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@lillymunster lol Lilly I need to ask you something .....do you think we are missing a party somewhere, I think they have all gone out on the town and left us here alone gazing into the tepco soup

TEPCO ready to inject nitrogen into No.2 reactor

Tokyo Electric Power Company is ready to inject nitrogen into the containment vessel of the Number 2 reactor at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to prevent hydrogen blasts.

The company says it will monitor radiation levels around the compound more closely as the nitrogen may force out tiny amounts of gas containing radioactive substances.

Work is underway at the damaged nuclear plant to decontaminate water and inject it back into the reactor for cooling.

But if the reactors are cooled to a stable level, less moisture will be produced, raising the ratio of hydrogen in the air.

Hydrogen can cause an explosion when it reacts with oxygen.

TEPCO has been pumping nitrogen into the No.1 reactor since April and has completed preparations to do the same at the No. 2 reactor.

The utility assessed the possible effects of nitrogen injection into the No.2 reactor, and submitted its report to the government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency on Friday.

It plans to start the injection as soon as it obtains the consent of the agency.

Sunday, June 26, 2011 02:50 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp

@Elaine Kirk :)

OK tweedom is busy filling the news void
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Jake Adelstein
When did things at TEPCO nuclear plant start to go wrong? During WW2, when Einstein warned the US that Germany was researching an atom bomb.

removing fuel ?

Utilities face 'denuclearization' motions as shareholders gather english.kyodonews.jp

§1 Our reactors are safe.
§2 In case of accident, refer to §1.

@lillymunster , since I have not learned yet how to access and edit the draft, I post the last version below. The image of the log was for the scribble and is not strictly needed. So here it goes:

Dear Sir/Madame:

Thank you for your letter addressing public fears about the safety of nuclear power plants in the US after the catastrophic failure of three nuclear reactors at Fukushima 1 (Daiichi) nuclear power station in Japan in the wake of the Tohoku-Oki Earthquake Mar. 11, 2011.

We wish to respond to two issues raised in your letter that remain of fundamental concern:

1) “All U.S. nuclear power plants are built to withstand external hazards, including earthquakes, flooding, and tsunamis, as appropriate.”

How can we be certain that the measures implemented in the US are appropriate? We have not even fully uncovered the causes for the reactor accidents at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station yet.

The loss of off-site alternating current (AC) power and the early loss of emergency diesel generators may represent major causes underlying the accident. However, the reactor safety systems of unit 1, as well as of units 2 and 3, are supposedly designed such that the reactor can be cooled and its core covered with water for eight hours, using direct current battery power and decay heat alone. Both were still available for several hours at Fukushima after the loss of all AC power. Despite, lack of coolant caused core melt-down at unit 1 within four hours. How can the NRC claim that reactors of similar design are safe in the US, considering that we do not fully understand the causes instrumental to the catastrophic reactor failures at Fukushima?

2) “ The NRC believes that it is highly unlikely that a similar combination of events such as those which occurred in Japan could occur in the United States…”

Since a different combination of similar events cannot be ruled out, this belief seems unwarranted.

Taken the above concerns into account, we suggest that US reactors of similar design as at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station should be permitted to operate only at 70 percent of their full electrical power output, until a clear understanding of the causes for the three catastrophic reactor failures is reached, most notably because each failure was anticipated to occur only once in ten-thousand years or less.

Thank you very much for your consideration.

@all Any info on SFP temps?

@Lilly Although...now that I look at it...maybe. Something worth noting for sure.

@all Good Evening...Good Morning...Hello!

@lillymunster Hi!