Fukushima cooling system fails for second time in a month

[grahamhgreen]

Source: Guardian

The cooling system for a fuel storage pool at one of the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant has failed, Japanese regulators have said.

A spokesman for the Nuclear Regulation Authority said an alarm went off on Friday afternoon at reactor No 3, and that the cause of the failure was still under investigation.

A spokesman for the plant's operator said it would take two weeks before temperatures approach dangerous levels following a cooling system failure.

Last month, a power cut caused a two-day failure in a cooling system.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/05/fukushima-cooling-system-fails

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Nukes: A dirty and dangerous technology from a bygone era.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

1. Agreed

It not if, it's when Fukushima completely fails.
Sad.

[Journeyman]

2. This reactor? . . .

What could possibly be wrong with the critical cooling system? Why, this was designed and built by some of the finest minds in the universe, schooled in the dark arts of garbage burning and ever mindful of the safety of corporate profits.

[grahamhgreen]

7. HAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Moostache]

3. Reactors in active meltdown? What could possibly go wrong with rigged solutions to THAT?

The lack of concern over Fukushima is totally predictable - after all, you can't have anything too public that would threaten ANY entrenched corporate interest in today's world; but I guarantee you this much - there is no way in hell I will EVER be going anywhere near Tokyo in the future (and the people living there now should probably not be planning on staying there long term either unless they like the idea of glow-in-the-dark).

[Octafish]

4. Another ratlike creature, no doubt.

If they don't chew, their teeth grow through their brains.

[JDPriestly]

6. Nuclear energy is the modern-day plague.

The plague decimated the population of Europe. They couldn't even get around to burying all the bodies. People were dying too fast and in great numbers and posing too much danger to anyone who came near them. (A bit of an exaggeration, but not much.)

What we will experience with dying nuclear facilities over the next century will be unbelievable.

Think about the foolish austerity measures now being imposed by Western governments -- virtually all of them. These austerity measures will slow our economies and impoverish more and more people. Tax bases will shrink. It will be more and more difficult to police and regulate and safeguard these aging nuclear facilities. And on top of that, we will have less money to do it.

The nuclear plants will be neglected, fall into disrepair and become death traps. There is already some rumor of this about Hanford in Washington State.

Underground tanks that hold a stew of toxic, radioactive waste at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site pose a possible risk of explosion, a nuclear safety board said in advance of confirmation hearings for the next leader of the Energy Department.

State and federal officials have long known that hydrogen gas could build up inside the tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, leading to an explosion that would release radioactive material. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board recommended additional monitoring and ventilation of the tanks last fall, and federal officials were working to develop a plan to implement the recommendation.

The board expressed those concerns again Monday to U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who is chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and had sought the board's perspective about cleanup at Hanford.

The federal government created Hanford in the 1940s as part of the secret Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb. It spends billions of dollars to clean up the 586-square-mile site neighboring the Columbia River, the southern border between Washington and Oregon and the Pacific Northwest's largest waterway.

http://news.yahoo.com/nuclear-board-warns-hanford-tank-003212420.html

Hanford is just the first of many, many nuclear facilities and storage facilities across the country that will be endangered in the coming years.

What fools we are.

[grahamhgreen]

8. "The nuclear plants will be neglected, fall into disrepair and become death traps." True.

[Octafish]

9. All that you say is true. All.

The idea of We the Fools serving as nothing more than a repository for nuclear, chemical and biological waste is not the subject of science fiction. It's been driving people who give a damn mad for three-quarters of a century now. Universal health care? Don't make me laugh.

Fukushima presents the elite (or the Ownership Class, the War Party, or BFEE) with a golden opportunity to reduce the excess population and dilute the undesirables surreptitiously through poverty, want, disease, disaster, murder, mayhem and their favorite because of its power, profitability and prestige -- war.

I think the world of Wyden. And even HE, a sitting U.S. Senator, can not tell his own countrymen, let alone the people he represents, that the Secret Government is running amok with their civil liberties and Treasury.

We haven't lost, yet, my Friend. Remember Robert Tessier and Burt Reynolds in "The Longest Yard"? The part when Connie Shockner said, "No" when asked if he wanted to play football? Paul Crewe added, "Oh. We're gonna play against the Guards."

[Hubert Flottz]

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If rats were the size of English school children, they could wipe us out , in a week.

[Octafish]

14. Frank Acme, Jr. and his high toned yellow runabout.

"Matilda Briggs was not the name of a young woman, Watson," said Holmes in a reminiscent voice. "It was a ship which is associated with the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared."

[Hubert Flottz]

15. Lol

And just when you thought THINGS couldn't get any worse, came the invasion...

[Octafish]

16. She's related to the people at the PX.

The eggs, General?



Let's just call them, "The Phenomena."



Honey, they're in everybody's eggs.



Crying terrific tears. Which motor are we to be riding upon?

One of my most treasured recordings just got better. Thanks, Hubert Flottz!

[JDPriestly]

5. Yes. Dirty, dangerous and, you forgot -- deadly --, but the politics are difficult.

A lot of money has been invested in nuclear, so forget the dirt, the danger and the death. It's a lot of whammy for the money.

[caseymoz]

10. I hate to say it could be worse . . .

North Korea might aim a nuke there.

[Hubert Flottz]

13. North Korea would like to go to Fukushima's fire sale.

Kim and doctor Kahn could probably find some good deals on some cheap nuclear fuel there in Japan's troubled rubble.

I think the crazies flea market nuclear parts and recipes in the Mid and Far East these days.

Japan is in a world of shit and Fukushima's time released killing will go on for several generations. Human deformities and cancers is the price the people of Japan will pay for the luxury of "Cheap Nuclear Power" they've enjoyed. We in America have enjoyed "Cheap Nuclear Power" too. I hope that America never gets a power bill like Japan has.

[PufPuf23]

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