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Japanese earthquake / tsunami discussion

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    #2702
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    BREAKING NEWS: TEPCO admits possibility of meltdown at Fukushima reactors (09:29)


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    #2703
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    Thrill wrote: »
    Crack reported at Fukushima 4 Reactor.

    That one was shut down for periodic inspection and not operating when the earthquake/tsunami struck... I dont think it's relevent as far as radiation escape is concened.

    I suppose it could have been damaged by the huge explosion in reactor 3 earlier


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    #2704
    kona
    Registered Users Posts: 7,525 ✭✭✭kona


    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.

    Have they been in contact with you? Im sure yad be fine, but Id be worried that they dont need anymore people to look after!


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    #2705
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    opinion guy wrote: »
    On any given day some nutter or other will be predicting doom. Occasionally some of them will be right simply by random chance

    Just found it strange personally, and interesting.

    Im sure alot of people will think shes talking rubbish though.


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    #2706
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    'Japanese PM Kan admits that he saw the explosion on TV, but nobody informed him officially for an hour.'

    Oh dear.


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    #2707
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users Posts: 13,133 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    nuxxx wrote: »
    Just found it strange personally, and interesting.

    Im sure alot of people will think shes talking rubbish though.

    Sure been seeing all day people mention that if u add the dates of Sep 11th and dates of the Japanese quake you get the date of the 2012 mayan yoke lol so these things just pop up.


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    #2708
    Shelga
    Registered Users Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Shelga


    kona wrote: »
    Have they been in contact with you? Im sure yad be fine, but Id be worried that they dont need anymore people to look after!

    Yeah they confirmed this morning that it's going ahead, which I was a bit surprised at. Have family members telling me not to go, that I'll come back with an extra leg etc... :rolleyes:


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    #2709
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    New press conference on NHK.


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    #2710
    th3 s1aught3r
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,925 ✭✭✭th3 s1aught3r


    The Nuclear reactors are earthquake proof, but not Tsunami proof :(


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    #2711
    mgmt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭mgmt


    th3 s1aught3r wrote: »
    The Nuclear reactors are earthquake proof, but not Tsunami proof :(

    They were built to withstand 8.2 earthquake not 9.0


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    #2712
    Tristram
    Registered Users Posts: 3,590 ✭✭✭Tristram


    The TV isn't on in the office today so I'll be using this thread to keep up to date.


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    #2713
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    FLASH: Fukushima's No. 2 reactor container damaged, radiation leak feared (09:41)


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    #2714
    Dempsey
    Registered Users Posts: 20,553 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


    mgmt wrote: »
    They were built to withstand 8.2 earthquake not 9.0


    The cheapskates!! :pac:

    So a comet caused the earthquake? Anyone with some credibility backing that theory?


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    #2715
    novarock
    Registered Users Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭novarock


    Tristram wrote: »
    The TV isn't on in the office today so I'll be using this thread to keep up to date.

    you are better off on BBC news or something. they have a twitter feed. There is a lot of scaremongering pigeon physics around here!


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    #2716
    dreamer_ire
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    Those guys look exhausted. God knows what pressure they are under.


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    #2717
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Tristram wrote: »
    The TV isn't on in the office today so I'll be using this thread to keep up to date.
    Excellent up to the minute coverage/postings here: http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2


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    #2718
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    angerfist2009 wrote: »
    Sure been seeing all day people mention that if u add the dates of Sep 11th and dates of the Japanese quake you get the date of the 2012 mayan yoke lol so these things just pop up.

    Its true 9-11-01
    3-10-11
    Equals 12/21/12!


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    #2719
    hmmm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,205 ✭✭✭✭hmmm


    novarock wrote: »
    you are better off on BBC news or something. they have a twitter feed. There is a lot of scaremongering pigeon physics around here!
    How can you be so trite when we are facing a level 4 breach of the dilithium crystal containment facility? LEVEL 4 man!!!


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    #2720
    dreamer_ire
    Registered Users Posts: 1,894 ✭✭✭dreamer_ire


    This map shows the emergency shelters in Japan. Staggering stuff.

    http://www.google.com/intl/ja/crisisresponse/japanquake2011_shelter.html


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    #2721
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users Posts: 13,133 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    Its true 9-11-01
    3-10-11
    Equals 12/21/12!
    I know :) lol


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    #2722
    Sierra Oscar
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    TEPCO have started evacuating workers from the plant - seawater pumping will continue.


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    #2723
    Thrill
    Registered Users Posts: 5,485 ✭✭✭Thrill


    dreamer_ire wrote: »
    This map shows the emergency shelters in Japan. Staggering stuff.

    http://www.google.com/intl/ja/crisisresponse/japanquake2011_shelter.html

    Thats an awful lot of shelters.


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    #2724
    weeder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,469 ✭✭✭weeder


    Zayden Hallowed Bayonet wrote: »
    Can someone explain that geiger counter thing for the dumb folk. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/geiger-counter-tokyo

    +1 been watching it for about 30 minutes cpm has gone up about 1, whatever that means


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    #2725
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    URGENT: Meltdown possible at Fukushima reactors: Tokyo Electric

    TOKYO, March 15, Kyodo

    A critical situation called ''meltdown'' in which fuel rods melt and are destroyed is possible at the troubled nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday.

    http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/78014.html


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    #2726
    novarock
    Registered Users Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭novarock


    hmmm wrote: »
    How can you be so trite when we are facing a level 4 breach of the dilithium crystal containment facility? LEVEL 4 man!!!

    surely they can just eject the warp core - always works a treat...


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    #2727
    seafood dunleavy
    Registered Users Posts: 760 ✭✭✭seafood dunleavy


    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    Its true 9-11-01
    3-10-11
    Equals 12/21/12!

    Actually its 9/11/2001
    + 3/10/2011

    = 12/21/4012


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    #2728
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,500 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    0052: Details are now emberging about radiation levels after the blast at Fukushima's reactor 2 at 0610 local time (2110 GMT Monday). Tokyo Electric officials say that one hour of exposure at the nuclear plant would be equivalent to eight times at what a person might experience naturally during the year.

    Not exactly sure if that kind of dosage is damaging to health though.


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    #2729
    Raskolnikov
    Registered Users Posts: 10,148 ✭✭✭✭Raskolnikov


    weeder wrote: »
    +1 been watching it for about 30 minutes cpm has gone up about 1, whatever that means
    10-20 is normal. Anything over 100 is starting to become a health hazard.


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    #2730
    Dempsey
    Registered Users Posts: 20,553 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


    Zayden Hallowed Bayonet wrote: »
    Can someone explain that geiger counter thing for the dumb folk. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/geiger-counter-tokyo
    weeder wrote: »
    +1 been watching it for about 30 minutes cpm has gone up about 1, whatever that means

    http://www.ehow.com/how_5329248_read-geiger-counter.html


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    #2731
    Demonique
    Registered Users Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Demonique


    dreamer_ire wrote: »
    This map shows the emergency shelters in Japan. Staggering stuff.

    http://www.google.com/intl/ja/crisisresponse/japanquake2011_shelter.html
    dreamer_ire wrote: »
    This map shows the emergency shelters in Japan. Staggering stuff.

    http://www.google.com/intl/ja/crisisresponse/japanquake2011_shelter.html

    I zoomed out on that map, according to the map there's also an emergency shelter in the Atlantic Ocean, I zoomed in on it to see what it was, looks like some idiot decided to have a joke with the map.


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