#5657044 - 05/06/12 03:36 PM
Re: The continuing crisis at Fukushima Dai-ichi
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Kevin.J
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Diablo Canyon is our concern here. It sits 28 miles as the crow flies from my front yard. After Fukishima, the District that manages any radiation responses from Diablo Canyon was handing out free iodine pills to the public. I talked to a former PGE engineer worker who was high up the chain at Diablo Canyon. He told me that if there were a radiation leak, the prevailing winds would carry the radiation south toward Santa Maria from Avila. He told me if that a leak happened, I had twenty minutes or so to get in the car and head over the mountain to Bakersfield. Most people would jump on HWY 101 to Santa Barbara, but since the wind would be carrying the radiation toward Santa Barbara, they would be toast in 1 hour. If the winds were off shore, then San Luis Obispo would be toast in less than 15 minutes. But, of course, this is all theoretical.  TRUTH So they pretty much admit if anything happens, Run like Hell from the area? Well, no. My buddy who worked at Diablo Canyon just knew these things. They are not for public consumption. The phonebook here has all the information on what to do if there is a radiation leak. But a lot of the information given has nothing to do with the wind patterns at the time of the leak. SLO is only 10 miles form Diablo Canyon, but if the wind is onshore, they will have little exposure. Santa Maria and Arroyo Grande will get a good amount of exposure. But most of the public feels they are far enough away not to be affected. We actually have siren alerts and drills twice a year, but people rarely care or know what that is. If there is a long siren followed by a couple of shorter sirens, then the public is supposed to turn on the TV or go to the radio for the alerts. For me, it's sign to pack up the dogs and head over to Bakersfield. The small two lane highway should be good for 20 minutes before the locals know to hit the road and jam it up, so I will probably get 15-20 miles up the mountains before I get stuck. My buddy says that will be good enough. Then listen to the radio as the Santa Maria valley people fry in their homes. Of course, this is all theoretical. TRUTH
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#5664248 - 05/08/12 11:44 PM
Re: The continuing crisis at Fukushima Dai-ichi
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Mr 9.8
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http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/In-Japan-Evacuation-Aid-Pleas-Dismissed-150585945.html
May 08, 2012
May 08, 2012
In Japan, Evacuation-Aid Pleas Dismissed
In Japan this past year, there has been a passionate argument about the effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster that has played out on Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites.
Anti-nuclear activists have joined skeptics of the government's safety pledges in alleging a conspiracy of lies and cover-ups about the danger posed by radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant.
Environmental group Greenpeace International says Japanese authorities have “consistently appeared to underestimate both the risks and extent of radioactive contamination.” But the group has not reported any cases of radiation poisoning.
This week one American family in Japan became caught up in the controversy after its appeal on an online fundraising site raised $7,500 in funds for their evacuation.
Carol Swift, of Overland Park, Kansas, the mother of Joshua Swift of Inzai, Japan, on YouCaring.com had set a goal of raising $25,000 by August 31 because her three grandchildren "are sick from radiation poisoning and the food source has been compromised" as a result of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident.
The online appeal listed various medical ailments affecting the family including autoimmune diseases affecting all three children.
The family's evacuation plea sparked a flurry of comments on social media sites. While some sympathized with the Swifts, other were less charitable calling them naïve alarmists or con artists.
"It was probably a mistake putting that on the Internet," says Joshua Swift, who now is appealing to the online detractors to "just leave us alone and let us go."
The appeal on YouCaring.com was delisted Monday following the criticism on social media and other online sites, and the appeal remains archived.
Swift says the Internet appeal was not intended to be public and claims that all of the money raised came solely from "family and friends." He said it was not possible for the family to immediately evacuate because he wanted to continue to make mortgage payments on his home in Inzai, a city of 90,000 people, in Chiba Prefecture.
Physicist-turned historian Spencer Weart is not surprised by heightened fears about low-level radiation.
Weart, whose latest book “The Rise of Nuclear Fear” was published in March, blames the Japanese government’s flawed assurances of the safety of its nuclear plants and denial of problems by regulators for creating a situation “where most Japanese distrust anything they [officials] say.”
The Swifts' claim of radiation poisoning quickly triggered a flurry of comments on Twitter after it was noted and analyzed on a blog site, Japan Probe.
Swift acknowledges no physician has diagnosed the children as being sickened by radiation. He said no doctor in Japan "would be allowed to," alluding to a supposed cover-up of the health effects resulting from one of the world's worst nuclear accidents.
Another American living in Inzai is not worried.
“I've had independent [radiation] readings taken by Safecast and Hakette.jp. There is no danger in Inzai with radiation sickness,” says Mark Alan Williams, an international business coordinator with a Japanese corporation. “There are new homes being built in my neighborhood and a Costco [warehouse store] is planned for Inzai too. I have no immediate sense of danger at all.”
Chiba Prefecture ordered the halt of shipments of shiitake mushrooms grown in Inzai on February 23 of this year, a day after 993 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium, exceeding the national provisional limit of 500 becquerels/kg, was detected on the mushrooms.
Weart, the former director of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics, says extensive measurements by both governmental and independent entities show that except for a small region in Fukushima Prefecture, living in Japan and eating Japanese food “do not pose big health problems. The medical problems the [Swift] family has are not the kind that is usually traced to radiation."
There has been no credible scientific evidence presented that any humans have been sickened by radiation in Japan following the March 2011 reactor meltdowns. Japan's government also says no one has been harmed by radiation exposure because of the accident.
Japan on Saturday took the last of its 50 commercial working reactors offline for routine maintenance amid a safety drive following last year's disaster triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami. It is the first time the country is without nuclear power since 1970.
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Why is the media not paying attention to FUKUSHIMA!?
Have they really not learned the horrible lesson of Chernobyl?!
Peoples lives are at stake!
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#5664843 - 05/09/12 09:16 AM
Re: The continuing crisis at Fukushima Dai-ichi
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By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press
LOS ANGELES May 8, 2012 (AP)
Over 1,300 Tubes Damaged at Calif. Nuclear Plant
More than 1,300 tubes that carry radioactive water inside the San Onofre nuclear plant in Southern California are so damaged that they will be taken out of service, the utility that runs the plant said Tuesday.
The figures released by Southern California Edison are the latest disclosure in a probe of equipment problems that have kept the coastal plant sidelined for more than three months.
At issue has been the integrity of tubing that snakes through the plant's four steam generators, which were installed in a multimillion-dollar makeover in 2009 and 2010.
A company statement said that as of Monday, 510 tubes had been plugged, or retired from use, in the Unit 2 reactor, and 807 tubes in its sister, Unit 3. Each of the generators has nearly 10,000 tubes, and the number retired is well within the limit allowed to continue operation.
The statement comes just days after an Edison executive said the company hopes to restart at least one of the twin reactors next month. The company is drafting a plan under which the reactors would run at reduced power, at least for several months, because engineers believe that will solve a problem with vibration that the company believes has been causing unusual wear in the alloy tubing.
Government regulators say there is no timetable for a restart, which would require federal approval.
A joint statement issued Tuesday by Edison and the agency that operates the state's wholesale power system, the California Independent System Operator, said the possible June dates are for planning and subject to change.
"There is no timeline on nuclear safety," Edison President Ron Litzinger said.
Activists viewed the new figures as another alarming sign following a tube break in January, which prompted Edison to shut down the Unit 3 reactor as a precaution. Traces of radiation escaped at the time, but officials said there was no danger to workers or neighbors.
Unit 2 was taken offline in January for routine maintenance, but investigators later confirmed accelerated wear on tubing in both units.
"It seems that these new steam generators are falling apart and Edison doesn't know why. It would be foolhardy to restart, even at reduced power, under the current circumstances," said Daniel Hirsch, a nuclear watchdog who lectures on nuclear policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Ted Craver, chairman of SCE parent Edison International, told investors in a phone call last week that unusual wear was found in about 1 percent of nearly 39,000 tubes in the steam generators.
Costs related to the long-running shutdown could climb over $100 million, company officials say, and state officials have warned about possible rotating blackouts in Southern California while the reactors are offline.
About 7.4 million Californians live within 50 miles of San Onofre, which can power 1.4 million homes.
The plant is owned by SCE, San Diego Gas & Electric and the city of Riverside. The Unit 1 reactor operated from 1968 to 1992, when it was shut down and dismantled.
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Why is the media not paying attention to FUKUSHIMA!?
Have they really not learned the horrible lesson of Chernobyl?!
Peoples lives are at stake!
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