12/30/2013 Yakuza Gangsters Recruit Homeless Men For Fukushima Nuclear Clean Up

Source: Forbes
by: William Pentland
Date:  12/30/2013 @ 10:08PM

Organized criminal groups have infiltrated the massive, government-backed decontamination effort underway at the defunct Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan, according to Reuters.
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12/11/2013 General Electric Knew Its Reactor Design Was Unsafe … So Why Isn’t GE Getting Any Heat for Fukushima?

Source: Washington's Blog [Great financial blog with insightful articles on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster as well!]
Date: 12/11/2013

GE Engineers and American Government Officials Warned of Dangerous Nuclear Design

5 of the 6 nuclear reactors at Fukushima are General Electric Mark 1 reactors.
GE knew decades ago that the design was faulty.
ABC News reported in 2011:

Thirty-five years ago, Dale G. Bridenbaugh and two of his colleagues at General Electric resigned from their jobs after becoming increasingly convinced that the nuclear reactor design they were reviewing — the Mark 1 — was so flawed it could lead to a devastating accident.
Questions persisted for decades about the ability of the Mark 1 to handle the immense pressures that would result if the reactor lost cooling power, and today that design is being put to the ultimate test in Japan. Five of the six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which has been wracked since Friday’s earthquake with explosions and radiation leaks, are Mark 1s.
“The problems we identified in 1975 were that, in doing the design of the containment, they did not take into account the dynamic loads that could be experienced with a loss of coolant,” Bridenbaugh told ABC News in an interview. “The impact loads the containment would receive by this very rapid release of energy could tear the containment apart and create an uncontrolled release.”
***
Still, concerns about the Mark 1 design have resurfaced occasionally in the years since Bridenbaugh came forward. In 1986, for instance, Harold Denton, then the director of NRC’s Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, spoke critically about the design during an industry conference.
“I don’t have the same warm feeling about GE containment that I do about the larger dry containments,” he said, according to a report at the time that was referenced Tuesday in The Washington Post.
“There is a wide spectrum of ability to cope with severe accidents at GE plants,” Denton said. “And I urge you to think seriously about the ability to cope with such an event if it occurred at your plant.”
***
When asked if [the remedial measures performed on the Fukushima reactors by GE before 2011] was sufficient, he paused. “What I would say is, the Mark 1 is still a little more susceptible to an accident that would result in a loss of containment.”

Fukushima News 11/21/13: 1st Round Of Fuel Transfer Complete; "Cask" Containing Fuel In Safer Pool

Source: MissingSky101
Date: 11/21/2013

Video Description

Published on Nov 21, 2013

TEPCO at final stage in 1st round of fuel transfer
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is preparing to complete the first transfer of nuclear fuel from a reactor building to a safer storage pool.
On Thursday, Tokyo Electric Power Company moved the batch of nuclear fuel from the No. 4 reactor building to a nearby facility housing the safer pool.
TEPCO workers used a trailer to carry a cask containing 22 unused fuel assemblies to the building 100 meters away, then unloaded the cask inside the building.
The workers plan to transfer the fuel units from the container to racks in the storage pool on Friday.
This will mark the completion of the first transfer.
TEPCO says it will review whether there were any problems or challenges. If not, the utility says it may start removing spent fuel assemblies that are far more radioactive than the unused fuel.
The pool in the No. 4 reactor building contains more than 1,500 fuel units, most of which are spent fuel rods.

"Cask" containing fuel moved into safer pool
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant says it has removed the first batch of nuclear fuel from the reactor 4 building to a safer storage pool.
Footage released by Tokyo Electric Power Company on Thursday shows workers lowering a steel cask containing 22 unused fuel assemblies from the 5th floor of the reactor building. Engineers used a huge crane to lower the cask, 5.5 meters long and two meters across, onto a trailer on the ground.
The container was transferred slowly to a separate pool in a building 100 meters away, and lowered into water to store the fuel more safely.
TEPCO plans to begin on Friday plucking the fuel assemblies out of the cask and placing them in storage racks inside the pool. The utility says it will review the process before starting a second round of fuel transfer.
Thursday's transfer involved unused fuel units. The reactor's storage pool has 1,511 fuel assemblies left, including 1,331 highly radioactive spent fuel assemblies.
TEPCO says the building housing the separate pool can withstand an earthquake as strong as the March 2011 disaster that badly damaged the plant.
Nov. 21, 2013 - Updated 11:07 UTC

Trial run of last ALPS line at Fukushima resumed
The operator of Japan's damaged nuclear plant has resumed trial operation of the last of 3 lines of a key water decontamination system.
Officials of Tokyo Electric Power Company restarted the 3rd line of the Advanced Liquid Processing System, or ALPS, at the Fukushima Daiichi plant on Thursday.
The system is designed to remove from contaminated water 62 kinds of radioactive substances, excluding tritium.
But its test operation was suspended in June following leaks of unprocessed water from a tank due to corrosion.
The utility restarted the lines one by one after working to prevent further corrosion.
The officials say test runs so far have shown that the system is failing to fully remove 4 types of radioactive substances, including cobalt and antimony.
They say they will work to fix the system and confirm the effects of anti-corrosion measures before making it fully operational next year. ALPS was originally to be in full operation this autumn.
Tokyo Electric plans to add more lines to the system so that it will be able to process all radioactive water in the plant's storage tanks by March 2015.

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Oregon Official: Reports coming in of seafood with radioactive contamination, "They're kind of secretive, they don't want to give up their sources" — Locals concerned about impact Fukushima disaster is having on area fish (VIDEO)
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Radionuclides in fishes and mussels from the Farallon Islands Nuclear Waste Dump Site, California.
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Fish Anyone? Farallon Islands (and other) Oceanic Radioactive Waste Dumps
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11/18/2013 Dr. Chris Busby Appears on Alex Jones Show to Discuss Nuclear Fuel Rod Removal at #Fukushima I Unit 4 Spent Fuel Pool

Source: The Alex Jones Show
Date: 11/18/2013

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Published on Nov 18, 2013

Alex welcomes chemical physicist Dr. Christopher Busby to discuss what the removal of nuclear fuel rods at the Fukushima Daiichi Plant entails, and to examine the tsunami-battered nuclear reactor's persisting radiation threat.
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Editor's Note: See Dr. Busby's article Fukushima Fallout Damaged the Thyroids of California Babies for his discussion of the thyroid study he co-authored.  I have embedded Dr. Busby's Fukushima worst case scenario paper mentioned in the interview below for your convenience.

Video Summary of Fuel Transfer in Reactor 4 Spent Fuel Pool at #Fukushima I NPP on 11/18/2013

Source: EX-SKF Blog
Date: 11/18/2013
In this, I don't blame TEPCO for not having posted a video of the entire work (9 to 10 hours) on November 18, 2013.

The preparation for submerging the cask started in the morning, with the cask submerged completely at 12:30PM. The removal of unused (new) fuel assemblies into the cask started at 3:18PM, and by 6:45PM 4 unused fuel assemblies were transferred into the cask.

The names of the companies and the names of the workers are blurred in the video. They could be TEPCO workers, but most likely from one of the primary contractors.

From TEPCO's photos and videos library (11/19/2013):

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11/18/2013 Removal of nuclear fuel rods begins at Fukushima I

Fukushima I Unit 4, Spent Fuel Rod Removal Training  Photo Credit: NHK World

Removal of the unit 4 spent fuel pool nuclear fuel rods has begun today (11/18/2013) at Fukushima I. The process will take more than a year to complete. See NHK's Removal of nuclear fuel begins at Fukushima article for video and Asian Gazette Blog by Joël Legendre-Koizumi for further details.

11/4/2013 Island of debris the size of TEXAS from 2011 Japanese tsunami is headed straight for the U.S.

Source: MailOnline via TruNews 
Date: 22:41 EST, 4 November 2013 | UPDATED: 05:32 EST, 5 November 2013

Gigantic: A floating island of debris the size of Texas is floating toward California coast after washing into the Pacific in Japan's horrific 2011 tsunami  Photo Credit: MailOnline

• Part of the over one million tons of debris dispersed in the Pacific, the trash island is located northeast of the Hawaiian Islands
• The first documented tsunami debris to reach California arrived in April 2013
• Boats, a dock, a soccer ball, and motorcycle have all been identified on the West Coast as confirmed tsunami debris

A floating island of debris the size of Texas has been crossing the vast Pacific Ocean to the western shores of the Americas since a devastating tsunami inundated Japan in 2011, says a new study.
 
Five million tons of wreckage - the remains of homes, boats, and other remnants of shattered lives in eastern Japan - were swallowed by the ocean that day in March, and more than one million tons of flotsam continues to head towards the west coast of the US.
 
While the first documented debris from the tragedy has already been found in California, scientists fear these new findings mean there could be a lot more to come and it might arrive all at once.
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10/17/2013 Toxic flush: Typhoon causes radioactive leaks at Fukushima

Source: Russia Today 
Date: 10/17/2013 15:34

AFP Photo / Japan Pool via JIJI Press Japan out

A powerful typhoon which swept through Japan led to highly radioactive water near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant being released into a nearby drainage ditch, increasing the risk of it flowing into the sea.
On Wednesday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the plant’s operator, said it had detected high levels of radiation in a ditch leading to the Pacific Ocean, and that it suspected heavy rains had lifted contaminated soil.

Workers say that Strontium-90 – a radioactive isotope of the alkaline earth metal strontium produced by nuclear fission – along with other isotopes that emit beta rays measuring 1,400 becquerels (Bq) per liter were detected in the ditch, which is located about 150 meters from the ocean, The Asahi Shimbun reported.
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Editor's Note: See more video reporting below concerning Typhoon Wipha and the radioactive water.

9/19/2013 Magnitude 5.8 Earthquake hits near Fukushima I Nuclear Plant Area

Source(s): ENENews, USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Date: 2013-09-19 17:25:09 UTC (2013-09-19 11:25:09 CST)

M5.3 - 19km ESE of Ishikawa, Japan 2013-09-19 17:25:09 UTC

I grabbed the earthquake report off of the ENENews feed which collates several articles together, which are available here from ENENews. In summary TEPCO has been checking for earthquake damage and leaks but state they have not found anything (yet). Below is a map of the M5.8 Earthquake.

9/16/2013 Typhoon hits Japan as Fukushima operator releases water into sea

Source: AFP via Yahoo News
Date: 9/16/2013 ~5 PM CST

Typhoon Man-Yi in Kyoto overturns sightseeing boat on Katsura River which is now stuck on a bridge.  Photo Credit: AP/Kyodo News

Typhoon Man-yi hit Japan Monday, leaving three people dead and forcing the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to release rainwater with low levels of radiation into the ocean.
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Editor's Note: More details from NHK World on the Rainwater released from Fukushima plant into sea caused by Typhoon Man-Yi.  Maps of Typhoon Man-Yi's progress appear below.

9/14/2013 Japan to switch off nuclear power, may be some time before it's on again

Source: Reuters
Date: Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:17pm EDT
by:  Osamu Tsukimori

Fukushima prefecture panel examines leaking radioactive water tank (C in back) at Fukushima Daiichi, photo released Septermber 13, 2013  Credit: Reuters/Kyodo

(Reuters) - Japan is set to be nuclear power-free, for just the third time in more than four decades, and with no firm date for re-starting an energy source that has provided about 30 percent of electricity to the world's third-largest economy.

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Editor's Note: Map of Ohi Nuclear Power Plant appears below.

9/3/2013 How Japan's ice barrier will seal off Fukushima's nuclear ruins

Source: NBC News, Science
Date: 9/3/2013
by: Alan Boyle, Science Editor NBC News

SoilFreeze's chillers and brine lines connected to the refrigerator pipes are lined up at a remediation site in Tacoma, Wash. Credit: NBC News, Science

 Japan’s government gave the go-ahead on Tuesday to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to create a underground barrier of frozen earth around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. It's a seemingly crazy idea that's based on solid engineering — but this wall of ice would have to be built on an unprecedented scale, and would require tremendous energy to stay frosty.
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8/19/2013 Can an Ice Wall Stop Radioactive Water Leaks from Fukushima?

Source: National Geographic
Date: 8/19/2013
by: Patrick J. Kiger

A diagram shows how ground-freezing technology could be used to keep radioactive water from leaking at Fukushima.

Diagram by Reuters

As contaminated groundwater continues to flow from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant into the Pacific Ocean, the Japanese government has come up with a last-ditch solution that sounds like something out of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones: An underground wall of ice that would stop the radioactive leakage.
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Editor's Note: See also the following articles about the Fukushima Daiichi ice wall.

8/30/2013	MIT Technology Review	How the Fukushima Ice Barrier Will Block Radioactive Groundwater
8/29/2013	WSJ: Japan Realtime	Fukushima Watch: Previous Experiments With Ice Walls

8/23/2013 The Coming Fukushima Global Disaster with Dr. Christopher Busby

Source: Alex Jones Show
Date: 8/23/2013
by: Dr. Chris Busby, Alex Jones

Video Description

Published on Aug 23, 2013

. "New Leaks" have been discovered, 240 megatons of potentially explosive radioactive material on site, mutations of local plants and wild life, etc.
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8/19/2013 11 Facts About The Ongoing Fukushima Nuclear Holocaust That Are Almost Too Horrifying To Believe

Source: The Truth
Date: August 19th, 2013
By: Michael Snyder

Is Fukushima the greatest environmental disaster of all time?  Every single day, 300 tons of radioactive water from Fukushima enters the Pacific Ocean.  The radioactive material that is being released will outlive all of us by a very wide margin, and it is constantly building up in the food chain.  Nobody knows for sure how many people will eventually develop cancer and other health problems as a result of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, but some experts are not afraid to use the word “billions”.  It has been well over two years since the original disaster, and now they are telling us that it could take up to 40 more years to clean it up.  It is a nightmare of unimaginable proportions, and there is nowhere in the northern hemisphere that you will be able to hide from it.  The following are 11 facts about the ongoing Fukushima nuclear holocaust that are almost too horrifying to believe…
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8/3/2013 Spill-over threat: Fukushima radioactive groundwater rises above barrier level

Date: August 03, 2013 17:05
Source: Russia Today

Covers are installed for a spent fuel removal operation at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant's unit 4 reactor building (C) in the town of Okuma, Fukushima prefecture on June 12, 2013. (AFP Photo)

Radioactive groundwater at the Japanese crippled nuclear plant has risen to levels above a barrier built to try and contain it – with risks of spilling over and reaching the ocean, Japanese media report.
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Editor's Note: Below is a map of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant, which includes news reports from the original disaster.

5/17/13 Fukushima Nuclear Update for the last 38 days

Source: MsMilkytheclown1
Date: 5/17/2013

Video Description

here's the list of topics covered and the times they are in the video.
Start: "little progress on nuclear decontamination" report date: 5/17/13
2:00 minutes: study off shore Fukushima in Pacific Ocean to see radioactive contamination effect 5/16/13
3:27 minutes: removal of the "tent" at nuclear reactor 1 5/12/13
4:23 min: probe into Fukushima Disaster 5/1/13
5:30 min: radioactive Tritium in Fukushima plant wells 5/2/13
6:07 min: TEPCO "opening doors" to lady Judge (research that creep of a person)
9:11 min: head of Monju fast breeder resigns because he didn't do over 9,000 safety checks just this Last Year 5/17/13
11:35 min: delay restart of Monju fast breeder nuclear reactor 5/15/13
12:53 min: ACTIVE FAULTS UNDER TSURUGA Nuclear Plant 5/15/13
15:53 min: scientists call for stronger measures against sure to come quakes 5/1/13
17:47 min: sea lions found malnourished (also found radioactive off california) 4/13/13
18:52 min: radiation proof police vehicles ordered and delivered 5/2/13
19:39 min: Fukushima farmers grow first rice since nuclear meltdown/explosion... (I'm still biting my tongue here) 4/12/13 Fuck the tongue biting. I'll just say it: they are known to mix radioactive rice in with "good" rice to reduce the concentration of radioactivity.
21:50 min: MOX fuel from France shipped to Japan 4/18/13
22:42 min: the Arctic is fucked 5/12/13
24:13 min: they are exploiting the Arctic 4/18/13
25:04 min: leukemia breakthrough... they break you and they sell you a fix 4/18/13
26:25 min: we're fucked even bigger time 5/1/13
31:15 min: UAE nuke deal 5/2/13
32:30 min: UAE "security" talks 5/2/13
33:25 min: the government of Japan doesn't know Shit about Safety 4/12/13
34:08 min: IAEA probes Fukushima 4/15/13
34:53 min: Tokyo governor visits NYC power plant 4/18/13

There ya go. I've been collecting these but haven't uploaded them due to the emotional atom bomb I felt after the last update I did when they were transferring Leaking radioactive water From leaking Pits TO LEAKING CONTAINERS. There was something about that last update that just Really Really upset me. http://youtu.be/ItoUz6thcpk
And by the way, Screaming at me does NOT Motivate me.

I suggest that you subscribe to the people I have on my recommended fukushima reporters on my youtube page for further updates. Hope you all are well.

4/20/2013 NHK Documentary: Fukushima Two Years Later

Source: NHK World via MissingSky101
Date: 5/20/2013 Upload Date

Video Description

2 years after the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, more than 150,000 people in Fukushima Prefecture are still forced to leave their homes and try to rebuild their lives amid the threat of radiation exposure. We'll look into the unprecedented challenges they are facing.
Air date 4/19/13

I apologize for the mediocre quality of the video. It is a broadcasting issue, perhaps solar activity and it does happen occasionally. There is a very limited time period to capture these documentaries, only a few times during a 48 hour period and then NHK pulls them down from their site.

All material provided on this channel is for educational purposes only. No copyright infringement intended.

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4/4/2013 Fukushima Nuclear Cooling System Goes Down (Again)

Source: Common Dreams via IntelliHub
Date: April 5, 2013
by: Jacob Chamberlain

A cooling system inside one of the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant failed once again on Friday, highlighting the ongoing nuclear catastrophe at the plant—which reports say will take decades to decommission.

Fukushima nuclear plant. (Issei Kato/AP) A TEPCO official said that they had lost the ability to cool radioactive fuel rods in one of the plant’s crippled reactors for roughly three hours—the second failure of the system in three weeks.
If the cooling system fails for an exteneded period of time, a nuclear metldown could occur.
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4/4/2013 FUKUSHIMA nuked man

Source: MsMilkytheclown1
Date: 4/4/2013

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Mirrored from MsMilkytheclown1 please go subscribe to her channel, some of the best nuclear updates on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/user/MsMilkyth...
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Published on Apr 4, 2013

victim of nuclear fallout
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The Man who exposed to radioactivity was confess.
From the body of this man has emitted Radiation being.
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