Meltdown Likely Under Way At Japan Nuclear Reactor

[Scott]

One post deleted for quote which does not comply with fair use policy. Other posts have been edited for the same reason.

It is REALLY time consuming to edit long posts and I am not inclined to continue to do it any longer.

If you quote more than the title and the first 3 sentences, your post will disappear and you will receive a warning.

[elcent]

Radioactive cesium detected in Fukushima shiitake

Radioactive cesium exceeding the government standard has been detected in shiitake mushrooms grown indoors in 2 cities in Fukushima Prefecture, about 60 kilometers from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. This is the first detection of radioactive cesium exceeding the standard in produce grown in greenhouses in the prefecture since the nuclear accident.

The Fukushima prefectural government says 1,770 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium was detected in mushrooms grown in Date City. http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/16_11.html

[elcent]

snow filled cyclon with 180km/hour expected and with up to 250 km/hour gusts. Very large. How will that affect the distribution of radioactive particles which are still released from Fukushima?

http://tropic.ssec.w...wirbbmjava.html

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/110624c.html for animated forecast

[elcent]

now this looks really scarry. Image from the 72 hour forcast. Looks like guided.

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/1106l.html

[elcent]

Fukushima Daiichi prepares for typhoon arrival

Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, is rushing to put a makeshift roof over a turbine building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as typhoon

Ma-on approaches Japan.

TEPCO released a new photo on Sunday showing its preparation work.

The metal roof will cover the turbine building of reactor Number 3. The hole in its roof was caused by a hydrogen blast in March.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/18_01.html

Typhoon Ma-on brushes Daito Island

A very large and powerful typhoon is moving east of Minami Daito Island in Okinawa Prefecture.

The Meteorological Agency says typhoon Ma-on was 270 kilometers northeast of Minami Daito Island and moving north at 20 kilometers per hour as of 10 AM on Monday.

The typhoon has a central atmospheric pressure of 945 hectopascals. http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/18_11.html

[elcent]

This gives you even a better understanding of the large storm roaming around in that area. Click on the link to see the satelite images updated every hour. The below shows until 14:00. New updates coming in about 20 minutes

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/gms/index.html?area=6&element=0&time=201107180600&mode=JST

[elcent]

More beef cattle fed irradiated straw

Fukushima and Niigata prefectures have identified more farms that shipped beef cattle that had been fed straw containing radioactive cesium in amounts above the government standard.

Fukushima Prefecture says 7 farms in 6 municipalities fed their cattle straw left outdoors after the March nuclear accident in the prefecture. The straw was found to contain radioactive cesium in amounts up to 520 times the standard.

The farms shipped 411 head of cattle to meat-processing facilities in 5 prefectures including Tokyo from late March to early July.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/18_25.html

THAT IS A BIT RISKY TO DO ... below ... this is aimed to bring people back into now evacuated zones. It's a money motivated issue to reduce the claims I guess.

Govt to define "cold shutdown".

The second-stage target to bring the nuclear disaster under control will involve achieving a cold shutdown, under which the disabled reactors are to be cooled down to about 100 degrees Celsius or lower.

The Japanese government is due to make this clear on Tuesday when it releases a revised plan to contain the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/19_08.html

[ronz28]

Threat to Japan’s Food Chain Multiplies

Radiation threats to Japan’s food chain are multiplying as cesium emissions from the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant spread more widely, moving from hay to cattle to beef. A growing concern is that the release of radiation into waters near the Fukushima plant may multiply through the seafood chain. Levels of cesium-134 in seawater near the Fukushima plant’s No. 3 reactor rose to levels 30 times the allowed safety standards last week, according to tests performed by Tokyo Electric Power Co, national broadcaster NHK reported.Prolonged exposure to radiation in the air, ground and food can cause leukemia and other cancers, according to the London- basedWorld Nuclear Association. Japan has no centralized system to check for radiation contamination of food.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-24/threat-to-japanese-food-chain-multiplies-as-cesium-contamination-spreads.html

[TheWalkingMan]

The rice harvest is in October, I think. I hope none of this crop makes it into the food distribution network before any testing is done.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

On the 19th of July 2011, people in Fukushima had a meeting with government officals from Tokyo to demand that the government evacuate people promptly in Fukushima and provide financial and logistical support for them. Also, they brought urine of children to the meeting and demanded that the government

test it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVuGwc9dlhQ

Not sure why the subtitles are too wide.

TheWalkingMan

[ronz28]

6.2-magnitude quake hits Fukushima, as nuclear chief visits

http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/6-2-magnitude-quake-hits-fukushima-as-nuclear-chief-visits-1.3049199

They hit this area so often it doesn't even make the nightly news now. Can't be good for those containment buildings already smashed and blown-up.

[midas]

“Highest radiation level since the start of the nuclear crisis”: 10 sieverts per hour measured outside between Reactors No. 1 and 2

http://enenews.com/highest-radiation-level-since-the-start-of-the-nuclear-crisis-10-sieverts-per-hour-measured-outside-between-reactors-no-1-and-2

And yet they still keep telling the people it is not dangerous

a bunch of real estate agents would have more credibility than the people behind this cover-up

[ronz28]

Radiation Levels Strong Enough To Kill A Man In Seconds Detected At Fukushima

My link

Edited August 7, 2011 by ronz28

[maidu]

Compare nuclear habit with smoking tobacco habit.

After decades of proofs from all public sectors, 'Big Tobacco' reluctantly conceded that yes, smoking tobacco can be bad for a person's health. Getting to that point though, after decades of carefree attitudes about tobacco (showing happy attractive couples singing praises of smoking, while basking by waterfalls, and giving free Lucky Strike cig packs to soldiers in WWII, etc ad infinitum....) - Big tobacco dragged their feet, and used every dirty trick they and their lawyers could conjure, in order to avoid reality. Now Big Tobacco companies are required by law to print sobering photos of tobacco diseased people on cig packs. .....and there are big money lawsuits by damaged parties.

Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, Big Nuclear will be required by law to publicize photos (billboards?) showing the public the graphic effects of radioactivity on a person's body. Doubtful, yet even more far-fetched will be any mention of how radioactivity cripples all other life forms, plants and animals, which are irradiated. Any person who is in a region which could be irradiated by a faulty nuclear plant, should be made aware of the potential damages which could come to be.

[JetsetBkk]

Radiation Levels Strong Enough To Kill A Man In Seconds Detected At Fukushima

My link

Thanks for the link - an interesting interview on CNN's "In the Arena".

I particularly liked the way they showed a book written by the long, white haired old Japanese professor before he was interviewed. Almost as if they needed to give him some kind of credence before letting him speak.

I actually laughed out loud when he started describing the effects on the body of high intensity radiation. Pure theatre.

By the way, CNN have now cancelled this "news" programme.

[Chopperboy]

FUKUSHIMA plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co is under fire after revelations 69 contractors it deployed at the stricken nuclear facility cannot be found and that it failed to record the names of 30 of them.

The oversights prompted a rebuke from Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, which said the failure to take names opened up the risk of a terrorist attack on the plant. The record-keeping failure came to light after TEPCO moved to check radiation exposure levels on the more than 3500 workers who have been battling to bring the plant under control since the March 11 tsunami.

TEPCO has come in for persistent criticism for failure to ensure the safety of workers, as well as that of the plant.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/dozens-of-workers-from-fukushima-nuclear-plant-cannot-be-found/story-e6frg6so-1226080166533

[Chopperboy]

Families want answers after 45 people die following evacuation from Fukushima hospital

OKUMA, Fukushima -- Nearly 45 people out of some 440 patients and workers at a hospital here are estimated to have died while or after being evacuated following the accident at the tsunami-hit Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant.

The Fukushima Prefectural Government is investigating why 90 patients were temporarily left behind at Futaba Hospital in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, following the disaster.

However, the national government had not assumed any situation in which medical institutions and nursing care facilities become unable to evacuate all their patients at the time of a serious natural disaster. Experts have expressed fear that a similar problem could occur in case of major disasters in the future.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/features/archive/news/2011/04/20110426p2a00m0na006000c.html

[midas]

Radiation Levels Strong Enough To Kill A Man In Seconds Detected At Fukushima

My link

Thanks for the link - an interesting interview on CNN's "In the Arena".

I particularly liked the way they showed a book written by the long, white haired old Japanese professor before he was interviewed. Almost as if they needed to give him some kind of credence before letting him speak.

I actually laughed out loud when he started describing the effects on the body of high intensity radiation. Pure theatre.

By the way, CNN have now cancelled this "news" programme.

I actually laughed out loud when I read this post of yours.and what are your credentials compared to him?

by now the world knows the truth about the extent of this cover-up so I thinkI think you should stop embarrassing yourself

[midas]

Radiation Levels Strong Enough To Kill A Man In Seconds Detected At Fukushima

My link

Thanks for the link - an interesting interview on CNN's "In the Arena".

I particularly liked the way they showed a book written by the long, white haired old Japanese professor before he was interviewed. Almost as if they needed to give him some kind of credence before letting him speak.

I actually laughed out loud when he started describing the effects on the body of high intensity radiation. Pure theatre.

By the way, CNN have now cancelled this "news" programme.

I actually laughed out loud when I read this post of yours.and what are your credentials compared to him?

by now the world knows the truth about the extent of this cover-up so I think you should stop embarrassing yourself

[Chopperboy]

Japan ignored own radiation forecasts from very beginning

Japan’s system to forecast radiation threats was working from the moment its nuclear crisis began. As officials planned a venting operation certain to release radioactivity into the air, the system predicted Karino Elementary School would be directly in the path of the plume emerging from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

But the prediction helped no one. Nobody acted on it.

The school, just over 10 kilometers from the plant, was not immediately cleared out. Quite the opposite. It was turned into a temporary evacuation center.

Reports from the forecast system were sent to Japan’s nuclear safety agency, but the flow of data stopped there. Prime Minister Naoto Kan and others involved in declaring evacuation areas never saw the reports, and neither did local authorities. So thousands of people stayed for days in areas that the system had identified as high-risk, an Associated Press investigation has found.

At Karino Elementary in the town of Namie, about 400 students, teachers, parents and others gathered in the playground at the height of the nuclear crisis stemming from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Many ate rice balls and cooked in the open air.

They were never informed of the predictions that they were at risk. In an interview with the AP, Namie’s mayor said it took more than 24 hours for him to realize—from watching TV—that the evacuees were in danger. He sent buses to move some of them out. But, unaware of the risks, they were taken to another part of town also forecast to be in the plume’s path. Most were left to fend for themselves.

“When I think about it now, I am outraged,” Principal Hidenori Arakawa said. “Our lives were put at risk.”

http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/japan-ignored-own-radiation-forecasts-from-very-beginning

[Chopperboy]

A CEREMONY to mark the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing was today dominated by national soul-searching on atomic power as Japan's Prime Minister pledged a nuclear-free future.

Marking the 66th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing at a yearly event usually devoted to opposing nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the ongoing Fukushima crisis meant Japan must turn to other energy sources.

"The large-scale, long-running nuclear accident has triggered radiation leakage, causing serious concerns not only in Japan but also in the world," Mr Kan, in black suit and tie, said at a memorial ceremony in Hiroshima's Peace Park.

"I will reduce Japan's reliance on nuclear power, aiming at creating a society that will not rely on atomic power generation," he added.

In more rare remarks on energy policy, Hiroshima mayor Kazumi Matsui also called for the government to review its sources of power after the Fukushima accident, the world's worst since Chernobyl 25 years ago.

"The continuing radiation scare has made many people live in fear and undermined people's confidence in nuclear power," he said.

[Chopperboy]

Japan PM criticizes nuclear safety agency

TOKYO — Japan's prime minister on Sunday criticized the country's nuclear safety agency for allegedly trying to plant questions aimed at supporting atomic energy at public forums.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency was siding with the industry rather than acting as a regulator. He said it underscored a cozy relationship and the deep-rooted problem that must be corrected in the wake of the March 11 tsunami and the nuclear crisis.

"NISA, which is supposed to check nuclear safety to represent the interest of the general public, provided support for the promoters. It was more than just a help, if true," Kan said at an energy symposium.

Kan's comment followed a government report showing NISA allegedly tried to manipulate public opinion at town meetings to promote nuclear power.

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20110731/NEWS04/110739942/1006/NEWS

[Chopperboy]

Japan’s Fukushima reactor possibly melted twice

TOKYO (BNO NEWS) -- According to a study, the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant might have suffered a second nuclear meltdown, Kyodo news agency reported Monday.

According to the study, which was conducted by nuclear safety expert Fumiya Tanabe, fuel inside one of the plant's nuclear reactors might have breached the bottom of a pressure vessel after melting again.

The fuel is believed to have been kept cool at the bottom of the pressure vessel since a nuclear meltdown was confirmed, but the cooling method would need further review if most of the fuel at the No. 3 reactor has fallen into the containment vessel underneath the reactor, the study said.

http://channel6newsonline.com/2011/08/report-japans-fukushima-reactor-possibly-melted-twice/

[maidu]

Kan's comment followed a government report showing NISA allegedly tried to manipulate public opinion at town meetings to promote nuclear power.

I would not be surprised if Thailand's EGAT does the same. At a public hearing that EGAT held in Surat Thani, participants were screened at the entryway, and many local citizens were denied entry. Later, the Thais who were kept out, wound up storming the meeting and caused it to end early, in chaos.

Edited August 10, 2011 by maidu

[ronz28]

CNBC flash reporting a 6.0 earthquake at Fukushima area.

[ronz28]

Highest Yet: Rain from Fukushima near Toronto, Canada measures 20,000 CPM per square meter — “Crazy hot” (VIDEO)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBfvkCEr-Is

[Chopperboy]

Rice Is Next Japanese Food-Radiation Risk From Fukushima Nuclear Fallout

Japan’s rice harvest is a time of festivities celebrated even by the emperor as farmers reap the rewards of four months of labor in a 2,000-year-old tradition. Not this year, with radiation seeping into the soil.

Farmers growing half of Japan’s rice crop are awaiting the results of tests to see if their produce has been contaminated by radiation from Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s wrecked Fukushima atomic plant. Rice, used in almost all Japanese meals and the key ingredient in sake, is being tested before the harvest starts this month. Radiation exceeding safety levels was found in produce including spinach, tea and beef.

The government is asking 17 prefectures in eastern Japan to test farmland for radiation, an area accounting for 54 percent of domestic rice production. If initial surveys show a certain level of radiation, wider tests will be carried out, the government said.

“Rice may be the next product where contamination will be discovered as it’s being grown in tainted soil and water,” Yoko Tomiyama, chairwoman of the Consumers Union of Japan, said in an interview. “Higher radiation levels have been detected in prefectures beyond Fukushima.”

Spewing Radiation

Food containing radioactive cesium or iodine that exceeded the official standards has been found as far as 360 kilometers from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi station, which began spewing radiation after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. About 160,000 residents near the plant have been evacuated.

Consumer concerns over food safety deepened after the government, which repeatedly made assurances products on the market are safe, confirmed last month that beef tainted by cesium was sold in stores.

Five months after the nuclear disaster, Japan is still struggling to build a centralized system to check for radiation contamination of food, leaving local authorities and farmers conducting voluntary tests.

[Chopperboy]

Japan Has Two Reactors Without Approval as Fukushima Raises Safety Concern

Kansai Electric Power Co. and Hokkaido Electric Power Co. are operating two nuclear reactors without approvals, four months after the Fukushima disaster raised concern atomic power in Japan may not be safe.

A reactor at Kansai Electric’s Ohi nuclear plant is operating at full capacity without the final go-ahead from the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, Kazushige Maeda, a spokesman for the Osaka-based utility, said by phone. The same applies for a reactor at Hokkaido Electric’s Tomari plant, spokesman Hisatoshi Kibayashi said.

Both units started test runs days before the March 11 earthquake and tsunami knocked out power and cooling systems at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant, causing three reactors to melt down in the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.

“It’s unusual the reactors are running for four months on a test-run basis, but there is nothing illegal about it,” said Tomohiro Sawada, an assistant director at NISA’s nuclear power inspection division.

The approvals for the Ohi and Tomari reactors haven’t been granted because Kansai Electric and Hokkaido Electric have yet to submit requests to NISA, the spokesmen said. The utilities are waiting for the government and NISA to address local safety concerns before asking for approval, they said. Both reactors are supplying power to the electricity grid.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-06/japan-has-two-nuclear-reactors-operating-without-government-approval.html

[ronz28]

Workers at Japan's Fukushima plant say the ground under the facility is cracking and radioactive steam is escaping through the fissures.

Edited August 18, 2011 by ronz28

[elcent]

... long way to go until we can say it's safe. At least they say it stable ... how many times was that announced? I can't count that anymore. I expect to turn worse than it already is. This is something we can't discuss away or use certain agendas to sooth the issue. Natural laws don't discuss.

[craigt3365]

Highest Yet: Rain from Fukushima near Toronto, Canada measures 20,000 CPM per square meter — “Crazy hot” (VIDEO)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBfvkCEr-Is

Wow...if that is true, it is crazy for sure. Unreal.