Tepco to start fuel removal from Fukushima reactor 4 pool Monday
- The unit 4 spent fuel pool contains 1,331 spent fuel assemblies and 202 unused ones. Workers will begin with the removal of unused fuel assemblies, which are easier to handle.
- Tepco plans to finish the fuel removal work at unit 4 by the end of next year.
Why doesn't this fill me with confidence. Maybe its because TEPCO could be compared to a blind idiot with 2 left feet and bumble fingers.
Here we go
Tepco Successfully Removes First Nuclear Fuel Rods at Fukushima
Tepco planned to remove 22 assemblies from the pool, which contains 1,331 spent fuel assemblies and 202 unused assemblies, by the end of tomorrow, the company said. Crews are beginning with the unused assemblies because they are less fragile, spokesman Yusuke Kunikage said by phone.
If things weren’t bad enough in the land of the rising sun now we have a push to make secrete anything that doesn’t jive with the “Don’t worry. Everything is under control”, meme.
Japan Reacts to Fukushima Crisis By Banning Journalism
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government is planning a state secrets act that critics say could curtail public access to information on a wide range of issues, including tensions with China and the Fukushima nuclear crisis.
The new law would dramatically expand the definition of official secrets and journalists convicted under it could be jailed for up to five years.
Japan moves closer to a failed democracy.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury.
“From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
These nations have progressed through this sequence:
“From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependency back again into bondage.”
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