Japan Earthquake

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And now for something completely opposite: www.bbc.goco.uk "We should stop running away from radiation"
by jay77 edited by George Gibb 3/27/2011 1:48:27 AM

@all Ecocentric Blogs Fukushima: Sick workers and cracked vessels. What's true? Fukushima: The salt problem ecocentric.blogs.time.com
by Tenzing 3/27/2011 1:48:37 AM

@Dean In regards to re-addressing the Yucca Mountain issue, it's very difficult to make the multiple fault lines go away. They'll have to find some other way to dispose of the spent fuel.
by James Ward 3/27/2011 1:50:37 AM

sadly so James.. at the expense of what do we do now..
by Dean 3/27/2011 1:51:35 AM

Towards the whole Yucca Mountain topic. I live near it. And I'm all for it. While James did point out it is near/on fault lines, I have only felt one quake since I've lived here. And that came in from Cali.
by Natalie 3/27/2011 1:52:10 AM

@jay77 I thought that might be Ann Coulter or George Monbiot until I clicked the link.
by James Ward 3/27/2011 1:52:19 AM

Kyodo: Work to restore power, inject fresh coolant into nuke plant continues english.kyodonews.jp ( By "TEPCO will remove the water in all four reactor units", they probably mean the turbine buildings.)
by kb 3/27/2011 1:53:04 AM

@all Business Insider - Japan Nuclear Crisis: What About The Plutonium MOX? www.businessinsider.com
by Tenzing 3/27/2011 1:53:17 AM

@jay77 :) "Radioactive waste is nasty but the quantity is small". send this guy to fukushima !
by Matsuoko 3/27/2011 1:53:27 AM

@GeorgeGibb, so sorry I failed to record your domain name email address earlier. I'd like to send you a couple of e-mails. Thanks.
by Albert Lee in Manila 3/27/2011 1:53:42 AM

@Albert Lee in Manila gibbgeor@hotmail.com
by George Gibb 3/27/2011 1:54:24 AM

@Matsuoko @felix, have been upwards 5000 nGy some days ago iirc
by WolfDK 3/27/2011 1:54:35 AM

yukka mountain was designed to hold 77,000 metric tons..
by Dean 3/27/2011 1:54:48 AM

Why did Reuters take down their streaming blog? It seemed rather popular.
by Mr.Spec 3/27/2011 1:55:00 AM

I'm going to bed, but the 8 AM report should be available at the NISA site anytime now.
by kb 3/27/2011 1:55:19 AM

@all this is one of my favorites :) ARMS CONTROL WONK - TEMPCO Update 3/25 by Jeffrey Lewis lewis.armscontrolwonk.com
by Tenzing 3/27/2011 1:55:38 AM

@jay77 the wonderful Auntie Beeb eh? they would rather publish propoganda give the public who pay their wages the truth
by elainekirk 3/27/2011 1:57:29 AM

@Tenzing Excellent article. TEPCO is being very quiet on the plutonium issue.
by James Ward 3/27/2011 1:57:58 AM

Hi, All Just started cruising before I joined and JAIF has a new update
by marie rich 3/27/2011 1:59:32 AM

@all This was posted on Reuters Live Blog. Photo #16 Japan Self-Defense Forces officers carry a victim who is suspected of being exposed to radiation in Nihonmatsu City in Fukushima Prefecture MARCH 13, 2011 ... totallycoolollollpix.com
by Tenzing edited by George Gibb 3/27/2011 2:01:09 AM

www.msnbc.msn.com link (I hope) on the employee interviewed at plant during quake
by fitter 3/27/2011 2:03:18 AM

@all The Denki Shimbun [Contribution] What is Happening in the Reactor Cores of Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station? www.shimbun.denki.or.jp
by Tenzing 3/27/2011 2:06:23 AM

that totallycoolpix has a really interesting shot of the inside of the top of the reactor at #4 before the accident. Great to get an idea how it is all set up inside.
by Nancy 3/27/2011 2:08:41 AM

@Dean, I believe the future of nuclear power will depend on what they used to call the closing of the fuel cycle. When I was a kid, proponents of nuclear power promised a fuel cycle that would use up almost all fissible material; only tiny remnants were supposed to be stored molten into glass deep underground. Then, the capacities for reprocessing of spent fuel rods could never be developed sufficiently. The process turned out to be way more polluting than thought (some call the Irish Sea on which the UK reprocessing plant near Sellafield is located the Radioactive Sea). Fast breeders to use the reprocessed fuel never really worked. After 40 years, we are left with storage pools bursting from the seams with spent fuel, a circumstance that contributed in no small way to the current crisis in Japan. If we cannot find acceptable ways to dispose of the waste, the end of nuclear power is not going to be far off.
by Peter Melzer 3/27/2011 2:09:04 AM

enjoy all the links ad info... after the reators situtation resolves, hopefully to the good, I hope that everyone here will dig deeper into the "construction" and "enforcement" of our nuclear reators..... Personal experience, happened 25 years ago (non-nuke) built a plant under US codes - leathal service (about the same standards as nuke houses)
by fitter 3/27/2011 2:09:48 AM

this is a contionuation of prior comment regading construction (hit the wrong key)
by fitter 3/27/2011 2:10:54 AM

@all Steve Herman Voice of America twitter.com!/W7VOA
by Tenzing 3/27/2011 2:11:19 AM

@all Cal Coast News.com An open letter to Sam Blakeslee "I flew to Singapore for a week to help them. These are thoughts now, about California, coming back home.
Flying back over the green hills of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties from San Francisco, you think ”We don’t even have 160 miles between us and Diablo.” That is the distance between Tokyo and Fukushima’s Daiichi nuclear plant that now has four reactors in partial meltdown and thousands of spent fuel rods in empty cooling ponds seeping and belching radiation directly into the air and the seawater. The government acknowledges this will likely continue for weeks and months to come. And, the threat of full meltdown of one, or more, of these four reactors and/or the cooling ponds for spent fuel is not ruled out yet." calcoastnews.com
by Tenzing 3/27/2011 2:14:09 AM

Tenzig, good article you posted at armscontrolwonk.com. Tepco's latest press release is zeroing in on the likely sources for the radioactively contaminated water.
by Sky 3/27/2011 2:14:16 AM

@all I'm trying to end the media blackout with my own two hands :)
by Tenzing 3/27/2011 2:14:53 AM

Not much news in the JAIF rapport, reactor #3 SFP: water level low, seawater spray continue and certain effect was confirmed. Radiation level: 136.3μSv/h at the West gate at 07:00, Mar. 27
by WolfDK 3/27/2011 2:16:14 AM

None of the major news services will make the call. But according to many 'underground' type services, the breach in no. 3 has happened. Makes sense. Plutonium is some weird stuff and that might explain a lot about some of the confusing data.
by Jim Carver 3/27/2011 2:16:22 AM

After watching the LIVE press conference on NHK just now....feel even less informed if thats possible.
by Sinthia Domina 3/27/2011 2:16:43 AM

This site just showed up on my radar....Graphic Radar level's
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by VeenOui 3/27/2011 2:17:18 AM

very good comment peter, in part I blame WDC for not doing what they said they would and all the politicians bickering and now we have nothing ... I think some are dry storing now.. and the utilities will have to do something.. at the RATE PAYERS EXPENSE..
by Dean 3/27/2011 2:17:31 AM