Posted on 03/29/2011 7:52:59 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
French Nuke Fuel Firm Head, 5 Experts To Visit Japan To Offer Aid
PARIS (Kyodo)--A French nuclear fuel company said Tuesday its president is about to visit Japan with five of the country's nuclear experts to tackle the crisis at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, according to Radio France.
Anne Lauvergeon, president of Areva SA, and the experts are expected to offer assistance in removing contaminated water accumulating inside nuclear reactors at the plant in northeastern Japan, a task currently considered to be of the highest importance as the water has been hindering restoration work.
According to the radio, the five specialize in the removal of radioactive contaminants and in the management of nuclear waste storage pools.
Lauvergeon will visit Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on Wednesday before meeting with top officials of the plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co., the radio reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at e.nikkei.com ...
Looks like they’re getting the best of the best. A bit late, but the French may just save them.
Much of the work will have to be done with robotics regardless of who supplies the expertise. It is a huge complicated mess with many unknowns still.
thanks TigerLikesRooster.
It’s so nice to see America not out in front on every little thing anymore. I’m so proud of my country now.
the latest is that they are thinking of putting special cloth over the reactors to try to keep the radiation from spreading
What kind of magic cloth is going to do that!!!
Id say it should have been sooner and not sure the saying Better late than never applies here.
Things that had to be in consideration ten days ago are only now being explored.
The desperation moves were apparent with the helicopter water drops.
Radioactive Iodine-131 is 3300% above federal drinking water standard in PA. Maybe the magic cloth will help reduce that in the future ;-)
The management of TEPCO is clearly taking too long to make decisions. I think at this point, Japanese culture is working against them.
When I visited Japan, the sense I got from engineers is that a) they’re not terribly valuable employees of a company, b) an engineer who is seen as successful is a guy who comes up with a product that costs $0.50, sells for $10 and every teenage girl wants one, c) out-of-the-box ideas are not welcomed by management. There is no such thing as an “open door” policy. Big/New ideas were supposed to follow a chain of command, and such idea paths were very slow - so slow we ended up just washing our hands of co-operation with them.
At one point in a meeting, one of my counterparts said that they needed to ask their management a question. I suggested that it was early in the day, couldn’t we just phone him up and *ask* said question? We (the US and Canadian engineers) were going to be in the country for only one more day, and the course of our relationship was going to change completely based on the outcome of this (and a couple other) questions. We were just trying to get things nailed down...
You should have seen the look on the other side of the table. You would have thought I just suggested torturing a child for the answer.
Think of all the radio waves, microwave transmissions, cell phone signals, TV signals, etc, etc that hit us. On a time weighted exposure average there must be a cummulative effect. And there is plenty of radioactive material in water that is for sure. Still, nothing is on the order of what is taking place in Japan around those reactors.
Hello Kitty, Tomagachi, Pokemon, and cute cellphone games(such as feeding your virtual pet.) LOL.
out-of-the-box ideas are not welcomed by management.
I read an article about Russian/Ukrainian engineer(now at IAEA) who work for the cleanup of Chernobyl reactor. He said bring such crisis under control need out-of-the-box ideas, creative and imaginative. And high degree of improvisation. None of them is shown in the current episode. He should have been on the scene from the day one.
You should have seen the look on the other side of the table.
Doing that is tantamount to backing the boss into a corner and demanding an answer while pointing a gun at him.:-)
cell phones causing cancer, etc.
I was waiting for the terrorists to take advantage of this nuke incident.
probably a hoax..but still achieving their goal
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/03/29/threats-claim-nuclear-bombs-hidden-all-over-u-s/
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