Source: The Mercury [Pottstown, PA local paper]
Date: 7/18/2012
Only one cooling tower was emitting water vapor Wednesday, evidence of the Unit 1 shut down at Limerick Generating Station. John Strickler/The Mercury
(Updated at 2:35 p.m.) LIMERICK — An electrical disturbance in a “non-nuclear” part of Limerick Generating Station caused a disruption requiring the shut down of the Unit 1 reactor Wednesday morning.
The disturbance “caused a loss of power to generator cooling equipment” requiring a manual scram, or shutdown, of the reactor around 8:15 a.m., according to Dana Melia, communications manager at the nuclear plant, “A manual scram occurs when the plant’s control room operators insert all of the control rods into the reactor at once, halting the fissioning process and shutting down the reactor,” explained Neil Sheehan of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
... Read the rest here.
Editor's Note: Map of Limerick Nuclear Generating Station.
There are about 360,000 Fukushima residents who were 18 or younger in March 2011.
Of more than 38,000 children tested from the Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, 36 percent have abnormal growths – cysts or nodules – on their thyroids a year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, as reported by ENENews.
Joke F Lübbecke of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
and 3 scientists from the GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences
poured tracer dye into coastal waters off of Fukushima, and monitored
its progress as it traveled to the West Coast of North America, to find
out what might really happen.
They have revealed their results in a new paper published by journal Environmental Research Letters.
The paper shows that the West Coast of North American could end up with 10 times more radioactive cesium 137 than the coastal waters off of Japan itself.
... Read the rest here.
Source: NHK World
Date: Jul. 16, 2012 - Updated 15:55 UTC (00:55 JST)
by: Gene Otani
Organizers say 170, 000 people took part in the rally, while police estimate the number at 75,000.
Tens of thousands of people have staged one of the biggest anti-nuclear rallies in Tokyo since the Fukushima accident in March, last year.
Labor union activists joined members of the public in the main protest rally at Yoyogi Park on Monday. Many of them responded to calls on the social network Twitter and the Internet.
I've been out of town and my power went out before going out of town.
Trying to catch up on Fukushima updates. I admit it, I didn't miss
doing these updates at All. In fact, this may be my last update, just
FYI, but this one was an important one to end on if I do stop my
reports. I'm just about as "done" as a spent fuel rod - in a "safe"
cooling pool.
A Japanese Government DIET panel investigation states
that neither the Tsunami NOR the Earthquake caused the triple nuclear
meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi. Lots of blame in many directions... but
here's the update from July 5, 2012. Added to this video, I should have
noted that Jelly Fish have invaded the intake valve in the Ohi (Oi)
plant they started up last week, clogging the intake to the cooling
water. *sigh* http://enenews.com/ Headlines for the last week and a halfish.
"Radiation-contaminated
prefectures such as Chiba (near Tokyo) should also start a serious
health damage survey as soon as possible"
New photos of tsunami hitting Fukushima plant released by Tepco
Report:
Mortality rising in contaminated regions of East Japan — "Very likely
the number of cases of disease and death increased associated with
radiation"
Posts mentioning 'leukemia' get deleted says Japanese man diagnosed with acute leukemia after 3/11
Study:
Contaminated water from Fukushima reactors could double radioactivity
levels of US coastal waters in 5 years — "We were surprised at how
quickly the tracer spread" (PHOTO & VIDEO)
Documentary: We're still in danger from Reactor No. 4 because Tepco can't get their act together -Fukushima Resident (VIDEO)
Bacteria vs. Nuclear Waste: Scientists finding microorganisms may threaten storage of radioactive waste
Gundersen: Essentially Northern Japan is Contaminated (VIDEO)
Failed power supply at No. 4 fuel pool shows evidence of fire — Tepco says it's "covered with soot" (PHOTOS)
Nuclear
Engineer Concerned About Unit 4 Support Structure: Is it going to just
punch through the floor and through cracks? — What is the load
transferred to? Something that's also flimsy? (VIDEO)
Incredibly
contaminated house dust nearly 100 miles from Fukushima Daiichi —
Gundersen: We're getting a lot of Japanese sending us their vacuum bags
(VIDEO)
Large outbreak of jellyfish swarm Japan's only restarted nuclear plant — May delay full operation of reactor
Caldicott:
"We're talking about a disaster of unbound proportions" from Fukushima
Daiichi — 2.5 to 3 million deaths a possibility (VIDEO)
Gundersen:
We just tested an air filter that has highest radioactivity seen in
North America after Fukushima Daiichi — Found in Seattle HEPA filter
used since 3/11 (VIDEO)
Watch: Police clamp down in Tokyo streets — "We're not allowed to get anywhere near protest" (VIDEO)
Gov't Report: Reactor 3 may have had second meltdown a week after first
Japanese journalist's call for evacuating children from Tokyo causing controversy
Gundersen: Latest probe at Unit 1 indicates nuclear fuel has left containment (VIDEO)
Remaining portion of Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 seen from Kyodo helicopter (PHOTOS)
Asahi: 150,000 join Tokyo protest organizer says — Reporter Eyewitness: "There are more than 100,000 people"
Source: NHK World
Date: Jul. 10, 2012 - Updated 10:57 UTC (19:57 JST)
Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant
The operator of the Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi Prefecture has discovered damage to fuel rod containers at the facility's No. 3 reactor.
Japan's nuclear safety agency has ordered Tohoku Electric Power Company to check and report on whether the damage was caused by the massive earthquake on March 11th last year.
... See video here
DemocracyNow.org - A Japanese parliamentary inquiry has concluded last year's nuclear meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was "a profoundly man-made disaster — that could and should have been foreseen and prevented." We speak to former nuclear industry executive Arnie Gundersen about the report and what it means for U.S. nuclear facilities, in particular the 23 with a similar design to the Fukushima plant. "There is some curious information on Fukushima Unit 1, the first one to fail," Gundersen says. "It was built by an American company, General Electric, and an American architect/engineer. It's hard for the Japanese to blame themselves when this was an all-American design ... I'm concerned that the nuclear industry in the United States will say it's a Japanese problem, and it's not."
To watch the complete weekday independent news hour, read the transcript, download the podcast, search our vast archive, or to find more information about Democracy Now! and Amy Goodman, visit http://www.democracynow.org/
The devastation of buildings at Fukushima Daiichi makes unclear how long it will be before spent fuel from the pond and reactors is safely stored.
Kyodo
A collapse of the already tilting reactor No 4 building at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant, ¬atop which sits a spent nuclear fuel storage pool containing 1,535 fuel assemblies – including 204 unused ones – would lead to a “significant global impact,”– by far topping last year’s triple meltdown at the plant, a new report says.
... Read the rest here
Source: Japan Today
Date: JUL. 02, 2012 - 02:53PM JST
Pyongyang has long maintained that it was enriching uranium solely for the purpose of power generation
TOKYO (AFP) —
The late North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il ordered his scientists to produce “a massive amount” of uranium bombs, according to internal regime documents, reports in Japan said on Monday.
... Read the rest here
Source: House of Japan
Date: Published on Monday, 02 July 2012
TOKYO, July 1, Kyodo
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday it has resumed cooling the spent fuel pool of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant's No. 4 reactor following emergency repair work after the cooling system shut down on Saturday.
... Read the rest here
Source: bionerd23
Date: 7/2/2012 Editor's Note: I was a bit shocked when I saw this video, poor lady allowed herself to be turned in to a human guinea pig. ;'(
Video Description
my brain is now running on radioactive dopamine...
i was injected with 200 MBq F-18, a radioactive isotope of fluorine, in the chemical form F-18-DOPA.
200 MBq means 200 million decays, resulting in 400 million gamma rays (annihilation photons) every SECOND.
this again resulted in an acute dose of about 5 mSv (including the 0.5 mSv CT scan prior to the PET scan) to me.
this was a scientific study (ethics-commission approved) to study the mechanisms of learning.
studies like this are performed on healthy test subjects on a daily basis.
i'm curious to hear your opinion on the matter...
but anyway, i am not ill, i am a healthy test subject...
or: my PET CAT is chasing the radioactive LAB RAT! =)
