Meanwhile, Russia's state nuclear energy corporation says the Japanese rating is exaggerated.
The spokesperson for Rosatom, Sergey Novikov, told a Russian news agency that, unlike the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, no workers at the Daiichi plant have suffered serious health damage due to acute radiation syndrome.
He said considering the damage to facilities around the reactors, the accident has not yet exceeded level 5. www3.nhk.or.jp
by NHK Listener 4/13/2011 7:32:45 AM
@NHK Listener @Jojo This is what I noticed vis. #1. they've been putting in the nitrogen since 00:30 or 01:30 7Apr, correct? or have they finished injecting?
@marie rich Don't know, but it looks like #1 is holding pressure, and gradually reducing temps (a good thing). Unit 2 / 3 seem to be the opposite: can't hold pressure/reducing pressure, and rising temps. The fact that bottom temps are higher than core temps (to me anyway) clearly show corium is at the bottom of 2 and 3 and is slowly melting through the drywell.
by Jojo 4/13/2011 7:46:58 AM
@NHK Listener I'm sure. They must have readings for the d/w #1, what has changed that would cause the rad meter to go offline? Just another in a long list of obfuscation (sorry if this should be on the other board).
by Jojo 4/13/2011 7:48:05 AM
@marie rich They will continue to inject nitrogen and plan on starting to on 2-3, 3 being first
by NHK Listener 4/13/2011 7:48:29 AM
I'm going to assume they are still injecting N. On the 8th there was that big spike up to 100sv/hr. at 12;00 AM,in the drywell. But also, on the 7th there was a pretty big increase in the suppression pool, torus, at 06:00Am. Still, it's trending down, you are right. All values but the RPV press.
by marie rich 4/13/2011 7:51:32 AM
well i think nitrogen into #3 is just PR.. they cant keep the water in the reactor.. how on earth are they planning to keep the gas in there
by trh 4/13/2011 7:51:46 AM
@marie rich The nitrogen will be continuous to dilute the hydrogen build up, so as long as they think there is hydrogen in there they will continue the injections.
by NHK Listener 4/13/2011 7:59:48 AM
Today there's a reading for the core bottom temp. which hasn't been available since 30 Mar., so at least they fixed that
by marie rich 4/13/2011 8:04:11 AM
on unit 2, that is
by marie rich 4/13/2011 8:04:22 AM
#2 rad continues it' s slow, steady decline, but the nozzle temp spiked up in last three days from 141.x to 170.x. that's odd
by marie rich 4/13/2011 8:06:35 AM
@marie rich Keep in mind they had 50 mins of non cooling non pumping 2 days ago
by NHK Listener 4/13/2011 8:22:24 AM
@NHK Listener so what has happened over nite, looks like the ocean numbers are still going up
by fitter 4/13/2011 8:29:23 AM
NEWS ADVISORY: TEPCO seeks to restart No. 3 reactor of nuclear plant in Niigata
by NHK Listener 4/13/2011 8:29:34 AM
@NHK Listener were is that in relation to fush
by fitter 4/13/2011 8:30:09 AM
@fitter Jojo updated the reactor page, some minor tremors, Tepco still sorry, Not much has changed over night
by NHK Listener 4/13/2011 8:31:14 AM
@NHK Listener have you spent much time looking at the evelavtion drawing vs the pic. or have your other forms had much on how badley the piping systems have been damaged
by fitter 4/13/2011 8:33:38 AM
@fitter Higashi Niigata CCGT Power Plant, Japan is about 110 miles e/ne of fukushima
by NHK Listener 4/13/2011 8:35:34 AM
@NHK Listener are they off line from the quake of something else
by fitter 4/13/2011 8:36:40 AM
@fitter I haven't looked much into the plant drawings that we have so far.. I have been searching for news.
Do any of you know about an earthquake, 7.2 magnitude that occurred a little earlier? I can't find anything on USGS: quake.twiple.jp
by ColorMeRed 4/13/2011 8:46:29 AM
@NHK Listener There was some discussion in the Press conference a little while ago about re-activating 5 & 6 at Fukishima. No final plans yet.
by ColorMeRed 4/13/2011 8:49:10 AM
@ColorMeRed Was downgraded to 5.4 i think
by VeenOui 4/13/2011 8:50:14 AM
@VeenOui From a 7.2 to 5.4? Odd...
by ColorMeRed 4/13/2011 8:59:26 AM
@fitter well they relief valve on the RPV goes off around 1050psi
by NHK Listener 4/13/2011 9:00:52 AM
@fitter I listened to TEPCO's president, Masataka Shimizu.. he was very non-commital on everything. Kept repeating that he had done his best and kept referring to TEPCO as a private company. Hmm..didn't know that private companies had shareholders.
by ColorMeRed 4/13/2011 9:01:38 AM
@fitter No real list,, Tepco does a shpeel 2 times a day sometimes 3, morning afternoon and evening.
by NHK Listener 4/13/2011 9:02:17 AM
@NHK Listener They just finished one with their President in attendance. It lasted about 2 hours
by ColorMeRed 4/13/2011 9:03:02 AM
@NHK Listener Today TEPCO held them at 10:00 AM and again at 3 PM their time. Don't know when the next one is.
by ColorMeRed 4/13/2011 9:07:43 AM
@ColorMeRed do they do a Q&A format at all or just give info
@NHK Listener You're right...I watched 3 in the last 24 hours. One was at 4:00 AM my time, the other at around 7 PM my time then another at about 11 PM my time.
by ColorMeRed 4/13/2011 9:12:33 AM
@fitter Some of the past briefings are now available here, on Japanese Government Internet TV, though I haven't seen any useful scheduling: nettv.gov-online.go.jp Usually they're in Japanese only, with some translation when a foreign journo asks a question.