Japan: 9.0 Earthquake-Tsunami-Nuclear Reactor Status #5

[not_my_kids]

The largest aftershock on April 7 hit Japan has killed 4 people, injured at least 166, and caused a power outage over 2.61 million households, according to Japan's police officials.

The four victims' age are 85, 83, 79 and 63. Two of them died from being frightened by the quake. One died from lack of oxygen because the medical oxygen respirator did not work after the power outage.

Read more: http://hken.ibtimes.com/articles/13...and-unsettles-tsunami-alert.htm#ixzz1IuvX7Pze


‘The foreign secretary conveyed that the government of India had not yet taken a decision on banning Japanese food imports. India will consult Japan prior to taking a decision on the advisory issued by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India,’ said a statement from the ministry of external affairs.
India’s health ministry had earlier issued an advisory to impose a fan on all food imports from Japan for a period of three months.
http://www.inewsone.com/2011/04/08/india-will-consult-japan-before-food-ban-decision/42080

 

[buffetoflies]

Program Inside Nuclear Plants?

...cannot be solely the result of tsunami-caused breakdowns, bungling or miscommunication. Inexplicable delays and half-baked explanations...

and

The most logical explanation: The nuclear industry and government agencies are scrambling to prevent the discovery of atomic-bomb research facilities...

Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2...s-program-inside-nuclear-plants#ixzz1IwkdQ8I6

Really, Fox News? :waitasec:

Actually, I'd expect Fox to have the most accurate news about the Nuclear Situation as NBC,ABC, and CBS are all partially owned by the same company that owns TEPCO (Or Tepco owns part of them, can't remember) therefor those other stations would be more inclined to lead us astray then Fox.

Oh, and, technically the 9.0 was an aftershock of a couple 7 pointers that struck on the 9th of march.

 

[hockeymom]

It might be posted on a Fox website,but the article looks to be written by a Japanese person.

 

[Quiche]

Actually, I'd expect Fox to have the most accurate news about the Nuclear Situation as NBC,ABC, and CBS are all partially owned by the same company that owns TEPCO (Or Tepco owns part of them, can't remember) therefor those other stations would be more inclined to lead us astray then Fox.

Oh, and, technically the 9.0 was an aftershock of a couple 7 pointers that struck on the 9th of march.

The 7s were foreshocks... aftershocks are smaller than the main event.

Quote: A foreshock is an earthquake that occurs before a larger seismic event (the mainshock) and is related to it in both time and space. The designation of an earthquake as foreshock, mainshock or aftershock is only possible after the event.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreshock

As far as Fox News-- I don't listen to them, at all, so.... I'm just seeing the LEAP as pretty large. jmo

 

[Dr.Fessel]

She also pointed out that the fuel pool in reactor No. 3 "is gone, according to recent photos. There is no fuel there. The reactor fuel pool in No. 3 is gone. Where did it go?"

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/04/20114812554680215.html

 

[Dr.Fessel]

http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html


Update

 

[Quiche]

She also pointed out that the fuel pool in reactor No. 3 "is gone, according to recent photos. There is no fuel there. The reactor fuel pool in No. 3 is gone. Where did it go?"

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/04/20114812554680215.html

Really informative article-- thanks for posting, DFessel.

 

[Dr.Fessel]

Really informative article-- thanks for posting, DFessel.

Strange how much I trust Aljazerra now.

 

[dsntslp]

I was thinking much the same regarding Al Jezzera Dr. Fessel. How quickly things change...

So, no fuel whatsoever in reactor 3? It can't just be lying around the plant, it would start fires because it is not being cooled right? IMO, that only leaves the nearby Ocean to be filled with fuel rods that have blown apart and will release plutonium (and more) as #3 was MOX fuel correct?

Process of elimination says the fuel is in the ocean. Thoughts?

Unless it is boiling itself down through the bottom of the reactor, but they would still have fuel in there and not word it that way...?

 

[Quiche]

Man found stranded inside the evacuation zone near the Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_new...zone-near-the-dai-ichi-nuclear-plant-in-japan

 

[Quiche]

I was thinking much the same regarding Al Jezzera Dr. Fessel. How quickly things change...

So, no fuel whatsoever in reactor 3? It can't just be lying around the plant, it would start fires because it is not being cooled right? IMO, that only leaves the nearby Ocean to be filled with fuel rods that have blown apart and will release plutonium (and more) as #3 was MOX fuel correct?

Process of elimination says the fuel is in the ocean. Thoughts?

Another article had speculated about fuel strewn as far as two miles away... I imagine no one's gone hunting for the stuff. This is just soooo unreal.

 

[Quiche]

Very small traces of radioactive iodine travel to Pakistan

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/84167.html

These smallest amounts are a good test run for if/when the releases are much more. jmo

 

[Dr.Fessel]

I was thinking much the same regarding Al Jezzera Dr. Fessel. How quickly things change...

So, no fuel whatsoever in reactor 3? It can't just be lying around the plant, it would start fires because it is not being cooled right? IMO, that only leaves the nearby Ocean to be filled with fuel rods that have blown apart and will release plutonium (and more) as #3 was MOX fuel correct?

Process of elimination says the fuel is in the ocean.

I am not sure about her statement if it is true or not but it is an excellent point because nobody is talking about it, nobody is denying it or affirming it. It also shows just how much information we are not getting.

I blame all of this lack of information on the fact that so much of the world media is owned and operated by big multi-national companies and all of the regulatory agencies in the US and the world have been infiltrated and taken over by the businesses they oversee.

Why is Tepco allowed to do the testing of the ocean? Why isn't the US and IAEA doing their own testing? Why would they trust Tepco?

Here is a report by some people that seems to say the pool is still there but badly damaged.

http://bigdustup.blogspot.com/2011/03/fukushima-daiichi-reactor-number-3-and.html

 

[Dr.Fessel]

All of this is just blowing me away. Not so much the worry about the radiation just the fact we have left the foxes guarding the hen house. I say let the freaking government shutdown for ever. I will watch the eagle cam and plant my garden.

 

[Dr.Fessel]

Alot of smoke or steam in this picture. http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/f1-np/camera/index-j.html

 

[dsntslp]

I played with the Tepco link a little and got this: http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/

Wish I knew japanese.

ETA: I am sure it does not give much info though...

 

[Peliman]

It was reported over the last couple days that one of the hydrogen explosions blew some of the cooling pool rods into the grounds of the plant, they were bulldozed under dirt. I think it was from the mox fuel reactor.

 

[Quiche]

Fukushima evacuees to move into closed upscale Tokyo hotel Sat.

Quote: The hotel has six types of rooms, including singles and suites, with prices ranging from 30,000 yen (about $350) to 150,000 yen when it was in business. The evacuees will stay for free.

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/84183.html

I hope they reconsider the hotel's fate in June-- seems like it will be in good use. This is awesome.

 

[Quiche]

4 killed, 141 injured after 7.4 quake hits Miyagi Pref, vicinity

Quote: The four people who died during and after the aftershock included a 63-year-old woman in Obanazawa, Yamagata Prefecture, who apparently died when her medical ventilator lost power in a blackout that followed.

The three other dead include a 79-year-old man in Higashimatsushima and an 85-year-old man in Ishinomaki, both in Miyagi Prefecture. But the Miyagi prefectural government said that the deaths of the two who were hospitalized at Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital and the earthquake are remotely related.

The remaining victim was a 74-year-old woman in Matsushima whose death was confirmed at a hospital Friday after she fell off the veranda of her home during a blackout after the quake.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/...s-miyagi-pref-vicinity-tsunami-warning-lifted

 

[Quiche]

U.S. Navy 'sought N-plant water discharge details'

Quote: The U.S. Navy said it made the request over concern that its vessels, which have equipment to desalinate seawater for drinking and other daily needs, could take in radioactive water and damage the health of its sailors.

and

Regarding the release of radioactive water into the sea, the Japanese government notified its U.S. counterpart in advance.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110408004590.htm

Raising my eyebrows...