Japan hit by powerful earthquake

[Boyiee]

should hire a Faceless Man to go assassinate people until its fixed.

With all the radiation they probably already have one on the payroll.

[Tagus]

Well, it seems like Japan is warming up to the idea of asking for help, which I suppose is progress. 500 mil doesn't really seem like a lot of money to throw at this in the grand scheme of things though. I mean.. shit. I've met a couple of individual people who have more money than that... and this is a scenario that could entirely destroy that country.

[miokomioko]

So... Japan just felt a 7.3 about 300 miles off the coast of Fukushima this morning. More tsunami advisories, but only for the Honshu region.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...n_4164181.html

Poor lil' dudes can't catch a break.

[Lucavi]

I've heard of no confirmed casualties yet, so that's good. Looks like Godzilla and Mothra must be battling underwater again.

[archibaldcrane]

Half foot tsunami, no damage

[Cail]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-2...-plant/6200746

Sensors at the Fukushima nuclear plant have detected a fresh leak of highly radioactive water into the sea.

Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said the sensors, which were rigged to a gutter that pours rain and ground water at the Fukushima Daiichi plant to a nearby bay, detected contamination levels up to 70 times greater than the already-high radioactive status seen at the plant campus.

TEPCO said its emergency inspections of tanks storing nuclear waste water did not find any additional abnormalities, but the firm said it shut the gutter to prevent radioactive water from going into the Pacific Ocean.

The higher-than-normal levels of contamination were detected on Sunday, with sensors showing radiation levels 50 to 70 times greater than usual.

Though contamination levels fell steadily throughout the day, the same sensors were still showing contamination levels about 10 to 20 times more than usual, a company spokesman said.

It was not immediately clear what caused the original spike of the contamination and its gradual fall, he said.

"With emergency surveys of the plant and monitoring of other sensors, we have no reason to believe tanks storing radioactive waste water have leaked," he said.

"We have shut the gutter [from pouring water to the bay]. We are currently monitoring the sensors at the gutter and seeing the trend."

The latest incident, one of several that have plagued the plant in recent months, reflects the difficulty in controlling and decommissioning the plant, which went through meltdowns and explosions after being battered by a giant tsunami in March 2011, sparking the world's worst nuclear disaster in a generation.

TEPCO has not been able to effectively deal with an increasing amount of contaminated water, used to cool the crippled reactors and molten fuels inside them and kept in large storage tanks on the plant's vast campus.

Adding to TEPCO's headaches has been the persistent flow of groundwater from nearby mountains travelling under the contaminated plant before washing into the Pacific Ocean.

The International Atomic Energy Agency recently said TEPCO has made "significant progress" in cleaning up the plant, but suggested that Japan should consider ways to discharge treated waste water into the sea as a relatively safer way to deal with the radioactive water crisis.

[TummieGaruda]

Looks like another quake hit off the coast of Fukushima again... initial reports are saying its a 7.3 and a tsunami warning has been issued.

[NynJa]

RIP ffxi

[Anoat]

14 should be safe though, they have gaijin servers yeah?

[Yuri-G]

if this effects my playtime tonight, murders will go down. I already had to skip Monday last week due to the patch! or was that two weeks I don't remember w/e

[Gulkeeva]

No worries, in Tokyo, where msot of the FFXI/FFXI servers are most likely at... almsot no effect from the earthquake, other than waking me up at 6am-ish to look at the time, and roll back to sleep.

[steph33]

no matter how much I love Japanese culture, I'm still kind of afraid of moving over there..

[Prim]

It'll be fine. Just stay alert and when you see all the catgirls' ears perk up and they start to pace frantically you'll know an earthquake is coming.

[Zealot]

I'd be more afraid of their rampant and fast-growing nationalism.

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[Cantih]

tbf, that seems to be a problem in almost every nation on earth atm.

[thetruepandagod]

I'd be more afraid of their rampant and fast-growing nationalism.

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They would rather have shitty pizza than welcome foreigners. Which no one can fault them for considering how staten island italians turned out over the generations.

[6souls]

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...-minister-says
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium

Japan may have to start dumping water from it's Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean due to the lack of space. Current storage is expected to be filled by 2022. The water contains Tritium, an isotope that the plant lacks the technology to filter.

Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) has struggled to deal with the buildup of groundwater, which becomes contaminated when it mixes with water used to prevent the three damaged reactor cores from melting.

Tepco has attempted to remove most radionuclides from the excess water, but the technology does not exist to rid the water of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. Coastal nuclear plants commonly dump water that contains tritium into the ocean. It occurs in minute amounts in nature.

Tepco admitted last year that the water in its tanks still contained contaminants beside tritium.

Currently, more than 1m tonnes of contaminated water is held in almost 1,000 tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi site, but the utility has warned that it will run out of tank space by the summer of 2022.

[Corrderio]

That's quite a fucking yikes...

[archibaldcrane]

The levels of tritium are insignificant when diluted in the ocean.

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[vagus]

And this is how Godzilla happens.


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