Japan Earthquake

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Most of the chat seems to be Miles Obrien whining about being fired from CNN and how great their jobs are.
by lillymunster 1/18/2012 6:32:05 PM

@lillymunster if you went under name 'Nancy', it was picked up. At least one question.
by MaryW 1/18/2012 6:32:12 PM

I sent them a post, if they have 200 views, where are their posts?
by MaryW 1/18/2012 6:46:00 PM

Miles Obrien pulls a nuke PR:
" it probably has been overdone and the level at which a evacuation is triggered in Japan-20 Millisieverts of exposure per year is extremely low. I am certain the government of Japan would like to walk that one back. But it's impossible to do that. The truth is the stress and anxiety of dislocating 180,000 people will pack a much greater health risk over the long term than if they stayed in an area that was contaminated at those levels."
by lillymunster 1/18/2012 6:47:59 PM

@MaryW very few questions are getting through at all and I tried to make rather soft - ball questions
by lillymunster 1/18/2012 6:48:23 PM

Now the question on chat is, was Fukushima over blown?
by MaryW 1/18/2012 6:48:40 PM

good thought @ Mary, I haven't seen any of mine yet either
by dean 1/18/2012 6:49:09 PM

I felt like telling him 'no' if you are happy with breathing and eating radiation in your home town USA
by MaryW 1/18/2012 6:49:40 PM

I just told them this chat was boring. With 200 views why all the quiet time :)
by MaryW 1/18/2012 6:55:27 PM

"stay away from the cheeseburgers and french fries! They are a much bigger risk to our health than cesium." comment by Miles
by MaryW 1/18/2012 7:02:46 PM

A lot of people can not watch now, due to the time zone they are in. We should have posted the chat conversation here.
by MaryW 1/18/2012 7:04:33 PM

Trial exam with scope camera at unit 5 in preparation for unit 2 tomorrow www.tepco.co.jp
by lillymunster via Tepco.co.jp 1/18/2012 7:05:07 PM

PDF document of unit 5 test run www.tepco.co.jp
by lillymunster 1/18/2012 7:05:39 PM

Under "videos for press" tab is the video of the test run at unit 5 www.tepco.co.jp
by lillymunster 1/18/2012 7:08:50 PM

Some of the statements Obrien is making are just wow...
by lillymunster 1/18/2012 7:13:23 PM

submitted 10 questions no response, it must have been a chat just for the three of them..oh well
by eyes 1/18/2012 7:21:38 PM

@eyes kinda sad. I probably posted 5 questions over the time frame
by lillymunster 1/18/2012 7:24:25 PM

And this was the proclaimed result of their "studying" the event for the last 9 months...
by eyes 1/18/2012 7:29:05 PM

I finally was able to watch the show this morning. Has anyone else had a chance to watch it? What did you think?
by lillymunster 1/18/2012 7:30:55 PM

METI now says all building materials left out side may be contaminated ex-skf.blogspot.com
by lillymunster 1/18/2012 7:56:22 PM

@lillymunster , I am watching the show piecemeal, finding inaccuracies. First some of the generator trucks made it to the plant Friday night and compressed air was restored at least at Unit 1 in the early morning hours Saturday. So a total blackout did not persist into Saturday.
by Peter 1/18/2012 8:24:55 PM

The other issue is, they make it sound like people were evacuated only beginning Mar 15. The people living nearest the plant were evacuated already Saturday Mar 12 in the morning before hardened venting commenced.
by Peter 1/18/2012 8:27:05 PM

I took issue with their claim that the tsunamis did all the damage. We know that is not the case or is still under contention at best.
by lillymunster 1/18/2012 8:34:09 PM

@lillymunster, the Italian fellow from MIT just said as much "if the diesel generators and the batteries had been located higher, a lot of things would probably not have happened." How does he know what would have or would not have happened?
by Peter 1/18/2012 8:37:53 PM

There is no word about the IC being switched off in Unit 1 or turbine-driven pump failure.
by Peter 1/18/2012 8:39:54 PM

@Peter considering we now know there was containment damage at Daini, it is really hard to say the tsunami was the core cause. We don't know enough yet and what we do know is enough to question that idea of the tsunami doing it. Reports of cooling pipe damage at 1, the IC issues etc.
by lillymunster 1/18/2012 8:40:58 PM

@you I questioned this and got told I was ignorant by some nuke industry PR guy
by lillymunster 1/18/2012 8:41:58 PM

...no word about the hardened venting releasing hydrogen into the building at Unit 1. Ask him next time, why the HPCI of Unit 1 never came online, why the RCIC and the HPCI failed a couple of days later at the other units.
by Peter 1/18/2012 8:45:48 PM

Angry, activist, anti-nuclear jellyfish have UK regulators in a worry www.deadlinenews.co.uk
by lillymunster 1/18/2012 9:11:57 PM

...now to the doses, they make it sound like people are unduly concerned and pick the low dose 20 milliSv/y that GoJ set for evacuation. GoJ is scolded for setting the limited on the conservative side. The point here is that the dose rates are much greater than that near the plant and can be much greater than that near hotspots. New hotspots may develop, depending on the weather. This uncertainty deters people, not unduly. In addition, dose is compared only to external radiation.
by Peter 1/18/2012 9:20:27 PM

..also no mention that children and people with health issues may be more sensitive to radiation than others.
by Peter 1/18/2012 9:21:38 PM

...how about pregnant women? I dislike statistics that treat everybody alike.
by Peter 1/18/2012 9:24:07 PM

In the segment addressing alternatives, they never mention the problem of nuclear waste treatment and storage (think Hanford!).
As a minor jab, no wonder that the Italian fellow works at MIT. There would be no job for him in Italy! Also note that all countries lumped with the US as pursuing nuclear power in this report are developing nations. The nation with most developed nuclear power, France, is not even mentioned.
by Peter 1/18/2012 9:41:36 PM

As to North Anna, note that the seismic annunicators in the control room failed because of a power outage. The reactors were tripped by the power perturbation. Though better prepared according to Mr. Lochsbaum, there was room for improvement. read more here: brainmindinstrev.blogspot.com
by Peter 1/18/2012 9:51:35 PM

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by lillymunster 1/18/2012 9:54:32 PM

...no mention that the reactor building at Browne's Ferry houses three Fukushima-type reactors, increasing the odds for an accident even more difficult to control.
by Peter 1/18/2012 9:54:51 PM