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Japan: Fukushima plant "great risk": head of nuclear accident probe panel(fragile structures)
Kyodo News ^
| 07/06/12
Posted on 07/06/2012 11:51:28 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Fukushima plant "great risk": head of nuclear accident probe panel
TOKYO, July 6, Kyodo
The head of a Diet-appointed panel to investigate the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster said Friday that the crippled plant in northeastern Japan remains in a dangerous situation because of its fragile structure.
"Fukushima remains at a very high risk, not only because of the spent fuel issues, but also because of its fragile structure," Kiyoshi Kurokawa, also professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, told a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, noting that another huge earthquake like the one last year may occur off the coast of northeastern Japan again.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fukushima; radiation
To: TigerLikesRooster; sushiman; Ronin; AmericanInTokyo; gaijin; struggle; DTogo; GATOR NAVY; Iris7; ...
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posted on
07/06/2012 11:53:15 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
You gotta love that “on the fly” engineering to seal up all those spent fuel rods and half melted and still glowing ones. Of course the thing is rickety and it is going to take patching for decades...provided another earthquake does not hit Japan (like that never happens).
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posted on
07/07/2012 12:02:03 AM PDT
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
To: gunsequalfreedom
truthfully...I want all the folks that don't deal with risk...to move to my Island so I can make a million with “reality” TV!
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posted on
07/07/2012 12:42:21 AM PDT
by
M-cubed
To: TigerLikesRooster
Anything on suppressed demonstrations in Tokyo over the reopening of the Ohi nuclear reactor plant yet?
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posted on
07/07/2012 1:26:12 AM PDT
by
SteveH
(First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
To: SteveH
I will be banned if I post it.:-)
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posted on
07/07/2012 1:46:31 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: SteveH
One of my friend’s wife was protesting. She didn’t seem suppressed, but nobody paid much attention to the demonstrators. The rainy weather might have had something to do with that.
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posted on
07/07/2012 2:53:49 AM PDT
by
Ronin
(Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
To: TigerLikesRooster
At least they’re now admitting there’s problems instead of the everything is peachy.
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posted on
07/07/2012 6:06:17 AM PDT
by
bgill
To: TigerLikesRooster
In case you have not seen it recently, this is reactor #4 building. The one of the four that did not have nuclear material in the RPV. They recently accelerated the demolition process. They plan on trying to remove the spent fuel rods in the spent fuel pool soon. It will be years before they can build robots that can safely enter reactor buildings #1 and #2 and can continue to work for long periods. They might be able to get to the spent fuel rods in reactor #3 since the top of the building has been blown away and access would be easier. This all assumes that technological progress continues in a society that is collapsing.
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