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teeth53 ( Date: 06-Dec-2011 23:31) Posted:
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http://enenews.com/cesium-found-baby-food-made-tokyo-saitama-first-detected-dec-3-japans-largest-infant-formula-supplier-recalling-400000-cans
Latest News - Cesium Found in Baby Food: Made near
Cesium Reported in Baby Food, Bloomberg By Kanoko Matsuyama, Dec. 6, 2011:Japan’s ... baby milk powder are within safe limits and pose no health risk ... shows ...
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Latest news: Deadly salmon virus found, rising concerns about it mutation.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/deadly-salmon-virus-raises-concerns-us-canada-222933845.html
Researchers with Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and elsewhere announced Monday they had found the influenza-like virus in two juvenile sockeye salmon collected from the province's central coast. The virus, which doesn't affect humans, has caused losses at fish farms in Chile and other areas, and could have devastating impacts on wild salmon in the region and other species that depend on them, the researchers said.
" This is potentially very big. It's of big concern to us," said John Kerwin, who supervises the fish health unit at the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife. Even though the virus was detected in salmon collected hundreds of miles away, at Rivers Inlet in British Columbia, the virus could pose a threat because " fish don't have any boundaries in the ocean ... and salmon species stray," he said.
The state tested about 56,000 hatchery and wild fish last year and hasn't found signs of the virus — infectious salmon anemia, Kerwin said. But Monday's news sent Kerwin scrambling on Tuesday to work with other agencies to find ways to beef up current testing methods.
teeth53 ( Date: 30-Sep-2011 23:37) Posted:
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Singapore to KL is...302 kilometres (188 miles)
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1159134/1/.html
Thursday. TOKYO: A radiation hotspot has been detected in Tokyo.
How far contamination has spread from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. 220 kilometres (136 miles)
Japanese media said researchers found radiation levels of 3.35 microsieverts per hour along a street in the west of the capital -- much higher than previously reported levels.
Higher readings come as more tests illustrate, how far fall-out - Fukushima disaster have spread, with elevated levels of radioactive caesium recently found far away.
Yokohama, more than 241 kilometres (150 miles) from the plant.
Radiation fears are a daily fact of life in many parts of Japan following the earthquake and tsunami-sparked meltdowns at the plant, with reported cases of contaminated water, beef, vegetables, tea and seafood.
teeth53 ( Date: 29-Sep-2011 22:57) Posted:
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Sunday 9 October 2011, 23:14
ATLANTA (AP) -- Four generators that power emergency systems at nuclear plants have failed when needed since April, an unusual cluster that has attracted the attention of federal inspectors and could prompt the industry to re-examine its maintenance plans.
The diesel generators serve the crucial function of supplying electricity to cooling systems that prevent a nuclear plant's hot, radioactive fuel from overheating, melting and potentially releasing radiation into the environment. That worst-case scenario happened this year when the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan lost all backup power for its cooling systems after an earthquake and tsunami.
Three diesel generators failed after tornadoes ripped across Alabama and knocked out electric lines serving the Tennessee Valley Authority's Browns Ferry nuclear plant in April. Two failed because of mechanical problems and one was unavailable because of planned maintenance.
Another generator failed at the North Anna plant in Virginia following an August earthquake. Generators have not worked when needed in at least a dozen other instances since 1997 because of mechanical failures or because they were offline for maintenance, according to an Associated Press review of reports compiled by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
At a minimum, the failures have prompted NRC inspectors to increase their scrutiny at plants where the problems happened. Beyond that, industry officials and academics say the incidents could lead the NRC to formally warn nuclear plant operators about the recent failures and prompt utilities to reevaluate what can disable a generator. Some think these experiences may factor into upcoming rules the NRC will issue in response to the crisis in Japan.
But the loss of all emergency power -- including the diesels -- is a crisis. That happened on March 11 when an earthquake and tsunami disabled all the diesel generators at the Japanese plant. Three of its six reactors suffered meltdowns. The facility was rocked by explosions and released radiation requiring the evacuation of roughly 100,000 people.
In U.S., an average of roughly one diesel generator has failed when needed each yr since 1997. Govt researchers who examined diesel generator failures in the U.S. from 1997 to 2003 calculated the average odds that a diesel generator would fail to work at some point during an eight-hour run were slightly greater than 2 - 3%, depending on which database was analyzed.
Even at low odds, a generator failure can turn serious when combined with other problems, notably human error.
Prominent example is in March 20, 1990, accident that cut off electricity for less than an hour at Plant Vogtle, roughly 25 miles southeast of Augusta, near Georgia-South Carolina line. At the time, plant workers had just installed fresh nuclear fuel into the Unit 1 reactor. One of two lines supplying the reactor with power from the electrical grid was offline for maintenance. So was one of the reactor's two diesel generators.
A poorly supervised delivery truck driver backed his truck into a pole, knocking out the sole source of grid electricity to the Unit 1 reactor. The available diesel generator turned on, then quit. Plant workers restarted it, but it failed again. Workers finally bypassed parts of the diesel's electrical controls, forcing it to run. Temperatures inside the reactor rose from 90 degrees to 136 degrees until power was restored, but the accident did not become more serious. No radiation was released.
The recent failures in the Southeast came in a tight cluster.
Tornadoes tearing across the region on April 27 broke electric transmission lines, causing a loss of grid energy at Browns Ferry in Alabama. One of the eight diesel generators serving the three reactors was undergoing maintenance. The remaining generators immediately started, supplying the plant with emergency power.
The following day, plant operators noticed a small hydraulic oil leak on one of those emergency generators, according to reports that the TVA filed with the NRC. The leak went from roughly a drop a minute to a steady spray. As the electricity from the generator fluctuated, plant staff shut it down. Two reactors briefly lost their cooling systems, although no damage occurred.
Another generator failed on May 2. TVA officials blame, malfunction on equipment that was not properly set.
NRC inspectors at the plant say they are waiting on more information before taking additional action.
A fourth failure happened when the largest earthquake to strike Virginia in 117 years rattled the North Anna Power Station. The reactor lost offsite power and its emergency diesel generators automatically started. Less than an hour later, plant operators shut down one generator because it was leaking coolant, said Gerald McCoy, an NRC branch chief who oversees federal inspectors at the plant.
Dominion Virginia Power says the problem was caused by an incorrectly installed gasket that eventually created the coolant leak, utility spokesman Richard Zuercher said. The power company and NRC officials are still examining the incident.
Experts say no single factor appears to connect the four failures. Nathan Ives, a senior manager of advisory services at Ernst & Young, said the incidents could prompt the nuclear industry to re-examine the kinds of component failures that can disable a generator. Reports show that TVA officials had not previously considered that a component blamed for one failure at the Browns Ferry plant could disable the entire generator.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Four generators that power emergency systems at nuclear plants have failed when needed since April, an unusual cluster that has attracted the attention of federal inspectors and could prompt the industry to re-examine its maintenance plans.
The diesel generators serve the crucial function of supplying electricity to cooling systems that prevent a nuclear plant's hot, radioactive fuel from overheating, melting and potentially releasing radiation into the environment. That worst-case scenario happened this year when the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan lost all backup power for its cooling systems after an earthquake and tsunami.
Three diesel generators failed after tornadoes ripped across Alabama and knocked out electric lines serving the Tennessee Valley Authority's Browns Ferry nuclear plant in April. Two failed because of mechanical problems and one was unavailable because of planned maintenance.
Another generator failed at the North Anna plant in Virginia following an August earthquake. Generators have not worked when needed in at least a dozen other instances since 1997 because of mechanical failures or because they were offline for maintenance, according to an Associated Press review of reports compiled by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
At a minimum, the failures have prompted NRC inspectors to increase their scrutiny at plants where the problems happened. Beyond that, industry officials and academics say the incidents could lead the NRC to formally warn nuclear plant operators about the recent failures and prompt utilities to reevaluate what can disable a generator. Some think these experiences may factor into upcoming rules the NRC will issue in response to the crisis in Japan.
But the loss of all emergency power -- including the diesels -- is a crisis. That happened on March 11 when an earthquake and tsunami disabled all the diesel generators at the Japanese plant. Three of its six reactors suffered meltdowns. The facility was rocked by explosions and released radiation requiring the evacuation of roughly 100,000 people.
In U.S., an average of roughly one diesel generator has failed when needed each yr since 1997. Govt researchers who examined diesel generator failures in the U.S. from 1997 to 2003 calculated the average odds that a diesel generator would fail to work at some point during an eight-hour run were slightly greater than 2 - 3%, depending on which database was analyzed.
Even at low odds, a generator failure can turn serious when combined with other problems, notably human error.
Prominent example is in March 20, 1990, accident that cut off electricity for less than an hour at Plant Vogtle, roughly 25 miles southeast of Augusta, near Georgia-South Carolina line. At the time, plant workers had just installed fresh nuclear fuel into the Unit 1 reactor. One of two lines supplying the reactor with power from the electrical grid was offline for maintenance. So was one of the reactor's two diesel generators.
A poorly supervised delivery truck driver backed his truck into a pole, knocking out the sole source of grid electricity to the Unit 1 reactor. The available diesel generator turned on, then quit. Plant workers restarted it, but it failed again. Workers finally bypassed parts of the diesel's electrical controls, forcing it to run. Temperatures inside the reactor rose from 90 degrees to 136 degrees until power was restored, but the accident did not become more serious. No radiation was released.
The recent failures in the Southeast came in a tight cluster.
Tornadoes tearing across the region on April 27 broke electric transmission lines, causing a loss of grid energy at Browns Ferry in Alabama. One of the eight diesel generators serving the three reactors was undergoing maintenance. The remaining generators immediately started, supplying the plant with emergency power.
The following day, plant operators noticed a small hydraulic oil leak on one of those emergency generators, according to reports that the TVA filed with the NRC. The leak went from roughly a drop a minute to a steady spray. As the electricity from the generator fluctuated, plant staff shut it down. Two reactors briefly lost their cooling systems, although no damage occurred.
Another generator failed on May 2. TVA officials blame, malfunction on equipment that was not properly set.
NRC inspectors at the plant say they are waiting on more information before taking additional action.
A fourth failure happened when the largest earthquake to strike Virginia in 117 years rattled the North Anna Power Station. The reactor lost offsite power and its emergency diesel generators automatically started. Less than an hour later, plant operators shut down one generator because it was leaking coolant, said Gerald McCoy, an NRC branch chief who oversees federal inspectors at the plant.
Dominion Virginia Power says the problem was caused by an incorrectly installed gasket that eventually created the coolant leak, utility spokesman Richard Zuercher said. The power company and NRC officials are still examining the incident.
Experts say no single factor appears to connect the four failures. Nathan Ives, a senior manager of advisory services at Ernst & Young, said the incidents could prompt the nuclear industry to re-examine the kinds of component failures that can disable a generator. Reports show that TVA officials had not previously considered that a component blamed for one failure at the Browns Ferry plant could disable the entire generator.
teeth53 ( Date: 30-Sep-2011 23:37) Posted:
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In Japan, pump problem can't work, can point finger at earth quake, tsunami and, here how..?.
Singaporean can't even point finger at..?. Human disaster of d un-forgivable, oso pump can't work..!!! lucky oni Fire and not radiation....40 k/m covering S'pore!, 40 km is not enuff to shield whatever medic shield is bot.
Radioactive caesium of 500 becquerels per kg was found in a sample of the pre-harvested rice in Nihonmatsu city, in Fukushima Prefecture, 56 km (35 miles) east of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant which was crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, triggering the world's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years. (teeth53 thot: Once in 25 yr is more then enuff to wipe off...everything here)
Effects of Radiation on the Human Body, including hair, brain, thyroid, blood, heart, Gastrointestinal (GI) Tract , and Reproductive Tract.
www.atomicarchive.com/Effects/
Very fair!!!
Joe2020 ( Date: 30-Sep-2011 08:50) Posted:
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If the Govt insist that we must build a Nuclear plant....I have no choice but to agree with 2 conditions
1. One plant must be built beside Istana
2. The other one must be built beside Oxley Rd
Fair or Not?
teeth53 ( Date: 29-Sep-2011 22:57) Posted:
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\!BOOM!/ Imagine if we had a nuclear reactor. Fumes today. If radiation. How?. Blakang MATI !
plant here?straitstimes.com : Pedra Branca island east of Singapore
Thursday - Three more explosions were heard around Pulau Bukom at 12 noon on Thurs as a fire continued to burn at Royal Dutch Shell's largest refinery in Singapore.
Fire at Royal Dutch Shell's largest refinery - intensified on 2nd day.
Pulau Bukom Shell Refinery on fire. Photo: Sharon Tan
How safe is safe or safety??. if we has a nuclear on an off island, simply thing like pump break down, causing a big fire and shuting down plant. This is oni oil plant, not a nuclear plant yet...Humm.
teeth53 ( Date: 24-Sep-2011 20:48) Posted:
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Why on earth would advanced beings even bother with silly us,
whose tiny wee-wee existence is even more silly?... lol...
