Japan Earthquake

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@dean the Soviets had them all over and abandoned them when the Soviet Union fell. Now they are trying to locate them all because nobody has an accurate map. englishrussia.com
by lillymunster 2/9/2012 1:40:37 AM

@dean from Lillis wiki link en.wikipedia.org they are "A radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG, RITEG) is an electrical generator that obtains its power from radioactive decay."
by RonD 2/9/2012 1:49:01 AM

@dean they had what they referred to as a reactor but they looked like the plutonium battery they used in space probes.
by lillymunster 2/9/2012 1:53:26 AM

@Ron and lilly.. I'm familiar with the RTG's, they typically use Pu238 as a
"heat source" which is placed strategically around dielectric metals and the heat produces a current which then in turn drives the lights and motors for the beacons..
by dean 2/9/2012 1:54:08 AM

New nuclear reactors set to be OK'd for Georgia money.cnn.com
by Peter 2/9/2012 1:54:49 AM

If crops are not planted a field could be considered abandoned and not a priority for decontamination efforts by the govt. www.tokyo-np.co.jp
by lillymunster 2/9/2012 1:59:23 AM

@dean the ones in the lighthouses run on stronium 90
by lillymunster 2/9/2012 2:00:11 AM

LOL - tweet from Iori who runs Fukushima Diary:

Angama_Market The Father
2 from 8 am until noon on the 14th, I will ruin your Valentine's Day on the radio.
by lillymunster 2/9/2012 2:07:40 AM

@lillymunster what is that about the crops???????? I darent go to bed you giving me multiple nighmares and I not in bed yet
by elainekirk 2/9/2012 2:11:43 AM

ap1000.westinghousenuclear.com animation on AP1000 reactors... seems like no human intervention for accidents until 72 hours..plent of time to catch a salad before coming back to the crisis
by dean 2/9/2012 2:13:19 AM

@elainekirk poorly thought out policy. If a field isn't tilled or growing something the local govt. would consider it abandoned thus no need to decontaminate it. Hoping the media thwacks whomever wrote it. There is another effort to stop farmers from planting in certain areas because they know the crops would be over the new limit. I hope they get it all straightened out before spring.
by lillymunster 2/9/2012 2:14:04 AM

@lillymunster sounds like gov playing to tepco's tune and saving some compensation
by elainekirk 2/9/2012 2:24:51 AM

www.ncwarn.org A REPORT FOR THE OVERSIGHT GROUP.. by FAIRWINDS ASSOCIATES, INC..
by dean 2/9/2012 2:29:06 AM

THIS is an oversight report for the NEW AP1000 reactor
by dean 2/9/2012 2:29:26 AM

@lillymunster if you ever have the time to put a dounraey story together I will love to spread it have you seen the tweet?
by elainekirk 2/9/2012 2:43:31 AM

Simply-Info @SimplyInfo1

£4,500 million and 40-60yrs to clean up radioactive wastes at Dounreay, Scotland - - figures on page 21 www.highland.gov.uk
by elainekirk 2/9/2012 2:44:08 AM

@elainekirk is that the place where they keep finding radiation on the beach? They have quite the grand plan to clean it up and turn it into something else? How badly contaminated is it?
by lillymunster 2/9/2012 2:54:14 AM

New testing results for nuclides inside unit 2. Dean needs to see this when he stops back www.tepco.co.jp
by lillymunster 2/9/2012 2:59:37 AM

What is bothering me is the 'xenon below detectable limits' from the stand-by gas treatment system. It's designed to operate under negative pressure, which it doesn't have now. The gasses are drawn with exhaust fans, and I wonder if they work. Tepco could lie by omission by not mentioning that the fans didn't work. Even if they are operational, if there're leaks down low where the pipes egress, are the filters actually capturing the majority of isotopes? Xenon is about 5X the density of air.
by M.I.A. 2/9/2012 4:26:03 AM

Emails from NRC's Conflicts on 3/11 Fukushima Nuclear Emergency fukushima-diary.com
by MaryW 2/9/2012 5:07:37 AM

www.iaea.org of RTG decommissioning, work management and main results of international cooperation in this sphere
by dean 2/9/2012 5:33:10 AM

Thanks, Elaine, I don't know what's going on with my moderator account on Scribble but it doesn't allow me to reopen this event. I restarted it, then something happened and it closed again and after that the restart button never appeared again. I sent a ticket to Scribble support.
by Pedro Jesus 2/9/2012 10:29:59 AM

there is another pdf here showing a 5am temp of 70.6 www.tepco.co.jp
by elainekirk 2/9/2012 10:32:00 AM

By the way, the earthquake in Portugal was a 3.0 at 8 o'clock GMT, 25km from the south-western coastal city Aljezur. No reported damage.
by Pedro Jesus 2/9/2012 10:32:35 AM

And I'm sorry to hear about Southern Co... it seems the US has another spell of new nuclear reactors coming up to haunt them.

@elainekirk I didn't feel a thing. It was far away from where I live, about 160km north-west from here.
by Pedro Jesus edited by Pedro Jesus 2/9/2012 10:35:51 AM

@Pedro Jesus I have made you editor see if that works :)
by elainekirk 2/9/2012 10:36:20 AM

We will have to wait until the event closes again. Unless you want me to try it out now. Only difference I saw was being able to set up a new event. I had limited editing clearance already. I think it might be a bug. Sometimes I can restart this event, some other times the button doesn't show up.
by Pedro Jesus 2/9/2012 10:39:09 AM

I think The Independent website is under DOS attack.
by Pedro Jesus 2/9/2012 11:11:47 AM

@elainekirk DOS stands for Denial Of Service. It's a very common cyber warfare technique that uses multiple computers (previously infected with software designed to give partial or total control of the hijacked computer to a hacker) to send multiple page requests in order to overflow a specific server. Such attacks usually bring servers (and the websites there stored) down for a certain amount of time, preventing any users from accessing data.
by Pedro Jesus 2/9/2012 11:17:35 AM

I could be wrong, but I suspect The Independent news agency's server is under attack. It's the first time I've had Service Temporarily Unavailable errors from that server and I just got 5 of them from different pages. Weird.
by Pedro Jesus 2/9/2012 11:20:28 AM

@Pedro Jesus I went for a look at the site and the page comes up jumbly where lines are partly obscured by other lines iykwim
by elainekirk 2/9/2012 11:21:36 AM