Tepco Says Fukushima Reactors Undamaged by 6.8 Magnitude Quake

[Rhiannon12866]

Source: Bloomberg

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501)’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power station, crippled by a tsunami in March 2011, was undamaged by a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of the area today.

Inspections and monitoring showed “no abnormality” at the power facilities including reactors and workers were safe, the company said in an e-mailed statement. The earthquake triggered a tsunami of about 30 centimeters (1 foot), it said.

The quake struck at 4:22 a.m. local time and its epicenter was about 140 kilometers (87 miles) off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture at a depth of about 10 kilometers, Japan’s Meteorological Agency said on its website.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-12/tepco-says-fukushima-reactors-undamaged-by-6-8-magnitude-quake.html?

[bananas]

1. Is TEPCO lying again? nt

[madokie]

4. I'm sure they are

If I was a betting man that would be a bet I'd take

[Mnemosyne]

8. Their lips were moving. nt

[bananas]

2. rofl - Inspections and monitoring showed "no abnormality" at the leaking crippled reactors

What they mean is "no new damage", of course.
But it's silly to say they found "no abnormality" at this ongoing disaster site.
And if they did find new damage, they probably wouldn't tell us about it, based on their past record.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. That's a very good point, thanks for the info!

I can't help wondering how much we're not hearing...

[PoliticAverse]

5. 'monitoring showed “no abnormality”' - abnormal is the new normal. n/t

[jwirr]

6. Isn't that what they told us last time.

[Myrina]

7. Kinda hard to damage something that's already damaged to hell, aye?

[MisterP]

9. "and they're not leaking anything, either" nt

[Octafish]

10. And ''plutonium is not a health risk to humans.''

TEPCO says plutonium found on quake-damaged plant grounds

By the CNN Wire Staff
March 28, 2011 -- Updated 1735 GMT (0135 HKT)

okyo (CNN) -- Some plutonium found in soil on the grounds of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant may have come from its earthquake-damaged reactors, but it poses no human health risk, the plant's owners reported Monday.

The element was found in soil samples taken March 21-22 from five locations around the plant, the Tokyo Electric Power Company told CNN late Monday. The company said it was equivalent to the amounts that fell on Japan following aboveground nuclear weapons tests by other countries in past decades.

"It is not a health risk to humans," the company said. But it added, "Just in case, TEPCO will increase the monitoring of the nuclear plant grounds and the surrounding environment."

Plutonium is a byproduct of nuclear reactions that is also part of the fuel mix at the plant's No. 3 reactor. It can be a serious health hazard if inhaled or ingested, but external exposure poses little health risk, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Three plutonium isotopes -- Pu-238, -239 and -240 -- were found in soil at five different points inside the plant grounds, Tokyo Electric reported. It said that plutonium found in two of the samples could have come out of the reactors that were damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that ravaged northern Japan.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/28/japan.nuclear.plutonium/?hpt=T2

[DeSwiss]

15. Tokyo's soil.....

...which lies 238 km from Fukushima, qualifies as radioactive waste in the U.S.

- If Japan were here, the whole country would have to be shipped to Texas for disposal.

[Octafish]

16. That is heartbreaking.

The government of Japan serves the Japanese people in a criminally negligent manner, for a reason.

Japan’s Nuclear Industry: The CIA Link.

By Eleanor Warnock
June 1, 2012, 10:18 AM JST.
Wall Street Journal Blog

Tetsuo Arima, a researcher at Waseda University in Tokyo, told JRT he discovered in the U.S. National Archives a trove of declassified CIA files that showed how one man, Matsutaro Shoriki, was instrumental in jumpstarting Japan’s nascent nuclear industry.

Mr. Shoriki was many things: a Class A war criminal, the head of the Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan’s biggest-selling and most influential newspaper) and the founder of both the country’s first commercial broadcaster and the Tokyo Giants baseball team. Less well known, according to Mr. Arima, was that the media mogul worked with the CIA to promote nuclear power.

SNIP...

Mr. Shoriki, backed by the CIA, used his influence to publish articles in the Yomiuri that extolled the virtues of nuclear power, according to the documents found by Mr. Arima. Keen on remilitarizing Japan, Mr. Shoriki endorsed nuclear power in hopes its development would one day arm the country with the ability to make its own nuclear weapons, according to Mr. Arima. Mr. Shoriki’s behind-the-scenes push created a chain reaction in other media that eventually changed public opinion.

SNIP…

Mr. Shoriki, backed by the CIA, used his influence to publish articles in the Yomiuri that extolled the virtues of nuclear power, according to the documents found by Mr. Arima. Keen on remilitarizing Japan, Mr. Shoriki endorsed nuclear power in hopes its development would one day arm the country with the ability to make its own nuclear weapons, according to Mr. Arima. Mr. Shoriki’s behind-the-scenes push created a chain reaction in other media that eventually changed public opinion.

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http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2012/06/01/japans-nuclear-industry-the-cia-link/

We should leave the soil and bring all the Japanese people to Texas or wherever they'd like to live.

[WhiteTara]

11. Must be some terrible damage. Espcially to the

reactor that was running dry.

[DeSwiss]

12. From their own reports.....

...no one from TEPCO has seen those reactors since March 11, 2011. Because the radioactivity is too high to get inside the buildings.

- So I suppose when they say they were undamaged, they mean the buildings are still standing there and they're not dead yet.....

K&R

[Rhiannon12866]

13. Thanks! I was hoping this OP would elicit more information

Looks like it has, and none of it good. Forgetting about this lethal situation isn't going to make it go away.

[DeSwiss]

14. I stay on top of it, but......

...few here at DU seem that interested.

- And it's wearing. Constantly reading about a hopeless situation that's just gonna get worse and so are our children's lives. A lot worse. All because of the ignorance and timidity of their forefathers & foremothers.

We've let them down.

3/7/2013 ''Two years after the second worst nuclear disaster in the world, scientists are still no closer to understanding the exact conditions of the reactor cores inside the Fukushima nuclear plant. That is because the radiation levels are still too high for anyone to enter the three reactor buildings that had a meltdown on March 11, 2011, in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake.'' JapanDailyPress-link

See also:
ENENEWS
FAIREWINDS

And we've got our own troubles at Hansford and at WIPP.........

[Rhiannon12866]

17. Thank you! There is no way we can afford to ignore this, deserves to be on the front page every day

[magical thyme]

20. I was going to post IOW the buildings didn't fall down completely

but you beat me to it.

[Strelnikov_]

18. Cause we all know that band-aids are earthquake resistant n/t

[locks]

19. I emailed the journalists

asking them how Bloomberg or any responsible medium would ever publish a report from TEPCO as if it was factual.

[lunatica]

21. There is no evil if you see no evil and hear no evil and say no evil