Japan says may seek direct U.S. military help to cool reactors
And if they do that. Guess who the military is going to call on ...
What can I say?
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
Boy was I wrong, that's total dose. Once they work, for example 250 hours at 1 mS/hour (1,000 uS/hour), they are done, find another job. Mea culpa.
Maybe there is a reason it started snowing day before yesterday. Gives the clean up workers more time to find the dead, both people and farm animals.
We were all reeling from one more punch at these poor people (earthquakes, tsunami, no food, no heat, no water, then SNOW), maybe it wasn’t a punch at all.
But the containment vessels have held through the other earthquake, and subsequent earthquakes are going to be not as bad.
The only problem I see is with the spent fuel rods that were not in containment vessels.
has anyone heard a number given for the radiation level in the air filtration for Chicago or the other flight
That Japan flight is a long one.
“But the containment vessels have held through the other earthquake, and subsequent earthquakes are going to be not as bad..”
You can’t be sure of either parts of those statements.
Also, there is stress going on inside that containment vessel.
What if there is a different amount of stress going on at the time another quake hits in a structure that probably already has stress damage.
Too many variables to think nothing could happen now since it hasn’t already happened IF it hasn’t happened.
You can’t believe TEPCO.
where is that counter? I saw it blip into the 60s
Japan says may seek direct U.S. military help to cool reactors
And if they do that. Guess who the military is going to call on ...
What can I say?
I heard about that too- Trace Gallagher on Shep’s show reported it and of course wikileaks has done a doc dump as well.
lol. Yah “what if” becomes a way of life after a while doesn’t it?
Santa Monica, Ca
It’s fun. Until you get hit with an event that you brought up but management refused to fund.
I noticed it does that sometimes. It goes up high in 60’s and 70’s for a second and then falls back down to the 30’s & 40’s.
I don’t trust TEPCO. I just think earthquake damage is not going to be the big issue. The largest aftershock could be around an 8, and that is so much less than a 9. I’m just not concerned about that.
Other issues I’m concerned about.
Engineers at Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant have successfully connected a power line to reactor 2, the UN’s nuclear watchdog reports.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12779512
Any word on what kind of shape the pumps are in?
Thanks in advance to anybody who’s heard.
I wonder what Glenn Beck was talking about re: the book “Physics for Future Presidents” — he said there’s something on page 167 that has to do with Chernobyl that we all should know and he will discuss tomorrow.
Of course, I will be at work.
placemark
Good blog at New Scientist here:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/03/nuclear-crisis-radioactive-fue.html
Worried about SFP at dai-ichi #4, “recriticality” which the blog points out should not have happened.
Kyodonews on recriticality at dai-ichi #4:
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/78393.html
I am not certain how TEPCO could have been allowed to store fuel rods in the SFPs in such a manner as to permit recriticality under any conceivable circumstances...
I’m thinking we should start a LIVE thread just for RESCUE and Help operations....your post was what I’ve been wondering about..what do you think?
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