Japan Earthquake

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@deb are those close ups of the orange areas today?
by UKVal 5/23/2011 6:00:44 PM

yes, just took them, the video should be ready, another iphone to get better resolution
by deb 5/23/2011 6:01:31 PM

Hi Dean! Just noticed all..4.7 earthquake off Fukushima coast under 3 hrs ago.
by LM 5/23/2011 6:02:51 PM

I can't wait for the big announcement on Wednesday.. Nancy who is in the lead? dang.. pizza party
by dean 5/23/2011 6:03:20 PM

@LM lol, took the words right out of my typing, noticed that as well
by deb 5/23/2011 6:03:32 PM

LM I have my chrome set to alarm me when EQ strikes and it scared me in my sleep.. was goin off so much ..
by dean 5/23/2011 6:04:04 PM

Fukushima owners failed to follow emergency manual - report
www.nzherald.co.nz
by Panserbjorne9 5/23/2011 6:04:09 PM

@Dean Yikes...I'm glad I don't have an alert..I'm too obsessed as it is and my husband and kids would kill me!!
by LM 5/23/2011 6:05:35 PM

Panserbjorne,, I saw that not following emergency manual.. but on the other hand there are no emergency procedures for what happened at fukushima.. they probably thought.. .uh.. well. .we don't have one for EQ, every thing shaking apart, tsunami, off site power loss.. imaging all the paperwork... WHO'S ON FIRST>>
by dean 5/23/2011 6:05:42 PM

DANG.. I thought that video was space mountain at nite in disneyland..
by dean 5/23/2011 6:06:47 PM

#4 is not smoking/steaming nearly as much as before. #3 is smoking/steaming and it is all hidden in the tower, fyi
by deb 5/23/2011 6:07:00 PM

@Dean If fuel rods were physically on fire how long do you think they would continuously burn?
by LM 5/23/2011 6:07:19 PM

wow just read this in panser's post below ''In the testimony in the Japan's Upper House Government Oversight Committee, Hiroaki Koide of Kyoto University said there was an outside pressure on him and his colleagues not to release the survey data including the radiation data on March 15. ex-skf.blogspot.com
by UKVal 5/23/2011 6:12:52 PM

While this laptop gets a much needed "cleaning" I will go back and check the video prior to the eq, and see if I can tell when this event happened/started.
by deb 5/23/2011 6:13:21 PM

Fukuleaks
Crowd Source INformation Analysis
Global Analytics Group
by Nancy 5/23/2011 6:13:26 PM

The limitations on water storage are going to be a HUGE factor...with considerations on fire fighting I would imagine.
by LM 5/23/2011 6:16:01 PM

If that fuel were exposed to air and steam, the zirconium cladding would react exothermically, catching fire at about 1,000 degrees Celsius. A fuel pond building would probably not survive, and the fire would likely spread to nearby pools. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) concedes that such a fire cannot be extinguished; it could rage for days
by dean 5/23/2011 6:17:51 PM

this is from some studies done on the plant at Indian Point in New York state
by dean 5/23/2011 6:18:38 PM

@dean and the cladding burns with a pale grey smoke I believe?
by elainekirk 5/23/2011 6:19:30 PM

On average, spent fuel ponds hold five to 10 times more long-lived radioactivity than a reactor core. Particularly worrisome is the large amount of cesium 137 in fuel ponds, which contain anywhere from 20 to 50 million curies of this dangerous isotope. With a half-life of 30 years, cesium 137 gives off highly penetrating radiation and is absorbed in the food chain as if it were potassium. According to the NRC, as much as 100 percent of a pool’s cesium 137 would be released into the environment in a fire.
by dean 5/23/2011 6:19:39 PM

In comparison, the 1986 Chernobyl accident released about 40 percent of the reactor core's 6 million curies. A 1997 report for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) by Brookhaven National Laboratory also found that a severe pool fire could render about 188 square miles uninhabitable, cause as many as 28,000 cancer fatalities, and cost $59 billion in damage. A single spent fuel pond holds more cesium-137 than was deposited by all atmospheric nuclear weapons tests in the Northern Hemisphere combined.
by dean 5/23/2011 6:19:57 PM

Fukushima reactor had meltdown 3.5 hours after cooling system collapsed: U.S. researcher
mdn.mainichi.jp
by Panserbjorne9 5/23/2011 6:20:39 PM

@UKVal From the ex-skf website, Chris Allison reported in late March that a meltdown had occurred in #1. Denis Flory, nuclear safety director for the IAEA, also said a meltdown had occurred. www.bloomberg.com Why did everybody have to wait till Tepco admitted it to believe it?
by Bobby1 5/23/2011 6:21:00 PM

@dean Well that is just terrifying, considering I live less than 80 miles from IP... I cannot understand how NPP's are allowed to keep running, and new ones to be constructed, when there are no contingency plans for such scenarios!
by NervousinNJ 5/23/2011 6:21:30 PM

No wonder they're scrambling around 4 now. It's spent fuel is also the hottest of the others!
by LM 5/23/2011 6:22:43 PM

keeping pressure on NRC and your congressman Nervous, to ADDRESS the spent fuel storage/handling in this country before MORE LICENSES are issued.. years ago DOE promised contractually to the commercial world, who put millions into funding that a facility would be built to accomodate.. that was YUKA mountain which is ready willing and able to receive,,, except it all got shutdown

by dean 5/23/2011 6:23:35 PM

At least 44 welfare commissioners dead, missing in three prefectures
search.japantimes.co.jp
by Panserbjorne9 5/23/2011 6:25:22 PM

Anybody cam peeping? I'm starting to see an orange hue to the right of the main orange area in 3....although I could be hallucinating!
by LM 5/23/2011 6:26:02 PM

@Bobby1 I don't know how far they did believe TEPCO. What I found interesting in the post belwo was that the attempt to suppress info was noted in a Parliamentary Committee. Now that is really in the open!!
by UKVal 5/23/2011 6:26:39 PM

@dean I need to read more about Yuka Mtn., I don't know much about it. And I certainly will be sending emails, letters, etc. to my congressmen/women, esp. since finding out that Oyster Creek is going to keep running as well.
by NervousinNJ 5/23/2011 6:27:07 PM

@Dean Do you know if the rods would flash burn or would they go up in flames only as the heat reached critical in neighboring assemblies?
by LM 5/23/2011 6:28:31 PM

Every one pray in what ever way you know.. that a full fledged SFP fire does not break out anywhere,,, especially at FUKU.. if one did,, I'm quite certain every one on site would not survive
by dean 5/23/2011 6:29:21 PM