Summary: The Implications continue to expand while retaining almost no chance of a successful outcome:
Japan: elderly engineers want 'final mission' to Fukushima Nuclear Free Planet.org via Godlike Productions. Excerpts:
"We shouldn't leave the work only to young engineers... Young people, especially those who have children in future, should not be exposed to radiation." Yasuteru Yamada, 72. Retired engineer.
Nuclear activist calls for mass evacuations in Japan via Godlike Productions.
Anti nuclear activist Helen Caldicott says thousands of people living outside the no-go zone around the power plant should be evacuated.
Fukushima melt-down worse than Chernobyl The Voice Of Russia, via Rense. Excerpts:
The situation at the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan appears to have fit into the worst predicted scenario. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which operates Fukushima, has officially admitted that fuel rods at the Fukushima reactors have partially melted, with a melt-down registered at one of the reactors. Remarkably, the announcement came on Tuesday when IAEA delegations arrived in Japan to inspect the power plant.
Certainly, in the first hours after the tragedy happened the operators were too shocked to unveil any details to the public. However, things did not get clearer with time. Deputy Director at the Russian Institute for Nuclear Engineering, Chernobyl clean-up worker Igor Ostretsov commented on the situation in an interview with the VOR…
"The Fukushima disaster has proved that nuclear industry should be controlled only by the state and not by private companies. The outcome of this tragedy has turned even worse than it was in Chernobyl. Graphite which was part of the reactor`s core, burnt out and vanished in the atmosphere. But at Fukushima the reactor`s core melted."
Meanwhile, nuclear safety will be high on agenda at the G8 summit in Deauville, France, on 26-27 May. According to the Russian presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich, the G8 leaders won`t come up with a separate declaration on the Fukushima disaster but will discuss the issue in every detail.
I'd be interested to hear what is being said by G8 members about Fukushima, although that will never happen. How far will their "official statement" go?
Japan slammed as new leak found at stricken nuke plant
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Thursday detailed a new leak of radioactive water as Greenpeace slammed the country's “inadequate response” to a growing threat to sea water and health.
And in an embarrassing reversal, Tokyo Electric Power officials changed a key element of an account of the early response to the crisis it had given on Saturday as part of a government investigation into the accident.
Tokyo Electric said up to 57 tons of highly contaminated water had leaked from a storage facility into a trench. It vowed to step up monitoring of groundwater.
The disclosure raises the stakes in a race to complete by next month a system to decontaminate a massive pool of radioactive water at the site that critics see as a growing risk to both the Pacific and groundwater.
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Environmental group Greenpeace said seaweed had been found with radiation levels 60 times higher than official limits, raising concerns about risks from contaminated sea water more than two months after the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant was hit by an earthquake and tsunami.
“Our data show that significant amounts of contamination continue to spread over great distances from the Fukushima nuclear plant,” a statement quoted Greenpeace radiation expert Jan Vande Putte as saying.
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“The concentration of radioactive iodine we found in seaweed is particularly concerning, as it tells us how far contamination is spreading along the coast, and because several species of seaweed are widely eaten in Japan,” Vande Putte said.
One more example of how regional events can influence the global economy: Toyota, Honda global output halved after quake Also: Japan disaster's impact reaches far beyond slow-down in auto exports
Damage from the disaster at Japanese chemical plants that produce raw materials for the electronics components, although modest in itself, has had some of the most severe impacts in history on the global electronics industry.
Nuclear Super Typhoon? Massive storm may approach Fukushima this weekend — Current gusts of 195 mph Happy Memorial Day, everyone!
Japan: elderly engineers want 'final mission' to Fukushima Nuclear Free Planet.org via Godlike Productions. Excerpts:
"We shouldn't leave the work only to young engineers... Young people, especially those who have children in future, should not be exposed to radiation." Yasuteru Yamada, 72. Retired engineer.
Nuclear activist calls for mass evacuations in Japan via Godlike Productions.
Anti nuclear activist Helen Caldicott says thousands of people living outside the no-go zone around the power plant should be evacuated.
Fukushima melt-down worse than Chernobyl The Voice Of Russia, via Rense. Excerpts:
The situation at the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan appears to have fit into the worst predicted scenario. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which operates Fukushima, has officially admitted that fuel rods at the Fukushima reactors have partially melted, with a melt-down registered at one of the reactors. Remarkably, the announcement came on Tuesday when IAEA delegations arrived in Japan to inspect the power plant.
Certainly, in the first hours after the tragedy happened the operators were too shocked to unveil any details to the public. However, things did not get clearer with time. Deputy Director at the Russian Institute for Nuclear Engineering, Chernobyl clean-up worker Igor Ostretsov commented on the situation in an interview with the VOR…
"The Fukushima disaster has proved that nuclear industry should be controlled only by the state and not by private companies. The outcome of this tragedy has turned even worse than it was in Chernobyl. Graphite which was part of the reactor`s core, burnt out and vanished in the atmosphere. But at Fukushima the reactor`s core melted."
Meanwhile, nuclear safety will be high on agenda at the G8 summit in Deauville, France, on 26-27 May. According to the Russian presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich, the G8 leaders won`t come up with a separate declaration on the Fukushima disaster but will discuss the issue in every detail.
I'd be interested to hear what is being said by G8 members about Fukushima, although that will never happen. How far will their "official statement" go?
Japan slammed as new leak found at stricken nuke plant
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Thursday detailed a new leak of radioactive water as Greenpeace slammed the country's “inadequate response” to a growing threat to sea water and health.
And in an embarrassing reversal, Tokyo Electric Power officials changed a key element of an account of the early response to the crisis it had given on Saturday as part of a government investigation into the accident.
Tokyo Electric said up to 57 tons of highly contaminated water had leaked from a storage facility into a trench. It vowed to step up monitoring of groundwater.
The disclosure raises the stakes in a race to complete by next month a system to decontaminate a massive pool of radioactive water at the site that critics see as a growing risk to both the Pacific and groundwater.
..
Environmental group Greenpeace said seaweed had been found with radiation levels 60 times higher than official limits, raising concerns about risks from contaminated sea water more than two months after the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant was hit by an earthquake and tsunami.
“Our data show that significant amounts of contamination continue to spread over great distances from the Fukushima nuclear plant,” a statement quoted Greenpeace radiation expert Jan Vande Putte as saying.
..
“The concentration of radioactive iodine we found in seaweed is particularly concerning, as it tells us how far contamination is spreading along the coast, and because several species of seaweed are widely eaten in Japan,” Vande Putte said.
One more example of how regional events can influence the global economy: Toyota, Honda global output halved after quake Also: Japan disaster's impact reaches far beyond slow-down in auto exports
Damage from the disaster at Japanese chemical plants that produce raw materials for the electronics components, although modest in itself, has had some of the most severe impacts in history on the global electronics industry.
Nuclear Super Typhoon? Massive storm may approach Fukushima this weekend — Current gusts of 195 mph Happy Memorial Day, everyone!
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