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yanpa wrote:As of 2:20pm cooling has restarted.
Japan Times wrote:Tepco smells a rat in Fukushima No. 1 fuel pool cooling glitch
A rat apparently gnawed on a switchboard or its wiring, causing the 30-hour power cutoff for the spent-fuel pool cooling systems at the triple-meltdown-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant that led to renewed fallout fears, Tokyo Electric Power Co. indicated Wednesday.
Tepco said it found the burnt carcass of what appeared to be a rat near the makeshift switchboard as well as burn marks on the equipment, although it has yet to determine the exact cause of the power outage.
The switchboard runs the cooling systems of the spent-fuel pools of reactors 3 and 4 as well as a common pool located inside another building at the site that contains 6,377 nuclear fuel assemblies.
Tepco said it had not taken any steps to prevent wildlife, such as rodents, from getting at the switchboard and said it is continuing to investigate other factors that may have caused the power outrage, which was apparently resolved minutes after midnight Tuesday.
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The makeshift switchboard was located on the back of a truck that had been parked outside since May 2011. Tepco was planning to stop using the equipment and switch to a new permanent switchboard by the end of this month.
chokonen888 wrote:nuclear bandaids hahahaha
Taro Toporific wrote:chokonen888 wrote:nuclear bandaids hahahaha
Nuclear regulators acknowledge fault below Tsuruga reactor is active
Kyodo News | May 23, 2013
The Nuclear Regulation Authority accepted on Wednesday an assessment that a reactor at the Tsuruga plant in western Japan is sitting above an active fault, making it increasingly difficult for the facility to resume operation.
It is the first time Japan's regulatory authorities have acknowledged an existing reactor is located above a fault feared to move in the future, according to an NRA official. The judgment may leave plant operator Japan Atomic Power Co. with no option but to scrap the No. 2 reactor.
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Coligny wrote:My bet:
Fucking privacy laws...
Reconstruction Agency official's tweets slander NGO, lawmakers supporting Fukushima victims
A senior Reconstruction Agency official in charge of supporting Fukushima nuclear disaster victims has slandered lawmakers and an NGO on his private Twitter account in connection with their recovery efforts, prompting the agency to mull punishing him, it has been learned.
From rice to be grown and harvested in 2013, the national government is buying up 250,000 tonnes for the government's rice reserve; of that, 40,000 tonnes, or 16%, may come from Fukushima Prefecture. The Fukushima prefectural government is encouraging farmers to participate in the government bidding if they fear "baseless rumors" driving down the price for their rice in the open market.
Coligny wrote:Eat sum good rice from Fukushima... Want it or not...From rice to be grown and harvested in 2013, the national government is buying up 250,000 tonnes for the government's rice reserve; of that, 40,000 tonnes, or 16%, may come from Fukushima Prefecture. The Fukushima prefectural government is encouraging farmers to participate in the government bidding if they fear "baseless rumors" driving down the price for their rice in the open market.
Reaching the point where I would really like to support Fukushima rice farmers... Maybe with a bullet in the head...
chokonen888 wrote:With all the mixing/relabeling of the rice they do, eventually even the average Japanese is going to buy foreign rice rather than risk getting a cesium supplement in their Japanese rice.
The Nuclear Regulatory Authority concluded that Units 3 and 4 at the Oi nuclear plant in western Japan are “not in the condition that would pose immediate safety concerns” even without being inspected under the new safety rules.
That ruling means operator Kansai Electric Power can keep the two units online until September, when they will undergo scheduled safety checks and be re-examined under the new rules, the authority said.
“I expect the operator will continue improving the safety of the plant towards meeting the new standards,” said the nuclear authority’s head Shunichi Tanaka.
The body will also continue examining if there are any active tectonic faults underneath the plant.
The stricter new standards are part of a government effort to convince a sceptical populace that they are taking safety issues seriously in post-Fukushima Japan.
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Coligny wrote:Eat sum good rice from Fukushima... Want it or not...From rice to be grown and harvested in 2013, the national government is buying up 250,000 tonnes for the government's rice reserve; of that, 40,000 tonnes, or 16%, may come from Fukushima Prefecture. The Fukushima prefectural government is encouraging farmers to participate in the government bidding if they fear "baseless rumors" driving down the price for their rice in the open market.
Reaching the point where I would really like to support Fukushima rice farmers... Maybe with a bullet in the head...
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Stay calm, be cool! No worries....The radiation is not gonna do a thing....
Thank God Japanese don't have kids anymore...
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Stay calm, be cool! No worries....The radiation is not gonna do a thing....
Thank God Japanese don't have kids anymore...
CNN had that same story on their website last night. Scary but the source is a Korean blog.
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