Japan Earthquake

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Spain aging nuke plant may stay open www.reuters.com
by lillymunster 1/2/2012 4:44:16 PM

Ran across this useful website that explains translation and meaning of various Japanese words. Useful when you run into a translation that doesn't flip to an English word and instead gives you a Japanese word in romanji

www.japanmoji.com
by lillymunster 1/2/2012 4:49:08 PM

J Environ Radioact. 2011 Dec 27.

Observations of Fukushima fallout in Great Britain.

Following the Fukushima accident in March 2011, grass samples were collected from 42 sites around Great Britain during April 2011. Iodine-131 was measurable in grass samples across the country with activity concentrations ranging from 10 to 55 Bq kg(-1) dry matter. Concentrations were similar to those reported in other European countries. Rainwater and some foodstuffs were also analysed from a limited number of sites. Of these, (131)I was only detectable in sheep's milk (c. 2 Bq kg(-1)). Caesium-134, which can be attributed to releases from the Fukushima reactors, was detectable in six of the grass samples (4-8 Bq kg(-1) dry matter); (137)Cs was detected in a larger number of grass samples although previous release sources (atmospheric weapons test and the 1986 Chernobyl and 1957 Windscale accidents) are likely to have contributed to this.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
by Ian 1/2/2012 4:53:58 PM

@dicko You have a very interesting theory. If you could supply some sources with links, that would be great! Thank you.
by MaryW 1/2/2012 5:02:00 PM

any news from our spent fuel pool ?
by Edano 1/2/2012 5:25:48 PM

Challenges ahead at Fukushima nuclear plant

The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant has to juggle two daunting tasks this year.
One is to continue cooling the damaged reactors. The other is to start preparing for decommissioning.

The Japanese government said 2 weeks ago that the reactors at the plant had reached a state of cold shutdown -- the second phase in the program to bring the plant under control.

The government and Tokyo Electric Power Company released a work schedule showing that decommissioning may take 40 years.

The nuclear fuel must be removed from reactors 1, 2, and 3 before the reactors and their buildings are scrapped. Some of the fuel is believed to have melted and fallen through to the containment vessels.

This year, TEPCO will remove debris from the Number 4 reactor building, which was damaged by explosions, so it can start removing spent nuclear fuel.

As part of its preparations for decommissioning, TEPCO will conduct research and develop technology for decontaminating the inside of the reactor buildings and repairing the containment vessels.

The nuclear fuel needs to be cooled as it is still emitting heat. TEPCO plans to halve the length of the 4-kilometer-long pipes used for cooling and treating contaminated water. It also plans to install a new facility to remove radioactive strontium from waste water.

Professor Hisashi Ninokata of the Tokyo Institute of Technology says there is always a risk that contaminated water in the pipes will leak. He says TEPCO should minimize the hazards by preventing groundwater from seeping into buildings and by making the system that filters waste water more compact.

Monday, January 02, 2012 11:58 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 1/2/2012 5:32:15 PM

2 nuclear safety panel members got 7.1 mil. yen donation from industry

TOKYO, Jan. 2, Kyodo

The head of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan and a member of the government panel received donations totaling 7.1 million yen from the atomic power industry before assuming duties at the watchdog, the two said Monday.

Haruki Madarame, a former University of Tokyo professor who became the commission chief in April 2010, said he received 4 million yen over four years through 2009 from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., a major manufacturer of nuclear power reactors.

Seiji Shiroya, another member of the panel who joined the commission at the same time as Madarame, said he received 3.1 million yen from a regional branch of Japan Atomic Industrial Forum Inc. over three years to 2009 while serving as a Kyoto University professor. english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 1/2/2012 5:33:16 PM

Nuclear decontamination law goes into full force

TOKYO, Jan. 1, Kyodo

A nuclear decontamination law went into full effect Sunday, setting the stage for full-fledged efforts to clean up buildings, soil and waste contaminated with radioactive materials in areas affected by the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Fukushima Prefecture.

The central government is responsible for the cleanup efforts in a no-go zone around the crippled plant and other evacuation areas in the seaside prefecture also heavily hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Under the law, which was partially enacted in August, decontamination plans will be formulated by 102 municipalities in eight prefectures where radiation doses are expected to exceed 1 millisievert a year on top of natural background radiation and that from medical treatment. english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 1/2/2012 5:38:27 PM

@Ian Cranes have been stationary from the start, manipulated wed cam? @lillymunster Japan has few in the Christian religion, only 1%, so Christmas is not observed as a national as holiday. Japan celebrates the commercial marketing of this festival. Any work days off would not apply to Dec 15, so cranes would not be shut down.
by MaryW 1/2/2012 5:43:04 PM

@lillymunster opps with the Dec 15th, correct date s/b Dec 25. :)
by MaryW 1/2/2012 5:44:09 PM

@Edano, I posted Tepco's update on pool 4 below.
@MaryW, the cranes have moved around before.
by Ian 1/2/2012 5:47:00 PM

@Ian hmmm i see a lot of letters, but very little sense...
by Edano 1/2/2012 5:51:12 PM

@Edano - still no leak location found. I think they need to drop the camera in the skimmer and look for a crack

There was a passing mention of the skimmer leaking into the reactor well but I don't know if the skimmer has a direct connection to that.
by lillymunster 1/2/2012 5:51:32 PM

@Ian Oh no, I must have missed the moving cranes:( Take a look at this sight. I realize link is from June, but I never totally believed TEPCO would run a 'live' webcam 24/7. They just don't have any credibility for honesty. Is the official TEPCO "live" webcamera rigged? radioactive.eu.com
by MaryW 1/2/2012 5:58:56 PM

Unusual geological event in Germany on Monday, 02 January, 2012. Fresh activity near a dormant 'super volcano' in Germany has left experts worried about a possible eruption. hisz.rsoe.hu
by MaryW 1/2/2012 6:05:16 PM

by MaryW 1/2/2012 6:22:15 PM

www.wired.com fearmongering-gets-started-in-2012-laacher-see-is-not-ready-to-blow
by German 1/2/2012 7:00:50 PM

@MaryW, I've had the JNN 'live' feed running in three separate tabs, one showing the campus in the morning, one in full sun and the other dead of night each running at the same time! I'm not entirely sure how that happens, but I think when I put my system to sleep and then reawaken it, it can pick up the feed where it left off, so that its reading hours-old feed. Then I click a new tab and I'm seeing it live. Then I do that again. So I think that's what we're probably seeing here radioactive.eu.com Or there's just a delay from the two feeds themselves. I see no reason to believe Tepco would bother to install a camera and send out rigged images. If they were that worried, they'd not install a camera in the first place.
by Ian 1/2/2012 7:04:55 PM

@German Are you aware of any underground drilling (fracking) in the area?
by MaryW 1/2/2012 7:05:08 PM

JANUARY 02, 2012
Toshiba has a device that removes 97% of cesium from radioactive soil. Toshiba Corp says it has developed a revolutionary new technology designed to decontaminate radioactive soil from the area surrounding the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The device uses crystalline adsorbents that have the ability to selectivity remove radioactive ions from liquids, soil and waste. Another Competing Cesium Removal System.

JNC Corp announced that it has developed a technology to remove and collect cesium from cesium-contaminated water. nextbigfuture.com
by MaryW 1/2/2012 7:18:36 PM

@Ian you are correct that is how the JNN feeds work.
by lillymunster 1/2/2012 7:20:03 PM

No fracking in that area @MaryW
by German 1/2/2012 7:23:58 PM

I have been following an interesting conversation on twitter. Various people were discussing the power saving over the summer in Japan and how TEPCO and others grossly over estimated demand and under estimated their capacity. The drastic energy savings likely caused a number of the elderly deaths over the summer as they didn't use air conditioning trying to conserve energy per the national mandate.

People were pointing that this distortion in demand/capacity by the power companies likely contributed to killing people. There is also discussion of thermal and hydro power capacity. There is a hydro project somewhere that will require moving cities and lose some areas of some historical importance. So people were debating the trade off on the hydro project.
by lillymunster 1/2/2012 7:27:10 PM

Fukushima Workers: Fukushima Reactor Buildings Of Reactors 1, 3, 4 Blew Up Because Blowout Panels Were Welded Shut. January 02.2011.

www.infiniteunknown.net
by MaryW 1/2/2012 7:50:26 PM

The Biggest Energy Story of 2011. January 02.2011 This one is not a tough call: The Fukushima nuclear catastrophe was hands-down the major energy event of 2011. spectrum.ieee.org
by MaryW 1/2/2012 8:04:27 PM

ENEC submits report on lessons learned from Fukushima-Daiichi.
ABU DHABI, 2 Jan. 2012 (WAM) - The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) submitted its evaluation of the lessons learned from the March 2011 accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Friday December 30, 2011, to the UAE's independent nuclear energy regulator, the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation. www.wam.org.ae
by MaryW 1/2/2012 8:06:15 PM

Statement to reporters by the Headquarters Integrated anti-discrimination Fukushima nuclear accident

Nuclear Safety Agency, the Government of the Democratic Party headquarters consisting of consolidation measures by the nuclear accident in Fukushima and Tokyo Electric Power Co., requests for interviews from the media coverage and many other party equally, provided an excuse for a variety of sorting this, discrimination , can interfere with the enjoyment of the right information to touch people, and seek to have their own self-protection.
However, NISA first place, is an organization established by the tax in order to maintain the safety of nuclear power, lost the meaning that exists at Fukushima nuclear accident occurred. Therefore, it is they who work to return it immediately with a huge expense and compensation received so far in vain, that people should be fired.
Insidious conspiracy to interfere with that information in this NISA Democratic government also is intended to stray from the principles of disclosure of information which is pledges early days.
You have heard the tyranny of NISA and TEPCO this further, in the company's exclusive interview is intended to cover up their crimes may have been forced to accept all the reporters, their sins is intended to rival or surpass the primary criminal act has been promoting a lot of opposition by押Shi切Tsu knowing the risk.
We are going to respond to their disqualification from the media blackout of these are not provided. We will be requesting that they "presented as requirements needed to attend the press conference," for, just give one word also.
We will ride nicely into the trap of division and discrimination they got-up, stuck with a lot of reporters have been met as discrimination and are excluded from our good and that is not going to press conference with alacrity. Our hearts will always be with all the reporters.
We were window dressing by the humble language of excess they abolish completely restricted coverage heinous this, and hereby declare that the fight out until you attend all those who reported being discriminated against are excluded from the conference .

September 21, 2011

Akira Tanaka, Equality Party
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by MaryW 1/2/2012 8:13:02 PM

TEPCO claiming water went out of skimmer to reactor well. Is there even a direct path between the two?
ex-skf.blogspot.com
by lillymunster 1/2/2012 8:24:07 PM

I have been adding these studies everyone has found that document fukushima fallout in various places in Europe, they are in the website Library.

If you find more let me know. They are under Fukushima - radiation exposure
by lillymunster 1/2/2012 9:18:16 PM

Fan death is a widely held belief in South Korea and Japan that an electric fan [or air conditioner] left running overnight in a closed room can cause the death of those inside. Fans sold in Korea are equipped with a timer switch that turns them off after a set number of minutes, which users are frequently urged to set when going to sleep with a fan on.
The Korea Consumer Protection Board (KCPB), a South Korean government-funded public agency, issued a consumer safety alert in 2006 warning that "asphyxiation from electric fans and air conditioners" was among South Korea's five most common seasonal summer accidents or injuries, according to data they collected. en.wikipedia.org urbanlegends.about.com
by Edano 1/2/2012 9:31:36 PM

just my two cents on the "urban legend" that missing air conditioning causes deaths. there are so many people on earth and not very many air conditioners...
by Edano 1/2/2012 9:35:59 PM

@Edano that is bizarre.
by lillymunster 1/2/2012 9:37:25 PM

@lillymunster i just want to say that you find evidence for every bizarre story. i will not swallow the story on increased deaths in japan due to power shortages.
by Edano 1/2/2012 9:39:07 PM

"From June 1 to July 10, the latest period available, 26 people died from heatstroke, compared with six in the same period last year, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency". www.bloomberg.com okay, you can say 6 to 26 is 4 times as much, but in clear numbers it is still "only" 20 more than last year. and this year's summer was 3.8 degrees hotter than last year in japan. so i can see no real evidence that you can blame the missing air conditioning.
by Edano 1/2/2012 9:42:03 PM

@Edano I have not seen any news stories making a concrete connection. There sure are a few people with a bee in their butt about it and have decided that the power saving measures contributed to heat related elderly deaths last summer. The numbers quoted, 20 people in a huge population like Japan has isn't enough to be statistically significant.
by lillymunster 1/2/2012 9:46:17 PM

@lillymunster yeah that's what i mean. urban legend. :)

or industrial propaganda.
by Edano 1/2/2012 9:52:02 PM

i assume the cases of ac induced pulmonary deaths could be higher than heatstrokes (i.e. kidney failure, in fact). i don't think people's life expectancy rises due to ac.
by Edano 1/2/2012 9:56:15 PM

Tepco officially admitted the decreasing water level of the tank at reactor 4 was caused by the earthquake on 1/1/2012.

Tepco states the water did not flow into the tank from water cooling system but flew into the container vessel in stead. Currently ,Tepco is trying to remove the broken parts (wall) of reactor 4.

A former plant engineer tweets ... fukushima-diary.com Former plant engineer talks Tepco is taking a chance for reactor 4
Posted by Mochizuki on January 2nd, 2012 ·
by MaryW 1/2/2012 10:01:20 PM

pic.twitter.com From the picture of Tepco ,they are removing the brace of reactor 4.If another earthquake hits the plant now ,it can’t stand the horizontal oscillation.
by MaryW 1/2/2012 10:02:02 PM

#4 is a time bomb with little chance to survive the next 20 years...
by Edano 1/2/2012 10:03:19 PM

www.tepco.co.jp pictures
by MaryW edited by Edano 1/2/2012 10:03:53 PM

@Edano How do I post pictures (or a picture) ? :)
by MaryW 1/2/2012 10:05:13 PM

Hi & a Happy New Year to all. Have been lurking for a while. This is curious - this EQ is not on Global Incident EQ-20120102-224699-JP
Magnitude: 4.8
Mercalli scale: 5
Date-Time [UTC]: 02 January, 2012 at 19:34:57 UTC
Local Date/Time: Monday, January 02, 2012 at 19:34 in the evening at epicenter
Location: 36° 23.400, 142° 0.600
Depth: 30 km (18.64 miles)
Region: Asia
Country: Japan
Distances: 113.0 km (70.21 miles) of Ena,
Source: EMSC
Generated Tsunami: Not or no data!
Damage: Not or not data! hisz.rsoe.hu
by UKVal 1/2/2012 10:06:07 PM