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jrepin (667425) writes Version 3.3 of Kolab.org, a free and open source groupware solution, has been released. It is now possible to add tags to email messages, work with notes right in the webclient, and manage your resources more easily. Kolab.org 3.3 introduces a new folder navigation view that allows you to search and subscribe to shared calendars, address books, task lists etc. directly from within the respective view. The calendar got a quickview mode which allows you to open an undistorted view on a single calendar. The user interface can now be fully operated with the keyboard and has support for screen readers as well as voice output as suggested by the WCAG 2.0 Guidelines and WAI ARIA standards.

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Sometimes the name really does say it all. Calendar for Android Wear is a simplistic calendar that people with Android Wear watches can strap to their wrists. It shows the date, keeps track of events, and comes in one of five colors. The app doesn't do much else, but in this case, that's attractive.

  

The app's usefulness is limited out of the box, as users are restricted to a monthly view and must pay a single in-app purchase of roughly $2 to get access to the daily view with details.

[New App] Calendar For Android Wear Is A Basic, Colorful Calendar For Those Wearable Android Devices was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

An anonymous reader writes "A report from the European Space Agency shows the first collection of high-resolution results from the agency's three-satellite Swarm. The report illustrates the latest changes in the Earth's magnetic field and shows the movement of the magnetic North Pole. "Launched in November 2013, ESA's Swarm mission consists of three 9-meter satellites orbiting the planet at altitudes of 300-530 km (186-330 miles). Their goal is to monitor Earth's dynamic magnetic field, observing its changes over a period of four years. The data gathered by the Swarm satellites will help scientists better understand how our magnetic field works, how it's influenced by solar activity, and why large parts of it are found to be weakening.""

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Radiation-stalling 'ice wall' will be built under Fukushima Wired.co.uk A power company is due to start building an "ice wall" under the Fukushima nuclear power plant next month in order to stall the spread of contaminated underground water. The move, given the okay by the national Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), comes ...

An anonymous reader writes "Reuters reports that Apple and Google's Motorola Mobility unit are settling all patent lawsuits over smartphone tech. The settlement 'does not include a cross license to their respective patents,' and the companies will work together for patent reform. According to Reuters, 'The two companies informed a federal appeals court in Washington that the cases should be dismissed, according to filings on Friday. However, the deal does not appear to apply to Apple's litigation against Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, as no dismissal notices were filed in those cases. The most high-profile case between Apple and Motorola began in 2010. Motorola accused Apple of infringing several patents, including one essential to how cell phones operate on a 3G network, while Apple said Motorola violated its patents to certain smartphone features.'"

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New submitter ghack writes "NuScale power, a small nuclear power company in Corvallis Oregon, has won a Department of Energy grant of up to $226 million dollars to enable deployment of their small modular reactor. The units would be factory built in the United States, and their small size enables a number of potential niche applications. NuScale argues that their design includes a number of unique passive safety features: 'NuScale's 45-megawatt reactor, which can be grouped with others to form a utility-scale plant, would sit in a 5 million-gallon pool of water underground. That means it needs no pumps to inject water to cool it in an emergency - an issue ... highlighted by Japan's crippled Fukushima plant.' This was the second of two DOE small modular reactor grants; the first was awarded to Babcock and Wilcox, a stalwart in the nuclear industry."

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A little over four years ago, I attended the first Crowdsourcing meetup at the offices of Crowdflower (then called Dolores Labs). The crowdsourcing community has grown explosively since that initial gathering, and there are now conference tracks and conferences devoted …

According to Tepco, 7m3 of the highly contaminated water “leaked” from a water treatment facility on 10/9/2013.

6 workers were exposed to the “leaked” contaminated water. At this moment, still one of the workers are in the process of decontaminating the feet.

The “leaked” water was before the process of desalination, which contain high level of all β nuclide (including Strontium-90).

All β nuclide density was 34,000,000,000 Bq/m3. Cs-134 density was 390,000 Bq/m3, Cs-137 density was 1,300,000 Bq/m3.

A sub-contract worker removed a pipe to cause the “leakage”.

 

http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/2013/1231282_5117.html

http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/2013/1231286_5117.html

http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/2013/1231287_5117.html

http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/2013/1231289_5117.html

http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/2013/1231291_5117.html

 

 

 

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“Fuite” de 7 m³ de radioactivité β à 34 milliards de Bq/m³ : 6 travailleurs exposés

 

Selon Tepco, 7 m³ d’eau extrêmement radioactive a fuit d’un appareillage de traitement ce 9 octobre 2013.
6 travailleurs ont été exposés à cette “fuite” d’eau extrêmement radioactive. Pour l’instant, un seul des 6 se fait décontaminer les pieds. L’eau de “la fuite” vient d’avant le début de la désalinisation, elle contient une très haute radioactivité β (dont le strontium 90).
La radioactivité en β était à 34 000 000 000 Bq/m³ (34 milliards), celle en césium 134 à 390 000 Bq/m³, celle du Cs-137 à 1 300 000 Bq/m³.
La “fuite” a été provoquée par le démontage d’un tuyau par un sous-traitant.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/2013/1231282_5117.html
http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/2013/1231286_5117.html
http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/2013/1231287_5117.html
http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/2013/1231289_5117.html
http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/2013/1231291_5117.html

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Following up this article.. 7 m3 of 34,000,000,000 Bq/m3 of all β water “leaked” / 6 workers exposed on the bodies [URL]

 

The Fukushima worker “Happy11311″ commented on Twitter that the accident was unacceptably “low level”.

On the other hand, the radiation level of the leaked water was significantly high because they only removed γ nuclides before the leaking process. He stated β dose can be nearly 1 Sv/h.

Those 6 workers had the water over their heads.

Also, the contaminated water is retained so high that their feet are dipped up to the ankles. Tepco announced it’s only a few cm deep, which contradicts the worker’s statement.

 

https://twitter.com/Happy11311/status/387834874859503616

https://twitter.com/Happy11311/status/387834821214367744

 

 

Iori Mochizuki

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[6 ouvriers exposés] le travailleur de Fukushima : “La dose en β de l’eau était à 1 Sv/h / les 6 en ont eu sur la tête”

 

Article lié : “Fuite” de 7 m³ de radioactivité β à 34 milliards de Bq/m³ : 6 travailleurs exposés

Le travailleur de Fukushima “Happy11311″ a déclaré sur Twitter que l’accident est scandaleusement classé en “bas niveau”.
D’un autre côté, la radioactivité de l’eau qui a fuit est sérieusement élevée parce qu’ils n’avaient filtré que les γ-nucléides avant la fuite. Il affirme que la dose en β peut voisiner les 1 Sv/h.
Ces 6 travailleurs ont pris cette eau sur leur têtes.
En outre, les eaux extrêmement radioactives sont tellement bloquées qu’ils en avaient jusqu’aux chevilles. Tepco a déclaré que ça n’est que sur quelques centimètres de haut, ce qui est en contradiction avec ce qu’en dit le travailleur.

https://twitter.com/Happy11311/status/387834874859503616
https://twitter.com/Happy11311/status/387834821214367744

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The Japan Daily Press

Japan PM seeks overseas help on Fukushima leak USA TODAY TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday that Japan is open to receiving overseas help to contain widening radioactive water leaks at the crippled nuclear plant in Fukushima, with leaks and mishaps reported almost daily. Abe made the ... Abe seeks more foreign help in containing Fukushima crisisGlobalPost PM Abe says Japan 'open to receive' international assistance at FukushimaThe Japan Daily Press Japan welcomes help over FukushimaPress TV all 48 news articles »

Straight.com

Cancer risk linked to radiation levels in fish species after Fukushima Straight.com Two-and-a-half years after Fukushima, many fish species still have highly elevated amounts of radioactive cesium from the stricken plant, including species that Japan exports to Canada, according to the Japanese Fisheries Agency's tests on fish catches.

On 9/20/2013 (JST), M5.8 of the earthquake hit Fukushima plant area.

Tepco was reporting the plant parameters showed no abnormality, but on 10/4/2013, they announced it was observed that the water volume to inject into reactor2 was increased from 1.8 to 2.0 m3/h after the earthquake.

According to Tepco, it wasn’t operated manually. Also, the water volume is not designed to be in sync with the temperature or the pressure inside of the reactor. Tepco stated probably it had something to do with the earthquake.

 

http://www.tepco.co.jp/tepconews/library/movie-01j.html

 

 

Iori Mochizuki

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Le dernier séisme M5,8 a perturbé la centrale : le volume des eaux de refroidissement du réacteur 2 a “spontanément” augmenté

 

Le 20 septembre 2013 (JST), un séisme de magnitude 5,8 avait frappé la région de la centrale de Fukushima.

Tepco avait rapporté que les paramètres de la centrale ne présentaient aucune anomalie mais le 4 octobre 2013 ils déclarent qu’ils ont observé que le volume d’eau à injecter dans le réacteur 2 était passé de 1,8 à 2,0 m³/h après le séisme.
Selon Tepco, ça n’a pas été changé manuellement. En outre, le volume d’eau n’est pas conçu pour rester synchrone avec la température ou la pression dans le réacteur. Tepco affirme que c’est sans doute lié au séisme.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/tepconews/library/movie-01j.html

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BBC News

Water 6700 times more radioactive than legal limit spills from Fukushima NBCNews.com (blog) ... Yamamoto and Alexander Smith, NBC News. TOKYO -- Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has suffered yet another leak, spilling out 430 liters of contaminated water thousands of times more radioactive than legal limits, its operator said Thursday. Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant operator says another tank leaked toxic waterReuters Another Fukushima mishap leaks highly radioactive water into PacificThe Verge Fukushima Nuclear Plant Reports Another Radioactive Water Leak (VIDEO)Huffington Post BBC News -Bloomberg -Straight.com all 215 news articles »

It’s been only 2 years and 6 months. However, Fukushima decommissioning is already falling apart.

It’s starting from the contaminated water storage. As long as they keep giving water to the reactors, it must increase. Now it’s already beyond Tepco’s capacity.

Having the third typhoon season after 311, the contaminated water system is starting to be collapsed.

I cannot even imagine what would happen, but I listed up the three potential results. All of them are likely.

 

1. Simultaneous leakages

 

The cause of 300m3 leakage hasn’t been identified yet. They have 350 tanks of the same type in the plant. According to the makers, some of them don’t even last for 5 years. However, there is no spare storage. All we could do is just to pray.

Even only for a Typhoon, Tepco required 2,100 workers. If those tanks (in Plural) start leaking at once, they are not capable to treat them. This is the water version of 311 Ⅱ.

 

2. Lack of the storage

 

At least 400m3 of contaminated groundwater flows to the plant. However, Tepco doesn’t have a plan to construct the new welded tanks after this October.

It takes 2 months to build the tank, but it is estimated they will run out of the storage this November ~ December. They can’t even find the land to build the new tanks.

 

3. Past radiation measurement readings might be all false

 

NRA (Nuclear Regulation Authority) has been pointing out Tepco’s radiation data doesn’t make sense. It shows no rational trends, and Tepco has no logical explanation for that. NRA plans to send inspectors to the analyzing site.

Whether Tepco was intentionally trying to downplay the contamination level, “a part of (I hope not ALL)” their past data may be thought to be false based on the wrong means of analysis.

 

 

Iori Mochizuki

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[Édito] La gestion Tepco des eaux extrêmement radioactives a commencé à s’effondrer

 

C’était il y a seulement deux ans et 6 mois et le démantèlement de Fukushima part déjà en poussière.
C’est parti du stockage des eaux extrêmement radioactives. Elles ne pourront que s’accumuler tant qu’ils continueront de mettre de l’eau dans les réacteurs. On est à présent au-delà des capacités de Tepco.
La gestion des eaux extrêmement radioactives amorce son effondrement sur la troisième saison des typhons depuis le 11-3.
Je ne peux même pas imaginer ce qui va se passer mais j’ai énuméré des conséquences possibles, toutes équiprobables :

1. Fuites simultanées

La raison de la fuite des 300 m³ n’est toujours pas déterminée. Ils ont 350 citernes du même type dans la centrale. Selon le fabriquant, certaines ne tiennent même pas 5 ans. Or, il n’y a pas de stockage de secours. Tout ce qu’on peut faire c’est prier.
Pour un seul typhon, Tepco mobilise même 2 100 salariés. Si ces citernes (au pluriel) commencent à fuir en même temps, ils ne seront pas capables de les tenir. C’est la version aqueuse du 11-3.

2. Pénurie de stockage

Au moins 400 m³ d’eaux souterraines extrêmement radioactives s’écoulent dans la centrale chaque jour. Or, Tepco ne prévoit plus de construction de citernes soudées à partir de ce mois d’octobre.
l faut 2 mois pour monter une citerne et on estime atteindre la pénurie complète courant novembre-décembre. Ils n’arrivent même pas à trouver d’emplacement pour monter les nouvelles.

3. Les anciens relevés de radioactivité pourraient tous être faux

La NRA (Nuclear Regulation Authority =  Autorité de Régulation du Nucléaire) a mis en avant que les données de Tepco sur la radioactivité ne sont pas pertinentes. Elles ne montrent aucune tendance logique et Tepco n’en donne aucune explication rationnelle. La NRA prévoit d’envoyer des inspecteurs sur leur site d’analyse.
Que Tepco ait intentionnellement tenté de minimiser la radioactivité ou non, “une partie” de leurs données (j’espère que ce n’est pas toutes) peuvent se révéler fausses à cause de protocoles et appareils d’analyse inadaptés.

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FUKUSHIMA WATER CRISIS: Japan should request international collaboration ... Asahi Shimbun VIENNA--Japan should stop working alone and seek international collaboration in dealing with the problem of radiation-contaminated water at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, Yukiya Amano, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency ...

According to Tepco, Tritium density of groundwater has been continuously increasing since they started the measurement last week.

The location is between groundwater bypass wells and the tank that experienced 300m3 leakage. If this increase is caused by the leaked contaminated water, it’s flowing to the groundwater bypass to be discharged to the Pacific.

The reading was 290,000 Bq/m3 on 9/28/2013, and it became 1,700,000 Bq/m3 on 10/1/2013. It jumped up 6 times much as 3 days before.

 

 

 

↓ Sampling location

 

http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/around_h4_13100101-j.pdf

http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/south_discharge_130930-2-j.pdf

http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/south_discharge_130929-2-j.pdf

http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/south_discharge_130928-2-j.pdf

http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/south_discharge_130927-2-j.pdf

 

 

Iori Mochizuki

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A l’Est de la citerne des 300 m³, la radioactivité en tritium des eaux souterraines continue d’augmenter / En route vers la dérivation

 

Selon Tepco, la radioactivité en tritium des eaux souterraines a continuellement augmenté depuis qu’ils en ont commencé les mesures la semaine dernière.

C’est situé entre les forages de la dérivation des eaux souterraines et la citerne qui a connu la fuite de 300 m³. Si cette augmentation est due à ces eaux extrêmement radioactives, elles se dirigent vers les puits de forage de la dérivation qui les envoient directement dans le Pacifique.

Le relevé était à 290 000 Bq/m³ le 28 septembre 2013, il est passé à 1,7 millions ce 1^er octobre. C’est multiplié par 6 en seulement 3 jours.

↓ Lieux d’échantillonnages

http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/around_h4_13100101-j.pdf
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/south_discharge_130930-2-j.pdf
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/south_discharge_130929-2-j.pdf
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/south_discharge_130928-2-j.pdf
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/south_discharge_130927-2-j.pdf

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Following up this article.. NRA “Tepco’s nuclide analysis may have a significant error” [URL]

 

On 9/30/2013, Nuclear Regulation Authority commented they are planning to send inspectors to Tepco’s radiation measurement site in the working group meeting for the contaminated water in Fukushima nuclear plant.

 

NRA has been doubting the reliability of Tepco’s nuclide analysis. Also, in mid September, Tepco discharged the “rainwater” retained in the tank areas due to the Typhoon. However, they took only 5 minutes to analyze Cesium-134/137 of the sample to check if it’s really rainwater, which NRA found questionable about the quality.

NRA commented the inspectors from Nuclear Regulatory Agency are going to see them analyzing the samples actually.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8eT6fe8WSk

 

 

Iori Mochizuki

You can ignore the truth but the truth won’t ignore you.

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Le gouvernement JP doute de la fiabilité des relevés de radioactivité de Tepco / L’Agence de Régulation du Nucléaire envoie des inspecteurs

 

Article lié : NRA : “Les analyses de radioactivité de Tepco peuvent comporter de graves erreurs”

Le 30 septembre 2013 au cours de la réunion du groupe de travail sur les eaux extrêmement radioactives de la centrale nucléaire de Fukushima, la Nuclear Regulation Authority a déclaré qu’ils prévoyaient d’envoyer des inspecteurs sur le site de mesure de la radioactivité de Tepco.

La NRA doute de la fiabilité des analyses des nucléides de Tepco. En outre, mi-septembre, Tepco a déversé les “eaux de pluie” accumulées dans les zones des citernes après le typhon. Il ne leur a cependant fallu que 5 minutes pour analyser le césium 134/137 de leur échantillon pour décider si c’était vraiment de l’eau de pluie, ce que la NRA trouve douteux en qualité.
La NRA a déclaré que des inspecteurs de la Nuclear Regulatory Agency allaient les rencontrer pour voir comment ils font effectivement leurs analyses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8eT6fe8WSk

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On 9/16/2013, Tepco had to discharge the “rainwater” retained in the tank areas due to the Typhoon.

(cf, Tepco discharged “rainwater” retained in 7 tank areas due to the Typhoon [URL])

Even on 10/1/2013, they failed in transferring the “rainwater” and caused a notch tank to overflow.

(cf, Tepco “Transferred retained water to a backup tank before overflowing” → The backup tank overflowed [URL 2])

 

However, Tepco was asserting the local dam to surround the tank areas wouldn’t overflow for most of the rains.

They stated it rains so heavily that they have to discharge water only once in ten years from looking at the past weather data.

Having said it happens only once in ten years, it actually happened next month.

Nuclear Regulation Authority commented that in the working group meeting for the contaminated water.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8eT6fe8WSk

 

 

Iori Mochizuki

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Tepco : “Il ne pleut aussi fortement qu’une fois tous les 10 ans” → (Un mois après) “Ça a débordé à cause des pluies trop abondantes”

 

Le 16 septembre 2013, Tepco a déversé en mer les “eaux de pluie” retenues dans les zones à citernes à cause du typhon. (cf. Tepco déverse des “eaux de pluie” bloquées dans 7 zones de citernes à cause du typhon)

Même ce 1^er octobre 2013, ils ne sont pas arrivés à transvaser les “eaux de pluie” et ont provoqué un débordement de citerne crantée. (cf. Tepco : “On transvase les eaux retenues dans une citerne avant qu’elles débordent” → La citerne déborde)

Or, Tepco affirmait que les endiguements locaux qui entourent les zones des citernes devaient retenir la plupart des pluies.
Ils ont affirmé qu’au regard de leurs anciennes données des pluies fortes au point de devoir déverser les eaux ne se produisent qu’une fois tous les dix ans.
En fait, c’est arrivé dans le mois qui a suivi leur déclaration d’une fois pour dix ans.
La Nuclear Regulation Authority l’a pointé au cours de la réunion du groupe de travail sur les eaux extrêmement radioactives.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8eT6fe8WSk

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One Wrong Move at Fukushima Could Unleash a Nuclear Disaster Equivalent to ... RYOT More than two years after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan, the Fukushima power plant sits in ruins, leaking 300 tons of contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean every day. But that's small potatoes compared to what might happen in ...