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U.N. forum takes up nuke accidents
Ban pushes for better system to address safety issues
search.japantimes.co.jp
"The four-day event follows the radiation leaks at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, which has been crippled since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami devastated the northeast coast.

About 2,700 delegates from around 170 countries and regions will seek to create a framework to share countermeasures for nuclear accidents that have global spillover effects, participants said. Japan is being represented by Shozo Azuma, senior vice minister at the Cabinet Office.

The participants are also discussing how best to enhance local governments' antidisaster measures, including close communication and cooperation with central governments — taking lessons from the disaster that killed nearly 15,000 people and left around 10,000 others missing."

From TEPCO Presser May 12 AM (Part 1): "We Have No Idea Where the Water Went" from Reactor 1 RPV/Containment Vessel

TEPCO's Matsumoto answering questions from the press, from TEPCO's press conference on May 12 morning recorded live (in Japanese).

Rough translation from the Q&A:

Regarding the water level in the Containment Vessel of the Reactor 1:

"The pressure gauge for the Containment Vessel is working, but we cannot properly measure the water level inside the Containment Vessel. Therefore, we do not know where the water level is."

About the water that's been poured:

"We are trying to figure that out. In the initial stage when the reactor core was still hot, the water might have been evaporated and escaped from the Containment Vessel. But now, the reactor temperature is between 100 to 120 degrees Celsius, so the water would remain water. We are assuming most of the water escaped the Containment Vessel into the surrounding reactor building. However, there is no water in the northwest corner of the basement of the reactor building, as far as we can see by the camera. We don't know where the water has gone. Possibly, it may have gone to the reactor building, the turbine building, or the waste disposal facility. But we haven't identify it yet."

About the leak location - whether the Containment Vessel itself has the leak or the building foundation has a leak:

"The water may be escaping from the bottom of the Containment Vessel or the RPV, but we haven't identified the location."

Hey guys, just cleared a lot of usernames off the organize mod jam (the other board). Something went tippy. I just came in from another road trip... Test it and give feedback here if you're still stuck. Thanks.

I believe, we are seeing another Curve ball coming on.this looks to me the same as the night we had all those 5+.....
Thursday May 12 2011, 07:41:10 UTC 22 minutes ago northern Sumatra, Indonesia 4.7 93.9 Detail
Thursday May 12 2011, 07:39:31 UTC 23 minutes ago Tonga region 5.2 6.0 Detail
Thursday May 12 2011, 07:04:19 UTC 59 minutes ago Ascension Island region 5.0 10.1

Jo's roundup for 4.22.2011

my reactor of the day is #1, which seems stabilizing.
RPV temperature has dropped below the boiling point with a good margin (20 °C), drywell one is just above the boiling point (2°C). It still seems to me the drywell has no heat source and is heated by the RPV, which would mean there is no fission running here (this does not mean there is no fuel that has escaped though). The torus seems mostly intact and the pressure in this area would suggest most water is leaking at the level of the steam pipes between the reactor and the turbines (or in the turbine building itself)
Note: according to google translation from Japanese to english, NISA reports say that nitrogen is being injecting into the "sealed containment Reactor", which in my opinion would be the RPV and is consistent with the pressures readings we have.

@Arghh NM, your posting from 4-22

@bo, stormy weather should be subsiding at Hiroshima as the disturbance continues further eastward... Can you confirm it's calmer now where you are compared to this morning? Thanks. The typhoon's periphery must be brushing past the Kanto coast by this time. Arigato...

@Alblee also, wasn't particularly stormy this morning. The last two days have been very bad, mostly heavy, heavy rain. Lighter all day today, although still raining.

New radioactive leak raises questions
Highly radioactive water was found leaking into the sea from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Wednesday. It's now been revealed that contaminated water levels in the No. 3 reactor's turbine building were already alarmingly high by Sunday.
Tokyo Electric Power Company plugged the leak with concrete after it found highly radioactive water flowing into the sea through a pit.
Radioactive cesium 620,000 times higher than the government-set safety limit was detected from the leaked water.
The contaminated water was streaming from the outlet of a pipe for electric cables.
The leak is thought to have stemmed from pooled water in the turbine building of the No. 3 reactor.
TEPCO says it found that waste water levels in the facility had risen to a point where leakage was feared on Sunday.
The company says it doesn't know when the leak began, but that it will investigate if the monitoring of water levels was appropriate. The problem raises the question of whether the utility wasn't able to prevent the latest leak.
The utility is planning to soon begin transferring radioactive water accumulated in the turbine building to a provisional storage facility. It is now checking for other possible leaks.
Highly radioactive water poured into the sea from a crack in a pit outside the No.2 reactor in early April.
On Thursday, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the renewed leaking of radioactive materials into the sea was extremely regrettable.
He says the government apologizes to the local residents, the fishing industry and neighboring countries.
Edano also said he had instructed TEPCO to investigate how the leak occurred, and that the company must take measures to prevent another episode.
Thursday, May 12, 2011 13:09 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp

@all - so we have 2 major bad news stories today, no water in #1 and a big radiation leak from #3. Anything else lurking in the Tepco press conf?

@hudebnik: Until now I didn't find more infos from conf. Maybe that's already a lot for tepco to tell...

FINALLY Reuters is also picking up leak in #1
Fukushima reactor water leak risks delaying crisis plan sns.mx

@bo - I don't know, I haven't seen any very recent thermo pics @all - have we any from the last few days?

I guess I saw them a few days ago, but I actually can't say that they were current at the time.

They would certainly be interesting given what has been going on the past week.

@Bo: I know I read somewhere and they thought it maybe because of all the hot steam that is in the house and heats the whole thing up. It has only this small window to let the steam out and so much can be in there and heat the housing up. That was what I read and sounded logical to me.

@borrrden, konbanwa, how's the weather where you are? Are there signs that your neighbors in Ibaraki are taking any storm-mediated anti-radiation measures? Thanks.