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Explosion at French nuclear facility
An official of the Codolet village in Gard, southern France, shows packages of iodine in stock at the village office on Sept. 13, 2011. A furnace exploded the previous day at a nuclear waste treatment facility, known as the Marcoule site, located about 2 kilometers from the village. One person was killed, but no radioactive material leaked out. (Kyodo) english.kyodonews.jpby Edano via English.kyodonews.jp 9/14/2011 11:42:23 AM
@wrshpr if your still checking the board this morning. We can mash something together on the isotopes and their impact. I have been gathering info on these supposed "new technologies" and could get you the information on why they are not the savior claimed to be.
by lillymunster 9/14/2011 11:47:38 AM- by lillymunster 9/14/2011 11:53:00 AM
- Video from Asuperdry soil removal playground Kashiwa Cityby lillymunster 9/14/2011 11:53:27 AM
- READ THIS ONE - Tokyo Uni research team may have found the reason for unit 4 explosion. Radioactive material + boiling water created 100 times more hydrogen. www.power-eng.comby lillymunster 9/14/2011 11:57:07 AM
- Small amount of iodine 131 leaked out stacks at Kashwazaki-Kariwa news.nifty.comby lillymunster 9/14/2011 12:20:33 PM
- @all, Going through one of the workers tweets. He brought up something that could be a big problem in coming months. All that water and hoses, winter is coming. It gets to be real winter in Fukushima, snow freezing temps.by lillymunster 9/14/2011 12:33:40 PM
- Akita prefecture bought sod from Ibaraki after the nuclear accident, installed it in a preschool. Now discovers it is radioactive ex-skf.blogspot.comby lillymunster 9/14/2011 12:41:07 PM
- Noda launches blog in English nodasblog.kantei.go.jpby lillymunster 9/14/2011 1:02:31 PM
1 Fukushima nuclear power: radioactive substances in four workers in the mask.
35 minutes September 14, 2011 21:00
TEPCO is 14, in front of the mask inside the filter four wore the company's co-workers engaged in the polluted water treatment system equipment replacement first Fukushima nuclear power plant, found that the radioactive material is attached were announced. In addition, radioactive material was deposited on the face of one employee even had a walk around the grounds wearing a mask of another type. Test results, but all internal exposures were identified, that TEPCO was investigating whether proper use of masks.
According to TEPCO, four workers Thursday morning, replacing the equipment into the tank of the device manufactured by Areva of France. External radiation exposure by up to 10.01 mSv gamma rays, beta radiation was 9.1 mSv in the same. Mask was fitted around the fan is inside, he said the latest fetch the air.
Meanwhile, TEPCO said in a weight of about 8,700,001 cubic meters of polluted water treatment in 7 to 13, and polluted water treatment system utilization was 83.3 percent and announced. Suspended last week due to equipment replacement in the processing equipment (90.6%) was lower than the future, to reduce the amount of radioactive waste after treatment, the treatment is absolutely necessary, it also lowers operating rate policy.
In addition, the No. 2 reactor temperature is high compared to other ways from the day began to cool and fresh water discharge from the top to the reactor in addition to irrigation. Fire flow in cubic meters per hour, maintaining the 6-4 cubic meters per hour, including the amount of priming the conventional method, aims to be 100 degrees below the temperature of the pressure vessel. TEPCO has also implemented this method No. 3. Shin Megumi [Kanto]
mainichi.jpby M.I.A. 9/14/2011 1:44:10 PM- last para explains the crane all lit up over unit 2...by M.I.A. 9/14/2011 2:04:26 PM
- @M.I.A. what would a crane over #2 have to do with their water cooling?by lillymunster 9/14/2011 2:13:32 PM
- It looks like they are over 3. But I may need more coffee this morning! :-)by lillymunster 9/14/2011 2:15:06 PM
- Random question as I have not been watching the TEPCO cam much lately. Have we been getting the steam shows like we used to?by lillymunster 9/14/2011 2:15:58 PM
- On the tbs cam it looks like 2. I'm assuming the crane is either monitoring to-down watering, or is actually supporting a hose?by M.I.A. 9/14/2011 2:16:09 PM
- Not much steam,afaikby M.I.A. 9/14/2011 2:16:44 PM
- to-down =top-downby M.I.A. 9/14/2011 2:17:32 PM
- Begs the question- if Mainichi is correct (or translation thereof), how in heck are they 'water discharge from the top of reactor'? I assume the reference to the fire flow is about the fire suppression system, but idk...by M.I.A. 9/14/2011 2:22:00 PM
- @M.I.A. I don't know how they would get water into #2 since the roof is intact.by lillymunster 9/14/2011 2:26:28 PM
- Looking at TBS, it does look like the crane is turned toward 2.by lillymunster 9/14/2011 2:27:26 PM
- The government and plant operator TEPCO are trumpeting the operation of the circulation cooling system, as if it marks a successful resolution to the disaster. However, radiation continues to leak from the reactors. The longer the circulation cooling system keeps running, the more radioactive waste it will accumulate. It isn’t really leading us in the direction we need to go.
It’s doubtful that there’s even a need to keep pouring water into the No.1 reactor, where nuclear fuel is suspected to have burned through the pressure vessel. Meanwhile, it is necessary to keep cooling the No. 2 and 3 reactors, which are believed to still contain some fuel, but the cooling system itself is unstable. If the fuel were to become overheated again and melt, coming into contact with water and trigger a steam explosion, more radioactive materials will be released.
***by M.I.A. 9/14/2011 2:33:59 PM - by M.I.A. 9/14/2011 2:34:26 PM
- "If the fuel becomes overheated again and melt, coming into contact with water and trigger a steam explosion, more radioactive materials will be released." Are #2 temps higher?by M.I.A. 9/14/2011 2:36:46 PM
anybody got tbs link plsby elainekirk 9/14/2011 2:40:03 PM- by M.I.A. 9/14/2011 2:40:53 PM
- TBS www.youtube.comby lillymunster 9/14/2011 2:42:20 PM
- @lillymunster @M.I.A. thanky i will pinby elainekirk 9/14/2011 2:42:49 PM
- TEPCO starts cooling No. 2 reactor in more efficient way english.kyodonews.jpby M.I.A. 9/14/2011 2:56:49 PM
@lily....that would be great, especially the new Westinghouse "self cooling" if you can get a pumping truck there design. I really recommend a book called Black Swan by a guy who uses the philosophy of mathematics to show that our risk models are all turned upside down, i.e., what gets us is inevitably not what we expect. He cites the example of a casino which never really loses money at the tables, as they have so many layers of checks built in, but rather because a lion eats his trainer or something like that. He also says that if people say, such and such can't happen because thats a 50 year or a 100 year event, watch out!by wrshpr 9/14/2011 2:59:13 PM- Wikipedia page on Black Swan Theory...very relevant to nuclear preparedness from an industrial perspective en.wikipedia.orgby wrshpr 9/14/2011 3:00:25 PM
- @wrshpr Is there a list of all the isotopes he thinks are no big deal? Then we can put the real facts with each one? BTW, both of these, the isotopes and new reactor designs would be good articles.
Here is the write up on the Areva EPR reactor design: houseoffoust.comby lillymunster 9/14/2011 3:02:02 PM - @wrshpr The is the German Wiki page on the THTR-300 their thorium reactor. de.wikipedia.org They have to use weapons grade uranium in them. The thorium balls cracked and the reactor had hot spots causing the reactor design to be a failure. One big thing that is hyped about thorium is that it is so safe. You have to have highly enriched weapons grade uranium to work with the thorium and it creates nuclear waste that has to be dealt with. I have had people give me the whole "thorium is our savior" line. Usually posting the details around the German reactor and that thorium needs uranium to run and they stop posting about how great thorium is.by lillymunster 9/14/2011 3:05:53 PM
- Here is a bunch of info about the AP-1000 reactors. What I had found was this above the reactor gravity water system makes the unit top heavy causing major structural issues. The NRC and other agencies found other big problems they say must be solved. fairewinds.com www.nytimes.com www.nirs.org www.foe.org
Google AP 1000 Design Flaws for lots more resultsby lillymunster 9/14/2011 3:08:32 PM - This guy has a good review of some of the myths about Thorium reactors helian.netby lillymunster 9/14/2011 3:13:47 PM
- BTW, the US Wikipedia entry for Thorium seems to be edited by a thorium cheerleader and I am finding inaccuracies in it.by lillymunster 9/14/2011 3:15:52 PM
- Ooh thorium fact sheet from physicians for social responsibility www.ieer.orgby lillymunster 9/14/2011 3:24:07 PM
@lillymunster oh that explains thorium. hmmby Cryptococcus 9/14/2011 3:32:13 PM- from the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies in Japan. Found here: 2011.05.31 Revised ISEP Strategy Paper no2.pdfby Cryptococcus 9/14/2011 3:34:46 PM
- oh sorry. here's the link: www.isep.or.jpby Cryptococcus 9/14/2011 3:35:40 PM
- Also this good plan: "We have launched the East Japan Disaster "Tsunagari-Nukumori Project".
In This project, we provide solar PV, solar heat hot water system, and biomass generation to affected areas." www.isep.or.jpby Cryptococcus 9/14/2011 3:38:59 PM - Quick question so I can inform people correctly. At 0.5 mSv, how long until you reach 100 mSv exposure? Is it hours?by Cryptococcus 9/14/2011 3:51:39 PM
- @Cryptococcus the correct unit is mSv/hour. at 0.5 mSv/hr you need 200 hours to reach 100 mSv.by Edano 9/14/2011 4:00:41 PM
- @Edano brilliant thanksby Cryptococcus 9/14/2011 4:01:13 PM
- @lillymunster interesting theory of #4 explosion here. www.power-eng.com if this is true (and i am not convinced), then every spent fuel pool in the world would be a very serious problem. another point is that all sfp in daiichi would haved produced masses of hydrogen, and not the circonium cladding in the vessels, especially in #3.by Edano 9/14/2011 4:24:58 PM
- March 11 tsunami waves reached 39.7m high
The Japan Society of Civil Engineers says the height of the March 11 tsunami reached 39.7 meters in Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture.
The finding was reported to a meeting of the Society on Wednesday.
The Society's committees and working groups are examining the March 11 tsunami from various angles and considering necessary measures against possible future tsunamis.
The Society had said the highest tsunami waves on land were 40 meters. But, based on the findings from 6 months of research, it changed the number taking into account the height of the tide at the time.
The Society said it is necessary to remake the breakwater with a stronger structure to minimize possible damage in the future.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 20:19 +0900 (JST)
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