Peter Lemkin Wrote:Ahhh! Nothing to worry about.............:alberteinstein:

Keith Millea Wrote:

Peter Lemkin Wrote:Ahhh! Nothing to worry about.............:alberteinstein:

Published on Monday, November 18, 2013 by Common Dreams

Developing: Earthquake Hits Japan Amid Fukushima Fuel Rod Removal


The U.S. Geological Survey says earthquake has 5.7 magnitude, with details still unfolding

- Common Dreams staff

An image from the U.S. Geological Survey shows the approximate location of the earthquake.Developing:

A strong earthquake has struck Japan's coast south of the Fukushima nuclear plant currently undergoing a dangerous removal of highly radioactive Unit 4 fuel rods, according to online reports.

The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a 5.7 magnitude earthquake has struck Japan 25 kilometers southeast of Toba, releasing the following tweet:

Strong earthquake, NEAR S. COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN, Nov-18 19:10 UTC, 0 #quake tweets/min, http://t.co/jAAXkTfU5k

Reports of the earthquake are still emerging. The following Twitter feed has news and updates.

Peter Lemkin Wrote:There is NO good solution - only less bad ones. Nuclear Energy was always a bad idea and getting worse by the day....as these reactors [damaged or not] age, they become more and more dangerous...they are dangerous at 'conception'. 'Ya likely 'ain't seen nothing yet, sadly......

Quote:The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner opposite, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposing halves. CW 9: AION: 126

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Water decontamination system in trouble at Japan's Fukushima

Dec 01, 2013

Members of the media and Tokyo Electric Power Co. employees wearing protective suits and masks walk past storage tanks for radioactive water at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan on November 7, 2013A trouble-prone system used to decontaminate radioactive water at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant was switched off Sunday because of a chemical leak, the plant's operator said.

Hydrochloric acid, used to neutralise alkaline water being decontaminated, was found seeping from a pipe joint, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said in a statement.
The joint was wrapped in a vinyl bag to contain the leakage, TEPCO said, adding it was investigating the cause of the trouble.
About one litre of hydrochloric acid has been contained in the bag.
The leak was found at one of three Advanced Liquid Processing System units designed to remove radioactivity from contaminated water at the plant, where a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 sent nuclear reactors into meltdown.
The systems are expected to play a crucial role in treating huge amounts of toxic water accumulating at the plant.
The troubled system was one of two units that had been in trial operation and were scheduled to go into full operation Sunday.
In late September plastic padding clogged up a drain in the same system, causing it to shut down. In October, it was halted due to a programming mistake.
Thousands of tonnes of water, used since the meltdown to cool reactors or polluted by other radioactive material, are being stored in huge tanks at the site on Japan's northeast coast.
A series of setbacks, including radioactive water leaks into the Pacific Ocean, have eroded confidence that Asia's largest utility can tame the world's worst atomic disaster since Chernobyl.

Peter Lemkin Wrote:Glad to hear the whole procedure::bicyclebully:: is going so well!