Japan to announce time of completion for nuke emergency
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said while meeting with Fukushima Governor Yuhei Sato that the government would give an estimate in the next few days of when the nuclear emergency will be contained, the Kyodo News reports.
Considering the pattern of deception, obfuscation, and general incompetence surrounding everything TEPCO does, why even bother with an estimate? No One Believes Your Corporation.
Japan’s TEPCO plans 'shutdown' in 6-9 months What did I just say about estimates?
TEPCO's chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata said at a press conference that the utility aims to cool reactors and start reducing radiation from the explosion-charred facilities within three months.
Within six to nine months, TEPCO said in a statement, it expects to achieve "cold shutdowns" of all the six reactors, a stable condition in which temperatures drop and radiation leaks fall dramatically.
"As the short-term targets, we have set two steps," said Katsumata. "Step one is to steadily reduce the amount of radiation.”
"In step two, we aim to control the release of radioactive substances and greatly control the amount of radiation."
Robots to gauge radiation in Japan's quake-hit plant
The operator of Japan's stricken nuclear plant said Sunday it will send two remote-controlled robots into a reactor building damaged by a hydrogen explosion to gauge radiation and temperature levels.
A spokesman for the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said the two American-made robots would enter the reactor three building on Sunday to check radiation, temperature, humidity and oxygen levels.
Radiation from the overheating reactors has made its way into the air, land and sea, leading the government to impose exclusion zones around the plant in Fukushima prefecture and damaging local fishing and farming industries.
Japan, US Announce Partnership to Rebuild Region Hit by Quake, Tsunami
Japan and the United States have agreed to create a public-private partnership, under Tokyo's guidance, to help rebuild communities devastated by last month's magnitude 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami.
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Radioactivity in sea rises again
Levels of radioactivity have risen sharply in seawater near a tsunami crippled nuclear plant in northern Japan, signaling the possibility of new leaks at the facility, the government said Saturday.
The announcement came after a magnitude-5.9 earthquake jolted Japan on Saturday morning, hours after the country’s nuclear safety agency ordered plant operators to beef up their quake preparedness systems to prevent a recurrence of the nuclear crisis.
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But the government said Saturday that radioactivity in the seawater has risen again in recent days. The level of radioactive iodine-131 spiked to 6,500 times the legal limit, according to samples taken Friday, up from 1,100 times the limit in samples taken the day before. Levels of cesium-134 and cesium-137 rose nearly fourfold. The increased levels are still far below those recorded earlier this month before the initial leak was plugged.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said while meeting with Fukushima Governor Yuhei Sato that the government would give an estimate in the next few days of when the nuclear emergency will be contained, the Kyodo News reports.
Considering the pattern of deception, obfuscation, and general incompetence surrounding everything TEPCO does, why even bother with an estimate? No One Believes Your Corporation.
Japan’s TEPCO plans 'shutdown' in 6-9 months What did I just say about estimates?
TEPCO's chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata said at a press conference that the utility aims to cool reactors and start reducing radiation from the explosion-charred facilities within three months.
Within six to nine months, TEPCO said in a statement, it expects to achieve "cold shutdowns" of all the six reactors, a stable condition in which temperatures drop and radiation leaks fall dramatically.
"As the short-term targets, we have set two steps," said Katsumata. "Step one is to steadily reduce the amount of radiation.”
"In step two, we aim to control the release of radioactive substances and greatly control the amount of radiation."
Robots to gauge radiation in Japan's quake-hit plant
The operator of Japan's stricken nuclear plant said Sunday it will send two remote-controlled robots into a reactor building damaged by a hydrogen explosion to gauge radiation and temperature levels.
A spokesman for the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said the two American-made robots would enter the reactor three building on Sunday to check radiation, temperature, humidity and oxygen levels.
Radiation from the overheating reactors has made its way into the air, land and sea, leading the government to impose exclusion zones around the plant in Fukushima prefecture and damaging local fishing and farming industries.
Japan, US Announce Partnership to Rebuild Region Hit by Quake, Tsunami
Japan and the United States have agreed to create a public-private partnership, under Tokyo's guidance, to help rebuild communities devastated by last month's magnitude 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami.
Hmm.
Radioactivity in sea rises again
Levels of radioactivity have risen sharply in seawater near a tsunami crippled nuclear plant in northern Japan, signaling the possibility of new leaks at the facility, the government said Saturday.
The announcement came after a magnitude-5.9 earthquake jolted Japan on Saturday morning, hours after the country’s nuclear safety agency ordered plant operators to beef up their quake preparedness systems to prevent a recurrence of the nuclear crisis.
..
But the government said Saturday that radioactivity in the seawater has risen again in recent days. The level of radioactive iodine-131 spiked to 6,500 times the legal limit, according to samples taken Friday, up from 1,100 times the limit in samples taken the day before. Levels of cesium-134 and cesium-137 rose nearly fourfold. The increased levels are still far below those recorded earlier this month before the initial leak was plugged.
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