Japan Earthquake

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Too complicated... too many loads... to much population...
by radioguy 3/26/2011 7:17:44 PM

The advanced atomic detection plane we sent to them.
by radioguy 3/26/2011 7:18:59 PM

The spent fuel rods are just sitting there in a big pool. How do they get from the reactor to that pool? Just do that same thing and attach heavy long cables to it, and fly to the other nuclear plant. The other nuclear plant is just 7 miles away. You fly it to the other plant and drop the fuel rods into the other pool that has WORKING pumps.
by Jojo 3/26/2011 7:19:08 PM

by the way, they have a spent fuel base in the north, Rokkasho. maybe 400 km away.
by Matsuoko 3/26/2011 7:19:12 PM

article in french press about what can / can't be believed from tepco (published on liberation science blog). It might be possible to get it in english with a right click on the page with firefox; or try goolgle translation??? sciences.blogs.liberation.fr
by nestor 3/26/2011 7:19:18 PM

Michio Kaku, PhD on what is happening: www.youtube.com
by Andy 3/26/2011 7:19:34 PM

@radioguy Nice someone mention the drones again. yes, I wonder why we have no news. according to the navy radiations maps, they have use it. but what about pictures ? (grrr, my conspirationist dark side again, lol)
by Future Isnow 3/26/2011 7:19:49 PM

Rokkasho reprocessing plant in Aomori Prefecture receives shipments via the port of Mutsu Ogawara, which hasn't sustained too much damage in tsunami, but I wonder where they would ship material from in fukushima - airlifting cannisters onto ships etc? Interesting that Rokkasho is only a few miles from the huge American air base at Misawa.
by andyjsha 3/26/2011 7:20:02 PM

@Jim Carver I do too. He is such a refreshing change from the "experts" we generally see explaining what is occurring.
by Andy 3/26/2011 7:22:23 PM

@andyjsha : that's why Daiichi and Daini have their own ports. i have no idea how they didi it, but they shipped the fuel there by the port, not by road.
by Matsuoko 3/26/2011 7:22:24 PM

@George Here's a useful link. Crowd-sourced Geiger counter readings all over Japan. japan.fa iledrobot.com
by radioguy edited by George Gibb 3/26/2011 7:22:24 PM

www.yomiuri.co.jp Tokyo Electric Power Co. knew of the possibility of highly concentrated radioactive leakage at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant's No. 3 reactor, but it failed to alert workers before three of them were exposed to radiation Thursday, it was learned Saturday.
by elainekirk 3/26/2011 7:22:27 PM

Live conference on NHK now www3.nhk.or.jp
by Sinthia Domina 3/26/2011 7:22:57 PM

@andyjsha According to what I have google, they don't have enough room to store fukushima waste. What is fun is that they wanted to build an ITER there (we got the contract in France :( and the other thing is that Thousands of people have fight against mox in that site, or anyother nuclear thing, because it is on a big fault line
by Future Isnow 3/26/2011 7:22:58 PM

@Future Isnow So why don't they start slowly moving spent fuel rods from their location to locations further away, and then start moving fuel rods from Fukushima?
by Jojo 3/26/2011 7:24:03 PM

@jojo Perhaps if the rods were still intact and not lying in a molten pool at the bottom of the reactors.
by es 3/26/2011 7:24:03 PM

@you heu, no, thanks, it's an old one, 2 days ago ;-) sorry sin..
by Future Isnow 3/26/2011 7:24:11 PM

@Future Isnow : well, then just send the waste to France ... they love that sort of stuff.
by Matsuoko 3/26/2011 7:24:36 PM

@es Are all the fuel rods in the reactor? I thought a big problem was in the cooling pools that were containing the spent fuel rods.
by Jojo 3/26/2011 7:24:46 PM

@Andy "Reactor core breached" , risk of a full catastrophe. I couldn't get the sound. I m gonna have to reboot. What else did he say?
by Jim Carver 3/26/2011 7:25:14 PM

@jojo No idea. I have difficulty imagining them intact and in place following those explosions.
by es 3/26/2011 7:26:28 PM

I know the reactors are an issue, I was just thinking away of moving the spent fuel rods to cooling pools that worked as opposed to trying to fix the pools that are there.
by Jojo 3/26/2011 7:26:37 PM

Just a curiosity... are there many people coming on here who are currently in Tokyo / Japan? (OK, not right now maybe - 4:24 a.m. there!). Would be very interesting to hear 'the word on the street' (or is this site even getting into Japan?).
by Paul (UK) 3/26/2011 7:27:13 PM

@radioguy : please report ! do they really admit a core breach ?
by Matsuoko 3/26/2011 7:27:36 PM

It just got orders of magnitude harder working to solve the problem when they discovered all the highly radioactive leakage.
by radioguy 3/26/2011 7:27:40 PM

@es That's the thing, these pools that hold the cooling rods are not functioning, but they ARE functioning at other nuke plants. There is the Fukushima II just 7 miles to the south. They don't have room in ALL their functional cooling pools for some of the Fukushima I fuel rods?
by Jojo 3/26/2011 7:28:26 PM

@Jojo I suppose it is because it is very difficult to reach them . If you look at the 4 places, except n°2, all is destroyed. N°1 is quite ok, but n°4, who have new fuels rods and old one is a bit in a mess, and N°3 is in a total mess. So this rods are longs, heavy, and highly radioactiv : when you look the roof, there is no way a chopper could bring them out. Also, these rods need to be cooled down, the best is 25 ° and to avoid exposure to air... so, taking them out is unfortunately not an option, amha
by Future Isnow 3/26/2011 7:28:31 PM

@Matsuoko That's what they had on the screen. Couldn't get the sound.
by Jim Carver 3/26/2011 7:28:35 PM

If someone can't get an article/whatever translated from French or Spanish I'd be happy to provide a (quick) translation.
by Rucco 3/26/2011 7:28:36 PM

@radioguy Link please on your info on the core breach
by Meretisa 3/26/2011 7:28:38 PM

@Matsuko... Oh heavens no. They'd never admit that till it's obvious. They've found pools of water about at 10,000 times normal levels "for the inside of a working reactor"
by radioguy 3/26/2011 7:28:45 PM

We have no idea of the state of the insides of those things other than damaged, but I doubt it's anything near normal for a working reactor..
by radioguy 3/26/2011 7:29:25 PM

@radioguy which means that it is breached... if it is at levels highter than inside of working reactor... :(
by Meretisa 3/26/2011 7:29:28 PM

The current line of defense seems to be that they think there's no breach, but it's a fitting or cooling pipe that's cracked.
by radioguy 3/26/2011 7:31:05 PM