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| Posted by: Dr. Jeff Masters, 11:00 PM GMT em 11 de Março de 2011 | +7 |
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Maybe the crossing of the Red Sea!
Mine, too: I just had the bold red "New Mail" notice, but when I stuck my hand into the box, there was nothing there. Strange...
"U.N. agency: State of emergency at nuclear power plant in Onagawa, Japan, where excessive radiation levels reported."
Onagawa is 120km or so NE of Fukushima, home of the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant.
I hope the CNN announcement was a premature mistake.
Welcome to Spring! Love the time change....
Disturbing news coming out of Japan - sadness for the people and the loss.
The Nuke Plants - a dire situation, let's hope that they get them under control soon.
Take care & be safe!
I noted that very thing last year, 2 ducks that normally nested beside the creek beside my place was sitting 50yards up the street and did not want to move back. about 30mins later, a flash flood came flowing down the creek taking out trees and causing a heck of a mess. The sky above was clear yet to the east of me was a very dark heavy looking cloud, I could not see the base of this cloud but if i could, I would guess it was dumping a heck a lot of rain.
OMG It's gone viral.... IT'S FAKE. STOP POSTING IT, GEEEEEZZZZZZ
I ain't got no mail
That was me. I wrote you a very nice message and well written I might add. Send me one and see if I get it.
You didn't get my mail. Send me one and see if it come through.
Just sent...
Yeah, I was just minusing the fake map; now I've started hitting the red exclamation as well...
Link
I've done both ever since it started appearing.
Can Animals Sense Earthquakes?
Maryann Mott
for National Geographic News
November 11, 2003
1456: Radiation levels at the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi prefecture are about 700 times higher than normal but are still low, the Tohoku Electric Power Company has said, according to the Maichi Shinbum website. Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency dismissed the possibility that the Onagawa plant was to blame, saying it was likely caused by the radioactive substances that scattered when a hydrogen explosion hit the troubled Fukushima plant on Saturday.
IOW: "Folks, don't worry about the Onagawa plant; it's not having problems. Yeah, radiation levels are 700 times higher than they should be, but that's only because of fallout from yesterday's Fukushima explosion far to the southwest, which, as we've told you, didn't actually spread any radiation, except for one blob that magically landed right on top of Onagawa and nowhere else. You believe us. Right?"
http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-201 1/beforeafter.htm
West Coast USA Danger IF Japan Nuclear Reactor Meltdown
Things to know about Cesium-137, “IF” there is a complete meltdown and release into the environment
(also spelled, Caesium)
Where does cesium-137 come from?
Radioactive cesium-137 is produced when uranium and plutonium absorb neutrons and undergo fission. Examples of the uses of this process are nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.
What is the half life?
The half-life of cesium-137 is 30 years. Because of the chemical nature of cesium, it moves easily through the environment. This makes the cleanup of cesium-137 difficult.
How do people come in contact with cesium-137?
Walking on contaminated soil could result in external exposure to gamma radiation. People may ingest cesium-137 with food and water, or may inhale it as dust. It is distributed fairly uniformly throughout the body’s soft tissues. Exposure may also be external (that is, exposure to its gamma radiation from outside the body).
How can cesium-137 affect people’s health?
Exposure to radiation from cesium-137 results in increased risk of cancer. If exposures are very high, serious burns, and even death, can result. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says everyone is exposed to minute amounts of cesium-137. The average annual dose in the Northern Hemisphere is less than 1 millirem annually. That falls below the 100 millirem exposure limit the Nuclear Regulatory Commission recommends.
(information sourced from the U.S. EPA)
Person Finder: 2011 Japan Earthquake
What is your situation?
Gro- I did reply- look at the very oldest wumail you have- mine should be before that.
Now if we could just turn the clock back 5 days, and turn off those damn nuke plants.
Excerpt from this article
Friday's 8.9-magnitude earthquake exceeded the level at which Tokyo Electric's plants are designed to withstand, Takeshi Takahashi, the general manager of the company's nuclear power plant management department, said Saturday.
Oh, I see. I have 40+ pages of WU mails, so I never would have seen it. The time change definitely threw off the servers...
But that's why I posted the nadir satellite idea. Knew someone would think of a component I didn't.
Japanese workers and nuclear experts raced against the clock to pump seawater into two damaged nuclear reactors. It's a last-ditch effort to cool them enough to avert Chernobyl- or Three Mile Island-like core meltdowns even as government officials admitted partial meltdowns are already assumed to have occurred in both units.
Japanese authorities now list six reactors at two different nuclear power plants Fukushima I and nearby Fukushima II in a state of emergency following the massive earthquake and Tsunami waves that hit Japan Friday. A total of 11 of the nation's 54 reactors shut down following the quake, knocking out about 30 percent of Japan's power.
At a Sunday morning press briefing, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said experts were "assuming the possibility of a meltdown" at the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima I plant, about 150 miles north of Tokyo, as well as at its No. 1 reactor.
I'm not a classic blogger, hahahaha
Yep.
TOKYO, March 13, Kyodo
Japanese authorities scrambled Sunday to avert a nuclear disaster, injecting seawater into overheating reactors and relieving the pressure inside at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture that was hit and shut down by Friday's devastating earthquake.
While acknowledging that the core of the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 plant may have been deformed due to overheating, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano denied it has led to a ''meltdown,'' a critical situation where fuel rods have melted.
The top government spokesman warned, however, that a hydrogen explosion similar to one that blew away part of a building housing another reactor at the same facility on Saturday could occur at the reactor.
Large amounts of hydrogen were formed when the water injection procedure temporarily ran into trouble and they may have filled the upper part of a building housing the No. 3 reactor, Edano said at a news conference.
The developments came after the cooling systems for some of the plant's reactors failed following the magnitude 9.0 earthquake which hit northeastern and eastern Japan on Friday. The failure led the power plant's No. 1 reactor core to partially melt Saturday, triggering fears of a nuclear disaster.
Hidehiko Nishiyama, a senior official of the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry indicated Sunday that the core of the No. 3 reactor has also melted partially, telling a news conference, ''I don't think the fuel rods themselves have been spared damage.''
The plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., commonly known as TEPCO, began injecting fresh water into the No. 3 reactor's core vessel on Sunday to deal with the problem that the tops of MOX fuel rods were 3 meters above the water inside.
But after trouble developed with a fresh water pump, the company was forced to pour seawater into it, a step that will eventually lead to the reactor's dismantlement. As a result, water levels began rising again, Edano said.
Radiation around the reactor rose above the legal limit to 1,557 micro sievert per hour at 1:52 p.m., but the figure went down to 184 about 50 minutes later. Given the radiation level, Edano said a hydrogen explosion is unlikely to affect human health even if one occurred.
Meanwhile, radiation monitored at the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture on the Pacific coast shot up from late Saturday through early Sunday, Tohoku Electric Power Co. said, adding that radiation levels were low but about 700 times as high as normal.
The government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said it was likely caused by the radioactive substances that scattered when a hydrogen explosion hit the troubled Fukushima plant on Saturday, dismissing the possibility that the Miyagi plant was to blame.
The No. 3 reactor was the sixth reactor overall at the Fukushima No. 1 and No. 2 plants, which are located about 11 kilometers apart, to experience cooling failure since the massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami struck Japan on Friday.
The nuclear crisis raised fears of radiation exposure.
Nineteen people who had evacuated from an area within 3 km of the No. 1 plant were found exposed to radiation, joining three others already confirmed to have been exposed, the Fukushima prefectural government said Sunday.
In addition, about 160 people are feared to have been exposed to radiation, according to the government agency.
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said that 15 people were found to have been contaminated with radioactive material at a hospital located within 10 km of the reactor.
To measure radiation for residents who may have been exposed to it and determine whether they need emergency treatment, the National Institute of Radiological Sciences sent 17 doctors and experts to the city of Fukushima on Sunday.
Meanwhile, electric power companies in other regions and Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. have dispatched a total of 48 people to help TEPCO deal with the crisis at the two nuclear power plants in Fukushima.
An explosion Saturday at the No. 1 plant blew away the roof and part of the walls of the building housing its No. 1 reactor's container.
The government and nuclear authorities said there was no damage to a steel container housing the reactor, noting that the blast occurred as vapor from the container turned into hydrogen and mixed with oxygen outside.
On Sunday, TEPCO continued new cooling operations to fill the troubled No. 1 reactor with seawater and pour in boric acid to prevent an occurrence of criticality.
Following the explosion, the authorities expanded from 10 km to 20 km the radius of the evacuation area for residents living in the vicinity of the Fukushima plants.
==Kyodo
I doubt this is a new v. classic issue; incoming WU mails are being date stamped December 31, 1969, so they're going straight to the back of the queue.
On the plus side, I now have "evidence" that Grothar was sending WU mails to me while I was still in 6th grade...
I just responded to your "1969" email. Can you go to the end of the list?
I sent Gro a pretty pic as well as to me and NO joy.
Maybe the Wisconsin Guvna passed a no wu-mail Bill overnight?
Went to the end of the list. Also I cannot delete anything either. If I don't get my WU mail. I go into withdrawal.
But I aint about to go to the end of my folder to get it.
You have 1898 messages (messages 1-10 shown)
Even though we know when a hurricane will come, the animals here sense it. The turtles and gators head out of the water towards higher ground way away from canals.
LOL
Is it V2 or V1 when we rotate skipper?
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