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Fukushima operator starts hazardous year-long fuel removal
Reuters ^
| Nov 18, 2013
Posted on 11/19/2013 4:35:33 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Fukushima operator starts hazardous year-long fuel removal
TOKYO Mon Nov 18, 2013 5:50am EST
Nov 18 (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant took the first step on Monday in the long and hazardous process of decommissioning the facility, extracting a fuel rod from its container for later removal.
Tokyo Electric Power Co said it transferred the rod to a steel cask within the same cooling pool in a badly damaged reactor building, beginning the delicate and unprecedented task of removing 400 tonnes of highly irradiated spent fuel from that reactor.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fuelrod; fuelrodextraction; fuelrods; fukushima; radiation; unit4
To: TigerLikesRooster; sushiman; Ronin; AmericanInTokyo; gaijin; struggle; DTogo; GATOR NAVY; Iris7; ...
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posted on
11/19/2013 4:36:04 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
OMG - does this mean California is safe !?
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posted on
11/19/2013 4:40:35 AM PST
by
aumrl
(let's keep it real Conservatives)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
11/19/2013 4:44:00 AM PST
by
Berlin_Freeper
(What we said when we said what we said was. Period. End of story.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
11/19/2013 5:19:33 AM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
And I’m going to Tokyo tomorrow .
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posted on
11/19/2013 5:23:29 AM PST
by
sushiman
To: sushiman
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posted on
11/19/2013 5:25:12 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Moving them is urgent because they are being stored 18 metres (59 feet) above ground level in a building that has buckled and tilted and could collapse if another quake strikes. Removing the rods have been likened to taking cigarettes out of a crushed pack. If the rods are exposed to air or if they break, huge amounts of radioactive gases could be released into the atmosphere. IF they break. They have such a clean safety record, snort.
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posted on
11/19/2013 7:20:05 AM PST
by
bgill
(This reply was mined before it was posted.)
To: sushiman
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posted on
11/19/2013 7:20:43 AM PST
by
bgill
(This reply was mined before it was posted.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Use tethered blimps with cameras and claws on this project. Operators could be sitting at a safe distance.
They could start disassembling the building and core and get this stuff contained.
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posted on
11/19/2013 7:30:46 AM PST
by
lurk
To: TigerLikesRooster
And guess what Tepco just announced before they started pulling up the spent fuel rod assemblies in #4 pool ? That 70 rod assemblies in that pool have been previously damaged. Some by the 311 event and some before hand in the past. Hopefully they will save those for last.
BTW - A US nuclear plant in Kentucky was hit by a Tornado a few days ago.
One of the plant’s four enrichment production buildings, the adjacent cooling towers and nearby electrical switchyard sustained most of the damage.
Do not panic. Authorities have assured the public that no hazardous materials were released by the Tornado strike on the Paducah plant. Oh. And they also ruled out terrorism right away.
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posted on
11/19/2013 9:57:00 AM PST
by
justa-hairyape
(The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
To: justa-hairyape
Electrical switch yard was damaged? Can I assume they have battery back up by now??????
To: ransomnote
Do not know if they had a full blown reactor at that plant. Think they were reprocessing fuel. Listed as a gaseous diffusion plant. Rumor is they recently accepted a big shipment from the Russians to process.
Called a Fuel Cycle Facility. Well as we all know, spent fuel is so safe you can put it into your backyard /sarc
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posted on
11/19/2013 7:44:23 PM PST
by
justa-hairyape
(The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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