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"To be honest, I was startled to see the figures. The results make it really hard for me to ask repair workers to go inside and do their jobs," said Haruki Madarame, chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, during a press conference the same day.

"It will take hours for workers who are not familiar with nuclear reactors to do a simple task, increasing the risk for them to be exposed to radiation," said University of Tokyo professor

"We are yet to know the detailed conditions of their working environment. However, both the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors are too hot and humid for repair crews to stay more than 30 minutes and 15 to 20 minutes, respectively, if they are to engage in operations that require exercise equivalent to going up and down stairs. As for the No. 3 reactor, they will be able to work for about an hour," Nose said.

"A lot of manpower will be needed to bring the crisis under control. There is a limit to remote operations using robots. Whether the restoration work proceeds smoothly in accordance with the timetable depends on if they can remove the source of pollution quickly and reduce the radiation leakage," Shibata said.
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@Nancy, the counts are low. Counting error equals the sqare root of count. The larger the count, the smaller the error. I wonder what that error may be for these samples.

@Sin - True, but the technical stuff like that is usually reliable. It's opinionated things that are usually what's incorrect. The only conclusion I can reach is that TEPCO is half right. I think it's rain deposition. I think rain captures iodine more readily than cesium. However, I think it's deposition from recent radiation, not from the first days of the accident. That's the only conclusion I can reach.

Thursday April 21 2011, 00:39:04 UTC 27 minutes ago off the east coast of Honshu, Japan 5.8 Depth 15.0

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Type: Earthquake
31 minutes ago
Magnitude: 5.8
DateTime: Thursday April 21 2011, 00:39:04 UTC
Region: off the east coast of Honshu, Japan
Depth: 15 km

WHY EVEN PUBLISH THIS? Fukushima accident likely caused by blackouts
A Japanese nuclear safety official says the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was likely caused by electricity blackouts as a result of tsunami and not by shock of the earthquake. National Nuclear Safety Commissioner Osamu Oyamada made the remark at a news conference on Wednesday in the city of Fukushima after inspecting the plant. Referring to accounts of the accident by the plant manager and workers, Oyamada said the reactors were apparently shut down without any hitch. He said the reactors and their buildings did not likely incur serious damage caused by the quake itself and that they were intact immediately after it. But he said there are no gauge readings or other data available to prove this assumption.

Thursday, April 21, 2011 00:34 +0900 (JST) www3.nhk.or.jp

@Jim Carver, but then it occurred to me that perhaps the reporter at kyodonews did not bother with such details. I wish the TEPCO people would realize that the only way the can win the public is accurate, complete and timely information.

@Peter Melzer TEPCO is working the confusion angle with all they got. They measure volume in tons, leaving the press to completely muck up what KIND of tons. If there's a second number it will be in cubic meters. Still no gallons or liters people can relate to with fluids. If its radiation, just try to keep track of all the different units mixed, possibly appropriately, who can tell without a conversion table. If you can't beat 'em with the facts, baffle 'em with bull pucky.

Does anyone have a link to the explosion of 4? I tried a video google search and some youtube searching but keep getting 3 or a tv clip with no explosion video.

Sand lance constitute a major prey for at least some populations of over 100 species
of consumer, including 40 species of birds, 12 species of marine mammals, 45 species
of fishes, and some invertebrates. Variation in the availability of sand lance (and
other forage fishes) can have major effects on the breeding success and survival of
their predators.

@Nancy Todays Fire Near Fukushima Daiichi Reactor No 4 12.04.11 www.youtube.com

Decontamination of water by photolytic oxidation/reduction utilizing near blackbody radiation
United States Patent 6200466
A reactor system for decontamination of water by photolytic oxidation utilizing near blackbody radiation, the system comprising (1) a reaction chamber defining an internal space with an inlet and an outlet; and (2) a broadband radiator for generating radiant energy with wavelengths between about 150 nm and about 3 μm, the broadband radiator disposed within the reaction chamber, such that a sufficient dosage of broadband radiation irradiates the contaminants and/or the oxidant within the internal space of the reaction chamber thereby causing photolytic oxidation of the contaminants by direct action of the radiation on the contaminants to break chemical bonds by sustaining a free radical chain reaction of oxidizing components, thus breaking down the contaminants by way of atomic abstraction of the components of the contaminants. In preferred embodiments, at least a portion of the radiant energy is generated in a pulsed mode, such as between about 1 and about 500 pulses per second. In preferred embodiments, the broadband radiator generates radiant energy at a rate of between about 1 kW and about 10 MW., and the resultant dosage rate of broadband radiation is between 1 joule/cm2 and about 5000 joules/cm2. In preferred embodiments, the radiant energy is produced by at least one gas filled flashlamp having a gas plasma temperature of between about 9,500° K and about 20,000° K.

@radioguy, I bet they measure in metric tons and it is standard to measure water usage in cubic meters. Another thought, is Japan on 220V, 50 Hz? Anyone knows?

NEWS ADVISORY: Gov't reduces evacuation zone around Fukushima No.2 nuclear plant: Edano (11:10 21 April) english.kyodonews.jp

Tada, The magician does his trick to calm the sheep asleep

@Peter melzer even worse.. Half of Japan is on 50 Hz, the other half is on 60 Hz.. That's the reason for the rolling blackouts..

@Peter Melzer oops... I posted this on the other blog:
Japan 100 V 50/60 Hz*
*Eastern Japan 50 Hz (Tokyo, Kawasaki, Sapporo, Yokohoma, and Sendai);
Western Japan 60 Hz (Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Hiroshima)

that day the wind was strong and blowing 20 miles an hour out to sea i think.

Ty @radio guy and @sims. Flabbergasting, to say the least!