13 May 2020
Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) today approved a draft report concluding Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited’s (JNFL’s) reprocessing plant at Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture meets new safety standards. The approval brings the plant, construction of which began in 1993, closer to starting up.
Following the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, new safety standards for nuclear fuel cycle facilities came into force in December 2013. The requirements vary from facility to facility, but generally include reinforcement measures against natural threats such as earthquakes and tsunamis, and in some cases tornadoes, volcanoes and forest fires. Reprocessing plants need to demonstrate these as well as countermeasures specifically for terrorist attacks, hydrogen explosions, fires resulting from solvent leaks and vaporisation of liquid waste.
The NRA today approved a draft report saying that the Rokkasho reprocessing plant meets these new safety standards. It set a one-month period to solicit feedback from industry minister Hiroshi Kajiyama and other parties concerned.
“We believe the facility’s design ensures high safety margins against possible accidents,” NRA Chairman Toyoshi Fuketa was quoted as saying by Jiji Press. “The [seismic] faults near the facility were sufficiently examined and the screening was conducted adequately.”
At the Rokkasho plant, additional equipment and systems are being installed for the recovery of radioactivity in the event of a severe accident. An evaluation is also being carried out of the impact on control devices and equipment in the event of a leak of high-pressure and high-temperature steam, and the development and installation of relevant countermeasures, if deemed necessary. A new emergency control room is also being constructed at the plant. Additional safety-related countermeasures are also being put in place, such as internal flood protection, strengthening of the seismic resistance of pipework, improving cooling water tower resistance against tornadoes and improving measures against internal fires.
In a statement, JNFL said: “The acceptance of the draft examination is a big step forward for us today, and we will continue to make every effort to pass the examination.”
Construction of the Rokkasho reprocessing plant began in 1993 and was originally expected to be completed by 1997. However, its construction and commissioning have faced several delays. Problems in the locally-designed vitrification plant – where dried out and powdered high-level radioactive waste is mixed with molten glass for permanent storage – have contributed to these delays. JNFL designed the vitrification unit to go with the reprocessing section supplied by Areva. The Rokkasho reprocessing facility is based on the same technology as Orano’s La Hague plant in France. Once operational, the maximum reprocessing capacity of the Rokkasho plant should be 800 tonnes per year, according to JNFL.
JNFL aims to complete the necessary safety countermeasures in the first half of fiscal 2021 (ending March 2022).
https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Regulator-approves-safety-of-Japanese-reprocessing
Fukushima 311 Watchdogs 
How are people really doing in prefectures, close to Fukushima and Tokyo? I was reading that people in Japan, had little interest in going to the Olympics, before covid 19. They indicated they would say home, and watch them on tv.
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People in fukushima are living with the consequences of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, they haven’t much time nor money to spend on Olympics in Tokyo…..
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According to the table in this article.
https://www.conservativedailynews.com/2018/02/obama-hillarys-16-year-plan-destroy-america
The Trumpsters and Qanon cult, are all about the same nuclear hellfire and war monging, that their forked tounged adherents, claim they are against.
The chart and article shows what a Trump supporter, trump handlers and trump are really all about with mind-numbing clarity.
They could care-less, about what Obama or Hillary do because they know Clinton and Obama were corporate war-mongers, like they are . They know that the job of centrist, war- mongers and the Clinton-Obama: centrist-neocon-parasites have the same agenda and do the same dirty-deeds, in a kinder-genteler way.
The new improved Qanon Trumpspeak cult’s job, is to take it to the nth degree.
The job of Qanonspeak and trumpspeak purveyors, is to make every garbage propaganda technique, go as far as it will go.
To go as far as it will go for maximal looting, exploitation and profit of americans and the world. It is done so their corporate and military masters in the homicidal-dirty duopoly, good-cop-bad cop games they play, get more, more, more!
It is about
1. Enhancing NSA bulk surveillance
2. Creating a war with Iran
3. Amassing more overseas bases
4. Increasing military spending astronomically
5. Creating more control of the military by giving the military and the supreme leader more power to declare useless wars, while creating larger privately controlled mercenaries run by billionaires and funded by taxpayers
Ask a Trump supporter to explain what it was the “Deep State” is trying to do, they will use Trump Newspeak And Qanon lies that are just the opposite. They will tell you they are against the Deep State
They will say that the “Deep State,”
is enhancing NSA bulk surveillance, creating a war with Iran, amassing more overseas bases, increasing military spending astronomically, and increasing control of the military by giving the supreme leader more power, while creating larger privately controlled mercenaries run by billionaires and funded by taxpayers. Those are all the very same things, they aggressively support. In Trumpnewspeak thats ok.
According to Their Tump-Newspeak and Qanon ideology
you can have Doublethink
Doublethink is Believing two contradictory terms to be correct
More from the Trumpnewspeak glossary:
Blackwhite — When used on an opponent, it means to believe that black is white, despite the facts.
To a Qanon or Trump Cult, member, it means the ability to believe that black is white, to know that black is white, and to forget that one ever believed the contrary.
Remember black is white to Trump supporters and Qanon ideologs. Their leaders truly support more war, more bombs, more nuclear bombs and more mayhem so their corrupt leaders can cash in.
• crimestop — To rid oneself of unorthodox thoughts that interfere with believing the tenets of Trumpspeak and Qanon ideology
• crimethink — The criminal act of holding politically unorthodox thoughts that contradict the tenets of Trumpspeak and Qanon think, frequently referred to by the standard English “thoughtcrime”
Ask a normal sane person to explain what they would like done. It would be ending the risk of nuclear war and nuclear catastrophe, by shutting down the 95 old decrepit reactors. Making World treaties to abolish nuclear weapons. It would be decreasing NSA bulk surveillance. Not creating a war with Iran. Not flooding the world with arms and nuclear arms. Not selling nuclear arms and reactors to rogue states like saudi arabia. Not amassing more overseas bases but, closing them. Not increasing military spending astronomically.
Doing something to alleviate domestic misery, instead of going out of their way to flood the country with more nuclide and industrial poisons.
No more atomic bombing the populace, with more radionuclide fallout from nuclear bomb testing and nuclear bomb production. Trump recently said he is going to be doing atomic bomb testing on the populace again in Nevada.
He once said he never would.
His lies and insanity knows no bounds.
It is time to end useless nuclear weapons period.
Decreased control of the military and by the military, by not giving them and their supremo leader more power to create war. To use tactical nuclear weapons. Take away their power to create large privately controlled mercenaries . Take away their power to create more domestic spy agencys run by corrupt power mongers and funded by taxpayers.
The Trumpspeak and Qanon cult support the exact opposite of what they say and lie about it.
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I think Japan is lying abouththeir real Covid problem, like the do everything else.
Funny that the worst covid countries are the worst nucleoape countries: USA, France, UK, Russia.
What do you thing Dun?
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