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Climate Change Update (24 October 2012) Study: Entire food web "including humans" may be affected

*Just In* More US tuna contaminated — Study: Entire food web "including humans" may be affected as Fukushima radionuclides spread to West Coast
http://enenews.com/
 
Locust plague may spread to North Africa as swarms form in Chad
http://www.sott.net/category/4-Earth-Changes
 
Sun unleashes X-class flare from volatile sunspot
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/
 
Wind shift could affect sea ice loss and bring more extreme weather to North America and Europe
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2012/10/24/wind-shift-affect-sea-ice-loss-br...
 
Dominion Virginia Power is investigating what caused one of the two nuclear reactors at its North Anna power station to automatically shut down today. The shutdown came less than a week after the unit had been restarted following repairs. A preliminary report filed with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Unit 2 at North Anna, in Louisa County some 45 miles northwest of Richmond, tripped automatically at 1:47 a.m. today. "The unit is in a normal post-trip electrical configuration. All systems functioned as required," the NRC report said. The commission's report, filed one hour after the event, said Richmond-based Dominion was focusing on turbine intercept valves or reheat valves that malfunctioned "for reasons unknown at this time." North Anna's Unit 1 was unaffected by the automatic Unit 2 shutdown and continues to operate at full power, the NRC said. Dominion spokesman Richard Zuercher said the utility had been able to trace the shutdown of Unit 2 _ which is more than three decades old _ to four valves that govern the flow of steam in the turbine system for spinning the unit's generator. "They inadvertently all closed, which caused the unit to sense the issue and shut down automatically," Zuercher said. The Unit 2 shutdown came a matter of days after the reactor had been restarted and brought back up to full power following two weeks of being offline for repairs to failing reactor coolant pump seals. Dominion manually shut down Unit 2 on Oct. 7 after determining that a seal was degrading on a reactor coolant pump, and officials decided that while the unit was down, crews should go ahead and replace the seal package on another coolant pump as well. 
 
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=NC-20121024-...
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php
 
Japan Ministry Sticks to Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste
http://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2012102400999
 
[Japan Today] Japan's radiation monitoring unreliable: Greenpeace
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/10/japan-today-japans-radiation-monitoring-un...