oh captain my captain Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Official Tsunami warning canceled, but apparently there was an announcement saying a 3m wave was on its way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild#9 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 I didn't read though 45 pages, but I heard the blast was hydrogen and 180,000 were evacuated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquiace Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 There's a huge difference between what's happening with the Fukushima plant and what happened at the Chernobyl plant. There are two lengthy post on the previous page explaining it as well as a video link, explaining it...and a press conference that was done by the Japanese gov't that talked about the whole incident and ordeal, and gave a great deal of information. The notion that the Japanese gov't is not giving much information, is not correct, at least currently. Agree. They've been very forthcoming about what's been happening and every update is quicker than the last. Another key difference is that it took many weeks before any international research team was even allowed near chernobyl. Unlike now in Japan, within 24 hours several countries have experts and engineers on site. There are also swaths of reporters everywhere, so it's not that information isn't reaching us but that the information we receive is updated so regularly that it's hard to tell who knows more about the current situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donky Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Some of the new video coming out is amazing and horrifying. Also, does anyone have an info on the 2000 bodies they found? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Femme.Canuck Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 (edited) Don't know if this has been posted yet, but this is absolutely terrifying. I can't embed, but here is the link. There are no words to describe it-- it feels like something you should only see in movies. http://gizmodo.com/#!5781566/this-is-the-scariest-first+person-video-of-the-japan-tsunami-yet Edited March 14, 2011 by P.OneOh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truculence Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx6IS0vrZOk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquiace Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 So much news is coming out, I don't think I could even post it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrudeauVoter Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Don't know if this has been posted yet, but this is absolutely terrifying. I can't embed, but here is the link. There are no words to describe it-- it feels like something you should only see in movies. http://gizmodo.com/#...pan-tsunami-yet OMG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Brahma Bull Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx6IS0vrZOk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Sendai truck, upside down, in front of Higashi Roku-go elem school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanford Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Official body count is at 1 627 With an additional 2000 bodies reported found.. There seems to be 9500 missing people reported. Yikes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin. Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 0409: The Japanese government has just said there was no marked change in the radiation level after the blast at Reactor 3. According to an article in the New York Times, the US aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, which is sailing in the Pacific, passed through a radioactive cloud from Japan's stricken reactors on Sunday. Crew members received a month's worth of radiation in about an hour, government officials were quoted as saying.Does this mean that the Japanese government is downplaying the nuclear situation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Femme.Canuck Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 (edited) Interesting read about the Fukushima reactor number 1. Educational article from a reliable and real source. Though it is long it is very much worth your while if you read it, especially if you're not knowledgeable about nuclear power plants etc... Its not wordy and its a pretty easy read. https://morgsatlarge.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-not-worried-about-japans-nuclear-reactors/ Edited March 14, 2011 by P.OneOh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetcoaster Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 BBC Live latest time line on the most recent explosions at the Fukushima plant on Monday morning (Japan time) at Reactor 3. BBC is reporting some of the coolant pipes may have ruptured and the operators could not get enough coolant resulting in the explosion: 0105: A damaged nuclear power plant is still in an "alarming" state, Prime Minister Naoto Kan says. 0218: Column of smoke escaping from Reactor 3 at the Fukushima 1 nuclear power plant - Japanese TV. 0221: Urgent: Explosion at Reactor 3 - AFP. 0224: "Hydrogen blast occurs at Fukushima nuke plant's No 3 reactor" - Kyodo. 0225: Just to remind you: there were fears of a meltdown at Reactor 3 on Sunday. Also: an explosion occurred at Reactor 1 on Saturday but the core was reportedly not exposed. 0227: There were two explosions at Reactor 3, the operator Tepco says - AFP. 0232: Update on the explosion(s) at Reactor 3: "We believe it was a hydrogen explosion. It is not immediately known if it affected the reactor" - nuclear safety agency spokesman Ryo Miyake. 0236: The wall of a building collapsed as a result of the blast(s) at Reactor 3 - Japanese TV. 0239: The 600 people still living within 20km of the plant where the explosion(s) occurred are ordered to get inside buildings - Kyodo. 0240: The governor of Tokyo orders radioactivity levels in the city to be measured - Kyodo. 0242: Reactor 3 withstood the explosion(s), its operator says - Japanese news agency Jiji. 0243: Japanese government spokesman Yukio Edano has just spoken on TV. Says that water injection at Reactor 3 seems to be continuing, and the containment vessel is still safe. 0247: Mr Edano said major radiation leaks were unlikely from Reactor 3. 0328: Seven people are missing and three people have been injured by the explosion at the Fukushima 1 nuclear plant, the AFP news agency reports, quoting an official from Tepco, the company which operates the plant. 0351: Full quotes from Yukio Edano on the explosion: "We believe that there is a low possibility that a massive amount of radiation has been leaked. But it is similar to the time when the hydrogen explosion took place in number 1 reactor (which exploded on Saturday). In the case of number 3 reactor, we can see higher level of radiation. We are now collecting information for the concentration of the radiation and the dose." 0405: The central control room of Reactor 3 remains intact after the blast, the Japanese government says. 0406: The Japanese government has just said there was no marked change in the radiation level after the blast at Reactor 3. 0420: Number of injured in the nuclear plant blast is now known to be 11, the operator Tepco reports - Kyodo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetcoaster Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 As rescue workers are beginning to get into the worst affected areas, the body count is rising. Some 2,000 bodies were found today on two shores in Miyagi Prefecture, 1,000 on the Ojika Peninsula and 1,000 at Minamisanriku - Japanese news agency Kyodo. Police have confirmed 1,597 deaths to date, not including between 200 and 300 bodies in Sendai which recovery teams have so far been unable to reach, Japan's Kyodo news agency reports. At the same time, some hopeful news has come out of Minamisanriku, the town where 10,000 people were believed to be missing. Kyodo says it has unverified information that "many" residents were evacuated to the neighbouring town of Tome. Even if the better news about the missing people of Minamisanriku is confirmed it is sobering to read on Kyodo this morning that "tens of thousands" of people remain unaccounted for. US search and rescue teams are "on the ground" in Misawa, northern Japan, the White House says. They number 144 people and 12 dogs trained to detect survivors trapped under rubble, and have 45 metric tonnes of rescue equipment with them, AFP reports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetcoaster Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 NHK World reports on the latest at the Fukushima Plant 1 and the explosion(s) at Reactor 3. Another Fukushima nuclear plant blast injures 11 What appears to be another hydrogen blast has occurred at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima. No damage to the reactor chamber has been reported, but 11 people have been injured. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says what it believes was a hydrogen blast occurred at 11:01 AM on Monday at the No.3 reactor of Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant. The agency says it has so far observed no abnormal rise in radiation around the compound of the plant. The company says the blast injured 11 people. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has advised anyone remaining within 20 kilometers of the power plant to take shelter inside buildings as soon as possible. About 600 people are thought to be still in the area. A similar hydrogen blast occurred at the No.1 reactor at the same plant on Saturday. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters that he has received a report that the latest blast has left the container of No.3 reactor intact. He said the likelihood of large volumes of radioactive materials being dispersed in the air is low. Video footage shows that the top of the building housing the reactor has been blown off, as in Saturday's blast. Fears of an explosion grew when the water level of the No. 3 reactor dropped, exposing fuel rods, and a reaction with the steam generated a large amount of hydrogen. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says that even if the top of the building has blown off, the reactor chamber will not be affected. Monday, March 14, 2011 12:30 +0900 (JST) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terran Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 (edited) so if something like this were to happen to vancouver..where do u guys think the 'safe zone' begins on the south side of the burrard inlet/ubc/SW marine drive area.. dunbar/16th area is like the most elevated area i can think of other than the mountains O_O Edited March 14, 2011 by Terran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terran Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 So much news is coming out, I don't think I could even post it all. where are u getting ur news? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoreanHockeyFan Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 so if something like this were to happen to vancouver..where do u guys think the 'safe zone' begins on the south side of the burrard inlet/ubc/SW marine drive area.. dunbar/16th area is like the most elevated area i can think of other than the mountains O_O Burnaby/Metrotown area. It's basically 1 huge hill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin. Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 so if something like this were to happen to vancouver..where do u guys think the 'safe zone' begins on the south side of the burrard inlet/ubc/SW marine drive area.. dunbar/16th area is like the most elevated area i can think of other than the mountains O_O I would think SFU Burnaby, since it has concrete walls and sits on top of a hill. BC Place is also being built to withstand natural disasters like tsunamis and earthquakes as well, so it would serve as a public shelter should it happen here.. That's the first place I'm taking my family if it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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