during the round table devoted to nuclear energy.
I remembered an interview that Prof. Hiroaki Koide (assistant at research laboratory in the nuclear reactor at the University of Tokyo) had granted nine months after the debut of the Fukushima disaster (Le Monde, paper edition Thursday, 8 December 2011).
To the question of our colleague Philippe Pons “The government wants to turn the page: the motto is” rebuilding “,” decontaminating “…, he replied : “[…] Decontamination is a new source of profit for the government and reconstruction, a windfall for civil engineering companies. If we want to decontaminate, it is the entire Fukushima prefecture that must be decontaminated. But where do we transport the irradiated soil? ”
When Shinzo Kimura, associate professor at the University Dokkyo came to Paris on 18 June 2015 for a conference on the health consequences of the disaster, I asked him the what he thought, four years later, about the soil decontamination operations.
The response of the radiation protection specialist, who fights locally to help people deal with the issue of contamination, illustrates the difficulty of deciding on the situation: “I am both for and against. We must do the maximum. But this removal has little impact. It can not succeed. ”
IRSN cites an example, the decontamination plan of the “special decontamination area ” located in the territory of the Municipality of Tamura.
[…] Completed it reduced notably the radiological environment in residential areas from 28 to 56%. ”
Clearly, it is a vicious circle in which a government after a disaster of the kind Fukushima is caught – that contaminated an area of 13 783 km² (1/10 of New York State) and the life of its 2 millions inhabitants.
If the government does nothing it will be accused of gross negligence (or worse) vis-à-vis of its population. If it does something there is no evidence that the results are convincing.
Especially in the intermediate phase, as currently around Fukushima, where multiple “small storages” are developping, awaiting to be transferred and regrouped in the ISF, until the hypothetical final storage. And not to mention the security issues that these places, of course, do not fail to cause. A real headache.
Credit: Pallava Bagla. June 12, 2015, in Fukushima
Translated by Hervé Courtois
Source : Science pour vous et moi
http://sciencepourvousetmoi.blogs.sciencesetavenir.fr/archive/2015/07/13/fukushima-61-23304.html
Voices of the Residents in Date, Fukushima
By Kurumi Sugita Nos Voisins Lointains 311
The City of Date has divided its territory into three zones to program decontamination work: Zone A where the measurement of ambient radioactivity exceeds 20 mSv/yr, the area adjacent to the B zone A and zone C where radioactivity does not exceed 5 mSv/yr.
In zone C, instead of decontaminating entire areas, the municipality only cleans hot spots that exceed 3μSv/h measured at 1cm off the ground. For example, if a measurement exceeds this limit on a rooftop, it won’t be decontaminated.
Before and After decontamination according to the lying local authorities
During the election campaign of January 2014, the incumbent Mayor Shôji NISHIDA promised to work on decontaminating the entire specified C areas. However, since his re-election, he did not fulfill his promise.
Frustrated by the lack of response from the mayor on their repeated requests for him to fulfill his promise, some residents of Date city gathered to found the “Association to Protect the Future of Children in the Date city” (Kodomo no Mirai wo kai mamoru in Date). They began installing flags and signs across town, calling for effective decontamination work. The association brings together their voices and publish on their website and Facebook page.
The following is a sample of these voices trying to pierce the ongoing deafening silence.
Frustrated by the lack of response from the mayor on their repeated requests for him to fulfill his promise, some residents of Date city gathered to found the “Association to Protect the Future of Children in the Date city” (Kodomo no Mirai wo kai mamoru in Date). They began installing flags and signs across town, calling for effective decontamination work. The association brings together their voices and publish on their website and Facebook page.
The following is a sample of these voices trying to pierce the ongoing deafening silence.
Voices of the Residents
01 Decontamination work was only done in public gardens and on school sites, but not around the house.
02 How come in Area C, the minimum threshold for decontamination work is at 3μSv/h?
Global silence on developing radiation crisis in the oceans
Fukushima: The Extinction-Level Event That No One Is Talking About, Collectively Conscious, July 15 by Satyapriya Source: dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com “……….Roughly 72% of the Earth is made up of water, and if you look at a global map, you can see that all of the world’s oceans are connected; it’s essentially one ocean. So what happens when two of the planet’s large bodies of water are rendered lifeless? Since roughly 90% of Earth’s life is contained in the oceans, and two-thirds of the planet is water, what happens when the oceans die? What happens when we can no longer fish the oceans for food? The answer is simple: When the planet’s oceans die, all life on Earth will follow, but who cares? There’s a game on tonight, or some stupid shitcom that insults the intelligence.
What level of cognitive dissonance is adhered to that causes people to look away from painful truths? How is it that people can convince themselves that everything is just fine when we are staring our very extinction in the face? How many actually give a shit? Far too few unfortunately. The fact that the world’s top scientists have no idea how to contain the radiation at Fukushima speaks volumes about what happens when a species develops technologically yet does not operate with wisdom. They destroy themselves.
Has humanity made its decision that it will simply bow down and allow the few, through psychopathy and corporate greed to drive the planet into its very extinction? Is it game over for life on planet Earth?
We are certainly headed in that direction, but why would I want to face this painful truth and find my center when Miley Cyrus is on TV sucking off a blow up doll in her latest piece of shit video?
The time for humanity to collectively wake up and come together is here and now! We can no longer put off the mess for future generations to mop up because at the rate we are going, the planet will be unable to support life and very may well become a dead rock resembling Mars. This is where we stand as a species. Does this sound paranoid? Maybe, but that does not negate the fact that it’s true! So as we bow our heads in quiet approval, our home is being destroyed and your children’s futures are being stolen right from under them. Sleep on, everything is OK, and raise your glass to the extinction of humanity! http://collectivelyconscious.net/articles/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/
Simply Info’s concise roundup of nuclear news for July
SimplyInfo.org; Fukushima News Roundup, July 12, 2015
NRA has begun work to consider BWR (boiling water reactors) for potential restarts. The initial push for restarts has focused on newer PWR units. All of the reactors involved in the Fukushima disaster at TEPCO’s two plants there were BWR units. The disaster proved a long list of design flaws and operational shortcomings that contributed to the disaster. This initial inspection process on BWR units is limited as seismic safety issues have yet to be addressed. This move will likely create considerable criticism since many of the root causes and damage outcomes from the Fukushima disaster are still not fully known.
In the same week NRA began considering BWR reactors for restarts, Japan’s nuclear power companiesasked that 40 year life limits for reactors be reconsidered. They want the rule changed to allow longer running. The current requirement is to have a major inspection for aging issues after 40 years in order to obtain permission to operate past that date. This request would be a major roll back of safety rules and would go against what is the norm in other countries.
Japan’s power companies are set to spend over $19 billion USD to try to deal with safety deficits at their plants. These numbers did not include some anti-terrorism efforts and is 1.5 times the previous estimate……….http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=14865
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Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – A good documentary on Chernobyl on SBS available On Demand for the next 3 weeks– https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes/2352741955560
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Tell the Ukrainian Government to Drop Prosecution of Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko
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