Japan auf der Suche nach einem Endlager

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35048/1.html

Florian Rötzer 03.07.2011

Toshiba, Eigner von Westinghouse, drängt die USA, in der Mongolei ein Endlager für den durch Fukushima angewachsenen Atommüll zu errichten

Toshiba lobbying U.S. to build nuclear waste repository in Mongolia

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110702p2g00m0dm011000c.html

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Toshiba Corp. has lobbied a senior U.S. government official to realize an international nuclear fuel supply scheme that includes the construction of a nuclear waste repository in Mongolia, according to a copy of a letter by Toshiba's president obtained by Kyodo News on Friday.

Nuclear disposal site: a ruined village construction project in Mongolia, a dream of nuclear power in return for technical assistance

The most promising candidate primary Bayantaru village in Mongolia. Officers quarters built by the Soviet army was supposed to ruin

Revealed secret plans to build a disposal site for the first time an international nuclear waste storage in Japan, Mongolia and the United States. Mongolia is “nuclear waste” in return for an undertaking, as well as contemplate the construction of nuclear power plants in the United States technical assistance. Why you need an abundant nuclear underground Mongolia something. The most likely candidates eager to build the nation’s first nuclear power plant in Mongolia, Bayantaru Gobisunburu County Central (meaning rich grassland), visited the village. [Aikawa Haruyuki Gobisunburu County;)

Цөмийн хаягдлыг Монголын нутагт агуулбал мөнгө өгнө гэж хэмжээг нь хүртэл хэлээд байна

http://www.dailynews.mn/publish/?vid=19095
Япон, Америкийн Засгийн газар манай улсын дээд албан тушаалын хүмүүстэй нууц хэлэлцээр хийж Монголын газар нутаг дор олон улсын цөмийн хаягдлын агуулах барих төсөл хийж байсан талаарх мэдээлэл дуулиан тарьж байна. Гадаад харилцааны яамнаас уржигдар яаралтай хэвлэлийн бага хурал зарлаж энэхүү мэдээллийг үгүйсгэсэн. Манай улсад цөмийн хаягдлын агуулах барих нууц хэлэлцээрийн тухай Монголд ирж сурвалжлага хийсэн Японы "Майничи" сонины Лондон дахь тусгай сурвалжлагч Айкава Харүюкитай холбогдлоо. Тэрбээр өнгөрсөн дөрөвдүгээр сард Монголд ирээд буцсан бөгөөд Лондонгоос түүнтэй интернэтээр шууд холбогдож Н.Энхжаргал орчуулагчийн тусламжтайгаар ярилцсанаа хүргэе.

Areva CEO arrives in Japan to help with nuclear crisis

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/30/japan-areva-idUSLDE72T11X20110330

PARIS, March 30 | Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:12am EDT

(Reuters) - Areva CEPFi.PA Chief Executive Anne Lauvergeon arrived in Japan on Wednesday, broadening out a French delegation that has flown out to help Tokyo Electric Power bring its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant under control.

Who Will Take the Radioactive Rods from Fukushima?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25064
by Yoichi Shimatsu

Global Research, May 31, 2011

4th Media Beijing - 2011-05-30

The decommissioning of the Fukushima 1 nuclear plant is delayed by a single problem: Where to dispose of the uranium fuel rods? Many of those rods are extremely radioactive and partially melted, and some contain highly lethal plutonium.

It’s ghastly, not green

http://www.dailypioneer.com/343887/It%E2%80%99s-ghastly-not-green.html
June 19, 2011 4:31:39 PM

Sandhya Jain

The meltdown at Fukushima showcases the horrors of a disaster-hit nuclear plant. This can happen anywhere in the world. Do we really need nuclear power?

The real crisis of Japan’s earthquake-tsunami-driven disaster at Fukushima concerns the disposal of radioactive, partially melted, uranium fuel rods, before the six reactors can be decommissioned. Some rods contain plutonium (one millionth of a gram, inhaled, can cause cancer; each reactor has 250 kg of plutonium). Over seven tonnes of nuclear debris (spent rods and fissile fuel inside the reactors) need a permanent storage site before the facility can be entombed under concrete, Chernobyl-style.

Disposal of nuclear waste should be made a top priority

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/perspectives/news/20110613p2a00m0na001000c.html
(Mainichi Japan) June 13, 2011

In the June issue of the monthly journal Sekai (The World), life scientist Keiko Yanagisawa argues that nuclear power plants must not be operated as long as we do not know how to dispose of highly radioactive nuclear waste -- which can wreak havoc on human DNA .

Mongolia Might Store Foreign Spent Nuclear Fuel, Senior U.S. Official Says

http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20110330_8553.php
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

By Elaine M. Grossman

Global Security Newswire

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has held informal talks with Mongolia about the possibility that the Central Asian nation might host an international repository for its region's spent nuclear fuel, a senior U.S. diplomat said yesterday (see GSN, March 9, 2010).

Mongolia Balances Public Opinion With Nuclear Ambitions

http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8921/mongolia-balances-public-opinion-with-nuclear-ambitions
By Jonathan Berkshire Miller | 23 May 2011

In recent months, news outlets in Japan and the U.S. have reported that Mongolia is negotiating with those two countries to serve as a regional depository for spent nuclear fuel. The proposed plan would permit geographically constrained countries in the region, such as Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, to dispose of their spent fuel in the spacious Central Asian state.

U.S. Embassy issues statement denying Mongolian nuclear fuel disposal plans

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110512p2a00m0na006000c.html
(Mainichi Japan) May 12, 2011

The United States Embassy in Japan has emphatically denied a Mainichi report that the U.S. and Japan were in talks to build a nuclear waste disposal and processing facility in Mongolia.

"The U.S. government is not negotiating a deal to send spent nuclear fuel to Mongolia," the U.S. Embassy stated on May 10. "There are a number of inaccuracies in the stories being reported today in Japanese newspapers about a spent nuclear fuel facility in Mongolia," the statement continued, referring to a media firestorm ignited by a Mainichi May 9 morning edition story outlining secret negotiations between the U.S. Energy Department and the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Atomare Denkverbote

http://www.heise.de/tr/blog/artikel/Atomare-Denkverbote-273138.html

26.07.07 - von Martin Kölling

Ich weiß nicht, wovor ich mehr Angst haben soll: Vor Atomkraftwerken, die von Erdbeben bedroht werden, für die sie ganz offensichtlich nicht ausgelegt sind, wie das größte Atomkraftwerk der Welt in Kashiwazaki 220 Kilometer nördlich von Tokio, nahe dem am 16. Juli die Erde bebte? Oder vor einer Gesellschaft, die nicht wenigstens die Gefahren der Atomkraft diskutieren will?

Japan's Deadly Game of Nuclear Roulette

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20040523x2.html
Sunday, May 23, 2004

By LEUREN MORET

Special to The Japan Times

Of all the places in all the world where no one in their right mind would build scores of nuclear power plants, Japan would be pretty near the top of the list.

An aerial view of the Hamaoka plant in Shizuoka Prefecture, "the most dangerous nuclear power plant in Japan"

The Japanese archipelago is located on the so-called Pacific Rim of Fire, a large active volcanic and tectonic zone ringing North and South America, Asia and island arcs in Southeast Asia. The major earthquakes and active volcanoes occurring there are caused by the westward movement of the Pacific tectonic plate and other plates leading to subduction under Asia.

Japan sits on top of four tectonic plates, at the edge of the subduction zone, and is in one of the most tectonically active regions of the world. It was extreme pressures and temperatures, resulting from the violent plate movements beneath the seafloor, that created the beautiful islands and volcanoes of Japan.

Genpatsu-shinsai: the language of disaster that is stalking Japan

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2112763.ece
July 21, 2007
Leo Lewis in Tokyo

Japan’s turbulent history of war and natural catastrophe has already given the world a terrifying vocabulary of death: tsunami, kamikaze, Hiroshima.

But the country now stands on the brink of unleashing its most chilling phrase yet: genpatsu-shinsai – the combination of an earthquake and nuclear meltdown capable of destroying millions of lives and bringing a nation to its knees.

Japan gears up for Tokai quake

http://www.mb.com.ph/node/267549/japan-gear

By HANNAH L. TORREGOZA

July 18, 2010, 4:06pm

SHIZUOKA—The “Great Tokai Earthquake” has yet to occur but Japan is gearing up for that imminent event in the hope that efforts at disaster preparation will minimize any casualties.

Such is the case with the Shizuoka Prefectural government which is now at the forefront of an urgent emergency management program aimed at educating individuals and communities of an impending massive earthquake with a magnitude of 8 on the Richter scale that is also expected to trigger tsunami attacks.

Japanese Nuclear Power Plants and Seismic Issues

http://www.fccj.or.jp/node/2505

Time: 2007 Jul 20 13:00 - 14:00
Summary:

Press Conference:
Katsuhiko Ishibashi, Mitsuhei Murata & Kazuyuki Takemoto;
"Japanese Nuclear Power Plants and Seismic Issues"

Language:

The speech will be in English and the Q & A in Japanese with English interpretation.

Die Warner, die nicht gehört wurden

http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/mobile/ausland/die-tsunami-katastrophe/Die-Warner-die-nicht-gehoert-wurden/s/20980711/index.html

Von Christoph Neidhart, Tokio . Aktualisiert am 28.03.2011

Eine Studie der Universität Kobe hat den Verlauf der Nuklearkatastrophe vorhergesagt. Die Kraftwerkbetreiberin Tepco wollte damals nichts davon wissen.

Mit einem Tsunami dieser Stärke habe man nicht rechnen können, behauptete Tepco-Präsident Masataka Shimizu, bevor er sich für die «Unannehmlichkeiten», entschuldigte, die das havarierte AKW den Japanern bereite. Dabei muss Shimizu die Gutachten gekannt haben, die die japanische Atomindustrie vor eben solchen Erdbeben und Killer-Tsunamis warnten.

Japan Nuclear Energy Drive Compromised by Conflicts of Interest

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=awR8KsLlAcSo
By Jason Clenfield and Shigeru Sato - December 12, 2007 16:10 EST

Hokuriku Electric Power Co.'s Shika nuclear power statio

Japan Nuclear Energy Drive Compromised by Conflicts of Interest

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=awR8KsLlAcSo
By Jason Clenfield and Shigeru Sato - December 12, 2007 16:10 EST

Hokuriku Electric Power Co.'s Shika nuclear power statio

Hubris led us toward nuclear danger

http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/Hubris+toward+nuclear+danger/4439657/story.html
Mar. 15, 2011 | Last Updated: Mar. 15, 2011 4:09 AM ET
Peter Goodspeed, National Post

For nearly four years, Katsuhiko Ishibashi, a leading seismologist from Kobe University, has been warning Japan's policy of placing nuclear reactors in the middle of an active earthquake belt could lead to catastrophe.

The senior advisor to the nuclear industry resigned in protest in 2005 from a national safety panel, saying guidelines for protecting nuclear reactors from earthquakes were too lax.