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34% of Fukushima city people want to evacuate, local gov “Measures need to be taken” http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/09/34-of-fukushima-city-people-want-to-evacuate-local-gov-measures-need-to-be-taken/#.UFZI1IGM8Ng.facebook   by Mochizuki  September 16th, 2012 
For the questionnaire, 34% of the people answered they want to evacuate Fukushima city, and local government staff is commenting they need to take measures about this situation.

In May, Fukushima city government sent questionnaires to 5,000 people
of over 20 years old living in Fukushima city and to 500 people who
evacuated to out of Fukushima city. The valid response rate was 55%.

The result showed 34% of them answered “They want to evacuate even
now.”. 31% of them answered “They used to want to evacuate.”.

Among people who evacuated to out of Fukushima city, 27% of them
answered “They don’t want to come back.”. 19% of them answered “They
don’t want to come back to Fukushima city if possible.”
However, 55% of them answered “They want to come back to Fukushima city.”

The city government staff comments, “The result is very severe. We
need to take some measures. “.

September 17, 2012 Posted by | Fukushima 2012 | Leave a comment

Russian scientists find high levels of cesium 137 in Pacific ocean near Fukushima

[The Voice of Russia] Cs137 in Pacific ocean 500~800km from Fukushima, “10 times higher than norm” http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/09/the-voice-of-russia-cesium137-detected-in-pacific-ocean-500800km-from-fukushima-10-times-higher-than-normal/#.UFOPru59MAQ.facebook  by Mochizuki on September 14th, 2012

<Quote> [The voice of Russia]

Russian scientists find radiation off Fukushima coast

Russian scientists have detected radiation in the north-west of the
Pacific Ocean at a distance between 500-800 km to the east from
Japan’s troubled Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant.

The expedition of the Russian geographical society has detected that
the concentration of cesium-137 in that area exceeds the norm 10
times.

This is the first time when concentration of cesium 137 was found in
the local sea waters while the air is clean.

The level of radiation near the Russian coast is normal.

September 15, 2012 Posted by | Fukushima 2012, Japan, oceans | Leave a comment

Deterioration in cooling system at Fukushima nuclear plant

Injecting water to reactor1 ~ 3 decreased again Fukushima Diary by Mochizuki   September 14th, 2012 ·   The coolant system of Fukushima plant is getting deteriorated. Tepco has been struggling to control water injecting system since 8/30/2012. (cf.Tepco struggling to control the coolant system, “Adjusted the valves 7 times for 2 days”)

They announced that they solved the problem by eliminating the suspended materials on 9/13/2012, but on 9/14/2012, they had the problem of decreasing water amount to inject again.

In reactor1, water injection decreased by 10% from 21:00 of 9/13 to 1:00 of 9/14/2012.

In reactor2, it decreased from 1:00 to 7:00 of 9/14/2012.

They are trying to increase the water amount.

Tepco is still assuming it is due to the substances which flowed into the buffer tank and got stuck in the flow rate adjustment valves in the downstream side, narrowing the water flowing channel as a result.

The false report that Tepco reported the problem was solved in is below. [Link]….. http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/09/injecting-water-to-reactor1-3-decreased-again/#.UFOKy52ScB4.facebook

September 15, 2012 Posted by | Fukushima 2012 | Leave a comment

Workers reluctant to go to Fukushima nuclear plant, if no medical checkups

Anonymous Fukushima Worker: Nobody will want to come work at plant if there’s no more health checkups – Gov’t does not understand situation here (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/anonymous-fukushima-worker-one-will-work-plant-health-checkups-govt-understand-situation-video
 September 12th, 2012  By ENENews Without medical examination cost assistance on site of the Fukushima nuclear high dose News 7 (Japanese TV)
Fukushima Daiichi Worker: The Health Ministry is busy with paperwork
and does not understand the situation at the plant. The Health Ministry must think the workers are dispensable. No one will want to start working at plant.

September 14, 2012 Posted by | Fukushima 2012, Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

Groundwater with cesium at 9 times gov’t limit found in Fukushima
http://enenews.com/groundwater-cesium-9-times-govt-limit-found-fukushima
 September 12th, 2012 By ENENews  Mainichi report from Sept 12, 2012 with summary translation by Fukushima Diary:

Ministry of the environment announced they measured 88 Bq/Kg of cesium
from well water in Odaka Minamisoma City, Fukushima
The sample was taken in June and July of 2012
The safety limit is 10 Bq/Kg
They measured cesium more than 10 Bq/Kg at 2 of 436 locations
They also measured cesium less than 10Bq/Kg from 4 of 436 locations
They found something like mud in the well water that they measured 88
Bq/Kg of cesium

September 14, 2012 Posted by | Fukushima 2012 | Leave a comment

High radiation makes removal of debris difficult, from Fukushima nuclera reactor 3

Yomiuri: Tepco having difficulty with ‘debris’ around Unit 3 due to high radiation — Years before spent fuel removal will begin  http://enenews.com/yomiuri-tepco-having-difficulty-removing-debris-around-unit-3-due-to-high-radiation-years-before-spent-fuel-removal-will-begin 
September 11th, 2012 
By ENENews  T itle: Debris removal inching along at Fukushima nuclear plant 
Source: The Yomiuri Shimbun 
Date: Sep. 12, 2012
Debris removal is progressing slowly at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to photos released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. 1-1/2 years after the nuclear crisis began.
[…]

TEPCO is having difficulty removing debris in and around the No. 3 reactor building, which was destroyed by a hydrogen explosion on March 14, 2011, due to high levels of radiation around the building.

Steel platforms, where unmanned heavy equipment for debris removal will be installed, have been mostly completed on the eastern and western sides of the No. 3 reactor building. TEPCO also plans to construct platforms on the building’s northern and southern sides.

TEPCO expects to finish debris removal within this fiscal year and start removing nuclear fuel from the fuel storage pool at the end of 2014.

September 13, 2012 Posted by | Fukushima 2012 | Leave a comment

Warning sign: poor development in Fukushima kids

Fukushima Pediatrician Warns: “Clear sign something abnormal is occurring” in young children http://enenews.com/fukushima-pediatrician-warns-clear-sign-something-abnormal-is-occurring-with-children 
September 12th, 2012 
By ENENews  Title: Disaster-area kids under hard stress  
Source: Jiji
Date: Sep. 12, 2012

[…]

In Koriyama, Fukushima, the weight of about 30 4-year-olds was recorded until they turned 5. It was found that their weight increased at an average annual rate of 2.4 kg before the disaster struck, but the annual rise shrank to 1.5 kg afterward.

Pediatrician Shintaro Kikuchi, 42, of Koriyama, who conducted the study, warned this is a clear sign something abnormal is occurring.
See also: Jiji: Many children appear “prone to sickness and weak” after 3/11 — Reuters: Many children with “immune system problems and listlessness” after Chernobyl

September 13, 2012 Posted by | Fukushima 2012 | Leave a comment

Nuclear industry says it will take 40 years to decommission Fukushima nuclear reactors

It will take 40 years, the nuclear industry says, to decommission the reactors. (Not the 6 months the industry claimed would be required to bring the “slightly damaged” reactors back online.)

Slow progress containing problems at Fukushima, new ones arise   http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/slow-progress-containing-problems-at-fukushima-new-ones-arise/  September 11, 2012 The Asahi Shimbun Japan By TAKASHI SUGIMOTO/ Staff Writer The operator is having difficulty pumping water into destroyed reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 plant, tanks are rapidly filling with radioactive water, and hundreds of potentially volatile uranium fuel assemblies remain in a precarious storage pool that some warn could collapse in another strong earthquake. Continue reading →

September 12, 2012 Posted by | Fukushima 2012, Reference, safety | Leave a comment

Radiation load on Fukushima cleanup workers

Tepco admits it will run out of workers in 5 years unless a way is found to reduce radiation exposure (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/nhk-tepco-says-it-will-run-out-of-help-in-5-years-unless-it-finds-a-way-to-reduce-workers-radiation-exposure-video 
September 11th, 2012  By ENENews 
Title: One and half years after Fukushima accident
Source: NHK WORLD English
Date: Sep. 10, 2012

“Tepco managers have had a tough time attracting workers. They say they will run out of help in 5 years unless they can find a way to reduce workers’ exposure to radiation.” -NHK Transcript

One and a half years have passed since the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Tokyo Electric Power Company has many problems to overcome before achieving its promise to decommission the crippled plant in about 40 years.

[…]

TEPCO also wonders if it can secure enough workers for the next 5 years. It said it will see a shortage of workers unless it finds ways for them to avoid exposure to radiation.

September 12, 2012 Posted by | Fukushima 2012 | Leave a comment

Children living with radioactive contamination

FRCSR: “Inhumane, inexcusable act” as many children and adults under observation while living with radioactive contamination  http://enenews.com/frcsr-inhumane-inexcusable-act-many-people-observation-living-radioactive-contamination-physician-unexpectedly-early-rapid-increase-thyroid-cancer-young-after-chernobyl-downplays-fukushima-tests-sh
 September 8th, 2012  
By ENENews
Fukushima Voice, the website of Fukushima Radioactive Contamination Symptoms Research or (FRCSR), examines the August 29, 2012 press conference in Tokyo by members of the International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW):
Q: What do you think about the high number of thyroid abnormalities found in Fukushima children? Continue reading →

September 10, 2012 Posted by | Fukushima 2012 | Leave a comment

Cesium contamination in 85% of Fukushima rockfish

85% of Fukushima rockfish exceeds safety limit in cesium, cesium measured from all samples since 311 http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/09/85-of-fukushima-rockfish-exceeds-safety-limit-in-cesium/#.UEzuJoRzoNU.facebook  by Mochizuki  September 9th, 2012 ·   Fukushima prefecture is trying to start selling fishery products but the actual contamination situation is not widely known. (cf. Fukushima will test-fish 7 more kinds of fishery products)

Even US keeps importing fishery products from Japan. (cf. US keeps importing fishery food from Japan even after 311)

White rockfish (Shiromebaru) is the type of fish living in shallow reef or seaweed bed, diet is crustacean and small fish.

According to the measurement data of Fukushima prefecture [Link], they measure cesium higher than the safety limit (100Bq/Kg) from 84.85% of all the white rockfish samples from offshore Fukushima.

They started measuring Fukushima white rockfish as of 6/21/2011. Until the latest measurement of 8/30/2012, they tested 99 samples.

Cesium (>100Bq/Kg) was detected from 84 of them. Also, cesium was measured from all of the samples.

The historical highest amount was 3,200 Bq/Kg fished on 7/4/2011. 1,730 Bq/Kg of cesium was detected from the sample fished on 8/26/2012 as well.

The measurement result is represented in the graph [provided n this article]. It shows the radiation level is still not decreasing even in 2012.

September 10, 2012 Posted by | Fukushima 2012 | Leave a comment

Fukushima nuclear reactor No 4: spent fuel pool still a high danger

Japan Times: Unit 4 fuel pool continues to alarm scientists and gov’t officials around the world — ‘Intense criticism’ from some senior US officials  http://enenews.com/japan-times-unit-4-fuel-pool-continues-to-alarm-scientists-and-govt-officials-around-the-world-intense-criticism-from-some-senior-us-officials
By ENENews 
Title:   Global help urged to avert reactor 4 pool fire | The Online 
Source: Japan Times 
Author: ERIC JOHNSTON
Date: Sep. 8, 2012
The risk of a fire starting in reactor 4′s spent-fuel pool at the Fukushima No. 1 plant continues to alarm scientists and government officials around the world, prompting a leading U.S. nuclear expert to urge Japan to tap global expertise to avert a catastrophe.
[…]

During a trip to Japan in late August and early September, [Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education nonprofit organization] met with Diet members, lawyers and citizens’ groups to discuss conditions at the wrecked power station and told an audience in Kyoto on Monday that fears over the spent-fuel pool in reactor 4 remain high.

[…]

concerns persist among experts worldwide that reactor 4′s pool is still at risk of boiling dry. If this were to occur, it would necessitate a massive and immediate evacuation of the surrounding area.

[…]

But the state of the fuel pool and the lack of preparations to deal with a possible fire has drawn intense criticism not just from experts like Gundersen but also from some senior officials in the U.S…

September 10, 2012 Posted by | Fukushima 2012 | Leave a comment

No radiation dose records kept for over 3,000 Fukushima cleanup workers

Over 3,000 workers at Fukushima Daiichi have no dosimetry records
http://enformable.com/2012/09/over-3000-workers-at-fukushima-daiichi-have-no-dosimetry-records/  5 Sept 12, Some 3,077 workers at TEPCO’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have no records of the radiation levels that they may have been exposed to during the first 3 weeks of the nuclear disaster.  These workers were dispatched in work groups, with only representatives of the entire group wearing dosimeters.

Earlier this summer, it was discovered that other workers had covered their dosimeters with lead shields to lower their recorded radiation exposures in order to not exceed the national limits. Source: JiJi Press

September 6, 2012 Posted by | Fukushima 2012, health, Japan | Leave a comment

Photo tampered with by TEPCO to minimise damage at Fukushima Unit 4

Report: Tepco reveals damage to Unit 4 near ‘photoshopped’ area (PHOTO)  http://enenews.com/report-tepco-reveals-damage-to-area-near-photoshopped-location-at-fukushima-unit-4-photo  September 5th, 2012   By ENENews   Title: TEPCO Soundness Report On Unit 4 Admits Larger Failures  Source: SimplyInfo Date: Sept 5, 2012

TEPCO released two reports in Japanese last week on order of NISA to explain the soundness of unit 4.

[…]

The new reports make some key admissions. The west and south walls are degrading and also may have been worse than TEPCO had previously admitted. Floor damage is also expanded from what was previously reported. Cracks on the inside of the west wall was also reported for the first time. It appears some of this is building degradation and some is new findings as they gain access to more areas of the building for closer inspections.

[…]

The August 2012 report in Japanese shows the west wall […] 4th floor as failed with the entire 3rd floor now failed with half of the 2nd floor now partially failed. In May 2011 the 2nd floor was assumed sound. This newly declared partially damaged area is above the garage door opening TEPCO has attempted to photoshop out of recent images.

September 6, 2012 Posted by | Fukushima 2012, Japan, secrets,lies and civil liberties | Leave a comment

Continuing danger and ever escalating costs at the Chernobyl and Fukushima cleanups

 It will be especially dangerous to remove the remaining nuclear fuel because of the high levels of radiation that such substances emit.

conditions [at the Chernobyl plant] are still dangerous for the 3,500 workers now cleaning up the site. And some 200 tons of nuclear fuel still remain at the bottom of the reactor.

When reactors die, costs keep climbing. Fukushima Diiachi costs to go through the roof.http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/when-reactors-die-costs-keep-climbing-fukushima-diiachi-costs-to-go-through-the-roof/  4 Sept 12

http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20120815D15HH187.htm Decommissioning Of Fukushima To Be Long, Costly Process FUKUSHIMA (Nikkei)–-The government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) have made the first revisions to a plan to decommission the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but the details remain uncertain.

At the Chernobyl plant, efforts are now in full swing to build a massive shelter to stop the site from releasing radiation into the environment.
Among other matters, the revisions involve adding measures to prevent radioactive water from leaking into the environment. But it is still unclear how much time and money this will actually entail. Continue reading →

September 4, 2012 Posted by | Fukushima 2012, Japan, safety, Ukraine | Leave a comment

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