Japan Earthquake

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@all SIX PHASES OF A PROJECT
by fitter 6/15/2011 5:06:15 PM

how do you put aline in without it posting?????
by fitter 6/15/2011 5:06:46 PM

@fitter SHIFT + ENTER (RETURN)
by Pedro Jesus 6/15/2011 5:08:30 PM

@Pedro Jesus thanks!
by fitter 6/15/2011 5:08:49 PM

@fitter yw
by Pedro Jesus 6/15/2011 5:09:01 PM

Fitter, I'm just speaking about the series of things leaking, starting from leaky hoses to pump fresh water, to more leaking pipes, to leaking water when they started trying to pump out the turbine buildings. I don't say they aren't trying, just that they seem to have difficulty getting anything to go without leaks.
by Markfm 6/15/2011 5:09:24 PM

@all Do we have an update on Majj?
by LM 6/15/2011 5:09:24 PM

@lm I havent heard anything today
by elainekirk 6/15/2011 5:10:24 PM

SIX PHAS
ES OF A PROJECT
1) ENTHUSIASM
2) DISILLUSIONMENT
3) PANIC
4)SEARCH FOR THE GUILTY
5) PUNISHMENT OF THE INNOCENT
6) PRAISE & HONORS for the NON-PARTICIPANTS

You will find this on most consruction site trailer wall!
by fitter 6/15/2011 5:11:52 PM

@elaine I noticed a post from Veenie last night that said he was waiting to hear if he needs surgery..
by LM 6/15/2011 5:12:14 PM

@fitter : so what is your point ?
by Edano 6/15/2011 5:12:28 PM

@fitter , there must be a mistake in the press release. Why would it take until Sep. to complete the tent? Once the ground is properly prepared, setting it up from modular parts should not take that long, and they have already started construction.
The best this contraption may help accomplish is to funnel the radiation released into the air into a filtering system. I hope we get to see something of that sort.
by Peter Melzer 6/15/2011 5:14:39 PM

@Markfm Believe me if its designed to hold "anything" it will leak..... thats just everyday.... add a major earthquac, bunch of aftershock and Good luck.... One other reason that they are probably battling is the piping ends are not universal ... trying to micky rig a jonit to go from US to Japanese etc. is difficult and they have probably had to use what ever they can get
by fitter 6/15/2011 5:15:50 PM

i don't think that they have yet succeeded to prevent ANY radiation from leaking, so what is their "good job" ?
by Edano edited by Edano 6/15/2011 5:16:08 PM

@ednaro.... I only said that a joke to you, you seem to get upset if I post anything possitive, I am not trying to offend you... actually the oppesite.. I just don't agree with your postion on TEPCO ..... I agree to dis-agree!
by fitter 6/15/2011 5:17:29 PM

@lm well he didnt tell me so I will go hunt him down and find out more and give him a cuddle
by elainekirk 6/15/2011 5:17:52 PM

@fitter , that's a great list!
by Peter Melzer 6/15/2011 5:18:04 PM

@fritter : we all know it's difficult. so what ?
by Edano 6/15/2011 5:18:28 PM

@elaine Thanks!
by LM 6/15/2011 5:18:51 PM

@Peter Melzer 1)fab drawings have to be made 2) demiionsions have to be field checked 3) materials have to manufactured and shipped , the list would go on and on...
by fitter 6/15/2011 5:19:15 PM

@Peter Melzer did you like that ... its one of my favorites... we have many!
by fitter 6/15/2011 5:19:49 PM

@fitter , yes I did, :)
by Peter Melzer 6/15/2011 5:20:15 PM

@lillymunster I'm just posting like everyone else.
by MaryW 6/15/2011 5:21:47 PM

Nuclear Update-Fukkushima and Domestic. June 10,2011 www.homeland-defense4u.com 10 Jun 2011 115225 -400 Nuclear Update - Fukushima and Domestic.htm (well summarized, but source unfamiliar to me)
by MaryW 6/15/2011 5:21:52 PM

Managing to use hoses that leak, to spill water doing the turbine pumping exercise when they had specifically been called on the carpet by GOJ ahead of time to not leak during that work -- that's inept/negligent on their part. Earthquake/tsunami is act of God, the fact that they were under-built for the threat is a "whoops" shared jointly with GoJ, but the use of cruddy equipment, lack of providing appropriate protective suits for workers, continued evasiveness -- that is all owned by TEPCO. I'd give them at best a D so far, only reason it isn't an F is that they are at least trying things, haven't totally walked away.
by Markfm 6/15/2011 5:23:55 PM

@Peter Melzer right before you went on your trip there was a TEPCO diagram showing the vent layout (in the Japanese syle) of building #4.. it was ok, may have some info regarding the vavles you were looking for yesterday! eliene might be able to find it i look but couldn't I lknow it was tepco
by fitter 6/15/2011 5:25:04 PM

I see my last posted link is strange:) You need to click on the link address again after you bring it up, then select the 'June 10,2011 Nuclear update' option get to the article...........:(
by MaryW 6/15/2011 5:27:06 PM

++++++++++++ MAJJ UPDATE ++++++++++
Thanks for all the love my friends. Yesterday I was yreining on my bike,start raining,i eas to fast.... I fall and browke tje femor. My falt. I had full protectiom and thanks to tja was not a more serios acident. Im surald by friends,here and go to surgery any moment. Bike for me is over for next mo,ents, but I will find some thin else... I will have more time to dedivare Japan. Im ok , they are not.oce im out from surhery I show up.here. Love to all
by Veenie 6/15/2011 5:28:10 PM

i think there are different opinions on "quality work". i for my part have higher claims on my own working results than the "fitters" may have. i have a strict quality managment in my firm and it is simply not possible that there are missing dosimeters. after all, and that may be the important point, i am fully responsible for everything that occurs.
by Edano 6/15/2011 5:29:32 PM

@Markfm I agree to dis agree with you, but having 30 years in the buisness I can tell you its not that simple... as regards to the underbuilt -- probaply but that does not change what is happing now... and has anyone here bothered to call the manufactures of any of these items and ask about the lead time on getting 5000 suit overnited... remembre inthe early day the airlines were not even flying in... when 9/11 happened it shut down a lot of emergency plant system repair..... they could not ship... I could not get "tarps" in to Orland flordia for a week because there was not gasoline... and that would include UPS!!!
by fitter 6/15/2011 5:30:19 PM

Get well soon Veenie, best of luck with the surgery.
by Markfm 6/15/2011 5:30:25 PM

Disagreeing is always fair.
by Markfm 6/15/2011 5:30:52 PM

Thanks Veenie!! I'm glad he'll be OK.
by LM 6/15/2011 5:31:45 PM

@veenie take care xxxx ((()))
by elainekirk 6/15/2011 5:32:14 PM

Perhaps, it would suffice to set up roofs, like gazebos. I try to distinguish between Tepco leadership, whose motives may not be untainted to put it mildly, and the people working to mitigate the situation on the ground. Most plant systems are in shambles, and it must be difficult to assess their precise status. This seems a daily battle of trial and error. On top, sending people to find out with their own eyes is mostly excluded. Press releases can not be on the minds of the guys on location. I'd give them a some slack.

by Peter Melzer 6/15/2011 5:32:35 PM

Japan’s Richest Man Takes on Atomic Future With Solar Plans

Billionaire Masayoshi Son has a track record in taking on monopolies after building a business that opened up the nation’s telecommunications industry. Now he aims to shake up Japan’s power utilities after the worst nuclear crisis in 25 years.

Son, the 53-year-old chief executive officer of Softbank Corp. (9984), plans to build solar farms to generate electricity with support from at least 33 of Japan’s 47 prefectures. In return, he’s asking for access to transmission networks owned by the 10 regional utilities and an agreement they buy his electricity.

Son is trying to get access to the power transmission network of Japan, said Amir Anvarzadeh, senior salesman of BGC Partners Inc.’s Asian equity sales team in Singapore.
“This is a very high cash-flow business, very similar to the telecom business 10 years ago, which is why he’s moving in, he can sense deregulation is coming.
More: www.bloomberg.com
by joniver 6/15/2011 5:33:29 PM

@peter I have looked at so many bits of bumph on this shroud and nowhere can I find wind tunnel tests or wind tests of any description
by elainekirk 6/15/2011 5:34:06 PM

@joniver why does that name ring a bell? I am sure I have seen it elsewhere today
by elainekirk 6/15/2011 5:35:19 PM

@edano what business are you in?
by fitter 6/15/2011 5:35:39 PM

@fitter MD, have my own (small) clinic.
by Edano edited by Edano 6/15/2011 5:36:22 PM

@fitter , thanks for your tip on the valves. They seem to be my calling.
by Peter Melzer 6/15/2011 5:38:00 PM

@elainekirk I don't know Elaine?
by joniver 6/15/2011 5:41:10 PM

@Edano would you agree that a person brought inthe er coding, might be in a different senerio that the gut that comes into your office and says he has indigestion? But please don't comment that "fitters" .... one its not the fitters... and every fitter is a person who does their job with different degrees of quality... just like doctors!
by fitter 6/15/2011 5:41:32 PM

Contaminated sewage sludge worries Japanese
Already the radioactivity from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has contaminated groundwater and seawater, the air and soil.
Now it has somehow seeped into sewage in dozens of treatment plants.
Radioactive caesium has been found in sewage sludge in treatment facilities from Hokkaido in the north to Osaka in the west, as well as in Tokyo.
So serious is the problem that Japan doesn't know where to put the growing pile of contaminated waste.

With radioactive iodine and caesium from the imploded Fukushima plant already found in the Pacific there are fears that this summer beaches will have to be closed.

High levels of radioactive caesium have been found in sewage sludge in treatment plants in 16 prefectures.
It's believed rain soaked soil contaminated with radiation was washed into sewage lines and facilities during this wet season. The contamination's then settled in the sludge.

The sludge is usually incinerated and the ash used in materials like cement, but no-one wants it now so piles of radioactive sludge are growing around the country.
More: www.abc.net.au
by joniver 6/15/2011 5:42:00 PM