Japan Earthquake

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perhaps an increased source of radiation is the result of the earthquakes opening fissures etc which allow a shifting or relocation of the corium's
by dean 1/24/2012 12:15:57 AM

The layers all run at an angle towards the sea. It sounds like it is mudstone then sandstone with deeper layers having volcanic rock mixed in.
by lillymunster 1/24/2012 12:16:31 AM

@dean we already know there are fissures at the plant, we have pictures.
by lillymunster 1/24/2012 12:16:49 AM

@LILLY... perhaps Edano can coincide elevation in radiation levels or the temp increase he pointed out to seismic activity
by dean 1/24/2012 12:24:15 AM

time for dinner.. will return
by dean 1/24/2012 12:27:03 AM

@dean tepco claims the increase is due to cleaning up around 2 and 3
by lillymunster 1/24/2012 12:27:05 AM

there are no recent abnormalities in the reactor data, everything is smooth, no spikes anymore, except the one in #2 torus radiation. no rad spikes anymore on quakes. the radiation in #1 seems to correlate now with the falling temps. but anyway tepco refers to the rising radiation level outside of the plants.
by Edano 1/24/2012 1:00:14 AM

but one criteria for cold shutdown was the reduction of radioactive emissions, so they should be more careful when cleaning up debris. better they postpone cold shutdown.
by Edano 1/24/2012 1:04:16 AM

www.houseoffoust.com no spikes anymore in #1 drywell
by Edano via Houseoffoust 1/24/2012 1:06:35 AM

www.houseoffoust.com no spikes anymore in #1 drywell
by Edano via Houseoffoust 1/24/2012 1:07:02 AM

SMAP, AKB48 among 20 acts to appear on NHK program to mark 1st anniversary of March 11 disaster www.japantoday.com
by lillymunster 1/24/2012 1:07:49 AM

11 universities received nuclear energy research funds from gov't, industry mdn.mainichi.jp
by lillymunster 1/24/2012 1:35:45 AM

Environmental radiation around Yokohama last night: guregoro.sakura.ne.jp
by Jim via Guregoro.sakura.ne.jp 1/24/2012 2:03:31 AM

@Jim has weather been blowing down from the north? I'm not horribly familiar with typical weather patterns in Japan.
by lillymunster 1/24/2012 2:16:27 AM

Florida group challenging law that forces citizens to pay now for a possible future private sector nuclear plant that might be built in the future calling it unconstitutional. It also sounds like some of that money is being used for upgrades and repairs at existing nuke plants miamiherald.typepad.com
by lillymunster 1/24/2012 2:35:05 AM

Dutch utility puts off building nuclear plant, says too expensive and price of power right now too cheap to make it profitable af.reuters.com
by lillymunster 1/24/2012 2:36:18 AM

1975 book on an accident at the Fermi fast breeder reactor www.infoark.org

I have not read it yet but looks interesting
by lillymunster 1/24/2012 2:38:12 AM

@lillymunster , NHK World just reported in its 30-minute newscast that tepco ascribes the recent rise in radiation release from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station to its exploration of Unit 2's primary containment.
by Peter 1/24/2012 2:40:03 AM

@lillymunster, yesterday we had cold air from the North mixing with a wet front and the first snow for the year started falling at about 10pm. However it rained heavily for two days preceding the spike and the graphs were flat so it is hard to match the fluctuations with specific events.
by Jim 1/24/2012 2:40:25 AM

@Peter is that even possible?
by lillymunster 1/24/2012 2:50:45 AM

@Jim if weather traveled from north on down it might carry something with. But if it was raining and snowing the whole time down from up north it would be odd to still be dropping fallout in Yokohama? Radiation near the plant has been rising but it is hard to pin anything unless you could back track the weather system to a specific date around the plant. Not sure if you could conclusively do so even then?
by lillymunster 1/24/2012 2:53:48 AM

Kyushu discarded reactor steel samples taken on multiple years for aging tests. www.asahi.com
by lillymunster 1/24/2012 3:06:16 AM

@lilly and @all. The web site articles today are great - cooking on all four burners today! TY
by Mid Valley 1/24/2012 3:08:25 AM

@lillymunster , who knows what the operators precisely did last week. Perhaps they vented the building, or even the primary containment, before they let the men go in to drill the hole and scope the containment.
by Peter 1/24/2012 3:24:21 AM

great tweet of SimplyInfo article -kevinmeyerson Kevin Meyerson
SimplyInfo: According to the DOE stats, the #nuclear biz has been inflating (by 200%+!) #atomic #electricity figures.
by Mid Valley 1/24/2012 3:38:07 AM

@lilly: someone tweeted me this AEO Table in response to the Simply Article. Worth a look, add to the tool chest. Provides energy numbers by category/year www.eia.gov
by Mid Valley 1/24/2012 3:47:43 AM

@Mid Valley will take a look. Something I noticed is that some statistics being used are not what US capacity is but are what was/is generated. So if we have idled capacity in a non-nuclear sector but nuclear plants are running at max generation ability "generated" can be a higher percentage than actual true US capacity. This may be the loophole being used to claim higher percentages than reflect the true energy capacity of the US by sector. I have a couple of inquiries for more details with the EIA also.
by lillymunster 1/24/2012 3:51:04 AM

Tainted stone tied to 60 buildings so far www.japantimes.co.jp
by Mid Valley 1/24/2012 3:52:36 AM

@Mid Valley that is an interesting table as it doesn't match up with other EIA documents about renewable current and future mix of power.
by lillymunster 1/24/2012 3:52:41 AM

@lillymunster I thought so, too. It came from an odd source. A new Twitter user ChrenekovLight who describes him/herself as: Come join me in the wonders of Nuclear Energy, power of the future.
by Mid Valley 1/24/2012 3:55:37 AM

@Mid Valley that twitter account directed some nasty tweets and me of course they came with no facts to back them up. :-)
by lillymunster 1/24/2012 3:57:46 AM

How to combat nuclear power in the US by eminent domain..It worked once already www.counterpunch.org
by lillymunster 1/24/2012 3:58:18 AM

@lillymunster Nasty tweets - we do get them - that is for sure. I just hope the tables may reveal something.
by Mid Valley 1/24/2012 4:00:59 AM

IAEA May Set Up Permanent Office At Fukushima Nuclear Accident Site www.asianscientist.com
by Mid Valley 1/24/2012 4:04:19 AM

Nite Lilly. Sweet dreams.
by Mid Valley 1/24/2012 4:05:53 AM

@Mid Valley I will see what the deal is with them. EIA is who put out the renewables are more than nukes info a few weeks ago too. I think this % issue is a very big bees nest some don't want discussed.
by lillymunster 1/24/2012 4:12:53 AM

Ohio gozaimasu all
by bo 1/24/2012 4:46:28 AM

Falling radiation allows for body search nearer to the plants: www.abc.net.au
by bo 1/24/2012 6:30:06 AM

弔
by bo 1/24/2012 7:49:06 AM

4.5 @ Fukushima, 50 km
by bo 1/24/2012 9:12:05 AM

Enenews is putting up "breaking news" that rad levels have spiked all throughout Tokyo after yesterday's quake. And there was the one today. enenews.com
by bo 1/24/2012 10:57:06 AM

"Tokyo to be hit by a major quake 'within next few years'" (Kaori Kaneko) www.independent.co.uk
by Pedro Jesus 1/24/2012 11:05:27 AM

@bo Do you know what type of radiation those instruments referred to in Enenews' report measure? There has been a recent spike in solar activity early on Monday, according to some science blog I came across today. It might be related.
by Pedro Jesus 1/24/2012 11:22:07 AM

@Pedro Jesus there are charts if you follow the links
by bo 1/24/2012 11:23:23 AM

Morning-afternoon-evening.

The quakes around Fukushima seem to be taking on a similar pattern again of frequent 4-5 mag over a few days.

There was also a report from Yokohama of the same rad spikes. This is the graph with details. guregoro.sakura.ne.jp

Maybe we can translate the chart to get an idea?
by lillymunster via Guregoro.sakura.ne.jp 1/24/2012 11:25:04 AM