Pilgrim Nuclear and Vermont Yankee, both operated by Entergy, are the same age and same design as Fukushima.
These are a few recent articles ----
Tons
of cesium-tainted wood chips found near Japan's biggest lake --Some chips were laid on path used for river
embankment work, some were found in 77 sandbags 18 Sep 2013 Radioactive
cesium has been found on an estimated 200 to 300 tons of wood chips that were
left months ago near Lake Biwa in Shiga Prefecture, prefectural officials said.
Samples of the chips show a reading of up to 3,000 becquerels per kilogram, the
officials said Tuesday. They were found in the dry bed of the Kamo River in
Takashima and other locations near the lake, officials said.
Japan
dismissed US warnings to contain radioactive water at
Fukushima 20 Sep 2013 Japanese authorities ignored US calls to contain
contaminated water at the stricken Fukushima power plant in 2008, officials told
media. The revelation comes as the Japanese battle to stem radioactive water
leaks flooding into the sea from the facility. Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO)
estimates that 300 metric tons of groundwater has mixed with radioactive
material at the site and is steadily flowing out to sea. Four hundred metric
tons of groundwater runs into the nuclear facility from higher ground every day,
TEPCO estimates.
Polar
Bear Seal Diet Has Higher Contaminant Load: Impact of Global
Warming 21 Sep 2013 Polar bears have to contend with a lot of
threats. Now, they may have to deal with just one more. Over the past 30 years,
polar bears have increasingly exchanged ring seal with harp seal and hooded seal
in their diets. Scientists have now discovered that this change has exposed polar bears to far more contaminants,
which may impact their health. The polar bear is a species that's being
drastically impacted by changing rising temperatures. Its
habitat is shrinking and food sources are moving to adapt to the shifting
climate. Because of this, polar bears have also had to adapt, though their
populations are continuing to decline.
Ex-US regulator: Fukushima cleanup complicated
Published: September 13, 2013
— Associated Press
TOKYO — A former U.S. nuclear regulator says cleaning up Japan's wrecked Fukushima plant is a bigger challenge than the work he led at Three Mile Island and that ongoing radioactive water leaks are a minor part of that task.
Lake Barrett was appointed this month by plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. as an outside adviser for the decades-long decommissioning process. He led the Three Mile Island accident cleanup for nearly a decade as part of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
He said that the meltdowns in three of the reactors, massive radiation leaks and the volume of contaminated water at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, on Japan's northeast coast, make it a more complicated clean-up.
TOKYO — A former U.S. nuclear regulator says cleaning up Japan's wrecked Fukushima plant is a bigger challenge than the work he led at Three Mile Island and that ongoing radioactive water leaks are a minor part of that task.
Lake Barrett was appointed this month by plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. as an outside adviser for the decades-long decommissioning process. He led the Three Mile Island accident cleanup for nearly a decade as part of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
He said that the meltdowns in three of the reactors, massive radiation leaks and the volume of contaminated water at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, on Japan's northeast coast, make it a more complicated clean-up.
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