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last time they wanted me for a study ( i think it was smith-glaxo-kline) but i said no thanks. i just want to get the normal one and go home. :)by Edano 10/24/2011 3:00:31 AM
@dean nite Deanby lillymunster 10/24/2011 3:02:08 AM
exactly my sentiment @ Edanoby dean 10/24/2011 3:03:19 AM
bumpby Mid Valley 10/24/2011 4:17:51 AM
Blood clots found in veins of evacuees' legs www.yomiuri.co.jp
by Mid Valley 10/24/2011 5:08:47 AM- TEPCO never pushed electrical safety plan at nuke plant ajw.asahi.comby Mid Valley 10/24/2011 5:09:59 AM
good morningby elainekirk 10/24/2011 9:35:27 AM
www.yomiuri.co.jp
Forests to be used to store radioactive soil / Agency to let local govts open temporary sites
www.yomiuri.co.jpby Edano via Yomiuri.co.jp 10/24/2011 9:42:16 AM- spread and dilute .... why don't they store it at tepco's sites ??? they can eat it.by Edano 10/24/2011 9:48:21 AM
www3.nhk.or.jp
Hotspot hotline
Japan's science ministry has launched a telephone hotline to deal with public concerns about radiation exposure in areas outside Fukushima Prefecture. The prefecture hosts the damaged nuclear complex.
The ministry set up the hotline after radiation monitoring by local governments and citizens' groups found a number of locations within the Tokyo Metropolitan Area with levels exceeding government limits.
The ministry is asking local governments and citizens' groups to tell it if they find sites where the hourly radiation dose at one meter above the ground is more than one microsievert higher than nearby areas.
One microsievert per hour is the government-set limit for determining whether topsoil at school playgrounds should be removed, using state subsidies.
The ministry is also asking the local governments to carry out simple decontamination work, such as clearing mud from ditches if necessary.
The ministry says the central government will support decontamination efforts if radiation levels remain more than one microsievert higher than nearby areas even after the cleaning.
The ministry has posted a guideline on its website on how to properly measure radiation levels, such as the right way to hold the dosimeter and the time needed for a reading.
Monday, October 24, 2011 11:48 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jpby Edano via Www3.nhk.or.jp 10/24/2011 10:05:03 AM- @edano good morningby elainekirk 10/24/2011 10:06:01 AM
- Underwater imagery of Residual Heat Removal Sea Water System RHRS(D) pump, Unit 5, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (42.9MB)
(video on October 20, 2011)
www.tepco.co.jp
Underwater imagery of Auxiliary Sea Water ASW(C) pump, Unit 5, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (39.0MB)
(video on October 20, 2011)
www.tepco.co.jp
Underwater imagery of Residual Heat Removal Sea Water System RHRS(C) pump, Unit 6, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (33.8MB)
(video on October 21, 2011)
www.tepco.co.jp
Underwater imagery of Auxiliary Sea Water ASW(A) pump, Unit 6, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (16.3MB)
(video on October 21, 2011)
www.tepco.co.jpby elainekirk 10/24/2011 10:06:44 AM 
5&6 outlet jumps
by elainekirk 10/24/2011 10:08:08 AM- Auditors call for quays to be more quake-proof
Japanese auditors have asked the land and infrastructure ministry to take measures to ensure that quays across the country can withstand strong earthquakes.
The Board of Audit made the request after its survey found that some dock facilities may be unable to continue functioning as channels for emergency supplies if a major quake hits.
The auditors checked more than 90 quays that had been reinforced before the government revised its quake-resistance standards in 1999.
The survey showed that no quake-resistance tests had been conducted on 28 of them.
It also showed that 15 wharf cranes in Kobe and other places lack shock-absorbing devices. Kobe was hit hard by a powerful quake in 1995.
Monday, October 24, 2011 11:05 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jpby Edano 10/24/2011 10:10:31 AM - @Edano looking at what they are going to do to the forests how can they even think of coninuing to use npp'sby elainekirk 10/24/2011 10:11:01 AM
- @elainekirk it is crazy. they come up with really stupid ideas.by Edano 10/24/2011 10:12:42 AM
- @Edano what is your opinion of the rise in radioactive discharge from 5-6 and release of 4 vids covering it?by elainekirk 10/24/2011 10:15:47 AM
- they have plenty of worldwar2 bunkers on their little rocky islands where noone lives.by Edano 10/24/2011 10:16:44 AM
- @elainekirk tepco gives no explanation ?
by Edano 10/24/2011 10:18:43 AM - @Edano I havent found oneby elainekirk 10/24/2011 10:27:44 AM
- @elainekirk no iodine, so i think they release old contaminated water purposely/accidentally.by Edano 10/24/2011 10:28:53 AM
- @Edano they were transfering basement water from 1 & 2 to 5 & 6 I remember I willl try find docby elainekirk 10/24/2011 10:31:11 AM
- strange things happening at 5&6.by Edano 10/24/2011 10:31:42 AM
- @Edano
20th unit 5
Due to the completion of the inspection, we started the Auxiliaries
Cooling System Seawater Pump at 2:32 pm and the Residual Heat Removal
System Seawater Pump (D) at 2:47 pm on October 20. At 3:02 pm on the
same day, we restarted cooling the reactor by the Residual Heat Removal
System Pump (D). Due to the interruption, the temperature of water in
the reactor has risen by around 9°C from 22.2°C, and temperature of the
water in the spent fuel pool has raised by around 1°C from 25.5°C.
www.tepco.co.jp
20th at unit 5
- For inspection of the intake, we stopped seawater system pump for cooling
auxiliary machine at 9:05 am on October 20. At 9:13 am on the same day,
we stopped cooling the reactor by stop of residual heat removal system
pump (D). After that, at 9:18 am on the same day, we stopped residual
heat removal system seawater system pump (D).
- At this time, we don't think there is any reactor coolant leakage inside
the primary containment vessel
www.tepco.co.jp .
21st unit 6
For the purpose water intake inspection, at 9:05 am October 21, seawater
pump of Equipment Water Cooing System (A) was first shutdown, and at 9:13
am, Residual Heat Removal System (A) pump was stopped, and stopped
cooling the reactor. At 9:15 am, Residual Heat Removal System seawater
pump (C) was stopped.
-At this time, we don't think there is any reactor coolant leakage inside
the primary containment vessel. www.tepco.co.jpby elainekirk 10/24/2011 10:35:02 AM 
“75% of Fukushima’s 300,000 children are going to schools that are so contaminated they would be radiation control areas in nuclear plants where individuals under 18 are not legally allowed. The Japanese government won’t evacuate people unless radiation levels are four times what triggered evacuation in Chernobyl,” Aileen Mioko Smith pointed out. fukushimaupdate.comby Ian 10/24/2011 10:35:40 AM- @elainekirk, that comment "At this time, we don't think there is any reactor coolant leakage inside the primary containment vessel" has that smack of legalease we've noted in earlier Tepco comments. It implies that there are reason to suspect such a leak might be possible. And the way they're iterating it also rings of legalease.by Ian 10/24/2011 10:39:34 AM
- @Ian strange indeed.by Edano 10/24/2011 10:45:44 AM
- @Edano the question you had the other dAy about tepco version of explosions I found the doc they must have slipped it in recently www.tepco.co.jpby elainekirk 10/24/2011 10:46:14 AM
- @elainekirk wow ! queen of the day ! brilliant !by Edano 10/24/2011 10:49:35 AM
- so, the #2 explosion sound came from #4 (6:12), while torus in #2 bursted without explosion (backing the "water hammer" theory).by Edano 10/24/2011 10:52:49 AM
- @Edano I wonder how that tallies with previous explanationsby elainekirk 10/24/2011 10:54:47 AM
- @elainekirk the "water hammer" theory was favorized to explain the torus damage in #2, but what spoke against it, was the explosion sound. so the tepco explanation fits exactly, when the sound really came from #4.by Edano 10/24/2011 10:57:01 AM
- @Edano what next I wonderby elainekirk 10/24/2011 11:37:58 AM
Almaraz [Spain] Nuclear power plant has been shut down due to overheating
24-10.2011
Helena Geraldes [Translation by Pedro Jesus]
The Almaraz II nuclear power plant in Cáceres, 100km from Portugal, has been shut down yesterday due to high temperature detected in one of the cooling pumps.
According to the Spanish Nuclear Safety council (CSN), the reactor's unscheduled shutdown has been forced due to "the detection of high temperature readings in one of the reactor's main cooling pumps".
"The operator has decided to shut down the NPP and cut the connection to the grid as a preventive measure, before automatic shutdown would be enforced by the safety systems, adds the CSN in a press release. The organism assures that "the safety systems have operated correctly".
The power plant's shutdown "does not present any risk to people nor to the environment and has been rated as level 0 in the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES)", CNS has observed. The INES is a seven level scale as established by the International Atomic Energy Agency and by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), used to inform the public as to the severity of a nuclear event. The Fukushima (Japan) nuclear power plant's accident, in March, has been rated as level 7, alike the Chernobyl (Ukraine, former USSR) catastrophe on April 1986.
There are 6 nuclear power plants operating in Spain with a total of eight reactors (the Almaraz and the Ascó have two reactors each), according to the CSN. The other operating nuclear power plants are Santa Maria de Garoña, Trillo, Cofrentes and Vandellós II. One NPP, José Cabrera, has already been decommissioned. These NPPs generate 20% of the Spain's net electricity.
ecosfera.publico.ptby Pedro Jesus 10/24/2011 11:48:12 AM- morning! (afternoon-evening)by lillymunster 10/24/2011 11:58:52 AM
- Elaine, if your around, I was trying to find an EN version of this document, changing the URL didn't work. www.tepco.co.jpby lillymunster 10/24/2011 12:00:07 PM
- @lillymunster esp. footnote 1 on table 1 :)by Edano 10/24/2011 12:07:02 PM
- Residents to file suit seeking halt of Tsuruga reactors
OTSU, Japan, Oct. 24, Kyodo english.kyodonews.jpby Edano 10/24/2011 12:08:00 PM - @Edano I was able to unlock the JP pdf just now and got this.
1:1,3,4 Unit is located at the top of the reactor building damage. Unit 2 has a possible abnormal function of confining pressure suppression chamber. Units 5 and 6 are the prevention of hydrogen gas residence
Because drilling conducted on the reactor building roof.by lillymunster 10/24/2011 12:10:54 PM - @lillymunster well done. we know that there were holes drilled in march. i cannot see from the docs you mailed that the drilling now is new.by Edano 10/24/2011 12:14:48 PM
- Mayor of Tokai wants all reactors at the JAEA & JAPCO facility shut down mdn.mainichi.jpby lillymunster 10/24/2011 12:15:09 PM
- Faro airport (Portugal): Strong winds and heavy rain cause part of the roof at the check-in area to collapse. Five injured. The control tower has also been affected by the bad weather and is currently working at 30% of its capacity. The Instituto de Metereologia (IM) has released a yellow alert for the southern region of Portugal, Algarve (2nd level out of a 4 level scale of severity). publico.ptby Pedro Jesus 10/24/2011 12:15:20 PM
- @lillymunster drilling holes damages the secondary containment. they have to report such an action to the watchdog. maybe they even need a permission to do so.by Edano 10/24/2011 12:16:53 PM
- @Edano They had already drilled holes in the roofs of 5-6 right after 1 explodedby lillymunster 10/24/2011 12:19:54 PM
- @lillymunster the water levels in #5&6 are oddly low. but the water is not hot and there has no iodine been detected. so there does not seem to be recriticality. maybe they have a leak in primary cooling, we saw the photos of the pipe (support) damages. but a leak has to be reported as well, imo.by Edano 10/24/2011 12:20:52 PM
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