Bob-CURGENT: Radiation leakage may eventually exceed that of Chernobyl: TEPCO, Kyodo, April 12, 2011:
The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday that it is concerned that radiation leakage at the plant could eventually exceed that of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe.
Read the report here.
”The radiation leak has not stopped completely and our concern is that the amount of leakage could eventually reach that of Chernobyl or exceed it,” an official from the Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. …
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Posted 12 April 2011 - 04:21 PM
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Posted 12 April 2011 - 04:27 PM
Bob-CJapan ups Fukushima nuke crisis severity to 7, same as Chernobyl, Kyodo, April 12, 2011:
… The plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. offered an apology to the public for being still unable to stop the radiation leakage, pointing to the possibility that the total emission of radioactive substances could eventually surpass that of the Chernobyl incident. …
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”Even though some amount of radiation keeps leaking from reactors and their containment vessels, they are not totally destroyed and are functioning,” [Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for Japan's nuclear agency] said. …
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Posted 13 April 2011 - 10:03 AM
Bob-CAnother crisis for Fukushima. When will this end?, Telegraph, April 13, 2011:
… Millions of gallons of highly radioactive water are accumulating on the site, as a result of drenching the stricken reactors to try to prevent them melting down…
Read the report here.
A lethal lake of some 15 million gallons of the stuff has already built up in the depths of the nuclear complex, and hundreds of thousands more are being added to it every day. …
“There’s nothing like this, on this scale, that we have ever attempted to do before”, Robert Alvarez, a former assistant secretary in the US Department of Energy, told the Los Angeles Times. …
Eventually the solution could be either to filter as much of the radioactivity water as possible out of the lake using zeolites – something successfully done after the 1979 Three Mile Island accident – or by concentrating it and binding it into glass. But even then it will take many years for the radioactivity to decay enough to make such operations possible. And the really big clean-up problem will still have to be tackled.
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Posted 13 April 2011 - 07:27 PM
TEPCO confirms damage to part of No. 4 unit’s spent nuke fuel, Kyodo, April 13, 2011:
Some of the spent nuclear fuel rods stored in the No. 4 reactor building of the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi power plant were confirmed to be damaged, but most of them are believed to be in sound condition, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday.
Read the report here.
The firm known as TEPCO said its analysis of a 400-milliliter water sample taken Tuesday from the No. 4 unit’s spent nuclear fuel pool revealed the damage to some fuel rods in such a pool for the first time, as it detected higher-than-usual levels of radioactive iodine-131, cesium-134 and cesium-137.
The No. 4 reactor, halted for a regular inspection before last month’s earthquake and tsunami disaster, had all of its fuel rods stored in the pool for the maintenance work and the fuel was feared to have sustained damage from overheating.
The roof and the upper walls of the No. 4 reactor building have been blown away by a hydrogen explosion and damaged by fires since the disaster struck the plant. The water level in the spent fuel pool is believed to have temporarily dropped. …
Bob-C
Edited by Bob-C, 13 April 2011 - 07:30 PM.
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Posted 22 July 2015 - 05:51 AM
Shikoku Electric Power Co.’s Ikata No. 3 reactor in Ehime Prefecture became the fifth reactor at the third plant to obtain regulatory approval for a restart since the 2011 Fukushima triple meltdown, getting the green light from the Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday.
The other reactors cleared by the NRA for restart are Kyushu Electric’s Sendai No. 1 and 2 reactors in Kagoshima Prefecture, which could go back online as early as next month, and Kepco’s Takahama No. 3 and 4 reactors in Fukui Prefecture, whose restart has been made uncertain by a temporary injunction issued by the Fukui District Court in April. Kepco has appealed the ruling.
http://www.japantime...s/#.Va906MvbLIV
Defenders of the status quo are always stronger than reformers seeking change,
UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.
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Posted 22 July 2015 - 10:26 AM
Japanese reactor wins safety approval as nuclear plants inch closer to restart
Shikoku Electric Power Co.’s Ikata No. 3 reactor in Ehime Prefecture became the fifth reactor at the third plant to obtain regulatory approval for a restart since the 2011 Fukushima triple meltdown, getting the green light from the Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday.
The other reactors cleared by the NRA for restart are Kyushu Electric’s Sendai No. 1 and 2 reactors in Kagoshima Prefecture, which could go back online as early as next month, and Kepco’s Takahama No. 3 and 4 reactors in Fukui Prefecture, whose restart has been made uncertain by a temporary injunction issued by the Fukui District Court in April. Kepco has appealed the ruling.
http://www.japantime...s/#.Va906MvbLIV
Sure glad to hear that. Fukushima is far from even close to "under control". They can't even send robots into three reactors to examine the damage as they fry before they get very far. Contaminated water with tritium, cesium, plutonium and strontium, to name a few, gushes, not trickles, uncontrolled into the Pacific daily and the evidence of that is showing up on the Pacific West Coast - with the complete death of the star fish population, sea lion deaths, bird deaths and fish population decline just to name a few. We might as well accelerate the extinction level event by putting on a few more nuclear reactors - with their waste that no one knows what to do with. With all the active volcanos in Japan why on earth are they not using geothermal energy generation. Yes, every once in awhile, you would have to replace a power plant if a volcano blows, but no pollution or waste that can't be dealt with, and no Carbon Dioxide emissions. Iceland has been doing it for decades. And just another thought - the phytoplankton in the oceans are a major source of oxygen by converting carbon dioxide through photosynthesis. If they die from the exposure to radioactive contamination they emit methane - and I don't know about you, but I can't breath methane.
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Posted 11 August 2015 - 11:00 AM
The process to restart unit 1 of the Sendai nuclear power plant in Japan began today, marking the end of almost two years of the country's entire reactor fleet standing idle. The unit is expected to re-enter commercial operation early next month.
Kyushu Electric Power Company announced today that at 10.30am it began the start-up process by removing the control rods from the reactor core.
http://www.world-nuc...ds-1108154.html
Defenders of the status quo are always stronger than reformers seeking change,
UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.