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@bo it is something google should start looking at finding a solution to these alarmist sites know they only need the 1 tweet to make it to the top of the search engines .by elainekirk 6/16/2011 8:11:36 AM
Agreed. I imagine these people will only get more press as everyone loves super villain enemies!by bo 6/16/2011 8:13:38 AM- @bo I call it the chicken licken effect www.magicparrot.comby elainekirk 6/16/2011 8:15:07 AM
Are you guys telling me there are no aliens? It's a conspiracy?by deb 6/16/2011 8:15:20 AM- @ddeb at no point did I deny my existence but please don't tell anybodyby elainekirk 6/16/2011 8:16:27 AM
- @elainekirk lolby deb 6/16/2011 8:17:33 AM
- @elainekirk indeed!by bo 6/16/2011 8:24:15 AM
Speaking of chickens...
by bo 6/16/2011 8:26:50 AM- @bo roflmaoby elainekirk 6/16/2011 8:30:35 AM
- Doh! Looks like my chicken killed the list.by bo 6/16/2011 9:27:23 AM
- @bo lol there is nothing how is fort calhoun any updates there?by elainekirk 6/16/2011 9:30:12 AM
- I haven't seen anything today. It is rainy season here so all day long it is rain rain rain. Not so good when the rain seems demonic!by bo 6/16/2011 9:33:13 AM
- twitter itself is quiet, we have sunshine today :)by elainekirk 6/16/2011 9:39:51 AM
- Well, it's time to head home. I'll be back on after an hour or so. Mata!by bo 6/16/2011 9:42:10 AM
- @bo safe journey :)by elainekirk 6/16/2011 9:43:01 AM
- Naoto Kan May leave a lot to be desired as a Prime Minister, but One Thing's Certain - he's Never taken a DIME from Tokyo Electric Power Co., The operator of the Fukushima No. A nuclear power plant.
www.asahi.comby elainekirk 6/16/2011 9:46:43 AM 
Naoto Kan May leave a lot to be desired as a Prime Minister, but One Thing's Certain - he's Never taken a DIME from Tokyo Electric Power Co., The operator of the Fukushima No. A nuclear power plant.
www.asahi.comby Rob in SF edited by elainekirk 6/16/2011 9:54:09 AM
Naoto Kan May leave a lot to be desired as a Prime Minister, but One Thing's Certain - he's Never taken a DIME from Tokyo Electric Power Co., The operator of the Fukushima No. A nuclear power plant.
www.asahi.comby carabnr edited by elainekirk 6/16/2011 9:54:11 AM- sorry didnt see mod queue cos of pins - no i think there are no good guys kan could have done a lot more ignorance is no excuseby elainekirk 6/16/2011 9:55:16 AM
@elainekirk ; you can minimize the stuck posts.by Edano 6/16/2011 9:55:53 AM- i mean, there is a button to shrink them.by Edano 6/16/2011 9:56:15 AM
- @edano @angie keeps reminding me and I keep forgettingby elainekirk 6/16/2011 9:57:18 AM
- @edano I dont like missing them because they end up out of context if I miss them so end up delete bo's g'byes but I am busy today and just watching between family activities been traffic watching for daughter who got stuck in tailback on way to airport thankfully they made itby elainekirk 6/16/2011 9:59:39 AM
TEPCO to begin work for cooling fuel pool
At the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, work is likely to begin Saturday to install a circulatory cooling system for the fuel pool of the Number 3 reactor.
Operator Tokyo Electric Power Company has been pouring water onto the fuel pool from outside once every 4 days. But it estimates that the temperature is still above 60 degrees Celsius.
TEPCO plans to install a heat exchange device to cool the water and then return it to the fuel pool.
If work goes smoothly, then full operation of the circulatory cooling system is expected to start early next month. TEPCO says it wants to lower the temperature to around 40 degrees Celsius about a month later.
Days after the outbreak of the nuclear accident at the plant in March, 2 Self-Defense Force helicopters dumped seawater over the Number 3 reactor to cool the fuel pool.
A similar circulatory cooling system has already been installed for the Number 2 reactor, and it planned for the Number 1 and 4 reactors. But the outlook for Number 4 is unclear because a hydrogen blast damaged its piping, a vital component in the cooling system.
Thursday, June 16, 2011 07:45 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jpby Edano 6/16/2011 10:01:58 AM- so that accounts for the occasional steam shows !by Edano 6/16/2011 10:02:23 AM
- Kan's complete independence from TEPCO money - and pressure - may be the real reason so many lawmakers are trying to push him out the door. His calls to shift Japan away from nuclear energy and to break TEPCO into separate companies that handle power generation and power transmission threaten some very powerful special interests.
www.asahi.comby elainekirk 6/16/2011 10:02:49 AM - @elainekirk : yes, i think he has revealed some good ideas lately.by Edano 6/16/2011 10:03:44 AM
- @edano unless tepco is broken up - unless the other power companies shoulder some of the disaster costs then it will just happen again and again it is only 4yrs since the last major tepco emergency when an earthquake hit a plant. They could have left kk closed and applied the lessons learnt to theor other npp's then sorted kk out but that would have cost them big bucks well it should cost them their busines now.by elainekirk 6/16/2011 10:11:08 AM
- by AustralianCannonball 6/16/2011 10:43:36 AM
- www.reuters.com Japan plans to move pregnant women from far-flung radiationby elainekirk 6/16/2011 10:43:38 AM
- My latest video. Frustration and Perseverance.by AustralianCannonball 6/16/2011 10:43:44 AM
- by Edano 6/16/2011 10:47:03 AM
- @majj 'edano if that is the one saying it is a level 4 emergency then it is a bastardisation of arnies work and takes him out of context @lillymunster has done article on simply info about itby elainekirk 6/16/2011 10:48:24 AM
- @majj quick recovery you making from surgery there I am amazed and astounded!!by elainekirk 6/16/2011 10:49:20 AM
- @edano gotta go out have a good day :)by elainekirk 6/16/2011 10:52:12 AM
- The EPA re-calibrated (rigged) Japan nuclear radiation monitoring equipment causing them to report lower levels of radioactive fallout after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown than what was detected before the disaster.
I recently programmed an application to pull all of the EPA radiation monitoring graphs for all major US cities and complied them into an easy to use web interface. Of course we took the date being reported with a grain of salt under the suspicion that the Feds were fiddling with the results.
Now, an investigative report looking into why the much of the EPA radiation monitoring equipment was offline when the Fukushima nuclear meltdown occurred reveals that EPA has in fact rigged radiation monitoring equipment to report lower values of radiation
thewatchers.adorraeli.comby M.I.A. 6/16/2011 11:00:22 AM - This evening's TV news in Japan reported on the radioactive sludge. Maybe this is already known, but the national government has told the local governments of the prefectures concerned to dispose of the waste. They have given permission for it to be put in regular landfills, although the national government has asked them to try and make sure it doesn't leak. Only the highest level waste is to be kept until the national government can decide what to do with it. Until this is decided local governments are to store it safely (currently it is under flapping blue tarpaulins if the news pictures are accurate and representative). To me it seems passing the responsibility from national level to local level and assuming that the local level can somehow deal with it better than the national level. Even if there was a genuine wish on the part of all local governments and businesses involved (and no potential yakuza complications) I don't see how it could be achieved. What does seem apparent is that as far west as Osaka there will be shortly be low level (?!) radioactive waste going into landfills. Let's scatter this stuff around a bit more shall we everyone?by Will 6/16/2011 11:23:29 AM
@Will Thanks. Share and share alike. Not good news, no. There was some discussion earlier of whether the waste would be incinerated. Did they mention any thresholds, i.e. what they're classifying as high or low level waste?by es 6/16/2011 11:32:22 AM- @es No proper explanation of thresholds. When I put the news on they were just finishing talking about how very low level waste could be incinerated. It was the burying bit that particularly shocked me.by Will 6/16/2011 11:40:39 AM
- @Will Burning will help spread it around nicely too. I agree that pretending this is regular waste is not going to help anyone. Does this mean they won't need to kit out workers and facilites to deal with radioactive substances? I assume someone somewhere will continue to monitor what exactly constitutes high level waste, as well as looking out for where it's coming from.by es 6/16/2011 11:53:46 AM
- @Will are you still onby fitter 6/16/2011 11:56:16 AM
Morning! @Edano, I pinned the fact checking document on this "level 4" rumor. It isn't even an NRC classification. Pure fearmongering and Google & Twitter were slammed with it yesterday. Same guy started another one later in the day claiming Ft. Calhoun was a fuel storage facility for the entire state of NE and possibly other states. Again, with just a bit of fact checking found to be completely made up. At some point there is a split between theories someone is pursuing to see if they are true and people sending out made up fearmongering with no factual basis. Fact checking on the spent fuel rumor. www.houseoffoust.comby lillymunster 6/16/2011 12:10:50 PM
good morningby dean 6/16/2011 12:11:55 PM- I also put together some sites for people to fact check or to find out what is going on in NE for themselves, it is in the pinned items. I need to add all the local media links I found last night for Veenie.by lillymunster 6/16/2011 12:12:05 PM
- Morning Dean!by lillymunster 6/16/2011 12:12:30 PM
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