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Title: Japan....earthquake
Post by: level42 on March 11, 2011, 05:56:56 PM
Just want to say I hope our Japanese friends here are allright....damn that looks terrible !!!
Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: ckong on March 11, 2011, 06:26:42 PM
I must admit that I had tears in my eyes when I saw the horror.  :'(
Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: DarthNuno on March 12, 2011, 05:54:31 AM
I really wish our Japanese friends & family are safe. What a nightmare over there!  :?
Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: Muerto on March 12, 2011, 12:30:26 PM
Horrible horrible news!! really hope they are safe!
and now even worse, possible another Tjernobyl  nuclear accident  :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[

(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/51647000/jpg/_51647556_jex_984081_de55-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: level42 on March 12, 2011, 01:56:41 PM
Horrible horrible news!! really hope they are safe!
and now even worse, possible another Tjernobyl  nuclear accident  :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[

(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/51647000/jpg/_51647556_jex_984081_de55-1.jpg)

That's hardly possible, the Japanese nuclear power plants are totally different (to say it nicely) than that old Russian stuff.
Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: Muerto on March 12, 2011, 02:10:36 PM
you're totally right, though, there´s roomers floating around that a meltdown has started, and at the same time the Japanese government says that the inner shell is intact.... though, they are still unable to cool the core due to the damage of the cooling lines......
 
Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: level42 on March 12, 2011, 02:14:11 PM
....yeah....whatever the truth is, you don't want to be there right now...
Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: Muerto on March 12, 2011, 02:18:25 PM
totally agree!  :-\
Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: level42 on March 12, 2011, 03:26:53 PM
Just read that reactor is 40 years old, 1971....

....Chernobyl reactor was built from 1977 till 1983 (4 reactors built)....

Let's hope the Japanese did a better job.
Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: Muerto on March 12, 2011, 03:50:18 PM
ouch! - not good, but as you say, i too hope they did a better job!
also, the morale is better in japan, ie. they honor their work on another level...
Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: DarthNuno on March 16, 2011, 08:24:36 PM
This is getting worse day after day. I really have a thought for all those people and especially our Japanese members.
Please give us a sign  :-\
Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: liquidx on March 16, 2011, 09:23:13 PM
Just read that reactor is 40 years old, 1971....

....Chernobyl reactor was built from 1977 till 1983 (4 reactors built)....

Let's hope the Japanese did a better job.

Chernobyl had no containment structure, it was an extremely flawed design. The Japanese one has containment. It doesn't have a core catcher if the whole thing decides to melt down into the earth though, then again neither do most of the ones around here either (only EPR type stations will have them I think and they're all under construction)

I'm told there is still a nuclear power plant in operation in Russia today who's original design was the inspiration for Chernobyl. There are also 3 reactors in the Ukraine with no containment structure. Politicians currently playing the voter game by talking of inspections and shutdowns in our own countries should worry about their sister reactors in the east first.





Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: Muerto on March 16, 2011, 09:28:22 PM
it´s terrible, it seems like a meltdown is under way.... :-[

And i´m sorry to say, but i think the Japanese government is withholding a lot of information regarding the actually facts on the Fukushima power plant...!!!!
(http://multimedia.ekstrabladet.dk/archive/00644/fukushima-march-201_644659m.jpg)
Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: Tom#2-JP on March 17, 2011, 11:27:22 PM
hahaha. I'm still alive.

Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: Etienne MacGyver on March 17, 2011, 11:44:51 PM
Thats great to hear !
Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: level42 on March 17, 2011, 11:46:10 PM
That's great to hear......not envying you guys there though......

Pouring water with helicopters looks like a final desperate try....they seem to completely miss target because of the wind (rising heat I bet) blowing away most of the water....
Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: Muerto on March 18, 2011, 07:04:51 AM
hahaha. I'm still alive.

Great news indeed! Where are you located if i may ask?
Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: Tom#2-JP on March 18, 2011, 11:26:38 AM
Great news indeed! Where are you located if i may ask?
in Tokyo.(It's away from Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant at 220km)
so, I have not received the damage related to my life.
Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: DarthNuno on March 18, 2011, 05:01:45 PM
Great news  :)
Hope all the problems will end soon in Japan  :-\ This is just too much disasters at the same time...
Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: ckong on March 18, 2011, 06:40:59 PM
My wife and I made plans to go to Japan this year, end of May, for 3 weeks. Fortuntaley two weeks ago, before the earthquake and the tsunami, we decided to postpone the ticket purchase for a few weeks because we wanted to wait for a better deal!!!

It now seems that we indeed can get a better deal,  :o  :?  :roll:  :shock: but we decided to wait until next week before we make the final decision to go or not. I mean, I'm always trying to enlight myself, but this kind of enlightment could be unhealthy.
Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: level42 on March 18, 2011, 09:52:36 PM
Damn I just saw the firemen what will have to work there (they were getting a "pep talk" like soldiers that were going to fight and maybe not return........
....the fear in their eyes was clear enough...  :'(
Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: level42 on March 19, 2011, 02:43:18 PM
In all seriousness......where are those brilliant robots that the Japanese developed now we need them most ?

http://asimo.honda.com/

http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/special/robot/
Title: Re: Japan....earthquake
Post by: Tom#2-JP on April 05, 2012, 01:25:08 PM
I will present a case of damage as part of the record.......
before (http://www.cannojp.com:81/gwiki/index.php?%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AB%E3%83%A0%E5%A4%9A%E8%B3%80%E5%9F%8E%E5%BA%97)
after (http://haleit.tumblr.com/post/3938390238)
more pictures this link (http://goo.gl/yFRvv).

It was a game center in Tagajo Sendai (http://g.co/maps/t6fhk).
Because this building was dismantled, and now can not be seen in August 2011.