cavanami Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 The first reactor to have a problem is the oldest in Japan installed by GE 30 years ago (or more). The news here in the USA mentioned that they have brought in 14 generators to restore power to the cooling system(s). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 Hi, "Anyone heard from Fiery Jack?" Have emailed him, but not yet heard anything. I too hope he is okay. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 I think he is near Osaka, way south of the problem areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 Several years ago (and I would suspect they still do), it was common for brokerage firms to have a black book on what do if certain things happened. They already accounted for a Japanese earthquake and I've long hear the every 70 years or so timeline. There were a basket of stocks computer trading programs would either buy or sell when/if an earthquake hit Japan. As far as CNN and other news (if you can call what they do news nowadays) they will always sensationalize under the guise of the humanity of a tragedy and try to appear sypathetic but its really about ratings. Any and every angle of this event will be milked. The human interest stories of individuals will be next if it hasn't already happened. They did the same with the Haiti tragedy. Tragedies like these are a godsend to the news networks. Sad to say so but its true. Its a constant struggle to fill airtime and these types of events keeps people tuned in with little costs (replaying the same footage over and over). Not much cost to bringing on some nerd expert from some university to tell us the science of it, etc. The sensationalized coverage of these events ends up desenstiizing me to the tragedy. I feel guilty about that. After constant round the clock retelling of the same information where they ask the reporter on the ground things that the person has no training for, knowledge of or is not privy to that information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizardKing Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 I think he is near Osaka, way south of the problem areas. He was, but AFAIK he moved north to the Edo area (not 100% exactly where tho') last year... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgianBoy Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 And UAL-something also lives in Japan, no ? And think too mutt..... BB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizardKing Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 UAL no longer there... Sadly (not counting this crisis) as it makes my trips to Edo so much less sanuk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgianBoy Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 one BM less in harms way..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 Some are now saying this might be the third greatest nuclear reactor disastor in history and if it doesn't get contained, might be the worst. I guess the nuclear energy field is going to go on vacation for a few more decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 I saw the explosion on the Televisual extravaganza, Fukushima #1 station, there were shots from 2 angles. Not every day you see a nuclear power plant blow up. The assumption is that there is radiation in this explosion. 10 and 20 kilometre exclusion and evacuation zones in place, around of the sites of #1 and #2 power stations. Caesium and Iodine detected at #1 plant, [color:red]reactor container not breached[/color], levels not rising, top of building gone. Seawater being pumped in to cool reactors. Still lots of footage of the Tsunami/s, which presumably have gone now. Heights of 7 metres not uncommon. Plenty of large and extensive fires, coming under control. 400 - 500 bodies awaiting identification. Great footage of train swept off tracks, I say great because the people had been evacuated before it happened. Plenty of aftershocks. For those who may not know the Richter scale is logarithmic. Japan 8.9 Richter scale Christchurch 6.3 Richter scale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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