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@elainekirk ::HEADDESK:: Let me know if there is a news link for that, will add it to tomorrow's update.

@dean wow. Epic failure.

they showed what a failure would look like in the simulator

@lillymunster

TEPCO predicted 10m tsunami before disaster

Japan's nuclear regulator says the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant predicted an over 10-meter-high tsunami in 2008, but failed to report its prediction to the government until just before the March 11th disaster.

A spokesperson for the government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency told reporters on Wednesday that the Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, reported the prediction to the agency on March 7th.

TEPCO says it made the estimation in 2008 when calculating the maximum tsunami height in the event of a very powerful earthquake near the plant.

The maximum possible wave height originally assumed by TEPCO when it designed the plant was 5.7 meters.

The agency says it ordered the company to submit a detailed report as quickly as it could and suggested the need to reform the facilities when the company provided the prediction.

The agency's official in charge of nuclear disasters, Yoshinori Moriyama, says it takes seriously its failure to fully predict the possibility of a major tsunami before the disaster.

TEPCO says it didn't mean to disclose the assessment since it was a tentative calculation for research purposes based on a simulation.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011 20:07 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp


TEPCO reported possibility of huge tsunami to gov't before March 11

TOKYO, Aug. 24, Kyodo

Tokyo Electric Power Co. calculated in 2008 that a tsunami higher than 10 meters could hit its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant but has since taken no countermeasures, officials at the Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency said Wednesday.

A manager at the utility, known as TEPCO, reported the calculation to the agency verbally on March 7 this year before the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami hit the plant on March 11, the officials said.

The agency instructed TEPCO to adopt countermeasures.
english.kyodonews.jp

Dean you must be getting a different broadcast of CBS

gah, read it wrong! I will see if they put that on the website later or replay it

@lillymunster edano has given some English links I have Japanese mainichi.jp and t.co the difference between English and Japanese is the communications Japanese reports say nisa's response to the info was to say virtually 'hide it'

@ariadne I find it incomprehensible they are saying the new method will be more effective, we are 5 months doen the line and all it says to me is that they waited , using an inefficient cooling system, so the only conclusion is that they expected it to start cooling and it didnt and it has now melted and being mox the melt hasnt slowed and is no longer accessible so they are going to try using the original core sprayers in the hope the water will follow the path of the fuel and control the melt but thats just me as a non techi

Do you have a link for what your looking at?

www.nrc.gov this is the nureg document for safety evaluation report when anna was given a license renewal.... now.. let me see what it says for seismic word
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@elainekirk Oh I have a plan <evil grin> :-)

@lillymunster sounds intriguing :)

www.nrc.gov @ lilly this is the nureg document

be back.. I need to pack for travel in the morning