Finding places to store water remains the biggest imperative at Fukushima Daiichi, in part because flooding has blocked access to the reactors' disabled cooling pumps.
Those efforts inched forward Friday, as the government Buy nike cheap mens acg sandals black,moved water that had been stored in a tank outside the building of reactor No. 2 into a vessel even farther away. Having emptied the tank close to the reactor's turbine building, plant operators hope to fill it with the contents of a condenser unit inside the turbine building. Once that vessel is empty, in turn, officials hope to fill it with radioactive runoff water. Similar transfer processes are under way at reactors No. 1 and 3.
Authorities want to switch to regular cooling systems so they can stop using the jury-rigged systems—spraying water at reactors and spent-fuel pools, or injecting water into the vessels that surround the reactor core.
The station's three most troubled reactors—Nos.Buy nike cheap mens acg sandals black, 1, 2 and 3—were stable on Friday, according to Tepco and the government, measured by pressure and temperature readings. "We have to remove the water and establish a sustainable cooling system as soon as possible," said Mr. Nishiyama. "The status of the reactors is to a certain degree stable, but it still does not allow us to be optimistic."
Mr. Nishiyama's caution was echoed by Prime MinisterBuy nike cheap mens acg sandals black, Naoto Kan. "We are ready to fight a long battle," he said. "But we will surely prevail."
Republican members of a House Ways and Means subcommittee grilled AARP Chief Executive Officer Barry Rand and AARP President Lee Hammond on the nonprofit organization's health insurance operations.
Rand defended the group's public policy
Buy cheap nike mens sandals st wholesale price.positions and said money received from insurance licensing agreements was used to fund social-welfare programs for AARP's 37 million members.
Republicans argued that the group would gain financially by cutbacks in the law to the Medicare Advantage program that delivers Medicare health benefits through private insurers.
"The facts show AARP no longer operates like a seniors' advocacy organization," said health subcommittee Chairman Wally Herger, a California Republican. "Instead, it more closely resembles a for-profit insurance company."
Herger was referring to a report on
Buy cheap nike mens sandals st wholesale price.AARP finances and operations that he wrote with fellow Republican Representative Dave Reichert and which was released this week. They have asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate AARP's tax-exempt status as a nonprofit organization.
Democrats questioned the motives of Republicans for holding the hearing, saying it was political payback for supporting Obama's healthcare restructuring.
"Your sin ... is that you
Buy cheap nike mens sandals st wholesale price.backed the Affordable Care Act," Democratic Representative Jim McDermott said to Rand.
LOSING MONEY
Rand challenged the Republican report's findings saying: "We reject the allegation that our public policy positions are influenced by our revenues."
Barth went to the lottery headquarters
buy Men's Shoes online,today to collect his winnings along with his six co-millionaires, three other men and three women. Waiting for them, besides their checks, was a large white cake surrounded by Snickers bars.
The other winners include Gabrielle Mahar, 29, John Hilton, 57, John Kutey, 54, Tracy Sussman, 41, Kristin Baldwin, 42, Leon Peck, 63.
The group met with a financial adviser Monday and all agreed they wanted to take the lump sum of $202.9 million. So each will get a check that after taxes will total $19,129,571.
Barth said the group has been playing the "big jackpots" for years and are guided by the maxim that there is a "fickle finger of fate."
They are not fickle about how they do it.
"We are pretty buttoned up," Hilton said.
buy Men's Shoes online,"We keep a check list of who's in and who's out for any particular drawing. You've got to."
They have played the lotteries when they went over $100 million and throw in $2 each.
"We have a list every time you get in and if you're not, you get a line through your name and you're out," Hilton said.
Mahar, the youngest of the group, was the
buy Men's Shoes online,first to find out they were winners.
"I was home watching TV with my boyfriend," she said. After seeing the numbers on the news, "I rechecked and rechecked the ticket." Then she got her winning ticket out of the recycling bin where she had thrown it.