by Ida Torres / Japan Daily Press / March 27, 2013 / It has been two years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan and caused the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant – the world’s worst nuclear disaster si…
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The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingby Justin McCurry and Michael Condon / GlobalPost.com / March 21, 2013 / TAMURA, FUKUSHIMA, Japan — One bamboo branch and spade of soil at a time, workers are slowly purging Fukushima of its nuclear legacy. On a chilly, overcast afternoon in Tamura, …
Continue readingAsahi Shimbun / March 22, 2013 / A power blackout at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant resulted in a long stoppage in the circulation of water that cools spent fuel in several pools. If the blackout had continued for …
Continue readingby Ashley Feinberg / Gizmodo / March 21, 2013 While there’s no doubt that the nuclear crisis in Fukushima back in 2011 could have been avoided, a recent discovery suggests that this week’s extended blackout was entirely out of their hands. …
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In an accident like a main steam line break at San Onofre, the badly designed retainers bars in Unit 2 could actually make things much worse by causing more damage to any of the 9,727 already fatigued tubes in each of its steam generators which could lead to additional leakage of highly radioactive reactor core coolant and/or cause a nuclear incident or worse a nuclear accident like Fukushima!
Radioactive Leaks and ruptures can happen without notice:
Allegation/Violations
The NRC has decided in AIT follow-up report dated 11/09/2012, “Item 3. “(Closed) Unresolved Item 05000362/2012007-03, ‘Evaluation of Retainer Bars Vibration during the Original Design of the Replacement Steam Generators” as a non-cited violation in accordance with Section 2.3.2 of the NRC’s Enforcement Policy.” However, as shown below, SCE/MHI’s failure to verify the adequacy of the retainer bar design as required by SCE/MHI’s procedures have resulted in plugging of several hundred tubes in the brand new replacement generators. This has resulted in these violations:
1. Failure to meet NRC Chairman Standards on Nuclear Safety by SCE,
2. Failure to meet Senator Boxer’s Committee on Environment and Public Works
(EPW) Standards on Nuclear Safety by SCE,
3. Failure to enforce SCE Edison Contract Document instructions to MHI by SCE,
4. Failure to meet SONGS Technical Specifications by SCE,
5. Failure to meet general design criteria (GDC) in Appendix A, “General Design
Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants,” to 10 CFR Part 50, “Domestic
Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities GDC 14, “Reactor
Coolant Pressure Boundary” by SCE/MHI,
6. Failure to demonstrate that Unit 2 retainer bars will maintain tube bundle
geometry at 70% power due to fluid elastic instability during a main line
steam break (MSLB) design basis event, and
7. SCE/MHI took shortcuts by avoiding the 10 CFR 50.90 License Amendment
Process under the false pretense of “like for a like” replacement steam
generator. SCE added 377 more tubes, increased the average length of the
heated tubes and changed the thermal-hydraulic operation of the RSGs without
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Recommended Actions:
NRC San Onofre Special Panel is requested to resolve the above listed Allegations and/or Violations within 30 days of receipt of this email and prior to granting SCE’s permission to do any restart “testing” of Unit 2. Answer all allegations factually, don’t just void them.
See Full Document: Media Alert: San Onofre Retainer Bar Problems
PLEASE Turn off a light for Fukushima USA / San Onofre
via YouTube / March 10, 2013 / Surviving solo in the Fukushima evacuation zone. For English subtitles, click “CC” button at the bottom of the video player. Two years since the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant went into full meltdown, a…
Continue readingvia Washington’s Blog / March 11, 2013 / Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen said today that the containment vessel at Fukushima reactor 2 has a large crack in it. Reactors 1, 2 and 3 all exploded. BBC reports today: They know very little about what??…
Continue readingvia YouTube / March 11, 2013 / BBC News reports on the 2nd anniversary of the Fukushima disaster.
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Continue readingvia YouTube / March 4, 2013 / Two years have passed since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began but little has changed for the people still struggling with the fallout from the triple meltdown that forced 160,000 from their homes. The vast majority of t…
Continue readingby Lennox Samuels / The Daily Beast / March 11, 2013 / The rice fields along Prefectural Road Route 12 leading to Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are brown and hard. Trucks and SUVs drive past Usuishi Elementary School—perched silently on a hi…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / March 9, 2013 / Nothing has really changed after the nuclear accident on March 11, 2011. 2 to 3 months after the March 11, 2011 disaster, just when the extent of radiation contamination became known – sewer sludge, ashes from garbage…
Continue readingBy Anne Sewell / DigitalJournal.com / March 10, 2013 / In the run up to the second anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that caused the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, tens of thousands have taken to the streets of Tokyo in prote…
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The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingThe Asahi Shimbun / March 04, 2013 / Editor’s note: This is the first part of a new series that has run in the past under the title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the secret missions assigned to the “shadow units” of the Groun…
Continue readingby David McNeill / via The Independent / March 2, 2013 / They displayed a bravery few can comprehend, yet very little is known about the men who stayed behind to save Japan’s stricken nuclear plant. In a rare interview, David McNeill meets Atsufumi…
Continue readingvia WDRB.com / March 3, 2013 / It’s been almost two years since the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, but a new report shows there may be some long-lasting consequences for the country’s youngest citizens. The World Health Organ…
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The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / February 28, 2013 / WHO says “no observable increases in cancer rates above baseline rates are anticipated” inside and outside Japan. Greenpeace is crying foul, NHK quotes experts saying WHO is overly cautious and exaggerating …
Continue readingvia The Japan Times / February 23, 2013 / A panel of experts under the Nuclear Regulation Authority has conditionally approved the trial of a new device to remove radioactive substances from tainted water at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear complex. The adv…
Continue readingby Ida Torres / via The Japan Daily Press / February 25, 2013 / Almost two years have passed since the gigantic earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan that killed nearly 20,000 people and caused the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 25 years. A…
Continue readingJames Corbett of corbettreport.com and Broc West of apperspective.net are pleased to bring you the latest edition of their monthly video series, “The Asia-Pacific Perspective.” In this episode, we cover: STORY 1: The Great Cyber-Warfare Scam http:/…
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The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingvia The Fukushima Collective Action Trial / February 21, 2013 The Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial Team would like to inform you about our protest rally in support of the children of Fukushima, which will be held on February 23 at 1pm in ALTA-MAE …
Continue readingby Geoff Brumfiel / via Nature / February 20, 2013 / After two turbulent years on the job, the head of Fukushima prefecture’s massive survey to understand the health effects of the 2011 Japanese nuclear accident is stepping down. Shunichi Yamashi…
Continue readingby Monte Burke / via Forbes / February 20, 2013 / Last May I wrote a piece about Bluefin tuna caught off the coast of southern California that carried radiation from the Fukushima, Japan, nuclear plant that was damaged in the March 2011. The fish were …
Continue readingvia ABC Australia / February 19, 2013 / Nearly two years after the meltdowns at Fukushima a report by Greenpeace has revealed companies that helped design and build the reactors are not required to pay any compensation and are in fact profiting from th…
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The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingvia UPI / February 11, 2013 / Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority will digitize about 900,000 pages of government documents on the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis, an authority official said. Some of the documentation includes radioactivity monito…
Continue readingby Jin Nishikawa / The Asahi Shimbun / February 14, 2013 The Nuclear Regulation Authority is to inspect a building at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant that may contain evidence proving whether it was the powerful tsunami or the earthquake tha…
Continue readingBy Adam Westlake / The Japan Daily Press / February 13, 2013 The Fukushima Prefectural government has revealed that two more people, both aged 18 or younger when the Fukushima nuclear crisis broke out in March 2011, have been diagnosed with having thyr…
Continue readingby Hideaki Kimura / via The Asahi Shimbun / February 12, 2013 Naomi Hirose, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., denied an organization-wide effort to interfere with a Diet investigation into the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, saying one official …
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / February 11, 2013 / The photos were taken on February 10, 2013, from a Kyodo News helicopter at an altitude of 1,500 meters. For the first time, the government allowed the aerial photographs within 3 kilometers of Fukushima I Nuclear Power…
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The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / February 4, 2013 / These days, it almost feels as if the last sane place remaining in Japan is actually Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, where they have actual jobs to do and they are at it every single day mostly because they have no othe…
Continue readingvia GlobalPost / February 4, 2013 / Fukushima operator TEPCO said Monday it expected to lose about $1.29 billion in the year to March, close to three times an earlier estimate, citing compensation and higher energy costs. Tokyo Electric Power said it w…
Continue readingby Jessica M. Morrison / via Slate / January 31, 2013 / […] In October 2011, the Science Council of Japan organized a committee to rethink reconstruction with an eye toward the social responsibility of science and scientists. Little more than a year …
Continue readingvia The Globe and Mail / February 3, 2013 / Japanese police have questioned a former head of the nuclear safety body regarding possible criminal charges over the Fukushima nuclear crisis, news reports said Sunday. Prosecutors have interviewed Haruki Ma…
Continue readingBy Catriona Davies / CNN / February 5, 2013 / Few people would use the word “fantastic” to describe a visit to Fukushima, the site of Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster. But Lady Barbara Judge is not just anybody. Judge, a 66-year-old lawy…
Continue readingBy Philippe Mesmer / via Le Monde/Worldcrunch / February 6, 2013 / It has been almost two years since the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, and since then there have been multiple allegations about the role played by the Japanese mafia – the yakuza – …
Continue readingBy Biswajit Roy / via The Telegraph (India) / February 7, 2013 / Separated by over 7,000 kilometres, Fukushima is a household name in Kudankulam. For mothers, young seamen and schoolgoing children, the Japanese prefecture has come to embody the fears s…
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The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
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The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingBy Dennis Riches / nf2045.blogspot.com / January 19, 2013 / More forgotten history that hides in plain sight: It’s not a stop for the Japanese tourists who visit Niagara, but they might be interested to know. The shores of Lake Ontario and the Ni…
Continue readingby Cherrie Lou Bullones / The Japan Daily Press / January 21, 2013 / A murasoi fish, comparable to a rockfish, was found at a port in the area of the now-closed Fukushima nuclear power plant, which contained 254,000 becquerels per kilogram of cesium, a…
Continue readingby Geoff Brumfiel / via Nature.com / January 16, 2013 / In the immediate aftermath of the nuclear accident, public-health experts worried about the possible risk from radiation. Subsequent analyses have shown that the prompt, if frantic, evacuation of …
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The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingvia RT.com / January 18, 2013 / Debris set adrift by the 2011 Japanese tsunami has made its way to Hawaii, triggering concerns over the unknown effects of the radiation it may carry from the meltdown of the Fukushima reactor. Debris has washed ashore t…
Continue readingvia AP-Perspective / January 19, 2013 / Japan is to start building its ambitious wind farm project off the Fukushima coast in July. The farm is expected to become the world’s largest and produce 1GW of power once completed in 2020. The power-generati…
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