Japan Earthquake: 6.4 Quake Reportedly Hits Japan

NEW YORK -- The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting that another strong earthquake has jolted northeastern Japan, the same region struck by March's massive quake and tsunami. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, and no tsunami warning is in effect.

The U.S.G.S. says the earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 struck at 3:53 a.m. Sunday in the Pacific Ocean, about 11 miles (18 kilometers) east-southeast of Iwaki on Honshu Island. Its depth was 27 miles (43.5 kilometers).

U.S.G.S. says its epicenter is 114 miles (184 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo.

About 23,000 people died or were left missing across wide swaths of Japan's northeast coastline after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Another 80,000 have been forced to evacuate their homes because of the radiation threat from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.

Comments

[wtrdyjoseph]

09:35 PM on 08/18/2011

Each time you buy a Japanese product - car, TV, camera etc. It's more money in their pocket. 90 percent of Japanese are millionaires or more. That is why they don't want anyone help clean the rubble.

[mdinoregon]

01:30 AM on 08/03/2011

Implementation of the New START nuclear arms control treaty has proceeded "smoothly" since the pact took effect in February, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller told the Russian newspaper Kommersant last week (see GSN, July 28).

The New START pact entered into force on February 5. It requires the United States and Russia to each reduce deployment of strategic nuclear warheads to 1,550, down from a cap of 2,200 mandated by next year under an older treaty. It also limits the number of fielded warhead delivery platforms to 700, with an additional 100 strategic systems permitted in reserve.

"The pace of communication has been very precise, very efficient, and furthermore, in terms of the inspections, we’re pretty much keeping pace with each other, with inspections going on in both the Russian Federation and also here in the United States at various missile and bomber bases," Gottemoeller said. "So all in all, I would say the implementation’s going forward smoothly, and it’s going forward in a very businesslike and positive way."
http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20110802_2741.php

[mdinoregon]

01:11 AM on 08/03/2011

ZURICH—ABB Ltd. said Tuesday it has received a $1 billion contract to connect offshore wind farms in the North Sea to the German mainland power grid by 2015, reflecting a growing appetite for renewable energy after the Fukushima disaster and plans in Germany and Switzerland to phase out nuclear energy

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903520204576484023283697308.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

[mdinoregon]

12:38 AM on 08/03/2011

Contamination Spreads: Nelle's Fukushima Update Aug. 2, 2011

http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1-/9393-contamination-spreads-nelles-fukushima-update-aug-2-2011.html

Nelle's updates are always good.

[termgirl]

05:10 PM on 08/02/2011

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/08/02/japan-radiation-reaches-l_n_915679.html

"Radiation Reaches Lethal Levels." (HP thread.)

[scrbnurs2]

04:42 PM on 08/02/2011

Sad to see that this situation will NOT be going away any time soon.
It appears that Governments...ours and theirs have NO Bottom lines.

[CaptD]

04:59 PM on 08/02/2011

Or trustworthiness!
Saluted & Faved

[CaptD]

03:31 PM on 08/02/2011

photos of the damage to Dai-ichi starting on page 175
http://adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/idmws/DocContent.dll?library=PU_ADAM...

snip
Subject: fixed contamination on shoe from Japan - anaylsis report
25% Cs-134 and 25% Cs-1 37, almost 50% is 1-131, and a very small amount of 1-132 (as evidenced by indications of Te-1 32).
From Page 186

[CaptD]

04:25 PM on 08/02/2011

Copied link not working now...:-(

[CaptD]

03:23 PM on 08/02/2011

Lets talk molten corium/fuel rods, and what percentage is no longer,
... Inside one or more of the reactors with holes in their Pressure Vessels:
( We all are guessing here, since TEPCO does not know either )
(+ If there is one or more holed reactors, then consider the worse case reactor)

Share yours for "FUKY Engineering Bragging Rights":
What percentage are you willing to "guess" is:
1. Still inside the reactor?
2. Still inside what is left of the holed reactor?
3. Still inside the reactor Containment structure?
4. Under the Base Mat, and in contact with the Landfill or Earth below?
-----
Here are my four percentages in the above order:
15
35
25
25
-----
Please share your own before adding your comments,
The World is awaiting your input!

[mdinoregon]

05:37 PM on 08/02/2011

You got to divide it further, #2 pretty much in the basement.(never blew up), one piece. Now the foundation has a hellava' crack too, might have gone through. Might have just filled the crack and cooled. I think stalagmites under the slab and hope stable and cooling......no proof either way

#1, blew up early and scattered early, if we are lucky, splatted against contaiment walls.(drywell).

#3 just sucks not matter what, it blew up and it's MOX,
do I think it was just a hydrogen explosion outside of containment? Simple NO.
Still too hot for them to get real close says a lot too, now doesn't it.......I think it was probably scattered to the four winds too.

And #4 SFP, never should have happened in the first place. Did it go critical?
I think more then once and still not sure of the last time it was cooking.

BTW, think #2 was critical on and off until almost June by Tepco data. Not real sure now, but that would be one definition of shutdown....wouldn't call it "cold shutdown" though. But if it stopped going critical, thats a good thing.

My opinion only and you know what we say about opinions......

[CaptD]

03:22 PM on 08/02/2011

Lets talk molten corium/fuel rods, and what percentage is no longer,
... Inside one or more of the reactors with holes in their Pressure Vessels:
----> We all are guessing here, since TEPCO does not know either + If there is one or more holed reactors, then consider the worse case reactor

[mdinoregon]

02:23 PM on 08/02/2011

The sad thing is, when you put kids into this situation, I think it's a signal that civilization is on a fast decline.

•pick tea leaves which turned out to be highly radioactive (in one case in Ibaraki, they made them eat the tempura made out of the leaves);

•participate in outdoor PE classes with the threat that they wouldn't get good grades if they (or their parents) refuse;

•clean the school yard, pulling weeds and sweeping;

•clean out the swimming pools with sludges which turned out to be highly radioactive;

•plant rice seedlings in rice paddies with bare feet (this was done throughout Japan, high radiation or not);

•eat school lunches using beef which turned out to be highly radioactive, despite protests from informed parents and labeling such parents as "monsters" for causing totally unwarranted fuss;

•go to summer schools located in high radiation areas.

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/08/radioactive-leaf-compost-spreads-to.html

Don't want to remember the numbers

[CaptD]

02:48 PM on 08/02/2011

Scary Mindset
Scary Environment
Scary Government
Thanks TEPCO; is your profit worth everyones health?

[mdinoregon]

02:19 PM on 08/02/2011

Silver-110m, half life about 250 days, wouldn't have been discovered unless the control rods had melted at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.

There was the news in early April that radioactive silver was detected in South Korea. There was no way the same nuclide wasn't falling in Japan if it could fly all the way to Korea, I thought.

Sure enough.

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/08/radioactive-fallout-in-tokyo-in-march.html

Somethings get airborne a lot faster then other, Strontium is in the middle. IMHO it only has one good use. If you have bone cancer already, the cancer cells eat it and die...sometimes.

[CaptD]

02:50 PM on 08/02/2011

+
Lots more Nuclear Baloney (NB),
... That the Gov't. is handing out!

[mdinoregon]

02:15 PM on 08/02/2011

They may not have known the exact number (well, for that matter, no one knows because the survey meter went overscale at 10 sieverts/hr), but they've been running past the area when they have to enter Reactor 1 building to install the external heat exchanger to the Spent Fuel Pool, according to the tweets by a worker currently at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/08/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-workers-knew.html

[CaptD]

02:51 PM on 08/02/2011

I guess it is asking too much of TEPCO to actually check the pathways to and from the reactors as much as they chech their daily stock price!

Look Out (for yourself) Japan!

[mdinoregon]

02:13 PM on 08/02/2011

Fukushima I Nuke Plant: 10+ Sieverts/Hr Spot Photos from TEPCO

So there are more than one spot.


http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/08/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-10-sievertshr.html

Has shots with gamma camera

[CaptD]

02:54 PM on 08/02/2011

Faved
+
From a comment from above
snip
"After IEER's report was issued, Japan initiated a small, offshore wind power program. "We applaud Japan's initiative, but it is clearly insufficient, said Dr. Makhijani. "A much larger effort on offshore wind energy explicitly directed at replacing the electricity that would be derived from MOX fuel is needed right now. It would be unconscionable for the country that suffered the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to subject its own people and those of the entire region to the needless risk of plutonium fuel, when a safe and more economical alternative is available right now." "

http://www.ieer.org/reports/wind/tokai-pr.html

East coast offshore of Japan is now suitable ONLY for wind farms, fishing hopelessly polluted by Fukushima releases.

http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20110613232554data_trunc_sys.shtml

"VAWTs provide an important advantage in that they can be positioned very close to one another."
And probably experience less wear and tear, being axially oriented.

http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/img/windfarm_vertical.jpg

[mdinoregon]

02:11 PM on 08/02/2011

Wanted: 20 Healthy Males Who Want over $600 for 4-Hour Work a Day for One Month to Help Disaster-Affected Tohoku
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/08/wanted-20-healthy-males-who-want-over.html

CHEERLEADERS.....they will even feed you local steak and veggies!!!!!!!

[mdinoregon]

02:02 PM on 08/02/2011

Tepco Reports Second Deadly Radiation Reading at Fukushima Plant

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-02/tepco-reports-second-deadly-radiation-reading-at-fukushima-plant.html

It's in English.....

[CaptD]

02:56 PM on 08/02/2011

There will be plenty more "over 10 readings because TEPCO does not want to say how high they are!
snip
The latest reading was taken on the second floor of the No. 1 reactor building and will stop workers entering the area.
“This does emphasize what care has to be taken,” Richard Wakeford, a visiting professor of epidemiology at the University of Manchester’s Dalton Nuclear Institute in England, said in a telephone interview. “They have to put robots into those areas where they might expect high radiation levels. It’s no real substitute for human access.”
The 10 sieverts of radiation detected on Aug. 1 outside reactor buildings was the highest the Geiger counters used were capable of reading, indicating the level could have been higher, Junichi Matsumoto, a general manager at the utility, said at a press conference.
“In the area surrounding the breach of containment you’d expect high levels of contamination and those high levels would be difficult to predict,” Wakeford said. “You can dig them up if they’re on the soil and contain it or wash it down if it’s on the side of a building.”