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Accident at Second Japanese Nuclear Complex
You’ve heard about the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex.
But there was another Japanese nuclear accident last year.
As I explained in March of last year:
The 6 problem reactors which have gotten all of the press are located within the Fukushima Daiichi complex.
However, the same nuclear power plant operator that runs the Daiichi complex – Tepco – runs a separate nuclear complex 7 miles away, called Fukushima Daini. There are 4 reactors located at the Daini complex.
On March 12th, Tepco reported:
Unit 1
- At 8:19am, there was an alarm indicating that one of the control rods
was not properly inserted, however, at 10:43am the alarm was automatically called off. Other control rods has been confirmed that they are fully inserted (reactor is in subcritical status)
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- At 6:08PM, we announced the increase in reactor containment vessel
pressure, assumed to be due to leakage of reactor coolant. However, we
do not believe there is leakage of reactor coolant in the containment
vessel at this moment.
- At 5:22AM, the temperature of the suppression chamber exceeded 100
degrees. As the reactor pressure suppression function was lost, at 5:22AM,
it was determined that a specific incident stipulated in article 15,
clause 1 has occurred.(Article 15, Clause 1 of Japan’s Act on Special Measures Concerning Nuclear Emergency Preparedness simply provides that there are elevated radiation levels or that “an event specified by a Cabinet Order as an event that indicates the occurrence of a nuclear emergency situation has occurred.”)
On March 14th, Reuters reported:
Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc said on Monday it had detected a rise in radiation levels at its Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant.
A company spokesman said that the cooling process at the plant has been working properly and that the rise was probably due to radiation leak at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, where cooling functions were damaged by Friday’s massive earthquake and tsunami.
Today, Tepco announced that smoke was seen rising from Daini reactor number 1:
Smoke was spotted at another nuclear plant in northeastern Japan on Wednesday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.
The company said smoke was detected in the turbine building of reactor No. 1 at the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant around 6 p.m. (5 a.m. ET).
Smoke could no longer be seen by around 7 p.m. (6 a.m. ET), a company spokesman told reporters.
Reuters noted in July:
The operator of Japan’s Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant, located near the tsunami-crippled Daiichi plant, on Thursday halted the cooling system at one of its reactors after electrical sparks were detected, Kyodo news agency reported.
But surely everything has been fixed at the Daini plant … otherwise we would have heard about it, right?
Unfortunately, Mainchi Daily News reports today:
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency told Tokyo Electric Power Co. [Tepco] on Wednesday to prepare a report by the end of January on how to repair equipment at its Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, a senior agency official said.
The report is needed to “further ensure” the plant will remain in a stable state of cold shutdown, Kenji Matsuoka, chief of the disaster prevention section at the agency, said at a press conference, denying it is aimed at requiring the utility, known as TEPCO, to prepare for restarting the plant.
A cold shutdown is defined as a condition in which the bottom part of a reactor pressure vessel is kept below 100 C and exposure from the release of radioactive substances is being significantly contained.
The Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant was not so fatally damaged as the nearby Fukushima Daiichi plant by the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. In December, the government lifted its declaration of a state of emergency at the Fukushima Daini plant.
But facilities at the plant, including the emergency power generator and the cooling system for spent nuclear fuel pools, have been damaged, according to the agency.
Of course, the “cold shutdown” label is a political – rather than scientific – one. As such, it is difficult to know how severe the problems at the Daini complex really are.
In fact, while it has gotten no mainstream news coverage, Tepco’s president apologized for the accident at Daini on November 4th and again on January 11th (Daini is also called “Fukushima II“).
And a professor emeritus at Tokyo University specializing in metallic materials science said last week that Daini’s containment vessel was damaged by the earthquake.
And Japan’s TBS News allegedly reported in June that 3,000 tons of radioactive water were sitting in the basements of the Daini nuclear complex.
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What will take us first, radiation or genetically modified soy?
No one lives forever. It's a fact. Try and have some fun while you're here.
We must be mushrooms. We're kept in the dark, and fed manure. I think it's the chicken variety. Nuclear accidents are only one threat. There are 60,000 chemicals in the environment, that weren't there, 100 years ago. It's multiple hands around our throats, choking the life out of us.
http://georgesblogforum.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/the-daily-climb-2/
You, sir, are an idiot. Where did you get THAT number? You know, if we didn't develop sophisticated analytical measuring devices in the past 100 years then that number would be zero.
Eat more yogurt and bran. You'll live forever.
GW had a post last fall that claimed there were contingency plans to relocate Tokyo; what's the current info on this plan? Considering that the northern 1/3 of the country is uninhabitable, any continuing radiation spread seems likely to adversely affect Tokyo.
Most of those reactors have problems and they are trying to hid it right now.
20 years on. I would rather live near Chernobyl then Bhopal
And I would rather live in a world where neither happened - or will happen again
I guess it's difficult to know the background information since Diatchi has it limit up.
It truly is amazing how damn stupid people are about nuclear power. From the get-go, the decision to waste Hiroshima (the first major act of the "cold war"), there has been a massive campaign to kept people infantile in regards to the nuclear question and radiation. Just for example, one of the commentators is pissing in his (or her) pants, because of a radiation reading 3 X normal background radiation. Did you know that "normal background radiation" varies by a factor of over 10 X depending where you live? If you live high up with granite rock surrounding you, you get far more radiation on a normal day-to-day basis than any (non-Tepco worker) got from Fukushima.
As to the second plant itself. That's not really news. It was well covered by the Japanese press in the early days, and there have been no new developments there.
The big development is that Japan is dying without nuclear power; 50 of 56 plants are shut and all will be shut in a few months. As plants are shut for normal maintenance the, sick, weak, follow (manipulated) public opinion at all cost Japanese government (or series thereof), is keeping the plants shut - many say for ever, when the job is complete. The damn, stupid country, as a whole, is committing seppuku, because no one has the guts to tell the Japanese (and all the Western brainwashed anti-nukies) they are acting like spoiled babies.
To move on this world needs the most efficient power source with the highest energy densities. Today that is nuclear, soon it will be fusion (if we,as the human species reached for it seriously), then matter-anti-matter, so called. No, I don't tell you it is perfectly safe, what is perfectly safe? Just the other day, a geothermal plant in China had an accident that killed 5 an injuries around 25. Per unit of energy generated, not only is nuclear the least expensive source of power, but the safest. Coal mining alone kills, directly and immediately around 3,000 to 5,000 per year, oil, as in gasoline and diesel fuels, used in cars and trucks, kill how many millions per year around the world?
Dear sophisticated guys and gals, Marvel comics with their superheros has been one of the world's most successful psychological warfare operations in history. For most of you, from reading the comments here, it is clear that all you know about the nuclear power, radiation and related scientific topics is what Spiderman taught you.
Grow up, mankind's future depends on it.
FUK U sir...human beings make mistakes, especially when deliberately under-calculating long term risk in pursuit of short term profit. Greed and Hubris share the same fragile finite planet which we are systematically destroying. If we don't get our heads around that fact (and the evidence is all around us and cumulatively becoming unarguable) we will not survive ourselves.
Human beings make mistakes: It's impossible to legislate the 'human' out of humanity, consequently there will always be human error, and in systems that have the potential to cause extinction level events we should have learned by now to 'not go there'. We are dabbling in several areas of ELE: nuclear, horizontal gene transfer genetic engineering (advanced biological weapons), and nano tech.
Before you next get on your high horse of opinion in respect of nuclear, please familiarise yourself with the following sources of what's really happening in Fukushima, and the contaminated areas of the planet as a result of the multiple meltdowns STILL occurring there (including permanent genetic damage to Canada and the USA). These blogs are a good place to start, especially THIS photo of a common table vegetable:
http://enenews.com/report-horrible-vegetable-mutation-harvested-north-to...
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/14000-additional-d...
http://enenews.com
http://fukushimaupdate.com/
http://pepismartdog.com/news/
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/
http://fukushima-diary.com/
http://www.fairewinds.com/
Grow up? Tell that to one of the thousands of irradiated children all over Japan...And there are some 440 active reactors across the globe and dozens more planned....
You may like to get together in Fukushima Daiichi with the esteemed Fukushima Medical University Professor, Dr. Shunichi Yamashita, for some rad-hot seafood and sake ... He concludes: “To tell you the truth, radiation doesn't affect people who are smiling". Maybe that's why when discussing the effect of radiation on children (after Japan increased by a factor of 20 the 'safe limit of exposure in the immediate aftermath of the meltdowns), Japan's Chief Cabinet Minister LAUGHS!!
http://enenews.com/japans-chief-cabinet-secretary-laughs-when-told-about...
Consistent, callous lying and covering up the truth, thus condemning tens of thousands MORE innocent people to slow, agonising, premature death.
Idiot.
Jesus H. Christ in a chicken basket, you are a fucktard. Why don't you go move to Tokyo if you love radiation so much?
I bet all the Japanese reactors have safety/fuel problems after the great earthquake. All but six of Japan's 54 reactors are shut down. All but a handful are in old, decrepit reactor buildings with many flaws and maintenance 'shortcuts'.
There are unknown problems at Fukushima Dai-ichi units 5 and 6. There was the problem last summer with the breeder reactor. Japan has too many reactor too close together with too little money and not a good management infrastructure.
Japgov (Japan government) hates the public, doesn't care if women and children die of horrible diseases, doesn't care about the food supply or water, doesn't care about anything but precious car and reactor industries. Japgov wishes to sell defective reactor designs to Korea, China, India and others. Japgov should be brought to trial for crimes against humanity then executed (next to bankers).
Japanese can fight back by not lending money to hated government. The Japgov will quickly default. Finance will collapse in Japan leading perhaps to a new government that doesn't hate the people and want to kill them.
On the other hand, a default might lead to other reactors melting down ... Japan has little time and zero knowledge to get rid of the reactors and the nuclear fuel.
I only pick up GW occasionally so he may have covered this one (I was away during the holidays) but Fukushima is not the only area with serios problems.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201112100052
This plant in Kyushu (western Japan) has been leaking ever since they started stress tests on it and they've been trying to shut it down safely every since.
Dig around Fukushima, take all that land and toss it into the sea, problem solved. It will also create millions of jobs.
Korean sea weed, harvested and bagged in Korea and sold publicly in South Korean grocery stores, is found to be 3 to 5 times more radioactive then normal background radiation!
Although I'm sure it's safe to eat. Right? Just have to get passed that glow in the dark effect!
Kim-shima.
I have radioactive gerbils propagating in my backyard due to Fukushima fallout. Prove me wrong!!!
Q. What did the brown radioactive gerbil say to the white radioactive gerbil?
A. "New around here?"
I'm sure everything is fine over at Fukushima Daini.
Close your eyes real tight, hold your breath and repeat after me: make it go away, make it go away, make it go away...
There, now isn't that better?
too late, already here, see baby mortality rate on west coast.
Anybody checking those wonderful NW coast oysters? I'm assuming that Fukushima radioactivity is going to show up in that ecosystem pretty early.
Have any links for that? Before and after type stuff?
Good thing we got MediCal out here.
"But there's no chance of significant radioactivity ever hitting the US" per the Donglicker......tell that to the terribly sick seals and dying birds in Alaska and the King Crab harvest that's got geiger counters chirping like crazy.
The debris and the radioactive contamination from it is coming our way.
""But there's no chance of significant radioactivity ever hitting the US" per the Donglicker......tell that to the terribly sick seals and dying birds in Alaska and the King Crab harvest that's got geiger counters chirping like crazy."
So we can expect the best season of Deadliest Catch ever. With any luck the Time Bandit crew will flip the bird in the direction of Japan.
( I have a BIL moving from Cali to Oregon. I keep warning him about the radiation but he seems to think BIGOV wouldn't lie to him. Told him to move East as both states are fucked. Oh well)
Except that there are no radioactive king crabs.
bill1102inf
Prove there are no radioactive King Crab, prove there are no elevated readings from King Crab.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201111220048
Says here the scientists have measured it at 1/2000th of drinking water standards and that it just crossed the International date line a month and a half ago. So it hasn't gotten to Alaska yet, the concentrations are too small that far away AND the crabs wouldn't have had a chance to absorb it yet anyway.
Soooooo, no Bride of Godzilla crabs. Sorry.
I had radioactive crabs once, it took weeks to get rid of them.
Best way to get rid of them is to go into a dark room which will reveal their location and then stab them with an ice pick.
Nix-131 works everytime.
The real plume has about another 6 months to go, although it's been moving faster than expected.
http://enenews.com/nrc-discusses-potential-contamination-of-alaska-waters-from-fukushima-radiation
Check out the suggestion to baseline now before "the projected plume" arrives.
From: LaVera, Ronald
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 7:03 AM
To: Raione, Richard L
Cc: Roach, Edward
Subject: Analysis support for Pacific-Alaskan water
Rich
I spoke with Ed Roach this morning about possible assistance should you all be asked to evaluate potential contamination of waters near Alaska resulting from Pacific current transport of material from the Japan. The best person in CHPB for providing this type of assistance is Jean-Claude Dehmel. Unfortunately, he is doing an audit of AREVA over the next couple of days. so I was not able to talk to him this morning.
Ed did suggest that you contact Dr. Stephen Schaffer who works for Stephanie Bush-Goddard in Research. Prior to transferring to Research. Dr. Schaffer worked in the effluents portion of CHPB, so I believe that he would be familiar with the type of support that you seek.
You may want to contact Dr. Schaffer earlier, rather than later to see if any baseline sampling needs to be done, prior to the projected plume arrival.
Since some of the sample target values are pretty low and may not be routinely performed, collection of baseline samples may aid in the evaluation of data scatter.
Please let me know if there is anything else we can do to assist your efforts.
Ron LaVera
No Fuckface, the burden of proof is on YOU to prove your outrageous claim.
You're right Bill. I have no problem believing that the king crabs could be contaminated but I would have so see SOME evidence/proof/data. I suspect you are the same. I have seen nothing so far, though mild contamination is well documented in Japanese teas, vegetables and some meat and dairy products...where is the similar reports for this king crab in Alaska claim.
where there's smoke there's...
Hmm.. that would explain this green rod in my pocket when I came home from work!
"All right you Guys, safen up!"
Good Lord. What a nightmare.
Relax. Eat some peas.
- President Obama
Can't guarantee grannys check.
- President Obama
Unless you continue to vote Democrat!
- President Obama
I'd give myself a solid B+.
- President Obama
Improperly inserted rod followed by cold shutdown...
It could happen to anybody.