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@es are you out there learkingby fitter 5/10/2011 10:39:09 PM
ha ha @ nancy I walked by.. you guys are outta control...by dean 5/10/2011 10:39:20 PM- hi Angieby dean 5/10/2011 10:39:24 PM
@Nancy : yes, and no. :)by Edano 5/10/2011 10:39:42 PM
@Nancy yes I have and I have put up anything that seems of value.by Angie 5/10/2011 10:39:43 PM
@fitter Yesby es 5/10/2011 10:39:49 PM- back later.. watching movie with my wife.. awwwwwwwww..by dean 5/10/2011 10:40:25 PM
- @es just wanted to say hello, you must be a learker!!!!by fitter 5/10/2011 10:40:25 PM
- @all yesby Edano 5/10/2011 10:40:27 PM
- Kyodo is great for a headline and a couple of sentences..........I wish they would open it back up again. @Dean you enjoy the movie!!!by Angie 5/10/2011 10:41:19 PM
- @fitter One of my favourite hobbies ;) Hello.by es 5/10/2011 10:41:21 PM
- Hello angieby fitter 5/10/2011 10:41:24 PM
@Nancy Speaking of NHK... TEPCO slipping behind schedule to contain accident
Nearly one month has passed since the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant announced a schedule to contain the accident. But Tokyo Electric Power Company is finding it difficult to stick to the plan.
TEPCO announced the schedule on April 17th, detailing 51 measures to be implemented over the next 3 months for the 1st stage.
The most important steps involve the cooling of the reactors. These include pumping water into the reactors, injecting nitrogen into the containment vessels to prevent a hydrogen blast and filling them with water, as well as a study on the possible installation of heat exchangers. Workers have entered the No.1 reactor building to prepare to inject water into the containment vessel. On Tuesday, they started calibrating the water gauges, and a plan has been drawn up to
install a heat exchanger.by LM 5/10/2011 10:41:42 PM- Radiation high at No.3 reactor pool
The operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has detected high levels of radioactive materials in the spent fuel pool of the No.3 reactor at the plant.
Tokyo Electric Power Company examined a water sample from the pool on Sunday. The sample contained 140,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium-134 per cubic centimeter, 150,000 becquerels of cesium-137, and 11,000 becquerels of iodine-131.
None of these substances were detected during an inspection on March 2nd, before the accident triggered by the March 11th disaster.
TEPCO says these substances may have come from damaged fuel rods in the reactor rather than the damaged spent fuel rods in the pool, because it has detected radioactive iodine, which has a short half-life. Radioactive substances such as iodine are generated during nuclear fission inside a reactor.
The company says the radioactive substances may have become attached to debris and entered the pool together.
Footage from the pool at the No.3 reactor on Sunday showed debris, believed to have been caused by a hydrogen explosion, scattered all over the interior of the reactor building.
The levels of radiation detected are almost the same as those detected in April in water samples in the fuel pool of the No.2 reactor.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 20:22 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jpby Edano 5/10/2011 10:41:57 PM - @Nancy I check multiple times each day...remarkably little in the way of valuable info!by LM 5/10/2011 10:42:43 PM
- @fitter hello! How is your mountain of paper going??by Angie 5/10/2011 10:43:49 PM
- they obviously did not test plutonium. they think that's not important.by Edano 5/10/2011 10:44:04 PM
In April 2005, the investigation results on the thermal insulation etc. of BWRs and PWRs and
interim measures such as a revision of operation proc edure s , we re reported by several
licensees. NISA considered that the interim measures reported by the licensees were adequate
as they were equivalent in content to the measures of which effectiveness was verified in the
U.S.A. NISA considers that full implementation of the interim measures are essential in order
not to cause an important-to-safety problem until the measures on the equipment, such as
larger strainers or screens etc., will be completed, and NISA instructed the licensees to
implement the interim measures and has been checking the implementation status by the
Operational Safety Inspection etc. For the effectiveness evaluation of the strainers of BWRs, it
was reported that the effectiveness was not confirmed at some nuclear installations as a result
of a conservative evaluation in accordance with the U.S. regulatory guides. NISA studied the
adequacy of those evaluations and measures at the Working Group for Safety Assessment, of
the Nuclear Reactor Safety Subcommittee, under Nuclear and Industrial Safety Subcommittee.
As NISA, receiving the results that the larger strainers and replacement of the thermal
insulation are required, instructed in October 2005, to implement the measures for BWRs. All
BWR licensees have been implementing the measures in accordance with the instruction. This
status of implementation was also reported to the NSC.
www.nisa.meti.go.jp
did tepco or didn't they ? they probably took the get out of this free card methinksby elainekirk 5/10/2011 10:45:11 PM- @Angie i need a secratary now to file it so I can find it... it now looks like my computor exxcept i don't have to wait for it to open and then get the gremblins when i try and closeby fitter 5/10/2011 10:45:20 PM
- @all Has anyone else been watching live cam? An unusual amount of daytime smoke from all reactors today.by LM 5/10/2011 10:45:22 PM
- @LM I believe they have been tossing firework powder in to provide added interestby elainekirk 5/10/2011 10:46:29 PM
- @Edano They do not seem to like to release any info on anything except for cesium and iodine.............@Fitter lol now see when I have lots of paper the kids attack it and use it for colouring! soooo the computer is much safer for me!by Angie 5/10/2011 10:47:15 PM
- @Elaine LOLby LM 5/10/2011 10:47:28 PM
- #4 seriously off-kilter!by LM 5/10/2011 10:48:36 PM
- 140,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium-134 per cubic centimeter that means :
140,000,000 Bq/l, 140,000,000 Bq/kg cesium-134, 140,000,000,000 Bq/m³
150,000,000 Bq/l, 150,000,000 Bq/kg cesium-137, 150,000,000,000 Bq/m³
11,000,000 Bq/l, 11,000,000 Bq/kg iodine-131, 11,000,000,000 Bq/m³
only tepco measures in Bq/cm³ !!by Edano 5/10/2011 10:50:32 PM 
@all just a moment to remember why I'm here, 2 months into this nightmare.. www.youtube.comby RBeaner 5/10/2011 10:50:53 PM- @you : how many litres has one spf ?by Edano 5/10/2011 10:52:06 PM
- 200 tons of water ? what was the capacity of one sfp ?by Edano 5/10/2011 10:53:32 PM
- @Edano a cm^3 is a milli-liter, that is typical and standard in my experienceby RBeaner 5/10/2011 10:54:07 PM
@Edano we figured out at one point how much #4 was leaking per hour, I wanna say 400liters an hour? I can't remember capacity of water though.by Nancy 5/10/2011 10:55:27 PMI am not sure if you guys have seen this one......
by Angie 5/10/2011 10:55:39 PM
@LM watching and listening to the birds, so beautiful and heartbreakingby ariadne 5/10/2011 10:55:47 PM- @all Smoke in #3 is coming from core or SPF area? Wouldn't the SFP be on the right side?by LM 5/10/2011 10:56:58 PM
Am I missing something or is the mainstream media just ignoring the recent fires?
seeker401.files.wordpress.comby Rob in SF via Seeker401.files.wordpress 5/10/2011 10:58:18 PM- Hi Rob!!!by Angie 5/10/2011 10:59:51 PM
- @Rob in SF Nicely done! They've ignored it all.by LM 5/10/2011 10:59:59 PM
- @ariadne Definitely heartbreaking and tragic.by LM 5/10/2011 11:01:46 PM
I believe sfp is around 1450 cubic meters - I have info url pinned on the wiki useful links page.by Markfm 5/10/2011 11:12:49 PM- from www.physicsforums.com : the sfp contains ~2*10^9 cm³. this are 2,000,000 liters.
so we have:
280,000,000,000,000 bq caesium-134 = 280 TBq
300,000,000,000,000 bq caesium-137 = 300 TBq
11,000,000,000,000 bq iodine-131 = 11 TBq
in sfp #3. is that correct, or any zeroes missing ?by Edano 5/10/2011 11:13:47 PM - 2 - 5 are 1425 cubic meters: allthingsnuclear.orgby Markfm 5/10/2011 11:14:46 PM
- @Markfm : you have 1,425,000 l, i have 2,000,000 l. nearly ~ agreed. ;)by Edano 5/10/2011 11:17:44 PM
Ohio gozaimasu tomodachiby bo 5/10/2011 11:18:09 PM- Hi y'all.
That JNN photo composite isn't mine. It's on several other blogs...
BTW, I put Bo's RT News interview from early this AM on the Misc page on FukuFAQ...
fukushimafaq.wikispaces.comby Rob in SF 5/10/2011 11:18:14 PM - Certainly, close enough for estimationby Markfm 5/10/2011 11:18:45 PM
- @Rob in SF yes and no? Yes the media totally ignored it. Tepco is claiming it was all steam and due to the limited lighting anywhere there wasn't direct light looked dark like smoke vs. steam. Big media pretty much ignored the whole thing.by Nancy 5/10/2011 11:20:03 PM
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