The Canadian to be reviewed nuclear power safety

The Canada has five nuclear power plants in different States of operation.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has established a working group to assess the impact of operational, technical and regulatory of the nuclear disaster at the Japan for the Canadian plants.

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex was severely damaged by the March 11 earthquake and the tsunami that hit the northeastern coast of the Japan and continues to release radiation into the environment as officers work desperately to get the reactors under control.

The geese of the standing Canada near Pickering Ontario Hydro nuclear power station. Ontario Hydro is the most important power in North America. Andy Clark/Reuters.

The Canadian commission has decided to implement the Working Group at its meeting of March 30.

"The members of the Working Group will examine the responses of the licensees at the request of CNSC information under subsection 12 (2) the General nuclear safety and regulation of review to review the respective cases of the safety of their nuclear installations."", underlying in-depth defence against externesscénarios of serious accidents and guidelines and emergency procedures," said a press release of the CNSC.

The Canada has seven nuclear power plants located at five locations in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick.

Employment of the Working Group will be recommending short and long term measures to address Canadian nuclear Central significant deficiencies and determine if design changes are necessary.

The Fukushima Daiichi crippled nuclear plant sees this picture Tokyo Electric Power Co., exit on April 14. The utility giant still works on a plan to end the nuclear crisis a month after the start. Tokyo Electric Power Co./Reuters

The Working Group recommends that, if appropriate, potential changes in regulatory requirements, for inspection and programs policies for CANDU reactors and for potential new nuclear power plants, according to the release of the commission.

Members will also determine priorities for the implementation of corrective actions based on lessons learned and the need, if any, for further examination. The Working Group will present its findings to the commission at a public forum, even if the date has not yet been decided.

The Working Group will be chaired by Greg Rzentkowski, the Director-General of regulation of nuclear power, and members will consist of senior experts in the design of the reactor, security assessment and the emergency preparedness and response.

The most recent accident at a Canadian nuclear power plant was in mid-March when 73 000 litres of water demineralized leak in Lake Ontario of the Pickering a nuclear power plant.

Ontario Power Generation, which operates the plant, located 35 kilometres east of Toronto, told the CNSC that seal of pump failure was the cause.

Ontario Power Generation, said that the risk was minimal, but that these leaks are not supposed to happen.

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Japan may prohibit access nuclear plant

The Japan plans to prohibit access to the area evacuated around a nuclear plant damaged in the month last earthquake and tsunami.

Up to 80,000 people lived in the area of 20 km around Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plants, but almost all of them have left.

However, a few people have been back to check their home, despite the police.

The nuclear power plant has been leaks radiation since its cooling system has been damaged in the earthquake on March 11 and the subsequent tsunami.

Now, officials are indicating for the first time that the area around the plant can be concluded.

"We are considering implementation areas of caution as an option to limit effectively the entry," said the Secretary General of Government Yukio Edano.

He said that Prime Minister Naoto Kan will discuss the closure when he travels in the region meeting with local officials on Thursday. Kan will also visit a nuclear crisis management centre.

Noriyuki Shikata, Member of Edano, said more details on how the access could be controlled are still developed.

"There are a number of people who can enter the area." Under the current regime, we are not able to enforce legally - there is no penalty for entering in the box. There is awareness of the need for a stronger application of the region, said Shikata.

Also, Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the nuclear power plant, said Wednesday that it distributes requests for compensation for persons who were forced to leave the region. The company offers approximately 12 000 US $ per person in initial compensation.

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Fukushima nuclear event updated on level 7 - What's that mean?

Fukushima nuclear event updated on level 7 - What's that mean?Maggie Koerth-Baker at 1:57 PM Tuesday, APR 12, 2011

The crisis reactor Fukushima Daiichi has been upgraded to a 7 on the international scale of nuclear events. This is the same rating as Chernobyl. It is interesting to me, though, how can these two events share the same assessment, but still very different in some important points.

Chernobyl published, for example, much more radioactive material (Fukushima published only 1 / 10 of the radioactive Chernobyl issue) in a much shorter period of time. The slower pace of Fukushima, combined with the Japanese Government more open and responsive approach means less significant health impacts so far were caused by Fukushima.

But the differences do not all work in Fukushima's fallen. It is likely to take longer to this crisis under control, and Fukushima cleanup crews have come up with much contaminated water, was not present in Chernobyl. Therefore, it is possible that these two disasters similar, as they do now could look over the long term vision.

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Nuclear power plant Japan still spewing radiation at sea

Measured radiation in seawater ashore off the Central nuclear Japan tsunami-ravaged several million times legal limit in recent days, while officials argue that contamination still does not constitute an immediate danger.

Radiation was cast in the Pacific Ocean the Fukushima Daiichi plant since a 9.0 magnitude earthquake caused a massive tsunami that flooded the complex. Over the weekend, workers he discovered a crack where the highly contaminated water has been discharging directly into the ocean.

The tsunami has sprayed about 400 kilometres from the northeast coast, killing thousands of people and entire towns flattened. Tens of thousands more lost their homes in the crash of the water, and thousands have been forced to leave the area near the plant because of radiation concerns.

A member of the Force of legitimate defence of the Japan Research victims on a coastline that was damaged by the earthquake and the tsunami, in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Tuesday. Toru Hanai/ReutersMany of these "radiation refugees" are frustrated by the mandatory 20-kilometre exclusion zone and plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. - including the stock value has plunged its lowest level ever - them said Tuesday it would give the affected towns 20 million yen (240 000 US$) each.

Also Tuesday, TEPCO announced that sea water samples near one of the reactors contained 7.5 million times the legal limit of radioactive iodine on April 2. Two days later, this figure dropped to $ 5 million.

Experts have said that radiation quickly dissipates in the vast Pacific, but they also said that it is not known what will be the effects of large amounts of contamination. No fishing is permitted in the vicinity of complex.

TEPCO said in a statement that even large amounts would have "no immediate impact" on the environment, but added that it is working to stop the leak as soon as possible.

The readings were taken more near the plant as before - apparently because the new points have been added after the crack was discovered - and do not necessarily reflect a worsening of the contamination. Other measures metres hundreds of plant have declined to levels approximately 1,000 times the legal limit - down from 4,385 times the legal limit last week.

Measurements of radiation from TEPCO was questioned last week, and the nuclear safety agency ordered the utility to analyze again its samples. As a result, some figures have been chosen and several days worth of measures were released Tuesday.

Radioactivity is cast into the ocean, in part, because the factory workers were forced to use a method fortune to lower temperatures and pressures by pumping water in reactors and allowing Gush out everywhere where it can. This is a difficult process, but it prevents a complete breakdown of fuel rods that would unleash even more radioactivity in the environment.

This means also is pooling of means highly radioactive water through the plant, and some of them blasted their way to the ocean. Workers are now desperately trying to find a place to store the contaminated water because it is preventing them from restoring the normal cooling systems.

From late Monday, they began less than pumping contaminated water into the sea to space in a storage facility for the more highly radioactive water.

This process should take two days.

The building is not designed to hold water, but it is also not flee, so engineers have decided once it is empty, they can pump in plu radioactive water.

Japan is another method of decontamination of the Russia.

Monday, a spokesman for the Russian nuclear agency, Rosatom, Sergei Novikov, told journalists that the Japan had requested send Russia a vessel used to remove nuclear waste liquid from decommissioned submarines.

Novikov said that Moscow expected responses to certain questions before granting the request.

It has more than 15 million litres of contaminated, water pooling around the plant, Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman of the Japan nuclear and industrial safety agency, said Tuesday. It is unclear how much storage space is left at the plant, but the last approach should make room for approximately 2.6 million gallons in the building of waste storage.

Even if TEPCO has made the decision to release deliberately contaminated at least water is a mark of progress on the resolution of a problem, every day seems to bring a new setback and reputation of the company took a serious blow.

On Tuesday, its stock dropped yen 80 - the maximum daily limit, or 18 per cent - just 362 yen ($ 4.3), falling below its previous low record of 393 yen from December 1951 to closing.

Since the earthquake, the prices of the action of the TEPCO has nose-dived a staggering 80 per cent. The Tokyo Stock Exchange said investors have dumped TEPCO shares worth 1.06 billion of yen since March 11.

Stress to announce the bad news also seems to be taking a toll. An official teared up and his voice starts shaking was details at a press conference near the plant this week.

In what could be an effort to counter the bad advertising, Takashi Fujimoto, Vice-President of the TEPCO, said that the company offered 20 million yen ($ 240,000) for each city or city affected by the mandatory evacuation zone. He calls the cash "money apology" and noted that a city he had refused because he disagreed with the approach. He gave no details.

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Japan nuclear crisis: sawdust, shredded newspaper, "diaper absorbent" fail radioactive water absorb

Japan nuclear crisis: sawdust, shredded newspaper, "diaper absorbent" fail absorb radioactive WaterXeni Jardin at 9:58 am Sunday, Apr 3, 2011

Would that this were a joke. High radioactive water damaged nuclear power plant Fukushima is strong in the sea at the Daiichi in Nord-Japan leak. Workers there have tries, stop the flow with polymers water absorbent, used the stuff in baby diapers, which can fuel volume in liquid 50 times. On the left, a snapshot of the material (photo: Kyodo News).

You use also sawdust and shredded newspapers. But Japan's nuclear safety agency, NISA, says so far, that none of this works. And top spokesman says that it will probably take several months of Government before radiation stops leaking from the plant.

Engineers put 8 kg of absorbent along with 60 kilograms of sawdust and three bags of shredded paper to pipes leading polymer water to a pit connected, Nr. 2 of reactor building was found where a 20-inch crack be leaking radioactive water in the Pacific Ocean, the Agency said.

These materials injected at one point 23 metres from the pit to the sea have however not in the flow of water, so that no effect on the rate of which leak, said Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the State nuclear and industrial Agency was involved.

Nishiyama, said the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. to review the situation until Monday morning, to keep the effects of water absorbing mission monitoring is. The company also tried, the route of the track radioactive water leakage from the pit of draining colored water on Monday, he added.

"Absorbent still too radioactive water in Fukushima plant fuel" (Kyodo News)

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Japanese tsunami survivors camped out in a nuclear power plant

Japanese tsunami survivors camped Thursday, Mar 31, in a nuclear power plant PlantMaggie Koerth-Baker 10 o'clock 2011

It is a little mind-blowing in terms of the ongoing disaster in the Fukushima Daiichi plant. But in a different part of Japan, tsunami survivors living in their local nuclear power plant.

The Onagawa nuclear power station was built 30-ft. The tsunami waves cope with. (Fukushima, only 18 ft.) (Waves was developed.) After the tsunami destroyed much of the city, made the way for the power plant, in search of protection some of the people, who survived. Weeks of later life 240 of them are still there, according to the associated press. The AP describes these people as sleep and play "in addition to the reactors", but it also says that the refugees in the power plant is accommodated employee gym are. I suspect that "next to" - and the resulting mental image of a bunch of huddled masses snuggled up against a ship containment - is misleading.

The Onagawa plant is one of several nuclear power plants, the smaller damage after the earthquake and tsunami suffered. But the problems here much, much smaller than in Fukushima and operators could get the reactors in cold shutdown pretty quickly. Currently is in shutdown mode.

The company, which owns the power station - Tohoku electric power co., runs another company as the Fukushima Daiichi - still the plant keeps pretty locked. The gates are not wide open for anyone. Only employees and the refugees living there are one and allowed. So all the descriptions of life within the AP come from interviews with those who did while they were away from the power station site.

From the sounds of things, life in the power plant is much nicer than in other refugee camps in Onagawa. People living in contrast to other locations report at the power plant, the access to electricity (the availability of which is Onagawa a refugee camp and Fukushima is a disaster zone.) (Onagawa used also diesel generators, but they were not damaged), as well as dedicated clean toilets and the Tohoku electric power company's telephone network.

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Japan: Gentleman crashes truck into the goals of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima

Japan: Gentleman crashes truck in gates of Fukushima of nuclear PlantXeni Jardin at 1:39 PM Thursday, Mar 31, 2011

In Japan, a gentleman fell a speaker truck drive today his car right in the gates of one of nuclear power stations in North Japan of TEPCO (Fukushima Daini, not the leaking in, but very close to the leaked one) operated. This mobile boom box trucks are popular with groups are used, to propaganda broadcast while driving around the hood. After deleting this one in Fukushima # 2, the gentleman was immediately arrested by the po-po. Related: someone has seen, Glenn Beck or Bill O'Reilly O'Reilly in the last 24 hours? I think not. (AFP)

Update: an another gentleman was drawn on the same plant for mischief:

an unemployed man from Tokyo was arrested Friday after entering allegedly with the car in the Prefecture of Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant facilities, close to the radiation leak Fukushima Daiichi plant in Fukushima Prefecture, Police said. Hikaru Watanabe, 25, from Shinjuku Ward, Thursday, before the ride to their rooms for about 10 minutes, that said plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co., reportedly broke through the western gate of the plant of Daini at 10 am added, that no one, in the incident hurt.

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