Japanese earthquake / tsunami discussion

Turtwig

opinion guy wrote: »

What does that mean ?

A possible leak. Or on the silver lining a nice vent of pressure but no harm done.

maquiladora

Summary : nobody really knows wtf exactly happened at the moment.

JONJO THE MISER

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

A mass evacuation of a metropolis the size of Tokyo would lead to thousands more being killed...

The situation is grave over there but you shouldn't stoke panic.

Thats what im saying they know they cant evacuate Tokyo so they are playing down the risks.

opinion guy

maquiladora wrote: »

Summary : nobody really knows wtf exactly happened at the moment.

so status quo then

dreamer_ire

WallyGUFC wrote: »

And so many more too. All we see is the wave and the rubble, so many individual tragedies, it's hard to understand how we'd cope with that level of heartbreak.

Al Jazeera just showed two brothers searching through the rubble, finding their family car and in it the bodies of their mother, niece and nephew. I hope they find some comfort in whatever they believe in. The personal story really shows the tragedy that this earthquake and tsunami has brought the people of Japan.

Thrill

Wind blowing north from Fukushima plant, Japan Meteorological Association says.

take everything

angerfist2009 wrote: »

Them translations on nhk are really behind the one they get to say it in English is so slow. Shes gets cut out by another tv station everytime she has something to say.

Thought you didn't care

Ficheall

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Link to radiation counter for Tokyo
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/geiger-counter-tokyo

Any chance of a quick recap on what levels are 'safe'?

Biggins

Radiation level after latest explosion from reactor 2, have risen four-fold according to the news right now.
The government also reported apparent damage to part of the container shielding the same reactor.
Earlier before the latest bang Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters the suppression pool of the number-two nuclear reactor appeared to have been damaged.
This is the bottom part of the container, which holds water used to cool it down and control air pressure inside.

Thrill

Crack reported at Fukushima 4 Reactor.

gbee

Thrill wrote: »

Crack reported at Fukushima 4 Reactor.

Roof of outer containment building. No4 reactor below 100° and stopped.

maquiladora

Thrill wrote: »

Crack reported at Fukushima 4 Reactor.

Just on the roof though, right?

iguana

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Thats what im saying they know they cant evacuate Tokyo so they are playing down the risks.

Tokyo is 241kms from Fukishima.

dreamer_ire

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A series of TEPCO's procrastinated reports caused the govt to set up the HQ at the firm's office, sources said. #japan #jpquake #quake

May be why a press conference was held when no answers were available.

Thrill

maquiladora wrote: »

Just on the roof though, right?

yep.

kona

A reduction in pressure could be due to Steam condensing to water, but the obvious is a breach of the core, although to blow a hole in 6 inch thick steel would have to be a spectacular failure IMO.

Shelga

I'm supposed to be going to Japan next week :eek:

Biggins

Shelga wrote: »

I'm supposed to be going to Japan next week :eek:

What part?

kona

Shelga wrote: »

I'm supposed to be going to Japan next week :eek:

The **** would you be going there for? Dude that trip went out the window on friday.

Thrill

Vapor spotted rising from no.3 reactor. nhk

Biggins

Last updated: March 15 2011 00:01

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cdc71436-4e59-11e0-98eb-00144feab49a.html#axzz1Gcfsi8gY

A third explosion has been reported by the Japanese nuclear safety agency at the Fukushima Daiichi power station, damaged in Friday’s earthquake, this time at the No 2 unit.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) in a press conference said that all non-essential staff had been evacuated from the area for their own safety. “We will continue our efforts to inject water into the pressure vessel,” a spokesman said.

The level of radiation at the plant rose above the legal limit after the latest explosion, Kyodo News reported. Radiation at Fukushima plant briefly hit 8,217 micro sievert per hour, Tepco said.

The blast follows one at the No 3 reactor on Monday after a build up on hydrogen gas and a similar explosion at the No 1 reactor on Saturday.

The Jiji news agency said steam had been seen rising from the complex.

Japan issued a call for international reinforcement in its battle to prevent a potential nuclear disaster amid signs that a third reactor had gone into partial meltdown on Monday at the Fukushima power plant crippled by last week’s devastating earthquake.

As the death toll from Friday’s disaster mounted inexorably, engineers struggled to control reactors at Tokyo Electric Power’s Daiichi plant in Fukushima, north-east of the capital, whose cooling systems were damaged by the quake, upgraded overnight from 8.9 to 9, and the subsequent tsunami.

Early on Tuesday morning in Japan, Tepco said coolant water inside the reactor had fallen dangerously low for a second time in 24 hours on Monday night, leaving its fuel rods completely exposed and at risk of partial meltdown.

Raskolnikov

Can things get any worse?

Shelga

kona wrote: »

The **** would you be going there for? Dude that trip went out the window on friday.

Yeah just waiting to hear really, it's for a job interview, obviously it's not important. Am/was supposed to be going to a small place near Kobe.

th3 s1aught3r

Tokyo (CNN) -- A new explosion rocked the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan early Tuesday from a reactor that workers had struggled to keep under control since a blast at a neighboring unit, the plant's owner announced.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/14/japan.nuclear.reactors/index.html?hpt=T1

Biggins

Shelga wrote: »

Yeah just waiting to hear really, it's for a job interview, obviously it's not important. Am/was supposed to be going to a small place near Kobe.

Its a very tough call.
I wish you luck what ever you decide to do.

Hank Scorpio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95zMdTvoqcQ

This is really strange, she predicted something was going to happen

Raskolnikov

Ficheall wrote: »

Any chance of a quick recap on what levels are 'safe'?

10-20 would be normal.

Turtwig

According to NHK 8217 mSv no time comparison given tho.

Edit : just saw Biggin's post.
8217 m Sv / hr. That's way higher than the previous explosions of 50 Sv /hr and I forgot what the first one was?

maquiladora

Malty_T wrote: »

According to NHK 8217 mSv no time comparison given tho.

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/78008.html

opinion guy

Raskolnikov wrote: »

Can things get any worse?

I really wish people would stop asking that

nuxxx wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95zMdTvoqcQ

This is really strange, she predicted something was going to happen

Can't listen to her rambling for more than 30seconds. Its not strange, its statistics. On any given day some nutter or other will be predicting doom. Occasionally some of them will be right simply by random chance