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and a pretty chart from them www.tepco.co.jp

@dean that is interesting. Does the unevenness represent the partial melt or that the corium actually lumped to one side?

www.oecd-nea.org write up

We have not had much luck finding locations of sensors along a horizontal axis. If we could find some reference for that for the sensor that was heating up we could take a guess at where fuel might have melted through the shrou
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@eyes that is going to make her coffee bitter

KK plant was caught in a 5.7 quake ...as with Fuku last year there are no reports of damage

MAP 5.6 2012/02/08 12:01:38 37.838 138.099 9.7 NEAR THE WEST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

@lillymunster I found the fact Steve Herman has been quake tracking all morning intriguing, he tracks but not quite on the scale that he is tracking today. And just an obsevation ..Iceland is also shaking up at the other end of the plate they share with the northern tip of Japan

Utilities to adopt vent system for pressurized water reactors mdn.mainichi.jp

High radiation detected near water storage tank at Fukushima plant english.kyodonews.jp

@lillymunster they have churned out 8pdf's so far today I will go see if tank mentioned

Nuke dangers nowhere near resolved: Kan's crisis adviser www.japantimes.co.jp

greetings to every one

@dean morning Dean!

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German power exports to France increasing

The current cold spell in Europe is having an effect on international power exports. On the one hand, demand for heat has skyrocketed, but the clear skies also ensure that photovoltaics reaches relatively high peaks for the winter around noon. www.renewablesinternational.net

UK briefly to be France's main power imports source

* French power demand to reach new record high on Monday

* French, German hourly prices fixed at same price

* Europe power demand up 5,000 MW per 1 degree Celsius drop

PARIS, Feb 6 (Reuters) - France will for the first time import more electricity from Britain than from its long-standing partner Germany at peak time on Monday as the Germans are forced to retain spare generation during icy weather, the French energy minister said on Monday.

"For the first time, the United Kingdom and not Germany is the main country which provides us with electricity imports," Energy Minister Eric Besson told reporters at the French electricity network control centre.

Germany shut down eight of its oldest nuclear reactors last year in the aftermath of Japan's nuclear crisis and the current cold weather is putting Germany's tighter supply balance to the test for the first time since then.

At 1800 GMT on Monday, when French electricity consumption is forecast to reach a new record high as users return home and switch on electric heaters, lighting and cooking equipment, France is expected to import 200 megawatts (MW) more from the UK than from Germany, data from grid operator RTE showed.

"The worst case scenario would be if the German network encounters problems, but this is unlikely as Germans mainly use gas for heating," Besson added.

France, the world's most reliant country on nuclear energy, is forecast to import around 6,500 MW on Monday evening, after subtracting exports to Switzerland, including 2,000 MW drawn from Britain and 1,800 MW from Germany.

French power traders said this was an unusual situation but explained that when electricity prices fixed on the EPEX Spot exchange for certain hourly blocks are at the same level, transmission flows drop.
www.reuters.com