News from Japan: From YokosoNews and news channel NHK. Remember governments do cover up information sometimes and honest errors are being made due to the technical nature of some of the information.
From the NYT:
Mr. Jaczko’s most startling assertion [to congress] was that there was now little or no water in the pool storing spent nuclear fuel at the No. 4 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, leaving fuel rods stored there exposed and bleeding radiation into the atmosphere.
Au contraire:
Today the Japanese government said the current situation is very severe with the nuclear problems and earthquake. The leadership is trying their best to deal with all of the disasters and people outside of Japan are focusing on the nuclear power plant and not realizing how complex the situation is. They are doing their best to give both problems the same degree of attention. “Huge Info gap between Japan and USA, I understand” when 9/11 happened the Japanese people were told not to enter the U.S. at all. But Katz was in the US going to college then and knew the truth.
They have heard someone in the U.S. says the cooling pool of #4 reactor ran out of water and stated that when this was said they actually did not know what the water level was. They say the U.S. asked them to provide the information and there has been close cooperation with the U.S., but there is a time lag of information. (I suspect there are other issues as well, like someone just assuming without having data) They make it clear the US government is an ally and Obama says we are going to communicate with each other and they would like people to act calm. U.S. and Japanese experts have formed a task force. They would not like to criticize what the US experts and the Japanese experts are saying, but there is a gap between what the experts from both countries are saying.
Today the fuel rod cooling pool of #4 reactor was visually viewed by helicopter and the water was high enough that all of the rods were covered. They can’t confirm the water level. There is water in the #4 reactor with all rods covered, so priority was given to do #3 first. (So, the testimony to congress was speculation, they are too polite to criticize.)
They gather information together and formulate their plans as they get it. A good accurate assessment is needed and they are always updating. There are other methods they may be able to use to get water in the cooling pool, but they are choosing the method they feel will be the most effective. The most affective method may not be defined, they will have to use trial and error.
They have plans to secure electricity to power #2 reactor. (I have no idea why #2.) It is sub-power with a small power station which they will build. #4.#5,#6 reactors are inactive and even if their temperatures increase it will be slowly, so there is time to deal with them. They are concentrating on the most dangerous reactors first. Workers are trying to restore power to the nuclear power plant, but they do not know when.
There are continuing problems with people buying up all of the supplies. From the 1995 earthquake they say the people should be smart enough to act calm. At this point they have no plans for rationing. They have a port that is restored and working to restore all transportation. Without transportation new supplies can’t be distributed. The local areas should make sure materials are distributed equally. Prefectures are responsible for distribution of food.
Self defense and the Minister of Health and Labor are trying to send personnel to the designated areas. They need hospitals who can accept these workers. There are many suffering, especially the elderly, and much effort is being made to improve the situation of the elderly. They are considering those who are pregnant and monitoring the radiation levels. They must make sure the doctors and nurses are safe around the evacuation areas. Again with the act calm.
Tank cars are transporting fuel to the north. The fuel is very important to the north and Self Defense is providing their own fuel to them. The local gas stations need to cooperate. They would like to coordinate the overall management of the distribution. The cold in the north is very severe right now, so the other people should be patient about fuel shortages.
They have expressed a need to prioritize for those in the immediate areas of exposure or affected by the Tsunami. Please care about others and please act smart. They are thankful for those who are working hard to help those affected. They need fuel badly. Today is the limit for the work to be done on reactor #3 or radioactive material would start leaking. The water level was low in #3 reactor’s spent fuel pool. They dropped 7.5 tons of water four times (?) with CH47 helicopters. Professor Yamaguchi said, they measured the radiation levels before sending in the helicopters. They decided that even though radiation was high the work had to be done. There was no choice. There was not a significant difference in radiation after the water drop. When dropping the water a lot of it does not land in the pool as it can’t be aimed. The pool holds about 2000 tons of water and does not need to be full, the rods just need to be covered. It may be necessary to drop water continuously. Earlier the pressure levels were stabilized. The reactor shook from the water and some pipes broke. The workers (possibly in the control room) ran out of the building without using proper exiting procedures. The riot police are going to spray about thirty tons of water from five of the 11 pump trucks onto reactor #3. The people will operate from inside the trucks and not have to be outside with these five trucks, that is why those five were chosen. The final decison about when is yet to be made. They are trying to speed up the process of cooling, but police can’t get too close to protect them from radiation. They are wearing nuclear radiation protection gear. After the spraying they will evauate the results and figure out where to go from there.
Then in other news:
The US military and the self defense of Japan are working together to distribute food, transport, etc. A U.S. Navy ship is transporting Self Defense of Japan vehicles.
The U.S. is sending an unmanned plane to be used to take pictures of the plant to help with data.
No people have required total decontamination procedures. They have just had to wash their shoes (other than workers at the plant).
14 people have died after evacuation from a hospital and taken to an emergency shelter. They were elderly and two died on the bus. (It is very cold and they may not have had medication, water and food.) There are people freezing and starving. (Other countries and fossil fuel companies need to hurry up and get them fuel for heat and transportation.) Part of the problem is lack of transportation to get to areas and rescue people.
Many countries have told their citizens to evacuate from Japan and the U.S. is sending planes for government officials.
Prime Minister Kan and Japan's chief government spokesman Yukio Edano were yelling at the executives of Tepco today.
People were upset that a newspaper had a lead story about a rape conviction of a U.S. teacher who raped about 15 girls with a sentence of 18 years. They think this news should not be as important as the disasters.
The U.S. news continues to report the 50 heroes story, yet now with all the spraying going on there are probably more than 200 workers taking shifts.
People who can reach areas of the disaster including high school and university students are helping people clean up, especially for the elderly people.
They have discovered bird flu in chickens. All farms in that area were inspected for the virus. They are killing chickens at one farm and sterilize the vicinity.
Today 5,198 are confirmed dead with about 9,000 missing from Tsunami/earthquake. That is over 14,000 missing or dead.
Workers were sent from the British embassy and they were stopped due to not having the right papers by the British, not the Japanese.
The cold people in the north are being given rental gloves, etc. from ski resorts to help them keep warm.
They are putting in about 170 mobile charging stations for cell phones.
Fed Ex will not send to the U.S. because of the radiation scare.
Due to the power plants not producing power they have been having rolling scheduled blackouts. Now due to cold weather people are using more electricity and theyare warning of an overall blackout today. The government has asked the train company in Tokyo to limit service to help the situation.
A U.S. Navy ship is transporting Self Defense of Japan vehicles.
All evacuees are screened for radiation and so far no one has had to be decontaminated, but some have had to brush off clothing and wash their shoes.
Update:
The pumps in the reactors were damaged by sea water, so even with electricity they may require repairs to work.
Resignation of Chief Cabinet dude due to working too hard? He is moved to some advisory position for the Prime Minister. A new Chief Cabinet dude will be appointed today. Reporters wanted to know why they did this at this time. Apparently there was some scandal in the past involving the new appointment.
People of Japan are being asked to host the refugees. They should go to their city office and register.
Many people are working hard to rescue people and there are some who are trying to take advantage of the situation, so watch out for donation scams.
Radiation before and after the helicopter 3780 microsieverts and after it dropped by only 30 microsieverts. They tried with the policemen and the radiation was too high. Now Self Defense is now spraying with riot water canons.
The oil refinery in Miyagi has reopened.
The ATM system keeps getting stopped. This may be related to the electricity being turned off and on.
The water canon trucks sprayed water and it is too early to say what the result is.
The blackout they expected has been avoided due to companies using less electricity.
Nuclear Safety Counsel was sent to monitor radiation and requested International Atomic Energy to assist them.
#5 and #6 nuclear reactors have diesel generators being hooked up to run the cooling system for their spent fuel pools. They are waiting for supplies to put in a power line.
They say the water stream was effective at cooling the water pool, but no numbers are given.
Interesting radiation data.
A list of the injuries to the workers from the nuclear power plant from the International Atomic Energy Plant. There are many injuries and a lot of radiation exposure.
Update 2: Video loop taken from helicopter of reactors from earlier.
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3/15/11
YokosoNews From Japan Update X3
From Katz on YokosoNews: he watches the Japanese news and interprets it for English speaking people. Here is information from multiple news conferences in the last couple of hours. He did social information before this disaster. They are trying to not say anything negative about the government at this time and be responsible during the emergency. Helping keep the population from panicing is a big goal because they can't do what they need to do to help themselves and others in a panic state. Some of the information being reported in the U.S. is wrong.
Anything in parentheses is my comment.
The officials/scientists in Japan on the news media said for a while they were not sure what was on fire while the U.S. news was reporting a specific reactor . They say they could not see due to the smoke and the radiation was too high to send people in due to high radiation. It could have been #3 or #4 or a cooling pool. (The cooling pool is a very likely source of smoke.)
The science people say many sensors are broken which makes figuring out what is on fire by remotely using instruments difficult. They say they can't cool down the fuel rods because they can‘t figure out what to even work on. Now they are saying the fire could be a third nuclear reactor, they just don't know.
One of them says the fuel rods may be exposed to the air, but they don’t know. The general picture from what they are saying is just a big cluster. They also sound very stressed. They exchanged the fuel in the storage pools 9 months ago, there are 514 of them under the cooling process. If the temp is greater than 1200 they may be hot enough to burn.
They are trying to organize more fire trucks to help feed water and any kind of pump to help with the water. (This is just desperate. OMG.)
Now another guy reports they took a picture from a mountain and it looks like #3 (northwest corner) is the one smoking.
(These reactors were built by idiots (GE) and have spent rods which cool above the reactors, so spent rods on fire could take the whole reactor down.) The Japanese government doubled the normal exposure of radiation allowed for nuclear reactor workers so they can stay longer. (There has been a report they may have received lethal doses in some cases.)
From Tepco (Tokyo Electric Power Company):
They have now announced plans to pour water from helicopters. They will pour it gradually to prevent some kind of problem that could occur from lots of water poured at once and investigating the safety factors of using a helicopter. They claim they are getting information faster.(Japan’s prime minister was pissed he did not get information quickly enough, that‘s why they said that.)
Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano announced anything is possible, but they will judge based on the current circumstances. (Reading between the lines here) They say they are trying their best to prepare to pour the sea water in the reactor.
A reporter asks if they are going to ask for help from the U.S. They say many countries are offering to help and the U.S. is providing pump(s)?
A minor amount of radiation has been detected in Tokyo. Reporter asks about evacuation plan. Now they go into the song and dance about exposure at all times to radiation from x-rays and air flight. They will judge based on the current circumstances. (Reading between the lines here) They say they are trying their best to prepare to pour the sea water in the reactor.
A reporter asks if they are going to ask for help from the U.S. They say many countries are offering to help and the U.S. is providing pump(s)?
They go into the song and dance about how people are exposed to radiation from x-rays, air flights, etc, again. (Of course they don’t mention many of the nuclides are different). They say they are coordinating with police, etc. and soon will make an announcement. A reporter asks if this will be enough if there is a melt down. They say they are doing a simulation and have an evacuation plan in place based on the current situation. If a melt down happens they will get ready for it. (Why plan ahead for God’s sake?)
They discuss the food shortages and urge people not to go and just buy out the stores which will cause a shortage for others. They especially would like those outside the disaster area to stop buying up all the food. They discuss transportation problems and ask people to not buy up gasoline. They discuss power shortages due to the lack of nuclear power plants and the public must get used to a society with less power. People in Japan must conserve energy because it goes to the ravaged areas first. They have asked other countries for help with fuel.
The journalists complained about Tepco confusing them. They are trying to allow the information to only come from one source. They say they don’t want to make hasty decisions because of the safety of the workers.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano said the Prime Minister has not gone home yet, but he was told to rest so he could have the ability to make judgments. People all over Japan have been very concerned he would collapse due to his constant work since the earthquake, etc.
Japan Security Committee (They are the agency that over sees Tepco):
There has been a variable pattern of radiation today 900 to 2036 to 6046 to 2.3 to2.9 to 3091, all milisieverts (and much more) and #3 reactor water level is down (I thought they could not get this kind of information). (However, all kinds of numbers are thrown around, it is very confusing).
There was a rise in radiation earlier and they ordered the workers to leave the site. People do go there to collect data however. They say the radiation is down now and the earlier reading was wrong (It was just a math error by a non-scientist). For a while they did not know if the radiation was coming from #2 or #3 as #2 has damage to the suppression chamber. Now with the readings down Tepco is sending workers back to the site. They think the reading is 10 milisieverts unconfirmed. Now they are saying the smoke is coming from #3 reactor, but the radiation is coming from #2 due to damage. The pressure of #2 has increased, but they do not know why. They assume the supply chamber is damaged, but they have no confirmation. They want to hear confirmation from Tepco. There is an 8 meter hole in #4 reactor. (They are very scientific or as Katz says, “More geeker than us.” (They aren’t more geeker than me, lol.)
(They report information and then someone else will say it was not correct, but there are many people very concerned with making sure accurate information is given. This has a lot to do with the technical nature of the problem and difficulties in such a chaotic mess as Japan is in now. Remember they had another major earthquake which caused more damage in another area along with all the other problems. There is way to much for any government to manage, there is of course mass confusion. People are working very hard to help their people. The workers at the nuclear power plants are heroes who are risking their lives to try to limit the damage for everyone else. They are very focused on helping those who are outside in freezing conditions and hungry.) When they find dead bodies they put a red flag to mark them because they will be covered with snow and can’t take care of them yet.
The governor of Tokyo has essentially said the earthquake/tsunami was divine punishment, but the news media in Japan is not hyping it because there are too many more important things going on. Katz says, “We don’t care about him now, we are too busy saving lives.” (Wow, in the U.S. our news media would report the idiots before helping the victims.) All through all of the reports there were many earthquakes.
Katz says start saving money because they will recover and want people to come to their country.
They were talking about Anderson Cooper because he is in Japan. Katz had no idea who he was and said he would only talk with him if he was good :).
Update #1: They have called for the National Security Forces to get their helicopters ready to haul water. At the nuclear power plant there are 180 workers trying to clean up the radiated debris from the tsunami and explosions.
From Katz: “If people tell me we are screwed, what’s the level of the screwed?” The reason he says this is he enjoyed the luxury of the electricity and did not complain about the nuclear power plants.
Update #2: Self Defense of Japan around 4 PM deployed helicopters to go pour water into the reactor. This morning in Japan, their Wednesday, smoke from #3 reactor is coming from the suppression pool of the spent fuel due to increased temperature and vaporizing water. Then later they detected higher radiation, then it went back down. #2 is leaking radiation. #3 is running out of water for cooling. #4 has rising temperature, it has spent fuel rods which were cooling. #5 and #6 were off line from before the earthquake. They evacuated 70 workers from the site during the high radiation. Now the 180 workers (180 heroes) are continuing to remove the debris from the blasts, etc. They are all being monitored for radiation closely. Some towns started to detect higher radiation due to the loss of radiation from the plant earlier at levels of no concern. The government keeps repeating the airplane and background radiation spiel. The two missing workers that have been reported as being killed in an explosion were actually swept away by the tsunami. There is no radiation threat in Tokyo. There were injuries with an old hydrogen blast and the people were sent to the hospital. Radiation was worse today than yesterday.
#1,#2, #3 are being ventilated to extract the gases and drop pressure so they can use more water to cool the reactors, fire trucks are standing by. There are over 7000 people missing with over 11,000 missing or dead at this point.
Emperor Akihito held a rare press conference (He is basically a figure head). He expresses regret to the victims, says the power plants are in critical condition and he hopes the workers will resolve the situation as soon as possible. He discussed all the people suffering from lack of food and energy while hoping to rebuild soon. The emperor is impressed by all the people in Japan who are working to help and all the international rescue teams who came to Japan to help under dangerous conditions. He hopes the people stay calm and help each other. He hopes they can overcome the circumstances and he knows the victims will have a hard time. He calls on everyone to offer support and asks the victims not to give up. He asks everyone to help the people in the disaster area a long time.
Katz explains that when engineers are giving press conferences it may not go very well because they are not good at such things. (They are talking over the heads of most people at times as well and keep the journalists confused. If scientists went on the news in this country and started giving out so many facts it could cause seizures)
Update #3: Integrity Inspection of Dry Storage Casks and Spent Fuels at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station from November 16 2010.
Anything in parentheses is my comment.
The officials/scientists in Japan on the news media said for a while they were not sure what was on fire while the U.S. news was reporting a specific reactor . They say they could not see due to the smoke and the radiation was too high to send people in due to high radiation. It could have been #3 or #4 or a cooling pool. (The cooling pool is a very likely source of smoke.)
The science people say many sensors are broken which makes figuring out what is on fire by remotely using instruments difficult. They say they can't cool down the fuel rods because they can‘t figure out what to even work on. Now they are saying the fire could be a third nuclear reactor, they just don't know.
One of them says the fuel rods may be exposed to the air, but they don’t know. The general picture from what they are saying is just a big cluster. They also sound very stressed. They exchanged the fuel in the storage pools 9 months ago, there are 514 of them under the cooling process. If the temp is greater than 1200 they may be hot enough to burn.
They are trying to organize more fire trucks to help feed water and any kind of pump to help with the water. (This is just desperate. OMG.)
Now another guy reports they took a picture from a mountain and it looks like #3 (northwest corner) is the one smoking.
(These reactors were built by idiots (GE) and have spent rods which cool above the reactors, so spent rods on fire could take the whole reactor down.) The Japanese government doubled the normal exposure of radiation allowed for nuclear reactor workers so they can stay longer. (There has been a report they may have received lethal doses in some cases.)
From Tepco (Tokyo Electric Power Company):
They have now announced plans to pour water from helicopters. They will pour it gradually to prevent some kind of problem that could occur from lots of water poured at once and investigating the safety factors of using a helicopter. They claim they are getting information faster.(Japan’s prime minister was pissed he did not get information quickly enough, that‘s why they said that.)
Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano announced anything is possible, but they will judge based on the current circumstances. (Reading between the lines here) They say they are trying their best to prepare to pour the sea water in the reactor.
A reporter asks if they are going to ask for help from the U.S. They say many countries are offering to help and the U.S. is providing pump(s)?
A minor amount of radiation has been detected in Tokyo. Reporter asks about evacuation plan. Now they go into the song and dance about exposure at all times to radiation from x-rays and air flight. They will judge based on the current circumstances. (Reading between the lines here) They say they are trying their best to prepare to pour the sea water in the reactor.
A reporter asks if they are going to ask for help from the U.S. They say many countries are offering to help and the U.S. is providing pump(s)?
They go into the song and dance about how people are exposed to radiation from x-rays, air flights, etc, again. (Of course they don’t mention many of the nuclides are different). They say they are coordinating with police, etc. and soon will make an announcement. A reporter asks if this will be enough if there is a melt down. They say they are doing a simulation and have an evacuation plan in place based on the current situation. If a melt down happens they will get ready for it. (Why plan ahead for God’s sake?)
They discuss the food shortages and urge people not to go and just buy out the stores which will cause a shortage for others. They especially would like those outside the disaster area to stop buying up all the food. They discuss transportation problems and ask people to not buy up gasoline. They discuss power shortages due to the lack of nuclear power plants and the public must get used to a society with less power. People in Japan must conserve energy because it goes to the ravaged areas first. They have asked other countries for help with fuel.
The journalists complained about Tepco confusing them. They are trying to allow the information to only come from one source. They say they don’t want to make hasty decisions because of the safety of the workers.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano said the Prime Minister has not gone home yet, but he was told to rest so he could have the ability to make judgments. People all over Japan have been very concerned he would collapse due to his constant work since the earthquake, etc.
Japan Security Committee (They are the agency that over sees Tepco):
There has been a variable pattern of radiation today 900 to 2036 to 6046 to 2.3 to2.9 to 3091, all milisieverts (and much more) and #3 reactor water level is down (I thought they could not get this kind of information). (However, all kinds of numbers are thrown around, it is very confusing).
There was a rise in radiation earlier and they ordered the workers to leave the site. People do go there to collect data however. They say the radiation is down now and the earlier reading was wrong (It was just a math error by a non-scientist). For a while they did not know if the radiation was coming from #2 or #3 as #2 has damage to the suppression chamber. Now with the readings down Tepco is sending workers back to the site. They think the reading is 10 milisieverts unconfirmed. Now they are saying the smoke is coming from #3 reactor, but the radiation is coming from #2 due to damage. The pressure of #2 has increased, but they do not know why. They assume the supply chamber is damaged, but they have no confirmation. They want to hear confirmation from Tepco. There is an 8 meter hole in #4 reactor. (They are very scientific or as Katz says, “More geeker than us.” (They aren’t more geeker than me, lol.)
(They report information and then someone else will say it was not correct, but there are many people very concerned with making sure accurate information is given. This has a lot to do with the technical nature of the problem and difficulties in such a chaotic mess as Japan is in now. Remember they had another major earthquake which caused more damage in another area along with all the other problems. There is way to much for any government to manage, there is of course mass confusion. People are working very hard to help their people. The workers at the nuclear power plants are heroes who are risking their lives to try to limit the damage for everyone else. They are very focused on helping those who are outside in freezing conditions and hungry.) When they find dead bodies they put a red flag to mark them because they will be covered with snow and can’t take care of them yet.
The governor of Tokyo has essentially said the earthquake/tsunami was divine punishment, but the news media in Japan is not hyping it because there are too many more important things going on. Katz says, “We don’t care about him now, we are too busy saving lives.” (Wow, in the U.S. our news media would report the idiots before helping the victims.) All through all of the reports there were many earthquakes.
Katz says start saving money because they will recover and want people to come to their country.
They were talking about Anderson Cooper because he is in Japan. Katz had no idea who he was and said he would only talk with him if he was good :).
Update #1: They have called for the National Security Forces to get their helicopters ready to haul water. At the nuclear power plant there are 180 workers trying to clean up the radiated debris from the tsunami and explosions.
From Katz: “If people tell me we are screwed, what’s the level of the screwed?” The reason he says this is he enjoyed the luxury of the electricity and did not complain about the nuclear power plants.
Update #2: Self Defense of Japan around 4 PM deployed helicopters to go pour water into the reactor. This morning in Japan, their Wednesday, smoke from #3 reactor is coming from the suppression pool of the spent fuel due to increased temperature and vaporizing water. Then later they detected higher radiation, then it went back down. #2 is leaking radiation. #3 is running out of water for cooling. #4 has rising temperature, it has spent fuel rods which were cooling. #5 and #6 were off line from before the earthquake. They evacuated 70 workers from the site during the high radiation. Now the 180 workers (180 heroes) are continuing to remove the debris from the blasts, etc. They are all being monitored for radiation closely. Some towns started to detect higher radiation due to the loss of radiation from the plant earlier at levels of no concern. The government keeps repeating the airplane and background radiation spiel. The two missing workers that have been reported as being killed in an explosion were actually swept away by the tsunami. There is no radiation threat in Tokyo. There were injuries with an old hydrogen blast and the people were sent to the hospital. Radiation was worse today than yesterday.
#1,#2, #3 are being ventilated to extract the gases and drop pressure so they can use more water to cool the reactors, fire trucks are standing by. There are over 7000 people missing with over 11,000 missing or dead at this point.
Emperor Akihito held a rare press conference (He is basically a figure head). He expresses regret to the victims, says the power plants are in critical condition and he hopes the workers will resolve the situation as soon as possible. He discussed all the people suffering from lack of food and energy while hoping to rebuild soon. The emperor is impressed by all the people in Japan who are working to help and all the international rescue teams who came to Japan to help under dangerous conditions. He hopes the people stay calm and help each other. He hopes they can overcome the circumstances and he knows the victims will have a hard time. He calls on everyone to offer support and asks the victims not to give up. He asks everyone to help the people in the disaster area a long time.
Katz explains that when engineers are giving press conferences it may not go very well because they are not good at such things. (They are talking over the heads of most people at times as well and keep the journalists confused. If scientists went on the news in this country and started giving out so many facts it could cause seizures)
Update #3: Integrity Inspection of Dry Storage Casks and Spent Fuels at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station from November 16 2010.
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