Japan Earthquake/Tsunami

I'm not sure why. I just heard him shouting and saw him waving a pen at one of the other Techs. He was asking like, whats the biggest bottle of Iodine he could buy. o.o

A pen?

Well, guess it is said it is mightier than the sword.

Yahoo has some good links up for people who want to help btw:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_newsroom/20110311/wl_yblog_newsroom/japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-how-to-help

...wow lol

A pen? Really? :| Scary.

I've seen stranger but this was the first time i've seen someone shouting like that :/

Let the fear-mongering begin!


Brb digging through this for a while.

Cnn says possible source:

GOD DAMN YOU POKEMON BLACK/WHITE!!!!

Is the steam-driven RCIC they mention the second tier you were talking about? And then the water surrounding the physical core is the third tier?

So the steam releases we saw going off at the two plants were probably that first tier of the relief system?

I'm doing some digging on BWRs vs PWRs and finding claims that they do in fact have similar safety systems set up, so that's cool.

When you say a water relief for the 3rd tier, do you mean that they physically dump a back-up water supply directly onto the core?

As you can tell, I know basically nothing about these things.

I'm really spending the time going through the details (<3 google) and trying to understand the processes involved, but my physics has gotten rusty.

If I'm understanding what I'm reading, though, it sounds like -- assuming the housing hasn't been damaged or something -- they just have to get the coolant pumps back up and running and keep the cores covered for a long enough period of time for everything to cool back down, and, voila, crisis averted.

I'm guessing the relief systems you're describing are time-saving measures to keep the coolant levels high and keep the cores covered while they install those emergency batteries and get the pumps running again.

Does this sound about right? (If so, I'd like to understand how releasing the steam helps this. I'm reading the link you gave about DNB and I'm not sure I understand why lowering the pressure in the boiler helps that.)

I have a feeling I'm still confused.

Edit: Actually, it sounds like even the batteries are a time-saving measure, since they don't run the pumps, they just run the RCIC, which just keeps the water levels high?

Pokemon creator died in that earthquake :/

I couldn't believe that :(

Damn did he really? I feel terrible now.

He did.

For the reactor stuff, we were reported at work that there were no leaks reported for the shutdown.

Grrrrrr. Tweets are rolling in about it. GAH I feel like an ***...

Yeah, he died in the Tsunami.

Are you two trollin' or serious? Post a source.

EDIT: I just tried Googling Pokemon creator dead and everything that comes up is from like Oct. or some ***.

tbh it's a rule of thumb not to act like an *** at all when there's a natural disaster of this magnitude. You have no idea who's going to be upset by it. People have family all over the world.

Well I went to the wiki page, but they corrected it. Apparently, he just fainted now. He was presumed dead until 5 mins ago.

My joke wasn't that bad of taste. Not like i'm making videos or anything...

Ironic how Pokémon don't die... they faint.