Japan Earthquake

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@Salu Can You put it up here??
by Angie 5/19/2011 9:26:23 AM

www.tepco.co.jp
by Salu 5/19/2011 9:27:09 AM

@salu they are birds I think
by elainekirk 5/19/2011 9:27:52 AM

Ummm looks like bugs??
by Angie 5/19/2011 9:27:55 AM

Irradiated birds!
by hudebnik 5/19/2011 9:28:08 AM

@Mona Thanks - that must have been it .... the timing fits. Sure seemed bigger than a 4.7 though! Going to bed now, g'night all!
by ms in la 5/19/2011 9:41:59 AM

@ms in la Night!
by Angie 5/19/2011 9:42:27 AM

Wait a minute, just looked at Hungarian site and there was just a 5.5 there!
by ms in la 5/19/2011 9:44:19 AM

Magnitude: 5.5
Date-Time [UTC]: 19 May, 2011 at 09:12:42 UTC
Local Date/Time: Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 09:12 in the moorning at epicenter
Location: 37° 11.400, 142° 58.200
Depth: 2 km (1.24 miles)
Region: Asia
Country: Japan
Distances: 173.6 km (107.87 miles) of Tomioka,
by ms in la 5/19/2011 9:44:31 AM

That had to be it. It's off the coast of Fuku. At least I wasn't imagining! G'night again!
by ms in la 5/19/2011 9:45:43 AM

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Cabinet adviser Oriza Hirata has retracted a recent remark that low-level radioactive water was dumped from the troubled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific in April at the "strong request" of the United States, his office said Thursday.
mdn.mainichi.jp
by elainekirk 5/19/2011 9:56:06 AM

@elainekirk Thank you! I was trying to find out before what Kyodo was going on about when they had up that something had been retracted!
by Angie 5/19/2011 10:06:11 AM

TOKYO - A radiation alarm went off at Tokyo Electric Power's Fukushima nuclear power plant before the tsunami hit last Wednesday, suggesting that contrary to earlier assumptions the reactors were damaged by the earthquake that spawned the wall of water.

A monitoring post on the perimeter of the plant about 1.5 kilometers from the No 1 reactor went off at 3.29pm, minutes before the station was overwhelmed by the tide of water that knocked out backup power that kept cooling systems running, according to documents supplied by Tokyo Electric.

The monitor was set to go off for high levels of radiation, an official said.
www.todayonline.com
by elainekirk 5/19/2011 10:11:53 AM

19, TEPCO announced that two workers entered the 18th day before the reactor building of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 3. Workers entered the reactor building of Unit 3 is the first time after the accident. The maximum dose is 160 per hour - as high as 170 mSv. Likely to influence the future restoration work. translate.google.com
by Majj 5/19/2011 10:14:24 AM

At only 2 Km deep, that's unusually shallow. Think they're normally several 10's of Km deep there.
by Paul 5/19/2011 10:15:01 AM

Sorry... the 5.5 quake that is. Can anyone get the live feed? I'm just getting an annoying beep and a video test screen...

www.youtube.com
by Paul edited by Angie 5/19/2011 10:28:50 AM

@Paul No mine is doing the same thing as yours........
by Angie 5/19/2011 10:30:13 AM

@paul ditto
by elainekirk 5/19/2011 10:31:26 AM

Radioactive iodine from breast milk, detected cesium - Tokyo Hukushima Ibaraki translate.googleusercontent.com
by Majj 5/19/2011 10:33:14 AM

Do we all freak out now with no cam???
by Angie 5/19/2011 10:33:27 AM

radioactive cesium was detected in 1530 becquerels per kilogram from the pastures of the ranch town municipal 筆甫 Marumori Namsan. More than five times the country's tolerance of 300 becquerels translate.googleusercontent.com
by Majj 5/19/2011 10:34:36 AM

@Angie Makes me wonder about that quake - usually the more shallow the quake the more the ground surface damage. At 2 Km that was right on the skin of the pudding, and notably so compared to the others. Not exactly just a light tremor at 5.5 either.
by Paul 5/19/2011 10:39:26 AM

@Paul I fully agree.........It will be bad if that is the correct depth those reactors cant handle much more.......... Bbs guys.
by Angie 5/19/2011 10:42:18 AM

Local gov't eyes annulling permit to reclaim land for nuclear plant

YAMAGUCHI, Japan, May 19, Kyodo

The Yamaguchi prefectural government is considering invalidating a license allowing Chugoku Electric Power Co. to reclaim land in the Kaminoseki area for a planned nuclear power plant, Gov. Sekinari Nii said Thursday. english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 5/19/2011 10:44:43 AM

by Edano via English.kyodonews.jp 5/19/2011 10:45:30 AM

Planned site for nuke plant in Yamaguchi Pref.
File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 17, 2011, shows a planned construction site for a nuclear power plant in the town of Kaminoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan. Yamaguchi Gov. Sekinari Nii said May 19 the prefectural government is considering invalidating a license that allows Chugoku Electric Power Co. to reclaim the land for the plant's construction, following a nuclear crisis at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 5/19/2011 10:46:16 AM

Hamaoka is toast ! :) :) :)

5 tons of seawater may have entered Hamaoka nuclear reactor

SHIZUOKA, Japan, May 19, Kyodo

Around five tons of seawater may have entered one of the reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture along with about 400 tons of seawater found in its steam condenser when work was under way Sunday to put the reactor into a state of ''cold shutdown,'' Chubu Electric Power Co., the plant operator, said Thursday.

The reactor will not be decommissioned because the utility will dilute and desalinate the seawater in an effort to prevent any corrosion inside the reactor, the company said.

Seawater might have entered from damaged piping inside the condenser, which cools steam from the turbine and turns it into water. english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 5/19/2011 10:48:15 AM

Workers succeed in entering buildings of 3 troubled reactors: TEPCO

TOKYO, May 19, Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 5/19/2011 10:50:02 AM

@edano it is madness do companies not factor in the human cost? In every other sector of retail they have to factor people in or lose trade but power companies globally do not have this concern, why is there no competition between them? they all happilly tootle along together to the financial and health detriment of their customers
by elainekirk 5/19/2011 10:50:09 AM

@elainekirk : the nuke industry stands outside of law, governation, responsibility, insurances, competition, control, democracy. this is a unique position in our world.
by Edano 5/19/2011 10:57:09 AM

New plant data for today from Tepco: www.tepco.co.jp
by Mina 5/19/2011 10:58:37 AM

Workers enter No.3 reactor

Workers have entered the Number 3 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant for the first time since a hydrogen explosion 3 days after the March 11th quake and tsunami.

Tokyo Electric Power Company says 2 workers in protective suits and carrying air tanks went inside for about 10 minutes from 4:30 PM Wednesday to check radiation levels.

TEPCO says the workers measured radiation of 160 to 170 millisieverts per hour around the door of the containment vessel.

The utility says it would be difficult to start work on injecting nitrogen gas needed to prevent a hydrogen blast into the containment vessel under such high radiation levels.

The utility said the 2 workers were exposed to radiation of 2 to 3 millisieverts.

TEPCO has now been able to send workers into all 3 reactors that were operating at the time of the quake and tsunami. Workers entered the Number 1 reactor building on May 5th and the Number 2 reactor on Wednesday morning.

TEPCO is rushing to make the reactor buildings safe enough for workers to go inside and proceed with the plans outlined in its roadmap to stabilize the reactors.

This includes installing new cooling systems to circulate water leaked from containment vessels back into the reactors and the nitrogen injections.

Thursday, May 19, 2011 12:47 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 5/19/2011 11:01:34 AM

@elainekirk @Edano Yes. It is madness. We are seeing the global consequences of insanity.
by Bobby1 5/19/2011 11:03:10 AM

　　TEPC☢ has reported a sharp rise in the concentration of a radioactive material in samples of seawater near the Number 3 reactor.　[NHK]
by Edano 5/19/2011 11:04:40 AM

Do this have any utility?? Deploying a borescope would most certainly require them to rejig the pipe configuration and would definately require an entry point to be opened for the borecam umbilical. __ Regardless, I don't believe it would be possible given how many physical constraints there would be in the pipe system - pumps(even stationary) and filters are two things that immediately preclude using a borescope - seems highly unlikely any water injection lines into an RPV would not have at least one filter. - If it was even possible to do that what would they see? The inside of a sparge ring or the annulus between the RPV and shroud? Not that useful. -- If they thought it was possible would they would risk getting an instrument stuck in their only water injection line? -- Clearly what they need is a wireless, rad hard, temperature tolerant , waterproof, steam proof, camera "pill" that can somehow get through pumps and filters undamaged and that can transmit data wirelessly through tons of water, concrete and steel. Perhaps they havn't had the chance to pop down to Akihabara yet ;) --- If they are adding water through the core spray lines the borescope would need to be able to go through a spray nozzle.... www.physicsforums.com Sorry if i waste yours time....
by Majj 5/19/2011 11:05:04 AM

@majj it makes me think tepco are doing a stock take and deciding what is salvagable
by elainekirk 5/19/2011 11:09:34 AM

Hi, all. Popping in for just a couplaminutes.. Great chatter. Missed you a lot.
@Elaine, @Majj, very good points. muito boa explicação!
by ALBLEE 5/19/2011 11:14:00 AM

@ALBLEE Voce fala Portugues???
by Majj 5/19/2011 11:14:48 AM

The borescope song and dance is just mirros and flashing light as far as I am concerned.
by ALBLEE 5/19/2011 11:15:23 AM

No, @Majj, google translate, hah hah hah! Boatarde. I spent a few months in Dili, Timor Leste and picked up some... Heh heh heh.
by ALBLEE 5/19/2011 11:16:05 AM