Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant entered the number one reactor building on Thursday for the first time since an explosion ripped through it on March 12. The workers are building a air purification system that should aid further recovery work.
Until Thursday, nuclear workers had been sending remote-controlled robots into the building to check for damage and measure radiation.
The robots found levels as high as 49 milliSieverts per hour - so high that a worker would hit their annual limit in just five hours inside the building.
The danger meant Thursday's work began under severe safety limitations, says Tokyo Electric Power Spokesman Junichi Matsumoto.
Matsumoto says two workers entered the building at 11:32 on Thursday morning. They made up a team of 12 people, each of whom had their time in the building limited to 10 minutes because of the highly radioactive environment.
They were sent in wearing protective suits, masks and air tanks similar to those used by firefighters.
Thursday's work involves laying ducts that will be used to suck air into a purifier in a neighboring building. The machine should remove radioactive substances from the air, which will then be pumped back into the reactor building through additional ducts.
It should take about three days for the system to bring the radiation levels down to a point where staff can enter the building to conduct other work.
That means checks on pipes and valves used in the water cooling system could begin as early as Sunday.
Tokyo Electric Power wants to restart the system as soon as possible, to reduce the need to pump in large amounts of water from outside.
The plant operator also wants to install and calibrate a new reactor water level gauge, so it can better monitor water levels around the fuel rods in the reactor core.
2011年4月6日星期三
Awareness is the key to protecting our seniors from criminal minds
Public education is the key to protecting our seniors against the continual onslaught of society's undercrust who feed off their vulnerability.
This week at a local elder abuse seminar, seniors learned they are too friendly, generous and trusting when dealing with strangers. Case in point last week, a Point Edward senior who fell victim to a prize scam that bilked her of $50,000.
Ed Lum, a former Hamilton police detective, led the Corunna seminar and said the problem is of seniors being targeted by extortionists is only going to get worse as the population ages.
Dozens of residents who gathered for the seminar learned about psychological abuse, phone scams, home renovation scams, power of attorney issues and joint bank accounts. More of these seminars, done in conjunction with the Ontario Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse, should be held in our community.
Scammers are everywhere in our society. Identity theft, phishing, on-line shopping, social networking and credit and debit card fraud are just some of the ways crooks are scamming seniors.
One scam that has made its rounds through Sarnia-Lambton is the
"Grandparent scam." This nasty deception sees the elderly victim receive a phone call from someone claiming to be a grandchild in a different city and in need of a money transfer to get out of trouble. A variety of groups are now using this scam, sometimes calling from outside the province and the country.
Sadly, once victimized by one of these scams, the senior is likely to be targeted repeatedly.
Other common frauds include door-to-door salespeople soliciting items like air and water purifiers, or so-called contractors "who just happen to be in the area" to offer services.
The people perpetuating these crimes are slime balls who have done their homework. They research everything from Internet accounts to obituaries to get the most up-to-date and detailed information on their victims.
Anyone who believes they've been a victim of a scam artist should contact their family, the police and the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre.
The Seniors Safety Line is available 24-hours a day, seven days a week, toll free at 1-866-299-1011.
As evidenced by the woman who was scammed in Point Edward last week to the tune of $50,000, only the naive think that these crimes can't happen in SarniaLambton. Thanks to the Internet and the telephone, these kinds of crimes have no geographical borders.
Do your part in protecting our seniors by educating them about the dangers.
This week at a local elder abuse seminar, seniors learned they are too friendly, generous and trusting when dealing with strangers. Case in point last week, a Point Edward senior who fell victim to a prize scam that bilked her of $50,000.
Ed Lum, a former Hamilton police detective, led the Corunna seminar and said the problem is of seniors being targeted by extortionists is only going to get worse as the population ages.
Dozens of residents who gathered for the seminar learned about psychological abuse, phone scams, home renovation scams, power of attorney issues and joint bank accounts. More of these seminars, done in conjunction with the Ontario Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse, should be held in our community.
Scammers are everywhere in our society. Identity theft, phishing, on-line shopping, social networking and credit and debit card fraud are just some of the ways crooks are scamming seniors.
One scam that has made its rounds through Sarnia-Lambton is the
"Grandparent scam." This nasty deception sees the elderly victim receive a phone call from someone claiming to be a grandchild in a different city and in need of a money transfer to get out of trouble. A variety of groups are now using this scam, sometimes calling from outside the province and the country.
Sadly, once victimized by one of these scams, the senior is likely to be targeted repeatedly.
Other common frauds include door-to-door salespeople soliciting items like air and water purifiers, or so-called contractors "who just happen to be in the area" to offer services.
The people perpetuating these crimes are slime balls who have done their homework. They research everything from Internet accounts to obituaries to get the most up-to-date and detailed information on their victims.
Anyone who believes they've been a victim of a scam artist should contact their family, the police and the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre.
The Seniors Safety Line is available 24-hours a day, seven days a week, toll free at 1-866-299-1011.
As evidenced by the woman who was scammed in Point Edward last week to the tune of $50,000, only the naive think that these crimes can't happen in SarniaLambton. Thanks to the Internet and the telephone, these kinds of crimes have no geographical borders.
Do your part in protecting our seniors by educating them about the dangers.
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