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Japan's Tsunami 2011 (pg. 26)
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| VDub |
| quote: | Originally posted by E2EK1EL
I'm not nerd w/ glasses lol
Dude looks like someone I know, honestly. |
You and I both know that all Asians either wear glasses or need them... |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by VDub
I was reinforcing your post with a reputable source... |
Oh :p |
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| E2EK1EL |
| quote: | Originally posted by VDub
You and I both know that all Asians either wear glasses or need them... |
I have 20/20 vision, perfect hearing and memory. Freaks ppl out all the time
back on topic. |
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| smuncky |
| quote: | Originally posted by VDub
If I didn't know what he looked like, I'd swear this was John... |
u mean vince. |
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| jester |
| quote: | For several hours, Ashley Russell thought his daughter was dead. A missing persons website set up to track Japan's tsunami said so.
The Australian father eventually discovered that the post was a hoax and his daughter, Alice Byron, is safe.
Sydney-based Russell told of his distress Tuesday after finding a message on the Google site Saturday afternoon saying the 21-year-old woman had been confirmed dead at a hospital in the devastated coastal town of Ofunato, where she had been teaching English for nine months.
It cited the name and telephone number of a real hospital, but gave a fake doctor's name. Her father said frantic friends in Japan were able to telephone the hospital and confirm the deception.
"There are some evil people out there," said Russell, a 48-year-old publisher. "Her employer told me other people had suffered the same hoax as well."
With thousands still missing from the devastating tsunami that followed Japan's worst-ever earthquake on Friday, the potential for such hoaxes is great.
"These people are looking for a reaction," said Byron, who was tracked down by The Associated Press at Ofunato City Hall in stricken northeast Iwate prefecture on Tuesday. "There are people on the Internet who want to make light of a bad situation and make edgy jokes. ... It doesn't take long for the Internet hate machine to roll into action."
She said she was at her Ofunato home when the quake hit. She climbed the hill behind her apartment and watched the unstoppable water carry cars and massive amounts of debris inland.
"One of the hardest things to deal with psychologically was not contacting my family to tell them I was safe," she said. She was eventually able to send a brief e-mail saying 'safe. evacuated to town hall center. love you.' using a satellite phone. |
(Courtesy of Huffingtonpost)
They should find the IP address that posted it and see where it leads them. |
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| MSZ |
not sure if this has been posted in any of the previous pages, but the Redcross could definitely use some donations.
http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=2372&tid=032
| quote: | (Ottawa, March 14, 2011) – The Canadian Red Cross is pleased to announce that ten banks in Canada are accepting cash donations in support of Red Cross relief efforts in Japan. On Friday March 11, an 8.9 magnitude earthquake struck Japan causing major damage and triggering 4 metre waves in Japan and a tsunami warning across the Pacific Coast.
“Local Red Cross teams have been working around the clock to help millions of people left devastated by the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan,” says Conrad Sauvé, Secretary General and CEO of the Canadian Red Cross. “We are grateful to the participating banks for making it easier for Canadians to support Red Cross relief operations underway in affected communities and for the generous donations already made by a number of banks.”
The Red Cross response to this disaster was immediate. The Japanese Red Cross has a network of over 2 million registered volunteers. Over 80 health and disaster relief teams are currently on the ground providing emergency medical assistance, assisting in evacuations and distributing urgently needed supplies including over 30,000 blankets.
Canadians can give online, call toll-free at 1-800-418-1111 or visittheir local Red Cross office or one of the participating bank branches. Cheques should be earmarked Japan Earthquake Asia Pacific 2011.
The following banks are also accepting financial donations from March 15 to April 15, 2011:
BMO Financial Group
Canadian Western Bank
CIBC
HSBC Bank Canada
ING DIRECT
Laurentian Bank of Canada
National Bank Financial Group
RBC
Scotiabank
TD Canada Trust
The Canadian Red Cross is a member of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, which includes the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the International Committee of the Red Cross and 187 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Our mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity in Canada and around the world.
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For more information please contact
Canadian Red Cross Media Line
(613) 740-1994
Andrew Addison
Canadian Bankers Association
Tel: (416) 362-6093, ext. 220
Cell: (416) 587-7733 E-mail: [email protected]
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| VDub |
| quote: | Originally posted by smuncky
u mean vince. |
I thought of him but Vince would never talk all thuggish... |
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| rulzz |
zerohedge :
All workers have been withdrawn. Reactors are now on autopilot - Edano |
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| exraver |
Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE Scientist To Quit In Protest
Thirty-five years ago, Dale G. Bridenbaugh and two of his colleagues at General Electric resigned from their jobs after becoming increasingly convinced that the nuclear reactor design they were reviewing -- the Mark 1 -- was so flawed it could lead to a devastating accident.
Questions persisted for decades about the ability of the Mark 1 to handle the immense pressures that would result if the reactor lost cooling power, and today that design is being put to the ultimate test in Japan. Five of the six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which has been wracked since Friday's earthquake with explosions and radiation leaks, are Mark 1s.
"The problems we identified in 1975 were that, in doing the design of the containment, they did not take into account the dynamic loads that could be experienced with a loss of coolant," Bridenbaugh told ABC News in an interview. "The impact loads the containment would receive by this very rapid release of energy could tear the containment apart and create an uncontrolled release."
The situation on the ground at the Fukushima Daiichi plant is so fluid, and the details of what is unfolding are so murky, that it may be days or even weeks before anyone knows how the Mark 1 containment system performed in the face of a devastating combination of natural disasters.
But the ability of the containment to withstand the events that have cascaded from what nuclear experts call a "station blackout" -- where the loss of power has crippled the reactor's cooling system -- will be a crucial question as policy makers re-examine the safety issues that surround nuclear power, and specifically the continued use of what is now one of the oldest types of nuclear reactors still operating.
GE told ABC News the reactors have "a proven track record of performing reliably and safely for more than 40 years" and "performed as designed," even after the shock of a 9.0 earthquake.
Still, concerns about the Mark 1 design have resurfaced occasionally in the years since Bridenbaugh came forward. In 1986, for instance, Harold Denton, then the director of NRC's Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, spoke critically about the design during an industry conference.
"I don't have the same warm feeling about GE containment that I do about the larger dry containments,'' he said, according to a report at the time that was referenced Tuesday in The Washington Post.
"There is a wide spectrum of ability to cope with severe accidents at GE plants,'' Denton said. "And I urge you to think seriously about the ability to cope with such an event if it occurred at your plant.''
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/fukus...ory?id=13141287 |
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| rabbitjoker |
CANDU is the way to go. After spending many years studying nuclear power systems I've always said that CANDU is ideal for power production safety.
http://www.americablog.com/2011/03/...use-to-use.html
"There are nuclear designs that are genuinely fail safe. The Canadian CANDU system that uses a heavy water moderator is fail safe, If the reactor overheats, the glass tubes containing the moderator crack and the moderator drains away - failsafe."
http://www.aecl.ca/Reactors/CANDU6/Systems/Special.htm
They are designed to be "fail-safe". This means that if a component of the shutdown system fails, the rest of the system is either capable of performing its function, or is automatically activated to shut down the reactor.
Either shutdown system reduces the heat being generated from 100% to 10% in just two seconds. Residual heat can be taken away by either normal or emergency heat removal systems. |
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| exraver |
# NEWS ADVISORY: Smoke may be coming from No. 3 reactor's fuel pool: TEPCO (10:53)
# NEWS ADVISORY: Pool stores 514 spent fuel rods at Fukushima No.3 reactor: TEPCO (11:00)
# NEWS ADVISORY: TEPCO unable to confirm temperature at No.3 reactor's spent fuel pool (11:02)
# NEWS ADVISORY: TEPCO can't check smoke at Fukushima plant as radiation is too high (11:16)
# BREAKING NEWS: Radiation levels at Fukushima plant rose after 10 a.m.: Edano (11:23)
# BREAKING NEWS: Fukushima No. 3 reactor's container feared partially damaged: Edano (11:27)
# BREAKING NEWS: Containment vessels of No.1, No.3 reactors may be damaged: Edano (11:30) |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Either shutdown system reduces the heat being generated from 100% to 10% in just two seconds. Residual heat can be taken away by either normal or emergency heat removal systems. |
You do realise that's exactly the problem here though, right?
As soon as the quake hit, all of Japan's reactors were shut down using the control rods. This was automatic, and it worked just fine. There hasn't been a nuclear chain reaction happening at this plant for days now. The issue is that the tsunami wiped out all of the normal and emergency heat removal systems, like the ones you're talking about in your post. It's the residual heat that they can't control right now, coming from the fuel itself, not from the nuclear reaction. |
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