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@fitter Did you see the new floor plan schematic?

@NHK Listener have you come across any site with drawings like this... even if not japan can still be usful

i don't hear anything aboot Hawai, are to far south to get the rad air or just not hearing?

@fitter Just the pages that Nancy does. I have done some extensive patent searches but it is very tedious looking for any useful drawings.

do the typoons hit the east shore of japan or do they blow west to east

[Depends, I guess, @fitter, don't we all wish they blow some pretty predictable way ... <sigh> with the weather and all this climate change jazz, I guess all bets are off. But I'd sure be mighty glad to read some insights from a more informed dude on this. - Alblee]

eathquake.usgs.gov

Japan Nuclear Plant Owners Told to Check Disaster Resistance
Meanwhile, the newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported that a secret plan to dismantle TEPCO was circulating within the government. The proposal calls for putting the privately held company under close government supervision before putting it into bankruptcy and thoroughly restructuring its assets.

Most government offices were closed Saturday, and the report could not be immediately confirmed.

Read more: www.foxnews.com

Both Australia and New Zealand had earthquakes a short time ago. NZ has lost power in some areas earthquake.usgs.gov

Large aftershock hits Christchurch www.stuff.co.nz

Government considering plan to dismantle TEPCO A secret plan to dismantle Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, is circulating within the government.The proposal, which is associated with a faction of bureaucrats who have long supported liberalization of Japan's power industry, envisages the passing of a special measures law that would put the company under close government supervision before eventually bankrupting it and completely restructuring its remnants.There are also proposals to smash the company's powerful influence on politicians and the mass media and force executives to give all their pay and severance settlements to victims of the earthquake. More www.asahi.com

TEPCO president to appear in parliament Mon. over nuclear crisis

TOKYO, April 15, Kyodo

Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Masataka Shimizu will appear before the House of Councillors Budget Committee on Monday to answer questions about his firm's initial response to the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, sources familiar with the matter said Friday.

Radiation leaks have continued at the nuclear plant since it lost its cooling functions following the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami, prompting the evacuation of residents living nearby.

It will be the first appearance in the Diet by the president of the plant operator, known as TEPCO, since the disaster struck northeastern and eastern Japan.

Shimizu will appear following a request by Masashi Waki, Diet affairs chief of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party in the upper house, who wants the TEPCO president to provide an account of how the nuclear crisis unfolded.

In addition to Waki, other opposition lawmakers are also expected to question the TEPCO president, the sources said. english.kyodonews.jp

From @Thunder over at the other unmodded room:
> a building that was designed to take a Typhoon strength wind with it's walls blowin off
> isn't quite going to have the same survivability anymore, that being said I am unsure
> whether or not it could cause further containment damage but it would certainly disrupt/
> stop all emergency measures being taken ...

Not to mention another potential spike in the disaster situation when wind-blown debris hits a vulnerable, hard-to-finger piece of equipment exposed to the elements (even just a valve or innocent looking fitting, pipe or bypass weld that gets busted) and which calls for immediate intervention right in the midst of a howling typhoon ...
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pointscope01.jp

[@NHK_Listener, I seem to perceive that the Tepco web cam images are produced by two separate devices. The odd-numbered filenames seem to share a certain look-and-feel, and then the same seems to hold true with the even-numbered filenames. Of course, it could just be my eyes ... Thanks. - Alblee]
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Radioactive water leak slowed at Fukushima plant youtu.be

Wastewater level at No.2 reactor tunnel rising

The operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says the level of highly radioactive water in a tunnel of the No. 2 reactor has been rising.

Contaminated water in the plant's facilities is hampering efforts to restore reactor cooling systems. Leakages of such water into the ocean and the ground are also raising concern.

Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, finished transferring part of the wastewater -- about 660 tons -- from the tunnel to a condenser in a turbine building on Wednesday.

The transfer lowered the water level in the tunnel by 8 centimeters, but it began rising again, exceeding the previous level by 2.5 centimeters as of Saturday morning.

TEPCO says work to fix the leakage of highly radioactive water into the ocean earlier this month may have caused water from the reactor to accumulate in the tunnel.

The company hopes to begin transferring contaminated water to a waste-processing facility by the end of next week. It is now accelerating work to monitor and fix water leaks in the facility.

Highly radioactive water may also be leaking underground.

On Thursday, TEPCO detected higher radiation levels in underground water. The observed level was up to 38 times that of one week ago.

TEPCO began taking radiation readings 3 times per week on Saturday, instead of just once per week.

Saturday, April 16, 2011 12:13 +0900 (JST)

www3.nhk.or.jp

The water level link below also contains a video of the news report btw.

So, where are we with all this overheating and leaks business then? Keep it cool, stop the leak, keep it cool... round and round we go. They keep pouring the water over those furnaces of glowing fuel, but then out into the Ocean it goes. Forgive the pun but if ever there was a case of 'In between the Devil and the deep blue sea'. How long can this go on?

"TEPCO began taking radiation readings 3 times per week on Saturday, instead of just once per week." - Dumbfounding.

TOKYO —
"Japan’s nuclear safety agency has told plant operators to check and improve outside power links to avoid earthquake-related outages similar to those..." www.japantoday.com

"All eyes are on Japan, almost totally ignoring an even graver threat here at home.

A nuclear disaster affects the the surface of the earth, and therefore the damage is accessible. Imagine a subterranean disaster hundreds, even thousands, of feet under the surface, where it is impossible..." www.statesmanjournal.com

@Rob in SF Totally agree, how on earth can people believe such kind of reports?!?!?! Why hasn't anyone asked why they oh why heven't hey put constant monitor devices throughout the plant?!? How stupid must one be to not question all this bullshit coming out of TEPCO?!?

"This month is the 25th anniversary of the explosion and fire at Chernobyl early in the morning of April 26, 1986. As the problems in Japan get worse, I wonder what will happen when CNN and the world go away,..." crosscut.com

"On Saturday, the government reported that levels of radioactivity in seawater near the plant had risen significantly in recent days. The level of radioactive iodine-131 spiked to 6,500 times the legal limit, according to samples taken Friday, up from 1,100 times the limit the day before. Levels of cesium-134 and cesium-137 rose nearly fourfold." www.usatoday.com