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Wat moet ik me bij die Duitse "eco towns" voorstellen? Welke Duitse steden heeft men daarbij in gedachten?
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TEPCO confirms damage to part of No. 4 unit's spent nuke fuel
TOKYO, April 13, Kyodo
Some of the spent nuclear fuel rods stored in the No. 4 reactor building of the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi power plant were confirmed to be damaged, but most of them are believed to be in sound condition, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday.
The firm known as TEPCO said its analysis of a 400-milliliter water sample taken Tuesday from the No. 4 unit's spent nuclear fuel pool revealed the damage to some fuel rods in such a pool for the first time, as it detected higher-than-usual levels of radioactive iodine-131, cesium-134 and cesium-137.
The No. 4 reactor, halted for a regular inspection before last month's earthquake and tsunami disaster, had all of its fuel rods stored in the pool for the maintenance work and the fuel was feared to have sustained damage from overheating.
The roof and the upper walls of the No. 4 reactor building have been blown away by a hydrogen explosion and damaged by fires since the disaster struck the plant. The water level in the spent fuel pool is believed to have temporarily dropped.
Earlier in the day, the government's nuclear regulatory agency ordered TEPCO to check the quake resistance of reactor buildings at the Fukushima plant, which have been rocked by strong aftershocks from the magnitude-9.0 earthquake that wrecked the site and triggered tsunami on March 11.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency told the utility to immediately examine the buildings and consider reinforcement work if they are judged as not sufficiently quakeproof.
In addition to the No. 4 unit, the Nos. 1 and 3 reactor buildings have also been severely damaged by hydrogen explosions in the early days of the crisis.
''As strong aftershocks occur almost daily, we have to consider what will happen to buildings already damaged by blasts,'' said Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the nuclear agency.
He acknowledged the difficulties involved in the work to reinforce the quake resistance of the buildings, where radiation levels are high, but said, ''We must devise some ways.'' The agency urged TEPCO to report back to it on the matter as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, Yoko Komiyama, senior vice minister of health, labor and welfare, said Wednesday at a Diet session that a total of 22 workers at the plant have been exposed to radiation exceeding 100 millisieverts as of midnight Tuesday and that the highest level of exposure among them is 198.24 millisieverts.
Exposure to 100 millisieverts is the legal limit for nuclear plant workers dealing with an emergency, but the limit has been raised to 250 millisieverts for the ongoing crisis.
Workers continued Wednesday to remove highly radioactive water in the plant as part of efforts to put an end to the emergency, which is now acknowledged as one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.
TEPCO kept pumping out highly polluted water from an underground tunnel-like trench to a nearby storage area inside the No. 2 reactor's building.
The operation began Tuesday evening and an estimated 600 tons of tainted water was moved to a ''condenser,'' where in normal operations steam from the reactor is converted into water, by around 5 p.m. Wednesday. TEPCO aims to transfer a total of 700 tons of polluted water by Thursday.
Eventually, the operator plans to remove a total of 60,000 tons of contaminated water, found in the basements of the Nos. 1 to 3 reactor turbine buildings as well as the trenches connected to them, and to store it in nearby tanks and other areas.
Nishiyama said that as a result of the operation, the level of highly radioactive water that had been filling up the trench connected to the No. 2 reactor's turbine building was lowered by 8 centimeters by 11 a.m. Wednesday. He added that it will likely take several weeks before the tainted water removal operation ends.
The toxic water is believed to originate from the No. 2 reactor's core, where fuel rods have partially melted. The water, which has also affected other parts of the plant, is hampering efforts to restore the reactors' key cooling functions, lost in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
The nuclear agency also said TEPCO has installed three steel sheets near a seawater intake for the No. 2 reactor and set up ''silt fence'' curtain barriers near intakes for the Nos. 3-4 reactors at the six-reactor plant to block the spread of radioactive substances in water.
Massive amounts of water have been poured into the reactors and their spent nuclear fuel pools as a stopgap measure to cool them down at the Fukushima plant.
But pools of contaminated water have been detected in various parts of the nuclear complex on the Pacific coast, with some water leaking into the sea, as an apparent side effect of the emergency measure. TEPCO successfully stopped the leak of highly radioactive water from a cracked pit on April 6.
==Kyodo
TOKYO, April 13, Kyodo
Some of the spent nuclear fuel rods stored in the No. 4 reactor building of the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi power plant were confirmed to be damaged, but most of them are believed to be in sound condition, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday.
The firm known as TEPCO said its analysis of a 400-milliliter water sample taken Tuesday from the No. 4 unit's spent nuclear fuel pool revealed the damage to some fuel rods in such a pool for the first time, as it detected higher-than-usual levels of radioactive iodine-131, cesium-134 and cesium-137.
The No. 4 reactor, halted for a regular inspection before last month's earthquake and tsunami disaster, had all of its fuel rods stored in the pool for the maintenance work and the fuel was feared to have sustained damage from overheating.
The roof and the upper walls of the No. 4 reactor building have been blown away by a hydrogen explosion and damaged by fires since the disaster struck the plant. The water level in the spent fuel pool is believed to have temporarily dropped.
Earlier in the day, the government's nuclear regulatory agency ordered TEPCO to check the quake resistance of reactor buildings at the Fukushima plant, which have been rocked by strong aftershocks from the magnitude-9.0 earthquake that wrecked the site and triggered tsunami on March 11.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency told the utility to immediately examine the buildings and consider reinforcement work if they are judged as not sufficiently quakeproof.
In addition to the No. 4 unit, the Nos. 1 and 3 reactor buildings have also been severely damaged by hydrogen explosions in the early days of the crisis.
''As strong aftershocks occur almost daily, we have to consider what will happen to buildings already damaged by blasts,'' said Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the nuclear agency.
He acknowledged the difficulties involved in the work to reinforce the quake resistance of the buildings, where radiation levels are high, but said, ''We must devise some ways.'' The agency urged TEPCO to report back to it on the matter as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, Yoko Komiyama, senior vice minister of health, labor and welfare, said Wednesday at a Diet session that a total of 22 workers at the plant have been exposed to radiation exceeding 100 millisieverts as of midnight Tuesday and that the highest level of exposure among them is 198.24 millisieverts.
Exposure to 100 millisieverts is the legal limit for nuclear plant workers dealing with an emergency, but the limit has been raised to 250 millisieverts for the ongoing crisis.
Workers continued Wednesday to remove highly radioactive water in the plant as part of efforts to put an end to the emergency, which is now acknowledged as one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.
TEPCO kept pumping out highly polluted water from an underground tunnel-like trench to a nearby storage area inside the No. 2 reactor's building.
The operation began Tuesday evening and an estimated 600 tons of tainted water was moved to a ''condenser,'' where in normal operations steam from the reactor is converted into water, by around 5 p.m. Wednesday. TEPCO aims to transfer a total of 700 tons of polluted water by Thursday.
Eventually, the operator plans to remove a total of 60,000 tons of contaminated water, found in the basements of the Nos. 1 to 3 reactor turbine buildings as well as the trenches connected to them, and to store it in nearby tanks and other areas.
Nishiyama said that as a result of the operation, the level of highly radioactive water that had been filling up the trench connected to the No. 2 reactor's turbine building was lowered by 8 centimeters by 11 a.m. Wednesday. He added that it will likely take several weeks before the tainted water removal operation ends.
The toxic water is believed to originate from the No. 2 reactor's core, where fuel rods have partially melted. The water, which has also affected other parts of the plant, is hampering efforts to restore the reactors' key cooling functions, lost in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
The nuclear agency also said TEPCO has installed three steel sheets near a seawater intake for the No. 2 reactor and set up ''silt fence'' curtain barriers near intakes for the Nos. 3-4 reactors at the six-reactor plant to block the spread of radioactive substances in water.
Massive amounts of water have been poured into the reactors and their spent nuclear fuel pools as a stopgap measure to cool them down at the Fukushima plant.
But pools of contaminated water have been detected in various parts of the nuclear complex on the Pacific coast, with some water leaking into the sea, as an apparent side effect of the emergency measure. TEPCO successfully stopped the leak of highly radioactive water from a cracked pit on April 6.
==Kyodo
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Om eerlijk te zijn dacht ik aan milieu vriendelijke energie enzo , maar het is een of ander concept voor wijk en stedenbouw , op internet google kwam ik in duitsland uit (2 steden) maar over eco-groene-energie kwam ik zo gauw niks tegen. het concept leent zich volgens mij goed tegen CO2 uitstoot enzo.quote:Op woensdag 13 april 2011 15:20 schreef DDDDDaaf het volgende:
Wat moet ik me bij die Duitse "eco towns" voorstellen? Welke Duitse steden heeft men daarbij in gedachten?
Dus eigenlijk heeft het artikel weinig uit te staan met kerncentrales, sorry had het eerst beter moeten uitpluizen(google-en)
hier een linkje naar eco-town germany:
http://showcase.homesandc(...)reiburg-germany.html
[ Bericht 7% gewijzigd door Dance99Vv op 13-04-2011 15:31:32 ]
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TEPCO may resume operations of No. 3 reactor in Niigataquote:
NEWS ADVISORY: TEPCO seeks to restart No. 3 reactor of nuclear plant in Niigata
TOKYO, April 13, Kyodo
The chief of Tokyo Electric Power Co. expressed his desire Wednesday to restart by the yearend the operations of the No. 3 nuclear reactor at a Niigata Prefecture nuclear plant damaged by an earthquake that ravaged the prefecture in 2007.
''We would like to begin procedures for the No. 3 reactor by the end of the year,'' President Masataka Shimizu said of the status of the Nos. 2, 3 and 4 reactors that have been suspended since the 2007 temblor.
TEPCO ''would like to operate the reactor while deploying power-source vehicles and implementing measures to withstand tsunamis,'' he told a news conference, indicating the company will reinforce the reactor building to prepare for possible further earthquakes.
The Kashizawaki-Kariwa nuclear plant, fitted with a total of seven reactors, was hit by the magnitude-6.8 temblor on July 16, 2007.
TEPCO said in a 2007 report the plant developed a total of 50 cases of radioactive water leaks, fire at its transformer and other problems as a result of the 2007 quake.
Shimizu remained noncommittal on the fate of the Higashidori nuclear power plant which TEPCO is now building in Higashidori, Aomori Prefecture.
==Kyodo
There is only one religion
Ja precies. De mens legt meer druk op de natuur dan de straling.quote:
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De omgeving van Chernobyl heeft nu ook opeens weer allerlei diersoorten die daar allang waren uitgestorven.
Excessive radioactive cesium found in fish caught off Fukushima
TOKYO, April 13, Kyodo
Radioactive cesium 25 times above the legal limit for consumption was detected Wednesday in young sand lance caught off Fukushima Prefecture, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said.
One of the sample fish had a level of cesium of 12,500 becquerels per kilogram about 500 meters off the city of Iwaki, and 35 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, it said. The limit is 500 becquerels under the Food Sanitation Law.
==Kyodo
TOKYO, April 13, Kyodo
Radioactive cesium 25 times above the legal limit for consumption was detected Wednesday in young sand lance caught off Fukushima Prefecture, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said.
One of the sample fish had a level of cesium of 12,500 becquerels per kilogram about 500 meters off the city of Iwaki, and 35 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, it said. The limit is 500 becquerels under the Food Sanitation Law.
==Kyodo
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De titel dekt de lading niet helemaal, nav eerdere metingen beweren de wetenschappers in het filmpje dat de eerdere explosie nucleair van aard kan zijn geweest en geen waterstofexplosie.quote:
quote:Using ratios of the radionuclides Xenon 133 and Xenon 133m which they measured by gamma spectrometer, the Russians demonstrated that the Chernobyl explosion was a fission criticality explosion and not principally a hydrogen explosion as has been claimed.
Dr. Busby told Alex Jones that short of actual isotope readings, he cannot definitely state that the explosions at Fukushima were nuclear, although he believes they were. "We don't have evidence of that," he concluded, "we would need to have the Xenon isotope ratios."
http://www.infowars.com/t(...)ce-atomic-explosion/
We must guard against the aquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
Eisenhower1961.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
Eisenhower1961.
Welke diersoorten?quote:
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De omgeving van Chernobyl heeft nu ook opeens weer allerlei diersoorten die daar allang waren uitgestorven.
quote:
Tja, als de mens er wegtrekt , vrij logisch.quote:rare species, such as lynx, Przewalski's horses, and eagle owls, are thriving where most humans fear to tread.
http://news.nationalgeogr(...)60426_chernobyl.html
Maar wat gebeurt er met die dieren ?
Maar gelukkig is er DNA.quote:Surprisingly, there are few data on the abundance of animals in relation to radiation, and there have been no efforts to extensively census invertebrates in relation to radiation.
http://rsbl.royalsocietyp(...)29-92bb-d0136c8be211
Deze b.v. ?quote:"What we have discovered is that when we look at the species in Chernobyl, we can predict, based on their substitution rates, which ones are most vulnerable to contaminants."
Brightly coloured birds and birds that have a long distance migration were some of the organisms most likely to be affected by contaminants.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11023530
The sooty shearwaters' migration routes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5242360.stm
We must guard against the aquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
Eisenhower1961.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
Eisenhower1961.
Onder andere lynxen, beren, oehoe's en de grote zilverreigerquote:
"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans"
Mijn reisverslagen
Mijn reisverslagen
Planning tweede kerncentrale in Nederland gaat door
Uitgegeven: 13 april 2011 17:26
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DEN HAAG - Het kabinet gaat door met de inplanning van een tweede kerncentrale. Dat heeft minister Verhagen van Economische Zaken gezegd in de marge van een Duits-Nederlands ondernemersforum in Berlijn tijdens het staatsbezoek van Koningin Beatrix.
© ANPHet besluit ter goedkeuring van de ruimtelijke inplanning wordt vandaag naar de Tweede Kamer gestuurd.
Verhagen wees erop dat lessen uit de gebeurtenissen in Japan een rol zullen spelen bij de concrete eisen die aan een nieuwe kerncentrale zullen worden gesteld, omdat veiligheid en zorgvuldigheid voorop moeten staan.
Volgens het Kabinet moet de kans op een ernstig ongeval met een kerncentrale kleiner zijn dan een keer in de miljoen jaar.
Sluiten
Verhagen wil het proces ter voorbereiding van een nieuwe kerncentrale niet stilleggen. Duitsland wil 7 van de 17 kerncentrales sluiten. De rest staat onder curatele tot een hernieuw onderzoek naar de veiligheidsrisicos is afgerond. Dat rapport wordt half juni verwacht. Verhagen zegt deze uitkomsten zeker te willen meenemen en bestuderen.
Maar ieder land moet uiteindelijk zelf zijn afweging blijven maken. Ook het Internationaal Atoom Agentschap in Wenen, IAEA, komt met nieuwe analyses.
Eén centrale
Borssele biedt volgens Verhagen, die een onderzoek liet uitvoeren door ingenieursbureau Arcadis, plaats aan slechts één nieuwe kerncentrale.
Op dit moment hebben twee bedrijven, Delta en ERH, kenbaar gemaakt een nieuwe kerncentrale in Borssele te willen bouwen. ERH is in handen van voormalige aandeelhouders van energiebedrijf Essent, Delta is de eigenaar van de bestaande kerncentrale in de Zeeuwse plaats.
Verhagen zegt dat de overheid geen voorkeur heeft voor een van de energiebedrijven. Eind vorig jaar liet Verhagen weten te onderzoeken of het ruimtelijk mogelijk is de beide aanvragen te honoreren.
© NU.nl/ANP
Uitgegeven: 13 april 2011 17:26
Laatst gewijzigd: 13 april 2011 18:46
DEN HAAG - Het kabinet gaat door met de inplanning van een tweede kerncentrale. Dat heeft minister Verhagen van Economische Zaken gezegd in de marge van een Duits-Nederlands ondernemersforum in Berlijn tijdens het staatsbezoek van Koningin Beatrix.
© ANPHet besluit ter goedkeuring van de ruimtelijke inplanning wordt vandaag naar de Tweede Kamer gestuurd.
Verhagen wees erop dat lessen uit de gebeurtenissen in Japan een rol zullen spelen bij de concrete eisen die aan een nieuwe kerncentrale zullen worden gesteld, omdat veiligheid en zorgvuldigheid voorop moeten staan.
Volgens het Kabinet moet de kans op een ernstig ongeval met een kerncentrale kleiner zijn dan een keer in de miljoen jaar.
Sluiten
Verhagen wil het proces ter voorbereiding van een nieuwe kerncentrale niet stilleggen. Duitsland wil 7 van de 17 kerncentrales sluiten. De rest staat onder curatele tot een hernieuw onderzoek naar de veiligheidsrisicos is afgerond. Dat rapport wordt half juni verwacht. Verhagen zegt deze uitkomsten zeker te willen meenemen en bestuderen.
Maar ieder land moet uiteindelijk zelf zijn afweging blijven maken. Ook het Internationaal Atoom Agentschap in Wenen, IAEA, komt met nieuwe analyses.
Eén centrale
Borssele biedt volgens Verhagen, die een onderzoek liet uitvoeren door ingenieursbureau Arcadis, plaats aan slechts één nieuwe kerncentrale.
Op dit moment hebben twee bedrijven, Delta en ERH, kenbaar gemaakt een nieuwe kerncentrale in Borssele te willen bouwen. ERH is in handen van voormalige aandeelhouders van energiebedrijf Essent, Delta is de eigenaar van de bestaande kerncentrale in de Zeeuwse plaats.
Verhagen zegt dat de overheid geen voorkeur heeft voor een van de energiebedrijven. Eind vorig jaar liet Verhagen weten te onderzoeken of het ruimtelijk mogelijk is de beide aanvragen te honoreren.
© NU.nl/ANP
There is only one religion
No shit!quote:
TEPCO confirms damage to part of No. 4 unit's spent nuke fuel
Een hele maand hebben ze daarvoor nodig gehad.
Anyhoe, volgens Gundersen komt daar nog steeds het grootste gevaar vandaan.
Japan continues to struggle to remove highly toxic water at plant
TOKYO, April 14, Kyodo
The difficult task of removing highly radioactive water at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant continued Thursday, with the level of polluted water in the plant's underground trench found to be edging up again that morning after some 660 tons were pumped out.
The removal of some 60,000 tons of contaminated water from the basements of the Nos. 1 to 3 reactor turbine buildings as well as trenches connected to them is vital, as the water is hampering work to restore key cooling functions of the reactors lost in the March 11 killer earthquake and ensuing tsunami.
Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. pumped out about 660 tons of highly radioactive water Tuesday and Wednesday from one of the trenches to a ''condenser'' inside the nearby No. 2 reactor turbine building, where in normal operations steam from the reactor is converted into water.
But the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said that the water level at the vertical part of the trench as of 7 a.m. Thursday had increased by about 3.5 centimeters from the level observed at 6 p.m. Wednesday.
The level of the water is 2.5 centimeters lower than just before the water-transferring mission started.
Hidehiko Nishiyama, the agency's spokesman, said that the rise in the water level is likely linked to the continued injection of water injection into the No. 2 reactor core, which is necessary to prevent the nuclear fuel inside from overheating.
''As there is believed to be around 20,000 tons of water (in the No. 2 reactor turbine building and the trench connected to it), we feel the difficulty of lowering the level of the water in a stable manner,'' he said.
Tokyo Electric, known as TEPCO, is preparing to transfer more of the highly radioactive water into a facility for nuclear waste disposal in the plant, which can accommodate 30,000 tons of liquid.
The water in and around the No. 2 reactor turbine building is believed to contain higher concentrations of radioactive substances than other contaminated water found at the site, and is believed to originate from the No. 2 reactor's core, where fuel rods have partially melted.
TEPCO also started looking into how to check the quake resistance of already heavily damaged reactor buildings at the site in line with an order issued Wednesday by the government's nuclear regulatory agency, in light of strong aftershocks from the March 11 quake.
The agency has told the utility to immediately examine the buildings and consider reinforcement work if they are judged as not sufficiently quakeproof.
TEPCO, however, has said that it cannot ''immediately conduct an investigation'' unless it confirms the safety of areas where checkups will be conducted.
To enhance preparation for tsunami waves triggered by aftershocks and other emergency situations, emergency diesel power or vehicle-mounted power sources are to be placed at higher ground, while backup units for water injection to the troubled Nos. 1 to 3 reactors are expected to be installed, according to the nuclear agency.
==Kyodo
TOKYO, April 14, Kyodo
The difficult task of removing highly radioactive water at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant continued Thursday, with the level of polluted water in the plant's underground trench found to be edging up again that morning after some 660 tons were pumped out.
The removal of some 60,000 tons of contaminated water from the basements of the Nos. 1 to 3 reactor turbine buildings as well as trenches connected to them is vital, as the water is hampering work to restore key cooling functions of the reactors lost in the March 11 killer earthquake and ensuing tsunami.
Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. pumped out about 660 tons of highly radioactive water Tuesday and Wednesday from one of the trenches to a ''condenser'' inside the nearby No. 2 reactor turbine building, where in normal operations steam from the reactor is converted into water.
But the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said that the water level at the vertical part of the trench as of 7 a.m. Thursday had increased by about 3.5 centimeters from the level observed at 6 p.m. Wednesday.
The level of the water is 2.5 centimeters lower than just before the water-transferring mission started.
Hidehiko Nishiyama, the agency's spokesman, said that the rise in the water level is likely linked to the continued injection of water injection into the No. 2 reactor core, which is necessary to prevent the nuclear fuel inside from overheating.
''As there is believed to be around 20,000 tons of water (in the No. 2 reactor turbine building and the trench connected to it), we feel the difficulty of lowering the level of the water in a stable manner,'' he said.
Tokyo Electric, known as TEPCO, is preparing to transfer more of the highly radioactive water into a facility for nuclear waste disposal in the plant, which can accommodate 30,000 tons of liquid.
The water in and around the No. 2 reactor turbine building is believed to contain higher concentrations of radioactive substances than other contaminated water found at the site, and is believed to originate from the No. 2 reactor's core, where fuel rods have partially melted.
TEPCO also started looking into how to check the quake resistance of already heavily damaged reactor buildings at the site in line with an order issued Wednesday by the government's nuclear regulatory agency, in light of strong aftershocks from the March 11 quake.
The agency has told the utility to immediately examine the buildings and consider reinforcement work if they are judged as not sufficiently quakeproof.
TEPCO, however, has said that it cannot ''immediately conduct an investigation'' unless it confirms the safety of areas where checkups will be conducted.
To enhance preparation for tsunami waves triggered by aftershocks and other emergency situations, emergency diesel power or vehicle-mounted power sources are to be placed at higher ground, while backup units for water injection to the troubled Nos. 1 to 3 reactors are expected to be installed, according to the nuclear agency.
==Kyodo
There is only one religion
Kyodo brengt het nieuws net zo klote als CNN: een zooi losse 1 regelige paragrafen die onderlinkg totaal niet op elkaar aansluiten. Het verschil is dat het Kyodo nieuws inhoudelijk wel klopt.
quote:
Oorlog is vrede
Vrijheid is slavernij
Onwetendheid is kracht
-George Orwell
Vrijheid is slavernij
Onwetendheid is kracht
-George Orwell
Ik ben het met je eens, het leest echt verschrikkelijk..quote:
Kyodo brengt het nieuws net zo klote als CNN: een zooi losse 1 regelige paragrafen die onderlinkg totaal niet op elkaar aansluiten. Het verschil is dat het Kyodo nieuws inhoudelijk wel klopt.
Bijna onleesbaar. Leesonvriendelijk..
Ik kom niet ver in ieder geval. En moet er maar van uit gaan dat het een beetje minder gevaarlijk is geworden. Alhoewel ik me zeer afvraag of dat nou het geval is. In ieder geval hoop ik niet dat het nog een gevaar gaat opleveren voor ons. In welke vorm dan ook. Geimporteerd voedsel liever ook niet.
Maar ja zo ver lijkt het niet te zijn gekomen..
Dat is dezelfde "expert" die kortgeleden nog zei dat het allemaal wel meeviel en we ons vooral geen zorgen hoefden te maken omdat de ramp klein was en niet erger kon worden...quote:
censuur :O
Ik denk dat je in de war bent met iemand anders. Gundersen heeft juist steeds gezegd dat het onderschat werd en potentieel Tsernobyl gemakkelijk kon overtreffen.quote:
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Dat is dezelfde "expert" die kortgeleden nog zei dat het allemaal wel meeviel en we ons vooral geen zorgen hoefden te maken omdat de ramp klein was en niet erger kon worden...
Meer straling in grondwater Fukushima I
Uitgegeven: 14 april 2011 19:50
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TOKIO - Het grondwater in de omgeving van de gehavende Japanse kerncentrale Fukushima I is besmet geraakt. De hoeveelheid radioactief jodium en cesium is de afgelopen week fors toegenomen.
© ANPWaarschijnlijk sijpelt water uit de reactoren de bodem in. Dat heeft energiebedrijf Tepco, eigenaar van het complex, donderdag laten weten aan het Japanse persbureau Kyodo.
De concentratie cesium-134 in het grondwater werd in een week tijd bijna veertig keer zo hoog. Het jodium-131-peil steeg in dezelfde periode met een factor vijf.
De kernreactoren van Fukushima I raakten zwaar beschadigd bij de aardbeving en de daaropvolgende tsunami, die Japan meer dan een maand geleden troffen.
Straling lekt en veel omwonenden zijn geëvacueerd. Reddingswerkers zijn er nog altijd niet in geslaagd de centrale onder controle te krijgen.
Uitgegeven: 14 april 2011 19:50
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TOKIO - Het grondwater in de omgeving van de gehavende Japanse kerncentrale Fukushima I is besmet geraakt. De hoeveelheid radioactief jodium en cesium is de afgelopen week fors toegenomen.
© ANPWaarschijnlijk sijpelt water uit de reactoren de bodem in. Dat heeft energiebedrijf Tepco, eigenaar van het complex, donderdag laten weten aan het Japanse persbureau Kyodo.
De concentratie cesium-134 in het grondwater werd in een week tijd bijna veertig keer zo hoog. Het jodium-131-peil steeg in dezelfde periode met een factor vijf.
De kernreactoren van Fukushima I raakten zwaar beschadigd bij de aardbeving en de daaropvolgende tsunami, die Japan meer dan een maand geleden troffen.
Straling lekt en veel omwonenden zijn geëvacueerd. Reddingswerkers zijn er nog altijd niet in geslaagd de centrale onder controle te krijgen.
There is only one religion
En hier het kyodo artikel :
Groundwater radiation level at nuke plant rises: TEPCO
TOKYO, April 15, Kyodo
The concentration levels of radioactive iodine and cesium in groundwater near the troubled Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have increased up to several dozen times in one week, suggesting that toxic water has seeped from nearby reactor turbine buildings or elsewhere, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday.
The announcement came as the plant operator continued to grapple with pools of highly radioactive water found on the plant's premises, with the level of polluted water filling an underground trench edging up again after the company finished pumping out around 660 tons of water.
According to the latest findings, a groundwater sample taken April 6 near the No. 1 reactor turbine building showed radioactive iodine-131 of 72 becquerels per cubic meter, with the concentration level growing to 400 becquerels as of Wednesday. The concentration level of cesium-134 increased from 1.4 becquerels to 53 becquerels.
The government's nuclear regulatory agency said it had ordered the utility firm known as TEPCO to enhance monitoring of groundwater inside the plant, which is located on the Pacific coast.
A total of around 60,000 tons of contaminated water is believed to be flooding the basements of the Nos. 1 to 3 reactor turbine buildings as well as trenches connected to them, and the water is hampering work to restore the cooling functions of the reactors lost since the March 11 earthquake and ensuing tsunami.
The pools of contaminated water are believed to be a side effect of TEPCO's emergency efforts to continue injecting water into the reactors and their spent nuclear fuel pools from outside to cool them down.
TEPCO pumped out around 660 tons of highly radioactive water Tuesday and Wednesday from one of the trenches to a ''condenser'' inside the nearby No. 2 reactor turbine building, where during normal operation steam from the reactor is converted into water.
But the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said the water level in the vertical part of the trench as of 11 a.m. Thursday had increased by about 4.5 centimeters from the level observed at 6 p.m. Wednesday.
The level of the water is now only 1.5 centimeters lower than shortly before the water-transfer mission started at 7:35 p.m. Tuesday.
Hidehiko Nishiyama, the agency's spokesman, told a press conference Thursday morning that the rise in the water level is likely linked to the continued injection of water into the No. 2 reactor core, which is necessary to prevent the nuclear fuel inside from overheating.
''As there is believed to be around 20,000 tons of water (in the No. 2 reactor turbine building and the trench connected to it), we're feeling the difficulty of lowering the level of the water in a stable manner,'' he said.
TEPCO is preparing to transfer more of the highly radioactive water into a facility for nuclear waste disposal at the plant, which can accommodate 30,000 tons of liquid.
Work is under way to ensure that the facility will be able to contain highly radioactive water safely without fear of the stored liquid leaking outside, but Nishiyama told the press conference that he was not sure when it would end.
The water in and around the No. 2 reactor turbine building is believed to contain higher concentrations of radioactive substances than other contaminated water found at the site, and is believed to originate from the No. 2 reactor's core, where fuel rods have partially melted.
The agency decided to remove water from the trench first as it feared that the water inside the trench would overflow and leak into the Pacific Ocean.
TEPCO also started looking into how to check the quake resistance of already heavily damaged reactor buildings at the site in line with an order issued Wednesday by the nuclear regulatory agency, in light of a series of strong aftershocks of the March 11 quake.
The agency has told the utility to immediately examine the buildings and consider reinforcement work if they are judged as not sufficiently quakeproof.
TEPCO, however, has said that it cannot ''immediately conduct an investigation'' unless it confirms the safety of areas where checks will be conducted.
To enhance preparation for tsunami waves triggered by aftershocks and other emergency situations, emergency diesel power generators and vehicle-mounted power sources are to be placed on higher ground, while backup units for water injection at the troubled Nos. 1 to 3 reactors are expected to be installed, according to the nuclear agency.
Meanwhile, concern grew over the state of the No. 3 reactor at one point, as the agency said in the afternoon that the temperature of part of its reactor pressure vessel was found to be rising suddenly.
But TEPCO officials said the data were likely due to a glitch in a measuring instrument, because other temperature data related to the vessel has not shown a similar rise.
==Kyodo
Groundwater radiation level at nuke plant rises: TEPCO
TOKYO, April 15, Kyodo
The concentration levels of radioactive iodine and cesium in groundwater near the troubled Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have increased up to several dozen times in one week, suggesting that toxic water has seeped from nearby reactor turbine buildings or elsewhere, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday.
The announcement came as the plant operator continued to grapple with pools of highly radioactive water found on the plant's premises, with the level of polluted water filling an underground trench edging up again after the company finished pumping out around 660 tons of water.
According to the latest findings, a groundwater sample taken April 6 near the No. 1 reactor turbine building showed radioactive iodine-131 of 72 becquerels per cubic meter, with the concentration level growing to 400 becquerels as of Wednesday. The concentration level of cesium-134 increased from 1.4 becquerels to 53 becquerels.
The government's nuclear regulatory agency said it had ordered the utility firm known as TEPCO to enhance monitoring of groundwater inside the plant, which is located on the Pacific coast.
A total of around 60,000 tons of contaminated water is believed to be flooding the basements of the Nos. 1 to 3 reactor turbine buildings as well as trenches connected to them, and the water is hampering work to restore the cooling functions of the reactors lost since the March 11 earthquake and ensuing tsunami.
The pools of contaminated water are believed to be a side effect of TEPCO's emergency efforts to continue injecting water into the reactors and their spent nuclear fuel pools from outside to cool them down.
TEPCO pumped out around 660 tons of highly radioactive water Tuesday and Wednesday from one of the trenches to a ''condenser'' inside the nearby No. 2 reactor turbine building, where during normal operation steam from the reactor is converted into water.
But the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said the water level in the vertical part of the trench as of 11 a.m. Thursday had increased by about 4.5 centimeters from the level observed at 6 p.m. Wednesday.
The level of the water is now only 1.5 centimeters lower than shortly before the water-transfer mission started at 7:35 p.m. Tuesday.
Hidehiko Nishiyama, the agency's spokesman, told a press conference Thursday morning that the rise in the water level is likely linked to the continued injection of water into the No. 2 reactor core, which is necessary to prevent the nuclear fuel inside from overheating.
''As there is believed to be around 20,000 tons of water (in the No. 2 reactor turbine building and the trench connected to it), we're feeling the difficulty of lowering the level of the water in a stable manner,'' he said.
TEPCO is preparing to transfer more of the highly radioactive water into a facility for nuclear waste disposal at the plant, which can accommodate 30,000 tons of liquid.
Work is under way to ensure that the facility will be able to contain highly radioactive water safely without fear of the stored liquid leaking outside, but Nishiyama told the press conference that he was not sure when it would end.
The water in and around the No. 2 reactor turbine building is believed to contain higher concentrations of radioactive substances than other contaminated water found at the site, and is believed to originate from the No. 2 reactor's core, where fuel rods have partially melted.
The agency decided to remove water from the trench first as it feared that the water inside the trench would overflow and leak into the Pacific Ocean.
TEPCO also started looking into how to check the quake resistance of already heavily damaged reactor buildings at the site in line with an order issued Wednesday by the nuclear regulatory agency, in light of a series of strong aftershocks of the March 11 quake.
The agency has told the utility to immediately examine the buildings and consider reinforcement work if they are judged as not sufficiently quakeproof.
TEPCO, however, has said that it cannot ''immediately conduct an investigation'' unless it confirms the safety of areas where checks will be conducted.
To enhance preparation for tsunami waves triggered by aftershocks and other emergency situations, emergency diesel power generators and vehicle-mounted power sources are to be placed on higher ground, while backup units for water injection at the troubled Nos. 1 to 3 reactors are expected to be installed, according to the nuclear agency.
Meanwhile, concern grew over the state of the No. 3 reactor at one point, as the agency said in the afternoon that the temperature of part of its reactor pressure vessel was found to be rising suddenly.
But TEPCO officials said the data were likely due to a glitch in a measuring instrument, because other temperature data related to the vessel has not shown a similar rise.
==Kyodo
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Ik krijg vaag het idee dat het zo een beetje blijft: reactor gebouwen die door de straling de eerstkomende maanden niet meer te betreden zijn, en dat er een beetje gekoeld wordt met water van bovenaf?!?
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Lego verkauft „Fukushima“-Figuren
Lego-Sprecherin Helena Seppelfricke (31) zu BILD: „Die Figur ist seit April 2011 auf dem Markt, wurde aber schon vor mehr als einem Jahr entwickelt. Im Zusammenhang mit der Japan-Katastrophe haben wir unsere Produktpalette sofort überprüft. Unsere japanischen Kollegen meinten aber, dass die Figuren dort positiv aufgenommen werden. Schließlich handelt es sich ja um Helden.“
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