Posted on 03/15/2011 8:13:35 AM PDT by SE Mom
Latest news from Japan:
From the BBC-
1456: Tepco says it may start pouring water from a helicopter over Fukushima Daiichi's reactor four in the next few days, to cool the spent-fuel pool.
1439: A 30km (18 mile) no-fly zone is in place around Fukushima, says the IAEA.
1436: The IAEA says Monday's blast at Fukushima may have affected the integrity of the containment vessel - there are fears of more serious radioactive leaks if happen.
1435: Following earlier reports, it appears there has been more than one strong aftershock in Japan - AP reports two tremors measuring over 6.0 within three minutes of each other.
Twitter-
-US Geological Survey counts 451 aftershocks since the initial earthquake struck Japan Friday. 238 of them registered magnitude 5.0 or more.
-Despite situations in Japan & Libya, spksmn Jay Carney says Pres Obama's 5-day trip to Brazil, Chile & El Salvador starting Fri night is on.
-FLASH: More U.S. military personnel in Japan testing positive for low-levels of radiation, relief missions to continue - Navy 18 minutes ago via web
Oh, boy....
bmp
Thank You for the information this thread has provided.
BTTT
The report was about the efforts to drop water using helicopters.
I'm not sure what they were so emotional about. It could have been something they were told or just everything starting to overwhelm their emotions.
What I’ve been trying to find out is how does time play into this. It’s been a week now, and it’s bad, but nothing horrible like Chernobyl.
Is this going to get worse as time goes by or is it going to get better?
I think everyone knows what has happened. Now, what can happen and when?
What I’ve been trying to find out is how does time play into this. It’s been a week now, and it’s bad, but nothing horrible like Chernobyl.
Is this going to get worse as time goes by or is it going to get better?
I think everyone knows what has happened. Now, what can happen and when?
That really is a scary site. The Mox fuel station looks the worst
http://links.visibli.com/links/d1066b
“This government is useless,” Masako Kitajima, a Tokyo office worker in her 50s, said as radiation levels ticked up in the city of around 12 million people, more than 200 km south of the nuclear plant where officials battled to avert disaster.
Tokyo resident Masashi Yoshida, 53, agreed.
When asked for his assessment of the government’s performance, he replied: “It’s been awful.”
“They’ve been giving information far too late. They should have consulted with other countries and experts. They tried too hard to do it all themselves. I think they panicked themselves, and couldn’t think straight. Japan would be better off if we went without politicians for 10 years.”
Even the local mayor of a town close to the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex complained that the government had failed to keep his office updated on the situation.
It’s getting worse.
Keep in mind those rods are going to keep building up pressure that has to be relieved.
One more bad earthquake around that plant and it might all be over.
TEPCO has set up a twitter account (or whatever it’s called). http://twitter.com/OfficialTEPCO
Babelfish translation:
“It is the official account of Tokyo Electric Power. Today is that electric power demand is rather many, but somehow it could overcome with cooperation of everyone. Thank you. We ask may even from tomorrow;Concerning plan power failure this.”
Looks like it’s going to be useless for non-Japanese speakers but maybe someone will find otherwise.
TEPCO has released video shot from SDF helicopter on March 16, 4pm, of Fukushima reactors http://youtu.be/lBXqiw6EJUk
true or not true..I don’t know:
The pools “contain very large concentrations of radioactivity, can catch fire, and are in much more vulnerable buildings,” he warns. If the pools lose their inflow of circulating cooling water, the water in the pools will evaporate. If the level of water drops to five or six feet above the spent fuel, Alvarez calculates, the release of radioactivity “could be life-threatening near the reactor building.” Since the total amount of long-lived radioactivity in the pool is at least five times that in the reactor core, a catastrophic release would mean “all bets are off,” he says.
Of particular concern: cesium-137 in the pool, at levels Alvarez estimates at 20 million to 50 million curies. The 1986 Chernobyl accident released about 40 percent of the reactor core’s 6 million curies. In a 1997 report for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory estimated that a severe pool fire—made possible by the loss of cooling water—could leave about 188 square miles uninhabitable and cause up to 28,000 cancer deaths.
You would think they’d be able to calculate how much the temp is rising per hour and figure out some estimates of critical timing.
What are the problems? Why would another earthquake be bad? They aleady don’t have power.
It seems there are no risk analysis being done (or they aren’t getting out to the public).
Should more people be evacuating out of there for a little while until the plant is stabilized?
It’s my whole dissatisfaction with the news of this whole event.
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Japan a robot power everywhere except at nuclear plant
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFLDE72G00Y20110317?sp=true
Has anyone wondered where the HOLLYWOOD LIBS are in this disaster. They were all over the internet and TV about Haiti?
Following their dear Leader, who also has no interest in this crisis!
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