What's the latest on Japan's nuclear reactors?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

All has gone quiet. Is the leakage too high to mention or is it tailing off.

[readmoreoften]

1. The fact that there has been zero info on the news is disturbing to me.

Seriously, this is an interesting story if only because it is a new wrinkle in dealing with power plant problems (core on the floor, etc.) Isn't even a little more important than the Royal Wedding? It's almost amazing to witness this mass acceptance that there is no longer a story because a story isn't being reported.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Slow oozing of long-lived radioactive isotopes into the environment isn't sexy.

Plus, after 1 week of Fukushima coverage, the markets started freaking out, at which point the Really Important News People™ decided the story wasn't really, ah, such a big deal.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Well the program on TLC should make me feel

all warm and fuzzy now. I got more radiation every time I fly on a plane!

Every talking point was touched upon

Though I got to give them some credit. the time line was fine.

They have been having issues with pool number four. Go to the energy forum, that's were most of this is posted these days.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. the exposure for Japan will be over years not just a plane trip

[BillyJack]

3. They are removing topsoil from children's playgrounds in Fukushima

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x984359

Series11!!!11

:sarcasm:

[bananas]

4. "It’s been kind of quiet out of Japan… This is not good" says lead nuclear engineer for GE Mark 1

http://enenews.com/kind-quiet-japan-good-lead-nuclear-engineer-ge-mark-1-reactor-fukushima

“It’s been kind of quiet out of Japan… This is not good” says lead nuclear engineer for GE Mark 1 reactor
April 20th, 2011 at 02:13 PM

Retired nuclear engineer worried by lack of news from Japan, The Pratt Tribune, April 19, 2011:

The recent silence from Japan about conditions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility that was damaged in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami has a local man wondering just how severely the facility has been damaged.

The one thing he does know is that whatever is going on inside the reactors is very serious.

“It’s been kind of quiet out of Japan. This is not good,” said Eddie Petrowsky, nuclear engineer, area farmer and former employee of the Morris, Ill., Dresden No. 2 Nuclear reactor. “They’ve got some major problems.”

Petrowsky worked for two and half years as the lead nuclear engineer at the Morris facility, which is of the same type as the Fukushima facility, so he is familiar with its construction and operation. …

Read the report here. http://www.pratttribune.com/news/x1274032954/Retired-nuclear-engineer-worried-by-lack-of-news-from-Japan

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. They announce it's just like Chenobyl and then they go quiet!

[Cetacea]

14. Correct.

bit odd that, isn't it?

[PufPuf23]

6. Common news has been silent on a unique and frontier event in human recorded history.

The end story will be the exclusion zone and the various estiments of casualties over time.

I agree that information is hard to find and the situation is dire. Alas.

[spanone]

8. i was thinking of this today. not a shred of news....

[Rosa Luxemburg]

10. I wonder who decided to put the lid on it?

I guess that they all got their little heads together. Mustn't tarnish nuclear energy's image must we?

[AsahinaKimi]

12. The Royal Wedding

Totally knocked Japan off the front page... like everything else..

[Rosa Luxemburg]

13. think it disappeared just after they announced as Chenobyl mark 2

[AsahinaKimi]

11. There are lots of news stories out of Japan...

They have been buried by other..(ahem) news stories.. but anyway
here is one:

Many governors unhappy with Kan's handling of disaster
TOKYO —

Just over half of Japan’s prefectural governors do not believe that Prime Minister Naoto Kan has done well in handling the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and ensuing nuclear crisis, a Kyodo News survey showed Friday.

Of 46 governors of Japan’s 47 prefectures surveyed since mid-April, 25 said Kan has done poorly in leading disaster relief efforts, citing his inability to meet the changing needs of survivors in affected areas and the lack of a sense of determination in his action, among other reasons.

The governor of Fukushima Prefecture did not take part in the survey, saying he had to concentrate on the response to the natural calamities and the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The largest percentage of governors did not approve of the prime minister’s handling of the nuclear crisis, with 30 mostly complaining about how the central government released information on the nuclear plant.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/many-prefectural-governors-unhappy-with-kans-handling-of-disaster