Posted on 03/19/2011 7:31:11 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Tepco Reactors May Have Turned Corner As Some Cooling Functions Apparently Restored
TOKYO (Dow Jones)--The battle to bring the troubled Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture under control may have turned a corner, with cooling functions at two reactors apparently working again, a development that could ease a nuclear emergency that has gripped the nation for more than a week.
Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it managed to get temperatures at the waste fuel storage pools at reactors No. 5 and No. 6 close to regular temperatures, Kyodo News reported Sunday morning. A typical spent fuel pool is kept at a temperature below 25 degrees Celsius under normal operating conditions.
The beleaguered Japanese utility said the cooling systems for spent-fuel storage pools have gotten back up and running again at its No.6 reactor, enabling the company to operate pumps that will supply seawater to the pools.
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Good news, indeed!
The news here has shifted to Obama’s folly in north Africa but I think things are better without so much media hyperventilation about the Japanese nuclear crisis.
Quite frankly, you’re doing a far better job of rational reporting than the media.
Thank You Jesus!!
Any good news is welcome I’m sure...
The media have set a bar lower than which it's difficult to get but TLR, I agree with cc. Thanks!
Never a doubt.
(ok, I exaggerate a bit, but seriously I never bought into the hysteria)
Well, I’m hoping that they can avoid the “big” catastrophe...but even so, the cleanup/decommissioning of those damaged reactors may be very expensive and very dangerous.
I wonder how many heroes will emerge from this. It will be quite a story.
I wouldn’t go in one of those if the place was littered with diamonds and I could keep all that I could stuff in my pockets.
Makes up for some of the bad news in the world...
Daiichi 5 and 6 can probably be brought back on line eventually, as can all 4 Daini. Daiichi 1-4 are clearly dead as reactors, but are going to be a b*tch to get buried. They should build a new fuel storage site for them as I don’t trust those damaged buildings for that purpose long term. Getting the fuel out of their ponds, much less the 3 fueled reactors will take a long time.
Thank the Lord!
Yep, here’s the LSM trying to get off the hook for this panic and shift us to the next one. “Never mind. That story was overblown — but HERE’S THE NEXT THING FOR YOU TO PANIC ABOUT...”
Unless you're an anti-nuke lefty. They will be bitterly disappointed if there isn't large scale death from this incidence. Consider it a sacrifice for the cause.
All those stories of those 40 year-old, decrepit, known to be crap GE reactors just weeks from having a midlife crises, apparently surviving the 7th worst earthquake in recorded history, the resulting tsunami and then the three ring circus as the Japanese appeared to be floundering in getting them under control. And yet there are apparently many Japanese heroes we aren't yet aware of.
And here we are almost a week and a half later and the world is still here. I have my fingers crossed.
Oh crap, I just ran up a ton of charges on my credit card.
LOL! Why didn’t *I* think of that!! Well, not to worry. I think all of the good tidings in the ME will make Israel feel a bit lonely. Somebody will start feeling their oats and go to war against them again. So keep that spending going!
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