Japan Earthquake

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Lot's O spent-fuel-storage facts : www.youtube.com
by Ian 10/1/2011 9:39:45 AM

g'morning world! where is the coffee
by elainekirk 10/1/2011 10:38:49 AM

Well it seems Tepco have stopped informing there is 1 update
by elainekirk 10/1/2011 10:54:19 AM

www.tepco.co.jp
can anybody embed this video here?
by elainekirk 10/1/2011 11:23:47 AM

by elainekirk via Tepco.co.jp 10/1/2011 11:33:50 AM

by elainekirk 10/1/2011 11:36:51 AM

www.tepco.co.jp
by elainekirk 10/1/2011 11:38:13 AM

@elainekirk this last pic looks romantic ...
by Edano 10/1/2011 11:41:04 AM

vol 1 sept. 22
by Edano 10/1/2011 11:43:57 AM

vol 2 sept 24
by Edano 10/1/2011 11:44:14 AM

@Edano ty and good morning :)
by elainekirk 10/1/2011 11:49:07 AM

morning, honey.
by Edano 10/1/2011 11:50:56 AM

ooh, had my bithday party this night .... so it's quite late now.
by Edano 10/1/2011 11:54:00 AM

@Edano happy birthday !!!!!
by elainekirk 10/1/2011 11:55:30 AM

Edano reveals accusations of faked e-mails

Japan's industry minister has revealed the existence of accusations that the operator of the Genkai nuclear power plant used improper tactics to sway public opinion on resuming the operation of idle reactors at the facility.

Yukio Edano was speaking to reporters on Friday about email sent in support of such a resumption during a meeting sponsored by the industry ministry in June and broadcast live on local cable TV. He said the accusations were also sent by e-mail to the event.

The plant's operator, the Kyushu Electric Power Company, attempted to win local approval for a resumption by instructing employees of the firm and its affiliates to send the e-mail during the event.

Edano told reporters that the industry ministry official in charge of the meeting was busy aggregating e-mail and opinions and failed to examine comments in detail.

He indicated that the ministry's handling of the matter was improper, saying the official should have read the comments one by one.

Friday, September 30, 2011 18:11 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 10/1/2011 11:56:08 AM

'Hula girls' greet guests at Fukushima spa resort reopening

FUKUSHIMA, Japan, Oct. 1, Kyodo

A Hawaiian-style spa leisure complex in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture partly reopened Saturday after suspending business for nearly seven months following the massive earthquake in March, welcoming back its popular hula dancers.

As Spa Resort Hawaiians opened its door, four members of the Hula Girls, a team of hula dancers at the leisure complex, greeted guests.

It reopened most of its facilities, comprising spa and pool theme park, restaurants and hotels, and resumed free bus rides to and from Tokyo, according to its operator Joban Kosan Co.

About 70 percent of the reopened hotel rooms have been booked for stays on Saturday, it said.

The 28 dancers for the facility's hula performance, which was featured in the 2006 movie ''Hula Girls,'' have come back after performing at shelters for quake evacuees and touring across Japan from May 3. The dancers are expected to begin their ''Polynesian Show'' from Saturday night.

The dancers performed at 125 locations including evacuation shelters and stages in Japan during the tour, which also took them to South Korea. It was the troupe's first nationwide tour in 46 years since a trip around the country to promote the park after its opening in 1966.

The Japan Tourism Agency earlier this week gave this year's award for promoting tourism in Japan to the dance team, along with pop singer Lady Gaga who visited Japan in June for charity events.

The operator said it will halve the entrance fees until it fully reopens in January, while children of elementary school age or younger can enter the resort for free until Oct. 31.

The facility, located around 50 kilometers south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, boasted about 1.4 million visitors a year before the disaster, many from China and South Korea, a company official said.

==Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 10/1/2011 11:59:22 AM

wow, no real news today.
by Edano 10/1/2011 11:59:37 AM

@Edano I have found the Japanese photo dump site www.tepco.co.jp
no on the English
by elainekirk 10/1/2011 12:00:37 PM

the three plants at the back give a good idea of how tall they are growing that is beyond anything I would call normal range
by elainekirk 10/1/2011 12:06:25 PM

www.tepco.co.jp
HD version of the unit 3 pic
by elainekirk via Tepco.co.jp 10/1/2011 12:07:57 PM

this is from this pic www.tepco.co.jp strange to have something glowing under the rubble
by elainekirk 10/1/2011 12:14:22 PM

One point I've made in arguing that Fukushima is not worse than Chernobyl is that the latter was primarily a release of core fuel, whereas Fukushima was primarily an off-gassing of highly volatile isotopes such as (131)I and (137)Cs. While that's not good it's better than releases of the full array of fuel elements seen at Chernobyl. Well, finally a study's been published that reports exactly this important distinction:

"Radionuclides such as (95)Zr, (103, 106)Ru and (140)Ba that were found in Chernobyl fallout, were not found in these soil samples. This suggests that noble gasses and volatile radionuclides predominated in the releases from FNPP to the terrestrial environment." www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
by Ian 10/1/2011 12:25:34 PM

they finished the panels ?
by Edano 10/1/2011 12:27:40 PM

@Ian I can accept that for the land but I don't for the ocean I think that there is a need for independent scrutiny of the ocean environment and as it is (maybe over decades rather than immediate) a global concern then I think there should be global involvement
by elainekirk 10/1/2011 12:28:36 PM

i guess the amount of release in becquerels is about equal, but fuku is still releasing.
by Edano 10/1/2011 12:29:49 PM

@Edano on org last night I posted shots taken at the same time from teppy and tbs the cranes were in different positions I think maybe tepco delay in some way I suppose it is the same as the operating manuals they redact and comes under secret/security
by elainekirk 10/1/2011 12:30:58 PM

greetings to all
by dean 10/1/2011 12:35:16 PM

@Ian @Edano at the end of the day it is the human impact and whatever the isotope if it causes the community to collapse then it is harmful. Outside the exclusion zone there are communities in chernobyl area who have no industry and no prospect of improvement that will happen in Japan because eventually global customers will learn not to trust products/produce and businesses move out of the area so whether it be plutonium , cesium, or disease that takes a hold due to compromised immune systems the effect will be the same
by elainekirk 10/1/2011 12:36:26 PM

@dean morning dean
by elainekirk 10/1/2011 12:39:58 PM

ok 1 more curiosity from the photo www.tepco.co.jp then I will go do some housework
by elainekirk 10/1/2011 12:40:54 PM

@Ian Nisa release of the 21Mar. shows those isotopes in seawater: Sampling Method: Sampling by Pumping Seawater
Measuring Method: Analysis of 500 ml Seawater Sample by Ge-Semiconductor Nuclide Analizer in Fukushima Dai-ni NPS
Measurine: time: 1000 seconds
a s of 14:30. March 21st. 2011 a s of 06:30. March 22nd. 2011 a s of 08:50. March 23rd. 2011
----r:.f;~-r-s-o~th-,,~.;~t~~-d1~cha-rg~-g~t~-(Urifti:.-4---- ----N;~-r-s-o~t-h-~-~te~-d1~-;h;;rge-g-~te-(Urifti=4---- ----N~a-r_;o~th-w~te-r-dis-a;~;ge-g~te-(U~itl=.r--- @Conc. Limit
330m' from, water discharge gate in direction of 330m from water discharge gate in direction of 330m from water discharge gate in direction of
in Water
outside
Nuclide
eDConc. of ®Conc . of
Ratio of
eD Conc. of ®Conc . of
Ratio of
eD Conc. of ®Conc . of
Ratio of Envronmental
Radioactivity Detection Limit
Conc.Limit
Radioactivity Detection Limit
Conc.Limit
Radioactivity Detection Limit
Conc.Limit Monitaring
(Bq/ cm' ) (Bq/ cm' ) i~~/~{ (Bq/ cm' ) (Bq/ cm' ) ~ater (Bq/ cm' ) (Bq/ cm' )
in Water Area
1/3 1 &.l2. Ji l l@L
Co '08 5.955E-02 3.349E-02 0.1 1.668E 02 2.138E 02 0.0 5.0E-02 2.6E 02 1.0E+00
I 131 5.066E+00 4.245E 02 126.7 1.190E+00 2.293E-02 29.8 5.9E+00 3.6E-02 146.9 4.0E-02
I 132 2.136E+00 1.925E-01 0.7 1.362E+00 7.721 E 02 0.5 5.4E+00 1.4E-01 1.8 3.0E+00
Cs-134 1.486E+00 4.030E 02 24.8 1.504E 01 1.769E 02 2.5 2.5E-01 2.7E 02 4.2 6.0E 02
Cs-136 2.132E-01 2.358E-02 0.7 2.350E 02 1.056E-02 0.1 2.5E-02 2.4E-02 0.1 3.0E 01
Cs 137 1.484E+00 4.204E 02 16.5 1.535E 01 1.626E 02 1.7 2.5E 01 2.7E 02 2.8 9.0E 02
Zr-95
- - 2.3E 01 7.8E 02 0.3 9E 01
Ru 105
- - 6.7E 01 6.2E 01 0.3 3E+00
Ru 106
-
.....-----. 3.7E-01 2.0E 01 3.7 1E-01
Te-129
- - 4.0E+00 3.9E+00 0.4 1E+01
Te 132
- - 4.0E+01 3.6E-02 200.5 2E-01
La-140
www.nisa.meti.go.jp
by M.I.A. 10/1/2011 12:41:24 PM

@Ian Sorry- that is, sampling from 21Mar to 23 Mar
by M.I.A. 10/1/2011 12:41:54 PM

@ elaine.. do you have more photos like that? ... very interesting
by dean 10/1/2011 12:43:47 PM

@dean www.tepco.co.jp
by Edano 10/1/2011 12:44:15 PM

@Edano,, good seeing you.. ty
by dean 10/1/2011 12:46:56 PM

very nice.. I'll have something to watch while I have coffee...
by dean 10/1/2011 12:48:59 PM

if you post sth on physicsforum you get completely ignored, unless it is wrong.
by Edano 10/1/2011 12:49:23 PM

morning! (afternoon - evening)
by lillymunster 10/1/2011 12:51:10 PM

@Edano, the numbers I've seen show the becquerels of Fukushima are far less than Chernobyl, which released 5.2 million terabecquerels www.bbc.co.uk .
by Ian 10/1/2011 12:51:16 PM

I'd like to try that out,,, what's up with that?
by dean 10/1/2011 12:51:20 PM

morning lilly
by dean 10/1/2011 12:51:26 PM

@ Edano could you give me the link to the physics forum
by dean 10/1/2011 12:54:15 PM

@elaine good point and @M.I.A. observation! That's strong evidence that the water runoff is carrying heavy-fuel elements, and thus that the contaminated water is leaking directly from the primary containment.
by Ian 10/1/2011 12:54:34 PM