Japan Earthquake

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4.9 aftershock now
by Edano 1/10/2012 9:40:05 PM

Trailer to a book on Fukushima, all in German, I don't know what's said: www.youtube.com
by Ian 1/10/2012 9:52:03 PM

@all: no steam around Fuku II for months. Now we had two quakes nearby in the last days. In both cases there was steam around Fuku II/#3+4, in that moment there is steam too, must be a correlation. I guessed that correlation in summer last year.
by Puc 1/10/2012 9:55:16 PM

@Ian oohh, a whole bunch of esoteric nonsense. yamashita meets busby.
by Edano 1/10/2012 10:01:58 PM

it's snowing on teppycam ! :)
by Edano 1/10/2012 10:11:02 PM

Updated TBS/JNN live feed (nothing visible at the moment) : www.youtube.com
by Ian 1/10/2012 10:19:09 PM

@Puc there was some speculation that the quakes shook the corium and may have broken open the crust, exposing the inner hot corium to water, causing steam and heat increases.
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 10:56:41 PM

We might also start seeing more steam once the weather gets colder.
by Ian 1/10/2012 10:58:03 PM

Though I've not noticed any steam from the units in months.
by Ian 1/10/2012 11:00:32 PM

it's fog. simply fog.
by Edano 1/10/2012 11:05:57 PM

Ohio gozaimasu all
by bo 1/10/2012 11:09:32 PM

Management Failures Were Critical in Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe
spectrum.ieee.org
by bo 1/10/2012 11:12:43 PM

Hi bo!
@Edano, thanks for the tip on the video.
by Ian 1/10/2012 11:13:35 PM

@Ian and @Edano hi
by bo 1/10/2012 11:14:23 PM

It is morning in Japan. Cold enough to snow so it could be fog or steam simply due to the cold temps outside.
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 11:14:51 PM

@bo, have you seen this report www.youtube.com ? Do they mention that the footage is infrared, and that blowout panels that appear dark?

by Ian 1/10/2012 11:15:34 PM

Jaczko gave a speech at CES in Vegas. He makes the statement that the NRC's role is regulation and safety and NOT the promotion of nuclear power. I thought the latter was part of their mandate?
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 11:17:51 PM

Full text of Jaczko's speech wp.me
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 11:19:12 PM

@Ian I have not seen it, and I don't speak Japanese well enough to understand it. Sorry!
by bo 1/10/2012 11:27:25 PM

If you have not already voted. Vote TEPCO for worst corporation of 2011 in Greenpeace's contest. Let's make sure they win. :-)

www.publiceye.ch
by lillymunster 1/10/2012 11:41:20 PM

Science with a Skew: The Nuclear Power Industry After Chernobyl and Fukushima: japanfocus.org
by bo 1/11/2012 12:14:07 AM

@bo, thanks for checking! Someone had sent that video suggesting that because the blowout panels are seen as dark squares (in what appears to be FLIR video) that they were actually open, contra the recent reports that they were sealed shut (contrary to regulations) and that that sealing may have contributed to the level of explosive devastation. However, I'd counter that with noting that in FLIR video, dark = colder, so the footage probably only means that the material covering the blowout panels was cooler, not that the panels were gone. There may be visible-light images of the seaside face of the Units before they exploded that would confirm that the blowout panels are in place.
by Ian 1/11/2012 12:33:34 AM

@Ian would you like me to have a Japanese speaker view the clip and verify the audio description?
by bo 1/11/2012 12:35:55 AM

@lillymunster There's something wrong with that alleged Greenpeace poll for worst corporation of 2011. For one I didn't find the same poll (nor similar) on other Greenpeace sites, only on the Czeck. Then, Samsung appears on the poll when it is, according to Greenpeace ranking, the best scorer on sustainable operations, on top of HP and Sony, for example, and ranks 7 on the overall Greenpeace green companies ranking, which means it is amongst the 10 greener companies in the world in their line of business (electronics). And considering it is, after LGE (which ranks 13 on the green ranking), the top world producer of electronic devices losing by a tangent, I think it is only unfair to include it in such a poll. I totally disagree with it and therefore I'm not voting, sorry, despite the fact that my vote would have been on TEPCO fair and square.
by Pedro Jesus 1/11/2012 12:53:50 AM

The afore mentioned Greenpeace "Guide to Greener Electronics" ranking. www.greenpeace.org
by Pedro Jesus 1/11/2012 12:55:15 AM

@bo, sure, thanks. It would be useful in general to know if that's an issue they raised. For some reason they're showing that IR video. Sorry I'm always in and out, with time gaps in my replies.
by Ian 1/11/2012 12:58:31 AM

@Ian at work now, will have someone listen soon and report back.
by bo 1/11/2012 2:16:20 AM

TEPCO's deal with Swiss insurance company must have fallen through or expired. They had to pay 120 billion yen to the govt. for not having any insurance www.asahi.com
by lillymunster 1/11/2012 2:23:40 AM

I have no idea what this is but it looks important guregoro.sakura.ne.jp
by lillymunster 1/11/2012 2:24:17 AM

More from the independent journalist that went undercover to work in Fukushima. This stuck out:

"Suzuki’s cover was broken in August, partly because Tepco officials noticed he was the only worker who remained awake and took notes during daily briefings."

no1.fccj.ne.jp
by lillymunster 1/11/2012 2:29:41 AM

More word from inside the zone about the big emergency on Jan 6th:

This is a video talked often in oversea. There is a rumor that cooling systems in the nuclear power plants have trouble. When it happened seven members from Hoshi Family were there and we asked police. They said that there was a fire on a mountain. But as long as we see this video it might not be true. In the video there are two tracks carrying hoses and we see many people in the 4th reactor. The government and TEPCO have not announced anything at this moment.
This via the FukushimaAnimal FB page and this is the youtube video they refer to
www.youtube.com
by lillymunster 1/11/2012 2:36:31 AM

@lilly and @Ian, I have had my Japanese friend view the video (Ian) and the site you posted below (lilly). Regarding the graphs in the post, they are measures of airborne radiation in several prefectures and also at the plant. The key with different colored lines indicate different cities. The video was taken of a newscast on March 11 in the evening and is a report that there is trouble at three plants at Daini, and that temperatures are rising. There is no mention of the nature of the film, or about the blowout panels.
by bo 1/11/2012 2:46:26 AM

They have put hydrazine in unit 2's SFP for some reason
(At 1:38 pm on January 10, 2012, the hydrazine (corrosion inhibitor) injection was also started). www.tepco.co.jp
by lillymunster 1/11/2012 2:50:57 AM

@lilly I was in the air on the 6th. Do we know what the big emergency was?
by bo 1/11/2012 2:51:28 AM

@bo, thanks! How annoying historic reposts w/o context given, but still glad someone posted it. I presume it was FLIR video taken to see of the temps were visibly rising. www.youtube.com
by Ian 1/11/2012 2:52:59 AM

@bo Not 100% sure. The police told one of the Hoshi's there was a fire on a mountain. They think the police were either lying or mistaken. Since the video has 2 buses of TEPCO workers among the fire trucks it is a good bet something happened at the plant. Whatever happened there is no admission of it in TEPCO press releases. Workers have not tweeted anything specific but there are more mentions about unit 4. So far nothing alarming, just more attention is being paid to it kind of references. So we still don't know.
Did you catch the news about TEPCO buying the shopping mall in Tomioka?
by lillymunster 1/11/2012 2:54:44 AM

@lillymunster, the youtube video you link to re the Jan 6th emergency is the Tomioka Cam.
by Ian 1/11/2012 2:55:18 AM

@Ian yes it is.
by lillymunster 1/11/2012 2:55:35 AM

@lillymunster, ah! It's the trucks that are the sign of an emergency?
by Ian 1/11/2012 2:58:05 AM

@Ian yes. The stream of police, hose trucks, fire trucks, buses of workers. The sped up video looks like it needs a Benny Hill soundtrack. :-)
by lillymunster 1/11/2012 2:59:26 AM