Japan Earthquake

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@Edano In Britain we have a rail system that is famed for excuses like "wrong kind of snow on the line""wrong kind of leaves on the line" to explain cancelled services methinks tepco should have done a rail map rather than a roadmap
by elainekirk 6/25/2011 7:11:51 PM

@elainekirk Funny. @edano I wonder what kind of complex inorganic compounds isotopes make in an iron-seawater slurry.
by RadioGuy 6/25/2011 7:17:17 PM

@elainekirk our trains also work only between 5 and 15 centigrades, out of that range they are dangerous.
by Edano 6/25/2011 7:18:18 PM

As long as the buildings are over the sea level no new mud should come in. But problems i see in the future if they are gonna resirculate water.. i hope they remove the sodium but if not.. is that wires for gauges will corrode, metal bars in the concrete will corrode, weaken the strength so earthquakes can be phrone to damage the buildings. Likely with those powerful explosions the building is cracked all over and with no metal bars holding it together.. well.. but this will not happen in the near future and hopefully the thickness of the concrete was strong enough.
But likely ingeniours didnt expect strong explotions to happen.. so never know.
by Tone Noen 6/25/2011 7:21:21 PM

Do we have this doc goving reactor readings /charts etc for all the reactors from the time of the quake / tsunami www.tepco.co.jp
by elainekirk 6/25/2011 8:26:31 PM

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about Ray Nagin's book www.nola.com
by RBeaner 6/25/2011 8:26:48 PM

www.japantimes.co.jp
Adding to such concerns are the views of Richard Broinowski, a former Australian diplomat who is now adjunct professor at the University of Sydney. In response to recent emailed questions from the JT, Broinowski — who is currently writing a book about the Tohoku disasters — said he doubts whether the Japanese authorities have done the most thorough research into the irradiation of food.

Specifically, he said, "What I am anxious to know is: Are qualified Japanese epidemiologists and public health experts (that is, those not in the pay of the nuclear industry) undertaking objective and impartial research into how deeply and to what intensity, radiation dispersal of cesium-137, strontium-90, iodine-131, noble gases and plutonium-239 ... has spread, and how much the general population of the Tohoku region and other regions of Japan have been exposed?"

He added: "I also suspect that full disclosure of such data is not in the interests of the Japanese nuclear industry."
search.japantimes.co.jp
by elainekirk via Japantimes.co.jp 6/25/2011 9:03:45 PM

back.. hi to all
by dean 6/25/2011 9:07:03 PM

@dean hi
by elainekirk 6/25/2011 9:07:16 PM

afternoon all!
by lillymunster 6/25/2011 9:08:42 PM

@lillymunster hi how are you how are the floods is ccalhoun holding up
by Elaine Kirk 6/25/2011 9:10:26 PM

@dean did you already have the quake reactor charts ?
by Elaine Kirk 6/25/2011 9:13:09 PM

So far no big changes at Calhoun-Cooper that I have heard of. Just getting back into online mode. Dropped my laptop on the table last night. :-) So I had to make sure I had a good back up in case I need to replace my hard drive. :-)
I do need to update dam and river levels for today.
Talked to some people from Minot last night. They said the flooding up there is a major problem. Most of the town is on a peninsula as the river does a "U". All the stores etc. are on the opposite side of the river.
by lillymunster 6/25/2011 9:13:25 PM

@lillymunster they are going to find it hard
by Elaine Kirk 6/25/2011 9:14:34 PM

hi elaine.. hi lilly
by dean 6/25/2011 9:17:55 PM

no @ elaine
by dean 6/25/2011 9:18:05 PM

@dean oh goody it was worth the hunt then
by Elaine Kirk 6/25/2011 9:18:31 PM

I will celebrate by putting the kettle on :)
by Elaine Kirk 6/25/2011 9:18:54 PM

yeahhhhhhh... I could use some tea
by dean 6/25/2011 9:24:09 PM

Water at Cooper down slightly with expected rise less than a foot over the next week. Omaha to go down slightly in the next week. Big bend dam releases at 164k, Gavins Point at 159.
by lillymunster 6/25/2011 9:25:50 PM

checking out the chart paper elaine
by dean 6/25/2011 9:27:45 PM

@lillymunster do you think it will level off/worsten/improve?
by Elaine Kirk 6/25/2011 9:29:31 PM

@Elaine Kirk The snow pack in Montana still isn't melted. I think we will get a good idea over the next week as long as we don't get any more significant rain. Then we can see if the dam system can start tapering off upriver going downriver. If they have to continue at 160k after that or get more increases over that week then it has the potential to get worse. Still can't get any data on how much potential is up in Montana unmelted. They have to have sent people up there to measure or have some other way to estimate what is up in the unmelted areas.
by lillymunster 6/25/2011 9:34:05 PM

@lillymunster I should imagine sattelite and gps markers will be giving them a good picture wouldnt it? it is a bugler when we fund these people to gather information and then cannot access it
by Elaine Kirk 6/25/2011 9:38:31 PM

Meanwhile, the Tokyo Electric Power Co, which owns the Fukushima plant, may sell assets, reduce pension benefits and eliminate jobs to shore up finances as it struggles to contain the crisis and compensate victims. The utility may sell Toden Real Estate Co, which has ¥180 billion in assets, as well as AT Tokyo Corp, a unit that operates a data centre, a Yomiuri newspaper report said. BLOOMBERG www.todayonline.com
by Elaine Kirk 6/25/2011 9:40:10 PM

ty elaine.. those charts and things need to be evaluated against other reported sequence of events.. I can see several areas where I personally would have to study to agree with "all" of the statements in the boxes
by dean 6/25/2011 9:41:14 PM

@Elaine Kirk We have both the weather agencies and the corps who manage the dams compiling data but they can't be bothered to tell the public what it all means.
by lillymunster 6/25/2011 9:42:04 PM

@dean it is beyond me but thought it may be of interest to all you techi's here
by Elaine Kirk 6/25/2011 9:42:18 PM

graphics8.nytimes.com
“It’s terrible, just terrible,” the White Rabbit says in the first exhibit. “We’re running out of energy, Alice.”...
www.nytimes.com
by Elaine Kirk via Graphics8.nytimes 6/25/2011 9:43:17 PM

I had a thought this morning. It would make things easier if we had all this data catalogs somehow so it was accessible and searchable. Going to do some looking to see if something makes sense to use. Being able to pull up all the documents and web sites about a very specific bit of info might make it easier to find bits and pieces or group them together.
by lillymunster 6/25/2011 9:43:56 PM

ireport.cnn.com montana article
by dean 6/25/2011 9:47:49 PM

@lillymunster novice speaking but isn't there a google search you can put on the site that lets you search either the web or just the site?
by Elaine Kirk 6/25/2011 9:48:17 PM

the information is excellent elaine.. maybe we could post it up and ask techie inputs on it
by dean 6/25/2011 9:48:42 PM

@dean yeah I posted it as soon as my broomstick swept it up and it was very quiet on here at the time maybe when the boards busier
by Elaine Kirk 6/25/2011 9:51:08 PM

@dean Great article. That is the only information on the water sources I have seen.
by lillymunster 6/25/2011 9:56:33 PM

More rain and bad weather central SD (Missouri river valley) tonight. Blech.
by lillymunster 6/25/2011 9:57:38 PM

@dean @lillymunster a tweet to make you smile again
econundertow Publicity stunt No. 397: TEPCO 'ready' to inject nitrogen into #Fukushima reactor unit 2. t.co/bnBGZGD One can only wonder
by Elaine Kirk 6/25/2011 9:59:27 PM

Cyclists gather bikes and donate to disaster areas. Transportation is another forgotten problem for survivors ajw.asahi.com
by lillymunster 6/25/2011 10:02:41 PM

Hachiko Coalition now trapping animals in evac. zones. www.facebook.com
by lillymunster 6/25/2011 10:04:19 PM

I would think we should be able to find a link in montana to check the river flows of the main rivers feeding the flooding areas... HELP ELAINE.. he he . you love that
by dean 6/25/2011 10:07:52 PM

Kan's advisor on corporate and banking says nuclear power plants should be nationalized ajw.asahi.com
by lillymunster 6/25/2011 10:08:06 PM

time to eat will return .
by dean 6/25/2011 10:08:17 PM

@dean Might be able to set up a list of rivers to watch besides looking for increases a bit hard to make predictions but it is something.
by lillymunster 6/25/2011 10:08:48 PM

@dean @lillymunster it very erm techi for me that is dean
by Elaine Kirk 6/25/2011 10:09:44 PM

@Elaine Kirk I should be able to pin down the rivers that feed in and the proper stations for water levels. Sounds like a good Sunday morning over coffee project! :-)
by lillymunster 6/25/2011 10:12:02 PM