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| 2011-03-19 |
| Rooters - Encouragingly, the situation at the most critical reactor - No. 3 appeared to come back from the brink after fire trucks doused it for hours. Work also advanced on bringing power back to water pumps. "We are making progress ... (but) we shouldn't be too optimistic," said Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy-general at Japan's Nuclear Safety Agency. But radiation has been discovered in Tokyo! The sample contained 1.5 becquerals per kg of iodine 131, well below the tolerable limit for food and drink of 300 becquerals per kg, the government said. Japan said the traces so far found posed no risks. Yet U.N. atomic watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency said Japan was considering whether to halt all food product sales from Fukushima prefecture. It's for the children. The Japanese children. Why export food when you have half a million homeless? In other news - Oshika peninsula in Miyagi prefecture shifted 5.3 metres (17 ft) east and its land sank 1.2 metres (4 ft). In contrast to the generally negative images so far, generated |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #5 one problem with using robots is that unless they are specifically 'hardened' the radiation levels will crater their electronics in no time. I am thinking of something like a Cat D-9 with 6 foot thick concrete &/or metal walls around its key electronic components. AFAICT that was doable, but I don't know if anyone has done it. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-03-19 21:22 |
| #4 I have heard that one problem with using robots is that unless they are specifically 'hardened' the radiation levels will crater their electronics in no time. Probably need some real primitive remote-control stuff. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-03-19 17:15 |
| #3 I forget the reference, but some blog already mentioned Zuider Zee east. It's valuable real estate, and the Japanese will handle it accordingly. |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2011-03-19 16:44 |
| #2 -- If the land sank 4 feet, no wonder the tsunamis did so much damage. Hard to rely on sea walls that can suddenly get much shorter. I would guess other parts of the coast sank even more. Those parts of Japan have been reclaimed by the sea. -- Has anybody else wondered why robots have not played a bigger part in the work at Fukushima Daiichi? Perhaps the ones that were there were also destroyed by the tsunami. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-03-19 16:00 |
| #1 I was going to link the Oshika Penisula, so you could see where it was, before I posted, but hit submit instead of preview. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-03-19 15:40 |