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That only works if you already know what you are reading. If it was a romance novel I would trust that, but data?
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 3:12:01 PM

www.tepco.co.jp

TEPCO - Photo for Press - Appearance of the Roof for Countermeasure against Rainwater, Unit 3, Fukushima Daiichi (pictured on July 17, 2011)
by es via Tepco.co.jp 7/17/2011 3:12:41 PM

@Ralph Unger Like it said it depends. As i am finding out Japanese is a language of subtlety. It really depends on the technical document and how it is written.
by lillymunster 7/17/2011 3:15:47 PM

At any rate it seems clear they had no business using MOX in a plant not designed for it. Look at the mess at Monju and it WAS designed to use MOX. But that did not cause the accident at Fukushima, it only made it a bit worse.
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 3:18:17 PM

Would you give your children a dose of medicine based on a Japanese machine translation? Then documents based on it should not be considered or debated here.
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 3:20:10 PM

A radioactivity scare affecting locally produced beef continued to spread across Japan on Sunday, after more than three quarters of the country's regions reported receiving tainted meat.
by Majj 7/17/2011 3:23:47 PM

That TEPCO photo looks odd. Not sure but the foreground almost looks like it was computer generated.
by lillymunster 7/17/2011 3:28:18 PM

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by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 3:30:28 PM

Uploaded by rpweather on Jul 17, 2011

Typhoon Ma-On (Bagyong Ineng) was last located approximately 650km east southeast of Okinawa or about 1,330km east northeast of Basco, Batanes. Maximum sustained winds have decreased slightly to 195kph gusting to 240kph. Ma-On is moving northwestward at 25kph. http://sagitnangbagyo.blogspot.com/
by Majj 7/17/2011 3:34:15 PM

Re: TEPPYpic... looks like an overzealous use of a sharpen filter, perhaps.
by RadioGuy 7/17/2011 4:39:25 PM

and a bad rescale
by RadioGuy 7/17/2011 4:40:35 PM

My sticky to the teppy and JNN cam on one page went away, but it is... lucaswhitefieldhixson.com
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 4:40:50 PM

@RadioGuy it seemed so off like it didn't have shadows but not obviously computer generated either...
So far no word from TEPCO how they plant to put this roof on 3.
by lillymunster 7/17/2011 4:41:57 PM

Are they planning to do that before or after Ma-On?
by RadioGuy 7/17/2011 5:00:30 PM

pn 3? REACTOR 3????
by RadioGuy 7/17/2011 5:00:46 PM

Sorry... I just had to go check the cam. Nope. I remembered right. There/s nothing there to put a roof on.
by RadioGuy 7/17/2011 5:03:30 PM

Are not the covers a freestanding construction? 4 walls and a roof?
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 5:05:08 PM

@Radioguy There was some mention somewhere of trying to cover the hole in #3's turbine building before Ma-On arrives - I guess this is the set-up the pic supposedly shows. Link was on the other board earlier today.
by es 7/17/2011 5:06:09 PM

sankei.jp.msn.com
by es 7/17/2011 5:07:11 PM

@RadioGuy That is what made it seem odd. 3 is not slated for a tent either at all or not right away. Now this"roof" appears. The workers said they are trying to prepare 3 for the typhoon but didn't elaborate. Putting up something would take a long time and the typhoon is supposed to hit southern Japan tomorrow.
by lillymunster 7/17/2011 5:07:16 PM

The panels seem odd since they are large and probably heavy. They would need a way to install them and have them stay in place plus extra load if they rest on something.
by lillymunster 7/17/2011 5:08:10 PM

Ahh, temporary roof for the turbine buildings, I guess just to protect the equipment and reduce the water added by the storm to the radioactive water already there.
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 5:09:45 PM

@RadioGuy @lillymunster it is definately the turbine room roof that is being covered but in the 10hrs since I found out I still havent been able to find out why apart from to cover the holes
by elainekirk 7/17/2011 5:09:53 PM

They do have a hole the size of a large city bus in the roof. I suppose that is an issue especially since there is equipment they still need in there. Since holes tend to make bigger holes in a hurricane/typhoon it could be a problem. All the debris on 3 could be dangerous if they get winds high enough to blow things around
by lillymunster 7/17/2011 5:12:25 PM

Doing heavy construction when a typhoon is about to hit seems like a not so good idea. Getting wet might be better. If they do not finish the job then it will just be a huge sail that may add to the problem.
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 5:14:27 PM

@Ralph Unger That's what I was thinking... trying to lash that thing down in a growing typhoon would be a bear.
by RadioGuy 7/17/2011 5:20:18 PM

Even if the space were not lethally contaminated.
by RadioGuy 7/17/2011 5:20:51 PM

@RadioGuy having put up my share of large pavilions in oncoming storms. Very bad idea on that scale. You can't just have a couple of people hang on.
by lillymunster 7/17/2011 5:22:09 PM

- At 9:46 am on July 17, an alarm showing decrease in amount of water
injection to Unit 1 reactor rang.
At 10:06 am on the same day, we adjusted the water injection rate at
approx 3.8 m3/h as we confirmed that the rate of water injected into the
reactor decreased to approx 3.0 m3/h.

- At 2:25 pm July 17, we changed the water injection line so that we could
inject water to Unit 1 and 2 reactors by the motor driven pump for Unit 2
and stopped the motor driven pump to inject water into Unit 1 reactor. In
addition, we adjusted the rate of water injection into Unit 1 at approx
4.0 m3/h. www.tepco.co.jp
by elainekirk 7/17/2011 5:23:39 PM

@RadioGuy @lillymunster one of the workers said it was very high readings is it possible that ejected fuel landed in the turbine building because he spoke of 'pieces ' of fuel
by elainekirk 7/17/2011 5:25:00 PM

What about the water trenches? How are they expected to hold up? Oh right. "We were doing just fine till the typhoon hit." Another Act of God? Wow. God must be angry, if so, eh? Maybe they oughta try getting right for a change...
by RadioGuy 7/17/2011 5:25:50 PM

And this was already built! blog.chron.com
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 5:26:23 PM

The people at The Onion must be going insane trying to match this stuff.
by RadioGuy 7/17/2011 5:26:44 PM

@RadioGuy LMAO. Indeed. Though much has made life tough for the onion lately.
by lillymunster 7/17/2011 5:27:21 PM

I mentioned that because it is a truss and stressed fabric construction like the one they are building.
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 5:27:44 PM

Without a crown built into it it might become a pond over the turbine building.
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 5:36:26 PM

I liked it when they said they couldnt proceed with #1 because the ground hadnt been levelled and the winds could topple the crane
by elainekirk 7/17/2011 5:36:30 PM

@Ralph Unger 'pond' doncha mean 'temporary storage container'?
Oh and the pontoon is having the hose disconnected because it will be vulnerable so fancy that , weeks in and storage afloat shows its flaws
by elainekirk 7/17/2011 5:38:27 PM

From an old post of mine... "Japanese scientist developes new nuclear waste disposal method.

The Japanese are using a newly developed method for disposing of nuclear waste.
"There are many subduction zones on the Earth, fortunatly one of them is close to Japan.", said Dr.Hose Minamimoto. "Our plan is to drop the nuclear waste there and let in get subducted into the mantle."
When asked how the plan was working out, he said "We are still working on the fine details, for now we just dump it into the sea, but in the future, we hope to put it into barrels and dump it into the sea. When we perfect this procedure, we hope to be able to actually dispose of the material somewhere closer to the subduction zone then the coastline." :-)
by Ralph Unger 7/17/2011 5:44:24 PM

@Ralph Unger : is it a joke ?
by Edano 7/17/2011 5:45:21 PM

There is a term for when real events are so absurd they sound like farce. I don't remember the term but I think we hit that point a while ago. :-)
by lillymunster 7/17/2011 5:47:34 PM

Tehachapi CA geiger 46 I have to wonder if some of that smoke from Los Alamos is making it that way but I thought the inward air currents would not allow that. Their readings keep going up.
by lillymunster 7/17/2011 5:48:38 PM