Fukushima still happening, 6 months later

[robdogbucky]

Radioactive release into sea estimated triple

A group of Japanese researchers say that a total of 15,000 terabecquerels of radioactive substances is estimated to have been released from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea.

Researchers at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kyoto University and other institutes made the calculation of radioactivity released from late March through April.

The combined amount of iodine-131 and cesium-137 is more than triple the figure of 4,720 terabecquerels earlier estimated by Tokyo Electric Power Company, the plant operator. The utility only calculated the radioactivity from substances released from the plant into the sea in April and May.

The researchers say the estimated amount of radioactivity includes a large amount that was first released into the air but entered the sea after coming down in the rain. They say they need to determine the total amount of radioactivity released from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant in order to accurately assess the impact of the disaster on the sea.

Thursday, September 08, 2011 19:33 +0900 (JST)

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/08_25.html



But, but, but, all the nuke industry experts at DLCU said this could not be, that all the bad stuff was dispersed in the vast seas, never to be seen or heard of again.




TEPCO submits heavily redacted copy of Fukushima nuke accident manual

A Diet science committee says it has received a heavily censored copy of a nuclear accident operating manual for the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant from Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO).

The House of Representatives Special Committee on Promotion of Science and Technology and Innovation had requested TEPCO submit two operating manuals -- one each for accidents and severe accidents -- through the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry (METI), but said Sept. 7 that it had received only the former document, which had itself been significantly redacted. The panel, chaired by Hiroshi Kawauchi of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, said it needed the manuals and other pertinent documents on Aug. 26 to help probe the cause of the ongoing nuclear disaster, and has requested TEPCO to resubmit the manuals by Sept. 9.

The 6-page manual for nuclear accidents TEPCO did submit was divided into four sections, including "main item" and "shift supervisor (deputy shift supervisor)." The document was, however, nearly unreadable because most of it had been blacked out. Even those sections left visible had holes, such as one sentence that read: "When reactor pressure rises, stabilizes the pressure at (redacted) Mpa by using an emergency condenser and other techniques, and report."

According to the METI's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), TEPCO submitted them to NISA on Sept. 2 after seeking a guarantee of nondisclosure the day before. NISA rejected the utility's request, but then simply delivered the TEPCO documents to the committee...

(Mainichi Japan) September 8, 2011

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110908p2a00m0na022000c.html




This is the way the nuke industry experts are used to functioning. You're too ignorant, you're just some Extreme Enviroweenie spewing Biased Claptrap. Nuke companies don't lie, we depend on them for everything. We can't live without them. Doesn't this inspire confidence?






Panel:Saga governor triggered e-mail scam

A panel of experts investigating allegations that Kyushu Electric Power Company manipulated public opinion on nuclear power says the attempt was triggered by a remark by the governor of Saga Prefecture.

Yasushi Furukawa told utility executives that some in the business community favored resuming two reactors at the Genkai plant and that it was necessary to look at such views in a public meeting. The prefecture hosts the plant.

The panel disclosed its interim report on Thursday. It was set up after workers at Kyushu Electric and its affiliates sent e-mails in favor of restarting the reactors during a government-sponsored meeting with local residents in June.

A memorandum compiled by the utility also suggests that Governor Furukawa urged it to offer opinions and questions in favor of the reactors' resumption via the Internet. Furukawa denies the allegations...

Thursday, September 08, 2011 22:16 +0900 (JST)

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/08_36.html





More of the same from the disaster capitalism crowd and their ethical behaviors. Doesn't this inspire confidence?




Thursday, Sep. 8, 2011

Excessive cesium levels again found in Iwate cows

Kyodo

MORIOKA, Iwate Pref. — Radioactive cesium exceeding the legal limit has been detected in beef cattle in Iwate Prefecture for the first time since the ban on shipments in the region was lifted last month, officials said Thursday.

The amount of cesium found topped the government's allowable limit of 500 becquerels per kilogram in two of eight beef cattle following shipment, the officials said.

Cesium was first detected in the eight cattle in a simple test Tuesday, the officials said, adding that two of the eight were destroyed after further tests confirmed they had excessive levels.

The shipment ban was imposed following the discovery of beef contaminated with radioactive cesium from cattle raised in the northeast since the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 was triggered March 11.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110908x3.html





TEPCO to start "stress test" on plant in Niigata

...Governor Hirohiko Izumida has said conducting stress tests will not lead to the prefecture approving of the resumption of such reactors. He has indicated that his prefecture will not make a decision on the matter until the results of investigations into the Fukushima accident are published.

A TEPCO official said the company wants to confirm the safety of the plant through "stress tests" and explain the results to local communities.

In July, the government introduced an additional safety assessment called the "stress test", following the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station. The test uses computer simulations to assess how well nuclear power plants can withstand earthquakes, tsunamis and the loss of external power.

The second stage of the "stress test" will apply to all 48 reactors in Japan, excluding those at Fukushima.

Thursday, September 08, 2011 16:51 +0900 (JST)

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/08_23.html



Hang in there gov, even though the Japan government is in bed with the international disaster capitalists, hang in there.



Rising radioactive cesium levels detected in Fukushima child's urine

Increased radioactive cesium levels were detected in a urine sample taken from a child who continued to live in Fukushima Prefecture after the meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, a citizens group has announced.

On Sept. 7, Fukushima Rokyu Genpatsu o Kangaeru Kai (An association for a study of the aging nuclear power plants in Fukushima) released the results of urine tests on 10 people aged between 6 and 16 who lived in the city of Fukushima at the beginning of the nuclear disaster in March. At the time of the first round of testing on May 20-22, all 10 children were living in Fukushima Prefecture, while at the time of the second round conducted July 22 through 26, nine had evacuated to other parts of Japan.

Results showed cesium levels in the nine children who had left the prefecture had dropped by roughly 20 to 70 percent in the some two months between the tests. Radioactive cesium 137 levels in the one child who had remained in the city of Fukushima, however, had spiked by 11.5 percent as of the July tests.

"We assume the child was exposed to additional radiation through food and drink," a representative of the citizens group said...

(Mainichi Japan) September 8, 2011

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110908p2a00m0na007000c.html



Fukushima plant was scary 32 years ago, says manga author.

BY SHIGEYORI MIYAMOTO STAFF WRITER
2011/09/08

Shigeru Mizuki, a manga author known for works featuring "yokai" ghouls and hobgoblins, seems to have had a premonition about the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant as far back as 1979.

His striking illustrations of life inside the facility, where workers are struggling to contain leakage of radioactive material caused by meltdowns following the March 11 earthquake, first appeared 32 years ago in Asahi Graph, a pictorial magazine which has since been discontinued. The illustrations vividly depicted severe working conditions faced by front-line plant workers as well as shoddy rules on safety management.

Now those illustrations have been published in book form for the first time under the title of "Fukushima Genpatsu no Yami" (The darkness of the Fukushima nuclear plant). The book, from Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc., came out on Aug. 19.

The illustrations were originally published in the Oct. 26 and Nov. 2 issues of Asahi Graph in 1979, the same year that the meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in the United States occurred, under the title of "Paipu no Mori no Horosha" (The wanderers of the forest of pipes)...

http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201109070256.html

[dtexdem]

1. Fukushima will still be happening 20,000 years from now.

[Sabriel]

2. Is there seriously anyone who thinks it's resolved?

I'm just assuming it's continuing to contaminate the atmosphere, soil, and water.

There must be some reason they're finding contamination in Washington apples and CA produce (which we don't buy for that reason).

If enough of us wrote and demanded frequent testing of the food supply, we might get somewhere.

[villager]

3. Wait, what? We still have to worry about radiation!? But it's safe, I tell ya!

SAFE!

[AndyTiedye]

4. They Consider Their Emergency Plans to be a Trade Secret

The real secret is that there weren't any plans to speak of.

Six pages?!?? Sometimes we leave 6 pages of instructions to the cat sitter when we go away on a long trip.

[Shagbark Hickory]

5. They said "sorry".

What more do you want? :silly: