Understanding Fukushima

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Re: Understanding Fukushima

Postby surfsteve » Sat Sep 24, 2011 1:23 pm


Gundersen expresses concerns that the nuclear industry and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission are not addressing major safety issues that have become evident since Fukushima. These issues include serious design flaws in the BWR Mark 1 containment, fundamental flaws in the Boiling Water Reactor vessel design, and problems with detonation shockwaves. The NRC and the nuclear industry are using a flawed cost benefit computer code that underestimates the value of human life and minimize property damages after an accident, which has the effect of justifying continued operation of reactors without safety modifications.

Also, Fairewinds announces the launch of the Japanese language version of its site, Fairewinds.jp.
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Re: Understanding Fukushima

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Fukushima Re-criticality Neutron Feast and Famine Cycle: Dancing With the Devil in North America
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Re: Understanding Fukushima

Postby pcslim » Sun Apr 08, 2012 7:52 am

California nuclear plant shut indefinitely amid hunt to find cause of problems
Conveniently located between San Diego and Los Angeles, a major leak here could impact millions of people!
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A large Southern California nuclear plant is out of commission indefinitely, and will remain so until there is an understanding of what caused problems at two of its generators and an effective plan to address the issues, the nation's top nuclear regulator said Friday. Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, refused to give a timetable as to when the San Onofre nuclear plant could resume operation. He said only that his agency had "set some firm conditions" as to when that could happen.

LINK: http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/06/us/california-nuclear-plant/index.html
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Could San Onofre Become the Next Fukushima?

Postby surfsteve » Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:11 am


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The facility is operated by Southern California Edison. Edison International, parent of SCE, holds 78.2% ownership in the plant; San Diego Gas & Electric Company, 20%; and the City of Riverside Utilities Department, 1.8%. The plant employs over 2000 people. The plant is located in Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region IV.

The plant's two reactors (Units 2 and 3) have been shut down since January 2012 due to premature wear found on tubes in massive steam generators which apparently contributed to the accidental release of a small amount of radioactive steam.

Though local leaders and industry officials say that a disaster like Fukushima is unlikely at San Onofre, the activists point to the plant's safety record, earthquake risk, location on the coast quite similar to that in Japan, and the fact that as of March 2012, San Onofre's reactors were "off-line due to leaks and wear and tear to the generator tubes.
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Re: Understanding Fukushima

Postby surfsteve » Sat Apr 28, 2012 11:01 am

Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War

The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation

Michel Chossudovsky (Editor)

I-Book No. 3, January 25 2012

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... &aid=28870
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Re: Understanding Fukushima

Postby surfsteve » Fri May 18, 2012 6:47 am

Unit 4 is leaning and could topple if hit with another earthquake or tsunami, resulting in a deadly high-level radioactive waste fire. The ability for the unit to withstand another seismic event is rated at zero.


“If the cooling water supply is lost to the high-level radioactive waste storage pool in Unit 4, it could be just a matter of hours before the irradiated nuclear fuel is on fire,” warned Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist at Beyond Nuclear. “A fire in the Unit 4 high-level radioactive waste storage pool could release up to eight times more hazardous cesium-137 than the Chernobyl reactor explosion. That in turn would mean the site would have to be evacuated, risking the potential for all seven high-level radioactive waste storage pools at the site to ignite. If that happened, Fukushima Daiichi would release 85 times the levels of cesium released by Chernobyl, potentially forcing an evacuation, and permanent condemnation, of hundreds to thousands of square miles

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Re: Understanding Fukushima

Postby surfsteve » Mon May 21, 2012 6:19 am



UN Ambassador Murata writes to UN Secretary General: ‘It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of Japan and the whole world depends on No. 4 reactor’

Alexander Higgins
May 2nd, 2012

Japanese Ambassador Murata is joining in the growing chorus which include US Senators who are warning the he problem at Fukushima nuclear reactor 4 is the single greatest short-term threat to humanity and has the potential to destroy our world and civilization as we know it.

The Ambassador puts it very bluntly saying the warnings about reactor 4′s threat to end human civilization are no exaggeration.

He is joining forces with human rights groups from around the globe in calling for the UN to step in and end the crisis in Fukushima that TEPCO is planning on taking decades to resolve after repeated warnings that even a minor earthquake could cause the spend fuel pool to collapse which would result in a radiation release so massive it could end life on earth.

As I previously reported.

TEPCO: Not Enough Money To Handle Fukushima Nuclear Reactor 4 Problems

Tepco Stock Price More Important Than Ending Fukushima Disaster
The problems at reactor 4 are the greatest short-term threat to humanity and has the potential to destroy our world and TEPCO doesn’t have the money to fix them.



The problem at Fukushima nuclear reactor 4 which is being dubbed as the greatest short-term threat to humanity and has the potential to destroy our world and civilization as we know it.
Link: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/0 ... -4-128701/
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Fukushima Daiichi requires a Manhattan Project approach

Postby surfsteve » Sat May 26, 2012 7:37 am


I received some kelp seaweed from China, which is pretty far from Japan. The radioactivity from it registers on my Geiger counter nearly twice of what normal background radiation registers. I'm sure that's within legal safe limits but I'm glad I have the ability to test and decide what's safe to eat for myself!



The title of this article is
Fukushima Daiichi requires a Manhattan Project approach to avoid another nuclear accident but to me that seems misleading and sounds like the Fukushima accident is over. What the article really means is that we need a Manhattan Project approach to keep the original accident from going critical and leading to the releasing of 80 times the radiation that was released in Chernobyl.

http://betanews.com/2012/05/25/fukushim ... -accident/

I read somewhere that Chernobyl and not the fall of communism is what bankrupted USSR. If this were true than letting Fukushima go full blown, economically, would be just like starting a world war. I don't know why the real reason Japan is dragging it's feet but it certainly makes an excellent conspiracy theory that the same people that would benefit from another world war would also benefit from letting Fukushima go critical in much the same way. If any of these type of people had any influence over the media it is not inconceivable that they might use their influence to suppress the information. You can laughingly dismiss me as a conspiracy nut but to me it seems like the real conspiracy nuts out there would be anyone influencing or allowing something like this to happen. If calling me nuts makes you feel better for this than I really feel sorry for you. What an incredible price to pay to add 7% more power to the electrical grid. On the bright side, with nuclear power plants, we don't have to worry about suicidal and delirious birds flying into windmills. To this date no bird has ever been killed by flying into a windmill at a nuclear power plant. At least not according to the official story. On an even brighter side, if my theory is correct. Nuclear power plants have made war obsolete! :cry:
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