Sunday May 27, 2012

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AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co

A crane moves past the No. 2 reactor at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, in this photo released Sunday by Tokyo Elecetric Power Co (TEPCO).

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  • -1

    some14some

    misty scene. cause 3.11

  • -6

    Asagao

    Souldn't the person on the right have his pants tucked into his boots? Surely radiation will go up his legs?

  • 0

    Utrack

    I can only praise the workers for the courage and dedication. I'd be quaking in my boots to tell you the truth. NHK World English has a 5 year radiation forecast article and Daiichi is so in the red. Those workers should get medals of some sort.

    http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/18_17.html

    Future radiation levels forecast on electronic map

  • -8

    Disillusioned

    'Slow Work' or 'Slow Workers'? Doesn't seem yo be much action.

  • 1

    kurisupisu

    In that area having a suit or not doesn't make much of a difference-ionising gamma radiation goes straight though...............

  • -2

    JapanGal

    There is a big yellow tape around the thing, so I do not think it is working at all.

  • -2

    zichi

    Probably the crane has been moved into place to build the covering structure like TEPCO did with reactor building No1. TEPCO have been very slow at releasing info since mid August.

    http://fukushima-radioactivity.jp/

    A government map of soil radiation levels mainly within a 100-kilometer radius of the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant shows 34 locations with levels of cesium-137 exceeding 1.48 million becquerels per square meter, the level that was used for determining bans on living near the Chernobyl plant.

    The six municipalities with levels over the Chernobyl level are Okuma, Minamisoma, Tomioka, Futaba, Namie, and Iitate.

    http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201108308286

    more than 8,000 square kilometers has accumulated cesium 137 levels of 30,000 becquerels per square meter or more

    http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201109130036

  • -2

    zichi

    A computer simulation has shown that the core meltdown of the No. 2 reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant could almost certainly have been prevented if the injection of seawater to cool the reactor had been started four hours earlier than it was. The simulation was conducted by a research team led by Tadashi Watanabe, senior scientist at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency. It is scheduled to be presented at a study meeting of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan to be held in Kitakyushu beginning on Monday. The research team reproduced the conditions of the No. 2 reactor in its simulation, including the temperature and the height of the water in the reactor after it lost power on March 11.

  • 0

    pawatan

    A computer simulation has shown that the core meltdown of the No. 2 reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant could almost certainly have been prevented if the injection of seawater to cool the reactor had been started four hours earlier than it was.

    Hindsight is fabulous, isn't it? I can tell you who to bet on for the 2010 World Cup, too.

  • 0

    zichi

    TEPCO delayed the decision to pump sea water into the reactors knowing it would be the end of them. They didn't put safety first, at least in their first very critical actions.

  • -1

    pawatan

    TEPCO delayed the decision to pump sea water into the reactors knowing it would be the end of them.

    Well of course they did. You wouldn't destroy your trillion yen worth of reactors without knowing that they couldn't be saved. And don't say you sure would, because you wouldn't.

    If you knew for sure what did happen would happen then the course of action is obvious, but I don't think it was at all obvious in the afternoon of 11 March.

  • -1

    zichi

    The data from Fukushima Daiichi is important, so to know how to increase the level of safety at other plants. TEPCO's only concern should have been safety and if it had followed that it would have prevented the worse nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, which will also cost TEPCO trillions of yen, or more likely, the taxpayer. The cost of not following safety first, will cost TEPCO, and the nation much more than the cost of lost reactors.

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    pawatan

    The data from Fukushima Daiichi is important, so to know how to increase the level of safety at other plants.

    Absolutely.

    TEPCO's only concern should have been safety and if it had followed that it would have prevented the worse nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, which will also cost TEPCO trillions of yen, or more likely, the taxpayer.

    This is very true, but not because they didn't inject seawater immediately. TEPCO management is dangerously criminal but not because they didn't inject seawater. It would have been ludicrous to ruin the reactors immediately without knowing if they could be saved. THAT would also have cost the taxpayer (and the shareholders, who are taxpayers!) trillions of yen.

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