[Vision2020] [Spam 7.31] Republicans Retreat on Domestic Violence

[Chuck Kovis]

Brought to you by the "Japan Atomic Industrial Forum" whose motto is:

"Nuclear Power, with no emission of carbon dioxide, contributes to the 
prevention of global warming."

The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has 
started
taking a closer look at spent fuel inside a storage pool at one of its 4 
reactor
buildings, in preparation for the eventual removal of the fuel.
Tokyo Electric Power Company put a remote-controlled underwater camera
inside the storage pool for Reactor Number 4 on Thursday to examine 
conditions
inside. The firm says it will insert the camera several more times in March.
In one of the first steps in a 40-year plan for decommissioning the 
plant, Tokyo
Electric plans to start removing the spent fuel from Reactor Number 4 by 
March
2014.
. . . . .

Temperature remains high at damaged reactor
An unknown rise in temperature at one of the reactors at the damaged 
Fukushima
nuclear plant is troubling its operator. Tokyo Electric says the 
temperature hasn't
gone down even after it increased the volume of cooling water on Tuesday.
One of the thermometers at the bottom of reactor No. 2 at the Fukushima 
Daiichi
plant gradually rose to about 70 degrees Celsius since January 27th. It 
had stayed
around 45 degrees before.
In an effort to lower the temperature, the operator increased the amount 
of water
sprayed on the nuclear fuel by 3 tons to 13.5 tons per hour Tuesday morning.
But Tokyo Electric said readings were down only about 3 degrees after some 5
hours of operation, hardly showing signs of improvement.
The utility said the flow of water in the reactor may have changed after 
plumbing
work in late January, causing difficulties in cooling part of the melted 
nuclear
fuel.
It added that no temperature rise has been observed at 2 other 
thermometers in
the same reactor and that it will continue to carefully monitor the reactor.
TEPCO has been unable to visually confirm conditions inside the reactors 
since
the nuclear disaster last March because of high radiation.
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 13:05 +0900 (JST)

Looks like TEPCO is right on schedule for their 40 year plan.  Anyone 
for glowing Alaskan salmon?  Chuck Kovis  (My emphasis)

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/attachments/20120210/d3362ee9/attachment.html>