Fukushima updates - November 25 , 2013..... As Tepco sets out to remove spent fuel rods from the Spent Fuel pool for Reactor building 4 , concerns abound ... ..... tracking radiation to the US West Coast

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06:24 PM EST on November 26th, 2013 | 13 comments

Secrecy law approved in Japan — AP: Prison for ‘inappropriate reporting’ — Official: We’re on path to be fascist state — Fear Fukushima cover-ups to worsen

02:38 PM EST on November 26th, 2013 | 70 comments

Unpublished Data: Plutonium levels ‘slightly elevated’ in Pacific after Fukushima — Scientist: It’s ‘most likely’ flowing from plant into ocean — 2.5 trillion Bq of plutonium released to air in four days after 3/11, almost all blown out to sea (AUDIO)

12:47 AM EST on November 26th, 2013 | 85 comments

Nuclear Professors: Every engineer is really scared about fuel removal at Unit 4 — I advised gov’t to be ready to use explosives to collapse pool after 3/11 (VIDEOS)

04:01 PM EST on November 25th, 2013 | 11 comments

Editors: Fukushima giving top nuclear scientists nightmares — Writer from L.A.: Radioactive plume crossing Pacific is what’s keeping me up at night

11:31 AM EST on November 25th, 2013 | 25 comments

NHK: ‘Particles’ impairing visibility in Fukushima pool — Will try to remove spent fuel Tuesday, said to be “one of most dangerous operations ever attempted in nuclear history” — Tepco concerned about sabotage, warns media about filming

01:17 AM EST on November 25th, 2013 | 45 comments

Scientist back from Japan: Melt-through of Fukushima containment vessels being discussed — They can’t locate any of the 3 molten reactor cores — “It’s bad, it’s definitely not over”

12:05 PM EST on November 23rd, 2013 | 186 comments

Source: First try to remove spent fuel from Unit 4 could be next week — Nuclear Engineer: Everyone’s nervous about pulling out used rods that are corroding; Will zircoloy tubes break and spill fuel pellets, leading to a criticality? (AUDIO)

01:13 PM EST on November 25th, 2013 | 52 comments

TV: Serious concerns in U.S. about Fukushima radioactive material coming to our shores — WSJ: There’s concern around world that ocean currents are spreading the radioactivity to faraway places (VIDEO)

09:08 AM EST on November 25th, 2013 | 49 comments

NYTimes: Unprecedented concentration of sea creatures near shore in California; Experts baffled, longtime residents astounded — Biologist: “It’s a very strange year… The $64,000 question is why?” — Similar to ‘extraordinary’ events seen recently along Canada’s Pacific coast? (VIDEO)

10:19 PM EST on November 24th, 2013 | 63 comments

“Radionuclides from Fukushima due to hit U.S. West Coast any day now” — Senior Scientist: “Really bizarre” U.S. gov’t not testing for it — Concerned officials contacting him about threat

07:07 PM EST on November 24th, 2013 | 51 comments

Revered California Physician: The problem we face at Fukushima is absolutely huge — I may leave West Coast during attempt to remove nuclear fuel (VIDEO)

02:21 PM EST on November 23rd, 2013 | 63 comments

Photos: ‘Lots of sea birds washing up dead’ in Alaska

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Tepco completed loading 6 spent fuel assemblies to the transportation container

Posted by Mochizuki on November 26th, 2013 · No Comments

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Following up this article.. Tepco to start the second fuel removal from reactor4 pool on 26th Nov / Spent fuel to be taken [URL]

Tepco started the second fuel removal from reactor4 pool at 14:30 of 11/26/2013, and completed it at 18:30 of the same day.

They loaded 6 spent fuel assemblies to the on-premises transportation container.

Tepco is going to continue loading tomorrow too.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/2013/1232451_5117.html

[Video] Day 1 of the first spent fuel removal from reactor4 pool

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Following up this article.. Tepco completed loading 6 spent fuel assemblies to the transportation container [URL]

Tepco has removed new fuel assemblies from reactor4 pool, but this is the first attempt to remove the spent fuel from pool.

Among 1,533 fuel assemblies in reactor4 pool, 1,331 assemblies are the spent fuel. None of them has already been removed yet.

On 11/26/2013, Tepco released the video of this first attempt.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/removal4u/index-j.html

http://photo.tepco.co.jp/date/2013/201311-j/131126-01j.html

Tepco to start the second fuel removal from 

reactor4 pool on 26th Nov / Spent fuel to be 

taken

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Following up this article.. Next schedule of fuel removal not decided [URL]

On 11/25/2013, Tepco announced they are going start the second fuel removal of reactor4 pool from tomorrow.

Unlike the first batch, it will be the spent fuel to be removed, which is even more radioactive.

They are to update the press when they finish loading the container with the fuel.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/tepconews/library/movie-01j.html

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Unit 4 Fuel Removal Resumes Tuesday

November 25th, 2013 | Add a Comment

NHK is reporting that TEPCO will continue the process to remove spent fuel from the unit 4 pool on Tuesday JST. The first run removed unused fuel and transferred it to the common pool nearby. This next effort will try to remove a group of spent fuel assemblies and transfer them to the common pool using the same process. TEPCO cited problems with sand and sediment in the spent fuel pool causing visibility issues and will … Read entire article »

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