facility:fukushima daiichi plant

Le coup très élevé d’une énergie bon marché : Fukushima, deux ans plus tard.
High cost of cheap energy : Fukushima tragedy 2 years on — RT News
http://rt.com/news/high-cost-of-cheap-energy-fukushima-tragedy-two-years-on-079

Two years after the Fukushima disaster, much of the clean-up effort is still ‘theoretical’, survivors go to court for compensation and thousands march against nuclear power, while the government gives up on the phase-out promise.

Experts estimate closing the damaged Fukushima reactors down will cost around US$15 billion and will take about 30 to 40 years.

Hier, ayant suivi le 28 minutes sur ARTE, j’apprends que le bilan d’une catastrophe nucléaire majeure en France s’élèverait à 5 800 milliards €. Ce bilan avait été évalué à 430 milliards € quelques années plus tôt. Mince ! Je comprends mieux pourquoi les médias nous conditionnent à une augmentation de 30% du prix de l’électricité d’ici 2020. A mon avis, ils sont encore très optimistes.

Japan Nuclear Plant May Be Worse Off Than Thought
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/world/asia/inquiry-suggests-worse-damage-at-japan-nuclear-plant.html

The damage to one of three stricken reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could be worse than previously thought, a recent internal investigation has shown, raising new concerns over the plant’s stability and complicating the post-disaster cleanup.

#nucléaire #environnement

#Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant operator ’ignored tsunami warning’ | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/29/fukushima-daiichi-operator-tsunami-warning

Tokyo Electric Power (#Tepco) officials rejected “unrealistic” estimates made in a 2008 internal report that the plant could be threatened by a tsunami of up to 10.2 metres, Kyodo news agency said.

The tsunami that crippled backup power supplies at the plant on the afternoon of 11 March, leading to the meltdown of three reactors, was more than 14 metres high.

#nucléaire

(ce genre de truc qui ne fait scandale que dans les cas où la catastrophe est arrivée)

Fukushima radiation fear in Tokyo after danger reading | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2011/oct/13/fukushima-radiation-tokyo-contamination-reading

Concerns that contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi plant has spread over a wider area than at first thought have deepened after elevated levels of radiation were found in Tokyo and other areas far from the facility.

#nucléaire

Japan’s silent anger (Le Monde diplomatique)
http://mondediplo.com/2011/08/05fukushima

Just because the Japanese are not out demonstrating about what happened at the Fukushima Daiichi plant doesn’t mean they aren’t frightened and resentful, only that protest isn’t the Japanese way (...)

A #GIS analysis of the number of people living near each of the world’s nuclear power plants
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2011/04/a_gis_analysis_of_the_number_o.html

It shows, for example, that two-thirds of the world’s power plants have more people living within a 30-kilometre radius than the 172,000 people living within 30 kilometres of the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Some 21 plants have populations larger than 1 million within that radius, and six have populations larger than 3 million. One hundred and fifty-two nuclear power plants have more than 1 million people living within 75 kilometres. There’s lots more other insights in the detailed data.

I’ve published the full results in the form of a map which is best viewed using the desktop version of Google Earth — you can download my map file here. The map plots every one of the world’s nuclear plants with circle size indicating the number of people living within 75 km of each plant.

http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/indianpoint.jpg

#cartographie #nucléaire #accident

Le modèle sécuritaire de la centrale de Fukushima est basé sur une activité tectonique maximale de 7,9. Les accidents nucléaires, c’est comme les tremblement de terre atteignant 8,9 : ça ne peut pas arriver.

Japan Tries Using Seawater to Cool Damaged Reactor - WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703555404576195700301455480.html

The company said in the documents that 7.9 was the highest magnitude for which they tested the safety for their No. 1 and No. 2 nuclear power plants in Fukushima.

Simultaneous seismic activity along the three tectonic plates in the sea east of the plants — the epicenter of Friday’s quake — wouldn’t surpass 7.9, according to the company’s presentation.

#nucléaire #japon