Japan Earthquake | Page 961
Just the comments on windows, mac, linux -- it doesn't particularly pertain to anything that I can see.by Markfm 5/3/2011 5:06:37 PM
Yep, I should be on the other board with my comments.by Ralph Unger 5/3/2011 5:07:33 PM
Just havin' fun. Kinda like the thing, if OS's were beer. well bbl :)by Jim Carver 5/3/2011 5:08:35 PM- Harmless, just not germane. It happens at times, I absolutely do it myself.by Markfm 5/3/2011 5:09:12 PM
@Peter Melzer Thanks. That's my new wallpaper.by radioguy 5/3/2011 5:10:25 PM- I do like the little robot from the graphic.by Markfm 5/3/2011 5:10:58 PM
Over the years, Plant Vogtle has had a number of serious problems. In 1990, it came within four hours of a meltdown when a truck backed into power pole. As we know, (or should know after the Fukashima debacle in Japan), a nuclear reactor must have a steady and reliable source of electrical power to keep its cooling systems running and its core from melting.
Today as in 1990, Vogtle operators insist, "We know what we're doing. The plant is completely under control." Nonsense! No one knows what the next unexpected, unprecedented occurrence will be. How safe is anything when you are dealing forces of nature like earthquakes and tsunamis? How safe is anything when nuclear radiation can contaminate land and water for thousands of years? How safe is it when an unforeseen loss of power can lead to a catastrophic explosion?
www.gainesvilletimes.comby Lethbridgean 5/3/2011 5:10:59 PM- Totally worthless as wallpaper, of course, but I love it. :)by radioguy 5/3/2011 5:11:33 PM
- "As head of state, I have confidence in the [reactor] fleet's safety. I wasn't elected to call [the fleet] into question, and it will not be called into question," France's Sarkozy.
www.platts.comby Lethbridgean 5/3/2011 5:19:31 PM - My cat tries to hide behind a juice glass and sneak up on me.by radioguy 5/3/2011 5:20:39 PM
- Today Greenpeace reminded the South African government to rethink its nuclear expansion plans and collaboration with the French nuclear industry as major safety concerns have been identified in the French reactor design European Pressurised Reactor EPR.
This reminder comes against the backdrop of 55 Greenpeace activists began blocking the construction of a nuclear reactor at Flamanville, France. Greenpeace demands a moratorium on the construction work after the French nuclear safety authority ASN outlined major safety flaws of this French reactor design European Pressurised Reactor EPR [1] following the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan
allafrica.comby Lethbridgean 5/3/2011 5:23:05 PM - I thought I had the translation thing licked, but when I click on the pinned links, I get japonese with no translation option.by RBean 5/3/2011 5:23:35 PM
- @RBean Make sure you have the translate tab turned on and googletranslate will do it even if the pinned link fails. Doesn't work on PDFs without importing the text or OCRing the graphics.by radioguy 5/3/2011 5:24:58 PM
- translate bar...sorry.by radioguy 5/3/2011 5:25:14 PM
@Peter Melzer : if a lift of 8 inches is possible for the rpv, i don't see why not even 3 or 4 meters. 8 inches may be theoretically/mathematically the limit, but #3 explosion was on a scale never expected and never experienced.by Edano 5/3/2011 5:25:53 PM
Just a quick one to say I miss you, guys. Had a difficult long day, and embarking on a road trip that will take me away for the next 60 hours or so... On or off topic, this board rocks. Be back soon. Thanks and take care, all.by ALBLEE 5/3/2011 5:27:22 PM- @Edano Yes, given the level of imagination-limited planning on this thing, the idea of constructing for something outside of what you expect to happen was a foreign concept.by radioguy 5/3/2011 5:27:33 PM
- Putin said Japan should have promptly brought electricity storage devices such as batteries and accumulators to the complex to help pump in water to cool stricken reactors.
www.themoscowtimes.com
"But … they didn't manage to do that on time, and then problems erupted," Putin said, speaking at a nuclear industry meeting in the city of Penza.by Lethbridgean 5/3/2011 5:27:58 PM - @Lethbridgean Along with a few thousand dosimeters. sheesh...by radioguy 5/3/2011 5:28:35 PM
- Is Putin aware that there was a small earthquake that disrupted communications and destroyed roads?by Ralph Unger 5/3/2011 5:29:01 PM
- @Ralph Unger - really?by Lethbridgean 5/3/2011 5:31:31 PM
- I think I also read something about a high tide or something that blocked some of the roads as well.by Ralph Unger 5/3/2011 5:32:23 PM
- Funny thing about disasters, they almost always screw with the infrastructure. Yet the plans always count on the infrastructure being there.by radioguy 5/3/2011 5:35:40 PM
- Corporate CYA is proving to be an AWFUL way to handle a disaster. The past couple years show why companies should not be allowed to self-insure. If the risks are too great for you to get insurance, and the cost of a disaster is too big for the company to survive or pay out in legitimate mitigation costs, then the enterprise has too low an ROI. One natural disaster wipes your company out? Who would invest in that?by radioguy 5/3/2011 5:36:07 PM
- @Ralph Unger - Power failure or lack of electricy was the root cause. Something that every nuclear plant can suffer from or did you not notice the problem in Tenn.?by Lethbridgean 5/3/2011 5:37:07 PM
- It makes me mad to here a Russian talk about nuclear accidents and point fingers.by Ralph Unger 5/3/2011 5:38:11 PM
- The Browns Ferry nuclear facility in northern Alabama remained safely shut down after it lost power following devastating storms in the area, a spokeswoman for the Tennessee Valley Authority said Thursday. The nuclear plant, which provides 10% of the power generated by the TVA, shut down at 4:36 p.m. Central Daylight Time on Wednesday, after the storms damaged transmission lines going into the plant, said TVA spokeswoman Barbara Martocci. blogs.wsj.comby Lethbridgean 5/3/2011 5:39:41 PM
New photos and info online. Video stills of the video Dean posted this morning with new views of 3 and 4. Some additional photos on the black blob out the north end of #4 and what it might be, a theory on the RPV on 3 with diagram and close up images for the #4 SFP objects from Physics Forum main page: www.houseoffoust.com
theories and new pics www.houseoffoust.com
video stills www.houseoffoust.comby Nancy 5/3/2011 5:40:47 PM
@radioguy, we have to give the artist credit. It is self explanatory, even to the Japanese-illiterate like me.by Peter Melzer 5/3/2011 5:47:12 PM- @Ralph Unger The Japanese must be particularly galled by that after the revelation that Russia has been venting their sub wastes in Japanese waters all these years.by radioguy 5/3/2011 5:47:24 PM
- @Peter Melzer Absolutely.by radioguy 5/3/2011 5:47:41 PM
- The Surry reactors, operated by Dominion Resources Inc. with a capacity of 799 megawatts each, automatically shut down when a tornado touched down in the switchyard and knocked out offsite power, the NRC said. The incident was declared an “unusual event,” the lowest of four categories in the federal agency’s emergency classification system. Unit 1 was operating at full power and Unit 2 at 98 percent of capacity on April 15.
“No release of radioactive material has occurred beyond those minor releases associated with normal station operations,” Dominion said in a statement yesterday. “The apparent tornado did not strike the two nuclear units, which are designed to withstand natural events such as tornados, hurricanes and earthquakes.”
U.S. nuclear-power output fell to the lowest level in almost 4 ½ years after a tornado forced Surry Units 1 and 2 in Virginia to shut yesterday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.
Power generation nationwide fell 3,730 megawatts, or 4.9 percent, from April 15 to 72,425 megawatts, or 71 percent of capacity, the smallest amount since Oct. 22, 2006, according to an NRC report today and data compiled by Bloomberg. Twenty-nine of the nation’s 104 reactors were offline.
www.bloomberg.comby Lethbridgean 5/3/2011 5:50:29 PM - @Edano, my brain does not want to wrap around the numbers that fitter and nancy kindly provided. But if we could establish that the containment now sits even only a couple of inches higher than it should, imagine how much damage that must mean for its connections (pipes, etc.).by Peter Melzer 5/3/2011 5:51:54 PM
- Just wait until the Air Conditioning season collides with the peak of storm season. I see the electrical system becoming severely overloaded this summer. IMHOby Lethbridgean 5/3/2011 5:54:10 PM
@Lethbridgean Weird- I was just thinking about Dominion right before you posted that(don't ask).by Maureen Burke 5/3/2011 5:54:25 PM- @Lethbridgean whould you please call surry and ask rhem to fix there reactor... power just came back on .... it was out earlier... (just kidding... i know they only feed the grid) but i have not been able to find out if they brought the one unit back on line.. have not checked in two days.. the one unit is going to stay down for manintaince...by fitter 5/3/2011 5:55:38 PM
- @Lethbridgean i do have battery back up and a generator... use them a lot around here..by fitter 5/3/2011 5:56:36 PM
- The Tennessee Valley Authority boosted output from the 1,104-megawatt Browns Ferry 2 reactor in Alabama to full power from 92 percent of capacity on April 15.
Browns Ferry Units 1 and 3, which have respective capacities of 1,065 megawatts and 1,115 megawatts, are operating at full power. The plant is 84 miles north of Birmingham near the Tennessee line.
Some reactors close for maintenance and refueling during the spring and fall in the U.S., when demand for heating and cooling is lower. The outages can increase consumption of natural gas and coal to generate electricity.
The average U.S. reactor refueling outage lasted 41 days in 2009, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute.by Lethbridgean 5/3/2011 6:08:28 PM - While going through the music for my show this afternoon, I'm also trying to get a handle on this sudden new surge of data for my usual news update. Has anyone digested it?by radioguy 5/3/2011 6:30:17 PM
@radioguy any links? I have just got inby elainekirk 5/3/2011 6:34:15 PM- @elainekirk I went to bed last night just as all those unreleased SPEEDI projections and the new MEXT were coming in.by radioguy 5/3/2011 6:36:44 PM
- The stuff in Panserbjorne9 and markfm pins above.by radioguy 5/3/2011 6:37:27 PM
back..by dean 5/3/2011 6:42:44 PM- @radioguy ah thank you they are eye openers arent they?by elainekirk 5/3/2011 6:42:53 PM
- Not much new from me -- normal report updates (why did #2 SC radiation rise again? what is happening to raise #3 temperatures?). In news stories (on the wiki), it was interesting to see they are going to bring in robotic packages for a concrete pumper truck: www.yomiuri.co.jpby Markfm edited by Markfm 5/3/2011 6:44:53 PM
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