IAEA begins fresh probe into Fukushima nuclear accident

I don't know why it wasn't covered on JT (or it was and I missed it), but TEPCO clearly stated on Friday that it may have to dump a LOT of radioactive water into the Pacific because they can no longer trust their own tanks. It is utterly disgusting. I hope the IAEA do a good and serious job and point out TEPCO for the lackeys they are.

IAEA: Please find that Tepco don't know what the hell they are doing.

The nuke clowns show must go on!

I am starting to feel like there is no point.. They do whatever they want more or less and everyone in power lets them..

What exactly is the IAEA. An organization, upheld by the west, in its entirety, with actions that in hindsight, seems to exemplify its principle protecting the masses.. from the adverse affects of Nuclear technology. Yet, it did nothing when Abdul Qadeer Kahn exported nuclear technology to Libya and Iran.. When he was stationed in the Netherlands, siphoning centrifuge technology.. It clearly did nothing when the US handed the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Italy and Turkey, all in all 480 mini-nuclear weapons, (B61), having 13 the yield of Hiroshima. The listed nations are members of the Non-proliferation treaty.. Germany exports Nuclear weapons to the French Navy.. None of these nations are listed as, Nuclear-armed states. What of India and Pakistan.. rouge Nuclear states, but important trading partners to the world..

This trip is a farcade.. with the 2005 public utilities amendment act, the US has extended, nuclear reactor expiration dates by 25 years.. meaning all of the current nuclear power plants will retire, with 70 years + of service.. and congress wants to extend that by another 25 years... The world is going nuclear.. the US will be building new plants, the Euroasian continent, .. yes Germany will abolish nuclear power.. but no doubt Germany`s industrial heartland, the Ruhr, will siphon off French nuclear generated power.. Japan does not have such a luxury.

Japan is at a cross-roads, either to protect the natural environment, or create industrial energy producing regions, synthetic oil produced from coal (Germany WW2), thermal energy, tidal energy.. we have the technology.. but the public.. are apathetic in every measurable sense of the word..

IAEA is just promoting nuclear power......which is good for japan. http://dynamicmounting.com/

If the IAEA can't be trusted to make independent observations and recommendations then which organisation can?

....but will look into TEPCO’s measures to solve leakages and blackouts that caused cooling system failures, government officials said....

glad they are looking into it.. it is very worrying that temporary sheeting covering "a hole in the ground" got punctured.. maybe the iaea has access to industrial strength bicycle repair kit? i can only hope so!!

....The IAEA team is scheduled to submit a report to the government and TEPCO on April 22, officials said.....

IAEA's Nuclear Energy Management School Opens in U.S.A.

Submitted by NUCBIZ on March 27, 2013 "....In his opening statement on 18 March, IAEA Deputy Director General for Nuclear Energy, Alexander Bychkov, told participants: "Nuclear is a very high-tech field and is not without potential danger. I strongly believe that the nuclear manager of the 21st century must be three things: First, a good specialist in one of the nuclear areas such as fuel cycle, reactor technology, reactor physics; second, he or she must have broad knowledge of all nuclear branches; and third, a basic understanding of economics, social science and psychology is required." :)

"You all are specialists in one of these nuclear areas. So the task of this school is to give you broad knowledge and basic understanding of all these nuclear fields," Mr. Bchykov added...."

http://www.nucpros.com/content/iaeas-nuclear-energy-management-school-opens-usa

i bet the report is already done.. imo

"..economics, social science and psychology..." essential modules for marketing perhaps? 30 percent of course? hmmm!

Doesn't really matter what the IAEA says. It will only be interpreted as 'guidelines' and TEPCO will be left to fumble through the cleanup with a long list of pathetic excuses just as they have been doing for two years. I would like to think I am wrong, but IAEA has done previous inspections and made recommendations that were ignored. Why should this time be any different?.

Hay wake up ! their are already dumping the waste by proxey, Via the leaks in the cooling systems storage.Indirectly into the Ocean. Via the ground water.

@Ron: and by burning it and around the country.

Sofa_king: unfortunately nobody!

@Verisimilitude,

What exactly is the IAEA. An organization, upheld by the west, in its entirety, with actions that in hindsight, seems to exemplify its principle protecting the masses.. from the adverse affects of Nuclear technology. Yet, it did nothing when Abdul Qadeer Kahn exported nuclear technology to Libya and Iran.. When he was stationed in the Netherlands, siphoning centrifuge technology.. It clearly did nothing when the US handed the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Italy and Turkey, all in all 480 mini-nuclear weapons, (B61), having 13 the yield of Hiroshima. The listed nations are members of the Non-proliferation treaty.. Germany exports Nuclear weapons to the French Navy.. None of these nations are listed as, Nuclear-armed states. What of India and Pakistan.. rouge Nuclear states, but important trading partners to the world..

Your first sentence was obviously not a rhetorical one, because it's obvious you don't have a clue about what the IAEA does. They have NOTHING, NADA, ZIPPY, to do with nuclear weapons. They deal with nuclear power generation and other scientific applications involving nuclear radiation. Ranting about the IAEA doing nothing about nuclear proliferation is like ranting about the ICAO (the International Civil Aviation Organization) doing nothing about automobile safety.

http://www.iaea.org/

Fadamor: The IAEA is not just dealing with nuclear power generation and blabla, they are promoting it in a totally non-transparent manner, while censuring the WHO. Here is the root problem!

Actually, at this point in time I trust more the scapegoat TEPCO than the IAEA! Because all what has happened has been covered up by the nuke village, i.e. the IAEA.

Fadamor: The IAEA is not just dealing with nuclear power generation and blabla, they are promoting it in a totally non-transparent manner, while censuring the WHO. Here is the root problem!

"Promoting it in a non-transparent manner" means what, exactly? As far as I can tell, they've been really up-front about promoting nuclear energy. How is the following web page of publications "non-transparent"?

http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull541/index.html

And I'm sure the WHO is losing sleep over the IAEA censuring them (I'm assuming in regards to a report or reports the WHO published). Censuring is NOT censoring. All censuring means is that they strongly disagreed with the WHO report(s). Big whoop-di-do.

Starting to get the feeling that the IAEA might actually be restarting their investigations constantly on purpose. Every time the research team gets pressured into telling the truth, they restart the probe with a new team. This shouldn't be news anymore. It's the status quo.

So people are saying that there are no credible nuclear experts whatsoever anywhere in the world who can advise on this? That can't be right..

I love this... every time some organisation checks on Fukushima and TEPCO some people automatically dismiss them as lackeys or in someone's back pocket.

gogogoAPR. 15, 2013 - 03:10PM JST IAEA: Please find that Tepco don't know what the hell they are doing.

Actually they already found them, to know what they were doing last time they checked.

IAEA begins fresh probe into Fukushima nuclear accident.

Good! Perhaps they can look in to why one of the reactors that was under maintenance and had all the fuel rods removed, managed to explode in a mini nuke explosion.

When I woke up this morning I was a little sleepy and when I read the title of this article it looked like "IKEA"instead of "IAEA". I was shocked! Now I have read the article correctly I hope that justice is served!

Zichi After 2 years, and numerous extensive reports, we still get these type of comments? .............................................................

Yes, It all depends on who's version of events you believe. There is an Israeli involvement which is is backed up by news items from the Jerusalem Post. Things are not what they seem. Check out Magna BSP and the owl cameras that were placed in reactors 3 and four.

@Zichi. Come on. No3 was not just a hydrogen explosion. There was a thermal explosion of some kind, the red / orange flash proves it. Much more force upwards, much darker, thicker smoke.

@ Zichi after two years of being lied to, you still eat their 'truth'? Wow. You of all people surprise, no, disappoint, me.

Remember this:

Two days before, on March 12, a hydrogen explosion had occurred in the plant’s No. 1 reactor building.

“In short, the only change we have made was replacing ‘No. 1 reactor’ with the ‘No. 3 reactor’?” Takahashi said in the footage. “We do not know whether it was a hydrogen explosion, but since the government--the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency--is saying it is a hydrogen explosion, we can just say so--a hydrogen explosion, can’t we?”

Takahashi urged that TEPCO parrot the government announcement, without trying to confirm the cause.

“On television a short while ago, NISA was saying it was a hydrogen explosion," he said. "I guess we’d better keep pace.”

The footage also showed someone saying, “the prime minister’s office has also been using the term hydrogen explosion. Perhaps we should do the same,” but the person was not identifiable.

Shimizu approved Takahashi’s recommendation, saying, “All right. I agree. This is fine.”

Then followed two seconds of bleeped-out footage. Shimizu then said, “Speediness is the key.”

At a later news conference, a public relations official of the utility announced, “It was a hydrogen explosion.”

The cause of the explosion in the No. 3 reactor building has yet to be determined.

Zichi, I was commending your support of those in Tohoku and Kanto, which I still do, this denial of what No3 was though, it wasn't a hydrogen / steam explosion with some oxygen bottles... read the transcript of TEPCO again. No conspiracy theory here and you know it, at no point have said it was nuclear, neither am I saying it wasn't, but that was a thermal explosion.

The link proposes a theory.

Unit 3 could have experienced prompt criticality. A possibility.

That would be a very large oxygen tank. Why was steam still coming out? Because tonnes of water was being pumped in.

I take you back to the original report:

The cause of the explosion in the No. 3 reactor building has yet to be determined.