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IAEA sees significant nuclear safety progress since Fukushima

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Great news. The horse has left the barn in regards to Japan, and folks there will b pig the price, literrally and figuratively, for decades. And now the IAEA decides to get serious about safety.

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Great news. Before 3/11, the NPP were safe. Now, 17 months later, they are super safe. Wow! I'm voiceless.

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The IAEA says nothing. "Significant progress", "increased attention", "focus on vitally important areas"? These are mere marketing buzzwords, they don't mean anything!

What else one can expect from IAEA director Amano. By the way, he already got his amakudari position.

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Bring a screw driver.

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An entire news article of IAEA quotes that tell the public absolutely zero. Of course everything is "new and improved". The IAEA is the main nuclear industry cheerleader and business development agency. They need to have their mandate rewritten to only deal with proliferation and safety issues and be specifically forbidden to promote nuclear power.

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Nancy FoustAug. 20, 2012 - 10:04AM JST

An entire news article of IAEA quotes that tell the public absolutely zero. Of course everything is "new and improved". The IAEA is the main nuclear industry cheerleader and business development agency. They need to have their mandate rewritten to only deal with proliferation and safety issues and be specifically forbidden to promote nuclear power.

You could always actually read their stuff instead of assuming the authors here were smart enough to do the same.

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No it hasn't.

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Important progress has been made toward strengthening global nuclear safety after Japan’s Fukushima accident last year, according to the United Nations atomic watchdog.

Wait, I thought this was about IAEA, not some UN agency? IAEA is entirely independent of the UN, everything from their operation to funding is unrelated. The only thing they do with the UN is to provide a report once a year and occasionally some extra information.

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zichiAug. 20, 2012 - 10:52AM JST

Last week a reactor in America was shut down because the sea water was too hot to be used for cooling.

The most flagrantly misleading statement in a while. The temperature of the surrounding water, in order to conform to ISO and state and federal regulations, must not exceed a certain level at the exit point compared to the inlet, which is generally achieved by submerging the exit point 20m in the case of sea water. In the event of uneven heating, which happens often to inland plants but quite uncommon for sea based plants, the temperature difference can exceed regulations. It has nothing to do with plant safety and everything to do with ecological regulations that ALL power plants must conform to (including hydro).

There have been 10 events in 10 days.

Your website has, not including Fukushima as it is an ongoing event, one probable event, one possible event, and seven non-events. If you were compare those to fossil fuel plants, you would find more minor issues at the fossil fuel plants than nuclear.

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It's a self inflating press release, as for the UN it can not comment on this N Issue without IAEA approval to do so! Has nothing to do with the UN?

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Nuclear failed. The concept doesn't work because it's far too dangerous. We don't need it. And don't want it.

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LOL..

This is the funniest headline news I've heard in months!

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zichiAug. 20, 2012 - 12:20PM JST

It only took a few decades to create the cause for the worse nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, but it will take many tens of decades to remove the effects.

What the hell does this have to do with the topic?

IAEA recommendations, if followed, would have prevented all of the cooling issues. IAEA investigated the physical structures and already released reports on that. What they are focusing on now, as I have stated in the past, is the actual emergency response plans and peer review methods. In essence, they wish to remove government interference from the equation, minimizing actual risk to the public rather than playing on their fears for political gain.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011...r-reactor-video 17 March 2011

And faith in the power of the defence forces.... Defence force always better than the force of reason... Whether the IAEA supports still so cooling reactors, or changed the sentence. ??

In order to provide the reactors in Fukushime from the bottom you have the mechanical tunnel. Then insert the two meters in diameter with 20 tubes. , Do the holes from the top and side, and on the bottom line fire resistant ZrO2. For large pipes enter the small tube to remove radioactive leaks or cooling corium had reached there...

http://www.herrenknecht.com/fileadmin/reda...GB_09-12-21.pdf

http://www.herrenknecht.com/fileadmin/reda...GB_08-10-29.pdf

http://www.new4stroke.com/herenknecht.jpg

Certainly not the cheapest, but it will give guarantees that the radioactive materials do not enter the land and ocean

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Ful links

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/mar/17/japanese-helicopters-water-nuclear-reactor-video

http://www.herrenknecht.com/fileadmin/redaktion/PDF_Downloads/Direct_Pipe_Fly_GB_09-12-21.pdf

http://www.herrenknecht.com/fileadmin/redaktion/PDF_Downloads/AVN250XC_AVN700XC_DB_GB_08-10-29.pdf

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IAEA sees significant benefits in perpetuating lies to bolster the nuclear industry....

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If aliens came down, inspected a nuclear plant and said it was safe posters here would still say it was a lie, lol

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The IAEA haven't inspected many of the nuclear plants in Japan.

I need not because all the reactors are closed. And contributions to this organization, we should not pay Japan

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A day late and a dollar short. Only the future will tell us the truth.

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