Posted on 03/22/2011 6:09:04 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
Tokyo Electric Power Co. reported this afternoon (U.S. time) that it has restored electricity to the control room at the Fukushima Daiichi reactor 3. Lights in the control room were switched on for the first time since the earthquake 11 days ago. Electricity to the reactor 4 control room is expected to be restored shortly.
Power restoration to the control rooms will help technicians as they seek to repair the two reactors' cooling systems. Workers are seeking to reactivate control room monitoring systems for reactor parameters, such as reactor coolant temperatures and water levels. The company also reported that thermometers at reactors 1, 2 and 3 are working again.
TEPCO said it would try to reactivate a cooling pump for reactor 3 later today or Wednesday (U.S. time). The company said that if the pump functions normally, it could begin cooling the reactor and the spent fuel storage pool.
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant also continued to spray water into the used fuel pools of reactors 3 and 4. A 160-foot long extension arm normally used to pour concrete for high-rise buildings was used to more accurately spray water into the used fuel pool area of reactor 4. Workers also pumped 18 tons of seawater into the reactor 2 used fuel pool.
Japan's health ministry says it detected radioactive iodine levels in tap water above the national safety standard for infants at five locations.....
Video Uploaded by NEINetwork on Mar 22, 2011
Tony Pietrangelo, the Nuclear Energy Institute's Chief Nuclear Officer, discusses the latest proactive steps taken by the industry to conduct an in-depth review of all U.S. facilities and emergency planning protocols to improve safety.
Correction: Link to nei report above
A 160-foot long extension arm normally used to pour concrete for high-rise buildings was used to more accurately spray water into the used fuel pool area of reactor 4. Workers also pumped 18 tons of seawater into the reactor 2 used fuel pool.
Sugeested on FR days ago..............
Good. I hope they get this Tiger tamed.
They just had another 6.0 quake there as well. Seemingly will not end. Just as in central Arkansas, only on a much smaller Richter level there. In fact a dozen or so quakes today @ Greenbrier. Weird. Largest was 3.3.
I don’t believe anything TEPCO says. They are duplicitous.
Sure, they have electricity, but they can’t find parts for the pumps. When they do, it’ll take days to deliver them over the trashed roads.
Meanwhile fuel rods in whatever reactor (take your pick) are still heating up, disintegrating the zirconium cladding and releasing radioactive plutonium and uranium into the air.
The smart money is evacuating within a 100-mile radius already.
More of our troops and their families will be leaving soon.
Paint a rosy picture out of that, TEPCO!
“A 160-foot long extension arm normally used to pour concrete for high-rise buildings was used to more accurately spray water into the used fuel pool area of reactor 4. Workers also pumped 18 tons of seawater into the reactor 2 used fuel pool.
Sugeested on FR days ago.............”
That was a good Idea,we had a concrete pump in the construction end of my business,One of the big German Schwing pumps would flood that thing.
It does sound though as if they are making slow progress.
And every day that goes by without a massive release of radiation is a good one.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/8398196/Japan-begins-the-clear-up-and-buries-victims-of-the-earthquake-and-tsunami.html
“LondonTelegraph.co.uk”
Poor Kitty!
Japanese Highway Rebuilt After 4 days!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2693134/posts
Yea, they are just wasting time doing nothing.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2693134/posts
While there is a voluntary departure of dependents, school is starting back up tomorrow in Misawa, Japan.
And it has a video camera which somebody told me was impossible because radiation would fry it in minutes.
What equations did you use to deduce that figure? I'd like to see the math.
Black smoke this morning, that’s not good since it will contain particles and could indicate serious issues (OTOH, they just restored power so perhaps they had an electrical fire). Also radiation of 435 mSv before the smoke, 284 after (but only a Romanian website quoting Reuters).
Neutron beam observed 13 times at crippled Fukushima nuke plant
TOKYO, March 23, Kyodo
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday it has observed a neutron beam, a kind of radioactive ray, 13 times on the premises of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after it was crippled by the massive March 11 quake-tsunami disaster.
TEPCO, the operator of the nuclear plant, said the neutron beam measured about 1.5 kilometers southwest of the plant’s No. 1 and 2 reactors over three days from March 13 and is equivalent to 0.01 to 0.02 microsieverts per hour and that this is not a dangerous level.
The utility firm said it will measure uranium and plutonium, which could emit a neutron beam, as well.
In the 1999 criticality accident at a nuclear fuel processing plant run by JCO Co. in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, uranium broke apart continually in nuclear fission, causing a massive amount of neutron beams.
In the latest case at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, such a criticality accident has yet to happen.
But the measured neutron beam may be evidence that uranium and plutonium leaked from the plant’s nuclear reactors and spent nuclear fuels have discharged a small amount of neutron beams through nuclear fission.
http://english.kyodo...1/03/80539.html
They better not drink the water!
Continuous black smoke = continually burning fuel rods
Warnings in Tokyo NOT TO GIVE TAP WATER TO INFANTS!!!
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