Japan Earthquake

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@Edano The GoJ is forcing them to sell off assets to pay their damages.
by lillymunster 6/21/2011 12:03:40 AM

@dean @ElaineKirk How can anyone look at Monju and the track record of reactors like that and see this as a good idea. I'm thinking "NRC is too slow in approval" = "There is no way in heck the NRC would ever approve this reactor".
by lillymunster 6/21/2011 12:05:21 AM

@lillymunster and tepco is about to cancel this gov.
by Edano 6/21/2011 12:05:28 AM

I read that TEPCO has10 years to pay the billions of dollars off from the govt..
by dean 6/21/2011 12:05:44 AM

@dean :
"Tepco is being given 30 years to pay back the government for this bailout with borrowed money. The "compensation" package doesn't cover medical benefits for radiation-caused cancers that are not expected to surface in victims for at least two years from now. The government is going along with this publicity stunt, mainly because most politicians owe Tepco under the reigning system of money politics." www.globalresearch.ca
by Edano 6/21/2011 12:09:32 AM

@ nancy , don't be so sure. Remember the CLINCH RIVER REACTOR: en.wikipedia.org
by Peter Melzer 6/21/2011 12:11:54 AM

back for a min... 30 years is better if one is going to invest..
by dean 6/21/2011 12:22:33 AM

@dean you get faster returns on simply info www.empireavenue.com and they are far more ethical , and you dont need to spent money either ;)
by ElaineKirk edited by elainekirk 6/21/2011 12:34:05 AM

I've shared the Greenpeace data from their XLS files: spreadsheets.google.com
by radioguy 6/21/2011 12:43:36 AM

Anyone want to take a stab at this? If you have highly radioactive water in a pond and it is evaporating is the radioactivity all staying in the pool or will some of it go out in the evaporating water vapor?
by lillymunster 6/21/2011 12:54:10 AM

@lillymunster well gamma does www.sciencedirect.com
by elainekirk 6/21/2011 1:05:49 AM

@lillymunster , yup: "Current radionuclide emission sources at INTEC include the liquid waste evaporator systems, the radioactive waste and spent fuel storage systems, evaporation ponds, and the activities at the ICDF. Radionuclide air emissions are reported annually in the National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants-Radionuclides report." source: www.deq.idaho.gov
by Peter Melzer 6/21/2011 1:10:31 AM

@lily...I thought that water can't inherently be raqdioactive, which is why it is a good shield for spent fuel pools etc., but rather it is whatever degredebris, however infinitessimakl that can carry the radioactivity.
by wrshpr 6/21/2011 1:15:22 AM

i51.tinypic.com
For the Nebraska nuclear plant watchers, this does not look good. Omaha Doppler.
by radioguy via I51.tinypic 6/21/2011 1:18:33 AM

A quick note before I head to the office, for @Peter Melzer, I had asked a friend about Kan's activism and work before politics, here is his reply: He had been working for a political NGO to support then congress woman Fusae Ichikawa, who served as an indipendent liberal congress woman from 1950s until 1980s or 1990s and worked for the improvement of women's issues, environmental problems, and other social issues.
by bo 6/21/2011 1:21:05 AM

@lillymunster , they commonly don't. You can see one at the very far end of the Idaho facility I posted the link for. The water plants in the pic from Chernobyl might help, ;)
by Peter Melzer 6/21/2011 1:24:30 AM

Kan must feel like in an aquarium with sharks.
by Peter Melzer 6/21/2011 1:28:43 AM

@Peter Melzer exactly. Well off to work folks back in a bit.
by bo 6/21/2011 1:32:12 AM

My video - repost due to time zones. I do it on here 12 hourly for that reason.
by AustralianCannonball 6/21/2011 1:40:38 AM

@smoss you are a very good hunter down of material
by Elaine Kirk 6/21/2011 1:40:43 AM

Also 60 minutes Australia ran a very detailed story. Amazing actually for MSM. sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au
by AustralianCannonball 6/21/2011 1:46:11 AM

I've been challenged to a "pepsi Challenge" on here. atomicinsights.com
by AustralianCannonball 6/21/2011 1:46:22 AM

They want me to dink the same amount of coffee as plutonium so I told them what about cesium-137. How would that go teaspoon for teaspoon.
by AustralianCannonball 6/21/2011 1:46:24 AM

From NHK scrolling feed: from the IAEA member countries have agreed to set up a new international framework so that countries can cooperate in the event of an emergency at a nuclear power plant.
by lillymunster 6/21/2011 2:02:20 AM

@ AustralianCannonball.. that pice on 60 mins was teary...
by dean 6/21/2011 2:10:19 AM

@AC my favorite part in the comments on that post is when the author, who is nothing if not a person with an agenda, says, "beware of authors with agendas,"!!!
by bo 6/21/2011 2:14:11 AM

@all Found this Greenpeace video interesting, not necessarily for the monologue, but for the footage of the 1999 delivery of MOX fuel. youtu.be
by smoss 6/21/2011 2:21:28 AM

@smoss Thanks I saved it so I can watch it in the AM. I couldn't hear a video right now without headphones :-) Greenpeace is turning out to be a very valuable sourced related to Fuku and their MOX use.
by lillymunster 6/21/2011 2:27:42 AM

@all By the way......The TBS cam is back up...same URL. Hmmmm.
by LM 6/21/2011 2:40:06 AM

@all Trying not to be paranoid, but I'm having issues tonight accessing IAEA publications as well as the GoJ report pinned above....
by smoss 6/21/2011 2:42:43 AM