Japan Earthquake

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Link for updated status of all NPP in Japan, please? Thank you
by David 1/7/2012 3:50:59 PM

@David not sure what your asking for?
by lillymunster 1/7/2012 3:51:12 PM

Fukushima diary has added some screen shots of where he got the images of the drill samples from unit 2 fukushima-diary.com
by lillymunster 1/7/2012 3:51:44 PM

@lillymunster , @david might wish to look at this here: www.jnes.go.jp
by Peter 1/7/2012 4:06:31 PM

by Ian 1/7/2012 4:15:50 PM

@Peter. Thank you
by David 1/7/2012 4:24:51 PM

Details on a public meeting to discuss spent fuel storage set for Jan 31st. They are seeking feedback on the 200 year storage of this fuel at reactors.
enformable.com
by lillymunster 1/7/2012 4:29:19 PM

@lillymunster, re the fukushima diary report, I still do not quite follow this drilling core story. It seems to me that the cores and the drills shown in the top posts are examples and not from the site. But the bottom posts show core samples that are supposed to stem from the site. Why can't we see the drills at work? The examples show that you need to dig a deep large pit next to the reactors in order to drill laterally into the bedrock under the reactor. How did they do this without a trace? I assumed tepco was planning to drill holes into the primary containment walls inside the buildings. I wondered why even this was necessary, since the primary containment already provides access through a number of orifices that could be potentially used. As we are told, the core melt is supposed to lie on the bottom of the containment. Where did the core material shown in the fukushima diary come from? It is an interesting story, though.
by Peter 1/7/2012 4:39:21 PM

@Peter There are lots of questions on the whole thing. The drill rig photos are not supposed to be of the site. Why nobody snuck a photo of the drill rig is a question. I could see TEPCO not reporting it. The big gap in the story I see is that the photo of the specimens could be from something else that happened to go on in Japan possibly. They do show that the specimen pegs out the radiation meter but there isn't anything proving those samples are located at TEPCOs facilities.
by lillymunster 1/7/2012 4:47:23 PM

We can't see ground level at the plant on either camera so something going on below 1 story in height is hard to see.
by lillymunster 1/7/2012 4:48:35 PM

@all - if you know of sources of data on US spent fuel in general or at specific reactors please post. I am going to try to do a couple of articles leading up to the public meeting.

Also, if you have ideas of anything we should do related to that? They are taking public feedback in writing until Feb and also during the web meeting. I think this is a big issue. If no real public feedback is given they are going to plop it all in reactor parking lots for 200 years and call it good.
by lillymunster 1/7/2012 4:50:45 PM

@lillymunster , any pit accommodating such drill would be huge, need reinforced walls, and constantly fill with water at that location. Pumps and pipes would be needed. It is difficult to believe that tepco could achieve this without us noticing.
by Peter 1/7/2012 5:17:19 PM

@Peter what about going under 1-2 stories at an angle? I thought the idea with those rigs was to drill under things?
by lillymunster 1/7/2012 5:39:49 PM

@lillymunster , as I see it, 'going under' is accomplished by drilling sideways at an angle. If you wish to end up immediately under the pedestal for example from a point near the reactor, you must start to drill at a low elevation or from much further away.
by Peter 1/7/2012 5:51:44 PM

@Peter If they indeed did this in some fashion more will eventually leak out, it always does. :-) I see your point about drilling. Would they have tried to go under the torus?
by lillymunster 1/7/2012 6:01:29 PM

@lillymunster , that is what I thought. Be back later, ;)
by Peter 1/7/2012 6:03:39 PM

Science with a Skew: The Nuclear Power Industry After Chernobyl and Fukushima www.truth-out.org
by lillymunster 1/7/2012 6:39:48 PM

1,500 accidents and incidents on UK wind farms
The wind energy industry has admitted that 1,500 accidents and other incidents have taken place on wind farms over the past five years.
www.telegraph.co.uk
by MaryW 1/7/2012 7:41:35 PM

The Fukushima Nuclear Accident – Shift in Canada’s Nuclear Energy Policy? www.researchforum.ca
by MaryW 1/7/2012 7:43:29 PM

Hi all; Excellent overview of Fukushima. www.reuters.com
by Shadow edited by lillymunster 1/7/2012 8:10:36 PM

Hi Shadow, your on auto approve now. Good seeing you again!
by lillymunster 1/7/2012 8:11:09 PM

Someone to subscribe to on youtube they seem to catch things on the camera feeds and post them www.youtube.com
by lillymunster 1/7/2012 8:30:00 PM

@lillymunster 1st vid seems to be the 1 I posted below - reproduced here: 50 minutes around 1:21 - 9 January 06, 2012 at 8:00
10x playback
start moving the crane from early morning today, seems to be returning to normal work days off the end.
I frequently had to move heavy equipment in front of Unit 4, and zoom on the editorial Mimashitara, broke the figure reflected in the building's workers walk Unit No. 4.
Rising like a lifter for a duration of 10 seconds per aerial, people move from side to side down around 35 seconds, so a lot of people are acting on a more even level after a while to see.
It is something I can work that contains images of people inside was fairly立Chi入Renai places.
We are sorry if Janakattara figure you see is writing.
We have closed in the black bands above and below the image size is appropriate Janakutsu. Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant travel camera JNN (LIVE) video is news.tbs.co.jp Broadcast Video (FLV) we have cut editing quality remains intact. Re-use rights is prohibited without permission. Please let us know in the message. Blog Embed Link to this video Please feel free to address. The video is located right in the JNN / TBS. www.youtube.com
by UKVal1/7/2012 10:06:47 AM 10:06 AM
by UKVal 1/7/2012 9:32:28 PM

forgot the link: www.youtube.com
by UKVal 1/7/2012 9:37:19 PM

looking at TBS cam - hadn't noticed those dark patches on walls of 2 before -are they recent?
by UKVal 1/7/2012 9:38:48 PM

Breaking news : M4.2 hit Fukushima again. 6:04 1/8/2012, another earthquake shook reactor 4.

Magnitude : 4.2

Epicenter : Offshore Ibaraki

Depth : 20km

There is no announcement about Fukushima plants.
fukushima-diary.com
by MaryW 1/7/2012 9:41:45 PM

assume quake below is this 1:Type: Earthquake
28 minutes ago
Magnitude: 5.1
DateTime: Saturday January 7 2012, 21:30:09 UTC
Region: off the east coast of Honshu, Japan
Depth: 25.5 km
Source: USGS Feed -but note difference in magnitude quakes.globalincidentmap.com
by UKVal 1/7/2012 9:59:14 PM

Worcester, MA Real Time Radiation Monitoring. January Spike!
blog.alexanderhiggins.com
by MaryW 1/7/2012 10:07:16 PM

Earthquake Information (Information on seismic intensity at each site)
Issued at 04:39 JST 03 Jan 2012

Occurred at (JST) Latitude
(degree) Longitude
(degree) Depth Magnitude Region Name
04:35 JST 03 Jan 2012 36.4N 141.8E 10 km 4.5 Ibaraki-ken Oki
www.jma.go.jp
by MaryW 1/7/2012 10:08:40 PM

opps wrong one
by MaryW 1/7/2012 10:09:20 PM

Here :)
Earthquake Information (Information on seismic intensity at each site)
Issued at 06:04 JST 08 Jan 2012

Occurred at (JST) Latitude
(degree) Longitude
(degree) Depth Magnitude Region Name
06:00 JST 08 Jan 2012 36.8N 141.3E 20 km 4.2 Ibaraki-ken Oki
www.jma.go.jp
by MaryW 1/7/2012 10:10:40 PM

of course those 3s and 8s look the same! (re:the date)
by MaryW 1/7/2012 10:11:19 PM

5.1
Mercalli scale: 5

Date-Time [UTC]: 07 January, 2012 at 21:30:09 UTC
Local Date/Time: Saturday, January 07, 2012 at 21:30 in the evening at epicenter Location: 36° 2.088, 142° 7.872
Depth: 25.50 km (15.84 miles)
Region:Asia Country Japan
Distances: 120.5 km (74.88 miles) of Nagasakicho, Chiba-ken
from hisz.rsoe.hu
gosh is this a different one?

by UKVal 1/7/2012 10:18:57 PM

Once again...

Tunnel full of radioactively-contaminated water found at Fukushima nuclear plant.

mdn.mainichi.jp
by VesaVA 1/7/2012 10:58:32 PM

@UKVal I believe that is an additional quake
by lillymunster 1/7/2012 10:59:06 PM

@UKVal FYI It is January 8 in Japan now
by MaryW 1/7/2012 11:05:55 PM

@MaryW - yes it appears to be in UK time & although posted in last hour it must be a revision. The seismologists must be struggling to keep up
by UKVal 1/7/2012 11:14:16 PM

@UKVal :)
by MaryW 1/7/2012 11:14:46 PM

@UKVal They should get a hike in their wages
by MaryW 1/7/2012 11:15:54 PM

@MaryW agreed -I wouldn't want to keep up with all the Mag 4+ quakes going on at present.
by UKVal 1/7/2012 11:17:05 PM

Took a peek at TBS cam. I think they may have cleared debris off unit 3's deck. It looks quite different. Again no pictures. It is like cold shutdown is the excuse to stop reporting things. www.youtube.com
by lillymunster 1/7/2012 11:26:49 PM

Quakes today, non Japan stripped out:

MAP 5.1 2012/01/07 21:30:10 36.035 142.131 25.5 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

MAP 4.8 2012/01/07 17:56:13 31.591 140.383 155.1 IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION

MAP 4.7 2012/01/07 10:43:07 37.269 141.282 35.9 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

MAP 4.6 2012/01/07 08:17:57 37.447 141.930 42.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

Any still missing on the list?
by lillymunster 1/7/2012 11:31:03 PM

We should look at reactor stats over 24 hrs and the next set of radiation readings at the plant. After the big one on new years the radiation levels jumped
by lillymunster 1/7/2012 11:32:17 PM

Nagoya university to attempt to use tiny Muon particles to take a picture inside the reactors to see where the fuel is. www.sacbee.com
by lillymunster 1/7/2012 11:38:20 PM