Posted on 03/17/2011 10:14:24 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
New Power Line Installed At Fukushima Daiichi Plant: Govt
TOKYO (Nikkei)--Japanese officials have installed cables to supply electricity from Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s (9506) power grid to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a step they hope will help inject water more efficiently into the facility's crippled reactors that are at the center of Japan's nuclear crisis, the government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said at a news conference Thursday night.
Officials will try to connect the cable to the plant's No. 2 reactor on Friday, the agency said.
The No. 2 reactor's containment vessel was partly damaged in its pressure suppression chamber. The reactor building is emitting vapor deemed to have originated from spent nuclear fuel's storage pools into the air.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501), which operates the plant, will try to restart the No. 2 reactor's cooling system Friday by using the power supply from Tohoku Electric, officials said.
(The Nikkei March 17 online edition)
You've got that right.
10,000++ dead or missing - Meh...
Tens of billions of dollars of damage - Who cares...
People that have lost their homes and all their worldly possessions - Whatever...
Whole villages, towns, and cities wiped off the map - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...
Roads, railroads, bridges wiped out - Huh?...
Nuclear Radiation - Extra! Extra! Read all about it!!
Our media is so screwed up, it isn't funny.
“will get boring fairly quickly”
As relates to problems such as nuclear melt downs... I could go for a real big helping of boring right now.
Wow, thanks for posting the pics. It’s really mindblowing to see the damage.
There are seven days worth of photos here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42034875/ns/news-picture_stories/displaymode/1247/?beginSlide=1
I agree there is so much focused on those reactors many are forgetting this was a 100 year event tragedy...
What is going on in Japan is bigger than those reactors and spent fuel rod pools.
Much obliged.
I doubt I'm the only one. I strongly suspect that the lawyers in the flood of lawsuits are going to be asking these very questions, at least, if not the govt cya bureaucrats.
Oh...I don’t know...
You might start with the before and after of Sendai Airport
http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm
An answered prayer.
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