Japan Earthquake

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Anything has to be better than the Keystone Kop Tepco operation. Truly shocks me...
by M.I.A. 1/30/2012 3:35:13 AM

No standards, many schools test food AFTER lunch. www.yomiuri.co.jp
by lillymunster 1/30/2012 3:35:41 AM

@M.I.A. Kan missed a major opportunity. He could have taken over the disaster with TEPCO playing a role. I am really surprised the corporation hasn't been delisted and seized.
by lillymunster 1/30/2012 3:37:27 AM

To big to fail? Bet politicians didn't want the taint of failure/desperation/expense associated with themselves or their party, either.
by M.I.A. 1/30/2012 3:39:39 AM

1000 radioactive substances in water at Fuku enenews.com
by lillymunster 1/30/2012 4:03:09 AM

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by lillymunster 1/30/2012 4:35:11 AM

Water leaks at 14 points at Fukushima complex mdn.mainichi.jp Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday water leaks from 14 points at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's facilities have been found, leading the operator to suspend the cooling of the spent fuel pool at its No. 4 reactor for two hours.

The leakage is believed to have been caused by freezing due to cold weather, and the leaked water included radioactively contaminated water that has been purified, the utility known as TEPCO said, adding the contamination level is low
by Mid Valley 1/30/2012 4:53:49 AM

From Jan. 27: TABLE-Japan nuclear plant ops (Shimane No.2 enters turnaround) af.reuters.com
by Mid Valley 1/30/2012 4:56:46 AM

@Mid Valley We talked on this blog about that very posibility- the cold causing problems with the jury-rigged piping. It appals and maddens me that we 'non-experts' can anticipate all these things (from the very beginning! even the melt-downs!) and the 'experts' can't??
by M.I.A. 1/30/2012 4:57:24 AM

@M.I.A. Look the other way... Keep news quite so not to put fear into the heart of the people. This practice adds up to disaster again and again.
by Mid Valley 1/30/2012 5:11:29 AM

@Mid Valley Yeah, but...it still makes me want to kick ass in a very real and bad way.
by M.I.A. 1/30/2012 5:13:20 AM

@M.I.A. right there with you.
by Mid Valley 1/30/2012 5:14:37 AM

@Mid Valley Yes, I know. I've become more radicalized with old age. The last few years, watching what's been happening in this world, I can't tune out and watch the flowers grow. :-(
by M.I.A. 1/30/2012 5:16:38 AM

Think I'll make a twitter account: OcuppyOldAge ;-)
by M.I.A. 1/30/2012 5:18:52 AM

*Occupy*
by M.I.A. 1/30/2012 5:19:14 AM

@Mid Valley Bless you for caring. These old bones off to bed. Goodnight!
by M.I.A. 1/30/2012 5:21:00 AM

@M.I.A. Sweet dreams!
by Mid Valley 1/30/2012 5:23:44 AM

Japan studies flora and fauna near Fukushima www.ndtv.com
by Mid Valley 1/30/2012 5:25:57 AM

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by Pedro Jesus 1/30/2012 8:06:39 AM

"No reports of damages as coastal Peru hit by quake" edition.cnn.com

"No tsunami warning[...]"
by Pedro Jesus 1/30/2012 8:10:32 AM

"Nuclear inspectors met by tension and protests in Iran" (Kim Sengupta) www.independent.co.uk
by Pedro Jesus 1/30/2012 8:27:48 AM

intakes for 5 + 6
by elainekirk 1/30/2012 11:05:45 AM

The end of an era globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com
by Peter 1/30/2012 11:06:46 AM

by Peter 1/30/2012 11:10:41 AM

@Peter So crazy to base everything on economic growth it cannot be infinite as they have learnt
by elainekirk 1/30/2012 11:35:00 AM

@elainekirk So true. I still don't understand the world's economic search for everlasting growth. It's impossible to achieve, according to the very elementary definition of economy.
by Pedro Jesus 1/30/2012 11:38:10 AM

@elainekirk , not a pic on the accident! I thought that may represent a turning point.
by Peter 1/30/2012 11:39:27 AM

@Peter @Pedro Jesus it is like the 'aid' for the 'third world' and Japan rushing to build power plants for them, it isn't anything to do with 'aid' and everything to do with turning them into consumers importing goods to enrich their 'benefactors'
by elainekirk 1/30/2012 11:45:17 AM

@elainekirk Well, there are two ways to see it, but the picture is basically the same. :/ Although I still think it better to power economic and industrial growth in third world developing countries with nuclear rather than with gas, diesel or coal, providing they use low or non-enriched nuclear fuel state-of-the-art reactor technologies.
by Pedro Jesus 1/30/2012 12:01:04 PM

@Pedro Jesus , here I believe that as long as the waste question is not resolved, even the safest plant will not do. Look at Sellafield: two-headed sheep and five-legged cows!
by Peter 1/30/2012 12:13:56 PM

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by lillymunster 1/30/2012 1:13:11 PM

Question about the NRC meeting tomorrow. Would people rather I live blog it on a separate page (I can create another temp scribble page) or do it here?
by lillymunster 1/30/2012 1:14:43 PM

@all. I have been thinking on the govt. contractor that held hostage the portable water pumps needed at Fukushima via USAID. This was the situation where the contractor jacked the price by over $8 million at the last minute during the emergency causing the DoD to have to jump in and buy them for USAID. I think it violates US truth in negotiation laws for govt. contractors in the US.
by lillymunster 1/30/2012 1:27:11 PM

Bechtel is #13 in federal contractor fraud to the tune of 378 million since 1995 www.contractormisconduct.org
by lillymunster 1/30/2012 1:42:05 PM

@ ALL; Thanks for all you do. I'm off to work. :( Ya'll Take care.
by Shadow 1/30/2012 1:53:58 PM

@Peter I totally agree with you. But the new reactor designs use depleted radioactive fuel so they can help offset that problem on the mid term. The big issue would be safe transportation.
by Pedro Jesus 1/30/2012 2:11:13 PM

@Pedro Jesus the new ones to being proposed in the US run on MOX. :-(
by lillymunster 1/30/2012 2:26:36 PM

@lillymunster Enriched or non-enriched?
by Pedro Jesus 1/30/2012 2:31:57 PM

@you the uranium part? All that is mentioned is that they can run on a core full of MOX. I would assume it is the same as the current MOX used in light water reactors. www.world-nuclear.org

These dont' run on any sort of depleted fuel. They run on the same variety currently being used or a MOX fuel
by lillymunster 1/30/2012 2:33:46 PM

@lillymunster So basically they're just upgrades of the same design that has been proven to fail consistently. Not good.
by Pedro Jesus 1/30/2012 2:45:40 PM

@Pedro Jesus this is why people are not happy that they are going ahead and building 2 of them. The design itself has issues. The water tank above the reactor creates a top heavy problem and I have yet to see any claims on how long that gravity cooling would be able to run before it is out. There are still concerns about the containment structure. It is modular meaning it has seams and there are design issues that make it prone to considerable cracking in an accident.
by lillymunster 1/30/2012 3:02:41 PM

This is lovely (not). US has been sending out nuclear fuel to other countries that we are obligated to take back. So not only does the US need to figure out what to do with our fuel we need to figure out what to do with all the fuel we sold to other countries!

Russia has a long history of reprocessing spent fuel for military purposes, and previously planned to reprocess imported spent fuel, possibly including some of the 33,000 metric tons of spent fuel accumulated at sites in other countries who received fuel from the U.S., which the U.S. originally pledged to take back, such as Brazil, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, Mexico, Slovenia, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the European Union.
en.wikipedia.org
by lillymunster 1/30/2012 3:03:56 PM

@lillymunster yuk and they want to continue producing it ..madness
by elainekirk 1/30/2012 3:14:52 PM

@elainekirk I like the idea others suggested, that reactor operators can't get a license without a proven plan in place to deal with the waste.
by lillymunster 1/30/2012 3:19:19 PM