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8.9 Earthquake has struck Japan

I'm not trying to be funny. I'm appalled at the way they are not being forthcoming with their people.

PS... Greg, your math is just fine, unfortunately.
 
Darren, I hope I didn't sound accusatory! :)

That press conference was surreal, coming across as a missing scene from 'Dr. Strangelove.' Combined with your remark about "you know you've had a bad day...", my black sense of humor came to light.
 
Greg Campbell said:
Darren, I hope I didn't sound accusatory! :)
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Not at all. No offense taken. My comment came from the same black humor place, but was fueled by disdain directed at the politicians and the obfuscators.

Glad to hear the fire is out so quickly. Now wonder if the radiation stream from No. 4 also is curtailed?
 
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Back to Reactor Unit No. 2. The same TEMCO press conference where they said "internal pressure is 1 atmosphere" someone also added that the pressure gauge may be defective. That would seem much more of a possibility if the reading did not come after the audible sound from inside that alarmed them. Perhaps they don't want to say it is breached until they can definitively eliminate all other possibilities.
 
BBC video running on their live page is saying that Japan meteorology is saying winds blowing out to sea. What the... ?
http://www.windfinder.com/forecast/sendai_airport_shinko

Won't be blowing out to sea for at least 24 hours.

BBC finally mentions No. 2 again
The BBC's Chris Hogg in Tokyo says that Japan's nuclear safety agency says it suspects the explosion may have damaged the vessel that holds the number two reactor. That would make it a more serious incident than the two previous explosions at Fukushima that were thought just to have damaged the buildings that housed the reactors.
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Darren Addy said:
BBC video running on their live page is saying that Japan meteorology is saying winds blowing out to sea. What the... ?
http://www.windfinder.com/forecast/sendai_airport_shinko

Won't be blowing out to sea for at least 24 hours.
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It looks like the wind direction will be very poor for the next day
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin...ery=zmw:00000.1.47557&yday=73&weekday=Tuesday
The predicted rain may be a very good thing in that it will wash out any grunge before it gets too far. (Of course this will intensify local fallout significantly!)

Fortunately, the plant is some distance from truly large population centers.
http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&q=3...37.417891,140.9412&spn=0.220049,0.308647&z=12
 
NEWS ADVISORY: Radiation amount in Chiba Pref. twice to 4 times normal level
NEWS ADVISORY: Radiation 33 times normal level measured in Utsunomiya, Tochigi
 
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