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Japan: New Power Line Installed At Fukushima Daiichi Plant: Govt
Nikkei ^ | 03/17/11

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)


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cooling; energy; fukushima; nuclear; powercable; reactor
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1 posted on 03/17/2011 10:14:31 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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2 posted on 03/17/2011 10:15:10 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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That would an interesting project to work on say the least.


3 posted on 03/17/2011 10:19:49 AM PDT by Perdogg (What Would Aqua Buddha do?)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Good! It should be very exciting when the pumps kick on, but will get boring fairly quickly once a steady water supply is insured.


4 posted on 03/17/2011 10:30:34 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 785 of our national holiday from reality. - It's 3 AM somewhere)
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Man... Imagine powering that thing back up and all the alarms and sirens going off and sensor failures and warning lamps and computers rebooting into lord knows what state....

What a mess.


5 posted on 03/17/2011 10:31:40 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
a line to one reactor??? So when they going to get a line to the other 5 reactors and what? 4 power plants?

Jeeze, it takes 5-7 days to run an electric line over there? Isn't this complex on a bay that they could run a ship in there and leach off of the ships power plants? or is that not enough?

6 posted on 03/17/2011 10:32:12 AM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (Insane, Corrupt Democrats or Stupid, Spinless Republicans - Pick America's poison.)
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and the line is jsut run? it won’t be hooked up til tomorrow? Man they’re slow.


7 posted on 03/17/2011 10:33:49 AM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (Insane, Corrupt Democrats or Stupid, Spinless Republicans - Pick America's poison.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Hope this works out for them.


8 posted on 03/17/2011 10:35:41 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: sam_paine

Indeed, will anything even work, including the cooling pumps, considering the pre-meltdown damage from the tsunami and then the post-meltdown damage from the explosions, etc?


9 posted on 03/17/2011 10:43:15 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica
Man they’re slow.

You know how it is when you wait and wait for the power company to turn your electricity on and they forget your ticket.

Or maybe they have other problems there...

10 posted on 03/17/2011 10:46:37 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica

Yep. They had a 9.0 earthquake and a friggin’ 7 meter tsunami. That might slow things down a bit...


11 posted on 03/17/2011 10:50:57 AM PDT by fred2008
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica

Unless I’ve got the times and dates figured wrong, it’s already tomorrow there.


12 posted on 03/17/2011 10:52:45 AM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the People's Republic of Boulder)
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica

I think you might be underestimating the obstacles that exist here. The earthquake/tsunami wiped out all the transmission line connections to the rest of the grid, and probably turned the terrain into a real mess. They probably had to clear a path before they set the first pole. They had to accumulate enough equipment - poles, insulators, crossarms, wire, etc. - to complete the task. They had to ready a position from which to start, hopefully with a separate circuit breaker for the new line. They had to ready equipment at the recieving end, after likely tsunami damage to substation equipment, circuit breakers, controls, and such.

It took Associated Electric in Missouri almost a year to rebuild the transmission lines in western MO after the ice storm of 2009. Granted, that was hundreds of miles of circuit, but it wasn’t just a matter of slapping a few poles in the ground and stringing wire.


13 posted on 03/17/2011 10:53:52 AM PDT by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: DTogo
Indeed, will anything even work, including the cooling pumps, considering the pre-meltdown damage from the tsunami and then the post-meltdown damage from the explosions, etc?

There's going to be a lot of things that don't work, and a few things that do work. But at least they'll have substantial power available to operate big pumps that can move a LOT of water. And with any luck, they'll be able to use some of the existing piping in the damaged structures.

14 posted on 03/17/2011 10:57:25 AM PDT by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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“Man... Imagine powering that thing back up and all the alarms and sirens going off and sensor failures and warning lamps and computers rebooting into lord knows what state....”

yeah, especially since the whole thing was wrecked and flooded by a 30 foot wall of sea water. Can’t imagine much of anything actually working, especially any of the electronics. Oh, and then they had all those explosions that blew up everything afterwards.

My guess is that the best they can do is get some portable pumps and fire hoses going.

The main thing is to get the spent fuel rod pools filled with water and kept filled, otherwise those things will heat up, melt, catch on fire, and then spew so much radioactivity into the area that workers will have to be withdrawn, and then the whole works will eventually meltdown.


15 posted on 03/17/2011 11:00:57 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from the right stuff!)
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There's going to be a lot of things that don't work, and a few things that do work.

Hopefully the few things that work will be the pumps and valves. A couple of sensors would be nice but I'd settle for the pumps and valves. :-}

16 posted on 03/17/2011 11:06:00 AM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica
You might try and get out of your bubble... Just sayin' there might be a few obstacles in their way...
17 posted on 03/17/2011 11:09:17 AM PDT by EBH ( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
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might be a few obstacles in their way...

Thanks for posting those. I don't know if I can blame posters here 100%. The media has done an excellent job of not reporting on the tsunami and the real tragedy.
18 posted on 03/17/2011 11:22:11 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media. There are Wars and Rumors of War.)
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To: EBH

I would appreciate knowing your source for those images.
Many I have not seen before...
Thanks in advance.


19 posted on 03/17/2011 11:50:30 AM PDT by Repeal The 17th (My best comments get deleted; if you can read this, it is not on the 'cutting edge'.)
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To: null and void

Boring would be awesome right now. I’d love to be bored. It would be a nice change from what I have been experiencing for the last week.


20 posted on 03/17/2011 11:50:55 AM PDT by Ronin (Proudly posting from Tokyo for neigh on 13 years!)
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