Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Japan Updates: May 11, 2011

Temperatures Rise In Reactor 3 Camera Distortion Hides Large Amounts Of Steam From Reactor 3  Videos and pictures from Lucas Whitefield Hixon.

Japan's TEPCO to sell assets to raise compensation funds  From RiaNovosti.  Excerpts:

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will sell assets worth more than $6 billion to raise funds to compensate victims of the country's worst nuclear crisis, Kyodo news agency has said.
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Analysts say total compensation claims may be over $100 billion.
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The JP Morgan financial services firm has estimated that TEPCO faces losses of $24.7 billion in the current financial year.

Nuclear collapse looms? Fukushima No. 4 reactor 'leaning'  Found it on Rense.  Video from Russia Today.

Japan nuclear crisis under review at 2-month mark  Official Story bullshit from CNN, with this sad, but not unexpected little nugget..

Nearly 80,000 people have spent two months away from their homes in the 20-kilometer (12.5-mile) zone around the plant, while tens of thousands more are awaiting orders to evacuate more distant towns where radiation levels are likely to raise the long-term cancer risk.
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About 100 residents from the village of Kawauchi were allowed to return home for a short visit.

They were issued protective gear, allowed to pack one small bag and spend two hours in their homes. Some returned to find pets -- left behind in the initial confusion -- dead of starvation, Japan's Environment Ministry reported Wednesday.

NEW video Destroyed Spent Fuel Pool SFP3 of Reactor Unit 3 at Fukushima Daiichi 8 May 2011  Found it on Rense.  Video.

Japan to Oversee Tepco After Nuclear Crisis  From Bloomberg.  Excerpts:

Tokyo Electric accepts conditions set by the government including unlimited liability on payments to those affected by the accident at its Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, the company said in a statement today. Japan outlined the monitoring plan yesterday after Tokyo Electric Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata and President Masataka Shimizu met government officials to seek financial help.

The plan for state-supervised support comes after Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the government isn’t considering nationalizing the utility. Merrill Lynch estimates Tepco may face claims of as much as 11 trillion yen ($136 billion). Prime Minister Naoto Kan said yesterday he will reconsider Japan’s plan to increase its dependence on nuclear energy following the worst atomic accident since Chernobyl.

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