Date: 7/6/2011
;Calls grow for the resignation of a Japanese official caught lying to the public about the safety of radiation limits that have been “temporarily” increased to shockingly high levels.
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Saturday, July 9, 2011
7/6/2011 Japan Sets Radiation Limits For Infant Drinks And Food More Than Twice The International Limits For Nuclear Waste
Source: Alexander Higgins Blog
Date: 7/6/2011
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Calls grow for the resignation of a Japanese official caught lying to the public about the safety of radiation limits that have been “temporarily” increased to shockingly high levels.
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Date: 7/6/2011
;Calls grow for the resignation of a Japanese official caught lying to the public about the safety of radiation limits that have been “temporarily” increased to shockingly high levels.
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Thursday, July 7, 2011
7/7/2011 Kyushu Electric president to resign over pro-nuke e-mails
Source: Asahi.com
Date: 7/8/2011 JST
Date: 7/8/2011 JST
 Toshio Manabe, president of Kyushu Electric Power Co., talks to reporters at a news conference July 6. (Wataru Sekita) | Toshio Manabe, president of Kyushu Electric Power Co., said July 7 that he intends to resign after the utility was found to have instructed employees to manipulate public opinion on nuclear power. Manabe said he will take responsibility for instructing employees to send "pro-nuclear power" e-mails to organizers of a public hearing broadcast on television in late June. The program was sponsored by the central government to solicit opinions from residents of Saga Prefecture on a proposal to restart two reactors at Kyushu Electric's Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture. According to Kyushu Electric, a senior company official on June 22 sent e-mails to employees and employees of subsidiaries instructing them to send messages to the program with a "pro-restarting" point of view. The e-mails were sent under the company name. |
 An e-mail instructing Kyushu Electric Co. and its subsidiary employees to send pro-nuclear reactor opinions to a television program (The Asahi Shimbun) | The e-mailed instructions also stated that e-mails to the program should be sent from personal accounts, not the company's, apparently to hide the fact that the senders were connected to Kyushu Electric. Manabe said he will make a final decision next week after discussing the matter with Shingo Matsuo, company chairman. ... Read full article here |
7/7/2011 (Map) 5.6 Magnitude Japan Honshu Earthquake
Date: 7/7/2011 7:18 PM CST
Earthquake of 5.6 magnitude off Honshu, Japan (orange dot in map below) strikes, 14.5 miles from Fukushima II (Daini) and 21 miles from Fukushima I (Daiichi) nuclear power plants.
USGS Shake Map
According to the earthquake shake map above from the USGS the earthquake was not very serious and the AP confirms, there was no reported damage done:
Earthquake of 5.6 magnitude off Honshu, Japan (orange dot in map below) strikes, 14.5 miles from Fukushima II (Daini) and 21 miles from Fukushima I (Daiichi) nuclear power plants.
According to the earthquake shake map above from the USGS the earthquake was not very serious and the AP confirms, there was no reported damage done:
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No immediate damage or casualties were reported from the quake that struck at 3:35 a.m. Friday (1835 GMT Thursday), the USGS said. No tsunami watch was immediately issued.
The epicenter of the quake was some 51 miles (83 kilometers) southeast of Fukushima, in Honshu, Japan, the USGS said. The quake was centered some 28 miles (45 kilometers deep, the agency said.
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7/7/2011 Tepco temporarily halts cooling at Fukushima Daini
Source: MarketWatch
Date: July 7, 2011, 11:11 a.m. EDT
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501.TO) said Thursday that it stopped the cooling system for a reactor at the Fukushima Daini power plant in Fukushima Prefecture for three and a half hours due to an electrical system problem, Kyodo News reported.
Cooling operations were suspended for the No. 1 reactor and an adjacent pool for spent nuclear fuel from around 5:30 p.m. to shortly past 9 p.m. while the operator, known as TEPCO, looked into why sparks came from a power panel at a building adjacent to that housing the reactor.
Temperatures for the reactor and the fuel storage pool are believed to have risen slightly from about 25 C to 35 C and from 26 C to 27 C, respectively, during the suspension.
The reactor and the pool must be kept cooled because nuclear fuel inside them emits heat as it decays, even though the reactor has gone offline and has been brought into a stable condition called 'cold shutdown' following the March earthquake and tsunami.
The other three reactors at the Fukushima Daini plant, located to the south of the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, have also been in cold shutdown-mode since the disasters.
A plant worker found sparks coming out of a power panel in the basement of the No. 1 reactor's adjoining facility shortly after 2 p.m., prompting the company to cut power to the facility so that it could be inspected, TEPCO said.
The reactor has two sets of cooling systems for sustaining cold shutdown, but one of them has remained crippled since the tsunami in March.
Date: July 7, 2011, 11:11 a.m. EDT
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501.TO) said Thursday that it stopped the cooling system for a reactor at the Fukushima Daini power plant in Fukushima Prefecture for three and a half hours due to an electrical system problem, Kyodo News reported.
Cooling operations were suspended for the No. 1 reactor and an adjacent pool for spent nuclear fuel from around 5:30 p.m. to shortly past 9 p.m. while the operator, known as TEPCO, looked into why sparks came from a power panel at a building adjacent to that housing the reactor.
Temperatures for the reactor and the fuel storage pool are believed to have risen slightly from about 25 C to 35 C and from 26 C to 27 C, respectively, during the suspension.
The reactor and the pool must be kept cooled because nuclear fuel inside them emits heat as it decays, even though the reactor has gone offline and has been brought into a stable condition called 'cold shutdown' following the March earthquake and tsunami.
The other three reactors at the Fukushima Daini plant, located to the south of the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, have also been in cold shutdown-mode since the disasters.
A plant worker found sparks coming out of a power panel in the basement of the No. 1 reactor's adjoining facility shortly after 2 p.m., prompting the company to cut power to the facility so that it could be inspected, TEPCO said.
The reactor has two sets of cooling systems for sustaining cold shutdown, but one of them has remained crippled since the tsunami in March.
7/7/2011 Can a weakened nuclear industry survive its deadly repeating history?
Source: Japan Today
Date: Jul. 07, 2011 - 06:58AM JST
by: Lucas Whitefield Hixson
The nuclear industry is a global affair, especially when something goes wrong, requiring transparency to ensure the safety of children and families around the world. History has shown that significant releases of radiation that effect the environment and population can be released long before any hope of containment or control can be expected. Nuclear disasters can not only threaten the health of first responders, but also cripple critical systems that allow complex situations to be analyzed and reported effectively.
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Date: Jul. 07, 2011 - 06:58AM JST
by: Lucas Whitefield Hixson
The nuclear industry is a global affair, especially when something goes wrong, requiring transparency to ensure the safety of children and families around the world. History has shown that significant releases of radiation that effect the environment and population can be released long before any hope of containment or control can be expected. Nuclear disasters can not only threaten the health of first responders, but also cripple critical systems that allow complex situations to be analyzed and reported effectively.
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011
7/6/2011 (Video) Jellyfish invade Israeli power plant
Source: Reuters
Date: 7/6/2011 upload date
July 6 - Israel's Electric Corp say that the swarms of jellyfish coming from the Mediterranean Sea could cause the electric plant to shut down. Elly Park reports.
Other jellyfish stories:
Attack of the jellyfish: Sea creatures shut down ANOTHER power station amid claims population surge is due to climate change, UK Daily Mail
(Photos) Jellyfish can cause a nuclear power plant meltdown, International Business Times
(Video) Jellyfish force Torness nuclear power station closure, BBC News (Scotland)
Date: 7/6/2011 upload date
July 6 - Israel's Electric Corp say that the swarms of jellyfish coming from the Mediterranean Sea could cause the electric plant to shut down. Elly Park reports.
Other jellyfish stories:
Attack of the jellyfish: Sea creatures shut down ANOTHER power station amid claims population surge is due to climate change, UK Daily Mail
(Photos) Jellyfish can cause a nuclear power plant meltdown, International Business Times
(Video) Jellyfish force Torness nuclear power station closure, BBC News (Scotland)
7/6/2011 How the first 24 hours shaped Fukushima nuclear crisis
Source: AP via The Japan Times
Date: Thursday, July 7, 2011 JST
Chaos, inadequate preparation, indecision, lack of forthrightness
AP
Fukushima — When unit 2 began to shake, Hiroyuki Kohno's first hunch was that something was wrong with the turbines. He paused for a moment, then went back to logging the day's radioactivity readings.
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Date: Thursday, July 7, 2011 JST
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| Devastated: An aerial photo taken March 20 by an unmanned drone shows the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture. From left are reactor buildings 1 (partially seen), 2, 3 and 4. AIR PHOTO SERVICE/AP |
Chaos, inadequate preparation, indecision, lack of forthrightness
AP
Fukushima — When unit 2 began to shake, Hiroyuki Kohno's first hunch was that something was wrong with the turbines. He paused for a moment, then went back to logging the day's radioactivity readings.
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7/6/2011 Waste catches fire at Tokai No 2 Power Station disposal facility
Date: 7/6/2011
The following quote from the sourced Monsters & Critics article is really a side note to the main topic of the article which is stress tests to be performed on the nuclear power plants in Japan:
I really would have liked to see more detail on this fire at the Tokai No 2 Power Station, such as the nature of the materials which caught on fire. Were the materials which caught on fire radioactive? If you burn radioactive stuff doesn't it release radiation in to the environment?
The only other article I could find on the fire was this two-liner by AGI News:
Sources:
[1] Japan to stress-test nuclear plants to reassure public, M & C (Monsters and Critics)
[2] BLAZE IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN TOKAI, JAPAN, AGI News
The following quote from the sourced Monsters & Critics article is really a side note to the main topic of the article which is stress tests to be performed on the nuclear power plants in Japan:
...As the financial bank stress tests Timothy Geithner is famous for touting were designed to reassure the financial markets, the nuclear power plant stress tests are designed to reassure the Japanese public so that nuclear power plants can be restarted, which were shut down due to the earthquake/tsunami.
Also Wednesday, a fire broke out briefly at a waste disposal facility of the Tokai No 2 Power Station in Ibaraki prefecture, 120 kilometres north-east of Tokyo. No radiation was been released, the government said.
At the plant, run by the Japan Atomic Power Co, waste materials caught fire when workers tried to drop them into a melting furnace. They extinguished the blaze with water and reported the incident to a local fire department, Kyodo News reported citing local officials.[1]
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I really would have liked to see more detail on this fire at the Tokai No 2 Power Station, such as the nature of the materials which caught on fire. Were the materials which caught on fire radioactive? If you burn radioactive stuff doesn't it release radiation in to the environment?
The only other article I could find on the fire was this two-liner by AGI News:
09:23 06 LUG 2011
(AGI) Tokyo - Almost four months after the Fukushima disaster, a fire started in the nuclear waste disposal plant near reactor No. 2 in Tokai, in the East of Japan. Official sources reported that the blaze is now under control and that no radiocative material leak occurred. The power plant is run by the Japan Atomic Power and is situated in the Ibaraki province, North of Tokyo. . .[2]
Sources:
[1] Japan to stress-test nuclear plants to reassure public, M & C (Monsters and Critics)
[2] BLAZE IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN TOKAI, JAPAN, AGI News
7/5/2011 Spike in B.C. sudden infant deaths concerns coroner
Source: The Canadian Press
Date: Jul 5, 2011 2:41 PM PT
B.C.'s chief coroner is urging parents to use safe sleep practices in light of a spike in the number of sudden infant deaths across the province this year.
There have been 21 sudden infant deaths in B.C. so far this year, while there were 16 sudden infant deaths for all of 2010, Lisa Lapointe said Tuesday.
Lapointe said that in most of this year's deaths, risk factors included babies sleeping with an adult, on a couch or a soft bed.
Babies should be placed on their back in a crib with a fitted sheet, without a lot of puffy blankets or toys that could obscure their face, Lapointe said.
"We know there's been a spike in the first six months and we know it's related to unsafe sleep practices. Why so many of those [deaths] have come up this year, we don't know," Lapointe said.
She said the reason for the increased number of deaths is all the more mysterious because health authorities, family doctors and public health nurses have kept up efforts to educate parents.
The B.C. Coroner's Service is continuing to investigate the 21 deaths.
Date: Jul 5, 2011 2:41 PM PT
B.C.'s chief coroner is urging parents to use safe sleep practices in light of a spike in the number of sudden infant deaths across the province this year.
There have been 21 sudden infant deaths in B.C. so far this year, while there were 16 sudden infant deaths for all of 2010, Lisa Lapointe said Tuesday.
Lapointe said that in most of this year's deaths, risk factors included babies sleeping with an adult, on a couch or a soft bed.
Babies should be placed on their back in a crib with a fitted sheet, without a lot of puffy blankets or toys that could obscure their face, Lapointe said.
"We know there's been a spike in the first six months and we know it's related to unsafe sleep practices. Why so many of those [deaths] have come up this year, we don't know," Lapointe said.
She said the reason for the increased number of deaths is all the more mysterious because health authorities, family doctors and public health nurses have kept up efforts to educate parents.
The B.C. Coroner's Service is continuing to investigate the 21 deaths.
7/4/2011 Nuclear Power Subsidies: The Gift that Keeps on Taking
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists
Date: 7/4/2011
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Date: 7/4/2011
Download: Nuclear Power: Still Not Viable without Subsidies (2011) | Nuclear Power Subsidies: Executive Summary (2011)
| Government subsidies to the nuclear power industry over the past fifty years have been so large in proportion to the value of the energy produced that in some cases it would have cost taxpayers less to simply buy kilowatts on the open market and give them away, according to a February 2011 report by the Union of Concerned Scientists. The report, Nuclear Power: Still Not Viable without Subsidies, looks at the economic impacts and policy implications of subsidies to the nuclear power industry—past, present, and proposed. |  |
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7/5/2011 Japan eyes first nuclear restart since quake
Source: Reuters
Date: Tue Jul 5, 2011 8:14am EDT
by: Chikako Mogi
(Reuters) - Japan edged closer to its first nuclear power plant restart since the March earthquake following approval from a Japanese city mayor, but concerns about summer power shortages remained as it was unclear when other plants would follow suit.
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Date: Tue Jul 5, 2011 8:14am EDT
by: Chikako Mogi
(Reuters) - Japan edged closer to its first nuclear power plant restart since the March earthquake following approval from a Japanese city mayor, but concerns about summer power shortages remained as it was unclear when other plants would follow suit.
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7/6/2011 Japan Has Two Reactors Without Approval as Fukushima Raises Safety Concern
Source: Bloomberg
Date: Jul 6, 2011 12:04 AM CT
by: Tsuyoshi Inajima and Chisaki Watanabe
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.
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Date: Jul 6, 2011 12:04 AM CT
by: Tsuyoshi Inajima and Chisaki Watanabe
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.
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