Tokyo Electric Power Company: Nuclear plants

 

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Power plants

Name

Location
Number of units
Generation Capacity (MW)

Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant
22 Kitahara, Mezawa, Okuma Town, Futaba County, Fukushima
6 (operational) +2 (planned)
4,696 (operational) +2,700 (planned)

Fukushima II Nuclear Power Plant
12 Obamatsukuri, Namikura, Narawa Town, Futaba County, Fukushima
4 (operational)
4,400 (operational)

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant
16-46 Aoyama-Cho, Kashiwazaki City, Niigata
2 (operational) 5 (closed)
2,712 (operational) 5,500 (closed)

In March 2008, Tokyo Electric announced that the start of operation of four new nuclear power reactors would be postponed by one year due to the incorporation of new earthquake resistance assessments. Units 7 and 8 of the Fukushima Daiichi plant would now enter commercial operation on October 2014 and October 2015, respectively. Unit 1 of the Higashidori plant is now scheduled to begin operating in December 2015, while unit 2 will start up in 2018 at the earliest.^[5]

 Thermal

Name
Location
Units
Capacity (MW)

Chiba

Goi

Anegasaki Power Station
35°29′06″N 140°01′00″E / 35.485°N 140.0166667°E / 35.485; 140.0166667 (Anegasaki Power Station)
6 × 600MW
3,600

Sodegaura Power Station
3,600

Futtsu Power Station
25 Shintomi, Futtsu City, Chiba
4 (operational)
5,000

Kashima Power Station
4,400

Hirono Power Station
3,800

Hitachinaka

Oi Thermal Power Station
1-2-2 Yashio, Shinagawa, Tokyo
1 (operational)
1,050

Shinagawa
5-6-22 Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa, Tokyo
1 (operational)
1,140 (operational)

Yokosuka
9-2-1 Kurihama, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa
3 (operational) +4 (standby)
730 (operational) +1,400 (standby)

Kawasaki
5-1 Chidori-Cho, Kawasaki, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa
1 (under construction)
3,000 (under construction)

Yokohama
11-1 Daikoku-Cho, Tsurumi, Yokohama City, Kanagawa
4 (operational)
3,325 (operational)

Minami Yokohama
37-1 Shin-Isogo Cho, Isogo, Yokohama City, Kanagawa
3 (operational)
1,150 (operational)

Higashi Ogishima
3 Higashi-Ogishima, Kawasaki, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa
2 (operational)
2,000 (operational)

Thousands of Protesters Meet Governor Walker in Brown County - WBAY-TV Green Bay-

protesters were still out in full force on Sunday after learning Governor Walker would be speaking to Brown County Republicans[Green County] at the annual Lincoln-Reagan dinner.

Democratic Senator Dave Hansen was among the thousands waiting for the Republican dinner guests.Today I wanted people to realize, who are coming in, there's a group of people in this state, a large majority I really do believe, that believe workers have rights and that it's a civil right," the senator explained.The protesters say the real reason they showed up was to express their opposition when the governor's motorcade passed by. After it drove by, the crowd followed it down the street to where the police had formed a barricade.

The crowd just erupted and just took over, chanting 'Recall Walker!' We're gonna meet him everywhere he goes. We are not going away," added Dean DeBroux, another protester.

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Tokyo Electric Power Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The lack of information concerning the troubled nuclear reactors may be the nature of TEPCO—see this old scandal concerning reporting safety incidents.

Scandal

On August 29, 2002, the government of Japan revealed that TEPCO was guilty of false reporting in routine governmental inspection of its nuclear plants and systematic concealment of plant safety incidents. All seventeen of its boiling-water reactors were shut down for inspection as a result. TEPCO's chairman Hiroshi Araki, President Nobuya Minami, Vice-President Toshiaki Enomoto, as well as the advisers Shō Nasu and Gaishi Hiraiwa stept by September 30, 2002.^[3], and the utility "eventually admitted to two hundred occasions over more than two decades between 1977 and 2002, involving the submission of false technical data to authorities".^[4] Upon taking over leadership responsibilities, TEPCO's new president issued a public commitment that the company would take all the countermeasures necessary to prevent fraud and restore the nation's confidence. By the end of 2005, generation at suspended plants had been restarted, with government approval.

In 2007, however, the company announced to the public that an internal investigation had revealed a large number of unreported incidents. These included an unexpected unit criticality in 1978 and additional systematic false reporting, which hadn't been uncovered during the 2002 inquiry. Along with scandals at other Japanese electric companies, this failure to ensure corporate compliance resulted in strong public criticism of Japan's electric power industry and the nation's nuclear energy policy. Again the company made no effort to identify those responsible.

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Danger Posed by Radioactivity in Japan Hard to Assess - NYTimes.com

 

danger of nitrogen-16 is an issue only for plant workers and operators because its half-life is only seven seconds. A half-life is the time it takes half the atoms of a radioactive substance to disintegrate.

The other radioactive material often in the cooling water of a nuclear reactor is tritium. It is a naturally occurring radioactive form of hydrogen, sometimes known as heavy hydrogen….. Tritium emits a weak form of radiation that does not travel very far in the air and cannot penetrate the skin.

It accumulates in the cooling water of nuclear reactors and is often vented in small amounts to the environment. Its half-life is 12 years

big worries on the reported releases of radioactive material in Japan center on radioactive iodine and cesium. ….They imply some kind of core problem….Iodine-131 has a half-life of eight days and is quite dangerous to human health. If absorbed through contaminated food, especially milk and milk products, it will accumulate in the thyroid and cause cancer.

Cesium-137 mixes easily with water and is chemically similar to potassium. It thus mimics how potassium gets metabolized in the body and can enter through many foods, including milk. After entering, cesium gets widely distributed, its concentrations said to be higher in muscle tissues and lower in bones.

The radiation from cesium-137 can throw cellular machinery out of order, including the chromosomes, leading to an increased risk of cancer.

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Japan Hard to Assess - NYTimes.com

U.S. Carrier Crew Said to Be Exposed to Radiation From Japan - NYTimes.com

Pentagon was expected to announce that the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, which is sailing in the Pacific, passed through a radioactive cloud from stricken nuclear reactors in Japan, causing crew members on deck to receive a month’s worth of radiation in about an hour, government officials said Sunday.

helicopters flying missions about 60 miles north of the damaged reactors became coated with particulate radiation that had to be washed off.

There was no indication that any of the military personnel had experienced ill effects from the exposure.

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U.S. Carrier Crew Said to Be Exposed to Radiation From Japan - NYTimes.com

 

At this point, we have not picked up anything” in detectors midway between Japan and Hawaii, Ms. Thunborg said in an interview on Sunday. “We’re talking a couple of days — nothing before Tuesday — in terms of picking something up.”

While federal officials expected little danger in the United States from Japanese plumes, they were taking no chances. On Sunday, Energy Department officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the agency was working on three fronts.

One main player is the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Officials said they had activated its National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center, which draws on meteorologists, nuclear scientists and computer scientists to forecast plume dispersal.

Separately, energy officials said the agency was readying plans to deploy two-person monitoring and sampling teams, if necessary. The teams would travel to consulates, military installations and Navy ships to sample the air in a coordinated effort to improve plume tracking.

Finally, the department was preparing what it calls its Aerial Measuring System.

U.S. Carrier Crew Said to Be Exposed to Radiation From Japan - NYTimes.com

Radioactive Releases at Fukushima Could Last Months - NYTimes.com

Possibly the first “real” report.

still being analyzed, but presumed to include Cesium-137 and Iodine-121 — suggesting widening environmental contamination

reactor operators now have little choice but to periodically release radioactive steam until the radioactive elements in the fuel of the stricken reactors stop generating intense heat, a process that can continue for a year or more even after the fission process has stopped. To control that heat, the plant’s operator must constantly try to flood the reactors with seawater, then release the resulting radioactive steam into the atmosphere, several experts familiar with the design of the Daiichi facility said. That suggests that the 200,000 people who have been evacuated may not be able to return to their homes for a considerable period and that shifts in the wind could blow radioactive materials toward Japanese cities rather than out to sea.

Re-establishing normal cooling will require electric power and may require workers to function in areas that are now contaminated,

And workers attempting the pumping operation are presumed to be exposed to radiation; several workers, according to Japanese reports, have been treated for radiation poisoning. It is not clear how severe their exposure was.

Radioactive Releases at Fukushima Could Last Months - NYTimes.com

Archdiocese of Milwaukee | Former Anglican To Be Ordained Catholic Priest

 

Deacon Russell Arnett, formerly an Episcopal clergyman, will be ordained a Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee on Saturday, March 19. The ordination will take place at 1:30 p.m. at St. Jerome Parish, 995 Silver Lake Street, Oconomowoc. Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki will preside over the Mass of Ordination.

Deacon Arnett’s ordination to the priesthood marks the first use of Pope John Paul II’s 1980 Pastoral Provision allowing for the ordination of married Episcopal priests who have come into full communion with the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Deacon Arnett and his wife converted to Catholicism in 2007.

Since June 2010, Deacon Arnett has served as parish director of St. John the Baptist Parish, Union Grove, and St. Francis Xavier Parish, Kansasville. He was ordained to the transitional diaconate in October 2010.

Archdiocese of Milwaukee | Former Anglican To Be Ordained Catholic Priest

House OKs call to audit workers' comp claims: 'We need to know what the facts are' - Workers' comp at Menard - bnd.com

Illinois Workers Compensation Law

News-Democrat investigation has shown potential abuse of the system by employees in the state prison system and by workers' compensation arbitrators themselves

Eight of the state's 32 workers' compensation arbitrators have themselves filed for or received workers' compensation awards.

"The very arbitrator who awarded $50,000 to one of these claimants in the Menard scenario in fact has received that amount himself," Kay told fellow House members.

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Thousands got state-subsidized jobs -- but who? | state, blagojevich, subsidized - Jacksonville Illinois News and Information Jacksonville Journal Courier

 

Now federal prosecutors are also asking questions about Blagojevich's "Summer Youth Works" initiative. The Associated Press has obtained a copy of a federal subpoena seeking records from the state Department of Human Services related to the initiative.

At least a third of the state government internships Blagojevich officials handed out were reserved for people with connections to $400,000 in campaign contributions to him. The University of Illinois kept a list of at least 800 applicants with clout. Federal prosecutors subpoenaed records last fall related to state grants to organizations with ties to a state senator who has since resigned from the Legislature.

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ABC News - Japan Earthquake: before and after

Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:00pm AEDT

Aerial photos taken over Japan have revealed the scale of devastation across dozens of suburbs and tens of thousands of homes and businesses.

Hover over each satellite photo to view the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami.

Development: Andrew Kesper

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