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Fadamor
Make up your mind, Japan. Either he's a minor or a man. He can't be both.
Posted in: 19-year-old man arrested for beating up woman's 5-year-old daughter
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Fadamor
I'm a big fan of miniskirts. That said, how funny is it that the guy is arrested but the girls are not? As long as you give the girls a free pass on these things, they'll just move on to the next ojisan who'll fork over cash for them to flip-up their skirt. The manager was arrested for hiring them, but the girls apparently were not breaking laws doing what they were doing? If it doesn't exist already, there should be a law against children working in these types of jobs. Then you would have both halves of the business (management and employee) legislated.
Posted in: Club manager arrested for hiring high school girls to flash underwear for patrons
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Fadamor
Reactors usually have a "closed-loop" of fresh water paired with an "open-loop" of either fresh or salt water, depending on which large body of water is nearby. The closed loop is the water that is heated by the reactor into steam which turns the generator turbines. Once that water is turned to steam and done its job moving the turbine blades, however, there needs to be a way to quickly return it back to liquid water so the process can repeat. This is where the "open-loop" comes in. After doing its work, the steam in the "closed-loop" is passed through a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger acts just like the radiator in your car except instead of air flowing by and cooling the liquid, they're using the water in the "open-loop" to cool the "closed-loop" water. After absorbing the heat from the steam the "open-loop" water is discharged back out into the nearby large body of water.
Salt water heat exchangers don't last as long as fresh water ones do because the salt water speeds-up corrosion in the hundreds of tubes that make up the heat exchanger. This means they have to replace them more often. But if your only large bodies of water nearby are salt water bodies, then you just have to deal with the higher maintenence rate.
Posted in: Water power
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Fadamor
Got to agree with SpanishEyes. If your date likes talking, they generally aren't good listeners.
Posted in: Yukata Magic
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Fadamor
Interesting that the banner wasn't able to fly around the world in a day so it will now take at least two weeks. Is someone holding it hostage?
Posted in: Support banner fails to make it to Japan premiere for 'Pirates'
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Fadamor
I wonder things... things like, was this person one of the residents and has been there since the tsunami struck, or was he a relief volunteer? Could this be the start of a mental health "epidemic" as the stress of living for months in a disaster zone builds? I wonder...
Posted in: Man stabs female volunteer worker at Ishinomaki Red Cross hospital
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Fadamor
People here seem to think fault lines are nice neat cuts that go straight down from where they breach the surface of the planet. They don't. The Pacific Plate slides under the other plates at an angle, meaning you could get a deep earthquake on the WESTERN side of Japan from a movement of the Pacific Plate (which starts getting subducted EAST of Japan's coast). Obsessing that something in Japan was "built on a fault line" makes me laugh because there isn't a part of Japan that isn't sitting over SOME part of one of the fault lines.
Posted in: Do you think Prime Minister Naoto Kan made the right decision when he asked Chubu Electric to shut down the Hamaoka nuclear plant which stands in an area where a magnitude-8 earthquake is strongly projected?
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Fadamor
Before everyone starts quoting Klein2's figures, first find out how many people lived there back then, THEN divide the cost up. I doubt the population has been stagnant for 40 years.
Posted in: How one Japanese village defied the tsunami
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Fadamor
The child spent two months without being viewed by someone outside the family who could have stopped this.
The hospital noted the multiple broken bones after they got the kid in December. Based on the article it sounds like the child spent the remainder of December and January in the hospital until he died from his injuries. Authorities probably waited for all the autopsy results to come back before arresting the parents.
Posted in: Parents charged over death of 3-month-old baby in January
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Fadamor
@Klein2
This is a false accusation. He had no legal authority to ORDER the plant shut down. That's why he only ASKED Chubu Electric to shut down the reactor. Chubu Electric did not have to abide by Kan's request. Kan broke no laws, nor did he confiscate anything.
@goodwitch205,
This was a joke reply, right? Accurate quake predictions are only seconds in advance of when the tremors start to be felt. However, these aren't really "predictions" because they come from sensors placed at the fault lines and then it's a race between the sensors' electrical signals getting to land and the quake's ground wave to get to land. Longer-term predictions are nothing more than reading tea leaves or consulting your favorite astrologist. Case in point: How many DECADES have geologists been saying the fault under the Hamaoka Nuclear Plant is ready to unleash an 8.0+ quake? (Hint: it's been longer than how long the Hamaoka Power Plant has existed there.) I suppose if they keep "predicting" this quake, they'll eventually get it right. Just like if I start each day saying, "Today I'll die.", EVENTUALLY I'm going to be truthfull.
Posted in: Do you think Prime Minister Naoto Kan made the right decision when he asked Chubu Electric to shut down the Hamaoka nuclear plant which stands in an area where a magnitude-8 earthquake is strongly projected?
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Fadamor
That's another nice thing I like about Google Earth. When you zoom way in and tilt the camera up you get a 3D representation of the terrain. Things like valleys and mountians and how they relate to the cities and residential areas becomes very clear. If you look at Fudai from the ocean like this, the two hills that bracket the floodgates are prominent. Move inland and it becomes obvious the houses were only in the lowlands and not on the hillsides.
Posted in: How one Japanese village defied the tsunami
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Fadamor
Chubu Electric, not Chiba Power. Man I must be getting tired.
Posted in: Do you think Prime Minister Naoto Kan made the right decision when he asked Chubu Electric to shut down the Hamaoka nuclear plant which stands in an area where a magnitude-8 earthquake is strongly projected?
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Fadamor
Only time will tell. If there's an 8.0 or higher quake there in the near future, then he made the right choice. If no huge earthquake materializes, then he's needlessly asked for something that put the Japanese people in deeper hardship. I should note that the Chiba Power Company didn't have to agree to Kan's request, so any blame for needless hardship shouldn't fall only on Kan's shoulders.
Posted in: Do you think Prime Minister Naoto Kan made the right decision when he asked Chubu Electric to shut down the Hamaoka nuclear plant which stands in an area where a magnitude-8 earthquake is strongly projected?
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Fadamor
If that small floodgate cost over 3 billion yen back in the 80's, to do the same for the Tokyo area would take all the money in the world. As Knowbetter stated, the entire region is almost at sea level. A seawall with interspersed floodgates would have to run for hundreds of kilometers.
Posted in: How one Japanese village defied the tsunami
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Fadamor
Just looked at the floodgate on Google Earth. Pretty impressive. On the seaward-side, there's just sand and debris, but on the town's side, the vegetation goes right up to the floodgates.
Posted in: How one Japanese village defied the tsunami
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Fadamor
DNA test will solve that mystery fairly quickly - if it really was her child.
Posted in: Woman arrested for abandoning body of baby boy in man's apartment
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Fadamor
Why would you hope that? So she might be consumed with guilt? The way I read the article, she recanted her accusation that day, before he was even released. Her companion was acting simply on her word, not as a witness. It's the police who left the man in limbo about his status. It's the police who failed this citizen and should be feeling guilty.
Posted in: Mother of falsely accused groper who killed himself files damages suit
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Fadamor
In a normal situation, where the fuel is inhibited from criticality by the control rods, you would be correct. The heat would slowly decrease until the reactor reached a "cold" state. With all the fuel from the rods pooled on the bottom of the containment vessel, however, the fuel is free to interact with the remains of the other fuel rods. The reactor now has only the surrounding water to prevent run-away heating. But replacing the heated water with cooler water results in leakage out the bottom of the pressure vessel. I'll say it again. Not good.
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Fadamor
Damn. This is not good. You can't even seal it in cement and forget about it because all the fuel is pooled in the bottom of the containment vessel. The control rods are useless for inhibiting criticality so the only thing preventing a "China Syndrome" scenario is cooling water, which they can't indiscriminately use because it is leaking out of the bottom of the vessel. Damn.
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Fadamor
It's already sitting so low in the water I have to wonder how useful it will be. Are they going to pump the current ballast out prior to pumping radioactive water in? They'd almost have to because you wouldn't want to mix ballast water with radioactive water, THEN start pumping it overboard.
I wonder how close they'll be able to get the barge to the reactors before it hits bottom?
Posted in: Megafloat