I'm from Mexico and really hate this SOBs. The bad security situation is already a cause of brain drain and now this bunch of stupid morons are targeting the only scientists that we have that can engage in high level research and are almost our only hope to became a developed nation. I'm tempted to wish that they end caught in the paws of the Zetas or any drug cartel, so they will know what is to be in a poorly thought state of anarchy.
In Mexico currently in theaters there is a picture called "La Cristiada" english name "For Greater Glory" about the religious civil war that ran intermittently from 1926 to 1937. Aside being a whitewash for those mexican taliban, these bastards, specially in the 30's engaged in a campaign to mutilate and murder school teachers. The most egregious example that I remember that happened in a town close to the place I was born in that the "Cristeros" gang raped and mutilated a female teacher, Maria R. Murillo, for the supposed crimes of being protestant and communist, when in reality she was catholic. They murdered more than 200 teachers, cut the ears and noses from many, many more and burned dozens of schools. My grandmother, together with her father and brothers had several skirmishes with them. They killed protestant, atheist and jews equally, had a little bit more compunction when they murdered catholics, but not much since "they were not pious enough". The remnants of cristeros were a source of concern in Mexico in WWII because many of them were collaborators of the european Axis powers.
The quote is from the admonishment that gave catholic priests to parents at the time.
The source of the drink of gods, the currency of ancient mayan people now used for making cookies. This is why the human world will be destroyed, we are deliciously cursed.
I googled for the press release but didn't find it, but I'm pretty shure that they planned to expand in Yokohama, Shinagawa and Chiba. Certainly, Kanagawa is not part of Tokyo in any sense, but I think we both can agree that despite the political boundaries of the different prefectures, the build up area from Chiba to Yokohama at the other side of Tokyo bay is practically continuous.
On the other hand, TEPCO had so many chances, so many time to avoid this disaster that is amazing that their managers did't get charged for their criminal negligence. I expect such brazen, shameless display of impunity in my country, Mexico, or any third world place, but in a first world, supposedly democratic country like Japan is incredible. I work for the state owned electric company, and, despite the high level corruption cases that have happened in our company, we do our best to keep the safety of our installations. The energy business is not only that, we always have the safety and welfare of our customers in our hands, more so in the case of nuclear power plants; to do a sloppy job is not an option here.
Thank you for the links. I read the english version of TEPCO's web site. My japanese, despite the nickname, is good only to the 4th of 5 levels of japanese.
comes from the restart of an older big power plant in Yokosuka and the expansion of capacity in Chiba and other places. The bad news comes from the installation of 187 diesel units that will only provide 1,071.5 MW. This is barely above the output of the 2 smallest nuclear power generation units in Japan. Still, I think it would be foolish to try to extend the service time of the older, small nuclear units. Fukushima Daiichi could have been a far less serious accident if Unit 1 didn't got a license to continue in service. Not only because that would have been a one more unit less in service at the time of the accident, but because the explosion of Unit 1 hampered the efforts to put under control Units 2 and 3. For such small units, is not worth the risk.
TEPCO is building new gas power plants INSIDE Tokyo Metropolitan area to make up for the lost capacity of the nuclear plants and canceled plans to decommission older plants that are not enough efficient, or that are in other populated areas. Even Roppongi Hills have their power plants running full time. Gas burns way cleaner than coal but still you have combustion gases going out. Maybe those "environmentalists" learnt how to make photosynthesis because for the rest of the population of Tokyo this means lower air quality everyday, all the time.
Really you guys should send all the randytes to Mexico, specially to Nuevo Laredo, always is Halloween there, with bodies hanging on bridges and many more gore stuff. This is what you get when a government becomes a government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich. Since the ones with the gold put the rules, then, is no wonder that the state gets captured by the mobsters locally, and by white collar criminals nationwide.
I also did that, I updated my wife's computers even if her didn't like to reboot her machines for updates, but this helped her to understand why it is necessary. Flashback worked because we are pestered with Flash Player updates almost weekly, so for many users this appeared to be a legitimate update, and because Apple was incredibly lazy in updating Java. 1 or 2 weeks of delay between Oracle's patch and Apple's patch is reasonable, 2 months not.
If TFA is correct, the floor space is 184,000 square feet, so the power density is 108.7 W / square foot, making Apple's numbers sound pretty realistic, even more if the floor space is not used at full capacity.
Apparently they all come from the same source, but well, let's look if Miss Tanya Steele now have the courtesy of showing herself in australian courts if she wants it removed from their servers.
According to Worldnuclear.org, the price for the new seawalls and tsunami/quake countermeasures at Hamaoka NPS, more or less similar in size to Fukushima Daiichi, is US$1.7 Billion. That would have been chump change to TEPCO, the largest utility in Japan.
Hello, I'm not japanese, actually, I'm from western Mexico, but I have visited Japan several times and deeply love the country and their people. I had to cancel my mid march 2011 trip to Japan for obvious reasons, but visited the country in august-september 2011. In general, they were more concerned with the people that lost their homes and how to support them, the lack of electricity than with the nuclear power plants. Not to say that they didn't cared about them, but they were more concerned with the most pressing matters, and the nuclear scare damaged severely their tourist industry and they didn't wanted to talk about it. The closest thing to "worry" about nuclear power plants was a old lady asking me if we had nuclear power plants in Mexico.
About the radiation scare, I didn't care since I live in a high city, and the radiation in Japan is far lower than in my town even after the accident. I'm planning to visit Northeastern Japan with my younger brother and several friends next summer. People there still needs support and the countryside is simple breathtaking with its beauty. I'm surprised by the german reaction in relation to their own nuclear power plants, they need to be decommissioned, but not in the hasty way Merkel's government is doing it and not by replacing them with more coal power plants. On the plus side, is impressive how solar and wind electricity generation is growing in your country.
Like ultranova said, "Those killed by a tsunami don't make for good propaganda for anti-nuclear lobby." I compare the german media focus with Fukushima Daiichi with the absurd focus that the media in other countries make about Nazi Germany or, in my case, with the mexican war on drugs. Actually, the safest city in my country is Mexico City, but you wouldn't know that if you see tv news. Sadly, is true that most of the countryside in northern Mexico is off limits due to lawlessness but most of our beaches are not more dangerous than the beaches of any caribbean country.
...and most government officers rarely are good public servants.
Many cities had seawalls. There were several places that survived the tsunami. The seawalls coupled with the tsunami alerts bought thousands, maybe millions enough time to evacuate, but, since people had to run uphill, this meant that the elderly were unable to evacuate. This is the reason that caused that a very high percentage of elderly people -even for japanese standards- died in the tsunami. They make the bulk of casualties. Is easier to harden a small place than to try to protect thousands of kilometers of coast. Still, there is a nice story about the small city of Fudai in Iitate Prefecture that survived the tsunami:. How one village defied the tsunami
Long story short, a very long and expensive project to protect the small city, "waste of taxes" in the view of critics, but that saved the whole town in the end. People went to pay their respects to the grave of the city's mayor that pushed for the seawall, Mr. Kotaku Wamura. We can say that good politicians coupled with good engineers and a society able and willing to pay taxes saves lives.
As the submitter, even if the article was several days old, I thought that the story was still relevant, not only in the "feel good" department, but in the sense of a very practical benefit of ethical behavior. This is the "month of safety" in my company, and this story helps to drive home the idea that energy workers are responsible not only of their own safety but also of the community they serve. More so when we work for a state owned company, that makes us public servants too.
Even if Fukushima's Daiichis Unit 1 was already damaged by the quake (I haven't found any reference for this, the closest is the manual shutdown of the emergency cooling system at march 11 2011, 15:03), the accident recovery was severely hampered by the tsunami. If the emergency generators had survived, the accident at Fukushima Daiichi would have been a Ievel 3 or 4 accident at worst.
- At 10:10 am on March 26, 2011, we started injecting freshwater to the reactor and are now injecting fresh water by a motor driven pump powered by the off-site transmission line. - At 2:59 pm on September 14, 2011, in addition to water injection from feed water system, we started water injection from piping of core spray system to the reactor. The current water injection amount from the reactor feed water system is approx. 2.7 m3/h and that from the core spray system is approx. 6m3/h. - At 5:21 pm on May 31, 2011, we started cyclic cooling for the water in the spent fuel pool by an alternative cooling equipment of the Fuel Pool Cooling and Filtering System. - At 8:06 pm on June 28, 2011, we started injecting nitrogen gas into the Primary Containment Vessel. - At 6:00 pm on October 28, 2011, a full operation of the PCV gas control system started. - From 9:40 am to 12:30 pm on March 26, the water level and water temperature inside the PCV of Unit 2 was investigated with the industrial endoscope. As a result, the water level was confirmed to be 60 cm from the bottom of the PCV and the water temperature was confirmed to be in the range of approx. 48.5 to 50.0 . - At 12:10 pm on March 27, the amount of injected nitrogen into the PCV was adjusted from 0 Nm3/h to approx. 5 Nm3/h as the internal investigation of the Unit 2 PCV was finished. - At 10:46 am on December 1, 2011, we started the nitrogen injection to the Reactor Pressure Vessel. - At 11:50 am on January 19, 2012, we started the operation of the spent fuel pool desalting facility.
TEPCO should be blamed for their negligence in not raising the height of the seawalls and leaving two big nuclear power stations at the mercy of a tsunami, the executives that didn't do it are 1 year late to jail, but after march their engineers have dealt with the nuclear emergency as good as possible.
Severe slip of the mind, I shouldn't post in the morning after working a double shift. I meant Tohoku Denryoku's Onagawa NPS that was far closer to the epicenter, see Japan's Atomic Industrial Forum map of situation of NPS's in Japan: http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_images/pdf/ENGNEWS02_1330597193P.pdf
Aside the dunes, the operator plans to build a 18 m tall sea wall behind the dunes, and increase the eight of dunes to 20 m; they claim that the station is designed to withstand a quake of 1000 gal with the reinforcement work that ended in march 2008, well above the japanese standard of 800 gal. Certainly, all this work is not done by the goodness of the owner's hearts, but doesn't make sense to the company to not try to quell the claims of Hamaoka being called the most dangerous nuclear power plant in Japan, better try to convince citizens of the safety and security of the station and restart operation instead of keeping it in cold shutdown.
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I'm from Mexico and really hate this SOBs. The bad security situation is already a cause of brain drain and now this bunch of stupid morons are targeting the only scientists that we have that can engage in high level research and are almost our only hope to became a developed nation. I'm tempted to wish that they end caught in the paws of the Zetas or any drug cartel, so they will know what is to be in a poorly thought state of anarchy.
In Mexico currently in theaters there is a picture called "La Cristiada" english name "For Greater Glory" about the religious civil war that ran intermittently from 1926 to 1937. Aside being a whitewash for those mexican taliban, these bastards, specially in the 30's engaged in a campaign to mutilate and murder school teachers. The most egregious example that I remember that happened in a town close to the place I was born in that the "Cristeros" gang raped and mutilated a female teacher, Maria R. Murillo, for the supposed crimes of being protestant and communist, when in reality she was catholic. They murdered more than 200 teachers, cut the ears and noses from many, many more and burned dozens of schools. My grandmother, together with her father and brothers had several skirmishes with them. They killed protestant, atheist and jews equally, had a little bit more compunction when they murdered catholics, but not much since "they were not pious enough". The remnants of cristeros were a source of concern in Mexico in WWII because many of them were collaborators of the european Axis powers.
The quote is from the admonishment that gave catholic priests to parents at the time.
The source of the drink of gods, the currency of ancient mayan people now used for making cookies. This is why the human world will be destroyed, we are deliciously cursed.
I googled for the press release but didn't find it, but I'm pretty shure that they planned to expand in Yokohama, Shinagawa and Chiba. Certainly, Kanagawa is not part of Tokyo in any sense, but I think we both can agree that despite the political boundaries of the different prefectures, the build up area from Chiba to Yokohama at the other side of Tokyo bay is practically continuous.
On the other hand, TEPCO had so many chances, so many time to avoid this disaster that is amazing that their managers did't get charged for their criminal negligence. I expect such brazen, shameless display of impunity in my country, Mexico, or any third world place, but in a first world, supposedly democratic country like Japan is incredible. I work for the state owned electric company, and, despite the high level corruption cases that have happened in our company, we do our best to keep the safety of our installations. The energy business is not only that, we always have the safety and welfare of our customers in our hands, more so in the case of nuclear power plants; to do a sloppy job is not an option here.
Best Regards
Thank you for the links. I read the english version of TEPCO's web site. My japanese, despite the nickname, is good only to the 4th of 5 levels of japanese.
I remember a press release in mid-late 2011 that they planned to expand capacity in Chiba and Yokohama, that in practical terms are part of Tokyo. That was the main source of my comment. The expansion of capacity, according to this links:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/torikumi/thermal/popup_02.html
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/torikumi/thermal/popup_03.html
comes from the restart of an older big power plant in Yokosuka and the expansion of capacity in Chiba and other places. The bad news comes from the installation of 187 diesel units that will only provide 1,071.5 MW. This is barely above the output of the 2 smallest nuclear power generation units in Japan. Still, I think it would be foolish to try to extend the service time of the older, small nuclear units. Fukushima Daiichi could have been a far less serious accident if Unit 1 didn't got a license to continue in service. Not only because that would have been a one more unit less in service at the time of the accident, but because the explosion of Unit 1 hampered the efforts to put under control Units 2 and 3. For such small units, is not worth the risk.
Best Regards
TEPCO is building new gas power plants INSIDE Tokyo Metropolitan area to make up for the lost capacity of the nuclear plants and canceled plans to decommission older plants that are not enough efficient, or that are in other populated areas. Even Roppongi Hills have their power plants running full time. Gas burns way cleaner than coal but still you have combustion gases going out. Maybe those "environmentalists" learnt how to make photosynthesis because for the rest of the population of Tokyo this means lower air quality everyday, all the time.
The only example that I can think is eastern Somalia, but I doubt that it is what grandparent had in mind.
Really you guys should send all the randytes to Mexico, specially to Nuevo Laredo, always is Halloween there, with bodies hanging on bridges and many more gore stuff. This is what you get when a government becomes a government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich. Since the ones with the gold put the rules, then, is no wonder that the state gets captured by the mobsters locally, and by white collar criminals nationwide.
Well, at least they pay more than the $7 US dollars that Walmart used to pay in income tax in Mexico.
I also did that, I updated my wife's computers even if her didn't like to reboot her machines for updates, but this helped her to understand why it is necessary. Flashback worked because we are pestered with Flash Player updates almost weekly, so for many users this appeared to be a legitimate update, and because Apple was incredibly lazy in updating Java. 1 or 2 weeks of delay between Oracle's patch and Apple's patch is reasonable, 2 months not.
Profit is a very good motivator, but nothing against the necessity of doing a good job to keep yourself and your loved ones safe and alive.
If TFA is correct, the floor space is 184,000 square feet, so the power density is 108.7 W / square foot, making Apple's numbers sound pretty realistic, even more if the floor space is not used at full capacity.
While i'm an Atari guy, i admit we lost and they won. Marketing is what made the difference.
Steve Wozniak's hardware, Steve Wozniak's software and Steve Jobs vision made the difference.
And screwing at every chance their business partners like IBM, Apple, Novell, Spyglass, Sega or Sun.
From the top links from Google's video search:
Blackfella's Guide to New York - The Age
Blackfella's Guide to New York - Brisbane Times
Blackfella's Guide to New York - The Sydney Morning Herald
Apparently they all come from the same source, but well, let's look if Miss Tanya Steele now have the courtesy of showing herself in australian courts if she wants it removed from their servers.
If the poodles are Sarkozy or Blair you can make an exception.
Or Pixar and modern 3D movies.
According to Worldnuclear.org, the price for the new seawalls and tsunami/quake countermeasures at Hamaoka NPS, more or less similar in size to Fukushima Daiichi, is US$1.7 Billion. That would have been chump change to TEPCO, the largest utility in Japan.
Hello, I'm not japanese, actually, I'm from western Mexico, but I have visited Japan several times and deeply love the country and their people. I had to cancel my mid march 2011 trip to Japan for obvious reasons, but visited the country in august-september 2011. In general, they were more concerned with the people that lost their homes and how to support them, the lack of electricity than with the nuclear power plants. Not to say that they didn't cared about them, but they were more concerned with the most pressing matters, and the nuclear scare damaged severely their tourist industry and they didn't wanted to talk about it. The closest thing to "worry" about nuclear power plants was a old lady asking me if we had nuclear power plants in Mexico.
About the radiation scare, I didn't care since I live in a high city, and the radiation in Japan is far lower than in my town even after the accident. I'm planning to visit Northeastern Japan with my younger brother and several friends next summer. People there still needs support and the countryside is simple breathtaking with its beauty. I'm surprised by the german reaction in relation to their own nuclear power plants, they need to be decommissioned, but not in the hasty way Merkel's government is doing it and not by replacing them with more coal power plants. On the plus side, is impressive how solar and wind electricity generation is growing in your country.
Like ultranova said, "Those killed by a tsunami don't make for good propaganda for anti-nuclear lobby." I compare the german media focus with Fukushima Daiichi with the absurd focus that the media in other countries make about Nazi Germany or, in my case, with the mexican war on drugs. Actually, the safest city in my country is Mexico City, but you wouldn't know that if you see tv news. Sadly, is true that most of the countryside in northern Mexico is off limits due to lawlessness but most of our beaches are not more dangerous than the beaches of any caribbean country.
...and most government officers rarely are good public servants.
Many cities had seawalls. There were several places that survived the tsunami. The seawalls coupled with the tsunami alerts bought thousands, maybe millions enough time to evacuate, but, since people had to run uphill, this meant that the elderly were unable to evacuate. This is the reason that caused that a very high percentage of elderly people -even for japanese standards- died in the tsunami. They make the bulk of casualties. Is easier to harden a small place than to try to protect thousands of kilometers of coast. Still, there is a nice story about the small city of Fudai in Iitate Prefecture that survived the tsunami:.
How one village defied the tsunami
Long story short, a very long and expensive project to protect the small city, "waste of taxes" in the view of critics, but that saved the whole town in the end. People went to pay their respects to the grave of the city's mayor that pushed for the seawall, Mr. Kotaku Wamura. We can say that good politicians coupled with good engineers and a society able and willing to pay taxes saves lives.
A toast to a great engineer, indeed.
As the submitter, even if the article was several days old, I thought that the story was still relevant, not only in the "feel good" department, but in the sense of a very practical benefit of ethical behavior. This is the "month of safety" in my company, and this story helps to drive home the idea that energy workers are responsible not only of their own safety but also of the community they serve. More so when we work for a state owned company, that makes us public servants too.
Even if Fukushima's Daiichis Unit 1 was already damaged by the quake (I haven't found any reference for this, the closest is the manual shutdown of the emergency cooling system at march 11 2011, 15:03), the accident recovery was severely hampered by the tsunami. If the emergency generators had survived, the accident at Fukushima Daiichi would have been a Ievel 3 or 4 accident at worst.
Very nice link. The camera appears to have a volume of around 60 liters so even if it isn't as portable as a point and shoot camera, is small enough to be easily deployed in the contaminated area. Maybe this research is related to this other news, that the japanese government will make a review of of the evacuation area in 3 municipalities in Fukushima
A better reference than TFA, the report from TEPCO: "Reference Result of the dose measurement in the second investigation inside of Primary Containment Vessels, Unit 2, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant" with the precise location of measurements and the last report (Mar 27,2012) from TEPCO regarding Unit 2 of Fukushima Daiichi:
- At 10:10 am on March 26, 2011, we started injecting freshwater to the reactor and are now injecting fresh water by a motor driven pump powered by the off-site transmission line.
- At 2:59 pm on September 14, 2011, in addition to water injection from feed water system, we started water injection from piping of core spray system to the reactor.
The current water injection amount from the reactor feed water system is approx. 2.7 m3/h and that from the core spray system is approx. 6m3/h.
- At 5:21 pm on May 31, 2011, we started cyclic cooling for the water in the spent fuel pool by an alternative cooling equipment of the Fuel Pool Cooling and Filtering System.
- At 8:06 pm on June 28, 2011, we started injecting nitrogen gas into the Primary Containment Vessel.
- At 6:00 pm on October 28, 2011, a full operation of the PCV gas control system started.
- From 9:40 am to 12:30 pm on March 26, the water level and water temperature inside the PCV of Unit 2 was investigated with the industrial endoscope. As a result, the water level was confirmed to be 60 cm from the bottom of the PCV and the water temperature was confirmed to be in the range of approx. 48.5 to 50.0 .
- At 12:10 pm on March 27, the amount of injected nitrogen into the PCV was adjusted from 0 Nm3/h to approx. 5 Nm3/h as the internal investigation of the Unit 2 PCV was finished.
- At 10:46 am on December 1, 2011, we started the nitrogen injection to the Reactor Pressure Vessel.
- At 11:50 am on January 19, 2012, we started the operation of the spent fuel pool desalting facility.
TEPCO should be blamed for their negligence in not raising the height of the seawalls and leaving two big nuclear power stations at the mercy of a tsunami, the executives that didn't do it are 1 year late to jail, but after march their engineers have dealt with the nuclear emergency as good as possible.
Severe slip of the mind, I shouldn't post in the morning after working a double shift. I meant Tohoku Denryoku's Onagawa NPS that was far closer to the epicenter, see Japan's Atomic Industrial Forum map of situation of NPS's in Japan:
http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_images/pdf/ENGNEWS02_1330597193P.pdf
Now, Chuden's Hamaoka NPS is in the process to being reinforced against tsunami and quakes, at least it is what the company says.
http://hamaoka.chuden.jp/english/provision/index.html
Aside the dunes, the operator plans to build a 18 m tall sea wall behind the dunes, and increase the eight of dunes to 20 m; they claim that the station is designed to withstand a quake of 1000 gal with the reinforcement work that ended in march 2008, well above the japanese standard of 800 gal. Certainly, all this work is not done by the goodness of the owner's hearts, but doesn't make sense to the company to not try to quell the claims of Hamaoka being called the most dangerous nuclear power plant in Japan, better try to convince citizens of the safety and security of the station and restart operation instead of keeping it in cold shutdown.