http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?id=6697593
"Tokyo Electric Power, which operates the nuclear plant near the city
of Kashiwazaki, said it had found more than 50 problems had been
caused by the earthquake Monday. Most were minor, but the most serious
involved 100 drums of radioactive waste that fe
I wrote:
[The chimney appears] to be a heavy duty . . . It broke about 2/3rd
of the way up and partially collapsed (stove-in). An incredible sight.
The word I was looking for is "stove-piped" or telescoped. The upper
portion of the chimney fell down on the lower portion, the way a
telescope
On Jul 17, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Horace Heffner wrote:
On Jul 17, 2007, at 12:35 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Horace Heffner wrote:
ABC news about an hour ago had a report that 200 drums worth of
radioactive material went into the sea.
Really?! That can't be right. What is the URL?
I may not b
On Jul 17, 2007, at 12:35 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Horace Heffner wrote:
ABC news about an hour ago had a report that 200 drums worth of
radioactive material went into the sea.
Really?! That can't be right. What is the URL?
No URL. It was a TV broadcast.
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonl
Horace Heffner wrote:
ABC news about an hour ago had a report that 200 drums worth of
radioactive material went into the sea.
Really?! That can't be right. What is the URL?
This could just be the confusion typically found in reporting, or at
least reporters.
Perhaps they are confusing the
On Jul 17, 2007, at 6:32 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
About 100 drum cans of low level rad-waste toppled over, because
the bolts used to hold them in position were substandard. Some of
the tops of drum cans came off, but there was no significant
release of rad-waste into the environment. Ther
Some of the details I translated have been reported by the AP in English:
http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/world/story/1600223/
- Jed
The Mainichi Newspaper filed a report at 22:22 (9:22 a.m. EDT)
describing the damage to the nuclear reactor in more detail. In Japanese:
http://www.mainichi-msn.co.jp/today/news/20070718km040091000c.html
They have now tallied 50 problems caused or probably by the
earthquake. All 50 are lis
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake occurred in Niigata, Japan today. The
epicenter was in the Sea of Japan (which I think the Koreans call the
Sea of Korea). The earthquake damaged the Kashiwazaki nuclear power
plant facility. The nuclear reactor shut down automatically, but the
damage caused a fire in
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