Posted on 03/15/2011 2:57:21 PM PDT by 1010RD
Dang it looks like she is spending WAY too much time in the local In & Out Burger.
Either that or she inhaled too quickly and ingested some unlucky passersby.
Yes, I know, but this nearby plant is completely under control.
It’s 7:30AM, March 16 in Tokyo. That report is over 24 hours old.
I read somewhere on-line that it was 1-week.
Can anyone verify this?
What you have is a shut down reactor that is only producing decay heat but that is substantial enough to melt the metal fuel rods if the heat is not removed.
You have a simple heat exchanger that has reactor coolant flowing through it on one side and you typically have another cooler fluid on the other side of the heat exchanger. You of course have to have pumps circulate the fluid and of course you have to have electricity.
In practice though you use two heat exchangers because you don't want have sea water (or lake water)getting into the Reactor Coolant (if your heat exchanger developed a leak) as it would cause severe corrosion problems.
A typical plant can normally cool down at somewhat less than 100 deg F in an hour so starting at 500 some odd degrees it normally takes just a few hours once you start cooling down.
Cold in nuclear terms is less than 200 deg F so there can be no boiling at atmospheric pressure.
It took much longer to cool down because of loss of electric power. To cool then you have to boil off reactor coolant to remove heat and if you don't replace the water, the metal gets very hot, very quickly.
Ichi = 1 in Japanese
Ni = 2
San =3
Sei =4
Go =5
That is as high as I can count in Japanese
It’s only gotten better since then:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2689299/posts?page=13#13
This plant has been stabilized. The other plant, Fukushima Daiichi, still has problems.
The day old report I was referring to was about Dai-ichi. No biggie, just pointing out what day/time it is over yonder.
I believe that TEPCO is updating these regularly, but it isn’t clear to me that the English version is on our side of the dateline or theirs.
I guess the MSM reports were not making people panic enough, Obama & Co. had to personally get involved.
From Reuters again (March 15, 2011, 7:20 PM) :
Radiation poses only slight risk to nervous Tokyo: U.S. experts
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/us-japan-quake-health-idUSTRE72E9DL20110315
EXCERPT
Dozens of workers battling to control radiation at Japan’s stricken reactors face a far greater risk of developing cancer than normal, but Tokyo residents are within the safe range for exposure, U.S. nuclear experts said.
Radiation levels in Tokyo, one of the world’s most populous cities, rose 10 times above average Tuesday evening, spreading fear among many of the 33 million residents in the metropolitan area.
The best advice experts could give them was to stay indoors, close the windows and avoid breathing bad air — steps very similar to those for handling a smog alert or avoiding influenza.
While these steps may sound inconsequential, experts said the danger in Tokyo, while worrisome, is slight - at least for now.
“Everything I’ve seen so far suggests there have been nominal amounts of material released. Therefore, the risks are generally low to the population,” Jerrold Bushberg, who directs programs in health physics at the University of California at Davis, said in a telephone interview.
“There may be more significant risks for emergency workers on site. They are dealing with the occupational exposure, but not for the population at large.”
Fresh explosions Tuesday at the Fukushima plant, 180 miles north of Tokyo, released low levels of radiation, escalating a crisis triggered by last week’s massive earthquake and tsunami. With cooling systems knocked out, the fear is more blasts within the reactors at the complex could eventually cause a major radiation leak.
The levels measured around Tokyo at one point were 40 times above normal but have receded to 10 times. That amounts to roughly the same dose as a chest or abdominal CT scan.
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She is shaped like Joycelyn Elders.
Is it a requirement for Surgeons General that serve under democrat presidents be butter balls?
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