Japan Earthquake

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It looks like it will come ashore on Shikoku, so it is likely to have lost a lot of strength by the time it gets to northern Japan. Still, high winds and heavy rains. But it's gonna smack us here in Chugoku.
by bo 7/15/2011 1:50:18 PM

FYI, 5 weeks after Hiroshima was bombed in 1945 the biggest typhoon to hit the town in the last century hit, taking out bridges that the bomb left intact. The upside is that it flushed a lot of radiation out of the city and into the sea.
by bo 7/15/2011 1:51:06 PM

@Bo, do you have any thoughts on a good method to present options to local govts. if we come up with something for hepa and water filters?
by lillymunster 7/15/2011 1:56:32 PM

mother nature taking care of things..
by dean 7/15/2011 1:56:37 PM

nuwaterconcepts.com
by dean 7/15/2011 1:57:19 PM

lilly and bo.. there is a video on the testing for the radiation water treatment nuwaterconcepts.com
by dean 7/15/2011 1:58:35 PM

will be back ...
by dean 7/15/2011 1:58:41 PM

@Dean the nuwater filters look like a combination media filter. They would be a good option if the price is right. Looks like all their products are modular and simple.
by lillymunster 7/15/2011 1:59:07 PM

@bo, is whole house forced air heating/cooling very common in Japan?
by lillymunster 7/15/2011 2:00:12 PM

brb in 10min have to take the puppy for a run.
by lillymunster 7/15/2011 2:01:49 PM

Hi lilly, was in the shower. I would say that local governments is not who to approach. We could work through some of the parents groups or NPOs.
by bo 7/15/2011 2:10:39 PM

@lilly no. Rooms are heated and cooled room by room in Japan. Everything is room units, and so you only cool or heat the room you are in.
by bo 7/15/2011 2:11:16 PM

TEPCO checking for gas leak from No. 3 reactor
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is checking for gas leaks in the No. 3 reactor, into which nitrogen is being injected to prevent a hydrogen explosion.

Tokyo Electric Power Company has injected more than 200 cubic meters of nitrogen into the reactor's containment vessel since Thursday evening. But it says the interior air pressure has increased very little.

TEPCO says gas may be leaking from a damaged part of the container.

Also on Friday, TEPCO restarted a system for decontaminating highly radioactive water after a 9-hour stoppage to vent air from a pipe that was slowing down operations.

But it says the system's capability is still more than 20 percent lower than the target figure. www3.nhk.or.jp .....................Morning all! Wow. It doesn't take a genius to know 3 isn't airtight!
by LM 7/15/2011 2:11:46 PM

@Bo I wanted to tell you last night that I really liked the group of 7 paper you posted. Thanks. Stay safe in this typhoon. We'll all be sending good wishes...when does it arrive?
by LM 7/15/2011 2:14:01 PM

@LM thanks for the good wishes. I'm glad that some of the group who wrote that document will be part of our fall lecture series at the peace institute. Glad you found the article useful.
by bo 7/15/2011 2:17:30 PM

It looks like meals may still be being charged
Of course ぽぽ poporon70
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by elainekirk 7/15/2011 2:17:44 PM

TEPCO again stops key reactor cooling system
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant continues to struggle in its efforts to stably cool the facility's reactors. Workers have again halted a key wastewater system after discovering that it was operating below capacity.

Early Friday morning, Tokyo Electric Power Company stopped the system, which decontaminates and recycles radioactive wastewater. The system had just resumed operation on Thursday after a leak was repaired.

TEPCO says it found that even after the repair, the system was able to treat only 37 tons of contaminated water per hour, which is 20 percent below target. The company is now inspecting the cause.

TEPCO says the latest shutdown had not led to a rise in fuel rod temperatures, as cooling operations are continuing with water that had previously been decontaminated. www3.nhk.or.jp
by LM 7/15/2011 2:19:48 PM

@bo, is most fresh air just brought in through total small openings in the house? Talking free standing homes, apartments seem to be a different animal.
by lillymunster 7/15/2011 2:21:45 PM

@Bo I would love to see a worldwide movement in that direction. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed. Unfortunately, the move to the right in the US is not helping the development of alternative energies.
by LM 7/15/2011 2:24:23 PM

@lilly most places have big windows, and also homes are not insulated, they are built to sort of vent some fresh air. That's one reason the heating and cooling is done room by room. Apartments have less ability to open windows and to vent, as you say.
by bo 7/15/2011 2:24:42 PM

@LM and the fact that our (less and less) centrist Democratic president's top contributors includes a nuclear company. en.wikipedia.org
by bo 7/15/2011 2:25:56 PM

@bo that raises a small challenge with HEPA filtering. If someone has one of those wall units like the Mitsubishi wall AC/heat units. Those have the ability to add a HEPA. Some of the old wall type heaters like we had in CA I don't know if they have an air intake or not.
by lillymunster 7/15/2011 2:26:44 PM

@Bo So true!
by LM 7/15/2011 2:27:34 PM

@lilly most room units are both AC and heater in one unit.
by bo 7/15/2011 2:28:16 PM

@LM In the current environment we are more likely to see alternative energy at least at the end user, develop through trends and "fashion" rather than govt. mandate. The larger generation issue is going to be hard. The power companies here don't want it and hold too much control.
by lillymunster 7/15/2011 2:28:31 PM

@Bo Nulcer has been so successfully sold to the US Democrats as a green energy source. It's not green when it produces waste that can kill for thousands of years. They all need an education. I won't even mention the right...they won't even acknowledge evolution. Frustration is the word for me!
by LM 7/15/2011 2:30:38 PM

..Nuclear, not Nulcer.
by LM 7/15/2011 2:31:05 PM

sentaka83 Center
by poporon70
Today, nuclear power - spoke little of the gypsy says - came from nuclear workers at the Iwaki ‥ ‥ Osaka locals. . . They are now most afraid of, rather than [radioactive],,, "heat stroke" it! It says. . . (° o °;; and wear protective clothing, ‥ ‥ ‥ 50 〜 likely become the body temperature is 60 ℃. (Over over;)
14 Jul
by elainekirk 7/15/2011 2:32:01 PM

@Lilly True! I'm working on my sons. They see the dangers now.
by LM 7/15/2011 2:32:10 PM

@LM true that. Neither side is looking for solutions, just supporting various industry rivals, or, as in the case of many politicians, all of the above: coal, nuclear, oil, natural gas.
by bo 7/15/2011 2:34:13 PM

@LM Trying to move your home or business to self generated alternatives is practically an act of civil disobedience or rebellion. Polticially if your not forking over hundreds of dollars a month to a private electric utility it is a problem. Policy is based more on shoring up profits and less about the needs of people.
by lillymunster 7/15/2011 2:36:38 PM

www.tropicalstormrisk.com Yellow Alert City(s) and Town(s)
Saga (33.0 N, 133.0 E)
probability for CAT 1 or above is 20% in about 96 hours
probability for TS is 40% in about 96 hours
Tokushima (34.1 N, 134.6 E)
probability for CAT 1 or above is 15% in about 96 hours
probability for TS is 40% in about 96 hours
Kagoshima (31.5 N, 130.5 E)
probability for CAT 1 or above is 10% in about 96 hours
probability for TS is 40% in about 96 hours
Matsue (35.4 N, 133.0 E)
probability for CAT 1 or above is 10% in about 120 hours
probability for TS is 30% in about 96 hours
Obama (35.4 N, 135.8 E)
probability for CAT 1 or above is 10% in about 120 hours
probability for TS is 25% in about 96 hours
Nagoya (35.2 N, 136.9 E)
probability for CAT 1 or above is 10% in about 120 hours
probability for TS is 25% in about 96 hours
Osaka (34.6 N, 135.5 E)
probability for CAT 1 or above is 10% in about 120 hours
probability for TS is 35% in about 120 hours
Hiroshima (34.4 N, 132.4 E)
probability for CAT 1 or above is 10% in about 96 hours
probability for TS is 35% in about 96 hours
Shiono-misaki (33.5 N, 135.8 E)
probability for CAT 1 or above is 10% in about 96 hours
probability for TS is 35% in about 96 hours
Kumamoto (32.7 N, 130.7 E)
probability for CAT 1 or above is 10% in about 96 hours
probability for TS is 35% in about 96 hours
Kanazawa (36.8 N, 136.8 E)
probability for CAT 1 or above is 10% in about 120 hours
probability for TS is 25% in about 120 hours
Tokyo (35.7 N, 139.8 E)
probability for CAT 1 or above is 10% in about 120 hours
probability for TS is 25% in about 120 hours
Shizuoka (35.0 N, 138.5 E)
probability for CAT 1 or above is 10% in about 120 hours
probability for TS is 25% in about 120 hours
by Majj via Tropicalstormrisk 7/15/2011 2:39:49 PM

@Lilly I agree. It's assinine. We have the tech to add solar to every new construction, but it's just not profitable enough. I'm fed up with all politics, but even more by politics that vilifies the less fortunate. That attitude only fuels the greed of big business and gives them more justification.
by LM 7/15/2011 2:42:56 PM

“Emergency declared” at New Jersey nuke plant after reactor coolant leak — “Leakage outside containment” UNUSUAL EVENT DECLARED BASED ON REACTOR COOLANT LEAK GREATER THAN 10 GPM

"At 2053 on July 14, 2011 Salem unit 2 declared an Unusual Event due to reactor coolant system leakage greater than 10 gallons per minute. While performing a monthly Emergency Core Cooling System vent of the high head safety injection piping a motor operated valve was opened and a leak developed on the high head piping greater than 10 gallons per minute. The leak rate was approximately 11-15 gallon per minute. The leak was terminated when the motor operated valve was closed. The time of the leak was about 6 minutes."

At this time the leak is believed to be from a crack on the Boron Injection Tank (BIT) relief valve line which is connected to the high head piping. A total of approximately 90 gallon of reactor coolant leaked into the BIT room. The licensee has declared the high head safety injection inoperable and is proceeding to shutdown under Tech Spec 3.0.3. www.nrc.gov
by Majj 7/15/2011 2:44:37 PM

@lillymunster It's sad. In Europe we have the reverse. The energy industry is all going renewable because that's where the profit will be beyond the foreseeable future. They're thinking ahead. That's why Germany suddenly twisted against nuclear in the blink of an eye... they have already got the infra-structure to provide clean energy. It's not going to be a major investment.
by Pedro Jesus 7/15/2011 2:45:43 PM

@Pedro Jesus you have better bread there too.
by bo 7/15/2011 2:46:43 PM

@Pedro Jesus I wish that was us! Fox News has the US in a trance!!
by LM 7/15/2011 2:47:07 PM

@bo Portuguese bread is the best in the world. =)
by Pedro Jesus 7/15/2011 2:47:23 PM

Finding that radiation-tainted straw was produced far from nuclear plant causes shock. Revelations that radiation-contaminated rice straw used as feed for beef cattle was produced far away from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant have sent shockwaves through the livestock farming community in Fukushima Prefecture.
Consumers have also been filled with a sense of growing distrust in the government over delays in responding to the problem of radiation-tainted beef.
mdn.mainichi.jp
by Majj 7/15/2011 2:48:03 PM

@LM I saw an experimental project where they took an apartment coop in San Francisco, all the tenants were lower income. They put solar panels on the roof and rolled the costs into their monthly fees so it was a small increase to pay the loan. They all ended up owing nothing to the utility on average. Part of the problem of personal adoption is up front costs combined with ignorance in the construction and banking industry.
by lillymunster 7/15/2011 2:49:41 PM

@Lilly True. My husbands parents have had full solar in Massachusetts for the last 30 years. I honestly believe that if we wanted to we could bring the up front costs down. It definitely saves thousands after the fact. I just hope it doesn't take a US Fuku to wake people up.
by LM 7/15/2011 2:52:21 PM

@bo One thing we can virtually count on is that Japan is going to get an earful from Korea after this storm. A couple of links. Here's the Japan Metorological Agency satellite page: www.jma.go.jp
Set the animation loop for 24 hours and watch. You can see the cyclonic (ccw) storm swirl and notice how it's already shredding some clouds from the high band and dragging them back in toward Japan.
Then, here's the forecast page for Sendai: global
Look at the extended forecast wind directions related to the storm. That Easterly is the wind sucking all of the air from province up into the atmosphere so it can be rained down over the rest of Japan on its way to Korea along the counter-clockwise rotation. People will want to stay out of this rain.
by RadioGuy 7/15/2011 2:55:02 PM

@LM Right now our biggest hurdles have been the inability to grid tie and battery storage. We can't grid tie in our state because Xcel Energy is fighting it. Battery storage is expensive and currently still relies on deep cycle batteries. There is a whole house l-ion battery pack coming out this year but I worry the cost will be prohibitive.
by lillymunster 7/15/2011 2:55:12 PM

sorry...weather link: www.wunderground.com
by RadioGuy 7/15/2011 2:55:24 PM

@RadioGuy no doubt. Fresh toxins on old wounds. I've been tracking it on Wuderground too. It's going to bring radiation down this way as well. Ugh.
by bo 7/15/2011 2:56:12 PM