The IAEA Incident and
Emergency Centre (IEC) continues to monitor the status of the nuclear
power plants in Japan that were affected by the devastating earthquake
and consequent tsunami.
All units at the Fukushima Daini,
Onagawa, and Tokai nuclear power plants are in a safe and stable
condition (i.e. cold shutdown).
The IAEA remains concerned over
the status of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, where sea water
injections to cool the reactors in units 1, 2 and 3 are continuing.
Attempts to return power to the entire Daiichi site are also continuing.
After explosions at both units 1
and 3, the primary containment vessels of both units are reported to be
intact. However, the explosion that occurred at 04:25 UTC on 14 March at
the Fukushima Daiichi unit 2 may have affected the integrity of its
primary containment vessel. All three explosions were due to an
accumulation of hydrogen gas.
A fire at unit 4 occurred on 14
March 23:54 UTC and lasted two hours. The IAEA is seeking clarification
on the nature and consequences of the fire.
The IAEA continues to seek details about the status of all workers, reactors and spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
An evacuation of the population
from the 20-kilometre zone around Fukushima Daiichi is in effect. The
Japanese have advised that people within a 30-km radius shall take
shelter indoors. Iodine tablets have been distributed to evacuation
centres but no decision has yet been taken on their administration.
A 30-kilometre no-fly zone has
been established around the Daiichi plant. Normal civil aviation beyond
this zone remains uninterrupted. The Japan Coast Guard established
evacuation warnings within 10 kilometres of Fukushima Daiichi and 3
kilometres of Fukushima Daini.
The IAEA and several other UN
organizations held a meeting at 11:00 UTC today to discuss recent
developments and coordinate activities related to consequences of the
earthquake and tsunami. The meeting was called under the framework of
the Joint Radiation Emergency Management Plan of the International
Organizations, and this group expects to work closely together in the
days ahead.
Word is that TEPCO is going to try to drop water from a helicopter on the exposed rods at reactor #4. Where's McGyver when you need him?
Did the pumps break? Are you kidding me? This is fucked if they have to fly the water in.
Maybe they can line up men and piss on it.
Hold up lads, I've got an idea.
Pumpkins are high in water, right? What you need are these boys:
http://science.discovery.com/videos/punkin-chunkin-2009-air-cannons.html
That way the techs can stay well back and all you need is pumpkins.
If that fails can we get them to move onto seriously considering what the fuck they're actually going to do about 800 fuel rods that are going to go up in smoke and, as an aside, whether they can address the situation in the reactor that seems to be happily melting down in building two.
I understand not wanting to cause a panic, but if the above is actually going to happen and there's naff all they can do about it, would you rather people started to make their own way away from Tokyo now whilst there's no danger or waiting for the health hazard to arrive one morning and 35 million people decide to leave in a stampede?
Not sinking!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8IBnfkcrsM
OMFG
Teleprompter@ CNBC tells Mark Haines that Fukushima power plant is stable
He goes..."uh, dunno where that got that from"
LOL! I haven't shit my pants since I was a little school boy.
Yeh I saw that. He was supposed to read the teleprompter and not comment on it. Damn it, I bet his ear piece was humming..........Damn it Mark, shut up already.....
they'll try an hour later to get that dead cat bounce in again
Yeah fucking right. I believe my son more than I believe the IAEA.
I think there is some bad disinfo being put out here about this event. Nothing to see here folks. Move along. Take a deep breath folks. Its all good.
QED
of course. The governments are lying. The agencies are lying. The reporters are lying. EVERYONE is lying, about EVERYthing. Always.
Nothing is true. Even you are lying.
I'd like to know just exactly what the fuck "disinfo" was put out? ALL the information I've seen so far stated clearly and flatly what the situation was AT THAT TIME.
If #1 and #3 are stable as of 9EDT this morning, THAT IS THE CURRENT SITUATION. It DOES NOT MEAN that #1 will not go up in a gigantic ball of fire shaped like a middle finger later this evening! And it is NOT disinformation.
You paranoids with your crazy moonbat conspiracies...and the way you lash out at anyone who doesn't share your schizophrenia.
Tokyo will be a ghost town soon.
Can anyone get the video from my comment above.
I want to archive that puppy.
You can try Zamzar. They do flv to avi.
IT'S SAFE!!
but don't go there...
I am beginning to understand that people here have a reading problem.
Wow, I guess I never saw it before. People think anything OTHER than "PANIC NOWWWWWWWW" is somehow "everything is fine."
There has not been an official yet that I have seen in any way suggest that shit was fine or dandy or not to be worried about. But the leaps that people take when they DO NOT SEE "TSHTF" or "TEOTWAWKI" or whatever apocalyptic shit they WANT to be the message; they somehow assume and infer that the speaker is saying something that they NEVER actually said.
Tokyo Electric says it may drop water by helicopter onto Daiichi No 4 spent fuel cooling pond. Reuters.
The IAEA is highly credible and Bear Stears is fine (don't you dare take your money out of Bear Stears). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUkbdjetlY8
TruthinSunshine,
It reminds me that I actually have a video of Cramer shouting those words on TV.
Nice that you bring back that memory.
Surreal beyond belief.
I swear to god these markets will be close to green by the end of the session. Incredible.
OT: Right now Glenn Beck, Stu and Pat are talking about ZeroHedge....they're having fun, laughing about trend lines and how GB loves ZH...lol
www.depleteduraniumsnackpack.org
Funny thing is, they are making all these people to panic from these low levels of radiation by saying 50 x's normal levels, etc but these same people are willing to stick their kids in xray booths while having no friggin clue how much radiation they are blasting them with. What the fuck kind of sense does that make???
www.courageouspeopleworkingatthosereactors.net
Yeah Gordo, and they will fill their minds full of more toxic thinking than any outside source could muster... Might be a good idea and go back and reconsider that Noble Prize from 1957 for Lee and Yang... nah....
Since the there-is-no-danger crowd has been getting at least two cups of STFU a day, I tend to be skeptical.
By the way, Fukushima #4 was shut down, but exploded and caught fire. Different circumstances, but it's hard for me to take anything for granted any more.
Still, it's a good thing the governments and companies involved are controlled by the best and brightest instead of a few overbred trust fund babies.
There is NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON here who ever claimed there was no danger.
Are you stupid or something that you can't see a continuum of outcomes in between sunshine and roses and the apocalypse?
There are people claiming the entire island of Japan is going to be uninhabitable, that the US is going to get contaminated....mfers are running out and buying KI pills. And if anyone says JFC, calm down, you assume they are saying everything is perfectly fine?
People here are no better than everyone else; you want your stupid fix, which in your cases is BAD NEWS. You fix on that shit as much as the CNBC cretins fix on their pumper shit and the Obamanauts fix on his speechification.
I haven't seen this much overt misanthropy and actual DESIRE for the worst possible outcome since I left tickerforum.
The "there is no danger" crowd is a STRAWMAN.
Does anybody have information about the status of
Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokkasho_Reprocessing_Plant
It was reported to be run in emergency cooling by diesel Generators on Saturday too.
And they where speaking about stored Fuelrods from about 25-30 Powerplants in it.
That is a very good question; using Google to search under News returned just a few stories, nothing recent.
The IAEA IEC can kiss my radioactive butt !
I love how Japan asked for assistance but nobodys experts wants to go there ! That tells enough by itself
"The government will tell you what they want you to know, AND, what they can no longer conceal."
Seems apt for these circumstances.
Here we go:
1604: The European Union has decided to conduct "stress tests" on the continent's nuclear power plants, the bloc's energy chief Guenther Oettinger said, according to AFP. I'm err, well, no words...Well, sticks and stones may break your bones and words may not hurt you, but radiation can kill you.
UPDATE AS OF 9:15 A.M. EDT, TUESDAY, MARCH 15:
Fukushima Daiichi
Units 1 and 3 at Fukushima Daiichi are stable and cooling is being maintained through seawater injection. Primary containment integrity has been maintained on both reactors.
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)reported an explosion in the suppression pool at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2, at 7:14 p.m. EDT on March 14. Reactor water level was reported to be at 2.7 meters below the top of the fuel. The pressure in the suppression pool decreased from 3 atmospheres to 1 atmosphere. Radiation readings at the site increased to 96 millirem per hour.
Dose rates at Fukushima Daiichi as reported at 10:22 p.m. EDT on March 14 were:
Near Unit 3 reactor building 40 rem/hr
Near Unit 4 reactor building 10 rem/hr
At site boundary 821 millirem/hr.
Kitaibaraki (200 km south of site) 0.4 millirem/hr.
We are working on getting updated information on radiation and dose rates at and near the plant.
Station personnel not directly supporting reactor recovery efforts have been evacuated, leaving approximately 50 staff members at the site. Operators are no longer in the main control room due to high radiation levels.
Safety relief valves were able to be re-opened and seawater injection into the reactor core was restarted around 1 a.m. EDT on March 15 and is continuing.
At Unit 4 on March 14 at approximately 8:38 p.m. EDT, a fire was reported in the reactor building. It is believed to have been from a lube oil leak in a system that drives recirculation water pumps. Fire fighting efforts extinguished the fire. The roof of the reactor building was damaged.
Fukushima Daini
All four reactors at Fukushima Daini are being maintained with normal cooling using residual heat removal systems.
Q2,
Please provide a link to updates.
This sources seems relatively credible.
this was Kyodo and NHK...I posted these radiation numbers last night, only in Sieverts
All the equipment that was blown up or damaged was just extraneous, not at all connected to maintaining a stable and safe operation, please go back to your soap operas - we have things under control.
The IAEA is a bunch of morons. I lived in Vienna and know a bunch of IAEA people. Most are just cronies of the appropriate Emporer/Sultan/Whatever and live a life of luxury in Europe. The IAEA is a toothless tiger and does not even bother to follow its own announcements.