July 2014

          The European Union is a political entity made up of 28 mostly European nations. It has a currency based on the Euro, a parliament, a court, a bank and other departments. Member nations have surrendered some of their autonomy in return for the benefits of membership. There are one hundred and thirty two operating nuclear power reactors in fourteen of the member countries.

My Geiger counter is in the shop for maintenance.

Cesium-134/137 density in tap water is higher in Tokyo than Miyagi prefecture, where is next to Fukushima prefecture, according to NRA Nuclear Regulation Authority. Fukushima-diary.com

Decontamination soil bags are already starting to be torn in Fukushima. Fukushima-diary.com

The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) will give a stamp of safety approval as early as July 9 to two idled reactors at the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant in Kagoshima Prefecture, paving the way for Kyushu Electric Power Co.

         Today is the Fourth of July. We celebrate the successful American Revolution that won our independence. Psychologists say that independence is one of the most important things to human beings. The ability to determine the course of our own lives and make our own choices is one of the things we brag about with respect to the United States.

My Geiger counter is in the shop for maintenance.

On 5/20/2014, the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism published a report about radioactive contamination of Tokyo sewage sludge. fukushima-diary.com

         Nulcear waste disposal is a great unsolved problem. Geological repositories have been created by some nations but some have had to be closed because of unanticipated problems. In the U.S., years were spent working on a Yucca Mountain repository in Nevada before the project was cancelled in 1999. The best current estimate is that there will be no permanent geological repository in the U.S. before 2050.