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

[peeples]

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.

That is very nice... NO way I'd stay without my animals though. I'd make hubby go to the hotel with the kids.

 

[Quiche]

That is very nice... NO way I'd stay without my animals though. I'd make hubby go to the hotel with the kids.

I think they should designate pet floors-- it's scheduled for demolition, what's the big deal? It would give so many comfort, and the furbabies too!

 

[Quiche]

Japan’s wrecked nuclear plant remade in game Fallout 3

Quote: But professional and casual game developers have been using video games as a medium to pay homage to lives lost in disasters or as a tribute to individuals for about as long as they have been able to create custom modifications of popular games. The ruins are an addition — or mod — of the original game,...

http://venturebeat.com/2011/04/08/japan-fukushima-fallout-3-mod/

TACKY! This event is ongoing, people are suffering, men are putting their lives at risk, lives are in ruins, many are dead and unrecovered-- still! This is nowhere near resolved, homage my azz! mo

 

[Niner]

Niner, I hope you are feeling well and think about you often ;}

I also want to thank everyone for keeping us abreast here. It is so easy to get caught up in ongoing cases :innocent: and not keep up here.

sorry guys - OT... :innocent:
Hey Scandi - I am fine now!! Found out I have a hyper thyroid, so all the 60 lbs I lost - hopefully WON'T come back!! LOL Am having "radiation gel" injected into my thyroid soon... I know I should wait and see what happens in Japan!! :fence: Take care Scandi!!

 

[buffetoflies]

FWIW, the peeps over at ATS (dont hate!) are hypothesizing that the core of #3 has dropped down into the bedrock below. They came to that conclusion b/c of pics where it looks like there's a hole below where the reactor vessel should be.

BTW, I posted OneLove's meeting w/ the ex nuke guy over there but noone replied ( guy I was trying to lure with it was away...). I'd repost, but does it really matter? Whatever happens will happen and there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it.

I'm so negative lately. I don't like this side of me.

 

[OneLove]

OneLove sometimes deedlehead. What means ATS? I don't think it's Alcohol, tobacco, and Sugar. Educate me, someone? Especially since I seem to have travelled there ahead of myself, har.

 

[Noddy]

Thought I'd put a picture up of the Grand Prince Hotel Aasaka from the Google Earth's street view. I hope they can begin to start a new life again.

I can't find a url for it. It's one of their 360 city shots.

 

[Quiche]

OneLove sometimes deedlehead. What means ATS? I don't think it's Alcohol, tobacco, and Sugar. Educate me, someone? Especially since I seem to have travelled there ahead of myself, har.

ATS= Above Top Secret, it's a conspiracy minded site. I've given it a gander now and then... :innocent:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/

 

[Quiche]

Thought I'd put a picture up of the Grand Prince Hotel Aasaka from the Google Earth's street view. I hope they can begin to start a new life again.

I can't find a url for it. It's one of their 360 city shots.

Wow! That's going to be demolished? It looks fabulous... some privacy, hot showers, food, a moment to grieve. Bless whoever is behind this offer.

 

[Daisyjane]

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/84275.html

Tidbits, and my questions/comments in bold:

Tokyo Electric Power Co. started Saturday to install enclosing materials in the sea to prevent a further spread of highly radioactive water that seeped from a crisis-hit nuclear power plant, while continuing other efforts to stabilize Japan's worst nuclear crisis.

TEPCO, as the company is known, enclosed a seawater intake for the No. 2 reactor at the six-reactor plant with seven steel sheets and a ''silt curtain,'' while planning similar curtains at other locations nearby, such as near the intakes for the Nos. 1, 3 and 4 reactors. Do you guys think this silt curtain will keep the radiation out of the sea?

The radioactive iodine reading was 63,000 times the legal limit in seawater near the intake a day after contaminated water stopped leaking into the sea.
Note that this little detail was nestled deep in the middle of the article. I've not seen this 63,000 times the limit figure before now.

 

[Quiche]

WRAPUP 1-Japan's reactor operator apologises for radiation

"I would like to apologise from my heart over the worries...

We caused worry and trouble for having made this decision...

"We are quite sorry about the fact that the nuclear plants are causing those worries...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/09/japan-idUSLDE7380D520110409

Sounds like causing worry is a big no no in Japanese society. Myself, I'd apologize for destroying people's livelihoods, poisoning their food, doing irreparable damage to their fishing grounds-- I could go on.

 

[Quiche]

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/84275.html

Tidbits, and my questions/comments in bold:

Tokyo Electric Power Co. started Saturday to install enclosing materials in the sea to prevent a further spread of highly radioactive water that seeped from a crisis-hit nuclear power plant, while continuing other efforts to stabilize Japan's worst nuclear crisis.

TEPCO, as the company is known, enclosed a seawater intake for the No. 2 reactor at the six-reactor plant with seven steel sheets and a ''silt curtain,'' while planning similar curtains at other locations nearby, such as near the intakes for the Nos. 1, 3 and 4 reactors. Do you guys think this silt curtain will keep the radiation out of the sea?

The radioactive iodine reading was 63,000 times the legal limit in seawater near the intake a day after contaminated water stopped leaking into the sea.
Note that this little detail was nestled deep in the middle of the article. I've not seen this 63,000 times the limit figure before now.

At first I thought this was about another issue, but you're absolutely right-- I don't know how well it will work, but even preventing a portion of it from going out to sea is worth it. Also, I'd like to point out that if the dilution in the ocean was so effective, they wouldn't be doing anything at all. So, in my eyes, they are doing big harm. Big.

 

[Quiche]

Fukushima Endgame: Years, a Fortune Away
Will likely take decades to decommission nuke plant

Quote: The day when radiation stops spilling out of Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi is still unknown, but it'll be at least a decade and millions of dollars beyond that by the time the nuclear plant is decommissioned, reports the AP. That's the timeline from Toshiba,...

http://www.newser.com/story/116009/fukushima-endgame-years-a-fortune-away.html

 

[Quiche]

Rice restricted amid radiation fear

Excerpt:
The ban will apply to any soil found to contain high levels of radioactive caesium, and farmers who cannot grow rice will be compensated. Rice grown in uncontaminated soil will be screened.

Yoshiyuki Ueda, a 47-year-old rice farmer from the town of Futaba, where the damaged nuclear plant is located, said he had already given up on trying to plant this year's crop because of radiation fears. "The ground is ruined," he said. "I think it will be a long time until things return to normal."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/uk...hrzH12El5K0Fd9exg?docId=N0490071302324423419A

 

[Dark Knight]

Ancient tsunami warning stones found:

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Warnings-stone/ss/events/wl/040611tsunamitablet

 

[essies]

Rice restricted amid radiation fear

Excerpt:
The ban will apply to any soil found to contain high levels of radioactive caesium, and farmers who cannot grow rice will be compensated. Rice grown in uncontaminated soil will be screened.

Yoshiyuki Ueda, a 47-year-old rice farmer from the town of Futaba, where the damaged nuclear plant is located, said he had already given up on trying to plant this year's crop because of radiation fears. "The ground is ruined," he said. "I think it will be a long time until things return to normal."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/uk...hrzH12El5K0Fd9exg?docId=N0490071302324423419A

This is not a bad time to consider buying and stocking up on storable food. If not because of safety reasons then for economic reasons as this will undoubtably have a domino effect in the world's economy which was and is terrible even without the catastrophe in Japan!!:waitasec:
Let people call you crazy or an alarmist-they'll soon change their tune when the price of food and gas goes thru the roof and it's starting already!!:twocents:

 

[buffetoflies]

OneLove sometimes deedlehead. What means ATS? I don't think it's Alcohol, tobacco, and Sugar. Educate me, someone? Especially since I seem to have travelled there ahead of myself, har.

:seeya: Hi!!!!!!!

Ha, I was going to post and ask you if that was alright with you, but then ... I didn't. But I debated for hours!

Anyways, it's on page 549 on the big 620+ page thread, and I did link to the thread with a mention of what # the posted were that you made.

 

[Quiche]

Video shows tsunami crashing into Fukushima nuclear site

Quote: The video shows the giant wave generated by the historic March 11 earthquake crashing over the plant's seawall and engulfing the facility, with one sheet of spray rising higher than the buildings that house the plant's six reactors. Tokyo Electric Power, the plant's owner, told reporters the wall of water was likely 14 to 15 meters (45 to 48 feet) higher than normal sea levels -- easily overwhelming the plant's 5-meter seawall.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/09/japan.nuclear.reactors/index.html?eref=googletoolbar

 

[Quiche]

US company seeks workers for Fukushima

Quote: Those who are willing and qualified have been promised above average pay for assisting with the nuclear crisis in Japan. In a time when jobs are scares in the US, the company said it has already received applications.

Bartlett Nuclear is expected to send around 10 people in the first group, with more to join at a later date. Each worker is expected to give at least one months worth of work.

and

Many Japanese workers already working at Fukushima feel they may die from the radiation they have been exposed to, possibly within weeks and it has been revealed that it could take over 100 years to ensure the fuel rods reach safe levels.

http://stephenbishop.amplify.com/2011/04/09/us-company-seeks-workers-for-fukushima/

 

[Quiche]

Marine nuclear rescue team stands ready in Japan

Quote: The 145-member Chemical Biological Incident Response Force, based at a naval support facility in Indian Head, Maryland, near Washington D.C., flew to Japan on April 2 to offer its assistance to Japan, officials said.

and

"We're here to solve a complex problem if called upon," said mission commander Maj. Mike Johnson.

and

"When we show up, we can do everything from pulling people out of a rubble pile to decontaminating to medical assistance," Dumdie said. In the medical tent, "we can do everything short of open heart surgery."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110409/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_earthquake_us_military_3