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TEPCO Prepares Countermeasures As Typhoon Tidal Waves Approach Fukushima
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#Typhoon #Phanfone made landfall a cpl hrs ago near Hamamatsu, #Japan. Several rain totals >14" so far via @WxNick pic.twitter.com/LboSFNBOwY
— Jennifer Watson (@JWatson_Wx) October 6, 2014
With 1 US airman dead and 2 missing, Super Typhoon Phanfone has already wreaked havoc in its doom-strewn approach of Japan, but as RIA reports, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), has revealed that the approaching typhoon could hit the damaged, decommissioned 40-year old nuclear power facility at Fukushima. Rather stunningly, The Japan Times reports tidal waves from the storm are likely to reach a maximum height of 26.3 meters or more (compared to the 2011 tsunami which reached a height of 15.5 meters when it hit the plant). Due to the expected 'mingling' of contaminated and Typhoon-driven ocean water, TEPCO admits 100 trillion becquerels of cesium to escape; Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) plans to verify the accuracy of TEPCO's estimate and the "appropriateness" of countermeasures being taken.
The Super-Typhoon is already deadly...
A powerful typhoon was heading toward Tokyo on Sunday after lashing southern Japan, where it killed at least one U.S. airman on Okinawa island and left two others missing, officials said.
Typhoon Phanfone was off the coast of Shikoku in southwestern Japan on Sunday night, packing winds of up to 144 kilometers (90 miles) per hour after hitting the southern regions of Okinawa and Kyushu, Japan's Meteorological Agency said.
Three U.S. Air Force members were washed away by high waves Sunday, with one found dead and the other two still missing, Japan's coast guard said. Tsuguyoshi Miyagi, an official at the coast guard's Okinawa branch, said the airmen were on the island's northern coast.
The U.S. Air Force confirmed that three of its airmen were washed out to sea and that one had died. It said the search for the other two had been interrupted by rough seas.
But the possibilities are disastrous, (via RIA)
Tepco, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, has revealed that the approaching typhoon could hit the damaged, decommissioned 40-year old nuclear power facility Fukushima No.1, which was severely affected during the earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
U.S. military bases on alert as Typhoon #Phanfone heads for Japan http://t.co/eqwPwJiZbP pic.twitter.com/PxzI57qzCh
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) October 3, 2014
"The deluge would likely cause seawater to mingle with the radiation-tainted water accumulating in the basements of the reactor buildings at the six-unit plant, allowing 100 trillion becquerels of cesium to escape, according to an estimate that Tepco revealed Friday at a meeting of the Nuclear Regulation Authority," the Japan Times reports.
According to the media outlet, tidal waves from the storm are likely to reach a maximum height of 26.3 meters or more. The storm is likely to strike the Fukushima No.2 nuclear plant as well, but "its idled reactors and fuel pools" are not expected to be destroyed, Tepco officials assert.
It should be noted that the 2011 tsunami reached a height of 15.5 meters when it hit the plant, which was followed by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake.
In order to minimize the impact of the hurricane, Tepco "will reduce the vast quantity of radioactive water" on the site, the Asahi Shimbun notes. Citing Tepco's officials, the media source claims that the amount of contaminated wate, which is expected to spill into the ocean, could be decreased to 30 percent "by filling in trenches near reactors."
Super Typhoon #Phanfone heading towards #Japan as seen from space few hours ago. pic.twitter.com/5lDQ7WGgSb
— MetDesk (@metdesk) October 4, 2014
Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) plans to verify the accuracy of Tepco's estimate and the "appropriateness" of countermeasures being taken in the face of the threat posed by the typhoon.
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Cue Shinzo Abe explaining why it's "contained" and how safe the Olympics (aside from the swimming and sailing) will be!
And in case you were wondering, prepare for the headlines proclaiming Q3 GDP impacted negatively by the Typhoon (not a policy of currency debauchment and consumer crushing)
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All that extra water should be good to help their cooling issues.
Long iodine.
Bearish for Hawaiian beach front property.
Better call Hawaii 5-0. No, I didn't mean the tidal wave part. Shit.
Ho Li Fuk
No worries. The ice containment wall will stop it. Will freeze that water on contact! Oh shit again.
That would be 85 foot high waves, roughly, if I did my math correctly.
I love a good "we're all gonna die!" article as much as the next guy, but does that seem like a bit of a stretch to anyone else besides me?
Way beyond a stretch. I would believe 2.63 meters.
Here's some fun footage.
Highlights From The 2014 Mavericks Invitational Big Wave Surfing Contest - YouTube
False Typhoon Tsunami Alert Warning... (WTF is a typhoon tsunami anyway?)
"The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has raised the tsunami projectile height, saying it would take a 26-meter wave to damage the facility and cause radioactive leakage, local media reported. This comes as Japan faces a typhoon threat.
Officials from the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) have nearly doubled the previous projected tsunami height that would inundate the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant – raising it from 14 to 26.3 meters, Asahi Shimbun reported on Saturday.
The flood caused by such a tsunami would “likely cause seawater to mingle with the radiation-tainted water accumulating in the basements of the reactor buildings at the six-unit plant, allowing 100 trillion becquerels of cesium to escape,” The Japan Times reported, citing TEPCO officials. "
However, TEPCO officials noted that such a strong tsunami occurs only once every 10,000 to 100,000 years.
http://rt.com/news/193364-tsunami-damage-fukushima-tepco/
P.S. The storm surge is supposed to be around 2 meters at Fukushima... now get back to worrying about WTF is up with the ebola...
who built that radioactive frankenstein there? oh yeah general electric the same guys who crushed tesla.
"Countermeasures being taken"
Everything's fine. Just fucking fine.
And now back to our regularly scheduled ISIS terrorist murders and invasions, radiation poisoning, border insecurity, Ebola outbreak, somebodies missing in command and control, MSM platitudes, Dancing with the Stars, fast food, plenty of plenty and hurrah for the invasion of everywhere somebody farted wrong and whatever else we should be jumping up and down about. Oh yeah, the healthy banking system and strong recovery.
That's all right, I wasn't doing anything constructive, anyhows.
I hope that TEPCO isn't planning to pull a Silverstein on the reactors and the rest of the Fukushima site and blame it on the storm...
Who gives a shit? I find that nuclear waste just makes the sushi taste better. But what do I know?
Stupid thing to say.
“Bearish for Hawaiian beach front property.”
I am not so sure about that, HH..
If your shelf life or half-life is a short, it could be a bullish deal .
How to get rid of a problem:
Bury it under a bigger problem.
Original problem solved.
I'm confused. You talkin' TEPCO or the fed?
"How to get rid of a problem:"
OBFUSCATION.
They are calling the Fukushima disaster a 'decomissioned complex'.
Struck by a 9.0 earthquake, flooded by a tsunami, destroyed, exploded, melted down, radioactive beyond measurement, falling over, wiped out,...
YEAH. We 'decommissioned' it.
THINK ABOUT IT. TEPCO says that they are going to reduce the amount of radioactive water stored at the plant. They talk some shit about pouring it into trenches. YEAH, RIGHT. Maybe 'we' should send over the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan so they can simply pump the water into it (hell, it's already highly radioactive anyway). We'll see.
Looking at the rainfall map, I notice some areas getting 15 to 20 inches of rain. If that hits Fukushima...
Well the good thing about Fuku is that after Japan if wiped off the face of the Earth by Monster Pacific Storms we will still be able to pinpoint its former location by the glow from the molten reactor cores in the Earth's Crust
China might decide it doesn't want those islands anymore. (excuse my geography - I can't be bothered checking that claim on a map). But it won't have to argue with anyone about who owns them.
Cosmos, the only thing I got here is a Monty python clip.
ALWAYS look on the bright side of life....
http://youtu.be/WoaktW-Lu38
@ 'NoDebt",
"That would be 85 foot high waves, roughly, if I did my math correctly.
"I love a good "we're all gonna die!" article as much as the next guy, but does that seem like a bit of a stretch to anyone else besides me?"
No, not at all.
In 1966, while transiting from Aukland to Sydney, our ship was struck by a storm somewhat smaller than this supertyphoon. 65-foot waves were an AVERAGE.
Here's footage of the U.S.S. Kittyhawk in a typhoon off of Japan. Put it to scale:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0Jzb8dfcC4
Here's a trawler hit by a typhoon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgbM4W-1eDE
Your math is correct.
Bullish...the last time this happened the SPY went up 15%
Great time to empty all those leaky tanks. US Navy reporting 10m (35') surge/wave, not 26m. Up to date info, and links to other Fuku sites and bloggers here:
http://enenews.com/tv-dangerous-and-deadly-typhoon-hits-near-tokyo-packi...
Why does god hate Japan?
It's the blow fish. And adult diapers. And... Oh, just google it.
Cause they murder Gods water angels, the dolphins.
Dolphins are some fo the most violent carnivors on the planet. They are one of the few creatures that kill for fun. Amazing? Yes. Angels? no.
Same reason as Gold.
WHAT??! Godzilla LOVE Japan...!
"Why does god hate Japan?"
I don't know, but I had a great friend (WWII Vet) that I considered to be "The sweetest, most radical nonconformist" you could ever meet. He spent 2yrs in a Japanese POW camp living on rotton cabbage and worms.
After being freed, he spent many years studying their history as far back as possible. His conclusion was that historically speaking, they were the "most cruel bastards to ever live" up to and including boiling people just to see the reaction.
I learned a lot from that man and truly miss him.
"TEPCO Prepares Countermeasures As Typhoon Tidal Waves Approach Fukushima"
With a wall formed of thousands of store bought dehumidifiers running off of Honda generators.
The problem will be Tokyo itself if this thing is that bad.
Got MOX?
Does radiation kill Ebola?
No but apparently praying to 'god' does.
I'm praying for a Katamari, it's our only hope.
Is that anything like a Kardashian?
Hmmm. Cures Ebola, but not pneumonia? That's odd.
Pneumonia is a bacteria... God likes bacteria, but virii offend Him
the plural is actually viruses. Really.
The plural virii, though common, is based on a misunderstanding of Latin. There is no example of a plural for the word virus in Latin
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/virii
Maybe, but it doesn't phase roaches, so New York will be OK.
So will the halls of Congress.
This post will gain in upvotes and surpass Kaiserhoff's. Loves me some Kaiser, but this is too true.
does radiation kills big poke and his sister in lows?
Oh Fuk!
"INEPTCO"
It's a wonder these stupid lying fuckers haven't killed half the planet with the radioactive lies and bullshit.
"Counter-measures, are you fucking kidding me ? I haven't eaten my beloved salmon in years because if these bastards. I sure as hell hope their counter-measures include throwing all of their corporate officers and staff into the typhoon swollen surf. Learn to swim ....
"Prepare Geiger Counter Measures".... Yes, Lets bring in some counters that count real small because the truth is way too big to measure.
Has anybody seen some recent and reasonably detailed status update about Fukushima cleanup? I visited a webcam recently that seemed to show several cranes, but no details or context. What progress has been made? What is the plan? After three years, there must be some plan. Can anyone please link to a serious update?
Yeah, we're going to coutermeasure a super typhoon....with ice walls....or containment tanks....or....some shit...
seems to be some keyword they are using for all things run-a-way...we've got it contained.
Deepwater Horizon, Fukushima, Ebola...all contained, back goes the tooth paste into the tube....pandora's what what?
I always wonder what we aren't being told. Desperate men are desperate to lie and lie again.
You can nuke that too.
Probably wouldn't do anything of course. "That's a lot of energy."
True CD, truth is whispered in dimly lit backrooms while lies are screamed on headlines...
Couple of little BOTECs for your enlightenment . . reposted from a previous thread.
Back in 2011, when Fuku blew up, someone, I can't remember who, did a BOTEC, and I don't have enough information to re-create it, but based on the nameplate and the length of time Fukusima Daiichi was in service, and assuming that all the radwaste is stored on-premises, this someone calculated that there would be two metric tons of Cs-137 in the hundreds of tons of spent fuel rods. Seemed like a reasonable calculation.
The other BOTEC I did myself, based on info from Wikipedia, is that 137Cs produces 438,547,589,200 Bq per milliequivalent. Therefore, 100 trillion Bq of 137CsCl would weigh 39 grams.
Fukushima has a whole lot more terabequerels where those came from. And it looks like Japan intends to flush them all into the Pacific, whether you like it or not.
A milligram of 137CsCl will kill you, of course, if you eat it in one dose. I am not sure how much it takes if you are merely sitting next to it. Diluted into the Pacific I don't know. Maybe your oncologist can tell you. Maybe not.
I can't believe the wave predictions! There must be a mistake, the storm can't produce a wave height hitting shore that much larger that the Earthquake did. The odds of a storm hit on Fukushima are small, but that does not mean a perfect storm could not hit it. We must wait and see, in anycase, the floods, if they come, will cool the three meltdowns and flush all the latent radioactive stuff out to sea. For a time anyways.
I will watch this one with interest.
Jack, I'm sorry to tell you it's a Russian news outlet reporting this so it must be true.
I dont know guys, those big waves those surfers caught earlier on look pretty damn big to me. Easily over 30m tall.
wow - sarcasm... which depends on the countervailing, but inane idea that US media is reliable.
Why would 90 MPH winds produce 80 foot tidal waves?
Because it's Japan
More importantly, because it's a Russian sourced news story. The real news. All real. All the time.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/04/national/fukushima-no-1-at-r...
Next...
Care to wager? I notice that japantimes has no listed source. Fe, fi, fo, fum. I smell the ass of a centaur Russian.
Fear porn to keep us subservient. Propaganda works in mysterious ways.
well at least the Russian/Jap girls are cute.
bait..
I don't normally read the JP Times becuase they are typically busy parroting the government's lines.
As opposed to Russian or U.S. media?
Don't bother me unless you have at least made a cursory attempt to confirm what you are saying: http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201410040044
So kindly confirm for us all that the Japanese MSM gets all of its Japan News material (typhoon, Tepco, tsunami) from RT.
Jesus, WB7. You said that Japantimes gets its news from the government. I never said it always gets its news from RT. I've always heard that centaurs are sensitive despite their manly essence, but geez.
I was snippy, sorry.
I just looked at a bunch of the related articles.
It looks to me like Tepco decided to release its assessment of maximum typhoon or earthquake tsunami readiness 2 days before a mega storm happens to hit, leading the press to pressume that this means they are estimating a 26 meter tsunami for this storm.
I don't see the direct release from Tepco on the Tepco site.
Shit. I was going to bet a free WB7 print against me dressing up like Jamie Dimon (the after hours Dimon) for one of your ZH pieces! Stay safe in HK and give 'em hell.
Jamie Dimon, is he still alive...
Only the good die young.
edit correcting myself, there seems to be no warnings about imminent waves from any Japanese news or Japan meteorological agency.
apologies to LTER for accusing him of trolling if anyone saw my original post.
Actually, I think RIA got it wrong.
A close reading of the Japan Times article shows it has nothing to do with the typhoon. It's a one-in- 10,000 to 100,000 year event, but the word "typhoon" doesn't even appear in the Japan Times article.
Asahi clarifies that the monster wave is related to a potential monster EARTHQUAKE in the future.
Thanks for your attempt at sheding light, but everyone is all worked up now so your excellent clairvoyance on the situation is null and void.
Probably too late for a current weather report as well...
""In some of the bays, including Sagami and Suruga bays and possibly Tokyo Bay, storm surge has the potential to exceed 2 meters (6 feet).""
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/tokyo-japan-typhoon-phanfone/...
Looks like it is already over Fukushima.
Well, the reactor buildings, with their spent fuel rod containment pools, will hold or they will not.
We just don't realize how close to the brink we stand.
And Godzilla is right behind the storm. He'll lap up that radioactive juice like nectar. And that will make him even bigger.
And then, the radioactive isotopes from the positive nuclei negative proton spin electrons ( at 10 to the 4th power, don't ya know!) ,will cause him to grow wings. And he will race jets, loaded with Ebola carriers from Liberia via Brussells, to JFK airport.
Then, he will eat a few Ebola positive travelers, get Marburg virus , and fly all over the Homeland spewing Ebola FIRE!
We are fucked.
http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/surge_world_records.asp
Coastal flooding will be a significant concern for southern coast of Shikoku and Honshu. Storm surge of 1 to 2 meters (3 to 6 feet) is expected along this area. Widespread rain totals of 200 to 250 mm (8 to 10 inches) are expected from eastern Shikoku to the Honshu prefecture of Fukushima, triggering widespread and life-threatening flash flooding.
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2014/10/06/deadly-typhoon-phanfone-made...
They are going to need several football stadiums of concrete, if they are willing to be honest.
"Do not worry" is not working with Fukushima nor Central Banking.
They should just nuke the fucking place, and rebuild it, like Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
It's not like spent plutonium MOX fuel rods are stored in open pools there.
IF that shit gets washed out and spread by the wind and water all over Northern Japan, say goodbye to the Rising Sun once and for all.
Who needs terrorists when you have 'Jeffrey R. Immelt' and "Mother Nature" on your side?
G.E.> We do good things for living...
Gee, a radioactive hurricane.
What WILL they think of next?
What nightmare will keep me sleepless tonight?
Ebola?
Radioactive hurricane?
I got it!
A sinkhole will open up beneath my bedroom floor and swallow me.
Oh wait, that already happened to some poor slob in Fla.
How about a radioactive Sharknado?
Tomorrow you read in the newspapers:
Japanese invade China and Russia!
A lot of hams floating.
All dead.
: - /
Assuming you are right and Japan becomes inhospitable, where will all the Japanese move to??? My bet is the USA would relocate them to Papua New Guinea.
Any other ideas of possible places to send a large part of the Japanese population?
Detroit
You have a plan, move Toyota there!
For that suddenly "I needed this yesterday" countermeasure, call 1-800-counter...Have your credit card ready, but wait, we'll send you not 1 but 2 countermeasures if you call in the next 30 minutes! CounterMeasures, Inc. - helping you to get your ass out of the sling....
...you just pay the extra shipping and handling.
Netflix streaming probably has a movie about this.
are we gonna make it through the rest of the year?
2014 = two drop the zero plus one and plus four = 7
the "magic" number 7
some magic shit happening there Mme Lagarde
seriously, if the aliens among us would reveal their true identity at this point I don't think many people would be shocked
Listen Zero's.
I believe that this presents a terrific opportunity for the country of Japan to "FLUSH" all that toxicity into the ocean blue.
Land is for mammals, the superior ones, oceans are for the things that we don't want to see.
"Open the storage tanks"!
Or as Dick Cheney would say, grimacing but resolute, "Release the Fracken."
Listen Bangalore.
They need to summon Godzilla, the Mutos or a Russian Kraken to really mix those incredibly fantastic and probably unreal waves to the necessary height to dilute the toxicity for the fishies. Dilution is the solution to pollution and listen more to Bangalore for to ignore leaves in store the melted core.
God Damn those poor bastards.
Why is it the United States can't get this shit which it deserves 100 fold given the two atomic bombs we generouswly dropped on them (after fire bombing them into submission) that started an arms race followed by a set of commerical reactor(s) that created this mess in the first place?!!!
Sayin a prayer for the desperate hearts in Japan tonight that should be US!
Anybody wondering how many spent fuel rods are still dangling in that asinine storage contraption over the reactor?
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/21/national/tepco-to-finish-rem...
Get some popcorn... this could escalate quickly.
So they could have removed loads of radioactive water from the site but decided to wait until hours before a typhoon hits? Really?
I read it in Japanese. The translation in the Japan times is wrong. Alert canceled.
Weather channel says sunny and 75 in Toyko and the Earthcam.com is clear as a bell.
Fukishima webcam is shakey and rain splattered, but there.
Tidal Wave?
There's got to be a morning after... if we can hold on through the night...
Call Ernest Borgnine, he'll know what to do - oh wait...
So waves to the height close to the biggest ever recorded. With 144kph, that's about a cat 2 typhoon. Japan regularly gets hit with cat 4's wave heights never get that high.
These criminals are merely using the first excuse to release more contaminated water to excuse themselves from extra blame.
It's complete bullshit and no one should buy this false information.
The typhoon could increase tidal heights by around 2 meters on the leading edge of the storm and you could get wave heights of 7-8 on top of that. But that's not with the whole ocean behind it.
The 15.6m tidal waves if 2011 quake didn't have a back on them, just the power of 10's of Kms of water all at the same height driving it in. That's why earthquake tidal waves are so destructive. It's the sheer volume and power behind it
They never let a good crisis go to waste
Sound familiar
...to a popular diddy.....
'Cesium to the left of me, ebola to the right, Here I am, stuck in the middle with you...'
Well I know that this feeling ain't right
I'm coughing blood and my asshole is tight
I'm so scared from ISIS bombing my town
Fukushima will surely go down
'Cesium to the left of me,
ebola to the right,
Here I am,
stuck in the middle with you...'
So, the lowball lying FukJap government says it expects an 86 foot wall of water, and...
"Due to the expected 'mingling' of contaminated and Typhoon-driven ocean water..."
MINGLING??
You don't see language rape like this very often.
Not buying the 26 meter storm surge.
Actually, I think RIA got it wrong.
A close reading of the Japan Times article
shows it has nothing to do with the typhoon. It's a one-in- 10,000 to
100,000 year event, but the word "typhoon" doesn't even appear in the
Japan Times article.
Asahi clarifies that the monster wave is related to a potential monster EARTHQUAKE in the future.
I think RIA just assumed that the approaching typhoon and the potential monster tidal wave and tsumi are related ... when they're not.
Yo all forget dat strontium, and dat plutonium from reactor 3. Yo guys know what's funny about dat plutomium? It decays to americium.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EADAxuqnqqQ
I'm in Tokyo now, typhoon came and went. It's actually sunny outside now. Fukushima expected another 70 minutes or rain and that's it. What's all the fuss about?
Thanks for the update.
I'm loosing count of all the things I'm supposed to be afraid of. ..
You are in the eye of it.
Lol, my post above just looked at the Earthcam.com and saw exactly what you just said.
I nominate you as the official ZeroHedge Tokyo Correspondent.
Codename : Tyler's Geisha
My first thought was TEPCO needed an excuse for the numbers they were producing and would take advantage of any opportunity to deflect the blame.
Three strikes and you're out. Fukushima, Goldman Sachs (Abenomics) and Time.
My lunch reservation is still confirmed
Don't sweat the global fear porn
They must need to harvest the negative energy for something
If I remember correctly plant number 2 was looking like the last few moves in a game of Jenga - how the hell will it not be affected?
This seems to be over-stated, but the good news for fans of fear porn is Fuku is still slowly killing the ocean for sure... but the story has stopped being the click bait it once was.
I guess people think it has gotten better instead of steadily worse.
I stopped eating tuna 3 years ago.
What's another 100 trillion becquerels of cesium? Half-life is 30 years. No biggie.
The 2011 tsunami surge was 15+ meters, and the expected surge from this typhoon is 26+ meters? Ho Lee Fuk!
The approaching storm sure does take care of the clean-up problem. As they say in the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, "We solved the problem, the problem is solved!"
Fucking marvelous. JUST fucking marvelous.