Quake hits eastern Japan, nuclear plant stable

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[justa-hairyape]

Another quake right off the coast just south of Fukushima. 16:45 JST M 4.4

[justa-hairyape]

The New Years quake was south of Tokyo. Closer to Tokyo then to Fukushima. Here is a video showing the ground movement at Fukushima during that quake. Quake is at the 1:30 to 1:31 mark. Have been bookmarking these events.

2012.01.01 14:00-15:00 (Live Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cam)

[Ronin]

Gee thanks, fella...

Now why don’t you come over here and rock me to sleep tonight?

[Razzz42]

If I get a chance I will try and find some pics for the remodeling of supports under #4 pool. It was one of the first things TEPCO planned and accomplished since they couldn’t get near the cores and what was left of the (3) reactors to do anything about them other than pour water on them.

“How Much Spent Nuclear Fuel Does the Fukushima Daiichi Facility Hold?”
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nuclear-fuel-fukushima
March 17, 2011
“The spent fuel pools are of significant concern, Marvin Resnikoff, a radioactive waste management consultant, said in a Wednesday press briefing organized by the nonprofit organization Physicians for Social Responsibility. Resnikoff noted that the pools at each reactor are thought to have contained the following amounts of spent fuel, according to The Mainichi Daily News:

• Reactor No. 1: 50 tons of nuclear fuel
• Reactor No. 2: 81 tons
• Reactor No. 3: 88 tons
• Reactor No. 4: 135 tons
• Reactor No. 5: 142 tons
• Reactor No. 6: 151 tons
• Also, a separate ground-level fuel pool contains 1,097 tons of fuel; and some 70 tons of nuclear materials are kept on the grounds in dry storage.

The reactor cores themselves contain less than 100 tons of fuel, Resnikoff noted.”

[justa-hairyape]

Also, here is a current list of quakes in Japan. You can keep track on that very informative page. I have been checking the resulting ground movement from each 3.5 to 6.8 quake that has happened near Fukushima. Fukushima has experienced a very unusual amount of ground motion today. But it looks like Japan has the luck of the wind today. Keeping those mongols out to sea :>

Japan Earthquake Information

[justa-hairyape]

Sorry dude, during at least a dozen things right now.

[justa-hairyape]

You may have missed it, but Japan and TEPCO has reported that the CV for one of the reactors at Fukushima Plant 2, has a crack in it caused by the earthquake. Do not know if they meant the RPV or the CV. My guess is the CV. They also had a small fire reported over there in the first week.

[justa-hairyape]

That latest quake only caused very tiny ground motion at Fukushima. 16:45 JST M 4.4. Just checked the TEPCO camera video log for that hour. Also, those colored circles on the Japanese Earthquake maps tell you how much ground motion was reported at that location from that quake.

[AmericanInTokyo]

You can say that again

[lefty-lie-spy]

That’s a great site. I check it daily too. There is also a nice iPhone app called Quakes that is chock full of information on ever quake worldwide.

[justa-hairyape]

Good evening. Just had two more last hour that were somewhat close to Fukushima, but they were very small (4.0 and 4.1). Will check the TEPCO video archive for the past hour when it becomes available in a few minutes. Probably not much more movement at Fukushima. They seem to be moving closer to shore and are about 1 to 1.5 magnitudes higher then the past few days.

[driftdiver]

Unprecedented? hysterics are fun but not really helpful

[driftdiver]

“Kinda interesting that nuclear power was promoted as not affecting global warming when the entire function of these particular Japanese plants is to generate heat. Think about that one for awhile.”

LOL you said a whole lot with that statement but I doubt it was what you intended.

[justa-hairyape]

Without heat, those Japanese plants are worthless. Like someone else tried to point out quite a while ago, there must be a better way to boil water :> And the result is that they are heating the ocean.

[driftdiver]

As idiotic as global warming proponents are I don’t think I’ve ever heard one suggest its cause was due to the boiling of water.

No, they blame the use of energy generally from sources which involve the burning of fossil fuels. Nuclear power does use steam to turn turbines to generate electricity. That steam is not released into the ocean, nor is the ocean ever heated.

There is not a better way to boil water. Nuclear energy is cleaner and more efficient than any other method of generating electricity. The key lesson to learn from this event is that nuclear power plants need to be modernized. Anti-nuclear zealots have made it so difficult to build new plants that obsolete plants like Fukishima remain in use.

[mewzilla]

Continuing prayers for the people of Japan.

[justa-hairyape]

The plants are cooled by seawater. The steam that drives the turbines ends up condensing to very hot water. That water needs to be cooled somehow. They use circulating seawater to cool the internal water. Unless of course the reactor is melting down and they are injecting seawater from a fire hose. Just trying to point out that heat is what these plants are all about. Some plants also have huge cooling towers that release massive amounts of water vapor. That vapor is the dominant green house gas. So that was the deal the Green Mafia made with the Nuclear Mafia. And global warming has nothing at all to do with anything. It is all about the green paper in our wallets. Or the green paper that used to be in our wallets.

[driftdiver]

ummm not quite that simple

water vapor is a green house gas!!!!!!???

thank you for discrediting anything and everything you’ll ever post.

[justa-hairyape]

We need that wind to keep blowing out to sea. Of course that means we will see some of it here in the states, but it will be diluted by the time it gets here. You can monitor local radiation levels in Japan at the link below. It shows radiation exposure (not contamination) around the Fukushima Plant that just got a little bit shaken up. These levels have been holding steady for a few days now. We will find out about any fallout contamination from this shaker in a few days.

Environmental Radioactivity Monitoring Center of Fukushima

[justa-hairyape]

Of course it is. You must not read any AGW threads here. Water vapor is the dominant green house gas.