Japan quakes

[Jamesrt2004]

cnn link works, thanks...

outside fukushima radiation levels are almost 10.000 times stronger than considered safe... definitively a melt down :S
Ceasium and Iodine detected outside of the reactor... :S

Hey what does the ceasium and iodine mean :/?

10,000 holy cow :/

[duck]

I was safe.
thank you for your kindness.

[anubis]

I hope its the anti-nuclear actvists blowing the whistle, as i have read they are arguing on the cause - if its the venting or core. Still hope inner core is intact.

[h0bbes]

BBC news said that the radioactivity was 1000x times higher. No evidence of meltdown yet. Aftershock of 6 richter has hit that area

[Mech0z]

The metal capsul surrounding the inner core is intact, dont let the sometimes very clueless media blow numbers out of propertion.

For a normal person 10000 sounds like a lot, but unless you understand the context it dont really matter what the number is... but in the media 10000 is a big number that sells headlines

Ps: I am not saying that everything is wonderful, only that people should hear what the really known people have to say about it and all I have read is that its (Considering the situation) pretty much going well.

[M.Beier]

The metal capsul surrounding the inner core is intact, dont let the sometimes very clueless media blow numbers out of propertion.

For a normal person 10000 sounds like a lot, but unless you understand the context it dont really matter what the number is... but in the media 10000 is a big number that sells headlines

Ps: I am not saying that everything is wonderful, only that people should hear what the really known people have to say about it and all I have read is that its (Considering the situation) pretty much going well.

Yet still it is not a pleasent thing....
Do you have source on the intact btw..? I hope you are right, fear the consequences if you are not, would be terrible.

[RPGWiZaRD]

Yea so far there's been no serious reported leakage, of what I read the current reported figures are something corresponding to a person normally exposured to during one year as a person staying 1 hour outside the reactor which still is nothing of significant danger to what if the reactor actually was meltdown. Be careful when you read the media, the figures are quickly blown out of proportion.

[anubis]

+1 on the above.

Looks like the steam purging and the hydrogen explosion took out some radiation from the "clean" cooling system. Years worth of radiation is bad. But it could be much-much worse.

Build started 1967 and it took 8,8/8,9 earthquake - kudos to Japan.

[Musho]

They are going to use seawater to cool the reactor. Filling it will take anywhere from 5 to 10 hours, while the actual cooling might take as much as 10 days. Let's hope this ends well!

[Mech0z]

Yet still it is not a pleasent thing....
Do you have source on the intact btw..? I hope you are right, fear the consequences if you are not, would be terrible.

I read a danish enginering site where they discuss the situation http://translate.google.dk/translate...atomkraftvaerk (Not the best translation for example "The temperature rises are still unknown, but authorities consider it "very unlikely" that the fuel rods are fused or are busy with it. " Should be "very likely"

[dctokyo]

man things are just getting wost it seems
Just before.......
6.4 magnitude aftershock hits near stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, USGS and local media report
also
Officials: Nearly 9,500 people unaccounted for in the town of Minamisanriku

[dctokyo]

cnn link works, thanks...

outside fukushima radiation levels are almost 10.000 times stronger than considered safe... definitively a melt down :S
Ceasium and Iodine detected outside of the reactor... :S

Sorry saaya, here is the correct report here in the news
At the Fukushima plant, the amount of radiation reached around 1,000 times the normal level in the control room of the No. 1 reactor, and 140 times the normal level near the main gate of the plant at one point.

also every 20 to 30 minutes we are getting aftershocks, "Big aftershock right now. Screen shaking as I type."

[anubis]

dctokyo - thank you, this concerns us all.

[Hornet331]

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/77171.html

better take it directly form japan, than any of the us,eu media who play fear mongering/sensation game right now.

Japanese authorities have confirmed there was an explosion at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant Saturday afternoon but it did not occur at its troubled No. 1 reactor, top government spokesman Yukio Edano said.

The chief Cabinet secretary also told an urgent press conference that the operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., has confirmed there is no damage to the steel container housing the reactor.

Edano said the 3:36 p.m. explosion caused the roof and the walls of the building housing the reactor's container to be blown off. He said there has been no serious damage to the steel container of the reactor.

The blast occurred as vapor from the container turned into hydrogen and mixed with outside oxygen, he added.

[Mech0z]

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/77171.html

better take it directly form japan, than any of the us,eu media who play fear mongering/sensation game right now.

Year thats the stuff I read on the danish site I linked to, and it sounds like its going well.

And of all countries I think we should be glad it happend to Japan, I think they are the most well prepared country for this kind of accident.

[Buckeye]

I was safe.
thank you for your kindness.

Good to hear my friend Duck San

[Kallenator]

true...
best wishes to japan! hope all goes well!

EDIT: oh the irony...
this plant was built in the 1960s and was originally supposed to be shut down... one week ago...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushi...ar_Power_Plant

:O

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/77171.html

better take it directly form japan, than any of the us,eu media who play fear mongering/sensation game right now.

That is more relieving information than what I have read so far. Good to hear in a way.


Stay safe and look after each other Japanese people!

[M.Beier]

I read a danish enginering site where they discuss the situation http://translate.google.dk/translate...atomkraftvaerk (Not the best translation for example "The temperature rises are still unknown, but authorities consider it "very unlikely" that the fuel rods are fused or are busy with it. " Should be "very likely"

I actually subscripe to Ingeniøren, hmm...
Was thinking of the inner core part, I cannot find much valid sources on if it is intact or not.

EDIT;
Just read the article, in Danish ofc... hehe...
I hope it is correct data.

[dctokyo]

Live feed's here, but they are in Japanese


TBS-TV http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tbstv

NHK-TV http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-gtv2

[geo]

Earth Quake,Tsunami and now this potential nuke situation. can it get worse for Japan RIP to the dead our thoughts are with you - Japanese people

[MrToad]

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/77171.html

better take it directly form japan, than any of the us,eu media who play fear mongering/sensation game right now.

This article looks more informative and less sensationalist than what I've read so far about the subject, thanks for sharing

It's very difficult to tell what's a realistic assessment of the situation from what's a steaming pile of horse manure when one doesn't have a degree on physics and civil engineering...

[dctokyo]

UPDATE

Japan nuclear agency rates nuclear plant accident in Fukushima at 4 on 0-7 international scale.
The 1986 Chernobyl disaster was rated 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale; the 1979 Three Mile Island accident was rated 5

update
Some more: The International Nuclear Event Scale was developed in 1990 by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The rating of 4 for the Fukushima plant incident comes from an as yet unidentified official at Japan's nuclear safety agency,

update

Japanese authorities are making plans to distribute stable iodine, a treatment to prevent radiation poisoning, to residents near two damaged nuclear plants,

[Buckeye]

WoW, I don't know about that.
Might be they are trying to keep everyone calm. When the side of a building blows off I take that as pretty serious. There might be much more going on then they are telling everyone.

[FischOderAal]

There might be much more going on then they are telling everyone.

That's my fears... Some might argue that Japan is a democracy and not to compared to certain states but that's not an argument that such things don't happen

[Don_Dan]

better take it directly form japan, than any of the us,eu media who play fear mongering/sensation game right now.

So you rather want to believe the Japanese media that takes a lot of the information from state officials that want to keep their people calm?

Things might also be a lot worse than what is public right now...