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Major Earthquake Hits Japan

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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

Postby AzariLoveIran » Sun Mar 13, 2011 5:51 am

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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

Postby amos » Sun Mar 13, 2011 6:13 am

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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

Postby Colonel Sun » Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:34 am

I'm okay. Thank you to everyone for their concern.

Currently rather removed from the unfortunate events in NE Honshu.
Sorry for the silence in replying as I've been preoccupied.

Some observations:

Most of the damage and tragic loss of life has been due to the earthquake generated tsunami rather then the 9.0 earthquake itself
and confined to cities, towns and villages along the shorelines of Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures in NE Honshu.

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The epicentre of the earthquake was quite close to shore, only 130km from Sendai

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As a tsunami can travel at 800km/hr people in places such as Sendai and Minami Sanriku had well less than 10min, taking delays into account, to seek shelter in higher ground.

was of the fortunately rare type and is guesstimated to be the largest to have struck Japan in 1,200 years.

Hundreds of ongoing 5.0 to 6.0 aftershocks with a few above 6.0

The MSM is covering the ongoing rescue and relief efforts in detail, so I won't comment.

On the other hand, lots of misinformation in the MSM regarding the damaged reactors.

A good analysis of the situation:

The explosion was most probably due to hydrogen gas buildup from the thermal splitting of water.

Seawater [readily available for cooling] and boric acid [boron is a good neutron absorber] are being pumped in to stabilize the damaged reactors.
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

Postby Ammianus » Sun Mar 13, 2011 9:52 am

Thank you Col.Sun for giving us that update. Great to know that your alive, well, and still kicking as before

I can only hope America can be 1/3rd as effective as Japan has been during the last few days.
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

Postby Joao Paulo » Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:11 am

Good to hear from you, dear Colonel ! :D
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

Postby monster_gardener » Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:45 pm

Glad you're OK, Col. Sun.

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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

Postby YMix » Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:51 pm

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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

Postby Demon of Undoing » Sun Mar 13, 2011 2:38 pm

Once again , my hopes of knowing someone that goes through a horrible atomic accident only to emerge as the 21st century's superpowered champion of justice are crushed. I suppose there's some remaining chance of being bitten by something radioactive , but probability suggests it would be a mosquito. We already have deadly man- sized chitinous bloodsuckers , who needs more hedge fund managers ?

Ah well. Glad you're okay anyways. But I'm telling you, you're gonna get more action if you have heat vision or can slow time down or something.
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

Postby AzariLoveIran » Sun Mar 13, 2011 2:39 pm

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Told you so .. Colonel OK

How's the Heli Skiing Colonel, nice snow ?


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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

Postby Demon of Undoing » Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:01 pm

I bet you couldn't predict my stance on one out of ten issues.

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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

Postby Colonel Sun » Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:53 pm

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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

Postby Sennacherib » Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:54 pm

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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

Postby Yukon Cornelius » Sun Mar 13, 2011 5:28 pm

But isn't it a case where, as soon as the quake hit they scrammed the reactors -- everything else is simply bleeding off the residual heat? We're not talking about the core melting, since the rods are in; just a great deal of radioactive water getting in the atmosphere.

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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

Postby Hans Bulvai » Sun Mar 13, 2011 6:37 pm

Good to hear from you Colonel-san.
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

Postby Hans Bulvai » Sun Mar 13, 2011 6:39 pm

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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

Postby Rhapsody » Sun Mar 13, 2011 6:40 pm

SciAm: so without AC power to control the last cooling mechanism of defense, a melt-down might well become a melt-through and then the stuff is out. Then what? Haven't read the worst case scenario really.
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan

Postby Hoosiernorm » Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:37 pm

God I'm glad you aren't dead Col Sun, although I was really planning on a decent online memorial for you ;)
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