A 9.0 magnitude earthquake has affected nuclear power stations in Japan. ANS Nuclear Cafe began at | 0800 | 2011 03 11 | a media clip service on breaking news about the status of nuclear energy facilities in Japan. The news reports are in descending order based on time/date stamps where available or when posted.
Update: News reports continue March 20 of the nuclear energy crisis in Japan. Follow breaking news items via @djysrv on Twitter.
Regular blog posts will return to Idaho Samizdat on Monday March 21 assuming the crisis in Japan continues toward resolution. Significant progress is taking place March 20 with the restoration of external power to several reactors.
There are news summaries at ANS Nuclear Cafe twice a the day. The ANS Nuclear Cafe is the blog of the American Nuclear Society (ANS).
Also, this week ANS sent emails to its 12,000 members with updates about Japan's nuclear crisis. I am supporting this work at ANS which is why you are not seeing anything here.
See a special technical statement by ANS on Japan's nuclear crisis. Below are some additional sources of information.
Sources of information about Japan's nuclear crisis
- IAEA Tsunami & Earthquake updates
Alert Log & Twitter feed & Facebook & web pages - Tokyo Electric Power - press release updates
- Japan Atomic Industrial Forum - status updates
- World Nuclear News - several updates daily
- Nuclear Energy Institute - updates on Japan's reactors
Fact sheet on radiation and Japanese nuclear reactors - NHK Japan TV in English - continuous updates on earthquake & tsunami tragedies plus nuclear reactor news
- U.S. AID - Federal government humanitarian assistance to Japan
- U.S. State Department - Information for travelers in Japan
- American Nuclear Society Japan Relief Fund
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6 comments:
Japan says it is filling the reactors with sea water, to cool them.
I may be completely wrong, but it sounds to me like they were trying to do other things to cool the reactor, before going to this step.
If they were previously avoiding this, it is because it will damage the reactor, so that it would need to be completely rebuilt?
Use of seawater ends any possible restart of Unit #1
They lost the ability to recover the units before they injected seawater. Seawater injection occurred after significant Hydrogen generation occured and they had to vent the heads. Can you say "zirconium - water reaction"? Recovery of the reactor might be feasible after several years of clean up but the most correct path would most likely be to decomm.
Has anyone else noticed that Dan is uncomfortably silent these last few days when -- presumably -- this is his time to shine. Oh well, there is always the NYT's professional reporting.
Response to Anonymous - I'm supporting the official blog of the American Nuclear Society http://ansnuclearcafe.wordpress.com
All my work can be seen there with 40,000 page views per day on reliable news media coverage of Japan's nuclear crisis.
Thanks, Dan, for your efforts tracking this event.
Anonymous says, thanks for the clarification. Wondered what had happened to you.
Speaking of ANS, what is Eric Lowen up to? He is the resident GE expert and ANS top dog.
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