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Fukushima Diary
Life in Japan, after 3.11.11
  • [Express] “40 tones of decontamination waste remain in house area in Fukushima”
    Introducing important tweets as [Express] for simultaneous updates.   <Translate> The day before yesterday, a taxi driver told me, “I live near Shinobuyama (Fukushima city). I appreciate the decontamination, my house became quite clean. I even feel sorry, they painted the exterior wall too.” However, 4 of 10 tones dump trucks of the decontamination waste [...]
  • [Express] “74,000 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 from the soil of a park in Da-te city Fukushima”
    Introducing important tweets as [Express] for simultaneous updates.   <Translate> Re-analyzed the soil a children’s park in Da-te city (66km North West from Fukushima nuclear plant) Fukushima. The reading is frightening. (The screen says) 1/18/2012 Cs-134 : 26,600 Bq/Kg, Cs-137 : 47,000 Bq/Kg, Total : 74,000 Bq/Kg <End> 伊達市子供の国の土を再測定しました　恐ろしい数値です　永久立入禁止水準ですが日本では立入規制されていません　 twitter.com/tokaiama/statu… — 私のニセモノに注意さん (@tokaiama) 2013年5月24日   [...]
  • Special Rapporteur of Human Rights Council UN “Urine and blood test for internal exposure should be conducted”
    On 5/24/2013, advance unedited version of the Special Rapporteur from Human Rights Council UN was released. The Special Rapporteur, Anand Grover visited Japan from 11/15 to 11/26/2012. In this report, the Special Rapporteur encourages the Government of Japan to address a number of serious challenges with recommendations. As one of the recommendations, he suggested to conduct [...]
  • Tepco doesn’t know where ground water flows into, “try to dump water gauge in”
    It is estimated that 400 tones of water flows into the plant everyday. On 5/24/2013, Tepco announced they are going to “install” the water gauge into reactor1~3 related buildings to investigate which building ground water flows into the most. This means they don’t know where ground water flows into mainly. They are going to “install” [...]
  • [Mystery] Atmospheric dose of far north part of Fukushima nuclear plant area is significantly high
    On 5/24/2013, Tepco released the survey map of Fukushima nuclear plant. The surveying time was 5/7 ~ 5/10/2013. From the map, the atmospheric dose on the east side of reactor3 was 2 ~ 5 mSv/h, which is significantly high. It was 2 mSv/h on the west side of reactor1 as well. Unexpectedly the ambient dose [...]
  • M8.3 hit Sakhalin 12 hours after M7.4 hit Fiji
    The Pacific is seismically active increasingly. According to USGS, M8.4 hit Sakhalin at 5:44 of 5/24/2013 (UTC) nearly 12 hours after after M7.4 hit Fiji. Japan is situated between the 2 locations. M4.9 hit Fukushima offshore at 8:33 of 5/24/2013 as well.       http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000h3k3#summary http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000h4jh#summary http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000h4w9#summary http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/     Iori Mochizuki   Thank [...]
Enformable
Nuclear News
EXSKF
Covering Fukushima I (Daiichi) Nuclear Accident Since March 11, 2011
  • Japan's PM Abe May Be Planning a Surprise Visit to North Korea Soon

    I have a feeling that the US wouldn't like it one bit. The US didn't like a secret visit by Abe's advisor Isao Iijima to Pyongyang, which apparently was news to the US.

    After having been treated shabbily by President Obama on his trip to the US in April (or so Abe thinks) and his administration labeled "ultra-nationalists" who could harm the US interests in East Asia in the US Congressional report, Abe must have figured he has nothing further to lose in the eyes of his beloved US.

    Abe blew it on his visit to the US, ditto on his visit to Russia, where Prime Minister Vladimir Putin got (or feigned) angry over the question...
  • Idio(syncra)tic Japan: Nikkei Cannot Even Manage a "Dead Cat Bounce", Down 468 Right Now

    (UPDATE) Nikkei ended the day up 128, afternoon swing of over 600 points. Both BOJ's Kuroda and Finance Minister Aso call the moves of yesterday and today as "just normal, daily fluctuations". Daily fluctuations of 1,000, 1,500 points is apparently the "New Normal" for so-called "Abenomics".

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    It was down 176 when I started to write the post...


    Today's high was 15,007, and the low was 13,981(for now). The intraday swing of 1026 points is about two-thirds of that for yesterday. I was watching the Fibonacci 38.2% bounce from the yesterday's close (around 14,920), and sure enough the index overshot a little in the opening, stayed around that level for...

  • AP: #Fukushima I Nuke Plant "Struggles to Keep Staff", and "Happy" Has Cumulative Radiation Exposure of Over 300 Millisieverts

    The worker who tweeted from the plant for two years, "Happy", has a cumulative radiation exposure of more than 300 millisieverts from 20 years of working in the nuclear industry, according to the AP article that extensively quotes him.

    The article says the reason for the veterans like "Happy" quitting the Fukushima I Nuke Plant job is their cumulative radiation exposure approaching levels risky to health.

    TEPCO, being TEPCO, denies there is any problem of finding workers, even though the plant workers get $100 a day while workers doing the decontamination work in far less contaminated areas outside the plant are paid $160 a day.

    From AP (5/23/2013; emphasis is mine):

    Stricken Japan nuke plant...

  • Nikkei, JGB Double-Whammy: "Please Do Not Worry..."

    Another masterpiece from williambanzai7 at Zero Hedge. Click to enlarge, for full glory.


    Haruhiko Kuroda, governor of Bank of Japan, had just repeated his mantra at a press conference on May 22, one day before the Nikkei collapsed over 1,000 points, that (according to Nikkei Shinbun 5/22/2013 article):

    • Long rate is rising because the rates in Europe and the US are rising [Let's blame others, that's the Japanese way]; and

    • BOJ's purchase of JGB compresses the risk premium, and the effect will get stronger as BOJ buys more [Let's flat-out lie, until people actually believe it]

    • He doesn't expect the long rate to jump, under the rate-lowering pressure from...

  • Suicide Bombers Attack Niger's Military Base and AREVA's Uranium Mine, 23 Dead

    From Bloomberg/Newsweek (5/23/2013):

    Niger Terrorist Attacks Leave 23 Dead as Areva Staff Hurt (2)

    At least 23 people were reported dead in attacks on a Niger military base and a Areva SA (AREVA) uranium mine as one of the Islamist groups that prompted French strikes on neighboring Mali claimed responsibility.

    Radio France International cited government officials it didn’t identify for the death toll. Interior Minister Abdou Labo told reporters in Niamey, the capital, that at least 19 people are confirmed dead, including 18 soldiers. Four of the attackers were killed, he said, and a fifth was holding hostages at the Agadez base.

    Areva, the French maker of nuclear fuel and reactors, said one of its...

  • Japan's Nikkei Free-Falling, -1143

    (UPDATE) It is ugly in Europe, with Germany's DAX down 223 points (2.62%). US stock futures are ugly, too. Dow futures down 159. Ben's Fed has some work to do before the cash market opens.

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    The stock market in Japan is supposedly disliking the contracting Chinese economy and the US Fed comment about "tapering" down the QE4EVA, but I think it's about another botched day in the JGB (Japanese Government Bond) futures market which was halted (yet again) when the price dropped and yield spiked. 10-year JGB's yield hit 1%, almost triple the yield right before the Bank of Japan intervention in early April.

    Nikkei...

SimplyInfo
Crowd sourced information research & analysis without focus on profit.
  • TEPCO To Build Real Sized Reactor Model To Determine Fuel Removal Plan
    TEPCO plans to build a mock reactor in Fukushima to work out issues related to removing fuel and dismantling the reactors. The facility will include a to scale model of the GE Mark 1 containment system used at Fukushima Daiichi....
  • TEPCO’s New Meltdown In Tokyo
    Last week TEPCO announced at a press conference that they would be unable to build the underground wall hoped to block some of the water infiltration and leaking at the plant. TEPCO’s current worry about the plan is that it...
  • Miyagi Residents File Claim Radiation Exposure, The Data Behind The Issue
    Radiation doesn’t respect borders. People living in parts of Miyagi along the plume path from Fukushima Daiichi experienced worse conditions than many in Fukushima did but have been denied any assistance. Marumori Town and the Hippo district were among the...
  • Fukushima & Nuclear News Roundup
    The head of the JAEA that runs the Monju reactor program has resigned after a massive string of failures and incompetence was uncovered by the NRA. Officials don’t see this as a solution to the problems at Monju that are...
  • Photo Of The Day; Tokyo No Nukes Protest May 18, 2013
    Photo taken at Tokyo No Nukes Rally May 18, 2013, Photo via @documentingian More of his work can be found here http://www.documentingian.com/           This article would not be possible without the extensive efforts of the SimplyInfo research team Join the conversation at chat.simplyinfo.org All content is...
  • US Nuclear Plant Cracks Reactor Vessel
    The Sharon Harris nuclear plant admitted to having a crack in the reactor vessel. The 1/4 crack did not penetrate all the way through the vessel steel. It was not reported how long or deep the crack was. The reactor...
Pissin' On The Roses
Feral dogs, out in the cold, marking our dissent, one rosebush at a time.
Fukushima Update
Nuclear News from Japan
  • U.N. mulls excluding nuclear accidents from disaster prevention plan
    via Kyodo News / May 21, 2013 / The United Nations is considering excluding measures to prevent a nuclear accident caused by earthquake and tsunami from a new framework on disaster risk reduction expected to be adopted at the next world conference in 2015, U.N. sources said Tuesday. A Japanese government official involved in drafting the new framework, which will be discussed at the U.N.-sponsored World Conference on Disaster Reduction … Continue reading →
  • Fukushima plant struggles to keep staff
    via Tokyo AP / May 23, 2013 / Keeping the meltdown-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan in stable condition requires a cast of thousands. Increasingly the plant’s operator is struggling to find enough workers, a trend that many expect to worsen and hamper progress in the decades-long effort to safely decommission it. Tokyo Electric Power Co., the utility that runs the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant that melted down in March … Continue reading →
  • Nuclear regulators acknowledge fault below Tsuruga reactor is active
    via NewsOnJapan.com / May 23, 2013 / The Nuclear Regulation Authority accepted on Wednesday an assessment that a reactor at the Tsuruga plant in western Japan is sitting above an active fault, making it increasingly difficult for the facility to resume operation. It is the first time Japan’s regulatory authorities have acknowledged an existing reactor is located above a fault feared to move in the future, according to an NRA … Continue reading →
  • Farmers plant rice near crippled Fukushima site
    via The Star / May 22, 2013 / Farmers have resumed planting rice for market only 15 kilometres (nine miles) from Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, a local official said Wednesday. It was the first time since the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami-nuclear disaster that farmers have gone inside the former 20-kilometre “no-go” zone around the doomed plant to sow rice intended for sale. The zone has been redefined to … Continue reading →
  • Terrorist drill held for Fukushima plant
    via Japan Times / May 12, 2013 / Police and the Japan Coast Guard conducted a joint drill Saturday to prepare for a possible terrorist attack on the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. About 150 officers and other people, including members of a special assault team of the police, participated in the drill at the Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant, about 10 km from Fukushima No. 1. Both … Continue reading →
  • Leaks, Rats and Radioactivity: Fukushima’s Nuclear Cleanup Is Faltering
    by Bryan Walsh / via Time / May 1, 2013 / Honestly, if the consequences weren’t potentially so dire, the ongoing struggles to clean up the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northern Japan would be the stuff of comedy. In March, an extended blackout disabled power to a vital cooling system for days. The cause: a rat that had apparently been chewing on cables in a switchboard. As if that’s … Continue reading →
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