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Radiation Alerts and other sources. 9-11-11

Radiation Alerts and other sources. 9-11-11

Fukushima's wave of despair (The Sydney Morning Herald)
As Japan prepares to mark six months since the March earthquake, tens of thousands remain in temporary housing, mourning loved ones, fearful of radiation and despairing over a marathon road to recovery.


Japanese minister leaves over nuclear crisis gaffe (Monterey County Herald)
In this photo released by Prime Minister's Office of Japan, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, second from left, speaks to workers of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant while visiting the crippled plant in Okuma, northeastern Japan, first time since he took the office Thursday, Sept.

Japanese minister leaves over nuclear crisis gaffe (Athens Banner-Herald)
In this photo released by Prime Minister's Office of Japan, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, second from left, speaks to workers of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant while visiting the crippled plant in Okuma, northeastern Japan, first time since he took the office Thursday, Sept.


Join the Nuclear Club (Salt Lake City Weekly)
Curses, Foiled Again Two men wearing heavy makeup, women's clothing and wigs held up a Denver jewelry store at gunpoint, forcing the owners to unlock display cases.


'Rise' in UK support for nuclear (BBC News)
An opinion poll suggests that support for nuclear power in Britain has increased in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.


Pennsylvania nuclear plants operate despite floods (WTTV Indianapolis)
All three nuclear power plants in Pennsylvania along the Susquehanna River continued to operate at high power, plant operators said on Friday, after the river had flooded several towns in New York and Pennsylvania.

Some Hanford cleanup deadlines to be postponed (KOMO News)
Hanford regulators have agreed to let some interim environmental cleanup deadlines slide at the nuclear reservation to focus on the highest priority work, given the realities of the federal budget.



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Posted: 04 Sep 2011 06:58 AM PDT

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Fukushima Blows Lid Off Exploited Labour – nuclear workers castigated as ‘radiation- exposed people’
Posted:
The Fukushima disaster has thrown up the first opportunity in decades to bring justice to thousands of unskilled workers who risk radioactive contamination to keep Japan's nuclear power plants running. “Fukushima has created public awareness on a section of nuclear workers castigated as 'radiation- exposed people' but forming the dark underbelly of an industry that [...]

In Japan, City Radiation Inspectors Told NOT to Inspect Highest Potential Radiation Areas
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DATE, Japan—This sprawling city, 35 miles away from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi reactors, is leading the next phase of Japan’s struggles with radiation: deciding how to handle populations in contaminated communities where the level isn’t high enough to justify evacuation. Five months after a nuclear accident blew radioactive particles across the countryside, contamination in Date [...]

Fukushima Daiichi Dust Measurement Points
Posted:
The Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant also known as Fukushima Dai-ichi(dai-ichi means “number one”), is a disabled nuclear power plant located on a 3.5-square-kilometre (860-acre) site in the towns of Okuma and Futaba in the Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. First commissioned in 1971, the plant consists of six boiling water reactors (BWR). These light water reactors drove electrical generators with a combined power of 4.7 GWe, making Fukushima Daiichi one of the 15 largest nuclear power [...]

Cause of shutdown at North Anna nuclear plant sought – Post Earthquake Tour of Nuclear Power Station
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Dominion Virginia Power officials are working to discover exactly what caused the North Anna nuclear reactors to trip off line in the Aug. 23 earthquake. Knowing precisely what prompted the shutdown of the station’s two 980-megawatt reactors is critical for validating the safety of the plant‘s design. Realizing that whatever was happening could affect the [...]

Japanese Citizens Want to Keep Heritage – “I’ll Never Leave, I’ll Never Be Beaten”
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AP News reported on August 31 about Mr. Naoto Matsumura, who refuses to leave his home and his farm in Tomioka-machi, which lies in the no-entry evacuation zone within the 20 kilometer radius from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. His family has farmed in that location for 5 generations. “I’ll never be beaten”, he says. [...]


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Exposing the "unspeakable" realities of the Japanese catastrophe in this 60 Minutes program Sunday night during which leading nuclear scientist Dr. Michio Kaku said radiation from Fukushima will impact of all of humanity. The nuclear energy power industry violation of the right to health is apparent throughout the new Australian report.

"In fact the whole world will be exposed from the radiation from Fukushima," Dr. Kaku told reporter Liz Hayes.

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Radiation Alerts: Video Radiation Alerts Fukushima Radioactive Rain falls in Toronto,Canada at DANGEROUS(20 000 CPM) levels Aug 14 2011

Radiation Alerts: Video Radiation Alerts Fukushima Radioactive Rain falls in Toronto,Canada at DANGEROUS(20 000 CPM) levels Aug 14 2011

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People are not getting it, it will effect us all in ways you may not want to know, but you need to.

Hundreds of millions of people world wide are getting affected by this. Cancers and illness will rise to epic proportions.

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September 2,


Experts warn of dangers from radioactive waste swamps at Japan sewage plants


Environmental experts in Japan are warning of new fallout from the country's nuclear crisis.
Radioactive waste is piling up at several sewerage plants, well away from the crippled Fukushima reactor.
Months after the tsunami and earthquake that triggered the nuclear meltdown, the government still has no policy on what to do with the waste.
Al Jazeera's Steve Chao reports from Saitama
Source: english.aljazeera.net

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September 3,


Cause of shutdown at North Anna nuclear plant sought - Post Earthquake Tour of Nuclear Power Station


Dominion Virginia Power officials are working to discover exactly what caused the North Anna nuclear reactors to trip off line in the Aug. 23 earthquake.

Knowing precisely what prompted the shutdown of the station's two 980-megawatt reactors is critical for validating the safety of the plant's design.

"We felt the shaking (in) the control room," said Unit 1 senior reactor operator Jason Russell, 30, of Henrico County. "I thought we may have ruptured a steam pipe in our turbine building."

Realizing that whatever was happening could affect the plant, Russell said, he immediately told his reactor operators to bring their reactor off line. "By the time the operators reached for the switches, the (automatic system) shutdown was already over."

Damage at the plant: cracks between concrete blocks in an administration building wall, a slight buckling in a corridor floor in that building, and damaged seals on some large electrical transformers.

Plant officials also said they found a horizontal crack in a non-safety-related wall of a room inside the Unit 1 reactor containment building.

The temblor also caused 25 of the 115-ton steel casks storing highly radioactive used nuclear-fuel rods to shift as much as 4½ inches out of position on their concrete storage pad.

Though the power company has not completed its analysis of the event, the earthquake apparently produced combinations of shaking forces larger than the plant was initially designed for, Stoddard said Friday.

North Anna's reactors remained out of service Friday as company officials continued detailed inspections of the station structures and systems. A Nuclear Regulatory Commission's augmented inspection team also is reviewing the effects of the earthquake. Stoddard said the final analysis is expected to be completed by the end of next week.

Utility officials had said earlier that electrical switches in the systems carrying power to the generating station had shaken open, signaling the reactors to trip. "We believe right now that was not the case," Stoddard said.

"There were multiple trip signals coming in," North Anna Site Vice President Larry Lane said. "We're talking about a difference of a second."

Source: www2.timesdispatch.com


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September 4, 12:59 PM


North Anna nuclear plant starts construction of 3rd Reactor Despite Not Receiving License and Current Increased Inspections


It will be another week before final analysis of North Anna’s “shake plates,” which recorded ground motion at the site, is finished, official says.

But Dominion expects to build the new plant. On Friday, bulldozers moved dirt in early preparations for the reactor’s containment building, designed to be sturdier than the existing structures. Company official Page Kemp said Dominion could receive a license for the reactor in 2013 or 2014.

Despite the upbeat picture painted of a nuclear plant that withstood the first earthquake-triggered shutdown in the 53-year history of commercial nuclear power in the United States, environmental groups have long questioned the wisdom of locating the plant in the Central Virginia Seismic Zone.

Regulators are also weighing in. After the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in Japan, the NRC ordered renewed study, now underway, of seismic risks to 27 U.S. nuclear plants, including North Anna.

“The power plant shouldn’t have been built there in first place,” said Lou Zeller of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, which is seeking to stop construction of a proposed third North Anna reactor. “Mother Nature has weighed in here.”

The group won a minor victory Thursday when the NRC’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel agreed to hear its objections to the third reactor.

Source: www.washingtonpost.com


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Nuclear Energy - News September 5, 2011


Official: Japanese nuclear plant stabilization ahead of schedule (CNN)
Efforts to stabilize Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, crippled by a March tsunami which triggered a nuclear crisis, are running ahead of schedule, according to the president of the Tokyo Electric Power Company, which operates the plant.

American Nuclear Tech: It's About Japan (Janakiram MSV)
Ashok Parthasarathi writes in IE that the US nuclear reactor suppliers, in which Japanese companies Toshiba and Hitachi have a majority stake, by Japanese position cannot provide India reactors because India is a non-signatory to the NPT and the CTBT .


There are jobs in S.C., for those who have education, training (The State)
Even as South Carolina struggles with 10.9 percent unemployment this Labor Day, there is hope for workers who have the right skills – or are willing to train for them.




Atomic Power Needed to Save Japan Economy: Noda (Bloomberg)
Tobias Harris, author of the "Observing Japan" political blog and a former aide to ex-Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Keiichiro Asao, talks about the nation's government and political environment.


Quake does little to shake town's nuclear f... (WTAQ-AM Green Bay)
In a village of about 500 where nearly everyone knows someone who works at the local nuclear plant, the recent historic earthquake created more punch lines than new concerns about the safety of their community.


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