Japan Earthquake

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@lillymunster I'm trying to tweek it into translation as we speak, but your right, the pdf is all images. Usuallly, you can at least pull the label/title to the chart. If I'm honest, this one looks like an earlier version of another document from NISA. Will try to post them both for comparision. This is definately the first I've come across where data is being omitted.
by smoss 7/17/2011 2:32:37 AM

"Fukushima Cattle Farmers Used Rice Hay Because It Wasn't Regulated"

EX-SKF reports. Human error? Protecting business? the-diplomat.com
by bo 7/17/2011 2:33:26 AM

@bo I was talking to one of the twitter folks yesterday. They were asking about Los Alamos and Nebraska. They found them significant because the US tries to lead Japan in a way related to nuclear in their opinion. There really is this sort of superior (to the point of being obnoxious) by the US officials trying to brand this as a "Japan" problem and literally saying what the diplomat article eludes to that "it can't happen here". We are no safer in the US, no better run and not more honest about our NPPs. There has been an active effort to brand the entire thing a certain way with a US audience.

by lillymunster 7/17/2011 2:34:16 AM

We also have many of the same multi-national companies running our plants that are involved in ones in Japan (Areva, Toshiba, Tepco etc.)
by lillymunster 7/17/2011 2:35:46 AM

@lilly it's just all pushback to control public opinion. It's how we talked about Chernobyl. No matter what happens, it's because of "those people" not because of faulty or dangerous technology.
by bo 7/17/2011 2:37:08 AM

@all Please note, reguarding the omissions in this report: www.nisa.meti.go.jp I am only able to translate the pages without omissions. The pages with omissions are definately images, making them different than the rest of the document.
by smoss 7/17/2011 2:39:59 AM

@smoss I saved a copy in case it goes missing. If DH happens to be lurking maybe we can get a brief translation of the table title? That would be enough to know what it is about. Very odd they released this but did that?
by lillymunster 7/17/2011 2:43:10 AM

@lillymunster I have saved as well. Interesting note: page 18, they have blanked out the Am241 content (among other isotopes) with reguard to the first 32 FAs loaded and with reguard to the second 32 FAs to be loaded (25th/26th fuel cycle). I believe that it may be an earlier version of this document: Handouts (one Fukushima 3-03-2)
Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 3
Soundness of the long-term storage MOX fuel in new
According to evaluation results
(Draft)
Heisei
(Link should appear in a previous post)
by smoss 7/17/2011 2:50:10 AM

@smoss Section 3.1 is also listed in the table of contents and reads "Fuel rod thermo-mechanical property" So the table has something to do with that section.
by lillymunster 7/17/2011 3:31:12 AM

@lillymunster Is it just me, or does this scream "falsification"! (And yet, I really could be over-reacting at this point.)
by smoss 7/17/2011 3:42:27 AM

@smoss Something really stinks. There isn't a reasonable reason to have that table blocked out. I did a cut and paste of parts of that section into google trans. It talks about fuel thermo-mechanical and about the plutonium to americium process.
by lillymunster 7/17/2011 3:45:40 AM

@all Committee hearing health according to a new MOX fuel that long-term storage 第１回議事要旨 Part 1 Summary Minutes translate.google.com
by smoss 7/17/2011 4:33:00 AM

@all Committee hearing health according to a new MOX fuel that long-term storage
(Part 2)
translate.google.com
by smoss 7/17/2011 4:56:43 AM

@all
by smoss 7/17/2011 5:02:10 AM

@all Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant
Reactor #1 Having Cooling Problems
by smoss 7/17/2011 5:05:10 AM

@all Below are the reactor plants, the volume of nitrogen injected in total so far, and the most up to date dry well pressure readings.

No. 1 - 66300 m³ nitrogen - pressure 142.4 kPa absolute
No. 2 - 5500 m³ nitrogen - pressure 127 kPa absolute
No. 3 - 500 m³ nitrogen - pressure 101.6 kPa absolute

atomicpowerreview.blogspot.com
by smoss 7/17/2011 5:06:53 AM

June 31 report to NISA on MOX. No graphs came through though translate.googleusercontent.com
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 5:07:22 AM

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by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 5:07:48 AM

@Ralph Unger This is the lead in from your translated document: Of this material can not be exposed because the contents of the boxed belong to secret. 配布資料（福島一 3-03-1） Handouts (one Fukushima 3-03-1) （福島一 3-02-03 改 1） (1 break one Fukushima 3-02-03) I am wondering if this is actually the expaination to the ommitted portions of tables and graphs that we were examining earlier?!..."belong to secret"
by smoss 7/17/2011 5:13:07 AM

It's in the same location.....
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 5:13:51 AM

So I think you are correct.
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 5:14:07 AM

"You have the thermo-mechanical fuel rod design code (Figure 2-1) and the nuclear reactor core design code (Figure 2-2) in Been considered a variety of other assessment, the safety results of the assessment and evaluation of results without these codes Once the assessment has been made to enter a value with a margin. And thermo-mechanical fuel rod design code" from the document.
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 5:16:13 AM

This does not sound good... "MOX fuel pellet is determined by the long-term storage due to radiation damage in α-α decay of Pu238 Lattice defects are generated (self-irradiation effects), raw and a reduction in the increase in lattice thermal conductivity Jill (α damage) has been reported to" of course it is a bad trasalation.
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 5:22:09 AM

@Ralph Unger Then the question becomes: Since the report with omissions was clearly and early version, does that mean they were still collecting data and making evaluations with the intent of filling in the blanks later? Or, does it mean that they didn't like what they were seeing and choose to wait to enter the proper values (ie values that would designate the MOX fuel rods to be stable)?
by smoss 7/17/2011 5:23:08 AM

It looks like the stuff heats up a lot quicker and generate helium. That could cause many problems I should think. I haven't finished reading the report yet though.
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 5:23:55 AM

It might be a question of security.
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 5:24:31 AM

30% PU? I wonder if that is a bad transalation?
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 5:26:42 AM

@all Off Topic Warning: Sawa: This is a dream
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by smoss 7/17/2011 5:29:12 AM

@all Must say "Good Night!"
by smoss 7/17/2011 5:29:30 AM

G'night smoss
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 5:30:34 AM

Here are some answers to questions about MOX that were mentioned earlier. "Development of advanced spent fuel storage technology is necessary for high burn-up U 02 and MOX spent fuel in the ne ar future. These high burn-up U 02 and MOX spent fuel have much higher n e u t r on emission and h e at generation t h an t h at of conventional burn-up UO2 fuel (table 1). It is therefore necessary to obtain basic data in order to verify computations prior to their use in the design and safety analyses for spent fuel s tor age. Such data include the n e u t r on and gamma-radiation source, actinide and fission product isotopic composition, elements distribution in a pellet and so o n [ l , 2 ]." www-nds.iaea.org
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 5:38:25 AM

Any charts not shown ( from www.nisa.meti.go.jp ) were probably pulled from the document linked below.
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 5:47:27 AM

good morning all just browsing the overnight input and am gobsmacked
by elainekirk 7/17/2011 8:13:22 AM

One here for the techi's there seems to be a problem with chubu's Hamaoka www.asahi.com translate translate.google.com
by elainekirk 7/17/2011 8:34:58 AM

(Reuters) - Japan's second-biggest retailer said on Sunday it had sold beef from cattle that ate nuclear-contaminated feed, the latest in a series of health scares from radiation leaking from a quake-crippled nuclear power plant.
www.reuters.com
by elainekirk 7/17/2011 8:40:54 AM

Hosono vows funds to remove waste [17 July, 2011]: search.japantimes.co.jp
by es 7/17/2011 10:01:14 AM

New nuclear regulatory body should be set up by next April: Hosono [17 July, 2011]: www.japantoday.com

TOKYO — Goshi Hosono, state minister in charge of handling the nuclear crisis, said Sunday that a new regulatory body for nuclear power generation should be established by next April.

Speaking on talk show on TV stations such as public broadcaster NHK, Hosono said of the timing of the body’s establishment, “Given the huge scale of the problem, and that the nature of the (current) arrangement has been called into question, we cannot just leave it as is for two, three years or even longer.”
by es 7/17/2011 10:02:30 AM

The truth only a court jester can utter [17 July, 2011]: www.asahi.com
by es 7/17/2011 10:03:02 AM

Kyocera to participate in Japan-U.S. smart-grid project [16 July, 2011]: www.japantoday.com
by es 7/17/2011 10:03:26 AM

www.japantimes.co.jp
Workers clean the Peace Statue on Saturday at Nagasaki Peace Park during preparations for the annual commemoration of the city's atomic bombing on Aug. 9, 1945. The 9.7-meter-high statue symbolizes the threat of nuclear arms and search for eternal peace.
KYODO PHOTO, July 17, 2011
by es via Japantimes.co.jp 7/17/2011 10:03:42 AM

@es The asahi is becoming a force for good isn't it
by elainekirk 7/17/2011 10:09:00 AM

@elainekirk I'm glad to see them bowing to common sense/public pressure and adopting a firmer no-nuke policy.
by es 7/17/2011 10:14:05 AM

@es very quiet here today
by elainekirk 7/17/2011 10:41:51 AM

There is a citizens web channel
Independent Web Channel - Fukushima 1
www.ustream.tv
by elainekirk 7/17/2011 10:46:10 AM

Rockhopper has translated
Ikrockhopper Itsumi Kakefuda
The Fukushima worker's tweet: The second phase of construction of the radioactive water cleaning system is at the final stage.
(Cont) Covering is in progress at R1, protection against the typhoon at R3's turbine bldg, & plumbing for spent fuel pool in R4 bldg.
(Cont) "Radiation level inside R1-3 bldg is high and it's hard to work inside; yet cooling system for spent fuel pools of R2 & 3 are working,
Ikrockhopper Itsumi Kakefuda
(Cont) "The hardest is R1, because there are so many things to do in the high radiation environment. Even in R3, exposure was 7-8mSv/15min.
(Cont) "The toughest issue is if people would work in a place (R1) where one can use up annual exposure limit in a week, without workers comp
(cont) "I have no idea how we can start fixing reactor coolant system (ie, reconstucting the system, not just keeping pouring water to them)
(cont) R1-3 basement are full of high-level radioactive water, and radiation level will go up once the water is taken out of the basement.
(cont) "Then, we need to figure out where holes are, seal the holes, and then, reconstruct plumbing to cool down the reactors permanently.
(cont) "To accomplish these, we need so many workers whose one-time exposure is 20mSv and annual limit is about 500mSv, I think.

Then, the worker wrote, "Is everyone enjoying the 3-day holiday weekend? I wish I could go to local summer fests and have fun!"

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by elainekirk 7/17/2011 10:58:22 AM