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TEPCO to cut power bills, restart nuclear plant
Tokyo Electric Power Company is drawing up a business plan to cut electricity rates by restarting all the reactors at a nuclear power plant in central Japan.
TEPCO raised the rates to cover its losses after the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011. The increases averaged about 8.5 percent for households, and 17 percent for businesses.
But the plan TEPCO is drawing up includes reactivating all seven reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture over the next several years. The utility wants to show that it will be able to reduce electricity bills through the full-scale resumption of operations. All nuclear reactors at the plant are now offline.
TEPCO also plans to slash fuel costs by replacing old thermal power plants with more efficient facilities.
Industry sources say the utility could lower electricity rates in stages if it can realize the resumption. They say the rate cuts would total about 10 billion dollars a year in 10 years.
TEPCO plans to finalize the business program by the end of the year.
Dec. 16, 2013 - Updated 12:13 UTC
A monitoring post on the perimeter of the plant about 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) from the No. 1 reactor went off at 3:29 p.m., minutes before the station was overwhelmed by the tsunami that knocked out backup power that kept reactor cooling systems running, according to documents supplied by the company. The monitor was set to go off at high levels of radiation, an official said.
“We are still investigating whether the monitoring post was working properly,” said Teruaki Kobayashi, the company’s head of nuclear facility management. “There is a possibility that radiation leaked before the tsunami arrived.” Kobayashi said he didn’t have the exact radiation reading that would trigger the sensor.
Alekto
Hi wishes.
I applaud you. It's a phenomenal rant you posted earlier but the reactor was hit by not one but two once-in-a-lifetime natural disasters,simultaneously and didn't explode. It's probably safe to chalk that one up as a win. And wasn't the only person killed due to a propane explosion or something?
The Fukushima plant survived a whole gamut of events just to be done in by stupidly placed backup generators that aren't even necessary in newer designs. Seriously, the plant exceeded it's design spec in many ways.
It WAS secure against earthquakes.edit on 20-12-2013 by Alekto because: (no reason given)
wishes
. For the record, I personally am not convinced either one was a natural disaster.
Alekto
wishes
. For the record, I personally am not convinced either one was a natural disaster.
I'm sorry. You're not convinced that a magnitude 7.1 Mw intraplate aftershock occurred?
The first thing you need to know is that the attack was planned many years before it happened. The Japanese business magazine Zaikai Tembo, citing a CIA report, wrote in February of 2007 that the US had decided that Japan was getting too much of its energy from nuclear power and that if that trend continued, Japan would no longer be dependent on US controlled oil and thus would no longer have to obey the US. The conclusion of the report was that the best way to ensure Japan remained a colony would be to destroy the Tokyo Electric Power company, the people who ran the Fukushima plant.
Senator J. Rockefeller, whose family controls (through foundations) General Electric, the manufacturers of the plant, was deeply involved in this operation. As a preliminary to destroying Japan’s nuclear power generation capability, Westinghouse and General Electric sold their nuclear power plant manufacturing businesses to Toshiba and Hitachi. This was insider trading at the highest level and Hitachi and Toshiba should sue.
The ongoing attempt in recent years by an Asian secret society to wrest control of global finance from Western oligarch families is a bigger back-ground to the Fukushima sub-plot. For example, Democratic Party of Japan Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa was asked at a G7 meeting to hand over $100 billion to the cabal. He answered that he would raise the money by selling $100 billion worth of US Treasury bonds. He was going to say this at the press conference that followed the G7 meeting so he was drugged to prevent him from doing so. Later, when he returned to Japan, he was murdered by CIA death squads.
Getting back to Fukushima, the refusal of the Japanese Democratic Party and authorities to hand over any real hard currency to the Western Oligarch families, resulted in the decision to go ahead with the Fukushima operation as a way of intimidating the Japanese once again into surrender and obedience.
In any case, Japanese authorities failed to react to our warnings and the bomb was loaded onto the deep sea drilling ship Chikyu. Local news reports place the Chikyu drilling into the seabed off-shore from Sendai in the months before the March 11, 2011 Tsunami and nuclear terror attack against Japan.
Furthermore, multiple witnesses have come forth to testify that the Prime Minister Naoto Kan was seen inside the Japan Freemason headquarters building near Tokyo tower on the day before the 311 attack. He was being shown a map of Japan missing the Tohoku region where the tsunami it.
The Israeli company Magna BSP was in charge of security at the Fukushima nuclear plant at the time. A Miyagi prefectural government official says employees of this company loaded plutonium into the plant against his will in the months before 311.
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pheonix358
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Wishes, nice story but!
All over the world, seismic stations recorded the earth quake. If it was triggered by a nuke, I am damn sure the readouts would have shown it. They would look different. Sorry, I don't buy it.
It is a step way too far.
Of course, I will keep a somewhat open mind if you have more supporting research.
P
I know nothing about readouts for quakes/underwater nukes. "Can" readouts determine the difference or would they look similar? Could they detonate a series of small nukes to mimic an earthquake? I don't know - and the main reason why I'm not interested in pursuing answers to this is the time it would take and difference it would not make... we are still 'here' with Fukushima doing what it's doing regardless of how it started...
jadedANDcynical
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I know nothing about readouts for quakes/underwater nukes. "Can" readouts determine the difference or would they look similar? Could they detonate a series of small nukes to mimic an earthquake? I don't know - and the main reason why I'm not interested in pursuing answers to this is the time it would take and difference it would not make... we are still 'here' with Fukushima doing what it's doing regardless of how it started...
Yes, seismographs can display the difference between a quake and a nuke. I don't have time at the moment, but if you look for the latest North Korean nuke test seismosaurus and compare it to the 9.1 that produced the fukshima disaster, you can see a significant difference in the waveforms; and they are likely on differen scales too.
The 9.1 released more energy than every other quake that year combined. It was one HELL of an earthquake, though according to my latest research it was not a subduction event.edit on 21-12-2013 by jadedANDcynical because: Typos
Sk8ergrl
While the Japs have their parties and celebrate holidays our mother Earth is being severely burnt
wishes
So what I just did was send a message to Mr. Fulford and asked him if it was a nuclear detonation that set off the earthquake and tsunami how the seismo signatures would have been made to make it look like earthquakes and not underground explosions... We'll see if he reads... and then responds... in the next couple weeks. He lives in Japan and has a lot of connections so I'd say he's at least in a position to have insider knowledge.
I don't know a lot about the guy,just came across his stuff a few weeks ago - but he's an extremely prolific investigative writer, has written several books in Japanese, is very well connected (comes from a Canadian political/diplomatic family), and speaks several languages. Doesn't mean everything thing he says is 'absolutely correct' - however it does tell me this guy's story is well worth considering no matter how far out there it may seem. There are so many videos and interviews online, would take weeks to go through them all...
Is the idea that it was not a subduction event remotely suspect for that magnitude of an earthquake?