Japan Earthquake

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Thanks Deb you're awesome! @Angie You're right. Now is the time for a zoom!
by LM 5/23/2011 4:21:49 AM

@Angie Would be sweet if he did that now. I did get catch him when he was doing close ups earlier today. It's up on the channel www.youtube.com
by deb 5/23/2011 4:21:57 AM

NHK World News Flash: Experts from the UN nuclear watchdog have left for Japan to investigate the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant that was caused by the March 11 quake and tsunami.
www3.nhk.or.jp
by estacion 5/23/2011 4:25:13 AM

@deb WOW you have done a fantastic job!
by Angie 5/23/2011 4:26:03 AM

NHK World News Flash: Work is beginning on Monday at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to reinforce the structure supporting the No.4 reactor's spent fuel pool.
www3.nhk.or.jp
by estacion 5/23/2011 4:28:41 AM

Many residents still remain in Iitate, Kawamata
About half the residents living in parts of Fukushima Prefecture where an evacuation order is in place have still not left one week before the government-set deadline runs out.

On April 22nd, the government ordered people in Iitate Village and a part of Kawamata Town to leave by the end of this month because of radiation exposure from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Officials have been placing priority on evacuating households with infants and small children.

But only about half of the 7,800 residents have followed the order one month after it was issued.

Some residents remaining in the areas say emergency shelters are far from their work places and their children's schools. Others say they will lose their jobs if they move away.

People in areas with relatively low levels of radiation hope to delay their evacuation until temporary housing is completed in the summer.

The officials say they will continue to urge the remaining residents to leave. But meeting the deadline will be difficult, as the evacuation order is not legally binding.

Monday, May 23, 2011 11:46 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by estacion 5/23/2011 4:33:26 AM

@estacion Wow. They must be worried!
by LM 5/23/2011 4:33:36 AM

@LM +1
by estacion 5/23/2011 4:34:55 AM

Night all! @Majj If you're still around, your video on the children of Minamisoma was heartbreaking. Thanks for posting it!
by LM 5/23/2011 5:20:32 AM

Who wants to be the reinforcement work on #4 will cause it to fall? I'll give 1:1 odds.
by Hank Scorpio 5/23/2011 5:25:05 AM

*bet
by Hank Scorpio 5/23/2011 5:25:10 AM

@estacion I just read that and was going to post it.
I find it uholding, that the GoJ has no clue how many returned, nor their situation....ridiculous !!
by Veenie 5/23/2011 6:31:08 AM

NHK: Work to reinforce No.4 reactor building to begin t.co
by Veenie 5/23/2011 6:47:19 AM

NHK: Quake caused no major damage to reactors t.co
by Veenie 5/23/2011 6:47:44 AM

They STILL haven't clean this up
NHK: New video shows tsunami damage at nuclear plant t.co
by Veenie 5/23/2011 6:48:16 AM

Thanks Veen for finding some news!!
by Angie 5/23/2011 6:50:35 AM

Tainted water storage soon to reach capacity at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, May 23, Kyodo

A nuclear waste disposal facility at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant will be filled up in several days with radioactive floodwater diverted from near its No. 2 and 3 reactors, officials of Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant's operator, said Monday.

The operator, known as TEPCO, plans to suspend the diversion until the middle of June once the facility becomes filled with the contaminated water, to wait for a new water treatment facility to begin operating.

While a temporary storage tank is also being prepared, its installation would take until around early July, according to the officials.
english.kyodonews.jp
by Angie 5/23/2011 7:38:22 AM

Kan denies having instructed TEPCO to stop seawater injection

TOKYO, May 23, Kyodo

Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Monday denied having instructed Tokyo Electric Power Co. to stop injecting seawater into the troubled No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, brushing aside criticism that an alleged suspension order from him may have worsened the situation.
english.kyodonews.jp
by Angie 5/23/2011 7:39:28 AM

Morning @all - @angie - 'suspend diversion' presumably means 'allow to seep into sea'?
by hudebnik 5/23/2011 7:42:23 AM

@hudebnik Morning! lol I was thinking the same thing....... I am waiting for an "accidental" release into the sea........
by Angie 5/23/2011 7:43:45 AM

@angie - the technical term is 'reverse seawater injection'
by hudebnik 5/23/2011 7:45:49 AM

@hudebnik lol right I am still learning the tepco talk! lol
by Angie 5/23/2011 7:46:42 AM

@angie - the whole thing has more than a touch of Orwell's 1984 about it.
by hudebnik 5/23/2011 7:47:59 AM

@hudebnik Would you believe I had to google that! Very sad to admit! lol That is one I havent read!
by Angie 5/23/2011 7:51:36 AM

@angie - oh you should!
by hudebnik 5/23/2011 7:52:32 AM

IAEA experts arrive in Japan to probe nuclear crisis
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Members of an International Atomic Energy Agency investigation team arrived Monday morning in Japan to conduct fact-finding and assess safety issues at the radiation-leaking Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The six members will join experts from a dozen countries for a 10-day mission beginning Tuesday. The 20-member team, led by British Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations Mike Weightman, will meet Japanese government officials and inspect the site of the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl, to report its findings in late June.

The experts will make a preliminary assessment of the accident triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan and deliver their findings at a ministerial meeting on nuclear safety to be hosted by the IAEA on June 20-24 in Vienna, Japan's top government spokesman Yukio Edano said last week.
They are expected also to look into lessons learned from the Fukushima crisis and share their know-how with the Japanese authorities. Their findings will serve as an important input in the process of reviewing and strengthening the global nuclear safety framework to be launched by the ministerial meeting, the nuclear watchdog said.
(Mainichi Japan) May 23, 2011
mdn.mainichi.jp
by hudebnik 5/23/2011 7:53:26 AM

@hudebnik I am going to put it on my reading list!
by Angie 5/23/2011 7:53:57 AM

My the news is drying up again.........Most stories just seem to be the same info just reworded........
by Angie 5/23/2011 7:55:21 AM

Record loss may only be the beginning for Tepco
Tokyo Electric Power Co. announced the largest ever consolidated net loss by a Japanese company on May 20, but those figures are likely to be dwarfed by the enormous liabilities facing the utility in future years.

TEPCO recorded about 1 trillion yen ($12.1 billion) in losses specifically arising from the Great East Japan Earthquake and the subsequent accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in its financial reports for the fiscal year ending March 31.

Those figures only reflect a small proportion of the expenses awaiting TEPCO. Even more disquieting for the companies' accountants is the fact that nobody really knows how big those liabilities might grow.

In the short term, there is great uncertainty about the effort to stabilize the reactors at Fukushima. Water contaminated with high levels of radiation is proving a major hurdle for workers at the plant and continuing delays will likely further inflate the costs of the disaster response operation.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. announced the largest ever consolidated net loss by a Japanese company on May 20, but those figures are likely to be dwarfed by the enormous liabilities facing the utility in future years.

TEPCO recorded about 1 trillion yen ($12.1 billion) in losses specifically arising from the Great East Japan Earthquake and the subsequent accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in its financial reports for the fiscal year ending March 31.

Those figures only reflect a small proportion of the expenses awaiting TEPCO. Even more disquieting for the companies' accountants is the fact that nobody really knows how big those liabilities might grow.

In the short term, there is great uncertainty about the effort to stabilize the reactors at Fukushima. Water contaminated with high levels of radiation is proving a major hurdle for workers at the plant and continuing delays will likely further inflate the costs of the disaster response operation.
www.asahi.com
by hudebnik 5/23/2011 7:55:57 AM

Yes, much is rehashed but there are a few interesting angles, like just how much is Tepco spending every week to try to contain Fukushima? They have made losses of $12 billion in 12 weeks - what proportion of that is cash spend? Even if only a tenth they would be spending $100 million a week...
by hudebnik 5/23/2011 7:59:29 AM

@hudebnik That is a massive amount of money.......
by Angie 5/23/2011 8:01:29 AM

@angie - they have just been throwing money at it in the hope that something will work. Unfortunately hardly anything has.
by hudebnik 5/23/2011 8:02:39 AM

Arnie Gundersen should be interesting this week, an update is overdue. He's probably trying to get a handle on the huge amount of info over the past few days.
by hudebnik 5/23/2011 8:03:57 AM

@angie - are you a mod?
by hudebnik 5/23/2011 8:04:39 AM

@hudebnik Yes I am shocked......I remember reading some where at the start of this that if it had to happen Japan was the best place for it as with all the tech and the scientific guys they have it would all be fine.........Oh how wrong that was! Yes his videos come out Friday my time.......wondered where the new one was! Yes I am mod..........
by Angie 5/23/2011 8:05:25 AM

I am on Australian time........this way I think the board is pretty much modded 24/7 now lol
by Angie 5/23/2011 8:06:21 AM

Oh my hubby is home from work bbs..........
by Angie 5/23/2011 8:08:00 AM

It would be interesting to have a list of where all the members are (I'm in London). Please could you mod the spelling of my name on the pin above to hudebnik not hudebrink?
by hudebnik 5/23/2011 8:09:57 AM