Kerncentrales Japan #29

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Op dinsdag 13 september 2011 10:48 schreef jeoff het volgende:
Ik besef dat doomsday filmpjes en berichten van vaak dubieuze bronnen veel spannender zijn om te lezen maar dat betekent natuurlijk niet dat nieuws van serieuze bronnen niet ook gemeld moet worden. (ook al brengen de serieuze bronnen natuurlijk alleen maar 'onzin' om het volk rustig te houden volgens velen).

IAEA: Reactoren centrale Fukushima I stabiel
Internationaal • Geschreven door ANP op 12-09-2011 @ 17:12

De reactoren van de Japanse kerncentrale Fukushima I 'zijn in essentie stabiel'. Dat heeft het hoofd van de VN-atoomwaakhond IAEA, de Japanner Yukiya Amano, maandag gezegd. De organisatie verwacht dat de reactoren volgens planning kunnen worden stilgelegd.

De kerncentrale Fukushima I raakte zwaarbeschadigd door de aardbeving en de tsunami van 11 maart. De koeling viel uit, wat leidde tot het gedeeltelijke smelten van de splijtstofstaven.

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Kyoto U. expert: Melted fuel may have sunk into ground — “We are now head to head with a situation that mankind has never faced before”
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/pe(...)2a00m0na016000c.html

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Fukushima reactors continue to emit significant quantities of radioactive gases — Latest figure is a Gigabecquerel per day
http://enenews.com/nuclea(...)abecquerel-day-audio

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Before the Fukushima crisis can be said contained, the holes and cracks from which the water and fuel are escaping must be located and sealed. But this extremely difficult task could take years because the radiation near the reactors is simply too high to let workers get near them.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110911f1.html

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Expert: Already hearing reports of kids suffering heart attacks — Beware deadly cardiac problems in children caused by Fukushima radiation
http://enenews.com/expert(...)affected-areas-video

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Secretary-General Nobuteru Ishihara stated, “Geiger counters costing between 40,000 and 50,000 yen ($500-600) provide patchy measurements. We have to try and stop citizens from taking their own radiation measurements.
http://enenews.com/report(...)ion-measurements-nhk

Radiation check at Hachioji station-1

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Radiation expert says outcome of nuke crisis hard to predict, warns of further dangers

At the No. 1 reactor, there's a chance that melted fuel has burned through the bottom of the pressure vessel, the containment vessel and the floor of the reactor building, and has sunk into the ground. From there, radioactive materials may be seeping into the ocean and groundwater.

Meanwhile, it is necessary to keep cooling the No. 2 and 3 reactors, which are believed to still contain some fuel, but the cooling system itself is unstable. If the fuel were to become overheated again and melt, coming into contact with water and trigger a steam explosion, more radioactive materials will be released.

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GSDF holds emergency evacuation drill near stricken Fukushima nuclear plant

The scenario for the drill presupposed further meltdown of the Fukushima plant's No. 3 reactor core, and a local accumulation of radioactive materials emitting 20 millisieverts of radiation within the next four days. A total of some 400 GSDF personnel were deployed for the drill held in the municipalities of Minamisoma, Tamura, Kawauchi, Hirono, Tomioka and Naraha. Thirty-two municipal workers and firefighters along with 18 local residents also joined the drill.

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Radioactive cesium from Fukushima on tour of Pacific Ocean
Radioactive cesium from the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant is circulating with the currents in the Pacific Ocean and will wash up on Japan's shores again in between 20 and 30 years.

By Julian Ryall in Tokyo

7:00AM BST 15 Sep 2011

Scientists from the government's Meteorological Research Institute and the Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Industry announced their findings at a meeting of the Geochemical Society of Japan this week, adding that some of the cesium will also flow into the Indian Ocean and, eventually, reach the Atlantic.

The scientists estimated that some 3,500 terabecquerels of cesium-137 was released into the sea directly from the plant between March 11, when the earthquake and tsunami struck, and the end of May. Another 10,000 terabecquerels of cesium fell into the ocean after escaping from the reactors in the form of steam.

One terabecquerel is a trillion becquerels, the standard measure of radiation, and the Japanese government has set the permissible level of iodine-131 for vegetables and fish at 2,000 becquerels per kilogram (2.2lbs).

Cesium is considered a more serious threat, however, because of its relatively long half-life. Cesium has a half-life of around 30 years, can accumulate in muscles and is a known cause of cancer.

The researchers believe that the cesium has initially dispersed into the Pacific from the coast of Fukushima Prefecture but will be taken to the southwest by the prevailing currents at a depth of around 1,300 feet. Just short of the International Date Line, the shifting currents will take the cesium close to the Philippines before it again turns north on the Japan Current.

http://www.telegraph.co.u(...)f-Pacific-Ocean.html

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The Yomiuri Shimbun

NISSHIN, Aichi--An annual fireworks festival in Nisshin, Aichi Prefecture, decided not to use any fireworks produced in Fukushima Prefecture after local residents expressed concern that such products could spread harmful radioactive materials.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110919004259.htm

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After radioactive caesium exceeding the government-set provisional limit of 500 becquerels a kilogram was detected in some wild mushrooms, the shipment was banned in 43 municipalities.

http://www.smh.com.au/env(...)-20110918-1kfym.html

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VIENNA (AP) — A Japanese government minister says his country plans to bring water temperatures under control at the reactors of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant by the end of this year.

http://news.yahoo.com/jap(...)lower-143155366.html

URGENT info Japan Fukushima Radiation _ What is being done.flv

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Japan Officials Failed to Hand Out Radiation Pills in Quake's Aftermath

TOKYO—Government officials failed to distribute to thousands of people pills that could have minimized radiation risks from the March nuclear accident, government documents show.

The disclosure is the latest evidence of government neglect of emergency procedures in the chaotic days after the disaster, in which an earthquake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
http://online.wsj.com/art(...)596321581004368.html

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The leakage very likely isn’t over, either. The Tokyo Electric Power Company, the operator of the plant, said Sept. 20 that it believed that something on the order of 200 to 500 tons a day of groundwater might still be pouring into the damaged reactor and turbine buildings.
http://green.blogs.nytime(...)me-surprises-at-sea/

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Shadow minister Jack Dromey has hailed UK nuclear power as a "sunrise industry" and dismissed safety fears.

"The possibility of a Fukushima-type accident in Britain is as remote as me getting hit by a meteor," he told a Labour conference fringe meeting.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15063596

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SkyNewsBreak twitterde op donderdag 29-09-2011 om 12:33:43 Reuters: Magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes Fukushima region in Japan, no problems reported at nuclear plant reageer retweet

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Plutonium detected outside N-plant site
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T111001002464.htm

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Het langverwachte boek ‘Stralingstekort - Stel dat straling eigenlijk goed voor je is’ over de redeloze angst voor straling en de gezondheidsbevorderende effecten van lage doses straling is UIT! We zijn blij en trots en hopen nu maar dat iedereen het gaat lezen. Vooral de tegenstanders van kernenergie, want na lezing van Stralingstekort kun je met je gezonde verstand geen tegenstancer van kernenergie meer zijn.

Het gaat over de studies onder de Japanners die langer leefden dankzij de bom, over de brandweerlieden bij Tsjernobyl die minder kanker krijgen,

http://www.groenerekenkamer.nl/stralingstekort

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Bij Fukushima zal geen significante hoeveelheid radioactiviteit vrijkomen.

http://www.groenerekenkamer.nl/node/1528

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Op donderdag 13 oktober 2011 15:06 schreef outcast_within het volgende:


Hier gewoon lullen specifiek over de situatie in japan. En niet al die poeha eromheen daar zal vast wel een algemeen topic over zijn.

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Op donderdag 13 oktober 2011 14:05 schreef Resonancer het volgende:
Gelukkig hoeven we ons volgens "de experts" nergens druk om te maken, sterker straling is goed voor je:

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Ooh... dus al dat slib e.d. zijn hersenspinsels ?
De omgeving is ten onrechte geevacueerd ? Ik ga er snel grond kopen.
Hier is toch niet serieus op te reageren ? Ga eerst de 2 gratis hoofdstukken lezen en het dan toch proberen.

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Japanse burgemeester vraagt om sluiting kerncentrale Tokaimura
De burgemeester van het Japanse Tokaimura, een gemeente 110 kilometer ten noordoosten van de hoofdstad Tokio, zou de kernreactor in zijn gemeente graag gesloten zien. Hij gaat daarmee tegen de eerste minister in, die zo snel mogelijk alle kernreactors in het land terug wil opstarten.
Zeven maanden na de zware aardbeving en verwoestende tsunami waardoor Japan werd getroffen, zijn amper 10 van de 54 Japanse reactors electriciteit aan het opwekken. De Japanse eerste minister wil dan ook zo snel mogelijk extra kerncentrales opstarten om aan de hoge vraag voor elektriciteit tegemoet te komen.

Kernramp
De reactor van Tokaimura is de oudste reactor van het land. Hoewel de reactor al 33 jaar werkzaam is, zou deze nog 7 jaar elektriciteit moeten opwekken. De burgemeester van de gemeente raadt dit echter ten sterkste af. Als de de vloedgolf na de aardbeving van 11 maart iets hoger had geweest, zou er zich nog een ergere kernramp hebben voorgedaan dan nu het geval was in Fukushima

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Op maandag 17 oktober 2011 14:11 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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Monday, Oct 24, 2011

TOKYO - Radiation levels as high as those in the evacuation zone around Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant have been detected in a Tokyo suburb, and are likely linked to the disaster, officials said Monday.

The hotspot, a small area of about one metre (three feet) radius, was found in a vacant lot in Kashiwa city, Chiba prefecture, a commuter suburb of the capital, officials said.
http://www.asiaone.com/Ne(...)20111024-306802.html
http://enenews.com/breaki(...)-radioactive-fallout

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Forests to be used to store radioactive soil

The Forestry Agency has decided to allow local governments to use plots of land in state-owned forests to temporarily store soil and rice straw contaminated with radioactive substances from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

http://www.asiaone.com/Ne(...)20111024-306716.html

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Fukushima victims are desperate, angry, homeless
About 80,000 people were forced to leave their homes by the nuclear crisis

After claimants have read a 160-page instruction manual, they then have to fill in a 60-page form and attach receipts for lodging, transportation and medical costs.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/(...)meless/#.TqO8oa7rwnI

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The wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant may have released twice as much radiation into the atmosphere as was previously estimated by the Japanese government.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/207292.html

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In fact, this statement came with a big delay. The operating company deliberately concealed this information. The explanation is simple – the company is afraid that any checking by competent experts would reveal its inability to save the situation. Only recently, foreign experts founded a consultative body for the clean-up of the accident’s consequences. Moreover, the company is concealing the information about the amount of pollution of the environment.”
http://www.setyoufreenews(...)hat-experts-claimed/

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Fukushima towns struggle to store radioactive waste.

Oct 29 (Reuters) - Japanese officials in towns around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant reacted guardedly to plans announced on Saturday to build facilities to store radioactive waste from the clean-up around the plant within three years.

http://www.reuters.com/ar(...)dUSL4E7LS04D20111029

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More than half of the students turned out to be internally exposed by Cesium 137.

In the town in the 20km evacuation area, Minami soma shi, more than half of the students of elementary school and junior high school students turned out to be internally exposed.

http://fukushima-diary.co(...)posed-by-cesium-137/

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Op zondag 30 oktober 2011 22:04 schreef Bigs het volgende:

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Dat hier überhaupt discussie over is. Het draaien op 10/54e van je capaciteit brengt vast problemen met zich mee voor het land, maar dit soort risicogevallen kun je nu beter maar gesloten laten lijkt mij.

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Op zondag 30 oktober 2011 22:04 schreef Bigs het volgende:

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Dat hier überhaupt discussie over is. Het draaien op 10/54e van je capaciteit brengt vast problemen met zich mee voor het land, maar dit soort risicogevallen kun je nu beter maar gesloten laten lijkt mij.

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Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) --
The destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan was responsible for the biggest discharge of radioactive material into the ocean in history, a study from a French nuclear safety institute said.

The oceanic study estimates 27,000 terabecquerels of radioactive cesium 137 leaked into the sea from the Fukushima plant, north of Tokyo.

http://www.businessweek.c(...)iation-into-sea.html

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TOKYO — A Japanese lawmaker has drunk a glass of water taken from a radioactive puddle inside a reactor building at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in a bid to prove decontamination efforts are working.
http://www.rawstory.com/r(...)rom-fukushima-plant/

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Fukushima nuclear plant could take 30 years to clean up.

Removal of fuel rods and decommissioning of reactors could take decades, warns Japan's atomic commission
http://webcache.googleuse(...)ant-30-years-cleanup
http://www.newser.com/sto(...)a-can-be-closed.html

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University Researcher: U.S. topsoil with up to 8,000 pCi/kg of cesium from Fukushima —
Over 10,000% higher than highest levels found by UC Berkeley
http://enenews.com/univer(...)ls-found-uc-berkeley

Radiation Causing Unusual Changes: What's Happening to Children Now? (July 14, 2011)

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Staatssecretaris drinkt water uit Fukushimacentrale
Een Japanse staatssecretaris heeft een glas met water uit de Fukushimacentrale gedronken. Hij deed dat om te bewijzen dat de omgeving rond de kerncentrale veilig is.

Zichtbaar nerveus zette Yasuhiro Sonoda het glas aan zijn lippen en dronk. Het water dat hij dronk was opgeschept uit een radioactieve poel in een van de reactorgebouwen. Daarna werd het gezuiverd.
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Journalisten hadden de staatssecretaris keer op keer gevraagd om te bewijzen dat het gebied rond de kerncentrale nu veilig is, zoals hij beweert. Volgens Sonoda was het drinken van het water het beste bewijs.

Na de tsunami en zware aardbeving in maart dit jaar ontstond er een meltdown in de centrale van Fukushima. Daarbij lekte veel radioactiviteit weg. Een groot gebied rond de centrale werd daardoor besmet. Het schoonmaken van dat hele gebied gaat waarschijnlijk nog tientallen jaren duren.

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Op dinsdag 1 november 2011 10:32 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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