Infinite Unknown

- Japan Nuclear Expert: Humans must ‘decommission’ Fukushima reactors — Robots can’t do anything basically (VIDEOS) (ENENews, Oct 23, 2012):

Watch video of the interview here

Interview with Hiroaki Koide
Upload by: 座間宮 ガレイ
Filmed: Oct. 18, 2012
Published: Oct. 23, 2012
Translation: Fukushima Diary

Hiroaki Koide, Kyoto University Reactor Research Institute: You should think robot can’t do anything basically. It has nothing to do with settling the situation. [...] They can’t be a help at all. [...] Japan hasn’t developed a robot for nuclear emergency at all on the assumption that nuclear accident can never happen. However, some European nations and US have such robots indeed, but their capacity is very limited regardless of remote controlling technology. After all, it must be done by human.

See how they found the melted fuel at Chernobyl here

Tags: Fukushima, Global News, Hiroaki Koide, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation

- Japan Nuclear Expert: “There is no solution, we will have to give up” at Fukushima plant (VIDEO) (ENENews, Oct 22, 2012):

Interview with Prof. Hiroaki Koide
Upload by: Whangarei Palace Zama
Filmed: Oct. 18, 2012
Published: Oct. 21, 2012
Translation: Fukushima Diary

Hiroaki Koide, Kyoto University Reactor Research Institute: There are a lot of problems and Tepco and Japanese government state they are going to pick the melted fuel up someday, somehow. I personally think it’s impossible. Because there is no solution, we will have to give it up. We will have to build stone coffin like Chernobyl for reactor 1, 2 and 3. However, at least they must remove the fuel assemblies on the bottom of spent fuel pools somehow before building stone coffin.

Watch Koide’s interview here

Tags: Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Hiroaki Koide, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation

- Japan Nuclear Professor: Fukushima smoke stacks releasing radiation on a daily basis (VIDEO) (ENENews, Aug 22, 2012):

Tags: Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Hiroaki Koide, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation

- Japan Newspaper: Tokyo area turned out to be as contaminated as Fukushima -Kyoto Professor (ENENews, Aug 11, 2012):

August 4, 2012 report in the Hokkaido Newspaper translated by Fukushima Diary:

Source: aikido.co.jp

Professor Hiroaki Koide, Kyoto University Reactor Research Institute, during July 29, 2012 lecture at Doshisha University: According to government’s research, Tokyo area turned out to be as contaminated as radiation controlled area like in Fukushima. Millions of people are living in radiation controlled area, where I work with a small nuclear reactor.

Tags: Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Hiroaki Koide, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation, TOKYO

YouTube Added: 25.06.2012

Description:

In-depth update from ABC-Australia’s Mark Willacy, the ABC’s Japanese-speaking correspondent based in Tokyo.

Willacy interviews Japanese nuclear professor Hiroaki Koide, US energy policy adviser Robert Alvarez, TEPCO spokesman Yoshimi Hitosugi, undercover journalist Tomohiko Suzuki and most importantly retired diplomat to Switzerland, Misuhei Murata.

Murata states he has written to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, urging international intervention to save the world from another bigger nuclear catastrophe of the spent fuel pool at Unit 4 failing and releasing huge extra amounts of deadly radiation.

Tags: Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Health, Hiroaki Koide, Japan, Politics, Radiation, Robert Alvarez, Science, Society, Technology, TEPCO, TOKYO

- Experts warn of possible catastrophe at Japan reactor (The Hindu, June 13, 2012):

Some nuclear experts are warning that spent fuel rods at a damaged plant in Japan could trigger a major catastrophe despite the government’s declaration in December that the emergency phase of the nation’s worst nuclear disaster was over.

Fifteen months after a magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima Daiichi plant and led to meltdowns, fears about reactor 4 have grown as its building holds a storage pool filled with 1,535 nuclear fuel rod assemblies.

Continue reading »

Tags: Arnie Gundersen, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Health, Hiroaki Koide, Japan, Mitsuhei Murata, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, Society, TEPCO

- ‘Even if the Japanese gov’t goes into bankruptcy, it still won’t be enough to compensate all the damages that will be produced’ from Fukushima Daiichi (ENENews, June 1, 2012)

Tags: Contamination, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Health, Hiroaki Koide, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, Society

- Japanese Nuclear Expert: ‘When I try to figure out the true magnitude of damage, I am overwhelmed’ — Almost all of Fukushima Prefecture would be abandoned if gov’t regulations were applied (VIDEOS) (ENENews, June 1, 2012)

Tags: Contamination, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Health, Hiroaki Koide, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, Society

- Nuclear Professor: 5,000 Hiroshima bombs worth of cesium-137 in spent fuel pool No. 4 — “Low estimate” (VIDEO):

Footage of the NYC Press Conference May 4th 2012
Cinema Forum Fukushima

New York — Description: Japanese Nuclear Scientist and Japanese and US medical doctors to discuss current radiological health conditions and concerns in Japan after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor catastrophe.

Hiroaki KOIDE / Nuclear Reactor Specialist and Assistant Professor at Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute

Now, even taking low estimate the amount of cesium-137 that is contained in the [No. 4] spent fuel pool, it’s roughly 5,000 times the amount of cs-137 released during the Hiroshima bombing.

Tags: Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Hiroaki Koide, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation

FYI.

- Hiroaki Koide: “Adults in Japan Should Eat Contaminated Food” to Atone for the Sins of Having Allowed Nuke Power (EX-SKF, May 4, 2012):

During the press conference in New York after the lecture on the status of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident and radiation contamination in Japan, Dr. Koide of Kyoto University repeated his mantra (or curse, to many Japanese) that the food contaminated with radioactive materials from Fukushima should be consumed by adults who have allowed the nuclear power plants.

From the Japanese transcript by Portirland blog (5/5/2012):

クリーンな食べ物はない。

There is no clean food.

Continue reading »

Tags: Food, Fukushima, Global News, Hiroaki Koide, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation, Society, TEPCO