Im sorry.. did some one tell this person that this guy is honest?? Ive followed him for years.. i miss his uprising// scrappin it out on stage with big headed american hot shots and earning respect with the crowd . you surely have to pay attention to detail with our MSMs favorite scientist.. but you knew this right?? missing sky is no joke ~jh ------------------------------ Water treatment system halted with pump trouble The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant temporarily halted the key water treatment system at the complex. Tokyo Electric Power Company says it suspended the sole working line of the Advanced Liquid Processing System, or ALPS, on Sunday morning. A pump that takes contaminated water from storage tanks to check pre-processing water quality was found to have a lower flow rate than usual. Workers washed the pump on Saturday night, but could not bring the intake flow back to normal. Later, they succeeded in bringing the pump back to full function, and resumed treatment of the contaminated water. ALPS is capable of removing almost all nuclear materials from radioactive water at the plant and has been undergoing a test run. But it recently suffered a series of troubles. On March 18th, TEPCO halted operation of all 3 lines in the system, after the performance of one of the lines sharply decreased due to malfunctioning filters. Two of the 3 lines had resumed operation, but water in one of the two was found to be unusually turbid, forcing TEPCO to shut it down again on Thursday. The utility is hoping to process all the contaminated water in storage tanks by the end of March 2015 but has no prospective date for when ALPS will be back in full operation. Fuel removal resumes at Fukushima plant The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says it has resumed the process of removing spent fuel from one of the crippled reactors. On Wednesday, an alarm suddenly activated and stopped a large crane, as workers were preparing to hoist a cask containing fuel assemblies from the pool at the No. 4 reactor building. Tokyo Electric Power Company found that a worker had mistakenly operated the crane without releasing an auxiliary brake, causing it to become overloaded. The problem was fixed, and the removal work resumed at noon on Sunday. This was the first suspension of the operation since TEPCO started removing fuel units from the pool in the building last November. The utility is removing the fuel assemblies to decommission the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. 1,533 fuel units were being stored in the pool at the time of the 2011 accident, and 983 were still there on Sunday. N.Korea warns of new form of nuclear test North Korea has reacted sharply to the UN Security Councils condemnation of its recent ballistic missile launch, saying it would not rule out a new form of nuclear test. The North fired what are believed to be 2 medium-range Rodong missiles into the Sea of Japan on Wednesday. The UN Security Council denounced the move as a violation of UN resolutions. In a statement issued by the state-run KCNA news agency on Sunday, North Koreas foreign ministry said the councils move is a provocative act that unjustly condemns the Norths rocket-launching drills. The statement said they were self-defensive drills aimed at dealing with the United States increasingly hostile policy towards the North. The ministry added that if the United States condemns the Norths rocket-launching drills again, North Korea will not rule out conducting a new form of nuclear test. The statement does not give any details, but it may be referring to a test using highly-enriched uranium instead of plutonium. Still 690 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 measured from ground soil in Yamagata city / Beside a water distribution station fukushima-diary/2014/03/st... [100m3 overflow] Accident scale INES level 3 potentially / The amount of damage up to a few million USD fukushima-diary/2014/03/10... Fukushima plant groundwater dumping in sea to begin in May or later globalpost/dispatch/ne... Researchers say freezing cuts radioactive contamination in water to 1/25th concentration mainichi.jp/english/english/ne... Japan to build one of the worlds biggest solar power plants menafn/71b5acb7-3bf4-4... Cities within 30 km of Yokosuka base craft disaster guidelines for nuclear ship accident mainichi.jp/english/english/ne... Letter: Cleanup expectations falling short Its been reported that $71 million would be cut from the administrations budget to perform environmental cleanup work along the Columbia River in Hanfords 2015 fiscal request. columbian/news/2014/ma... Preparing for the Great New York Earthquake gothamgazette/index.ph...
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