Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Geiger Counters, Dosimeters from US, France, Canada Still Sit in Narita Warehouse
40,000 units of Geiger counters and dosimeters donated by the United States, France, and Canada after the Fukushima I Nuke Plant accident still sit in a warehouse at Narita International Airport, according to a Japanese blogger (yougen).
The blogger says in his/her post (in Japanese) these Geiger counters and dosimeters are under the jurisdiction of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. Donations from foreign countries are handled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Distributing the Geiger counters and dosimeters to the plant workers is done by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
Distributing the Geiger counters and dosimeters to civilians is done by the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/05/geiger-counters-dosimeters-from-us.htmlUK nuclear industry gets green light from government inspector
Britain is safe from natural events similar to those that damaged the Fukushima plant, says report
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 18 May 2011 11.37 BST
The UK does not need to curtail the operation of nuclear power stations after the crisis at the Fukushima plant in Japan, the nuclear chief inspector, Mike Weightman, said today.
In an interim report on the lessons that could be learned from the disaster, which followed a 9-magnitude earthquake and a tsunami that battered the Japanese coast, Weightman said similar natural events would not happen in the UK.
He also said existing and planned nuclear power stations in this country were of a different design from those at Fukushima, which were rocked by explosions and damage to the reactors after the tsunami shut down power to the plants, knocking out their cooling facilities.
Also, flooding risks were unlikely to prevent the construction of new nuclear power stations at potential development sites in the UK, all of which are on the coast, he said...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/18/nuclear-power-stations-report-weightman-fukushimaAP Exclusive: Iran backs nuke plans despite risks
Associated Press
May 17, 2011
VIENNA (AP) — The leaders of earthquake-prone Iran have rejected concerns by the country's top scientists about a plan to build a national nuclear reactor network, according to intelligence shared with The Associated Press.
An official from a member nation of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency says the Iranian decision was reached shortly after Japan's March 11 earthquake and tsunami that crippled the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex, spewed radiation into the atmosphere and evolved into the worst nuclear disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe.
According to the official, key Iranian leaders reviewed a 2005 report on Iran's southwestern Khuzestan province — site of a planned nuclear plant near the town of Darkhovin on the northern tip of the Persian Gulf — that was updated in 2010 and early this year with a study of earthquakes that have hit other Iranian provinces in the last decade.
The official said Tuesday the report by Iranian scientists warns that "data collected since the year 2000 shows the incontrovertible risks of establishing nuclear sites in the proximity of fault lines" in Khuzestan and 19 other Iranian provinces...
http://www.uruknet.info/?new=77815Japan's salarymen encouraged to dress down and chill out
As part of the country's energy-saving endeavours, Japanese officers workers are being urged to wear Hawaiian shirts and sandals to reduce the need for air conditioning
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/18/japan-salarymen-encouraged-dress-down
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