Japan Earthquake

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@Edano It is presented many places as a solution to "eat up" the massive spent fuel piles.
by lillymunster 2/2/2012 7:17:34 PM

Oh Ian, your famous. :-) This twitter account is talking quite a bit about your radiation video. Translated to English
Cmk2Wl Cmk2Wl
Ian Goddard TV announcer, "low-dose radiation risk not confirmed. Unverified" was broadcast many times. Far from the press informing the truth is that low-dose radiation risk model trying to believe does not exist.
by lillymunster 2/2/2012 7:18:46 PM

I need one more Fukushima conspiracy theory for my Fuku - Bingo card. Anyone know a really out there one?
by lillymunster 2/2/2012 7:19:45 PM

@lillymunster You've got the '*** quake caused by Zionists'1 I take it? Can't remember the argument why...
by UKVal 2/2/2012 7:22:40 PM

@UKVal ooh I have not heard that one? What was it?
by lillymunster 2/2/2012 7:30:46 PM

@Edano your photoshop skills could use some fine tuning. :-D
by lillymunster 2/2/2012 7:36:53 PM

@lillymunster to be honest I switched off as it was clearly rubbish.. something about a deal between the US & Japan to develop nuclear weapons as a defence against N Korea & the US wanting to destroy the evidence...
by UKVal 2/2/2012 7:39:22 PM

"The International Geodynamic Monitoring System, a part of GNFE (London, UK), has registered on November 15, 2011 a powerful energy release emanating from the Earth’s core........ccording to the scientist, this fact may herald intensification of geodynamic processes in our planet and as a result, a higher number of strong earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis." theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com
by UKVal 2/2/2012 7:41:57 PM

I can always make changes. I save the file.
by lillymunster via Houseoffoust 2/2/2012 7:49:36 PM

@UKVal a challenge to your sanity by having run into enough of this to make Bingo? :-)
by lillymunster 2/2/2012 7:56:27 PM

Maybe a bottle of aspirin and a 6 pack of decent beer?
by lillymunster 2/2/2012 7:57:48 PM

@lillymunster think you need to double both beer & aspirin
by UKVal 2/2/2012 7:59:23 PM

@UKVal 12 pack and warehouse club sized bucket of asprin :-)
by lillymunster 2/2/2012 8:01:59 PM

Fairly quiet. Officials announced that unit 5's pipes did not meet 2006 quake standards and TEPCo never did any updates to pipes or support structures for them after that new standard was sent out. Link to our story www.simplyinfo.org
by lillymunster 2/2/2012 8:47:33 PM

Good article just proving the self imposed assumption that we have to have the power at the expense of the seismic qualifications of the plants
by dean 2/2/2012 8:52:34 PM

@dean between this and the 2007 requested changes that were never done it points to the lack of safety being mandatory as a major contributor to the accident. It also does not bode well for the durability of the pipes in the other older units. I think that admission adds to the 'quake did it" theory
by lillymunster 2/2/2012 8:55:19 PM

@lilly it's a very good possibility. Seems like every country approaches nuclear regulation differently and as can be seen in Japan, when safety is not placed to the top these horrible accidents will see the impacts
by dean 2/2/2012 8:58:49 PM

@lilly.. I would have rather seen something like, they don't meet the intent of the requirements after analyses were performed but they did show how they could mitigate the damages by some other way.... none of that has been found. Current analyses are performed with such sophisticated computers now days that they are bound to find a problem with how accidents are currently accessed and handled in the TSR. If a modification cannot be done for any reason there must be an alternative to not increase the accident probability
by dean 2/2/2012 9:02:02 PM

In addition, what we don't see (at least I haven't seen an example) are power level restrictions placed on operations until such time as the mitigation is taken care of. Reducing the power at which they operate clearly is the preferred way because the accident damage is put back into the acceptable range (most analyses assume the full power operation capability of the facility).
by dean 2/2/2012 9:04:37 PM

TEPCO was way behind in even running assessments of seismic impact. NISA was not pushing them. Everything was phrased as "in the future" they might do something.

by lillymunster 2/2/2012 9:04:45 PM

@dean US facilities have been applying for those uprates at a high rate. I see them in NRC emails all the time. Really a bad combo with the new quake info. What worries me is NRC's long timeline to get to the point of even knowing what is deficient. It would be a decade before they even began upgrades and fixes.
by lillymunster 2/2/2012 9:06:31 PM

results from Seismic analyses have huge cost implications to commercial reactor facilities and the point at which they cannot meet the more stringent requirements really makes the regulators perhaps accept the best they can from the utility companies
by dean 2/2/2012 9:07:30 PM

lucian.uchicago.edu @lilly, the web page of the seminar has used a post from simplyinfo.. they said they really liked the web page and information
by dean 2/2/2012 9:10:37 PM

@lillymunster @dean that is great news well done lilly!! and all !!
by elainekirk 2/2/2012 9:17:35 PM

Byron Nuclear Plant Outage Caused By Failed Insulator | SimplyInfo on Exelon: Failed insulator caused outage at Byron nuclear plant via Chicago Tribune
by dean 2/2/2012 9:17:58 PM

Ah! Thanks! my brain is failing at multi-tasking today. :-) I need more coffee,
by lillymunster 2/2/2012 9:21:43 PM

@lilly... on the web page of the symposium are some of the people who will be attending and some links to their organizations
by dean 2/2/2012 9:22:03 PM

Principal speakers will include Hiroaki Koide of the Kyoto University Reactor Research Institute, Ruiko Muto, an anti-nuclear activist based in Fukushima and a member of a citizens’ group, Hairo Action Fukushima, along with Robert Rosner, Astronomy & Astrophysics & Physics, University of Chicago (former Director of the Argonne National Laboratory), Bobbie Paul of Georgia WAND, and Jeffrey Patterson of Physicians for Social Responsibility, as respondents. Further details will be announced on this site.
by dean 2/2/2012 9:25:46 PM

want to learn more details of each of these @ lilly.. maybe we could get some help to find out who they are and some bullets on what they are focused on
by dean 2/2/2012 9:28:08 PM