Japanese Accelerated Perf Fund Share Discussion Threads

[kidcharlemagne] 21/3/2011 00:21

What cracks me up is when the nuclear lobby under nothing resembling intelligent media questioning claim the radioactivity is similar to that you receive from a CT scan. Presumebly then you receive your dose and then the radioactivity switches off and you are immune from anymore negative effects. WTF!

[pwmiles] 19/3/2011 22:22

I think that something's changing here
I never watch the teev
So maybe I'm not so well informed
- Let's try it on the Big Show (Steve)

PWM

[pwmiles] 19/3/2011 22:00

Jap yields have now gone up?
This is news to go
They've been right on the floor since
Eighty-nine, or so

PWM

[kiwi2007] 19/3/2011 21:53

Looks to be heading in the right direction.

At a March 19 news conference, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said that sea water injection is continuing at reactors 1, 2 and 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Preparations were being made to spray water into the used fuel pool at reactor 4, and an unmanned vehicle sprayed more than 1,500 gallons of water over seven hours into the used fuel pool at reactor 3, Edano said. He also said he believed that the situation at the reactor 3 fuel pool is stabilizing.

Some reactor cooling capacity has been restored at reactors 5 and 6 after the installation of generators at those reactors, Edano added.

Edano said that progress had been made on "a fundamental solution" to restore power at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, with electricity expected to be restored at reactors 1 and 2 today and reactor 3 as early as Sunday.

Edano said that additional equipment was being transported to the site and that other means of providing cooling water to the pool is be examined.

Radiation dose at the west gate of the Fukushima Daiichi was 83 millirem per hour on March 18 at 7:10 p.m. EDT and dropped to 36 millirem per hour by 8 p.m. EDT, Edano said. Radiation levels have decreased since March 16. Although they are higher than normal, radiation levels near the reactors are within the range that allows workers to continue on-site recovery measures, the International Atomic Energy Agency said.

According to the IAEA, radiation dose rates in Tokyo and other areas outside the 30-kilometer zone remain far below levels which would require any protective action by the public. ....

[spob] 18/3/2011 23:12

now they just need some new pumps to connect to the new power source

[kidcharlemagne] 18/3/2011 16:43

P.S Geiger count readings cannot pick up the dangerous stuff.

[kiwi2007] 17/3/2011 12:00

"Is there a good source for facts?"

Linked from the Economist:

MIT NSE Nuclear Information Hub

[jackpipe] 17/3/2011 07:45

sorry, I'll just post a link to the kind of story that prompted me to post, since it's such total drivel, though I'm reluctant to drive any more traffic to it:

[jazza] 17/3/2011 07:27

indeed jack, the 24/7 news pack sink (or is that dig down?) to new depths..

EDIT: A favourite seems to be to switch between millisieverthours and millisievertyears (difference in scale 8,766 times) so they can publish alarmist numbers...

[jackpipe] 17/3/2011 07:24

The media reporting on fukushima seems to have turned into total garbage the last couple of days.
Is there a good source for facts?
For example, it should be pretty simple to have reports of radiation levels at particular distances and so on (eg web geiger counters), preferably in intelligible units. I see some reports switch freely from sieverts to rems with no explanation except the alarmed tone of the report.

[jackpipe] 14/3/2011 11:58

The charts at the top are all very nice, but unless I'm going blind, not a single one of them lists the actual current price, in numbers, of nikkei, topix, etc?

[energyi] 14/3/2011 04:13

Intraday : 9800 has become RESISTANCE rather than support

"Black Monday"?
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