Japan Earthquake

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Btw, report from 2010: Nuclear Energy Loses Cost Advantage
by Ian 1/27/2012 3:05:44 AM

@Ian you can actually see in the photo of tepco doc you linked earlier that the water level in the well seems lower than that in the pool.
by Peter 1/27/2012 3:08:15 AM

@lillymunster, doesn't look like the people around the shroud there are too worried about dose.
by Ian edited by IanGoddard 1/27/2012 3:10:04 AM

This explains the shroud replace at unit 3 along with the decontamination procedures done and some dates for time frame reference www.jnes.go.jp
by lillymunster 1/27/2012 3:13:45 AM

Unit 3 went into outage in May and had decontamination work done from June 29 to July 6 meaning they had all the gear and fuel out before June 29. So 1-2 months to get to that point depending on the May shutdown date
by lillymunster 1/27/2012 3:18:07 AM

@Ian, here is the pic I meant. i1214.photobucket.com
by Peter via I1214.photobucket 1/27/2012 3:20:59 AM

Unit 4 was shut down for a routine, planned maintenance outage on 30 November 2010. After the outage, all fuel from the reactor was transferred to the spent fuel pool. my.firedoglake.com
by lillymunster 1/27/2012 3:21:51 AM

Unit 4 was in a 105-day-long maintenance outage at the time of the earthquake and there is no fuel in the reactor.” diggingintheclay.wordpress.com
by lillymunster 1/27/2012 3:22:32 AM

They were 102 days into the 105 day maintenance outage.
by lillymunster 1/27/2012 3:25:37 AM

Past 3,500 years saw seven M9s www.japantimes.co.jp
by Mid Valley 1/27/2012 3:31:15 AM

@lillymunster, Tepco doesn't mention the Nov 30 unloading www.tepco.co.jp But then doesn't mention anything about Fuku Daiichi in 2010.
by Ian 1/27/2012 3:37:26 AM

@Ian this is driving me crazy. Elaine found an outage date schedule and time frame for shroud on each unit. I know I have a copy of it and can't find it.
by lillymunster 1/27/2012 3:42:40 AM

The November 2010 date sounds about right though. I remembered it was before the 1st of the year.
by lillymunster 1/27/2012 3:43:33 AM

Japan May Avoid Electricity-Saving Even If No Reactors Operating e.nikkei.com

WOW!
by lillymunster 1/27/2012 3:45:33 AM

@lillymunster, I found that Unit 4 was built by Hitachi, and so may not have had the safer shroud that Toshiba makes.
by Ian 1/27/2012 3:48:58 AM

I will probably wake up and remember something in the middle of the night. :-) Off to catch some sleep
by lillymunster 1/27/2012 3:57:28 AM

National Day of Remembrance for America’s Downwinders #1
by bo 1/27/2012 12:09:31 PM

National Day of Remembrance for America’s Downwinders #2
by bo 1/27/2012 12:11:54 PM

National Day of Remembrance for America’s Downwinders #3
by bo 1/27/2012 12:12:35 PM

About this last one. It is a revictimization. The 1953 test Harry (dubbed Dirty Harry by the downwinders) absolutely plastered St. George, Utah with fallout. This is the only test after which the AEC told the people of St. George to take shelter, although long after the danger had passed. In order to pacify the distressed citizens, the AEC told them that they had done so well, that a film would be made to show how perfectly the warning and shelter had gone, and the people of St. George could be in the movie. This is a clip of that film. They are re-enacting their exposure, but as a good thing. One participant in the film later noted that 4 out of 5 of those who appeared in the film were dead of cancer by the end of the decade.
by bo 1/27/2012 12:15:36 PM

Panel: Search for nuclear waste dump could last up to 20 years www.cnn.com
by Peter 1/27/2012 12:18:30 PM

Morning-afternoon-evening!

@Bo, is there info on test Harry in the videos? I had not heard of that one.
by lillymunster 1/27/2012 12:52:19 PM

Panel to issue final investigation report on nuclear crisis in July mdn.mainichi.jp
by lillymunster 1/27/2012 12:55:41 PM

CNN is finally picking up on the issues in Japan. Yesterday they did a piece on the animal rescuers. Now today one on Matsumura, the guy still in Tomioka taking care of the place and stray animals www.cnn.com

Then one on spent fuel. Interesting that CNN and NYT have picked back up on this
by lillymunster 1/27/2012 1:06:30 PM

Considering live blogging the spent fuel NRC public meeting on the 31st.
by lillymunster 1/27/2012 1:10:59 PM

ajw.asahi.com Road map released for Fukushima decontamination
by lillymunster 1/27/2012 1:13:49 PM

Edano not banking on nuclear energy this summer ajw.asahi.com
by lillymunster 1/27/2012 1:14:40 PM

Flooding the containments with seawater created uranyl peroxide compounds that will enhance the corrosion of the fuel and increase the oceanic spread of radiation beyond what had been known to be possible before www.physorg.com
by Ian 1/27/2012 1:18:53 PM

Uranyl peroxide enhanced nuclear fuel corrosion in seawater

The Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear accident brought together compromised irradiated fuel and large amounts of seawater in a high radiation field. Based on newly acquired thermochemical data for a series of uranyl peroxide compounds containing charge-balancing alkali cations, here we show that nanoscale cage clusters containing as many as 60 uranyl ions, bonded through peroxide and hydroxide bridges, are likely to form in solution or as precipitates under such conditions. These species will enhance the corrosion of the damaged fuel and, being thermodynamically stable and kinetically persistent in the absence of peroxide, they can potentially transport uranium over long distances.

www.pnas.org
by Ian 1/27/2012 1:20:13 PM

cdn.physorg.com

These spherical clusters are made up of uranium and oxygen atoms. New work shows that in seawater, they can remain stable in solution or as nanoparticles. Credit: Ginger Sigmon, University of Notre Dame
by Ian via Cdn.physorg 1/27/2012 1:21:46 PM

POWER TO THE PEOPLE: Japan can survive without nuclear energy ajw.asahi.com
by lillymunster 1/27/2012 1:23:07 PM

@Ian trying to interpret what the study means for fallout. That maybe they should be testing for this uranium product? How would it show up on testing? Like normal uranium?
by lillymunster 1/27/2012 1:24:32 PM