Japan Earthquake

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by Edano via Spiegel.de 7/13/2011 11:57:59 PM

ikrockhopper Itsumi Kakefuda
The Fukushima worker's tweets: "We've learned FROM THE NEWS that TEPCO/gov aims to finish the cooling system for R1 spent fuel pool...
(cont) "during August. Almost always we learn deadlines from news, not from TEPCO!! TEPCO doesn't care how things are going here, on site
(cont) "Citizens read the news, get reassured, and we workers feel pressure to make the announced deadline no matter what.
(cont) "I don't think R1 is safe enough to work inside (high radiation). If TEPCO pushes us to do it, we will/have to, but it will reduce ..
(cont) "the number of workable workers in terms of radiation exposure limit. There are other reactors we need to work on, remember?"
by elainekirk 7/13/2011 11:59:10 PM

@Edano they have never published video of #1 sfp have they?
by elainekirk 7/14/2011 12:01:55 AM

nice photo Edano.. I wonder if those will be plastic trees
by dean 7/14/2011 12:04:44 AM

@elainekirk The Govt. needs to take control away from TEPCO's corporate office.
by lillymunster 7/14/2011 12:04:50 AM

www.goldschmidt2011.org nice article
by dean 7/14/2011 12:06:40 AM

GE plan followed with inflexibility "Naka recalls that he and many of his colleagues had a lingering question about the plant at least since the mid-1980s: Why were the backup emergency diesel generators and DC batteries still located in the turbine buildings' basements?" search.japantimes.co.jp But it does not matter because the fuel tanks were washed away.
by Ralph Unger 7/14/2011 12:06:46 AM

time for a break and rest.. will return later..
by dean 7/14/2011 12:08:25 AM

why tepco after the falsifying records inquiry in '02 again in '06 and kk plant and the quake in 07 and fuku plant in '11
why are they still running the show?
most of the worlds uranium reserves are prepurchased now, owned whilst still unmined and the base of the biggest stakeholder is in Japan
Anybody know what tepco(or a subsidiary) holding in uranium is ?
It would no doubt twist the arm of others if the 'baddie' was in possesion of something they needed
by elainekirk 7/14/2011 12:13:02 AM

@dean thanks for links dean reading :)
by elainekirk 7/14/2011 12:13:28 AM

@elainekirk : i have never seen #1 sfp.
by Edano 7/14/2011 12:14:28 AM

@you nope nor #2's but #1 is curious because it is exposed like 3 & 4 and they showed those why not 1
by elainekirk 7/14/2011 12:16:23 AM

Reading the proton Tom link dean left here. Zeolite shower filters... www.google.com
by lillymunster 7/14/2011 12:24:40 AM

ABRACADABRA beef is safe they may test again in a month but we have the all clear and this is where they will fall because it is treating people like idiots you cant say of fine honky dorey we will check a few in another month
translate.google.com
by elainekirk 7/14/2011 12:26:27 AM

@Elaine Double face palm....My cheeks are getting chapped!
by LM 7/14/2011 12:27:55 AM

the goldsmidts conference dean flagged looks interesting too www.goldschmidt2011.org
by elainekirk 7/14/2011 12:28:50 AM

@lillymunster could that be used for drinking water?
by elainekirk 7/14/2011 12:29:29 AM

@elainekirk So far I didn't find one. I would hope maybe they could be but would want to find some source of them in common use.
by lillymunster 7/14/2011 12:32:27 AM

Found a whole house filter with zeolite, mentions of it being used for municipal water filtration, mentions of it being used to filter water in india & Malaysia. pureeffectfilters.com

by lillymunster 7/14/2011 12:39:32 AM

@lillymunster thats hopeful Lilly
by elainekirk 7/14/2011 12:40:57 AM

Good morning council of the wise
by bo 7/14/2011 12:42:11 AM

Hi Bo!
by lillymunster 7/14/2011 12:44:42 AM

Morning Bo. @Lilly You wouldn't happen to know if all chlorine filters for the shower are zeolite? We have them on all our showers because the water here in CA is awful.
by LM 7/14/2011 12:45:03 AM

@elainekirk I need to go into business. Fashion radiation detectors and zeolite house water filters. :-)
by lillymunster 7/14/2011 12:45:16 AM

@LM I am not sure. Some say specifically zeolite, others don't. If you know the brand you should be able to back track to a website that sells them and might have details.
by lillymunster 7/14/2011 12:46:03 AM

Whistleblower Fears “Pro-Nuclear” Move at Fukushima University: shingetsublog.jugem.jp
by bo 7/14/2011 12:47:03 AM

@Lilly Thanks. I'll have to look again. I had never thought about it before. I hope they are!
by LM 7/14/2011 12:47:14 AM

@all, zeolite is used as a common aquarium filter media.
by lillymunster 7/14/2011 12:47:25 AM

@bo who has the ability to fire the university board? :-)
by lillymunster 7/14/2011 12:48:53 AM

@lillymunster I'm not sure about the administrative procedures at Japanese universities, even though I work at one! But I'm sure public outrage could provoke whoever could fire them to take action.
by bo 7/14/2011 12:50:13 AM

@bo I would hope the local community and alumni would have some pull.
by lillymunster 7/14/2011 12:51:19 AM

@Bo, I ran across this group that made a series of anti-nuclear paper fans to hand out at summer festivals and concerts. One of the best marketing tools I have seen in years and very well done. d.hatena.ne.jp
by lillymunster 7/14/2011 12:53:29 AM

@all Good Morning...Good Evening...Hello!
by smoss 7/14/2011 12:56:12 AM

I did find some refillable water filter media canisters. It would be interesting to fill one with carbon and zeolite and see what it does.
by lillymunster 7/14/2011 12:57:02 AM

@lillymunster good idea
by elainekirk 7/14/2011 12:59:16 AM

@smoss just looking for tepcos uranium holdings
by elainekirk 7/14/2011 12:59:41 AM

Kan wants to phase out N-power / 'Accidents cannot be prevented' [14 July, 2011]: www.yomiuri.co.jp
"Prime Minister Naoto Kan announced Wednesday evening that he would put the government's current basic energy plan back on the drawing board and make the nation's future energy policy not dependent on nuclear power generation.

"I will aim to make the country not dependent on nuclear power," Kan told a press conference held at the Prime Minister's Office. "I will lower the nation's dependence on it in stages and try to achieve a society that can function without nuclear power in the future.""
by es 7/14/2011 1:03:34 AM

Utilities OK With Sharing Nuke Compensation Burden [14 July, 2011]: e.nikkei.com
by es 7/14/2011 1:03:54 AM

@all -Surveys to determine radiation fields and exposure rates continue sporadically at No. 2 and No. 3 plants. A cursory review of the surveys and levels discovered reveals nothing surprising to this writer at this time in terms of fixed or solid contaminanation and radiation therefrom, but there is a high airborne level in No. 2 reactor building, some 65 times the limit set by NISA.

atomicpowerreview.blogspot.com
by smoss 7/14/2011 1:04:10 AM

Fukushima to decontaminate entire city [14 July, 2011]: www.yomiuri.co.jp
by es 7/14/2011 1:04:15 AM

@elainekirk Uranium or Plutonium?
by smoss 7/14/2011 1:04:15 AM

TEPCO claims unit 3 is earthquake proof. Really. ex-skf.blogspot.com
by lillymunster 7/14/2011 1:05:36 AM

@smoss uranium I am looking at their 'power' to determine the market in uranium , prices and availability e.g look at this clever deal www.tepco.co.jp and there are many others
by elainekirk 7/14/2011 1:05:37 AM

@lillymunster posted by me 3hrs ago roflmao "Look we can all go home unit 3 is quake proof www.tepco.co.jp"
by elainekirk 7/14/2011 1:08:01 AM

Uranium seems to be a very high stakes dirty dealing business. Areva's escapades in Africa read like a Bond movie full of bad guys, dictators and briefcases of cash. From what I read a few months ago they are estimating 70 years of decent uranium left. Stop and think about that. All the countries trying to expand nuclear power when it would end up in the exact situation as oil. Investors seem really interested in Uranium futures so it must be a big deal.
by lillymunster 7/14/2011 1:08:23 AM