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Molten
fuel might be out of concrete base to directly damage primary
containment vessel of Reactor 1
Molten
fuel might be already outside of the concrete base and damaging the
vulnerable part of PCV (Primary Containment Vessel) in Reactor 1.
On
9/10/2014, IRID (International Research Institute for Nuclear
Decommissioning) announced it in the meeting of Atomic Energy Society
of Japan.
They
have admitted the fuel has melted through RPV (Reactor Pressure
Vessel) and dropped onto the concrete part inside of PCV, which is
called “melt through”.
However they haven’t stated the molten
fuel has directly touched the wall of PCV to be potentially exposed
to the environment.
In
this latest report, IRID admitted the possibility that the molten
fuel reached where the concrete base is not protecting the vulnerable
pipes and directly damaging PCV.
They
commented Reactor 2 and 3 are less likely to be in the same
situation, but didn’t deny the possibility.
15
Billion Bq of Tritium flows to the Pacific every single day / Tepco
under-reported 1/15 at press conference
Following
up this article.. 5 Billion
Bq of Strontium-90 flows to the sea every single day [URL]
15
Billion Bq of Tritium flows from Fukushima plant area to the sea
every single day. Tepco reported it in the handout submitted to
Fukushima fishery cooperative on 8/25/2014.
In
the press conference of the same day, Tepco announced it was 1
Billion Bq, which is 1/15 times much as the actual amount.
It
is not clear if Tepco tried to under-report it intentionally or not.
Tritium cannot be removed by any of the purification systems of
Tepco.
89,000
still living in temporary housing in Tohoku disaster area
In the Asuto-Nagamachi temporary housing complex in Sendai, 332 evacuees live in 183 housing units. (Yosuke Fukudome)
11
September, 2014
More
than 89,000 evacuees are still living in prefabricated temporary
housing in northeastern Japan three and a half years after the 3/11
disaster.
The
hard-hit prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima reported that as
of the end of August, 89,323 people who lost their homes to the Great
East Japan Earthquake and tsunami or were displaced because of the
nuclear accident are living in 41,384 temporary housing units in 49
municipalities.
The
temporary housing units were only built to last two years.
After
the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, it took five years for all
residents who moved to temporary accommodation to relocate to
permanent housing.
But
in the Tohoku disaster, it will likely take longer for the evacuees
to find places to settle permanently.
The
Reconstruction Agency said the construction of permanent housing
units to accommodate evacuees and preparation of land plots for
disaster-affected communities will be completed in just 18
municipalities by the end of fiscal 2015, the fifth anniversary of
the disaster.
As
for the remaining 31 municipalities, local governments will extend
the use of temporary housing on a yearly basis as long as permanent
housing to accommodate the residents remains short, the Cabinet
Office said.
In
Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, which has the largest number of
households who lost their homes to the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and
tsunami, the city government plans to construct housing units and
prepare land plots to accommodate 7,660 households.
But
only about 53 percent will be completed by fiscal 2015. The land
development projects to create housing lots to accommodate the
disaster-affected communities will not be completed until fiscal
2017, city officials said.
“We
have no choice but to maintain the temporary housing until then,” a
city official said.
In
13 municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture, the completion of
permanent housing for evacuees is nowhere in sight as local
governments are still in the process of negotiating with landowners
to obtain land plots.
In
areas around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant,
decontamination work and recovery of infrastructure lag behind
schedule, and it remains unknown when all evacuees can return home.
In
addition to the 89,000 people in temporary housing, there are about
90,000 people who live in 38,000 public and private housing units
that are rented by local governments on a temporary basis in the
three prefectures.
The
government had set the duration period for temporary housing at two
years, and the units are becoming increasingly decrepit. Many
residents have complained about health problems caused by stress from
living in cramped temporary housing.
Govt
OK’s Growing Rice for Public Sale Within Fukushima Contamination
Zone
11
September, 2014
Just
recently, farmers in the city of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, have
begun planting rice in a district previously designated as a
‘no-plant zone’ due to of radioactive fallout. This
will be the first time since March, 2011’s core meltdowns
that rice
intended for public sale will
be planted in fields that are possibly still contaminated with
radioactive cesium and other toxic materials.
While
the Japanese
public is vehemently opposed to GMO,
do they really want to eat radioactive rice? The government of Japan
seems not to care.
Despite
the urging of the people of Japan, the government continues to allow
farming in radioactive areas while also permitting large
quantities of imported GM canola from Canada. There is also now GM
canola growing wild around Japanese ports and roads to major food oil
companies.
Genetically
modified canola such as Monsanto’s RoundUp Ready canola has been
found growing around these ports when being tested for GM
contamination. Japan was also recently duped
into accepting Monsanto’s GM soybeans.
Does this country really need any more toxic food?
In
other news, animals and people living near the Fukushima
radiation are suffering. Wild
monkeys that reside in a forest near Fukushima are now showing
alarming changes
in their blood composition. This
doesn’t bode well for humans who were exposed to radiation from
within several hundred kilometers of the Daiichi site.
Just weeks ago, two Japanese farmers whose livelihoods are in ruins due to the 2011 nuclear disaster staged a protest at Tokyo’s agriculture ministry, scuffling briefly with police as they unsuccessfully tried to unload a bull from a truck.
Masami
Yoshizawa and fellow farmer Naoto Matsumura have remained at their
farms to care for their own and others’ abandoned livestock in
areas where access has been restricted due to radiation fears since
the March, 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi
nuclear plant. The livestock they brought with them for the protest
had developed unexplainable white spots on their coats. The
farmers believe it is due to radioactive fallout.
Thousands
of farmers lost their livelihoods when their farms, produce, and
livestock were declared off-limits and unsafe, but allowing
radioactive farms to plant now doesn’t solve the problem, and
neither do genetically modified foods. It seems the corporate
biotech bullies won’t stop their own agricultural terrorism, even
when a country is down on their luck.
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