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
Tepco press conference: If all goes well, power will be partially restored to workers at Fukushima complex tonight
It sure would be useful, and I can’t help but think that info is being collected by someone.
At least they give the amounts.
Yah, especially since he offered sworn testimony to a house committee this morning.
W7VOA
Kyodo: Helo hovering above Fukushima-1 nuke plant monitoring rad levels.
Question back — Do you expect NISA/TEPCO to publish those levels?
Measurements? There was 400mS/hr two days ago during the fire and I haven't seen any higher measurements since...
He also gave at least one press conference, where he stated the same thing.
That’s my understanding as well.
If the rods are uncovered in the pool it is a straight neutron line of sight “beam” going into space.
It’s 9:46 in the morning there now. God speed.
You’re absolutely right- I’ve been staring at the computer for too many hours:)
Weere I them I would take any water about now. Clean may not be an option.
Sooooooo...which is it...
Ok- maybe one of our resident nuke people can answer this for me- IF all is as the NRC chairman said today- and #4 is open and dry- wouldn’t that be producing enough radiation to tell people 80 kilmeters wasn’t enough? I mean IF he’s telling the truth, what should evac zone be?
I’m thinking salt or dirty water may clog it up, everything that can go wrong seems to for our Japanese friends lately...
Unit 3 already has saltwater in it and has for about two days. The pool will not be a big worry other than getting it filled and water circulating.
Yes, they are having one of those times when Murphy is in charge!!!
You're working with Tepco's numbers and as the days go by, I'm starting to believe Tepco far far less.
Maybe Lester will sue NBC for negligence.
I meant the water cannon.
Cool drops from the helis. Good to see something good happening.
A beam? Don’t think so. More like a glowball of neutrons and gammas.
Just thinking out loud. Neutron quenching: paraffin, cadium, boron, water — plastics. High temp plastic micro pellets dropped into the fuel pit? Coat them with boron?
What effect does Boron have? I saw that they asked us for boron and SKorea offered to send them some.
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