Japan Earthquake

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@hudebnik -did you see my post about dawn yesterday?
by UKVal 5/21/2011 1:42:54 PM

Ironic, an ill wind does blow on the day of "rapture"
by deb 5/21/2011 1:43:48 PM

@deb we're evidently not the chosen ones as we're still here
by UKVal 5/21/2011 1:44:54 PM

Dang, crawl out of bed, grab a coffee and see this? Why are these four guys on horses in my back yard. :-) Did anyone see if there was a quake in the area yet?
by Nancy 5/21/2011 1:47:38 PM

@UKVal I believe it is 6pm, in whatever country your are in
by deb 5/21/2011 1:47:44 PM

@Nancy Already checked, there have been a couple but not as close as others
by deb 5/21/2011 1:48:18 PM

@Nancy All good in Oz......11:49pm..........roflmao Oh on the 21st....well for a few more mins.........
by Angie 5/21/2011 1:48:41 PM

@deb ah so i've still a few hours to wait before I know if I'm saved or destined to witness the end of the world
by UKVal 5/21/2011 1:49:37 PM

@anyone who wants to be more spesific ? I am a chosen one, so relax, it's not that day yet. ;)
by Mona 5/21/2011 1:51:07 PM

@Nancy I've been watching for over an hour & no sign of a quake prior to the steaming
by UKVal 5/21/2011 1:51:11 PM

This is the last one on the Japan site 19:24 JST 21 May 2011 37.2N 141.5E 50 km 4.4 Fukushima-ken Oki
by deb 5/21/2011 1:51:11 PM

So that kind of tosses the quake relation theory out the window. The other one maybe corium bits plopping into the water in the containment?
by Nancy 5/21/2011 1:51:17 PM

@UKVal one of the incidents we saw the quake right after the smoke show started, the other the quake and smoke show were about the same time.
by Nancy 5/21/2011 1:52:32 PM

The last quake was further away, in the ocean, between the orange & yellow dot (top)
by deb 5/21/2011 1:52:43 PM

@Nancy most of the steam appeared to be from 4, but some also from 4
by UKVal 5/21/2011 1:53:00 PM

There is steam coming from #3 as well, could be seen clearly after that big cover the whole screen steam show
by deb 5/21/2011 1:54:02 PM

@deb I thought so, but it was difficult to distinguish from the steam coming out the front of 4 then low towards 3
by UKVal 5/21/2011 1:55:18 PM

Looked like the first steam show was from unit #4, and the second from unit #3
by WolfDK 5/21/2011 1:55:36 PM

I checked the videos. Looked much like the other incidents. BTW, I had one of the reporters tell me #3 is having structural concerns. They warned workers of falling debris but have not labeled it "fragile" yet. If they label it fragile I think they won't let people in anymore.
by Nancy 5/21/2011 1:56:26 PM

LOLOLOL, one of those videos already has 29 views!
by deb 5/21/2011 1:57:10 PM

@Nancy that's really going to mess up any chance of keeping the SFP cool in 3, never mind the RPV
by UKVal 5/21/2011 1:57:38 PM

@Nancy Yes, very much like the last ones, but 2 or 3 x's more steam/smoke than before. This is the first time the buildings (or what's left of them) have been blinded by the steam
by deb 5/21/2011 1:58:29 PM

Edano posted yesterday that Germany is doing a test run to attempt to shut down all nuclear reactors and see if they can meet power demand, if so Germany will shut all of their reactors down permanently. There were only a few running so they may pull this off. www.bloomberg.com
by Nancy 5/21/2011 1:59:29 PM

@Nancy did you catch the New Scientist article re damage to the torus in 2?
by UKVal 5/21/2011 2:00:31 PM

@UKVal They seemed to have lost one of the cooling routes to the RPV a couple of days ago. It stopped flowing water in. They did hook up to another route that is still working. They also said 3 is heating up again and they need to go back to watering it more. 3 is starting to really have some issues.
No I did not catch the New Scientist article. Did they say more than it blew out?
by Nancy 5/21/2011 2:01:56 PM

Can not imagine that the fuelrods dig thermal shocks..
by WolfDK 5/21/2011 2:03:49 PM

@Nancy It was steaming out top of 4 and then more massive smoke started spewing and it started spreading. It's definitely not fog.
by LM 5/21/2011 2:04:50 PM

@Nancy, thought about that too.. but did not dare to continue down that road, hope its just the putzmeister making rod stew
by WolfDK 5/21/2011 2:05:05 PM

@WolfDK Yesterday, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which operates the plant, admitted to Japanese media sources that an explosion on 15 March damaging reactor unit 2 occurred after two apparently failed attempts to relieve pressure within the reactor containment vessel by opening valves.
The damage, to a doughnut-shaped chamber beneath the reactor vessel, led to flooding of adjacent buildings and of tunnels beneath the unit with highly radioactive water. This leaked into the ocean for days, drastically raising radiation levels in seawater close to the plant. The leak was finally blocked early last month.
New information released by the company reveals that workers at the unit tried twice to vent pressure from unit 2, first in the morning of 13 March, then at midnight on 14 March. Six hours later, at 6.10 am on 15 March, the unrestrained build-up of pressure blew holes in the suppression chamber, whose normal job is to send steam for recycling from the reactor to a condenser.
After that there was a huge spike in radiation levels at the unit's main gate, with doses reaching 11,930 microsieverts per hour from 73 microsieverts 3 hours earlier. The damage led to leakage of the contaminated water into the rest of the building, then into the ocean. One suggestion is that the valves failed because the batteries operating them had run down. from the article
by UKVal 5/21/2011 2:05:38 PM