Is relatively close to Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Station, the only nuclear power station in Mexico. It has been recently upgraded and got increased their effective output a pair of years ago. It should be fine if the guys from Alstom and Iberdrola did a good job.
I would worry more about northern Mexico, cities like Tijuana and Mexicali. Our building standards are good on paper, but developers get away building substandard overpriced crap thanks to our endemic corruption.
Very odd since the highest level of radiation spreading far away from the exclusion zone outside Fukushima or Miyagi was detected in Ibaraki 15/march/2011, around 7 am at 1.5 uS/h, when fire destroyed the outer shell of unit 4. Even the radioactivity in the ships is very doubtful since the sea currents go south-north in Fukushima's coast and the ports mentioned in the article are in the Yangtze delta. Maybe the chinese should look upstream the Yangtze river from more radiation.
Sadly, they are not the only ones with such an advanced process. The USA has a research facility placed in Cuba, so in case things go wrong only muslims and communists will face the consequences.
Are you seriously saying that you turn to the nuclear industry mouthpiece for all your unbiased news? Just have a look at the membership list of the World Nuclear Association. This is an association made up of companies who profit from the from the continued use of nuclear energy.
And yet they've had better reporting than any major US news outlet.
I will add that better than any news outlet with the sole exceptions of Al-Jazeraa and NHK. The mayor TV networks from Mexico were particularly bad, mistranslating everything and misquoting stuff left and right safe in the knowledge that people that knows japanese will not be looking their POS transmissions; but talking about how Tokyo was a phantom town using as a backdrop an anonymous street far away from Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, Sibuya or Akihabara at 6 am but calling it "one of Tokyo's main streets". Of course that the street would be and look empty. Damn SOBs.
It's not just past animosity, China has a HUGE economic interest in trying to smear Japan. A lot of Japanese factories have been knocked offline(a lot of Japanese factories with key technologies to boot), and you can bet your bottom yuan that China is licking it's lips trying to get as much of that capacity(and technology) moved over to China as they can. By making people think the case is much worse than it is, you will make investors get nervous and be much more willing to agree to the PRCs terms for doing business in China(the transfer of all that technology to the PRC government) so they can get their factories online somewhere "safe".
Yup, to factories built with bricks done by child slave labor, for example. The top brass of PRC government has done many things right, but making China a worker's paradise and building a welfare state sadly are not among them.
The readings from the suppression pool at unit 2 are of negative relative pressure. NISA reports that the suppression pool is damaged. Despite being the less impressive in pictures, the damage in unit 2 is the most serious.
The sad thing is that they have done it properly, you can only see Fukushima Daini and Onagawa NPS that survived without mayor problems the earthquake and tsunami. Hell, you can even point to Fukushima Daiichi units 5 and 6 as a proof that those installations were secure. The big question will be why units1 to 4 weren't upgraded to the safety levels of the other reactors.
I was talking in general terms, not about USA only. I'm from Mexico, in my trips to Japan I was extremely impressed about their culture and the care they put in public infrastructure, not only by the guys on charge of it, but the common man. Now, I'm impressed how their collective acts have ended the rolling blackouts that they had to withstand in the early days of the current emergency.
In Mexico's and America's case, we stand to get a great benefit from making similar improvements to mass transit like the ones done in Japan. But the common man in both countries is unable to think even on neighborhood terms, less in a country level. We are turning in a curse the blessings of living in big countries rich in natural resources.
Tokyo Electric Power Company has said two employees who had gone missing since the March 11th disaster were found dead at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The bodies of Kazuhiko Kokubo and Yoshiki Terashima, both in their 20s, were found in the basement of the turbine building for the Number 4 reactor on Wednesday.
They had been carrying out a regular check-up at the plant.
The chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tsunehisa Katsumata, said in a statement that the company is extremely sorry about losing two young employees who had tried to maintain the plant's safety in the midst of disaster. Sunday, April 03, 2011 13:02 +0900 (JST)
I guess that they are doing it this way to provide the public with a rough capability to do comparisons between what is reported in local measurements versus what they are reporting at the emergency site. In case of water contamination, they are using an equivalence of 1Bq/litter = 1Bq/kg that for practical matters is good enough.
That's the price of the whole damage by the earthquake and tsunami in the whole country. Is obvious that you are against nuclear power but lying is not helping your position. Is possible that people can consume far less energy than what they use today, but will need a enormous change in mentality from the "me" to the "we, humanity" that beside a disasters of this magnitude happening around the world, I don't see what else could make us change.
-Today at around 9:30 am, we detected water containing radiation dose overc
1,000 mSv/h in the pit* where supply cables are stored near the intake
channel of Unit 2. Furthermore, there was a crack about 20 cm on the
concrete lateral of the pit, from where the water in the pit was out
flowing.(We already informed.) During the same day, we injected fresh
concrete to the pit, but we could not observe a reduction in the amount
of water spilling from the pit to the sea.
Therefore, we considered that a new method of stopping the water and
determined to use the polymer. Necessary equipment and experts of water
shutoff will be dispatched to the site and after checking the condition,
we're doing continuous work to stop water by injecting polymer(April 3rd). -Monitoring posts of No. 1 ?No.8 set up near the boundary of power station
area have been restored. We will periodically monitor the data and
announce the results of monitoring.
This crack maybe explains why the levels of I-131 had not dropped at the same rate than in the previous days in the readings of I-131 and Cs-137 published by MEXT in their readings of radiation and contamination of water by prefecture page. In most prefectures they have dropped to levels that are not detectable but in a few the levels of Cs-137 have increased.
This tsunami was by no means medium-large. It far exceeded anything they could have been reasonably prepared for.
If that's the case, then it was irresponsible to build nuclear reactors anywhere near the coastline in the first place.
As irresponsible to build oil refineries, ports and cities around the same coastline.
That said, since they had previous studies calling for a improvement in the seawalls, if they have done it instead of losing the 80% of company's value they would be talking about the impressive returns of that 100 million dollars seawall.
Radiation Dose measured at Monitoring Post of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Sv/h) Until the recovery of automatic transfer system of measurement data, data will be reported based on visual observation by regular patrol of monitoring posts. Date of Measurement MP-1MP-2MP-3 MP-4MP-5 MP-6 MP-7 MP-8 2011/4/2 PM 18 56 61 62 130 200 370 280 2011/4/1 PM 19 59 69 68 150 210 390 300
Where in the fucking hell are the measures of deadly levels or radiation? Even at the main Building that does have the highest levels of radiation at 840 Sv/h, most people working there have not still reached the maximum limit of 250,000 Sv for workers in a emergency situation. This is bad, many heads at TEPCO should roll but people here shouldn't be parroting infotaiment reports.
Nothing, as long you are able to provide proper care and love to all of them. but, since by his own admission he is unable to do that, then he should look for a better job, cut expenses or let his wife work too. As things stand, he is a very bad manager that will be unable to provide a good education for his kids.
You don't need to send them that far away. If they cross the frontier from El Paso to Ciudad Juárez, México, were people don't pay taxes, they pay for protection only; they will enjoy the freedom to fire to anybody or anything at any time without worries, you can't be more free than that. Sadly, the 20% of city's inhabitants didn't value freedom that much so they left to more opressive places like El Paso or Mexico City, with their leftist government.
These machines and control systems, using wireless local area networks and global positioning systems, were developed by the Unmanned Construction System Association in Tokyo, a consortium of 15 construction and related companies.
As such unmanned machines can be used in places too dangerous for workers, they have been used at more than 100 sites including restoration work at the Mt. Fugen volcano in Nagasaki Prefecture, which erupted with large pyroclastic flows in 1991, and Hokkaido's Mt. Usu, where a volcanic eruption occurred in 2000.
You can blame TEPCO in that they didn't upgrade the seawalls before. Maybe, you can blame them for protecting the diesel storage tanks with only firewalls, not with walls big enough to protect the fuel tanks against tsunami. They failed at prevention, not at their response at current events. After all, units 5 and 6 will be online in a few months if politics don't get in the way.
But many heads need to roll inside TEPCO because you have proof in the very damaged site and in Onagawa NPS and Fukushima Daini that things could have been done much better. For saving a few million dollars they have lost now several billions, if not the whole company. That's why if power companies are not property of the State, they need to be firmly under the tumb of government regulators. Energy is too valuable to be left only to the market wishes.
Any power station is better maintained and more efficient than any common car, specially a modern conventional power station powered by coal, gas or oil. A small increase of 0.1 % in efficiency can mean millions in additional profit for the power company, so they try to keep them in perfect shape.
Because most people can't be bothered beyond looking at the initial cost and take into account the long term cost. If the common incandescent bulb cost 40 cents and the CFL $5, most people will choose the 40 cents one even if using it will mean paying $30 more than what they would end paying using the CFL.
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident Update (28 March, 23:00 UTC) Japan Confirms Plutonium in Soil Samples at Fukushima Daiichi.
After taking soil samples at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japanese authorities today confirmed finding traces of plutonium that most likely resulted from the nuclear accident there. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency told the IAEA that the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) had found concentrations of plutonium in two of five soil samples.
Traces of plutonium are not uncommon in soil because they were deposited worldwide during the atmospheric nuclear testing era. However, the isotopic composition of the plutonium found at Fukushima Daiichi suggests the material came from the reactor site, according to TEPCO officials. Still, the quantity of plutonium found does not exceed background levels tracked by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology over the past 30 years.
Probably they thought that the plant would be able to achieve cold shut down before the tsunami it it, like the Onagawa Power Station. Wikipedia says that Fukushima was hit by a 14 m tall tsunami, but I have read in another source that the buoys at a closer site recorded a 7.6 m tsunami wave. If it was a 14m tall wave, that makes it around as tall a 5-6 floors building, so even if the generators buildings had water proof doors, they would have ended flooded trough the exhaust pipes. Also, almost all support infrastructure outside reactors and turbine buildings was washed away, so even if you could get a big enough generator of several Mw to the site you wouldn't have nothing to hook it up to.
In insight, the most obvious error that they did was to not remove panels from all reactors buildings in the first hours like they did in units 2, 5 and 6 to prevent hydrogen buildup. That would have prevented the hydrogen explosions and even if they had fires at least most of the roofs and walls would be still standing and containing most pollutants to the reactor buildings in the best case or to the power plants premises in the worst. They never expected that the hydrogen build up had to be enough to destroy the buildings in the way it did. It is sad, Fukushima was a really beautiful power plant, perhaps the most beautiful I will ever see, I remember seeing it from the plane window in one of my trips to Japan, I had no idea that I was looking at a nuclear power station at the time.
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Is relatively close to Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Station, the only nuclear power station in Mexico. It has been recently upgraded and got increased their effective output a pair of years ago. It should be fine if the guys from Alstom and Iberdrola did a good job.
I would worry more about northern Mexico, cities like Tijuana and Mexicali. Our building standards are good on paper, but developers get away building substandard overpriced crap thanks to our endemic corruption.
Very odd since the highest level of radiation spreading far away from the exclusion zone outside Fukushima or Miyagi was detected in Ibaraki 15/march/2011, around 7 am at 1.5 uS/h, when fire destroyed the outer shell of unit 4. Even the radioactivity in the ships is very doubtful since the sea currents go south-north in Fukushima's coast and the ports mentioned in the article are in the Yangtze delta. Maybe the chinese should look upstream the Yangtze river from more radiation.
ROFL
Sadly, they are not the only ones with such an advanced process. The USA has a research facility placed in Cuba, so in case things go wrong only muslims and communists will face the consequences.
And yet they've had better reporting than any major US news outlet.
I will add that better than any news outlet with the sole exceptions of Al-Jazeraa and NHK. The mayor TV networks from Mexico were particularly bad, mistranslating everything and misquoting stuff left and right safe in the knowledge that people that knows japanese will not be looking their POS transmissions; but talking about how Tokyo was a phantom town using as a backdrop an anonymous street far away from Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, Sibuya or Akihabara at 6 am but calling it "one of Tokyo's main streets". Of course that the street would be and look empty. Damn SOBs.
It's not just past animosity, China has a HUGE economic interest in trying to smear Japan. A lot of Japanese factories have been knocked offline(a lot of Japanese factories with key technologies to boot), and you can bet your bottom yuan that China is licking it's lips trying to get as much of that capacity(and technology) moved over to China as they can. By making people think the case is much worse than it is, you will make investors get nervous and be much more willing to agree to the PRCs terms for doing business in China(the transfer of all that technology to the PRC government) so they can get their factories online somewhere "safe".
Yup, to factories built with bricks done by child slave labor, for example. The top brass of PRC government has done many things right, but making China a worker's paradise and building a welfare state sadly are not among them.
The readings from the suppression pool at unit 2 are of negative relative pressure. NISA reports that the suppression pool is damaged. Despite being the less impressive in pictures, the damage in unit 2 is the most serious.
The sad thing is that they have done it properly, you can only see Fukushima Daini and Onagawa NPS that survived without mayor problems the earthquake and tsunami. Hell, you can even point to Fukushima Daiichi units 5 and 6 as a proof that those installations were secure. The big question will be why units1 to 4 weren't upgraded to the safety levels of the other reactors.
I was talking in general terms, not about USA only. I'm from Mexico, in my trips to Japan I was extremely impressed about their culture and the care they put in public infrastructure, not only by the guys on charge of it, but the common man. Now, I'm impressed how their collective acts have ended the rolling blackouts that they had to withstand in the early days of the current emergency.
In Mexico's and America's case, we stand to get a great benefit from making similar improvements to mass transit like the ones done in Japan. But the common man in both countries is unable to think even on neighborhood terms, less in a country level. We are turning in a curse the blessings of living in big countries rich in natural resources.
Best Regards
From NHK:
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/03_11.html
Tokyo Electric Power Company has said two employees who had gone missing since the March 11th disaster were found dead at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The bodies of Kazuhiko Kokubo and Yoshiki Terashima, both in their 20s, were found in the basement of the turbine building for the Number 4 reactor on Wednesday.
They had been carrying out a regular check-up at the plant.
The chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tsunehisa Katsumata, said in a statement that the company is extremely sorry about losing two young employees who had tried to maintain the plant's safety in the midst of disaster.
Sunday, April 03, 2011 13:02 +0900 (JST)
Rest in peace.
I guess that they are doing it this way to provide the public with a rough capability to do comparisons between what is reported in local measurements versus what they are reporting at the emergency site. In case of water contamination, they are using an equivalence of 1Bq/litter = 1Bq/kg that for practical matters is good enough.
That's the price of the whole damage by the earthquake and tsunami in the whole country. Is obvious that you are against nuclear power but lying is not helping your position. Is possible that people can consume far less energy than what they use today, but will need a enormous change in mentality from the "me" to the "we, humanity" that beside a disasters of this magnitude happening around the world, I don't see what else could make us change.
here:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11040307-e.html
-Today at around 9:30 am, we detected water containing radiation dose overc
1,000 mSv/h in the pit* where supply cables are stored near the intake
channel of Unit 2. Furthermore, there was a crack about 20 cm on the
concrete lateral of the pit, from where the water in the pit was out
flowing.(We already informed.) During the same day, we injected fresh
concrete to the pit, but we could not observe a reduction in the amount
of water spilling from the pit to the sea.
Therefore, we considered that a new method of stopping the water and
determined to use the polymer. Necessary equipment and experts of water
shutoff will be dispatched to the site and after checking the condition,
we're doing continuous work to stop water by injecting polymer(April 3rd).
-Monitoring posts of No. 1 ?No.8 set up near the boundary of power station
area have been restored. We will periodically monitor the data and
announce the results of monitoring.
This crack maybe explains why the levels of I-131 had not dropped at the same rate than in the previous days in the readings of I-131 and Cs-137 published by MEXT in their readings of radiation and contamination of water by prefecture page. In most prefectures they have dropped to levels that are not detectable but in a few the levels of Cs-137 have increased.
This tsunami was by no means medium-large. It far exceeded anything they could have been reasonably prepared for.
If that's the case, then it was irresponsible to build nuclear reactors anywhere near the coastline in the first place.
As irresponsible to build oil refineries, ports and cities around the same coastline.
That said, since they had previous studies calling for a improvement in the seawalls, if they have done it instead of losing the 80% of company's value they would be talking about the impressive returns of that 100 million dollars seawall.
This is the last measuring from TEPCO:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/monitoring/11040205a.pdf
Radiation Dose measured at Monitoring Post of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Sv/h)
Until the recovery of automatic transfer system of measurement data, data will be reported based on visual observation by regular patrol of monitoring posts.
Date of Measurement MP-1MP-2MP-3 MP-4MP-5 MP-6 MP-7 MP-8
2011/4/2 PM 18 56 61 62 130 200 370 280
2011/4/1 PM 19 59 69 68 150 210 390 300
Where in the fucking hell are the measures of deadly levels or radiation? Even at the main Building that does have the highest levels of radiation at 840 Sv/h, most people working there have not still reached the maximum limit of 250,000 Sv for workers in a emergency situation. This is bad, many heads at TEPCO should roll but people here shouldn't be parroting infotaiment reports.
Nothing, as long you are able to provide proper care and love to all of them. but, since by his own admission he is unable to do that, then he should look for a better job, cut expenses or let his wife work too. As things stand, he is a very bad manager that will be unable to provide a good education for his kids.
You don't need to send them that far away. If they cross the frontier from El Paso to Ciudad Juárez, México, were people don't pay taxes, they pay for protection only; they will enjoy the freedom to fire to anybody or anything at any time without worries, you can't be more free than that. Sadly, the 20% of city's inhabitants didn't value freedom that much so they left to more opressive places like El Paso or Mexico City, with their leftist government.
And will use precisely for what you are proposing
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110330005766.htm
From parent's link:
These machines and control systems, using wireless local area networks and global positioning systems, were developed by the Unmanned Construction System Association in Tokyo, a consortium of 15 construction and related companies.
As such unmanned machines can be used in places too dangerous for workers, they have been used at more than 100 sites including restoration work at the Mt. Fugen volcano in Nagasaki Prefecture, which erupted with large pyroclastic flows in 1991, and Hokkaido's Mt. Usu, where a volcanic eruption occurred in 2000.
You can blame TEPCO in that they didn't upgrade the seawalls before. Maybe, you can blame them for protecting the diesel storage tanks with only firewalls, not with walls big enough to protect the fuel tanks against tsunami. They failed at prevention, not at their response at current events. After all, units 5 and 6 will be online in a few months if politics don't get in the way.
But many heads need to roll inside TEPCO because you have proof in the very damaged site and in Onagawa NPS and Fukushima Daini that things could have been done much better. For saving a few million dollars they have lost now several billions, if not the whole company. That's why if power companies are not property of the State, they need to be firmly under the tumb of government regulators. Energy is too valuable to be left only to the market wishes.
Why wasn't this done sooner? And while I'm asking, how come we didn't fly in power generators to keep the pumps running before things started to melt
Because the generators needed to run those pumps are of a size that can't be sent by any helicopter in existence.
Any power station is better maintained and more efficient than any common car, specially a modern conventional power station powered by coal, gas or oil. A small increase of 0.1 % in efficiency can mean millions in additional profit for the power company, so they try to keep them in perfect shape.
Because most people can't be bothered beyond looking at the initial cost and take into account the long term cost. If the common incandescent bulb cost 40 cents and the CFL $5, most people will choose the 40 cents one even if using it will mean paying $30 more than what they would end paying using the CFL.
Here is the last post from IAEA:
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident Update (28 March, 23:00 UTC)
Japan Confirms Plutonium in Soil Samples at Fukushima Daiichi.
After taking soil samples at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japanese authorities today confirmed finding traces of plutonium that most likely resulted from the nuclear accident there. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency told the IAEA that the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) had found concentrations of plutonium in two of five soil samples.
Traces of plutonium are not uncommon in soil because they were deposited worldwide during the atmospheric nuclear testing era. However, the isotopic composition of the plutonium found at Fukushima Daiichi suggests the material came from the reactor site, according to TEPCO officials. Still, the quantity of plutonium found does not exceed background levels tracked by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology over the past 30 years.
Also, Japan's NISA has this report:
http://www.nisa.meti.go.jp/english/files/en20110329-5.html
That points to TEPCO's original analysis:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/betu11_e/images/110328e14.pdf
Probably they thought that the plant would be able to achieve cold shut down before the tsunami it it, like the Onagawa Power Station. Wikipedia says that Fukushima was hit by a 14 m tall tsunami, but I have read in another source that the buoys at a closer site recorded a 7.6 m tsunami wave. If it was a 14m tall wave, that makes it around as tall a 5-6 floors building, so even if the generators buildings had water proof doors, they would have ended flooded trough the exhaust pipes. Also, almost all support infrastructure outside reactors and turbine buildings was washed away, so even if you could get a big enough generator of several Mw to the site you wouldn't have nothing to hook it up to.
In insight, the most obvious error that they did was to not remove panels from all reactors buildings in the first hours like they did in units 2, 5 and 6 to prevent hydrogen buildup. That would have prevented the hydrogen explosions and even if they had fires at least most of the roofs and walls would be still standing and containing most pollutants to the reactor buildings in the best case or to the power plants premises in the worst. They never expected that the hydrogen build up had to be enough to destroy the buildings in the way it did. It is sad, Fukushima was a really beautiful power plant, perhaps the most beautiful I will ever see, I remember seeing it from the plane window in one of my trips to Japan, I had no idea that I was looking at a nuclear power station at the time.