Fukushima News 11/7/13: Fukushima At Most Dangerous Phase Since 311; IAEA & Fukushima Seawater

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Japan is bracing itself for the most dangerous operation at the Fukushima nuclear plant since it was crippled by a quake and tsunami in March 2011. The company running the facility plans to move radioactive fuel rods to safe storage. RT's Alexey Yaroshevsky is in Japan for us. Christina Consolo, Founder and Host of Nuked Radio, doubts that engineers will be able to pull this off - given the level of damage at the plant.

Fukushima plant prepared for uranium and plutonium removal
Nuclear engineers in Japan are preparing to move uranium and plutonium fuel rods at Fukushima, their most difficult and dangerous task since the plant's runaway reactors were brought under control two years ago.
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_11...
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_11...

IAEA experts inspect seawater checks off Fukushima
Two experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency have inspected the procedures for checking radioactivity in seawater off the damaged Fukushima plant.
David Osborn directs the IAEA Environment Laboratories in Monaco and Hartmut Nies is the head of the IAEA Radiometrics Laboratory.
They left Onahama port in Fukushima Prefecture on board a boat for seawater monitoring on Thursday.
The plant's operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, commissioned the boat to collect water samples within 20 kilometers of the facility.
The inspection took place after Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority and the IAEA agreed to cooperate to bolster the credibility of seawater checks and analysis.
International concern over radioactive contamination of the sea is growing because of repeated leaks of tainted water at the plant.
Osborn said methods to collect seawater samples were appropriate under international standards. He said the IAEA will continue to cooperate if requested by Japan.
On Friday, the team is scheduled to visit a facility where collected samples are analyzed for levels of radioactive substances.

Mystery: Starfish turn to 'slime' along Pacific coast — "We're talking about a loss of millions and millions" — Compared to medieval 'Black Death' — Innards become exposed and fall apart — Cases ballooning in Alaska (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/mystery-disease-turns-starfish-to-slime-along-pacific-coast-compared-to-black-death-innards-become-exposed-they-fall-apart-cases-ballooning-in-alaska-video

Fukushima operator mulls overhaul to counter break-up plans
http://gulfnews.com/news/world/other-...

Caldicott: 50 years or more of highly contaminated water flowing into Pacific from Fukushima — Tepco VP not optimistic: "I have concerns" for long-term plan — Location of melted fuel a mystery (VIDEO)
https://plus.google.com/events/cr0daleiqksibbnibd82isg6c1c

NRA "won't allow Tepco to restart another nuclear plant until they get to control Fukushima plant situation"
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/11/nra-wont-allow-tepco-to-restart-another-nuclear-plant-until-they-get-to-control-fukushima-plant-situation/

Origin of 16,703 food products not known in the radiation test of Ministry of health
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/11/or...[link:http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/11/origin-of-16703-food-products-not-known-in-the-radiation-test-of-ministry-of-health/|
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Indigenous Elders and Medicine Peoples Council Statement on Fukushima
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/11/05...

Nuclear Expert: Fuel rods are "in a jumble" at Fukushima Unit 4 pool; Unclear if they are cracked — US pressing Japan on removal, fears terrorist activity at plant (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/nuclear-expert-fue...

Top Nuclear Official: "Very large risk potential" when attempting fuel removal at Fukushima Unit 4 pool — CNN: Debris in rods may damage Tepco's efforts (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/top-japan-nuclear-...
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[daleanime]

1. Kick....

[drynberg]

2. Nightline starts with saying "if reactors at Fukushima melt down"...honey, this ship has sailed

Next stop: Hades. What a friggin' 32 month nightmare! And it keeps getting worse. Heaven help us.

[pam4water]

3. K&R

[Jesus Malverde]

4. The real tragedy is that the government has shown very poor leadership.

They basically left the original crooks, TEPCO in charge of the emergency, abdicating their role and obligation to fight national disasters.

[FiveGoodMen]

5. And OUR President supports building more of these

[yuiyoshida]

6. great coverage thank you!

doumo arigatou gozaimasu!

[Katashi_itto]

7. Do itashi mashite!

[zeemike]

8. What a sad sad disaster.

I used Google street view to look over the surrounding area and it is heart breaking to see all those homes that once housed families abandoned with weeds growing up around them...the scale of this is astounding, and all to boil some watter.
The world needs to act now.