Flooded Nebraska nuke plant is still down
It's been nine months now since the Fort Calhoun reactor started being inundated by the raging Missouri River. It's still shut down. And some folks back there are starting to think that maybe it shouldn't ever be cranked up again.
Meanwhile, at Fukushima, 167 workers at the triple-meltdown site have reportedly reached their lifetime radiation limits and can no longer assist in the fight to keep the still-dangerous situation from deteriorating further. At some point, they may run out of people who know what they're doing and are crazy enough to get involved.
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"Suzuki’s cover was broken in August, partly because Tepco officials noticed he was the only worker who remained awake and took notes during daily briefings."
The inside story: Tomohiko Suzuki
http://no1.fccj.ne.jp/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=550:the-inside-story-tomohiko-suzuki&catid=76:2012-jan&Itemid=101
And you know what happens with nuclear waste from Europe that the mob handles, it gets dumped off of Somalia and elsewhere. I wonder where the Japanese mob will be dumping?
It will be interesting if there will be reporting of spikes in dosimeters in Tokyo after tomorrow.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/03/radioactive-wind-will-hit-tokyo-on-392012/
Posted by sheila | March 8, 2012 9:59 AM
100 MsV is the lifetime limit? That seems awfully low, especially since you get 30 MsV getting an abdominal CT scan w/ contrast! So if you get 3 CT scans and a couple of xrays, and you're barred from working with nukes?
Posted by Lokes | March 8, 2012 10:13 AM
Sheila wrote about “the mob” sending nuclear waste from Europe to Somalia. I’d like to see a link/reference to information about this.
According to this bizarre story, Japanese criminal crime syndicates, Yakuza, have for years acted as subcontractors to hire workers at Japanese nuclear power plants:
“Yakuza labor structure formed base of nuclear industry”--
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201202020055
A quote: "Many nuclear plant workers at Fukushima were linked to gangsters in the 1960s and the ’70s," said a former employee of Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the Fukushima No. 1 plant, who once worked at the plant.
Crime syndicates dispatched the workers, and some of them were gangsters themselves, the former employee said. TEPCO and its general contractors issued perfunctory warnings but largely ignored the practice because such workers were always in high demand.”
Criminals cleaning and repairing nuke plants? Not only at Fukushima but all over Japan? And, if Sheila’s reference is to be taken literally, “the mob” handling the shipment of European nuclear waste? The mind boggles....
Posted by Bee | March 9, 2012 12:13 AM
Bee it is all so very tragic and yes boggles the mind. Here is one link in reference to the Mafia's connection to nuclear waste dumping:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2008/10/2008109174223218644.html
Posted by sheila | March 9, 2012 12:21 PM