Original plan to cool Fukushima nuclear reactor to be scrapped

[kpete]

Source: Japan Today

Original plan to cool Fukushima nuclear reactor to be scrapped

Monday 16th May, 05:59 AM JST

TOKYO —

An adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan indicated Sunday that a plan to flood and cool the No. 1 reactor’s containment vessel at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant with water will be abandoned as holes have been created by melted nuclear fuel at the bottom of the pressure vessel.

Goshi Hosono, tasked with handling the nuclear crisis, told TV programs, however, that the government will keep intact the ‘‘road map’’ devised by plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co to bring the Nos. 1 to 3 reactors under control within six to nine months.

On the original plan to completely submerge the 4-meter-tall fuel rods by filling the vessel with water, Hosono said, ‘‘We should not cause the (radioactive) water to flow into the sea by taking such a measure.’‘

Hosono said that the government will instead consider ways to decontaminate water used to cool fuel in the reactor so that the water can be reused.

Read more: http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/original-plan-to-cool-fukushima-nuclear-reactor-to-be-scrapped

[meow mix]

1. ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n56jSYykS-Y

[AndyTiedye]

2. They Don't Have a Plan, other than to Just Let it Spew Radiation

and conceal the radiation figures so people don't know they are being irradiated.

[RC]

3. You wish.

Why don't you get a Geiger counter and go over there and expose them?

[Warren Stupidity]

4. I guess the Nikkei is equally clueless.

"TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Tokyo stocks fell Monday for the third straight session as revelations of further damage to nuclear reactors at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex spurred a fresh sell-off of Tokyo Electric Power shares and other utility companies.

The Nikkei Stock Average declined 90.47 points, or 0.9%, to 9558.30 following a 2.2% drop over the past two sessions. The Topix index of all the Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section issues fell 10.39 points, or 1.2%, to 829.55, with 29 of 33 subindexes ending in negative territory."

[AndyTiedye]

6. I'd Like to Get a Geiger Counter For HERE

Unfortunately, they are all back-ordered 6-9 months at least.

[robdogbucky]

7. In Japan they are networking to make Geiger counters themselves

Crowdsourcing Japan's radiation levels

A group of motivated individuals have come together to create a community approach to gathering radiation data in Japan.
D. Parvaz Last Modified: 26 Apr 2011 13:44

"The disaster in Japan has kicked all sorts of activists into high gear – volunteers helping people clear out their tsunami-battered homes, green energy proponents picketing the offices of Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) and a bunch of DYI-ers who are roaming Japan with hand-made Geiger counters (a hand-held device used to measure radiation), recording radiation levels. You read that last part correctly.

"We were getting frustrated with what was being reported in the media, what was being released by TEPCO, what was being released by the government," said Sean Bonner, co-founder of Safecast.org, which is currently partially self-funded, partially funded via a Kickstarter fundraiser.

"The information was just kind of unreliable, not updated frequently, no way to fact-check it... So, we just started thinking: What happens if we go get numbers ourselves? Like, is that an option?"

Apparently so. Out of thin air, a group of folks based in the US and Japan created a network that distributes Geiger counters to teams of people who record radiation levels in a consistent manner and upload it all to the Safecast site...

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/04/20114231 ...

Side Note; Dorothy Parvaz is currently a hostage in Iran it is believed, sent there by Syria's government, for reporting on the uprisings there.


Just more Extreme Enviroweenie Biased Claptrap

rdb

[damntexdem]

5. Any response whatever to reactor 1 to be ultimately scrapped.

But they do have to try.

What needs to be scrapped world-wide is nuclear power.

[robdogbucky]

8. Real and present danger

Real and present danger

"...Perhaps the Safecast project might sound a little crazy and ill-advised (a ragtag group of techies zigzagging around the area around a nuclear disaster some have compared to Chernobyl). But the outcome is pretty empowering.

Bonner said that one of the members of HackerSpace, a collective involved with Safecast, has family just outside the initial evacuation zone in Fukushima Prefecture.

"They were told that the their area was safe, and so the guys from Tokyo HackerSpace took a Geiger counter and drove up there," said Bonner.

"And they're farmers, organic farmers, and they're in this area that they were told was okay, but the numbers were off the charts – they were high. And then 10 days later, that area was evacuated as well..."

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/04/201142317359479927.html



More EEBC


rdb

[AndyTiedye]

9. There is One Here Too

http://www.radiationnetwork.com/