Major Earthquake N Japan - Pacific Tsunami Warning

[Park Life 71]

you still haven't sent me all that soon to be worthless currency you have.....................

 

6 months you've been drilling that one.

 

 

so money isn't going to be worthless Oh Master?

 

You mean you've misled us??

You're supposed to send him YOUR money so he can dispose of it securely in advance of The Event.

 

Correct.

[Park Life 71]

http://timshorrock.com/?p=1113

[Park Life 71]

As many people here are well aware, the company, known as Tepco, has a history of not being forthcoming about nuclear safety issues, particularly those surrounding earthquake-related dangers. In 2003, all 17 of its nuclear plants were shut down temporarily after a scandal over falsified safety-inspection reports. It ran into trouble again in 2006, when it emerged that coolant-water data at two plants had been falsified in the 1980s.

 

Critics have long expressed deep concern about safety at many of Japan's nuclear facilities, some which date back to the 1970s and 1980s. Fukushima has long been on critics' radar, but so has the Hamaoka plant, just 100 miles southwest of Tokyo, which perches on an active fault line.

 

"I have been warning about Japan's possibility of a genpatsu shinsai — a nuclear disaster," said Katsuhiko Ishibashi, a seismologist and professor emeritus at Kobe University. He said Fukushima was only one of a number of nuclear complexes in seismically unsafe locations.

 

On Sunday, a series of cooling malfunctions forced authorities to resort to the drastic measure of pumping seawater into reactors to keep them from melting down.

 

"We are trying to get our power back, and we are looking at several options that are available to us to regain power," Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said. "We are going through the process step by step."

 

On Sunday morning, national broadcaster NHK reported that nine more people had tested positive for high levels of radiation, adding to the three cases reported Saturday.

 

 

 

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wo...5092,full.story

[Park Life 71]

TOKYO—Crucial efforts to tame Japan's crippled nuclear plant were delayed by concerns over damaging valuable power assets and by initial passivity on the part of the government, people familiar with the situation said, offering new insight into the management of the crisis.

 

Meanwhile, a regulator who was inspecting the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power complex when the quake hit offered The Wall Street Journal one of the first eyewitness accounts of the havoc at the site, describing how the temblor took down all communications in the area, greatly complicating the response.

 

The plant's operator—Tokyo Electric Power Co., or Tepco—considered using seawater from the nearby coast to cool one of its six reactors at least as early as last Saturday morning, the day after the quake struck. But it didn't do so until that evening, after the prime minister ordered it following an explosion at the facility. Tepco didn't begin using seawater at other reactors until Sunday.

 

Earthquake survivors are stuck in shelters with little food and no electricity, as aid workers are still unable to reach areas of devastation. Tokyo Deputy Bureau Chief Mariko Sanchanta and Yumiko Ono, managing editor of Japanese-language WSJ.com, discuss.

 

Tepco was reluctant to use seawater because it worried about hurting its long-term investment in the complex, say people involved with the efforts. Seawater, which can render a nuclear reactor permanently inoperable, now is at the center of efforts to keep the plant under control.

Tepco "hesitated because it tried to protect its assets," said Akira Omoto, a former Tepco executive and a member of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission, an official advisory body involved in the effort to tame the plant. Both Tepco and government officials had good reason not to use saltwater, Mr. Omoto added. Early on, nuclear fuel rods were still under cooling water and undamaged, he said, adding, "it's understandable because injecting seawater into the fuel vessel renders it unusable."

 

Tepco spokesman Hiro Hasegawa said the company, "taking the safety of the whole plant into consideration, was trying to judge the appropriate timing to use seawater."

 

 

 

"This disaster is 60% man-made," said one government official. "They failed in their initial response. It's like Tepco dropped and lost a 100 yen coin while trying to pick up a 10 yen coin."

 

Government efforts also were plagued with delays. Japan's military, the Self-Defense Forces, didn't participate in cool-down efforts in a big way until Wednesday, after four of the six reactors had suffered damage and the remaining two showed signs of heating as well. A military spokesman said forces didn't move in because they weren't requested by Tepco. A Tepco spokesman declined to comment on the issue specifically, saying in general the company is in contact with the government.

 

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405..._LEFTTopStories

Edited March 26, 2011 by Park Life

[JawD 99]

I deal with a couple of manufacturers in Japan so have been getting updates from them. While factories that are in the south are fine and the ports in the south are fine, component manufacturers that supply these in the north are fucked as are the ports on the east. This means that while stock of components is immediately ok, many japanees manufacturers (think Sanyo, Panasonic, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Toshiba etc) have a race against time to find alternative suppliers for parts. Expect to see availability of products drop by the summer as factories production slows. Also current power outages are slowing current production. Then shipping is a problem as all shopping from the east now has to go south pushing up delays through sheer volume and lack of containers pushing up cost.

[Rob W 0]

Sea water, because it is not pure H2O isn't the best thing to put into any machinery

 

Look at the damage it does to sea front property and cars even in the UK

[Monkeys Fist 41381]

Sea water, because it is not pure H2O isn't the best thing to put into any machinery

 

Look at the damage it does to sea front property and cars even in the UK

 

Look at the damage it did to the Titanic.

 

Bad shit.

[NJS 4267]

Sea water, because it is not pure H2O isn't the best thing to put into any machinery

 

Look at the damage it does to sea front property and cars even in the UK

 

Look at the damage it did to the Titanic.

 

Bad shit.

 

Not forgetting the Triffids.

[snakehips 0]

Sea water, because it is not pure H2O isn't the best thing to put into any machinery

 

What is 'impure' H2O ??

[Monkeys Fist 41381]

Piss.

[Park Life 71]

Sea water, because it is not pure H2O isn't the best thing to put into any machinery

 

What is 'impure' H2O ??

 

Beer.

[Park Life 71]

Tepco admitting partial meltdown to reactor 2 now. Highly radioactive water around the reactor site and only a few meters from the sea.

[Park Life 71]

Dark corners of the interweb are reporting bad shit...no scratch that...mega bad shit happenning in Jpn...The nuke fuel in one or two of the reactors is x weapons grade and very rich and kill happy. STOP

 

Meltdown ongoing. STOP

 

Deadzone. STOP

[Kitman 2204]

Certainly don't trust tepco to tell the truth about what's going on. They'd rather send in a bunch of brave men in flip flops with buckets on their heads to sort the mess out, while they sit in a bunker miles away looking at their stock price and wondering what the fuck to do.

[Rob W 0]

I think you can give them hell but it's impossible to foresee everything

 

I've been in a few "Simulated accident" exercises and what gets you is just how tough it is to get reliable information that you can trust in order to go about fixing things

[Monkeys Fist 41381]

I think you can give them hell but it's impossible to foresee everything

 

I've been in a few "Simulated accident" exercises and what gets you is just how tough it is to get reliable information that you can trust in order to go about fixing things

 

Schtum - keep it.

 

 

You have been warned Agent W.

[Rob W 0]

I think you can give them hell but it's impossible to foresee everything

 

I've been in a few "Simulated accident" exercises and what gets you is just how tough it is to get reliable information that you can trust in order to go about fixing things

 

Schtum - keep it.

 

 

You have been warned Agent W.

 

naah - it's idiot things like keeping all the construction plans on site ................. without any off site set to consult

[Park Life 71]

[Billy Castell 0]

Should have dared someone to teabag that.

[Park Life 71]

Tepco bloke crying now that they've realised they're flooding reactor 5 & 6 with water used to keep the other reactors cool. The water is endangering the

cooling turbines in 5 & 6.

 

Beginning to wonder about he intelligence of the average jap..

 

This is turning into the mother of all bungles.

 

 

 

Edited April 5, 2011 by Park Life

[Ken 119]

I think you can give them hell but it's impossible to foresee everything

 

I've been in a few "Simulated accident" exercises and what gets you is just how tough it is to get reliable information that you can trust in order to go about fixing things

 

Is that so?

[Holden McGroin 6298]

Another 7.4 earthquake has just North of Japanese coast again. Tsunami alert.

Edited April 7, 2011 by Holden McGroin

[Christmas Tree 4461]

poor bastards. Its night time there now as well I think.

[McFaul 35]

poor bastards. Its night time there now as well I think.

Aye 8 hours in front, midneet 7.5 is still a considerable size earthquake.

[Park Life 71]

All nuke power stations on Jpn need to be shut down and moved away from Jpn.