Second meltdown in No 3 Nuclear reactor caused Fukushima cleanup problems
Report suggests second meltdown at reactor at Fukushima plant, Asahi.com, BY TOMOOKI YASUDA STAFF WRITER, 2011/08/09, A second meltdown likely occurred in the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, a scenario that could hinder the current strategy to end the crisis, a scientist said. Continue reading
Fukushima city cleanup begins, with no long term solution in sight
Nor has Tokyo offered any long-term solution for the radioactive waste that is quickly accumulating around the prefecture
In Fukushima City, Decontamination Begins. But What to Do with the Radioactive Waste?, TIME, With reporting by Terrence Terashima, by Krista Mahr , August 9, 2011“…..Nearly five months after March 11, the physical process of cleaning up the world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl has begun. Untold numbers of buildings, sidewalks, trees, gardens, parks, streets, school yards and gutters were dusted in radioactive particles after the earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. Though a circle within a 20-km radius of the plant and some other high-radiation spots remain evacuated, a much larger area is still home to tens of thousands of people who want those particles out of their lives as soon as possible. Continue reading
Highest radiation reading possible now stops workers entering Fukushima nuclear reactor 1
The latest reading was taken on the second floor of the No. 1 reactor building and will stop workers entering the area… the highest the Geiger counters used were capable of reading, indicating the level could have been higher,
…….Radioactive soil in pockets of areas outside the exclusion zone around the plant have reached the same level as in Chernobyl following a reactor explosion in the former Soviet Union, the report said….
Tepco Reports Second Deadly Radiation Reading at Fukushima Nuclear Plant, Bloomberg By Tsuyoshi Inajima and Kari Lundgren – Aug 2, 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Co. reported its second deadly radiation reading in as many days at its wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant north of Tokyo.
The utility known as Tepco said yesterday it detected 5 sieverts of radiation per hour in the No. 1 reactor building. On Aug. 1 in another area it recorded radiation of 10 sieverts per hour, enough to kill a person “within a few weeks” after a single exposure, according to theWorld Nuclear Association. Continue reading
Fukushima nuclear plant – highest radiation levels found
Fatal Radiation Level Found at Fukushima Daiichi Plant, NYT, By MARTIN FACKLER, August 1, 2011 TOKYO — The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant said Monday that it measured the highest radiation levels within the plant since it was crippled by a devastating earthquake.
The human cost of Fukushima cleanup – high radiation to 1600 workers
Fukushima workers to be exposed to high radiation, 774 ABC Radio Melbourne, Mark Willacy, 28 JULY 11, The Japanese government has estimated 1,600 nuclear workers will be exposed to high levels of radiation while battling to stabilise the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The estimate is contained in a newly released Japanese government document, which includes concerns about the safety of dozens of other nuclear reactors.
It warned that with so many nuclear workers at Fukushima exposed to such high doses of radiation, they may not be able to work at other plants in the coming months.
The government has raised the radiation exposure limit so workers can remain at the Fukushima site. It says the workers will be subject to more than 50 millisieverts of radiation, which is defined as a high level. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-28/fukushima-nuclear-workers-radiation/2813460/?site=melbourne
Always a most dangerous nuclear plant – Fukushima
SPECIAL REPORT-Fukushima long ranked Japan’s most hazardous nuclear plant One of 5 worst nuclear plants in world for exposure to radiation
* Tepco prioritised cost-savings over radiation standard
* Tepco says old plants like Fukushima have high radiation
* Foreign workers used to avoid exposing staff to high radiation
* Improvements made at Fukushima before disaster hit
By Chisa Fujioka and Kevin Krolicki, TOKYO, July 26 (Reuters) – Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant ranked as one of the most dangerous in the world for radiation exposure years before it was destroyed by the meltdowns and explosions that followed the March 11 earthquake. For five years to 2008, the Fukushima plant was rated the most hazardous nuclear facility in Japan for worker exposure to radiation and one of the five worst nuclear plants in the world on that basis. The next rankings, compiled as a three-year average, are due this year. Reuters uncovered these rankings, privately tracked by Fukushima’s operator Tokyo Electric Power, in a review of documents and presentations made at nuclear safety conferences over the past seven years…..
As Japan debates its future energy policy after the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, a Reuters review of the long-troubled record at Fukushima shows how hard it has been to keep the country’s oldest reactors running in the best of times. It also shows how Japan’s nuclear establishment sold nuclear power to the public as a relatively cheap energy source in part by putting cost-containment ahead of radiation safety over the past several decades. …..http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/26/idUSL3E7IE3Z920110726—
1256 cows likely to be radioactive,says Japan’s govt
Japan’s ‘Major Problem’ With Radioactive Cattle Gets Even Bigger, SF Gate, July 21 (Bloomberg) –– Japan’s government said the number of cattle fed with hay contaminated by radiation has doubled, two days after shipments of beef from cows raised near the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant were banned.
As of yesterday there were 1,256 potentially contaminated cows from 637 two days earlier, said Kazutoshi Nobuto, a spokesman for the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
“This is a major, major problem,” Goshi Hosono, Japan’s food safety minister, said yesterday at a press conference in the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan. Hosono is also in charge of the response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster…. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/07/21/bloomberg1376-LONZP86S972801-3CL2GT5F8SH7TVV2BED2RK9I63.DTL
Four more radiation evacuation areas named by Japanese govt
Radiation experts agree that children are at highest risk because they are still growing and will have more time to develop cancers and other health defects…..
Japan names more Fukushima evacuation areas, Asia One News, Jul 21, 2011, TOKYO – Japan on Thursday recommended 59 more households should evacuate from four areas considered radiation “hot spots” near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, officials said.
The voluntary guidance, in areas where higher levels of radiation have been detected sporadically beyond the 20 kilometre (12 mile) no-go zone around the plant, will affect households in Fukushima prefecture’s city of Minamisoma. Continue reading
Japan acts to ban Fukushima cattle sales, as radiation problems continue
Japan Bans Radioactive Cattle 4 Months After Nuclear Disaster, Bloomberg, By Aya Takada – Jul 19, 2011 19 July 11 Japan’s government, struggling to contain radiation contamination among beef cattle, is being blamed by consumers and lawmakers for negligence over its handling of the food safety crisis, even as it moved to ban shipments Continue reading
Fukushima Prefecture will abandon nuclear power
Fukushima to scrap nuclear plants, Japan Times, 17 July 11, Prefecture vows to shift from atomic to renewable energy, The about-face came after Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s declaration Wednesday of pursuing a society free from dependence on nuclear energy and is expected to affect the policies of other prefectures that host atomic plants. Kyodo
On June 27, Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato specified his change in policy from tolerance of nuclear plants before the disaster, saying he concluded that Fukushima should pursue a society that does not depend on nuclear energy.
Fukushima may be the first prefecture with nuclear plants to vow to eliminate them, an official at the Natural Resources and Energy Agency said…..
The vision calls for promoting renewable energy sources instead of nuclear energy, overcoming the present nuclear crisis and building a society invulnerable to disasters.
The prefecture will officially adopt the reconstruction vision in early August
FUKUSHIMA — Fukushima Prefecture vowed to shift away from nuclear power plants in its vision compiled Friday for reconstruction after the March 11 quake and tsunami….http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110716a4.html
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Continued radioactive contamination of beef from Northern Japan
Japanese beef contamination widens, The Age, 16 July 11, MORE beef from cattle in Japan that ate straw tainted by radiation has found its way into the food supply, deepening concern about the safety of meat as the country struggles to contain the spread of the contamination.
Cattle at the farm in Asakawa, about 60 kilometres from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear station, were fed with rice straw containing 97,000 becquerels of caesium per kilogram, compared with the government standard of 300 becquerels, said Hidenori Ohtani at the livestock division of the Fukushima prefectural government.
The farm shipped 42 cattle in the past three months to slaughterhouses in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba and Miyagi prefectures, which were processed into meat and sold to distributors, he said.
The discovery comes a week after the Tokyo metropolitan government said it detected beef tainted by radiation for the first time, underlining the severity of contamination caused by the stricken station in Fukushima, site of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
Japan’s government might restrict beef shipments from all of Fukushima prefecture after the finding, Kyodo News has reported…..
http://www.theage.com.au/world/japanese-beef-contamination-widens-20110715-1hhye.html
Billions of yen, and decades, to clean up Fukushima’s radiation
Japan aims to totally clean Fukushima of radiation, Prokerala News 15 July 11, The Japanese city of Fukushima, whose nuclear power plant was badly damaged by a magnitude-9 earthquake, has now revealed a plan to clean every building and road of radiation, a British newspaper reported.
The local government said the plan to scrub every building and road clean of radioactivity may take up to 20 years, the Daily Telegraph reported from Tokyo.
“We are drawing up a plan to clean our city and the first phase of the project will be announced early next month,” said Akane Saito, a spokeswoman for thecity government.
Authorities are hoping to receive funding from the national government and the Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the crippled nuclear plant. The cost of the two-decade clean-up operatioon is likely to run into billions of yen.
An 18-mile exclusion zone has been declared around the plant, where emergency teams are working around the clock to keep the plant reactors cool and contain further leaks of radioactivity.
However, radioactivity has gone well beyond the no-go zone. At least 10 children from Fukushima had urine samples tested for radioactivity and came back positive….. http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a234067.html
Radioactivity in waste incineration near Tokyo
The radioactive caesium was detected in plants in Kashiwa city in Chiba prefecture, northeast of Tokyo and about 200 kilometres (120 miles) from the plant that has leaked radiation since the March 11 quake and tsunami….
Authorities suspect the caesium may be from garden waste, such as tree branches and grass cuttings, that has been burnt in the facility.
Kashiwa city official Kiyoshi Nakamura told AFP: “Some people are believed to have cut plants and mown their lawns because of fear of radioactive contamination, and that waste was apparently brought to the plant.”…http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iPN-whkfu1E0C_LcAIeffM9uoHZQ?docId=CNG.30b3c946c2c894e47045f723d8b684af.b51
Fukushima Prefecture will give radiation monitors to 280,000 children
Dosimeters will be given to 280,000 children, NHK World, 24 June 11, Fukushima Prefecture has decided to distribute dosimeters to about 280 thousand children to monitor their radiation exposure caused by the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Voices of parents expressing concern about their children’s health have been growing louder. The prefecture said on Thursday it will give dosimeters to children ranging from infants to junior high school students.
The prefecture will also subsidize cities and villages to replace top soil in the school yards or set up air conditioners in schools.
Some municipalities in the prefecture have already distributed, or decided to distribute, dosimeters to children to monitor radiation exposure. The prefecture will provide financial help to those municipalities…http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/24_01.html
Fukushima cows ate irradiated straw
High radiation found in straw given to cows whose meat was contaminated, Mainichi Daily News, 11 July 11, FUKUSHIMA –– High levels of radioactive cesium have been detected in rice straw used as feed for cows from a Fukushima Prefecture city whose meat contained excessive levels of cesium.
The meat of 11 head of Japanese black cattle that were raised and shipped from a farm in the city of Minamisoma had 1,530 to 3,200 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram, while the maximum amount permitted is 500 becquerels per kilogram.
According to Fukushima prefectural officials, the farm operator fed the cattle rice straw that had been harvested last autumn and left outside. Officials believe it is highly likely that the rice straw eaten by the cows contaminated their meat, and are considering tightening rules on feed management…..http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110711p2a00m0na017000c.html
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