Japan Earthquake

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@Bobby1 I have the NPP, I was looking for the mil bases.... but since the one behind my house "does not exist" I am pretty sure its not published.... but I was thinking maybe the reguler mil bases and wepons stations might? will look under the gov. areas, if you do come across any will you let me know! thanks
by fitter 6/2/2011 1:50:11 PM

@fitter regarding your discussion with cannonball and others earlier, I am going to write up a short Situation report for that STAR concept later today, I will post for comments, changes and edits. I like that STAR idea!
by RBeaner 6/2/2011 1:52:43 PM

TEPCO plans to plug all potential leaks www3.nhk.or.jp The sad part is that such a thing would be a news item after multiple months.
by Markfm 6/2/2011 1:55:01 PM

@RBeaner sounds good!!
by fitter 6/2/2011 1:55:30 PM

Wastewater rises, fears mount www3.nhk.or.jp "Tokyo Electric Power Company says wastewater levels rose around 6 centimeters inside the No.2 reactor turbine building, and in its utility tunnel, during the 24-hour period through Thursday morning.

Increases were also seen inside the No.3 and 4 reactor turbine buildings.

The water level in the utility tunnel is now just 28 centimeters from the surface outside the No.2 reactor, and 24 centimeters from the surface outside the No.3 reactor."
by Markfm 6/2/2011 1:56:30 PM

@mark have you seen how they plan to plug it?
by elainekirk 6/2/2011 1:57:17 PM

Osaka radiation levels now at 0.13 uSv/hr according to university readings www.mext.go.jp
by Bobby1 6/2/2011 1:57:41 PM

Fukushima to check internal radiation exposure www3.nhk.or.jp
by Markfm 6/2/2011 1:57:58 PM

"The firm says it filled all the tunnels and some of the pits with concrete, and that it will finish work at 17 of the pits and repair cracked seawalls in June." I still bet on 55 gallon drums of StopLeak and a boatload of kitty litter.
by Markfm 6/2/2011 1:59:16 PM

A report in Japanese on how Tepco are going to stop their radioacvtive water leaking into the ocean around Fukushima Daichi NPP www.tepco.co.jp makes Disney fantasies look tame
by elainekirk 6/2/2011 1:59:20 PM

The Tepco 'We know what we are doing' fantasy continues in a second doc www.tepco.co.jp I cannot in either of these docs see any way that they have planned for the next earthquake cracking the rock / seawall or a tsunami at Fukushima Daiichi
by elainekirk 6/2/2011 2:00:33 PM

And another 'We have it under control' pic from their doc www.tepco.co.jp
by elainekirk 6/2/2011 2:02:09 PM

High levels of cesium-134 and cesium-137 near Hamaoka nuclear plant translate.google.com
by Bobby1 6/2/2011 2:11:09 PM

I have to go out now would like to thank @fitter and @rbeaner for their contribution to the board today
by elainekirk 6/2/2011 2:17:00 PM

Recent steam explosion in #3? translate.google.com
by Bobby1 6/2/2011 2:33:45 PM

by Bobby1 via Pds.exblog.jp 6/2/2011 2:34:57 PM

Inside Fukushima
Thu Jun 2, 2011 9:55am EDT
Images from inside the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
www.reuters.com
by Panserbjorne9 6/2/2011 2:36:30 PM

Jun 2, 2011
Japan restricts green tea over radiation fears
TOKYO - JAPAN banned the shipment of green tea leaves grown in four prefectures around Tokyo on Thursday after radioactive caesium above legal levels was found in samples, a media report said.
www.straitstimes.com
by Panserbjorne9 6/2/2011 2:38:05 PM

Damn. I'm going to miss my genmaicha.
by radioguy 6/2/2011 2:39:25 PM

From www.poynter.org

"The [single-page TEPCO tsunami risk] assessment ruled out the possibility of a tsunami large enough to knock the complex offline _ with scant details to justify that conclusion. TEPCO predicted the highest tsunami the plant needed to brace for was 5.7 meters. The actual wave that hit after the March 11 earthquake was estimated almost three times that high _ 14 or 15 meters. It cut off the vital cooling system, causing fuel in three of the reactors to almost completely melt.

Kageyama and Pritchard also learned that the assessment, dated Dec. 19, 2001, had never been revised, despite major advances in earthquake and tsunami science. And when Kageyama pressed NISA to explain its handling of the document, she got an alarming response: The agency responsible for ensuring the safety of Japan’s 54 nuclear reactors had made no moves to verify the documents calculations or ask for supporting documents. It trusted TEPCO’s assessment. “This is all we saw,” said the official who heads NISA’s quake safety section. “We did not look into the validity of the content.”
by radioguy 6/2/2011 2:46:10 PM

Anti-plutonium drugs to be approved by Japanese govt ex-skf.blogspot.com
by Bobby1 6/2/2011 2:50:46 PM

I don't read Japanese, but this seems to be a very detailed and through plan to try and correct some of the problems with the existing known cracks... www.tepco.co.jp
by fitter 6/2/2011 2:51:12 PM

No. 2 N-pool cooling system restored www.yomiuri.co.jp
by Markfm 6/2/2011 2:52:18 PM

@fitter and @all
by RBeaner 6/2/2011 3:17:55 PM

@RBeaner Is that your write-up?
by radioguy 6/2/2011 3:24:20 PM

@Bobby1 I'm not certain based on the garbled goole translation, but I don't think it is refering to any new explosion, just suggesting that the #3 reactor is dislocated and slanted from the origional explosion.
by RBeaner 6/2/2011 3:24:38 PM

@radioguy yes. My creation from what I have seen. Open for comments, edits or questions. @Mod can you pin or share or do what you modtypepeople do with that kind of stuff:) TY
by RBeaner 6/2/2011 3:26:01 PM

It should be definitely be posted on SimplyInfo.org
by radioguy 6/2/2011 3:27:02 PM

4.9 earthquake off Fukushima coast. quakes.globalincidentmap.com
by LM 6/2/2011 3:27:04 PM

I'll do it for you. How do you want it credited?
by radioguy 6/2/2011 3:29:07 PM

Was that the one you wanted pinned?
by Markfm 6/2/2011 3:33:25 PM

@radioguy I would prefer editing, comments and discussion before "distribution". I already saw the word contamiated in there. LOL Credited? Just Scribblelive japan... us or me if others disagree with it, but I would like to change it so everyone generally agrees. I don't want it to be controversial, just a June starting point for STAR
by RBeaner 6/2/2011 3:33:39 PM

Smoke show in progress at unit #4 www.tepco.co.jp news.tbs.co.jp
by Bobby1 6/2/2011 3:35:56 PM

@markfm cut the Beaner pin down to an excerpt and link it here: houseoffoust.com
by radioguy 6/2/2011 3:38:09 PM

General Daichi Situation Summary 6/2/11

1. Reactors 1-3 all ~100% Fuel Meltdown. All 3 RPV's have holes in them at various levels allowing highly contamiated water to leak out to buildings. Possible Corium leaks from all 3 RPV's to torus, supression chamber and even concrete pad. Large amounts of water need to be continuosly added to keep the mess cool.

2. Spent Fuel Pools
#1 Hot. Water being added to keep cool
#2 Cooling provided by newly installed heat exchanger system
#3 Hot. Water being added to keep cool
#4 Hot. Water being added to keep cool. Structural damage known and being reenforced.
#5, 6 and Common no known current issues

3. All reactor/Turbine buildings have large amounts of Highly Radiactive water in their basement areas.

4. Highly radioactive water has been transfered to the waste storage building (not tank) as temporary storage. This water is leaking out and all the turbine buildings are suspected of leaking to the sea and or groundwater.

5. The radioactive water is an enormous challenge. They estimate they currently are dealing with ~100,000 Tons of highly radioactive water in the buildings and temporary storage tanks. This tonnage increases every day. For perspective, the 136-meter-long, 46-meter-wide mega-float can store around 10,000 tons of water.

6. The plant area is already plagued with a high (pre quake) ground water level.

7. Reactor buildings all have extremely high radiation levels throughout, making stay/work times for humans very short inside.

8. The site itself is highly contaminated and some areas have very high radiation levels associated with them. Some areas have been "plasticized" to render this radioactivity imobile, and this work continues.

9. Several of the reactor buildings, spent fuel pools and yard areas continue to release radioactivity to the air, hence adding additional radioactivity to the surrounding area and remaining population.

10. An evacuation zone of 30 Kilometers has been established, most people have complied with evacuation. Some population centers beyond the 30Km have been directed to evacuate, compliance is somewhat less in these areas.

11. People outside the evacuation zone are still having to deal with elevated radiation and soil radioactivity levels in their daily lives. These radiation and radioactivity levels do not impose immediate danger, but exposure at these levels will increase the risk of illness for these people.

12. The people in and around the affected area are suffering, both mentally and physically, from the dislocation, fears and exposure to this Unprecedented (3 plants at INES 7) nuclear disaster.

In closing, I haven't spoken of the massive tsunami and earthquake that occurred, and all the resultant victims and survivors, it is not out of a lack of compassion or empathy. My heart bleeds for these people, but that is a natural disaster, the People of Japan know how to deal with it and will. Daichi is a man made disaster that only required severe adverse nature to start the ball rolling.
by RBeaner edited by Markfm 6/2/2011 3:38:46 PM

@RBeaner Should I unpublish it and put it in a Blogger cat that only shows to registrados?
by radioguy 6/2/2011 3:40:02 PM

@Mark, great. That way it doesn't eat the whole page1 of the scribble :)
by radioguy 6/2/2011 3:42:34 PM

@RBeaner Tell you what, why don't you go comment on your article here houseoffoust.com and that way I can approve you and give you status so you can edit it in place on the WordPress blog.
by radioguy 6/2/2011 3:48:57 PM

@Panserbjorne9 that inside fuku from reuters has a slideshow with a few new pictures. Of interest was #35 (fire) and 40 (are those car batteries?)
by RBeaner 6/2/2011 3:50:46 PM

@radioguy sounds good to me, just putting it out there for everyone to change, comment or discuss.
by RBeaner 6/2/2011 3:51:40 PM

@RBeaner I think we read earlier that they were using car batteries to power some of the emergency equipment.
by radioguy 6/2/2011 3:51:55 PM

@radioguy yeah, but this pic, to me looks like it had been underwater at one time (Tsunami?). just doesn't look like 2011 approach.
by RBeaner 6/2/2011 3:53:26 PM

Heh...so they've been using them for a while? Figures.
by radioguy 6/2/2011 3:58:17 PM

The great wave
A look at how Japan views the sea—and itself
Jun 2nd 2011
AT AROUND the age of 70, Katsushika Hokusai, still bounding with artistic energy, created “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji”, a series of ukiyo-e, or woodblock prints. His most famous, since reproduced on everything from Tintin books to tea cups, is “Beneath the Wave off Kanagawa”, painted around 1830.
www.economist.com
by Panserbjorne9 6/2/2011 4:00:03 PM