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  • As much as I recall. The tsunami disabled one generator right away and disrupted the diesel lines from a big storage tank to the other. That one had fuel for eight hours in its own tank, and then there was some battery power left. Hence, that emergency cooling did not work on that fateful day cannot be attributed to the general loss of power at the plant.
    by Peter Melzer 5/9/2011 6:04:37 PM

  • @Nancy, well, would not a leaking RPV have an immediate impact on onsite detector readings?
    by Peter Melzer 5/9/2011 6:07:39 PM

  • @Peter Melzer the isunami took out three tanks i believe, but don't read japenese and can not confirm the ifo on it being three and what they were and what systems they would have effected... will try and confirm as much as i can later
    by fitter 5/9/2011 6:08:51 PM

  • @Nancy Time often test scientific thesis, not just theories. Some time aged (stood the test of criticism) , scientific peer reviewed studies on the effects of

    Low-Level Ionizing Radiation (below 100 mSv at one time)

    1. I think this guy is biased in every opinion he makes, but his facts are correct IMHO

    www.psr.org

    2. Gold Standard (BEIR Vii) 1: This is the new "textbook" on ionizing radiation

    www.nap.edu

    3. Gold Standard (BEIR V) 2: This is the Old Textbook on ionizing radiation

    www.nap.edu

    4. This is a good overview of radiation risk from Idaho State University:

    www.physics.isu.edu

    5. An Overview of radiation effects from Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility:

    www.jlab.org

    6.Fermi Lab Radiological Worker Study guide, more simplistic:

    www-esh.fnal.gov

    All I can say, is look into the biological effects, they are there but they are small for most of the

    world, even with Chernoybal and now Fukushima. Nuff said, I will shut up now!
    by RBeaner 5/9/2011 6:09:05 PM

  • @Peter Melzer Outside the buildings or inside? My understanding is they are not constantly venting out the stack. So why they were using that as a measurement vs. in the buildings or in containment I don't know. My understanding is the vent stack was only for when they had to vent?
    by Nancy 5/9/2011 6:09:12 PM

  • @Nancy You are trying to specify the damage Between Earthquake and Tsunami, good, All reference after tsunami is not applicable. Does ANYONE have DATA between the Earthquake and the Tsunami??
    by RBeaner 5/9/2011 6:13:41 PM

  • @Nancy there are sevral "vent systems" each doing there own thing... I looked at a vent systm last night that I can clearly see, but can not understand its feed direcly from the reactor building to the outside without going to a srubber or stack
    by fitter 5/9/2011 6:14:01 PM

  • Re damage evidence of .
    I posted this yesterday but I am posting it again because is it possible this plant sustained quake damage that is only now coming to light ?? there is no way tepco could have known the quake caused no damage imho.

    TSURUGA, Fukui Prefecture - A reactor at the Tsuruga nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture has been shut down May 7 for an emergency check following a jump in radioactive readings.

    Japan Atomic Power Co., The plant operator, said May 6 the irregular readings at the No. 2 reactor could indicate damage to fuel assemblies in its core.
    www.asahi.com
    During scheduled maintenance May 2, radioactive noble gas was measured at 3,900 becquerels per cubic centimeter, 750 times normal, while iodine was two to four times normal.
    by elainekirk 5/9/2011 6:15:05 PM

  • @RBeaner @all My Opinion: FWIW I think if there is anything in the world researched more than this, I don't know what it is. Biological systems heal themselves to low levels of ionizing radiation because it is in the natural environment. The effects of ingesting radioactive substances is far less clear. But it is bad in any case and that's why I worry about the ocean. You can pretty much forget about what's in the air if you are away from that location at any reasonable distance.
    by Jim 5/9/2011 6:15:31 PM

  • @Nancy, they must have monitors on all floors of the reactor buildings.
    by Peter Melzer 5/9/2011 6:15:38 PM

  • @Nancy European Committee on Radiation Risk www.euradcom.org
    ECRR 2010 recommendations www.euradcom.org
    by Bobby1 5/9/2011 6:17:36 PM

  • gotta go get my mom her glasses, talk some geology later...
    by Jim 5/9/2011 6:21:51 PM

  • @Jim Except as rainfall washes it out into the soil, and grass and natural accumulators (like grazers) concentrate it and put it into nice deliverable water and oil based extracts we like to call milk. (Or burgers or whatever)
    by radioguy 5/9/2011 6:21:53 PM

  • @radioguy Oh yes, very true and as it works up the food chain, no doubt.
    by Jim 5/9/2011 6:22:56 PM

  • @Peter Melzer We really need to get back to citing source documents. If we don't start with fact, all built up theory will be BS. This document www.tepco.co.jp says at 3:41 all AC power was lost due to diesal damage from tsunami. Please cite sources even this late in the game.
    by RBeaner 5/9/2011 6:27:16 PM

  • @Jim @radioguy Humans are accumulators also. So there is an increasing nonlinear effect.
    by Bobby1 5/9/2011 6:28:15 PM

  • @rbeaner we have photographic evidence of that, the deisel tanks were on the docking area and the tsunami took them straight off into the sea which meant of course that the generators lost their feed
    by elainekirk 5/9/2011 6:29:56 PM

  • @fitter Sounds like another one of those info gaps. They are measuring out those big exhaust stacks. But as was found on #4 there are things like the sludge tank that have an air intake from the outside but how does that tank normally safely vent gasses?
    by Nancy 5/9/2011 6:30:41 PM

  • @RBeaner ty i have media reports stating such, but with out further conformation would not like to post because its not a media source i trust as actual vs hype
    by fitter 5/9/2011 6:30:55 PM

  • I have to wonder if CNIC may have some of that "unknown" data of that first day. They make some theories but seem like maybe they have more of a base of knowledge? I may see if I can get some information through them. Right now all I have are the TEPCO press releases and media accounts, oh and one digital globe photo. METI didn't put any Mar 11 based info on their website, at least on the English side.
    by Nancy 5/9/2011 6:34:27 PM

  • @Bobby1 Yes, and having lived through the 50's & 60's testing, and everything since, lived in the shadow of Sandia Labs for a decade, and within 15 miles of Rocky Flats for 25 years, I figure I've accumulated some. I for one, am not swayed by the "It hasn't raised the incidence of related cancers above background" argument, because we have no idea what the background would have been without all of the atomic (and chemical) abuse we've inflicted on our ecosystems.
    by radioguy 5/9/2011 6:35:22 PM

  • @Nancy air intake is probably not from ouyside, (guess) and would not vent to outside without going to scrubber system (guess) these are what i suspect to be a totally different system... but can not confrim with out contacting vendors on operation... until my son gets home frome college i can't prnt pics and screen jumping doen't give me a claer pic
    by fitter 5/9/2011 6:35:45 PM

  • @fitter are you needing to print single page things or big blueprint format?
    by Nancy 5/9/2011 6:37:17 PM

  • @Jim The reason that the effects of ionizing radiation have been examined to such an extent, is because the effect is so small as to be inconclusive in every study. I'm not implying the LNT concept is wrong, but NO study has proven a significant showable result at low levels.
    by RBeaner 5/9/2011 6:37:59 PM

  • @Bobby1 Whack a Mole the ECCRS is a commitee, doesn't have anything to do with science
    by RBeaner 5/9/2011 6:40:07 PM

  • @radioguy Wow, the Rocky Flats site is scary. Background is the radiation the earth had before all the madness started.
    by Bobby1 5/9/2011 6:41:06 PM

  • @Nancy single pics, but the printers here are all tied togrther an all three of the computos i use to come here with use different software.... I should have looked at the ad for windos 7 before i agreed to it there is no one over 25 in the ad and i told the tech guy to dump as much video as possible, my buisess programs take a lot of space
    by fitter 5/9/2011 6:41:44 PM

  • @Nancy sludge is wet radioactive material, no release of airborne radioactivity will occur. It is a radiation source if you get near it, but like a light bulb, as you move away it diminishes and the light doesn't go with you. unless you walk through the muck,.
    by RBeaner 5/9/2011 6:43:31 PM

  • @RBeaner: If you get bored at anytime, here is an enlightening
    reading.
    ECRR 2006: CHERNOBYL 20 YEARS AFTER
    ...Since 1986, in the USSR, life expectancy has noticeably decreased. On average, infant
    mortality has noticeably increased, as well as death rates for those of advanced ages. There
    is no proof of a direct connection between these parameters and the Chernobyl catastrophe,
    but there is proof of such connections for particular polluted territories.
    After 1986, in the radioactively polluted areas of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia,
    there is an increase in general mortality by comparison with neighboring areas (Grodzinsky,
    1999; Omelianetz, et al., 2001; Kashirina, 2005; Sergeeva et al., 2005).
    An increase in the number of stillbirths, correlating with the level of pollution, is
    noted for of some areas of Ukraine (Kulakov et al., 1993) and Belarus (Golovko, Izhevsky,
    1996). The number of spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) has noticeably increased in
    some polluted territories of Russia. By some estimates, the number of miscarriages and
    stillbirths as a result of radioactive pollution in Ukraine has reached 50,000 (Lipik, 2004).
    In some European countries an increase in perinatal mortality connected with the
    Chernobyl catastrophe has been revealed (see Korblein paper in this book). After 1987 an
    increase in infant and children's mortality is noted in the polluted areas of Ukraine
    (Omelianetz, Klement’eva, 2001) and Russia (Utka et al., 2005). Presented in Table 1 is
    one example of such mortality in one Russian area...

    www.euradcom.org
    by estacion 5/9/2011 6:44:19 PM

  • @RBeaner I was more meaning any sources of venting, like is the vent stack the only venting source? Or are there multiple vents that are smaller? The sludge tank can build up hydrogen, that was why I was wondering how it ties into the system. Logic would dictate since it has an air intake it would have some sort of exhaust of some sort
    by Nancy 5/9/2011 6:45:52 PM

  • @RBeaner think nancy was refering to the venting system,
    by fitter 5/9/2011 6:46:02 PM

  • @Nancy The 2007 Recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection www.ib.cnea.gov.ar
    by Bobby1 5/9/2011 6:49:39 PM

  • @Nancy venting systemSSSSSSSSSSSS... is very complex from what i am seing, without more info at the moment and lack of translation i am at a standstill on clearifying what they call vents....
    by fitter 5/9/2011 6:50:08 PM

  • @estacion Like I said, that is not a scientific group, not a scientific report and it is generated by a commitee. Anyone who has worked in/for a large group knows that commitees producw waste products, not results. Next you will probably cite the garbage from NYAS 2005, which was a book, not a scientific paper.
    by RBeaner 5/9/2011 6:51:10 PM

  • @RBeaner You can't declare anything done by a committee to be null and void just because you dislike the process. Take it with a grain of salt, sure. Take it with a bigger grain of salt based on the group's reputation or track record, of course.
    by Nancy 5/9/2011 6:54:11 PM

  • @Nancy I completely concur with the reports of the International Commission on Radiological Protection
    by RBeaner 5/9/2011 6:55:04 PM

  • @Nancy big problem is its all *** now and goggle is putting out errounious translation in my opionion... there are no hospital an nurses in the tech items i have been looking at, but google thinks so.... tech info does not seem to go very well in some of the stuff.... and in my buisness the smaller its writen, usually he more iportant it i
    by fitter 5/9/2011 6:55:09 PM

  • @fitter Since what I am dealing with right now only brought venting into the picture because TEPCO used it as a "proof" they were not leaking radiation it isn't a huge factor. It seems that what is really critical are those plant stats and radiation levels inside the reactor and containment for that first day.
    by Nancy 5/9/2011 6:55:36 PM

  • @Nancy i have no ideal why the post just got edited i did not use any swear words
    by fitter 5/9/2011 6:56:30 PM

  • @RBeaner:
    Alexey V. Yablokov
    Russian Academy of Sciences, and Center for Russian Ecological Policy, Moscow.

    I can add all the integrants of the book if you want...
    by estacion 5/9/2011 6:57:21 PM

  • @fitter Google translation is really wonky. I have gotten used to trying to read between the lines, it will put in odd words like "nurse" when the real meaning was something like "repair" or a repair technician etc. Some are easy to figure out and others are just too unclear. I am not sure if there are more accurate computer translation tools.
    by Nancy 5/9/2011 6:58:22 PM

  • @fitter Not very good translation, I'll give you that, but Japanese is a hard one for traditional translation algorithms. It's kind of like trying to read between the lines to figure out what's going on inside reactors with broken monitoring.
    by radioguy 5/9/2011 7:00:30 PM

  • @Nancy in spec's to be correct you can NOT read between the lines, thats what is leading me to believe that some data my be corrupted..... the japenes lang is revese to begin with... and it really complicates the matter
    by fitter 5/9/2011 7:01:16 PM

  • @Nancy If you look at the people invited to take part, look at their credentials, and in the ECCR it is just a farce and has no respect in the scientific community. I simply believe in the scientific approach, I believe that the mass of scientists can be unbiased or unfazed by outside pressures. Please research Busby and Yablokov. or don't, take it in stride. I don't believe that magic should be compared with science with an open (blank/stupid) mind. I try to back up what I say, with data, and researched papers, heres Chris Busby Exposed junksciencewatch.wordpress.com if you can find a Factual error, please let me know. I feel like I'm debating The Science Guy or Dr. laura on the effects of radiation.
    by RBeaner 5/9/2011 7:01:57 PM

  • Looking over BEIR VII slide on ionizing radiation...significant cancer increases in adults exposed to over 100 millisieverts and 10 millisieverts for children in utero. Didn't they up the max for children to 20 millisieverts in Japan? Not good! Just my 2 cents...as someone in the science field...every study should be considered but must be re-evaluated wIth the adveNt of new technologies and more info. The BEIR might be considered the Gold standard but as it is in science, it might not remain so forever. We learn more as time goes by....at least I'd like to think so. www.health.wyo.gov
    by LM 5/9/2011 7:04:40 PM

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