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The NISA Seismic Damage Information reports (the ones that are numbered, now up in the 90s) do still contain some information on water injection, but you have to parse it out of the text. For instance #3 shows 215 tons combined on the 4th, 7th, and 8th from pump trucks. They seem to "not bother" monitoring fresh water injection once they switch to the pumps (utter BS, you know they know how much water is going through the pumps).

@marie rich The spreadsheets.google.com NYT Status updates have some of them, though I don't think it's compendious.

Not sure on refills, but the two US barges were 500000 gallons total, 1800 metric tons. That was 1 - 2 April.

@FradyKat I'll post it on the other blog. Let me get the link. I finished (heh,,,as if) last night at 3am. My GF was not impressed, but this has a two day best by date, so....

@FradyKat posted.

TEPCO monitoring wastewater at No.2 reactor www3.nhk.or.jp "On Wednesday, TEPCO finished transferring some of the wastewater -- about 660 tons -- from the No.2 reactor tunnel to a condenser in a turbine building. It says the water level in the tunnel dropped 8 centimeters after the transfer, but had returned to its previous level by Friday morning."

Mineral used to absorb radioactive materials www3.nhk.or.jp

Referring to the earlier story, how only 150 billion (that's billion, not million) becquerels were released into the sea by the planned dumping, not the 170 billion becquerels originally planned, from NHK World "
The government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says the amount of wastewater disposed of was 1,100 tons less than originally planned, resulting in the reduced release of radioactive substances."

@Markfm From the NYT updates:

APRIL 9, 6:52 PM
After five days, the discharge of slightly radioactive water from the sub-drain pits of Reactors 5 and 6 is completed. The discharge is 1,320 tons, instead of 1,500 tons, as the original estimate said it would be.

@Nancy: Don't know if you've seen this graphic yet... a highly detailed and annotated schematic of R2 and surrounding infrastructure (bet you've already got it tho, sorry if so!)
nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com

Pic of fhm fallen into sfp at unit 3 and a vid of unit 4 on this physicsforums page. www.physicsforums.com

It passes right trough you more or less.. so does a bullet from a high powered rifle same thing just one bigger projectile, gamma/xray radiation is tiny projectiles but lots of them instead

OPINION: How to minimize consequences of the Fukushima catastrophe
By Alexey V. Yablokov
MOSCOW, April 15, Kyodo

The analysis of the health impact of radioactive land contamination by the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, made by Professor Chris Busby (the European Committee of Radiation Risk) based on official Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology data, has shown that over the next 50 years it would be possible to have around 400,000 additional cancer patients within a 200-kilometer radius of the plant. This number can be lower and can be even higher, depending on strategies to minimize the consequences. Underestimation is more dangerous for the people and for the country than overestimation. Based on Chernobyl experiences, it is necessary to understand that it may be impossible to quickly get back to life before the catastrophe and to accept the post-Fukushima realities as soon as possible.
The main directions of actions that should be taken:

1. Enlarge the exclusion zone to at least about a 50-km radius of the plant;

2. Distribute detailed instructions on effective ways to protect the health of individuals while avoiding the additional contamination of food. Organize regular measurements of all people by individual dose counters (for overall radionuclides) at least once a week. Distribute the radioprotectors and decontaminants (substances which provide the body protection against harmful effects of radiation) of radionuclides. There are many of such food additives;

3. Develop recommendations for safe agriculture on the contaminated territories: reprocessing of milk, decontamination of meat, turning agriculture into production of technical cultures (e.g. biofuels etc.). Such ''radionuclide-resistant'' agriculture will be costly (it may be up to 30-40 percent compared with conventional agriculture) and needs to be subsidized;

4. It is necessary to urgently improve existing medical centers -- and possibly create new ones -- to deal with the immediate and long-term consequences of the irradiated peoples (including medical-genetic consultations on the basis of chromosome analysis etc.);

5. The most effective way to help organize post-Fukushima life in the contaminated territories (from Chernobyl lessons) is to create a special powerful interagency state body (ministry or committee) to handle the problems of contaminated territories during the first most complicated years.

I am sure that Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian radiation medicine and agriculture specialists, radiobiologists and radioecologists who have enormous experience in fighting radiation consequences will be ready to cooperate with Japan.

(Alexey V. Yablokov is a councilor for the Russian Academy of Science and a principal author of ''Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment,'' published in 2009).

==Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp

Pics and video on tepco site. Sorry if this is old to everybody. www.tepco.co.jp

@jay Is not there in the Nevada desert that is kept all the old nukes, used uranium, and old war armament... in America???????

See what happens when I am out of the office for a few hours? Pictures and video all over the place. I have noticed Cryptome.org has the same images about 6 hours before TEPCO posts them on their site. I would love to know how they are getting them ahead of time. Going to look at all of them and try to get shots of the #3 sfp and the possible crane in it. If there is anything else new of interest that you think I should try to pull out let me know.

@xxx anyone have a clue what the guy in the video is saying? I am really regretting not learning Japanese years ago.

@Nancy I poked around for more pics today, not sure if you have all of them, I saw a couple I wasn't sure on so I'll just post the links and you can poke around and see if there is anything new
timesofindia.indiatimes.com "mox" storage pool
www.japannewstoday.com multiple pics here including some marked with elevations etc..
www.wdr.de I'm pretty sure you have these but just in case.

Links to today's News are at: fukushimafaq.wikispaces.com Please feel free to add more stories to the Wiki.

@nancy Good work on your latest page, I'm going to do some markups this evening. Do you mind me marking up some of the content from your site?