Massive Volcano Erupts Near NPP in Japan & Fukushima Update 5/28/15
Channel: MsMilkytheclown1
Date: 2015-05-29

Kuchinoerabu Island Volcano Erupts, Japan Just as Japan Gives Green Light to Restart Sendai Nuclear Power Plant just Kilometers Away from the Volcanic Eruption.  Ask yourself... Is Nuclear Power Safe?!
May 28, 2015 - Updated 21:57 UTC-4
A volcano erupted on Kuchinoerabu Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Friday morning. Pyroclastic flows have been confirmed to have reached the shore.
The Japan Meteorological Agency says Mount Shindake, located in the center of the island, erupted shortly before 10 AM.
The agency raised the eruption-alert level to 5 on a scale of 1 to 5.
The municipal government has issued an evacuation order and urged all residents to leave the island.
Kuchinoerabu Island is located 130 kilometers southwest of Kagoshima city and has a population of about 110.
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NRA Approves Emergency Plans for Sendai Plant
May 27, 2015 - Updated 00:43 UTC-4
Japan's nuclear regulator has endorsed a plan submitted by the operator of the Sendai nuclear power plant in southwestern Japan. It's for dealing with emergencies.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority, or the NRA, approved the plans for the No.1 and 2 reactors at the power station in Kagoshima Prefecture on Wednesday.
The operator, the Kyushu Electric Power Company, has now obtained all of the regulator's necessary approvals for restarting the reactors at the plant.
The latest screening will allow the power company to load nuclear fuel after the NRA finishes necessary inspections, and receive checks on its emergency drills.
NRA Chairman Shunichi Tanaka said that education and drills for workers to prepare in case of serious accidents are very important, and that he hopes these matters will be checked without fail.
The regulators have cleared all the necessary documents for the Sendai plant. It's the first time this has happened since tougher rules were introduced after the 2011 nuclear accident.
Only on-site pre-operational inspections by the NRA are left for the utility before it is allowed to restart the reactors.
Kyushu Electric hopes to restart the No. 1 reactor in late July after loading nuclear fuel into the reactor next month. It also plans to reactivate the No.2 reactor in late September. But the pre-operational checks since late March are falling behind schedule, and the delay may affect the utility's restarting plan.
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DO YOU TRUST TEPCO? By the way, the "decontaminated water" is NOT fully DeContaminated.
     
TEPCO Completes Some Wastewater Decontamination
May 27, 2015 - Updated 04:20 UTC-4
The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says removal of 2 main radioactive substances is complete from most of the highly contaminated wastewater stored at the facility.
Tokyo Electric Power Company had presented a plan to the government to finish processing roughly 600,000 tons of radioactive wastewater by the end of March.
Officials with the utility cited problems with equipment for failing to meet that target. Instead, they aimed to complete at least one round of processing by the end of this month.
They announced on Wednesday that workers had removed cesium and strontium from about 620,000 tons of the wastewater stored in tanks.
They said about 10,000 tons of stored water could not be removed from the tanks and remained unprocessed.
They said workers were able to remove about 60 other types of radioactive substances from 440,000 tons of the wastewater. That leaves about 180,000 tons still to be processed for those substances.
TEPCO officials said the processed water is still contaminated and will remain in storage tanks.
Workers on Wednesday also began dismantling some of the storage tanks. The tanks are made with steel plates bolted together rather than welded and are prone to leaks.
TEPCO has about 370 of these tanks and is considering how many to replace with seamless types.
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Kansai Electric URGED to Revise Documents
May 28, 2015 - Updated 04:16 UTC-4
Japan's nuclear regulatory agency has criticized Kansai Electric Power Company for a delay in submitting documents necessary to decide whether 2 of its older nuclear reactors can keep operating.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority made the criticism at a meeting on Thursday to examine the results of a special inspection that the utility conducted at the No.1 and 2 reactors of its Takahama plant in Fukui Prefecture.
This is part of a screening process following the utility's application in April to extend the operational lifespan of the reactors by 20 years, beyond a standard 40 years.
The government introduced the 40-year limit after the 2011 Fukushima accident. Utilities hoping to extend the limit for their reactors must put them under close scrutiny and prove that they have no safety problems...
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