5/23/2011 | Another nail in the coffin for the "nuclear renaissance"

Source: Greenpeace
Date: May 23, 2011 at 14:30
by: Jarred Cobb


The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) released a statement on Friday about the new Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactor. In the grand tradition of breaking bad news on a Friday, the NRC was trying to bury a significant blow to the so-called "nuclear renaissance." After a review of the Toshiba-designed reactor, the NRC found: "more problems regarding the AP1000's shield building, as well as the peak accident pressures expected within containment."
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5/23/2011 | Hiroshima protesters stage sit-in against new U.S. plutonium tests+

Source: AP via Breitbart
Date: May 23 05:57 AM US/Eastern

HIROSHIMA, May 23 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Around 50 antinuclear protesters staged a sit-in Monday in the city of Hiroshima against new experiments conducted by the United States to examine the effectiveness of its nuclear weapons using minute amounts of plutonium.

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5/23/2011 | Fukushima Reactor 1 Radiation Spike

Source: http://atmc.jp/plant/rad/?n=1
Date: 5/22/2011 (Snapshot of live chart data 3:26 PM CST)

Location:	Unit 1 nuclear power plant Hukushima
Date:	Mar 15, 2011 (Tuesday) to May 23, 2011 (Mon)
Current values:	D / W: 0.425 Sv / h , S / C: two hundred and one Sv / h

Date D / W S / C 5 / 23 0.425 201 5 / 22 0.518 196 5 / 21 0.627 36.2 5 / 20 0.784 46.5 5 / 19 0.969 36.3 5 / 18 1.31 45.4 5 / 17 _ _ 5 / 16 _ _ 5 / 15 _ _ 5 / 14 _ _ 5 / 13 _ _ 5 / 12 _ _ 5 / 11 _ _ 5 / 10 _ _ 5 / 09 _ _ 5 / 08 _ _ 5 / 07 _ _ 5 / 06 _ _ 5 / 05 _ _ 5 / 04 _ _ 5 / 03 _ _ 5 / 02 _ _ 5 / 01 _ _

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Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has announced that the plant parameters (reactor state) of the reactor radiation dose to the graph.
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant reactor 1 can be checked on a daily basis - such as water temperature, pressure dose of 5 items.
As soon as the data is published and updated as the chart.
No. 4 in the absence of inspections stopped reactor fuel assemblies for, are excluded from the list.
Meaning of the terms in the graph below.
D / W stands for dry well .... The main thing containment. S / C ... Sapuresshonchenba stands. I pressure suppression chamber.

※ The value of the graph shows the maximum absolute value of the day. 

 

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5/23/2011 | Live Stream Radiation Meters lite version available

The 50+ meters page Live Streaming Radiation Meters has been broken in to regions, for those of you with less powerful computers, mobile devices or low memory. Just click the navigation bar at the top of this page for each region which only has a smaller number of meters on each page compared with the original page.

5/22/2011 | The Implications of the Fukushima Accident on the World's Operating Reactors

Source: Fairewinds Associates
Date: 5/22/2011
by: Arnie Gunderson


Arnie Gundersen explains how containment vents were added to the GE Mark 1 BWR as a "band aid" 20 years after the plants built in order to prevent an explosion of the notoriously weak Mark 1 containment system. Obviously the containment vent band aid fix did not work since all three units have lost containment integrity and are leaking radioactivity. Gundersen also discusses seismic design flaws, inadequate evacuation planning, and the taxpayer supported nuclear industry liability fund.

5/23/2011 JST | Tainted water storage soon to reach capacity at Fukushima plant

Source: Japan Today
Date: Monday 23rd May, 01:30 PM JST

TOKYO — A nuclear waste disposal facility at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant will be filled up in several days with radioactive floodwater diverted from near its No. 2 and 3 reactors, officials of Tokyo Electric Power Co, the plant’s operator, said Monday.
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5/23/2011 JST | Gov't, commission present conflicting views over seawater injection

Source: Japan Today
Date: Monday 23rd May, 06:34 AM JST

TOKYO — The Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan and the government have presented conflicting views over why the injection of seawater into the troubled No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was temporarily suspended a day after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
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