Japan Earthquake

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We have posted the current situation regarding the contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP on our website. twme.jp
by Veenie 6/30/2011 4:47:39 AM

@Veenie - Notice the lack of crane on the Tepco cam?
by Lethbridgean 6/30/2011 4:54:44 AM

@Lethbridgean I see it all the way left
by Veenie 6/30/2011 4:56:31 AM

@Veenie -Not the little one, the big Jib Crane. But Yes I do see the tip of the little one. That field of view diagram at the bottom of the Tepco cam page has to be more to the right.
by Lethbridgean 6/30/2011 5:00:38 AM

Tepco Cuts Borrowing Costs By a Third
“The banks must have given the company special rates, which helps lower the financial burden" www.bloomberg.com
by Panserbjorne9 6/30/2011 5:14:20 AM

Genkai mayor OK's restart of N-reactors / Saga governor maintains cautious view www.yomiuri.co.jp
by bo 6/30/2011 6:07:32 AM

Atomic power to stay, Kepco tells investors search.japantimes.co.jp
by bo 6/30/2011 6:08:24 AM

Home AC died, fortunately I used to work on them, it was just a $17 starter capacitor for the compressor. $1400 bill avoided....
by Ralph Unger 6/30/2011 7:06:12 AM

@Veenie posted this on Organize:

Radiation in Japan: Radioactive Cesium from Urine Samples of 10 Children in Fukushima City

ex-skf.blogspot.com
by bo 6/30/2011 7:28:14 AM

Double whammy, The bad capacitor caused the neutral to fail,it had corrosion,. It is very hard to fix things with two failure points at the same time. I only mention this because Nuke plants are much the same. Anyone can handle one failure point, but two at the same time?
by Ralph Unger 6/30/2011 7:44:36 AM

It took me 15 hours to figure out the failure on my compressor.With all my troubleshooting.
by Ralph Unger 6/30/2011 7:47:37 AM

Radioactive (Or at least "contaminated") water now exceeds 120,000 tons ex-skf.blogspot.com
by wrshpr 6/30/2011 8:56:41 AM

@bo is it verified I hardly dare oipen twitter
by elainekirk 6/30/2011 9:15:43 AM

@elaine from the translation of the article: "The samples were taken in late May, and sent to the French laboratory ACRO (Association pour le Contrôle de la Radioactivité dans l’Ouest) to testing for radiation. ACRO has experience in surveying the radiation exposure in children after the Chernobyl accident."
by bo 6/30/2011 9:19:48 AM

@bo
this must be the weapon surely ?
by elainekirk 6/30/2011 9:20:22 AM

@elaine I don't know the epidemiology well enough to say. Won't be long and Edano will be up
by bo 6/30/2011 9:21:38 AM

@you people cannot ignore it any more they have to wake up if it only wakes
by elainekirk 6/30/2011 9:21:42 AM

@bo oooo yessy I go put the kettle on
by elainekirk 6/30/2011 9:22:18 AM

@elaine I, on the other hand, am going to pour some wine
by bo 6/30/2011 9:23:04 AM

@bo oo yes you have wine I have coffee @edano tea and if Ralph is stil around ??
by elainekirk 6/30/2011 9:24:21 AM

@elaine I'll be back in just a bit.
by bo 6/30/2011 9:28:43 AM

@bo okies
by elainekirk 6/30/2011 9:31:36 AM

I don't under stand this sentence, "That the Japanese utility, and Government have gone to the trouble of shipping uranium from Japan to Belgium, is more to do with their mistaken view that only Japanese nuclear material can be used in the MOX." from archive.greenpeace.org
by wrshpr 6/30/2011 9:33:07 AM

The Los Alamos County Council will be holding a town hall meeting today at Thursday, June 30:

· 5 p.m. at the Senior Center, One Kee Street, Santa Clara Pueblo.
If any techie types are in the area, that would be a great opportunity to hear and be heard. To bad Dean is in Bosie and not Santa Fe and Peter is in Virginia, I believe....I am in PA (not that I am technically qualified), and Bo is in Japan. Rob in SF or MS in la could catch a $99 flight from Southwest if they wanted to disrupt their day, but if there are any lurkers who have come because of the developments in Los Alamos...or if Reed comes back....also, @all....has there been any thought of maybe putting together the $65 to have one of our regualrs, bo, bobby, Edano, Elaine, lily,etc. to attend and view the NY times webcast? I know there had been talk of setting up something to help George Gibb pay for the Scribble upkeep costs, though I think nothing really happened with that.....you can't buy much with that few bucks, and so I think that I would be good for $15, so if ten other people pitched in just five bucks, which is a gallon of gas, or a good latte, or a pack of radioactive ciggarettes, that would give us a front seat at something that is as cutting edge as mainstream media (sorta) is getting on this issue.
by wrshpr 6/30/2011 9:37:30 AM

@wrshpr @wrshpr I am in uk just woken up what developments at los alamos?
by elainekirk 6/30/2011 9:40:20 AM

www.tepco.co.jp
@veenie
the big crane is removing the oil tanks
by elainekirk via Tepco.co.jp 6/30/2011 9:46:59 AM

Is that duck tape !!
by elainekirk 6/30/2011 9:51:42 AM

@elaine...just "developments in general" enenews.com I am thinking that maybe people in the area might go online to look up more informaito and find us here, ad be lurking, and then they could go to the town hall meeting there this afternoon to hear and be heard!
by wrshpr 6/30/2011 10:05:00 AM

@wrshpr Good thinking :)
by elainekirk 6/30/2011 10:07:54 AM

Has anyone seen this?. 17 pages. Must read. www.criirad.org
by AustralianCannonball 6/30/2011 10:10:41 AM

enenews.com Twitter feed on it is fairly quiet, though I may not know the best terms
by wrshpr 6/30/2011 10:10:52 AM

@wrshpr Enenews is great.
by AustralianCannonball 6/30/2011 10:11:22 AM

@Australian Cannonball...don't know if this has been confirmed, but that doc goes lock-step with www.tgdaily.com Fukushima residents have radioactive urine!
by wrshpr 6/30/2011 10:35:01 AM

QuakeAlert
DATE : 06/30/2011 12:22:45
TIME : 24 minutes ago
REG. : near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
MAG. : 4.9
DEP. : 41.0 km
ID : 120032
quakes.globalincidentmap.com
close to fuku !
by Edano 6/30/2011 10:58:05 AM

@Edano not looking good on the quake front I have to go out catch you all later
by elainekirk 6/30/2011 10:59:43 AM

Improperly set valve halts water treatment system

Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, says an improperly adjusted valve has led to a halt in the operation of a key water decontamination system at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

TEPCO has repeatedly suspended the water decontamination operation. The operation is vital to reducing the amount of highly radioactive water building up in the plant. The treated water is also circulated to cool down the reactors.

At around 7 PM on Wednesday, TEPCO had to shut down the system again after contaminated water was found overflowing in a French-made radiation removal unit. An investigation found that an incorrectly set valve is most likely to blame.

The decontamination operation resumed two hours later.

At the Number 6 reactor's turbine building, low-level contaminated water is increasing. TEPCO plans to start on Thursday afternoon transferring low-level radioactive water stored in make-shift tanks into a giant steel barge called "megafloat" attached to a quay on the plant's premises.

The tanks are nearing their full capacity of 12,000 tons. TEPCO aims to pump around 8,000 tons of contaminated water into the giant barge in three or four months.

Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:59 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano edited by Edano 6/30/2011 11:14:37 AM

#6 and the megafloat are in the game again.

why is there contaminated water in #6 ???
by Edano 6/30/2011 11:17:36 AM

113 families advised to evacuate as 'hot spots' from nuclear crisis

TOKYO, June 30, Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 6/30/2011 11:19:02 AM

M5.4 quake jolts Nagano Pref., injuring 11

TOKYO, June 30, Kyodo

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 jolted Nagano Prefecture and its vicinity in central Japan on Thursday morning, with the number of injured coming to 11, including two with broken bones, the Japan Meteorological Agency and local police said.

The 8:16 a.m. quake measured upper 5 on the Japanese seismic scale of 7 in Matsumoto in the inland prefecture and 4 in Yamagata, also in Nagano, according to the agency. No tsunami warning was issued.

The focus of the quake was located in a fault straddling Niigata, Nagano, Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures, according to the agency. english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano edited by Edano 6/30/2011 11:20:24 AM

M5.4 quake jolts Nagano Pref.

A building in the city of Matsumoto in Nagano Prefecture is damaged after a strong earthquake struck the area on June 30, 2011. The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4, injured at least eight people. (Kyodo)
by Edano via English.kyodonews.jp 6/30/2011 11:21:39 AM

Trace amounts of radioactive materials found in Fukushima kids' urine

TOKYO, June 30, Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 6/30/2011 11:24:34 AM

TEPCO starts using megafloat to store low-level radioactive water

TOKYO, June 30, Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 6/30/2011 11:27:23 AM

@Edano Re #6's leak, hmm, TEPCO had reported this the other day...: www.tepco.co.jp
"At 12:00 pm on June 28, we found the water level gauge (manometer) of temporary tank where accumulated water from turbine building in Unit 6 will be transferred lying on the floor. Since accumulated water was leaking from the gauge, we stopped it by closing main valve."
by es 6/30/2011 11:27:27 AM