Fukushima Leaks, ReStarting MORE Nuclear Reactors, Oceans & Air Sick update 6/18/13
Channel: MsMilkytheclown1
Date: 2013-06-19

"Pinhole" Leaks Found in Fukushima Radioactive Water Filtering System
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20130619_09.html

Nuclear regulators to decide new safety guidelines
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20130619_04.html
Note: The guidelines will oblige plant operators to take steps to deal with severe accidents. Such measures are voluntary at present.  Just like when they found highly radioactive food and kindly asked sellers to remove it from their shelves (not mandatory)... Remember, these farmers are in a world of hurt because of all the radioactive fallout.  It has been documented that radioactive rice, for example, has been mixed with noncontaminated rice and sold to "lower the dose" of contamination and pass "legal limit" allowed in radioactive food.

Nuclear plants (6) to seek restart under new guideline
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20130618_29.html
"All 6 have pressurized water reactors, a relatively new type of reactor. The stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant uses older boiling water reactors."


Nuclear plants face safety hurdles
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20130618_34.html
Power companies preparing to apply to restart 6 nuclear plants will first need to clear several safety hurdles under new regulation standards due to come into force next month.
Only one of the 6 plants has a building that is structurally resistant to quakes, tsunami and radiation and is capable of serving as an emergency command center as required under the new guidelines for nuclear reactors.
The operators of 5 other plants plan to complete such buildings in about 2 years, and to use alternative facilities in the meantime.
A nuclear power plant in Sendai in Kagoshima Prefecture says it will use a 100-square-meter room near the central control room as a command center.
But nuclear regulators turned down a similar plan submitted by Kansai Electric Power Company for the Ohi plant in Fukui.
They later approved a revised plan to use a control room and adjacent conference room with total floor space of 900 square meters.
The operators of the plants, except for the one at Ohi, have yet to come up with measures to deal with a maximum probable tsunami. ***NOTE: Ohi is the Only currently operating plant in Japan right Now and has "probable active seismic faults running directly underneath it!***
Kansai Electric initially assumed a 2.85-meter tsunami for the Ohi plant, but revised it to 3.68 meters after nuclear regulators rejected the first estimate as too conservative.
None of the 6 plants has completed the breakwater required under the new guidelines.
It remains to be seen how the power companies can assure operational safety with such shortcomings.
Jun. 18, 2013 - Updated 07:43 UTC


NRA: Quake initially didn't damage cooling pipes
This is a big deal:
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20130618_36.html
Japan's nuclear regulators have denied claims that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant might have been damaged before being hit by a huge tsunami.
The Diet's investigation panel said last year the March 11, 2011 earthquake may have cracked pipes in the No. 1 reactor's cooling system.
It said workers in the reactor building on the day saw water leaking before the tsunami hit.
A probe by Tokyo Electric Power Company and other investigations suggested the direct trigger of the accident was the tsunami.
Proof that the reactor was damaged by shaking would mean the quake and tsunami resistance of some reactor structures may have to be reviewed.
But officials of the Nuclear Regulation Authority said on Monday the leaked water most likely came from a fuel pool on the upper floor, not from the vital cooling system.
The regulators inspected the reactor building and spoke to workers in May.
The officials said any leak from a cooling pipe would have been hot steam because of its high temperature, but witness said the water was liquid.
Nuclear experts expressed no significant objection to the NRA view, but they agreed to further look into the cause of the leaking water.
Jun. 18, 2013 - Updated 09:26 UTC

Pollution Buster with pine tree oil - but it WILL NOT take out radiation... bummer.... keep working on it Japan.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/newsline/201306181225.html

Indonesia: Saving Coral Reefs  So Polluted by everything (including radioactive contamination pouring out into eternity from Fukushima) - some dude made a gizmo so coral reefs can have a place to "land and grow" and then they will move the "baby reefs" to where they want to "plant them".

this one just got posted after I rendered project so it's not included today.
Abe to respect NRA judgement for reactor restarts
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20130619_10.html

I Ran out of room for the rest of what I wanted to say.