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Japan has some geothermal power plants, but not much. The Philippines, California and Island got also earthquakes and A LOT of these power plants. So that couldn't be the problem.JamieLei wrote:Japan is pretty blessed with hot springs everywhere ^_^
But Japan is also "unblessed" with earthquakes. I can't really imagine how it's possible to build large scale geothermal plants with so many earthquakes >_<
And way more dangerous in case of earthquake.Drury wrote:And gas cookers are much better for cooking in my opinion
What are you talking about? How can they be not pleasant - if you don't what the spraying of your anus, you don't press the button. Stop commenting for the sake of commenting.buckethead wrote:Haha I've seen a couple of toilets like that.. NOT pleasant!
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ ... 515a2.htmlChubu Electric, based in Nagoya, will lose more than 10 percent of its capacity with the shutdown of the 3.6 million kw Hamaoka plant, its only atomic facility. The company said it will reboot its suspended thermal power station to meet the summer peak demand and ask its users to save electricity.
mb on [b]Mar 12, 2011[/b] wrote: Japanese authorities now acknowledged a core meltdown.
http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php? ... f8#p935220
Although they´re confirming my old post now, two months later, they´re carrying on with downplaying and lies.NHK World wrote: Rapid meltdown occurs in No.1 reactor
Tokyo Electric Power Company says most of the fuel rods in the No.1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had dropped to the bottom of the pressure vessel within 16 hours of the earthquake on March 11th.
The plant operator revealed its findings on Sunday.
TEPCO said it analyzed the data and calculated a timeline for developments in the No. 1 reactor on the assumption that it lost its cooling system as soon as the tsunami hit.
The firm said that about four and half hours after the quake the level of water in the pressure vessel fell below the top of fuel rods and that parts of them began melting.
The temperature of the rods is believed to have reached 2,800 degrees Celsius at this stage, and the meltdown advanced rapidly.
Almost all the rods melted and dropped to the bottom of the pressure vessel by 6:50 am on March 12th.
TEPCO said the temperature dropped after water was poured into the reactor starting at 5:50 AM the same day.
The firm says the melted rods created small holes in the bottom of the vessel. It believes the amount of radioactive substances that could spread from the reactor will be limited.
NHK's correspondent says TEPCO should analyze the situations at the No. 2 and No. 3 reactors as soon as possible.
Monday, May 16, 2011 05:31 +0900 (JST)
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/16_05.html
regardsNHK World wrote: Meltdowns also at No.2 and No.3 reactors
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says fuel meltdowns are believed to have occurred at the No.2 and No.3 reactors within a few days after the March 11th earthquake and tsunami.
Tokyo Electric Power Company said earlier this month that fuel rods at the plant's No.1 reactor had melted.
The utility said on Tuesday that data analysis shows the No.2 reactor may have lost its cooling system shortly after 1:00 PM on March 14th, 3 days after the quake.
If all the fuel rods were exposed, they would have started melting at around 8:00 PM that day. By 8:00 PM on March 15th --- some 101 hours after the quake --- much of the fuel would have melted and collected at the bottom of the reactor pressure vessel.
The No.3 reactor likely lost its cooling system at around 2:00 AM on March 13th. Fuel would have begun melting at around 9:00 AM that day, and most of it would have dropped to the bottom of the vessel by 3:00 AM on March 14th --- about 60 hours after the quake.
The possibility of a meltdown would have been the same even if the rods were partially submerged in water.
Nearly half the fuel rods at the 2 reactors would have melted down within a week of the March 11th disaster.
Tokyo Electric says it had assumed from the start that the fuel roads were damaged, but had focused on cooling the reactors rather than assessing the extent of damage.
Goshi Hosono, who serves as advisor to the prime minister, said the delay in publicizing the extent of damage may have been inevitable.
But he expressed remorse over the government's overly optimistic response to the crisis.
Masanori Naito of the Institute of Applied Energy says analysis of data on the reactors' conditions is easy, and could have been completed in a day.
He says the analysis should have been done much earlier, as it would have provided important clues to long-term cooling and other measures.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 19:12 +0900 (JST)
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/24_37.html