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NHK poll should Japan continue with nuclear www.nhk.or.jpby elainekirk 6/18/2011 8:23:59 AM
@elainekirk they halted the process a mere 4-5 hours into it. More here: www.reuters.comby bo 6/18/2011 8:24:30 AM- @bo worrying that they were going to run out of storage on the 15th and that day never arrives how are they keeping the water level down , quite a sily question but...by elainekirk 6/18/2011 8:31:15 AM
- @elainekirk I'm sure they have found ways to keep it down that would shock even us.by bo 6/18/2011 8:36:52 AM
- @bo TEPCO documents show problems encountered in venting, pumping water to damaged reactors www.asahi.comby elainekirk 6/18/2011 8:39:40 AM
If this were a plant on a river or air-cooled I don't think it would be so easy......by NorthernCali 6/18/2011 8:40:15 AM- Gotta love the Asahi. It's been my favorite national paper since I got here.by bo 6/18/2011 8:41:19 AM
- asahi is great @northern there should be better monitoring there should be a way that there is an alert when radiation levels rise once the stuff is in the ocean we are stuck with it maybe a way of hitting a companies shareholders if they step out of lineby elainekirk 6/18/2011 8:44:14 AM
- Buoy monitors( powered by solar or tidal). :)by NorthernCali 6/18/2011 8:45:41 AM
- GE probably makes all three! The irony...facepalm.by NorthernCali 6/18/2011 8:47:08 AM
- @NorthernCali Ha!by bo 6/18/2011 8:47:46 AM
- @northern but without Japans agreement to them being in their waters we are stumped , the iaea or some global citizen funded outfit should demand themby elainekirk 6/18/2011 8:48:13 AM
- then again the iaea has bought into the charity funded research that is trackingthe damned ocean pollution no doubt so they can get a say in how much info we getby elainekirk 6/18/2011 8:50:08 AM
- Following the prevailing currents , private citizen monitoring could take place on boats placed downcurrent as close as legally possible in fishing waters maybe.by NorthernCali 6/18/2011 8:51:54 AM
- @@northern :)by elainekirk 6/18/2011 8:52:23 AM
- @bo would that be anything that would likely happenby elainekirk 6/18/2011 8:53:55 AM
en.vedur.is it is getting very shaky at the Icelandic edge of the North American Plate I wonder how this will affect the Japan edge
by elainekirk 6/18/2011 9:06:39 AM- @elainekirk sorry was away for a few. It could happen. But as you know, unusual activities are not SOP for the Japanese. But clearly we are in (hehe) uncharted water here. If lots of radioactive fish turn up in the markets, and the GOJ takes no steps to protect people, it could happen.by bo 6/18/2011 9:14:33 AM
- Concerned citizens and scientists, boaters, and fishermen could work together to get a general idea of fluctuations and extrapolate an ocean plume estimate like the atmospheric models and the radnet data mixed, but for the ocean! It could be researched wether buoys in international waters could be sponsored with monitors and relays to a database.by NorthernCali 6/18/2011 9:15:04 AM
- so really it is a case of waiting until after the eventby elainekirk 6/18/2011 9:18:06 AM
- I could see this being driven by a respected NGO like the Peace Boat, which I believe is headquartered in Tohoku: www.peaceboat.orgby bo 6/18/2011 9:20:01 AM
- @bo well I wasnt aware of them is this a projct you are involved with bo? I wonder if they are on twitter going to find out would be good to follow themby elainekirk 6/18/2011 9:23:10 AM
- @elainekirk I am not involved with them, but I know a number of people who have worked with them. They tend to focus on war & peace issues rather than environmental issues, but they are based in Japan and a lot of people in Japan know about them.by bo 6/18/2011 9:24:40 AM
- @all taking a short break, be back in a bit.by bo 6/18/2011 9:29:22 AM
- @bo enjoyby elainekirk 6/18/2011 9:30:09 AM
You think your job blows? TEPCO may bring in a few more doctors, three or four months after accident. www.yomiuri.co.jpby bojack54 6/18/2011 10:24:54 AM- @bojack Let's not get too excited it is only 'may' lol , like they 'may' start giving workers full face masks 'by elainekirk 6/18/2011 10:30:07 AM
- @bojack just making coffee for us, saw your blog yesterday it came near top of a search i was doingby elainekirk 6/18/2011 10:33:57 AM
- I have a good Google ranking. But everything I know about Fuku, I've learned here.by bojack54 6/18/2011 10:52:03 AM
- Radioactive materials: detection of cesium at the airport in Paris from green tea produced in Shizuoka translate.google.comby elainekirk 6/18/2011 10:54:15 AM
- Lots of steam/fog on teppycamsby M.I.A. 6/18/2011 11:21:48 AM
- @mia there sure is did you see the sunset?by elainekirk 6/18/2011 11:24:49 AM
- @elainekirk No. Messy?by M.I.A. 6/18/2011 11:25:19 AM
- looks like #4 is the main sourceby M.I.A. 6/18/2011 11:26:31 AM
- EQ! on camby M.I.A. 6/18/2011 11:31:44 AM
Hello everyone.
Here's an interesting blog entry from The Atomic Power Review that addresses issues of information, opinion bias, forum&blog participation, and direction regarding sources of information on Fukushima on the internet:
How the Misinformation Superhighway affects Nuclear Energy atomicpowerreview.blogspot.comby Reed 6/18/2011 11:33:31 AM
@Reed I believe everyone of us who post in this scribble should take a look at that post. It would bring a lot of understanding amongst us and potentially avoid a lot of pointless arguments.by Pedro Jesus 6/18/2011 11:42:02 AM- I am going to tweet itby elainekirk 6/18/2011 11:56:35 AM
- Date: 2011/06/18 20:31:01
Location: Off the coast of Fukushima
Depth: 10km
Magnitude: M6
Japanby M.I.A. 6/18/2011 11:57:21 AM - Looks like 4 is steaming pretty good. They like to do stuff in the dark on Saturday night.by bojack54 6/18/2011 12:15:14 PM
- System to treat Japan nuke plant’s radioactive water halted hours after full operations begin
www.washingtonpost.com
"The system was suspended in early Saturday when workers detected a sharp radiation increase in the system’s cesium-absorbing component, Matsumoto said. Radioactivity in one of 24 cartridges, which was expected to last for a few weeks, had already reached its limit within five hours."by Reed 6/18/2011 12:20:58 PM - @reed well they really did their sums didnt they!!by elainekirk 6/18/2011 12:25:38 PM
@all Morning
@Reed.. Amazing, that they could not messure this kind of obviously HIGH radiation prior to even starting this process ? This looks as though, TEPCO really has ZERO capability to detect correctly, nor Filter this.....How can they not have seen the amount of radiation prior ?......I guess, a faulty Cartridge is next in the news?by Veenie 6/18/2011 12:33:04 PM- @elainekirk This new, exploratory science work of trying to clean up such a disaster is proving to be a difficulty to say the least. No, the filters reaching such a high radiation level so fast doesn't bode well for any hopes of a speedy process, much less their hopes of being able to gain a net quantity of 'cleaned' water to overcome the volume of water that they're adding daily.
@Veenie Good morning.by Reed 6/18/2011 12:40:56 PM - This is UNBELIEVABLE.....Read this Article in it's entirety, Kan is anti Nuke??
I do not know, HOW TO even Tweet this.....Elaine????
Japan Strains to Fix a Reactor Damaged Before Quake
www.nytimes.comby Veenie 6/18/2011 12:48:49 PM
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