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Japan To Restart Several Nuclear Plants, But Opposition Is Fierce
Submitted by Andy Tully via OilPrice.com,
A Japanese court says it’s too early to resume operations at the Takahama nuclear power plant on the country’s western coast, citing the risk of earthquakes in the area, but the local governor has approved a restart of two reactors at the facility in the town of Takahama.
All Japan’s 43 active reactors were ordered shut down as a precaution because of the Fukushima meltdown in 2011. So far the governments of two prefectures, Kagoshima and Ehime, have allowed restarting reactors in their jurisdictions under new safety rules instituted in 2013. Yet only two reactors at the Kagoshima plant are actually operating.
On Tuesday, Gov. Issei Nishikawa approved the restart of the No. 3 and No. 4 reactors at the plant in Fukui on the Sea of Japan, defying an injunction by the prefecture’s District Court that had been sought by residents living within about 60 miles of the nuclear facility.
These two reactors, each with a capacity of 870 megawatts, began commercial operation in 1985.
The plant’s operator, Kansai Electric Power Co., has long wanted to bring the plant back online and has appealed the injunction. A decision on the dispute is expected on Thursday. If the injunction is lifted, the No. 3 reactor could be back in operation in late January and the No. 4 reactor could restart a month later.
Nishikawa said Tuesday at a news conference, “I’ve decided to agree on the restart of the two reactors after comprehensively examining the situation.” Asked why he didn’t simply wait for the court’s decision, the governor said, “There is no particular reason. The timing should not be the issue.”
He added, “I gave comprehensive consideration to the country’s and the operator’s policy and reached a conclusion” on restarting the reactors.
The restart earlier this year of two reactors at the Sendai plant in Kagoshima Prefecture, operated by Kyushu Electric Power Co., ended nearly two years in which Japan generated all its electricity without nuclear power. Approval for the restart of a reactor at the Ikata plant, in Ehime Prefecture, operated by Shikoku Electric Power Co., was not given until October and isn’t yet back online.
In giving his approval for a resumption of operations at two Fukui reactors, Nishikawa cited the Kagoshima and Ehime precedents, the assent of his prefectural assembly and of the mayor of Takahama, and safety inspections conducted by the government of Fukui Prefecture. He also noted a separate safety clearance by Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority.
Nishikawa also cited a promise made Dec. 28 by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a meeting of the country’s nuclear disaster prevention council to educate the Japanese people about both the dangers and benefits of nuclear power. He said public understanding of how nuclear power works is an essential condition to restarting the reactors.
Much of the Japanese public remains concerned about safety since the Fukushima disaster, given that Japan is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world.
Since the Fukushima disaster, local governments in areas containing nuclear power plants have been required to establish evacuation plans in the event of possible nuclear accidents, but no such plan has been set to ensure the safety of the approximately 180,000 people living within about 20 miles of the Takahama power plant.
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God Fook all of us, everyone!
Panem must have its energy...
All reactors should be built with a giant lead apron around them. If they fail/blow up, then the shielding is already in place. The corium can burn into the lead and extinguish itself. So simple an idea...
Lead melts at 621 F.
Fissioning Uranium melts at 2070F
You do the maths.
PS I bet you think diesel fuel melts steel as well and 3 buildings fell into their footprint on 911 after 2 planes supposedly hit two of them.
9 Saudis who lost their passports who did it are still live.
Diesel fuel??? What are you a fucking third grader?
Do this experiment: Light a newspaper on fire, then pour a large cup of diesel directly on it.
Now light another newspaper on fire and pour a large cup of jet fuel directly on it.
It's important that you do the diesel first or you won't be able to complete the experiment.
On top of that The EPA outlawed diesel airplanes in 1977
Avgas my bad I'm high
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gER7xe11nz8
Has there been any resident lawsuit filed yet since Cesium 134 was detected along the Californian coast a couple of months back? It would have been a similar case against BP's oil spillage or contamination from GMO crops.
Damn son 75 mph!
I don't know if I would smoke before doing that...
Fuck it.
There is nothing I would not do high.
If you can't do it high, you probably shouldn't be doing it.
Jet A
As long as they use the reactors only on their West coast (facing China).
The rad levels could then mutate the rampant jellyfish into giant monsters, and become a new source of food for them.
Why is anyone even surprised by this? From the second TEPCO and the IAEA started lying about what was happening there and lying about what is happenning today, it was obvious they always intended to restart all the reactors. Miles of Japanese riddled with cancer and covered with tumors protesting night and day will not stop a single reactor from restarting. Japanese are livestock to TEPCO and the nuclear mafia.
Get this through your thick, irradiated skulls: each and every reactor in Japan will be restarted. More will be built. Nothing will change about safety - all the 'changes' are lies except for the crap they already planned on changing before the meltdowns. Do you think they're going to rebuild the plants that have intake pumps and generators built below the water line? Do you think they'll rebuild the inadequate earthquake mitigation? No - they'll add a few release valves and raise the radiation limits. NOTHING - ZERO - is going to change. You can and should be angry abut it, but understand you (and the Japanese) are powerless against the nuclear mafia. That mafia has way more government than you do.
The Japanese are not special, nor are the Chinese or Indians or Russians or anyone else with nuclear reactors. Not if, but when a nuclear disaster on the same scale happens in the U.S., the extent of the cover-up will be the same, the lies will be the same and the result will be exactly the same. All the fucking Twitter petitions in the world and Facebook pictures of tumor-covered fish (or babies) WILL NOT CHANGE THAT.
Shut them all down? FUCK YOU. I'm sick of hearing that delusional, sobbing plea to nobody that will never happen. If you don't have any plan besides "Make the bad things and bad people go away" then shut the hell up. Your childish 'plans' are useless against homicidal psychpaths. Come back when you have a plan based on wood-chipper logic.
Oh, and Merry Christmas, ZHers!
Mankind extinct within 250 years?
Mankind maybe. Japan for sure. They've got themselves well surrounded. Just check out that map.
I don't think so, but humanoids might have seven toes on each of their three feet to go along with the three thumbs on their middle hand.
The question before they restart is have they fixed their oversight problem? If the government just rubber stamps everything, nothing will change.....
"Since the Fukushima disaster, local governments in areas containing nuclear power plants have been required to establish evacuation plans in the event of possible nuclear accidents, but no such plan has been set to ensure the safety of the approximately 180,000 people living within about 20 miles of the Takahama power plant."
http://youtu.be/5NNOrp_83RU
This kind of eugenicist bullshit seems to be enveloping the world right now, doesn't it? I DO NOT CONSENT
Didnt they learn? Those Japs are now being born with birth defects like slanty eyes, short stature, and little peckers.
Maybe Japan needs to design a "floating nuke plant" a couple of miles offshore. When it screws up and starts to melt down, they can just tow it out to sea to a "safe" distance. After all, doesn't everything humanity creates that's toxic end up there anyway? Business as usual. Try to forget you ever heard that "With great power comes great responsibility" line.
Either shut off power to the prefecture, or double electricity rates, or build a smoke belching coal power plant. Like most people today, no one appreciates 'where' things come from, as long as it gets delivered to their homes or nearby stores.
Correct.
Gold bless the oil cartel, the nookular mafia, and the coal barons!
And god bless the USA!
*this post approved of by your local church/republican rep
Or build 100 GW of Solar PV to replace all that Nuke Capacity...
Oh Wait they are already building 50 GW of capacity?
http://www.solarplaza.com/channels/markets/11418/japans-pv-market-outloo...
if they kept up the incentives, they could be at 65 GW now
Fukushima will be with us for many thousands of years:
"The accident is enormous in its medical implications. It will induce an epidemic of cancer as people inhale the radioactive elements, eat radioactive vegetables, rice and meat, and drink radioactive milk and teas. As radiation from ocean contamination bio-accumulates up the food chain … radioactive fish will be caught thousands of miles from Japanese shores. As they are consumed, they will continue the cycle of contamination, proving that no matter where you are, all major nuclear accidents become local. The Fukushima disaster is not over and will never end. The radioactive fallout which remains toxic for hundreds to thousands of years covers large swaths of Japan will never be ‘cleaned up’ and will contaminate food, humans and animals virtually forever."
http://drsircus.com/medicine/fukushima-world%E2%80%99s-radiation-nightma...
Caesium 134 has a radioactive half life of 2.06 years.
Caesium 137 has a half life of just 30 years.
It will not take thousands of years to remove the radiation.Biological damage will take longer to recover but , still ,not thousands of years.
If you draw this out over 8 iterations of the radioactive halflife, 20 years and 240 years respectively you are left with less than 0.5% of the original contamination.
we have much more to worry about from the neo bolsheviks in this country than from fukushima fuel contamination.
8 half lifes does dick, needs 20 half lifes to eradicate
and there's hundreds of radioactive isotopes spewed by Fukushima, not just cesium
plutonium has a half life of 24,000 years, gone in half a million years
uranium 238 hl is 4 billion years, basically never gone
cesium, strontium will be gone in 600 years
Fukushima no big deal you say? let it spew into the air and the Pacific forever
have deformed dying children, and get cancer yourself, your tone will change
don't you know enough people dead or dying of cancer already, and you want more?
scull and bones, perfect avatar for you
And if you evacuated the contaminated areas and stopped the worst of the agricultural contamination that would be good, but, there are other issues, SR-90, etc...
Think of the savings in lighting costs as we all begin to glow in the dark. Jay-walking pedestrians in dark clothing will be safer. Crime should be reduced when criminals find that they can no longer hide in shadows or dark alleys. Your children will no longer require night lights. Glowing fish will be easier to find in the ocean, and dangerous sea creatures like Great White sharks can be more easily seen and avoided.
See? Benefits can be found in any situation if you take the right approach and look hard enough.
I still wonder why the Japanese build so many nuclear plants in places with names that start with "Fuk", however. And how bright should your skin be to qualify as having "a healthy glow"?
For those who wonder how the decay levels are calculated, here's a simple formula:
Relative Level (from present) = (2y/n)-1 where y = years into the future, and n = half life period (years)
E.g. if y=1200 and n=30, then you get 1/(2300/30), or 0.1% after 10 decay periods. After 12 decays periods, it's 0.024%.
Of course it depends entirely on how strong the current level is, before you get seduced by the "small percentage" figure, as a small percent of a large number is still a non-significant number.
As someone once said: "Before we debate, let's define our words and terms." And let's validate our Info and Assumptions. Otherwise you make no progress in the mudslinging that ensues.
It's easy to sit here and criticize them but what are they supposed to do, go without power for a few winters? Pay so much for electricity that they all go broke? Japan is not a resource-rich country. If their oversight problems haven't been fixed then I sympathize with the population, but freezing to death isn't a viable solution.
yet somehow they have survived without nukes,,,,
Oh hey in the 4 years since Fukushima fossil energy is cheaper and Green energy is cheaper, but
it sure looks like the cost of nuclear is wrecking a city.
Six operational reactors at F Daiichi.
WTF BS is this bollocks?
that dont sound too good for NatGas prices. Bring 'em down!
who needs courts or the rule of law when you have bureaucrats and leaders who "know whats best for you"
Well someone has to at least make it technically "legal" i.e. the need for lawyers.
eta
/sarc
I am still wondering if radioactive particles affect the North Pole and weather patterns. Depending on where you get your information, the Antarctic has been building and the Arctic (North) occasionally shrinking. Well, hasn't the northern hemisphere's arctic experienced half a century of nuclear fallout? Your certainly going to get more deposition in the hemisphere from which the radioactivity originates.
Certainly volcanism could be involved and many other things as well but if all of the nuclear testing and particles circulating in the northern hemisphere were to blame we probably wouldn't hear about it.
Did we buy a second backup generator & water proof extension cords?
If so, crank it up. All is well.
Well... I KNOW from the start of fukushima problem, that restarting ALL japan's nuke plants (minus Fukushima), are bound to happens!!
I just surprised. Japan's govt takes the decisions THAT LONG!!
Not because i smart or expert on NPP. Bit jist by looking to this assessment from EIA site.
https://www.eia.gov/beta/international/analysis.cfm?iso=JPN
There is NO OTHER way for Japan's govt that BLEEDS so much money, purchasing fossil fuels, THAT MUCH, to be able to SUSTAINS their national budget for that long.
So, THE ONLY WAY OUT for Japan's govt??
RE-STARTING their perfectly working order (other than Fukushima) NPP plants...
The Nips are only putting those reactors back online because Putin has almost stopped the stolen Syrian/Iraqi oil into Turkey reaching Japan in exchange for Toyota's.
Japan's planning to cull everything that's not radiation hardened.
Since all, or most, nuclear power plants are built on faults, it is clear depopulation is the long term goal.
I thought the BoJ needed to buy even more cheaper oil to keep their inflation farce alive? Won't restarting nuke plants ruin that plan?
Yeah, Kagoshima. That's brilliant. There's an active volcano right across the water from downtown Kagoshima, but it's perfectly safe to put a nuclear fucking power plant there. Guess they want to equalize the radiation throughout the country, the east is pretty much fucked with Fuku, so may as well fuck up the south and west as well.
You have to balance the load or the island will capsize.
"Insanity" - doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results ~ Albert Einstein
I hope when the nukes were shut down they did a better job of it and kept up with the maintenance bettter than they did at San Onofre.
When it was shut down it was discussed on whether or not to install a one horsepower motor to keep the turbine turning at a slow spin, so that the shaft running through it wouldn't "take a set".
They decided to save money and didn't turn the monster [I think 40ftx12 inch hardened steel] shaft that ran through it. When they fired it up the shaft had taken a set and destroyed the bearings on either end shortly.
The housings for those nukes aren't designed to be able to change those shafts out easily. It sucks to get the fire started and then have to shut it down and spend many months rebuilding the turbine.
But maybe they have less arrogant engineers and ptb than we had?
the problem isn't the engineers its the managers, who decide to drop things.
Oppositions always fierce on everything these days but governments always do it regardless. Anyone else notice this?
It seems they built all their green and clean nukes on the coast. What could go wrong?
Japan must pull rods and start up the reactors so that they can discuss if they need to be shutdown!
v/r,
U.S. CONGRESS
They don't have a choice, it's either go back to the dark ages and ride horses with swords or start the reactors. Once they start the reactors, the die is cast, there will be another tsunami. So basically the entire island will be "glow in the dark fucked" at some point as well as California, which is globally downstream.