Fukushima

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A real solution to the problem

I found these youtube video about what it would take to really solve this problem at Fukushima

YouTube - ‪Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster: Solution (part 1 of 3)‬‏

YouTube - ‪Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster: Solution (part 2 of 3)‬‏

YouTube - ‪Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster: Solution (part 3 of 3)‬‏

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PLASMA PLANT FOR RADIOACTIVE WASTE TREATMENT
S.A. Dmitriev, F.A. Lifanov, A.Eu. Savkin, V.N. Popkov, M.A. Polkanov, V.A. Gorbunov, N.A. Spirin, Yu.A. Oskolkov, M.Yu. Burov, S.Yu. Shvetsov
Moscow Scientific & Industrial Association RADON, RUSSIA

http://www.wmsym.org/archives/2001/21D/21D-40.pdf

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I wonder if transmutation could work - based on Russell periodic table. I also remember Tom Bearden talking about that in one of EFV videos. The question: is there anyone really interested or they just follow the line "cheaper - better" or are they just that dumb so they have no idea how to control situation if anything goes wrong. They built those plants since it was best investment vs profit ratio assuming nothing will ever fail. Just like Titanic story.

Meanwhile -


TEPCO unable to gauge No.2 reactor water level, NHK, June 25, 2011:
Resumption of decontamination system not in sight, NHK, June 25, 2011:

The operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has still not resumed operations of a system to decontaminate highly radioactive water. [...]

Tokyo Electric Power Company hopes to fully restart the decontamination system in the next few days. But it has experienced a number of problems and it is unclear whether the recycling of water can be carried out as planned. [...]

Boric acid being added to No.3 reactor fuel pool, NHK, June 26, 2011:

Tokyo Electric Power Company has begun adding boric acid to the spent fuel storage pool of the No.3 reactor at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to prevent fuel racks from being corroded by alkaline water.

TEPCO says the condition may accelerate corrosion of aluminum racks holding spent fuel rods and may cause the rods to topple in the worst case, which could lead to re-criticality. [...]

Experts urge great caution over radiation risks, Japan Times, June 26, 2011:Missouri River flooding prompts northwest Missouri evacuations, Associated Press, June 24, 2011:

[...] The area could see water for some time. The Army Corps of Engineers has been releasing water from upstream dams after heavy rain and snow melt. Water releases at the Gavins Point Dam in South Dakota hit 160,000 cubic feet of water per second Thursday, and the corps plans to continue releasing water at that rate until at least August.

Several areas downriver got some temporary relief Friday. In southeastern Nebraska, near the Cooper nuclear power plant, the Missouri River had dropped by more than a foot, but forecasters expected the water to rise this weekend, according to the National Weather Service. [...]

There are also severe floodings in Gatineau and Quebec regions. This water will also go South and add to looming disaster and the snow is still melting......
Sand bagging nuclear power plant

Carlyle Group and Rand take over By Leuren Moret.
UC and nuclear weapons: the kiss of death

The top-secret Manhattan Project was laid out by Robert Oppenheimer the night Ernest Lawrence took him to the Bohemian Club during World War II. It was a part of California's brutal rise to economic and political power described in "Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin" by Gray Brechin.

In 1939, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr had argued that building an atomic bomb "can never be done unless you turn the United States into one huge factory." Years later, he told his colleague Edward Teller, "I told you it couldn't be done without turning the whole country into a factory. You have done just that." That was after Edward Teller had stuck the proverbial knife in Oppenheimer's back, and pulled his security clearance.

Teller - also known as Dr. Strangelove - went on to promote a grandiose U.S. nuclear weapons program for decades at the nuclear weapons labs: Berkeley, Livermore and Los Alamos. The program remained under a no-bid University of California management contract for 61 years.

In a stealth takeover by the Carlyle Group, facilitated by five admirals, the management contract will be transferred next year to the University of Texas, where the military and the Carlyle Group will have control. A new "ramping up" of the nuclear weapons program is underway, with program funding at the highest level ever - even higher than during the Cold War - extending nuclear weapons into outer space, into the very atmosphere that makes life on earth possible, and with no "real" enemy in sight.

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Senators demand congressional probe on nuke safety, Associated Press, June 23, 2011:


Flood berm collapsed at Nebraska nuclear plant, AP, June 26, 2011 at 12:59 pm EDT:

A berm holding back floodwater at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station has collapsed. [...]

The 2,000-foot berm collapsed about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, allowing the swollen river to surround two buildings at the plant. [...]

The NRC says its inspectors were at the plant when the berm failed and have confirmed that the flooding has had no impact on the reactor shutdown cooling or the spent fuel pool cooling. [...]


Midwest Floods: Waters Breach Berm at Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station in Nebraska, ABC News, June 26, 2011:

[F]ederal inspectors are on the scene [at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station], and the federal government is so concerned the head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is headed to the plant. [...]

Waters Encircle Nuclear Plant, Wall Street Journal, June 6, 2011:

[... NRC spokesman Victor] Dricks said temperature monitors were working properly and temperatures of key parts of the nuclear power plant were normal. Water has not seeped into any of the containment structures, he said.

Even when in shutdown mode, a nuclear plant requires electricity to keep key components cool in order to avoid any degradation or melting of the core that could result in the release of radiation. [...]



More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation exposure, it was learned Sunday.

Both are about 30 to 40 km from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, which has been releasing radioactive material into the environment since the week of March 11 [...]

[T]wo rounds of tests on each resident [were conducted] in early and late May, taking urine samples from 15 people between 4 and 77.

Radioactive cesium was found both times in each resident. [...]

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Event Notification Report for June 27, 2011, NRC, June 27, 2011:New Mexico wildfires force evacuation at Los Alamos nuclear labratory, NY Daily News, June 27, 2011:

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TEPCO halts water circulation due to leaks, NHK, June 27, 2011:

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has suspended using decontaminated water as a coolant because of leaky pipes. [...]

[I]t halted the operation one and a half hours later after discovering water leaking from the pipes. [...]

TEPCO says it will repair the leaks and hopes to resume water circulation soon.

Dilution of radioactive materials at sea is no solution to nuke-plant crisis, Mainichi, June 27, 2011:

Dilution of radioactive materials at sea is no solution to nuke-plant crisis, Mainichi, June 27, 2011:The NRC in Action at Fort Calhoun, Monthly Review by Dave Lochbaum, June 27, 2011:5:24 pm ET: Fire has crossed onto Los Alamos lab property at Technical Area 49

Evacuations ordered as wildfire threatens Los Alamos, N.M., USA Today, June 27, 2011:

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Los Alamos...

Los Alamos Being Evacuated For Wildfire, KOAT, June 27, 2011 at 10:28 pm EDT:Los Alamos Being Evacuated For Wildfire - Albuquerque News Story - KOAT Albuquerque


Wildfire shuts Los Alamos lab, forces evacuations, AP, Jun 27, 2011:

[...] The anti-nuclear watchdog group Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety said the fire appeared to be about 3 1/2 miles from a dumpsite where as many as 30,000 55-gallon drums of plutonium-contaminated waste were stored in fabric tents above ground. The group said the drums were awaiting transport to a low-level radiation dump site in southern New Mexico.

Lab spokesman Steve Sandoval declined to comment on that assertion, but did acknowledge there is low level waste stored in drums on lab property that is regularly taken to the Waste Isolation Pilot Project site in Carlsbad. [...]

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Missing fuel problem

At Chernobyl 10 to 50 tones of fuel went missing (CHERNOBYL TODAY: Missing Fuel Mystery ), Fukushima is at least 10 times bigger so we can expect there to be at least 10 times more fuel lost into the environment, No wait, at chernobyl they rapidly got the fuel and radiation leaks under control, not here at Fukushima. fuel is still fissioning and being lost through leaks.

To be honest, I was on the fence about nuclear power until Fukushima, I know what side I'm on now.

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[...] At Fort Calhoun, where the river has risen gradually, the water seeps in through sandbag walls, electrical conduits and other places that workers had not thought much about before. There are so many small water pumps running to keep up with the leaks that keeping them supplied with gasoline and diesel requires something akin to a bucket brigade.

Orange plastic fuel cans are rolled on a cart over the catwalks and then handed off to employees who are headed deeper into the plant. Climbing over the sandbags at the entrances, they carry them in, and workers on their way out pick up a few empties and carry them out for refilling. [...]

Los Alamos lab still under threat from blaze, CBS/AP, June 28, 2011 at 7:35 am EDT:

[...] The anti-nuclear watchdog group Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety said the fire appeared to be about 3.5 miles from a dumpsite where as many as 30,000 55-gallon drums of plutonium-contaminated waste were stored in fabric tents above ground. [...]

Lab officials at first declined to confirm that such drums were on the property, but in a statement early Tuesday, lab spokeswoman Lisa Rosendorf said such drums are stored in a section of the complex known as Area G. She said the drums contain cleanup from Cold War-era waste that the lab sends away in weekly shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

Los Alamos Evacuated; Fire Crews Concentrate on Nuclear Lab, Arutz Sheva, June 28, 2011:

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Fukushima radiation fears....

Dosimeters to be given to 34,000 children in city 45 miles from Tepco plant after high radiation readings

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As Obama Quietly Pushes for a Nuclear Weapons Renaissance, Wildfire Threatens Los Alamos Nuclear Lab, Democracy Now, June 28, 2011:
Local TV: Water has leaked into building containing radioactive material at Ft. Calhoun nuke plant
NRC Chairman says nuke plants safe, for now, Action 3 News, June 28, 2011: - Action 3 News Video - Action 3 News - Omaha, Nebraska News, Weather, and Sports |

- "We store radioactive material in that building. There is some minor water leakage into the building, and that water we treat as radioactive waste".

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Questions and solutions

With all these nuclear incidents taking place, does anyone get the feeling that things are getting worse? or is it just that we have more of what is happening is being reported?

Notice that the cause of these disasters is the siting of these plants in vulnerable areas. When you look at the siting of nuclear facilities globally you see a pattern that does not exist with coal fired plants, Why is this?

We are also beginning to see a picture of poor design, are the new plants that they are building all over the world full of the same flaws?

All nuclear facilities in the west come under the same controlling body, should we be putting that under scrutiny too?

When you have a technology that cannot be made to fail to a safe condition, why put it in a vulnerable area? why promote it at all? There are cheaper and much safer technologies that could replace all nuclear power and the good thing is they all fail to a safe condition. They may cause some pollution when they fail but that pollution is only temporary and is much less toxic. An oil spill or fire only effects a localized area and not the entire planet. For example the gulf oil spill, the largest oil spill ever, that should have been avoided, does not effect does not effect the entire globe for millennia.. I am not saying that we should continue the way we have in that industry either and I am against Big Oil.

I was involved in designing a 100Kw floating generator for BP to be placed on a river and power a drilling rig, I designed a tidal turbine generator, I have worked on wind turbines, hydro electric, geothermal and Ok, together they are not enough to replace all coal, oil and nuclear but these systems could replace nuclear.

Our governments cannot think for themselves so we have to think for them, but this is not enough. We have to take action to make our governments do the right thing, provide them with the answers and compel them to use them.

All the problems of today would be drastically reduced if we disconnected government from the corporate and banking monopolies. Lets dismantle this fascism and protest, demonstrate and educate. Do not wait for others to do what is our duty to do.

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Los Alamos Fire: EPA Testing for Radiation, ABC news. June 28, 2011:

Towns near NM fire, nuclear lab wary of smoke, AP, June 29, 2011:Los Alamos National Laboratory managers see little threat from wildfire, Los Angeles Times, June 29, 2011:Wildfire closes in on Los Alamos, CBS/AP, June 29, 2011: