Japan Earthquake

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i hope it smells better.
by Edano 9/5/2011 12:20:13 PM

english.kyodonews.jp

Iwate's Ofunato 1st saury shipments since disaster
Workers pack saury into boxes in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, on Sept. 5, 2011. Fishermen in the city on the same day sent off their first direct shipments of saury this season, seeing it as a symbol of recovery from the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March. (Kyodo) english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano via English.kyodonews.jp 9/5/2011 12:21:40 PM

english.kyodonews.jp

Fukushima tests rice for radioactive matter
A man threshes rice cropped from a rice paddy in the town of Tanagura, Fukushima Prefecture, on Sept. 5, 2011, as the Fukushima prefectural government laid open how it tests local rice for radioactive substances, showing to the media the cropping of sample plants for preliminary tests on brown rice. (Kyodo) english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano via English.kyodonews.jp 9/5/2011 12:23:02 PM

Heavy rain leaves 30 dead, 56 missing

Torrential rain brought by a tropical storm has triggered mudslides and floods across western Japan. At least 30 people have died and 56 remain missing.

Tropical storm Talas was downgraded to a low pressure system on Monday afternoon.

The heavy rain killed 18 people in Wakayama Prefecture and left 34 others missing. In Tanabe city, a landslide destroyed 3 houses that killed one person, while a woman was confirmed dead at her home and 7 others are missing.

In Nachi-Katsuura town, a man was found dead in a submerged car and another in a damaged house.

In neighboring Nara Prefecture, 4 people have been confirmed dead and 20 remain unaccounted for.
In Tokushima Prefecture, 3 people were killed.

In Mie, an 89-year-old woman was killed in a mudslide. An 87-year-old man was found dead in a submerged home.

A 45-year-old woman in Ehime was swept away in a river and drowned, while a 90-year-old man in Hiroshima was found dead after leaving home to check on his boat.
Another woman was found dead in Kagawa Prefecture.

One person each in Hyogo and Kagoshima prefectures are missing.

The storm has destroyed nearly 80 houses. At least 15,000 homes were flooded.

Nearly 30,000 households in 4 prefectures have been left without power.

NHK has found that many of the victims of tropical storm Talas were at home.

86 died or went missing. NHK was able to find what happened to 64 of them.

43 people, or nearly 70 percent, were inside their homes when they were buried in mudslides or swept away by floods.

The remaining 21 were outside checking on damage or in the process of evacuating.

Monday, September 05, 2011 16:37 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 9/5/2011 12:26:13 PM

@Edano By By Edano ;-)
by Majj 9/5/2011 12:29:12 PM

@Edano You my need a new name and Picture....
by Majj 9/5/2011 12:29:54 PM

@Majj don't worry, i will return. just need a break. :)
by Edano 9/5/2011 12:31:01 PM

@Edano LOL
by Majj 9/5/2011 1:02:37 PM

@Edano do you remember the name of the German study about childhood cancers near nuclear plants or where I could hunt down a copy in English? Rockhopper was asking about it.
by lillymunster 9/5/2011 1:27:13 PM

good morning.. greetings to every one
by dean 9/5/2011 1:27:52 PM

Hi Dean!
by lillymunster 9/5/2011 1:28:16 PM

@ lilly, today I send input into the NRC call for seismic approach to NPP in USA ... that link I posted will be part of the basis for my comments... anything you want included?
by dean 9/5/2011 1:31:32 PM

@Dean, Which link? Sorry still coffee deficient this morning
by lillymunster 9/5/2011 1:36:51 PM

www.cancer.gov SOME INFORMATION ON CANCERS... not sure if we have already posted this one
by dean 9/5/2011 1:37:24 PM

@dean Interesting, I didn't know the US had done a survey like that. Thought only Germany had...
by lillymunster 9/5/2011 1:41:28 PM

BTW, I posted the NRC letter along with instructions how to navigate the govt. pages to give feedback. I still need to read the letter.
by lillymunster 9/5/2011 1:42:12 PM

@lillymunster , the endeavor is called the KiKK Study. Read more official words here: www.bfs.de
by Peter Melzer 9/5/2011 1:43:35 PM

www-pub.iaea.org this is the link @ lilly... while I pour you a fresh coffee and me..
by dean 9/5/2011 1:43:45 PM

too morning Peter, very nice seeing you and hope the week is starting out good
by dean 9/5/2011 1:44:02 PM

@lillymunster will look for it (later - now work :))
by Edano 9/5/2011 1:44:45 PM

ah, peter did it already, ok.
by Edano 9/5/2011 1:45:49 PM

i guess yamashita did not read it.
by Edano 9/5/2011 1:47:01 PM

The result now published in the study of the German Childhood Cancer Registry (GCCR) in Mainz gives clear evidence that the risk of leukaemia for children under the age of 5 increases with decreasing distance of their home to a nuclear power plant site. this is an interesting statement in that report @ Peter, it's almost as if there would be some rule of thumb for cancer risk with respect to distance... similar to the inverse square law for distance from rad source...
by dean 9/5/2011 1:48:05 PM

greetings Edano
by dean 9/5/2011 1:48:24 PM

may even be used as part of establishing the boundary zones from NPP's on emergency preparadness.. ie: 5 mile radius reduces risk of cancer by a factor of 25 , 10 mile by factor of 100... (just example)
by dean 9/5/2011 1:50:17 PM

@ Dean, are you using the online system or sending a snail mail reply to NRC?
by lillymunster 9/5/2011 2:16:20 PM

@All - this page has the NRC letter requesting feedback along with where to find the documents and how to submit public feedback. I will add Dean's IAEA document to it. Please share and encourage people to comment. houseoffoust.com
by lillymunster 9/5/2011 2:17:21 PM

I used the comment section of the REGISTRY NUMBER @ lilly...
by dean 9/5/2011 2:18:54 PM

Thank you for submitting a comment on the following Notice

Document ID: NRC-2011-0204-0001: Proposed Generic Communication; Draft NRC Generic Letter 2011-XX: Seismic Risk Evaluations for Operating Reactors
When will my comment appear online?

Your comment has been sent to the appropriate agency and will be available on Regulations.gov once it has been processed. Given certain regulations may have thousands of comments, processing may take several weeks before it can be viewed online. We value your comment, and encourage you to contact the agency directly for additional questions related to your specific comment.
How do I find my comment in the future?

The best way to find your comment in the future is to enter your Comment Tracking Number in the search field on the homepage. You can also search by keyword or submitter name.
by dean 9/5/2011 2:19:38 PM

www.regulations.gov!searchResults;rpp=10;po=0;s=nrc-2011-0201
by dean 9/5/2011 2:20:30 PM

@dean since you have more experience dealing with the NRC than some of us , can you give advice on the best way to do public comments? Short, long detailed letter? Keep it to technical details? I have not submitted before sort of curious the best way to write it.
by lillymunster 9/5/2011 2:21:31 PM

www.regulations.gov!home @ lilly, I used this page and then entered the correct NRC document mentioned in the letter
by dean 9/5/2011 2:21:35 PM

@ lilly... I think going to that web link or the one identified by the NRC is the best way and then select comment, they give you 20 minutes to type what your comment is and also have the capability to attach documents/ photos/ etc. Once sent they provide a tracking number so you can see that your comment is posted and validated..
by dean 9/5/2011 2:23:17 PM

other than the special comment requests I have in the past just sent emails to the NRC to the appropriate department and have been quite successful at getting feed back from them
by dean 9/5/2011 2:24:23 PM

@dean I could come up with a pretty long letter and a pile of photos. :-)
by lillymunster 9/5/2011 2:24:33 PM

@dean that is good to know.
by lillymunster 9/5/2011 2:24:52 PM

I encourage you to do that @ lilly we need to take advantage of the opportunity to provide inputs
by dean 9/5/2011 2:26:56 PM

you can also get signed up for the federal register and have an email alert for comment requests on nuclear
by dean 9/5/2011 2:27:54 PM

Federal Rulemaking Web site: Public
comments and supporting materials
related to this notice can be found at
www.regulations.gov by searching
on Docket ID: NRC–2010–0170.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Michelle C. Honcharik, Senior Project
Manager, Licensing Processes Branch,
Mail Stop: O–12D20, Division of Policy
and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001; telephone 301–415–
1774 or e-mail at
michelle.honcharik@nrc.gov.
by dean 9/5/2011 2:29:43 PM

www.regulations.gov!docketDetail;dct=FR%252BPR%252BN%252BO%252BSR;rpp=10;po=0;D=NRC-2011-0204 this is the regulations web site and it also contains the PDF file for the seismic input request
by dean 9/5/2011 2:30:40 PM

You can access publicly available
documents related to this notice using
the following methods:
NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR):
The public may examine and have
copied for a fee publicly available
documents at the NRC’s PDR, Room O1
F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland
20852.
NRC’s ADAMS: Publicly available
documents created by or received at the
NRC are available online in the NRC
library at www.nrc.gov
adams.html. From this page, the
public can gain entry into ADAMS,
which provides text and image files of
NRC’s public documents. If you do not
have access to ADAMS or if there are
problems in accessing the documents
located in ADAMS, contact the NRC’s
PDR reference staff at 1–800–397–4209,
301–415–4737, or by e-mail to
pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
by dean 9/5/2011 2:34:35 PM

@ lilly,,, it's interesting to read what happened to the non safety related equipment at various japanese NPP's following EQ's reported in the IAEA www-pub.iaea.org
by dean 9/5/2011 2:47:05 PM

KASHIWAZAKI-KARIWA (JAPAN) NPP2007II1.4.3. Other Effects (Loss of Off-site Power, Seismically Induced Events)
(1) Safety-related effects
None.
(2) Non-safety-related damage
Negligible release of radioactive water by the sloshing of Spent Fuel Pool and unexpected path to
uncontrolled area:
Loss of Off-site Power: two lines out of four not available;
Fire of Unit #3 House Transformer;
Internal Flooding at Unit #1 Reactor Building (Rupture of Fire Extinguishment Piping);
Loss of Service Water (including extinguishing of fire) by rupture of piping and Service Water
Tank;
Damage of Emergency Response Centre.
by dean 9/5/2011 2:48:26 PM

will return in a bit
by dean 9/5/2011 2:57:19 PM

Review of 1983 book edited by none other than Kaku which practically lays out Fukushima disaster and predicts major accident 1993-2003, off by just one decade. Found by searching for "reactor years". Am I the first one to re-discover this book? books.google.com
by artnuke 9/5/2011 2:59:00 PM