Japan Earthquake

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If the dose rate is going up www.tepco.co.jp how can they even have workers in there? The Sv rating is over 1 Sv/hour. Figure at 2 Sv/hour, you could only have a worker in contact with that water for 7 1/2 minutes before they were exposed to the cap of 250 mSv.
by Jojo 3/28/2011 2:57:00 AM

@Salvador: It won't cause a hydrogen boom a second time cause there is no building to contain the gas anymore. The big risk is rupture of the containment vessel. On a brand new unit it is designed to handle 1.5 times the normal operating pressure.
by Lethbridgean 3/28/2011 2:57:23 AM

S. Korea detects xenon. Obviously, Edano has spoken recently. Now citing partial meltdown. english.kyodonews.jp
by Karen Warren 3/28/2011 2:58:51 AM

@borrrden "There is a distinction to be made between animals which stay in one place, such as mice, and larger animals - elks, say - which move in and out of contaminated land as they range over large areas." Humans are not elks, you can't have people living there permanently.
by Jojo 3/28/2011 2:59:03 AM

@borrrden some animals survive, but others get mutations. Perhaps one the of true faces of the Chernobyl.. en.wikipedia.org
by kgriff 3/28/2011 2:59:08 AM

@borrden: IF you do more research you will find out that many animals have lower life span. I think wikipedia explains this phenomenon clearly
by Optim 3/28/2011 2:59:40 AM

BREAKING NEWS: Partial meltdown of fuel rods believed to be temporary: Edano
by sgl 3/28/2011 2:59:47 AM

@Lethbridgean Yeah, but Fukushima I reactor #1 is from 1971 and had an explosion happen that destroyed the building roof. I wouldn't bet much on that RPV.
by Salvador 3/28/2011 2:59:51 AM

NEWS ADVISORY: TEPCO's mishandling of info on nuclear crisis 'unacceptable': Edano
by sgl 3/28/2011 3:00:30 AM

From what I have seen radiation is better then humans. More wildlife at Chernobyl after the accident.
by Ralph Unger 3/28/2011 3:00:47 AM

NEWS ADVISORY: Locals within 20-km evacuation zone asked not to return for now
by sgl 3/28/2011 3:00:47 AM

@Jojo Chernobyl had almost 1,000,000 workers on it until the sarcophagus was finally finished
by George Gibb 3/28/2011 3:01:05 AM

@Salvador: Exactly, get really worried if they get upto 0.633Mpa, and that would be for a brand new unit.
by Lethbridgean 3/28/2011 3:01:24 AM

And sorry if someone posted this a half hour ago, but:
by sgl 3/28/2011 3:01:39 AM

@pj 3/27/2011 8:01 PM PST NISA having a meeting right now...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano has just revealed on live TV that, after briefing him on some details, NISA is having a closed door meeting at this time to discuss the possibility of a reactor pressure vessel and/or drywell failure at Fukushima Daiichi No. 2 plant. They're positive that the water in the turbine building is coolant that was in contact with melted fuel.

We're expecting further details on this important discussion later today. atomicpowerreview.blogspot.com
by Tenzing 3/28/2011 3:01:40 AM

NEWS ADVISORY: Iodine-131 1,150 times normal level found in sea north of nuke plan
by sgl 3/28/2011 3:01:40 AM

how can they keep the water from going underground?
by CaraBnr 3/28/2011 3:01:55 AM

Partial meltdown believed to be temporary? What? Full meltdown to come?
by RadioGuy 3/28/2011 3:02:19 AM

@Jojo thats what it takes when high exposure is involved
by George Gibb 3/28/2011 3:02:20 AM

@sgl What? "Partial meltdown of fuel rods believed to be temporary" ?!?!? That doesn't make ANY sense at all. If the partial meldown has happened, it won't go away again. Edano is speaking Gibberish. Or newspeak.
by Salvador 3/28/2011 3:02:26 AM

@CaraBnr at Chernobly they drilled holes and injected liquid nitrogen (cold) underneath the buidling
by kgriff 3/28/2011 3:02:38 AM

@CaraBnr Have they even managed to keep it in the same building? When I looked at the map, I thought the turbine bldg was a separate facility/structure
by pj 3/28/2011 3:02:52 AM

@Jojo Yeah, they are making that distinction in order to say that the animals they are looking at (like mice) don't migrate.
by borrrden 3/28/2011 3:02:54 AM

odd that the NHK vid showed smoke POURING out of #3 and the current tepco pic is showing a little wisp...
by Dennis Tucker Jr 3/28/2011 3:03:53 AM

BBC has had some questionable articles today - like half the story
by George Gibb 3/28/2011 3:04:01 AM

Surprise! NOW they are using the word "meltdown" according to Kyodo News.
by MaryW 3/28/2011 3:04:19 AM

@Salvador: That was the year I was born! Hydrogen stress cracking, Radiation weakening plays a role in older vessels, not so much in older people.
by Lethbridgean 3/28/2011 3:04:22 AM

Maybe it was a translation difference. Temporary in the sense that it happened once but is under control now.
by RadioGuy 3/28/2011 3:04:25 AM

@pj it is, that is why we are concerned about radiation there, I can only figure that leaks in the walls or pipes could lead to radiation there.
by Ralph Unger 3/28/2011 3:04:41 AM