FUKUSHIMA, RIEN À VOIR. Par un joli dimanche de septembre sur une plage du Cotentin, ils ramassent des coquillages à 9 613 kilomètres de Fukushima. Quel rapport ? La radioactivité. Ces paisibles promeneurs font partie de l’ACRO, l’Association pour le Contrôle de la Radioactivité dans l’Ouest, créée en 1986 après la catastrophe de Tchernobyl, et qui implique les riverains des installations nucléaires dans la surveillance des niveaux de la radioactivité. Mais l’ACRO s’est aussi étroitement impliquée dans les suites de la catastrophe de Fukushima avec un laboratoire ouvert à Tokyo, et qui suit chaque jour l’enlisement catastrophique de la centrale de Fukushima, si loin des jolis visages du Cotentin... Un reportage d’Antoine CHAO. Les émissions de "Là-bas si j’y suis" à réécouter : la série "Fukushima - Hiroshima : un carnet de route dans un Japon qui doute" (mai 2011) "Il ne s’est rien passé à Tricastin" (29 septembre 2008) "Bienvenue à la centrale nucléaire" (29 avril 2011) Programmation musicale : À lire :
Voyage au cœur de la centrale de Fukushima. LE MONDE | • Mis à jour le | Par Pierre Le Hir De l'intérieur, on mesure la démesure du chantier. L'énormité d'une tâche dont on ne sait pas comment des hommes viendront à bout. Bien sûr, on avait vu, revu, les images des réacteurs éventrés, des parois de béton disloquées, des ferrailles tordues. Puis suivi le combat opiniâtre des forçats de l'atome, d'abord pour reprendre le contrôle des installations en perdition, aujourd'hui pour faire baisser leur radioactivité. Mais de près, tout paraît plus gigantesque. Plus inextricable aussi. Pour la première fois, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), gestionnaire de la centrale de Fukushima, a autorisé un groupe de journalistes à pénétrer à l'intérieur du site, lundi 16 décembre, en compagnie de responsables de l'Institut français de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire (IRSN).
Evidemment, Tepco ne montrera pas tout. La visite commence au petit matin, à 20 km au sud de la centrale, à la limite de la zone évacuée. The emergency fuel rod removal at Fuk that took 32 months to even start. How slack. Nuclear authorities will claim it as a great victory though. In March 2011 Reuters and other media outlets reported that the main danger posed by the disaster at Fukushima Diiachi resided in the fuel pools, not the cores in the reactors. Albeit that nuclear experts informed the media of this fact against the assurance of the same nuclear experts that core melts had not occurred, when in fact they knew they had, and so it’s hard to believe anything an expert in these matters says. Still there is more fuel resident in the fuel pools than there is either in a molten ex vessel state or as plastic and overheated fuel in the the vessels. And the fuel pools in the reactor buildings are all open to the air.
The Japanese Nuclear Industry Forum confirms that there were multiple fires in fuel pool number 4 in the days of the initial emergency in March 2011. Throughout the period the world nuclear industry has insisted that the fuel pool in reactor building number 4 was sound and safe. No. En direct: Je suis à FUKUSHIMA et je n’aime pas ce que je vois | En direct de Tokyo, césium arrondissement. 23 octobre 2013, mercredi Je suis arrivée dans la ville de Fukushima (290 000 habitants, à 60km environ de la centrale accidentée de Fukushima-1) hier vers 13 heures, en voiture, de Tokyo.
J'ai pris des relevés de la radioactivité un peu partout pendant notre déplacement sur l'autoroute du Tôhoku. A 145 km de la ville de Fukushima, la radioactivité a commencé à monter. D'abord pas des chiffres énormes mais quand même 3 à 4 fois plus de radioactivité qu'à Tokyo : 0, 219 µSv/h. A Tokyo, les chiffres, dans l'arrondissement où j'habite (Toshima), sont de 0,05 à 0,08 µSv/h. A 135 km de Fukushima, c'est passé à 0,239, puis très vite c'est monté à 0,306, à proximité de la grande ville de Koriyama (330 000 habitants).
A la sortie de l'autoroute, pour entrer dans la ville de Fukushima, nous remarquons que le conducteur du véhicule qui nous précède tend un document au contrôle: une autorisation délivrée aux évacués leur permettant de circuler gratuitement sur l'autoroute. Nous cherchons l'hôtel. ‘Fukushima might make 2020 Tokyo Olympics impossible’ Dr Robert Jacobs, Hiroshima. Researchers at the Hiroshima Peace Institute Name: Robert A. Jacobs Title: Associate Professor Date of Birth: January 21, 1960 Specialization: Global History and Culture of Nuclear Weapons and Warfare, Nuclear Technopolitics, Global Cold War, Hibakusha Studies, War and Peace Studies, Military Colonialism, American Exceptionalism Place of Birth: Miami, Florida, USA There is no reason to believe that radiation leaks at Fukushima will be contained by 2020, so the Tokyo Olympics can become impossible, nuclear technology historian Robert Jacobs told RT.
Last August Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) for the first time requested international help in its increasingly desperate fight to contain the leaks at the crippled nuclear plant. RT: What does this SOS call tell us about the scale of the leaks at the plant? RJ: Nobody knows that. Like this: Like Loading... Doubt over Fukushima safety claims. The World Today - Japan agrees to foreign help with Fukushima 25/09/2013. PETER LLOYD: To nuclear issues of another kind now, and Japan has finally accepted international help to sort out the mess at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
It's agreed to let the French help decommission and dismantle it. Our Tokyo correspondent Mark Willacy says it's a climb-down that signals how little success Japan has had stopping the spread of contaminant since the earthquake two and a half years ago. MARK WILLACY: Well there are a couple of factors, Peter. Firstly, there's been a lot of international attention and consternation, as you'd imagine, about these leaks at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
We've also been told that there was a leak of 300,000 litres of highly radioactive water from a storage tank at the site. So there's not just concern about that in Japan, but there's also concern in neighbouring countries such as South Korea and China. So there's a feeling in the government here in Tokyo that TEPCO needs help to get the plant and its problems in order. PETER LLOYD: Right. Typhoon and earthquake strike Fukushima. Two and a half years ago, the Fukushima Daiichi power facility was knocked out by a tsunami and earthquake. Myriad troubles ensued. Then this week it was hit by a typhoon, flooding, and another earthquake. Can’t a nuclear plant catch a break? On Monday, Typhoon Man-yi smacked into Japan, causing flooding in some parts of the country, and new troubles at Fukushima. From Agence France-Presse: The operator of the leaking Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday that it dumped more than 1,000 tons of polluted water into the sea after a typhoon raked the facility.
…The rain … lashed near the broken plant run by Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), swamping enclosure walls around clusters of water tanks containing toxic water that was used to cool broken reactors. Then, early Friday morning, the Fukushima Prefecture was rocked by a 5.3 magnitude earthquake. The U.S. Even before this latest earthquake, Japan’s government was clearly fed up with the perpetually beleaguered nuclear facility. Fukushima town (Namie) protests PM’s claim.
A Japanese town abandoned after the Fukushima nuclear accident has protested Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s global promise that the situation of the crippled plant was ‘under control’. The town assembly of Namie, half of which sits within the 20-kilometre zone around the nuclear plant, unanimously adopted a statement of protest against Abe’s remarks on Friday, saying his comments went against facts on the ground, the Asahi and the Mainichi papers said on Saturday. The statement said about 300 tons of contaminated water is estimated to be leaking from the plant every day, which is ‘a serious situation’, and that toxic water is ‘far from being controlled or blocked completely,’ the Mainichi quoted the statement as saying. ‘Members of the town cannot help feeling furious at the government and TEPCO which neglected Fukushima,’ the statement reportedly said, referring to Tokyo Electric Power, the company that runs the plant. Sky News, Updated: 20:34, Saturday September 21, 2013 Like this:
Crown Prince, Princess visit disaster evacuees in Fukushima. KORIYAMA, FUKUSHIMA PREF. – Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako took a day trip to Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Sunday to visit people who lost their homes in March 2011 because of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis. Notification You’ve reached your story limit as a non-registered user.
To read more, please sign up or log in via one of the services below. This will give you access to 15 additional stories this month. FUKUSHIMA CRIME CONTRE L'HUMANITE. Fukushima is not Chernobyl? Don’t be so sure. Fukushima City, view from the train station, Nov. 2012. The March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami caused the deaths of approximately 16,000 persons, left more than 6,000 injured and 2,713 missing, destroyed or partially damaged nearly one million buildings, and produced at least $14.5 billion in damages. The earthquake also caused a triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Japan’s eastern coast. After reading the first news reports about what the Japanese call “3.11,” I immediately drew associations between the accident in Fukushima and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 in what was then the Soviet Union. This was only natural, since studying the cultural fallout of Chernobyl has been part of my life’s work as an anthropologist for the past 17 years.
Bullet train, symbol of Japanese modernity, entering Fukushima station. “No one knows what really happened here” I traveled through northeast Japan with an esteemed group of scholars: Dr. Review of our Roadmap towards Decommissioning, etc. of Units 1-4 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
We are currently in the midst of implementing decommissioning measures based on the "Mid-to-long Term Roadmap towards the Decommissioning of Units 1-4 of TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station" established at the Government-TEPCO Mid-and-long Term Response Council*1. We would like to announce that our roadmap towards decommissioning will be reviewed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The review by the IAEA will be performed in response to a request from the Japanese government for the purpose of conducting an evaluation and obtaining advice on how to maintain stable reactor conditions, leakage prevention of contaminated water, and controlling the release of radioactive materials, etc. which are critical to the process of implementing measures towards decommissioning based on the mid-to-long term roadmap.
The review will be performed from April 15 to April 22, 2013 by the IAEA and experts from each country*2. Fukushima nuclear plant still 'unstable', regulator says. 2 September 2013Last updated at 17:02 GMT Contaminated water may have to be filtered and dumped in the ocean, officials say The crisis at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant "has not ended", the country's nuclear watchdog has warned, saying the situation there is "unstable".
Watchdog chief Shunichi Tanaka also accused the plan's operator of careless management during the crisis. He added that it may not be possible to avoid dumping some contaminated water into the ocean. The comments come a day before the Japanese government is due to unveil plans to rescue the clean-up operation. Mr Tanaka's comments come after Fukushima's operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), said radiation levels near one tank were 18 times higher than previously thought. However, Mr Tanaka said that reports that this level of radiation could be lethal to workers after four hours of exposure were exaggerated. "Supposing the figure of 1,800 millisieverts per hour is correct, it is beta radiation. "A Fukushima, les solutions mises en œuvre ne sont qu'un pis-aller" Le Monde.fr | • Mis à jour le | Propos recueillis par Pierre Le Hir Directeur général adjoint de l’Institut de radioprotection et de sureté nucléaire (IRSN), en charge de la radioprotection, Jérôme Joly décrypte la situation de la centrale nucléaire japonaise de Fukushima, où a été annoncée une fuite de 300 tonnes d’eau radioactive provenant d’un réservoir de stockage.
Lire : Fukushima : la dernière fuite de réservoir classée en "incident grave" L’Autorité japonaise de régulation du nucléaire (ARN) a classé, mercredi 21 août, au niveau 3 – celui d’incident "grave" – une fuite d’eau contaminée dans la centrale de Fukushima. Quelle est la nature exacte de cette fuite ? Jérôme Joly : Le séisme et le tsunami du 11 mars 2011 qui ont provoqué la catastrophe de Fukushima ont aussi mis hors service tout le système de drainage des eaux du site nucléaire. C’est d’un de ces réservoirs que s’est échappée de l’eau contaminée, dans un volume d’environ 300 tonnes selon l’autorité de contrôle japonaise. Deux ans d'impuissance et d'incidents à Fukushima. Le Monde.fr | • Mis à jour le | Par Audrey Garric Depuis le 11 mars 2011, les incidents, en particulier les fuites d'eau radioactive, se sont multipliés dans la centrale accidentée. 11 mars 2011 A 14 h 46 heure locale, se produit un séisme de magnitude 9, le plus important jamais mesuré au Japon.
L'épicentre est situé au large du nord-est du Japon, à 130 km des côtes. Un tsunami survient cinquante minutes plus tard, qui déferle sur la côte orientale du pays. Construite pour résister à des phénomènes moins importants, la centrale de Fukushima-Daiichi est entièrement dévastée et les systèmes de secours pour le refroidissement du cœur des réacteurs cessent de fonctionner. 12 au 14 mars 2011 Des explosions vont toucher successivement les réacteurs 1, 3, puis 2. 1er – 6 avril 2011 520 m3 d'eau contaminée, ayant servi au refroidissement du réacteur 2, s'écoulent dans l'océan.
Fin juin 2011 Tepco estime stocker plus de 100 000 tonnes d'eau contaminée ayant servi à refroidir les réacteurs. Mai 2012. 2tb-east_130706-j. Protesters greet ship carrying mixed-oxide fuel from France. TAKAHAMA, Fukui Prefecture--About 100 protesters shouted anti-nuclear slogans as the first shipment of mixed-oxide fuel since the meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant arrived in Japan on June 27. The 7,000-ton Pacific Egret, escorted by 10 or so coast guard and police vessels, appeared through the mist in Uchiura Bay in front of Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture at 6:30 a.m.
The British-registered ship, carrying mixed-oxide fuel processed in France, docked at a port on the plant premises at 7 a.m. The fuel was in a 6.2-meter-long metal container that weighed 100 tons. Helicopters and aircraft from media organizations hovered overhead while protesters criticized plans to resume plutonium-thermal (pluthermal) power generation using the fuel. Mixed-oxide fuel, which contains plutonium extracted from spent nuclear fuel, is fed to a light water reactor for pluthermal power generation, a key part of Japan’s nuclear fuel recycling program. Mystery objects with high radiation found on Fukushima coast. Fukushima, cette crise que le monde voudrait oublier - Page 2. Melted fuel removal at Fukushima plant seen optimistically starting in 2020. TEPCO unable to foot the Fukushima bill | Asia | DW.DE | 14.08.
Fukushima clean-up turns toxic for Japan's Tepco. Fukushima radiation levels as high as 2011. A slight query on the Australian newspaper article “Fukushima….Back from the Brink” Japon : la femme de Shinzo Abe lui demande d'oublier le nucléaire. Mai 2013 : Nucléaire et crise de la démocratie au Japon. Rice crops sown in Fukushima Evacuation Zone. New documentary shows plight of Fukushima nuclear plant evacuees.
TEPCO to dump groundwater to ease crisis at Fukushima nuclear plant. Japanese court acknowledges radiation risk, still rejects evacuation demand. Fukushima is not Chernobyl? Don’t be so sure. By Sarah Phillips. Japon : « Les problèmes de thyroïde s’étendent à tout le pays » Les blessures tenaces de Fukushima. A Fukushima, des "nettoyeurs" irradiés et sous-payés. Fukushima: les forçats du nucléaire nettoient toujours la centrale. Thyroid cancer risk for Fukushima workers. Fukushima No. 1 faces labor crunch as better jobs attract workers. Records underestimate radiation exposure in Fukushima workers.
Fukushima : 2 000 travailleurs exposés à un cancer de la thyroïde.
Fuite de vapeur suspecte (juillet et décembre 2013) Fukushima: Arrêt brutal du refroidissement de la piscine du réacteur 3. Photos - Street View offre une visite virtuelle de Namie, en pleine zone contaminée de Fukushima. Mars 2013 : Fukushima deux ans après : entre le déni et l'oubli. Japan urged to send out global SOS over No. 1 plant - The Japan Times. Retour à Fukushima. Deux ans après, la société japonaise encore en pleine fission. Bridget Kyoto de retour de Fukushima. WE Japon - Fukushima. Fukushima deux ans après, l’histoire à vif. 9 mars 2013 : chaîne humaine pour l'arrêt du nucléaire civil et militaire. Le Japon à l'arrêt, deux ans après le séisme et le tsunami du 11 mars. Deux ans après Fukushima, débattons enfin du nucléaire! VIDEO. Manifestations antinucléaires au Japon, deux ans après Fukushima - Sciences. Une chaîne humaine à Paris pour réclamer l'arrêt du nucléaire civil et militaire.
Fukushima: le Japon se recueille. Deux ans après Fukushima, la France a-t-elle changé sa vision du nucléaire? Après-Fukushima, qu'est-ce qui a changé dans les centrales françaises ? - Sciences.
Deux ans après, le désastre de Fukushima. Fukushima, deux ans après, retour à l’anormal. Ask Umbra: What can Fukushima teach us? Radioactive mud in Fukushima school pools tops 100,000 becquerels. Fukushima operators admit radioactive water is leaking into Pacific. Revoir en replay et en streaming "Le monde d'après" - Le Monde d'après. L'autorité nucléaire japonaise va soumettre au public son projet de nouvelles normes.