Tokyo earthquake reports - Japan prelim magnitude 7.3 - off Fukushima (Tsunami Imminent)

According to translator on www3.nhk.or.jp... the Fukushima Daiini (if I spelled that right) plant reportedly had it's spent rod cooling pool stopped functioning. 2500 rods in there.

Holy crud...Hope they get that sucker back up & running fast.

How long Can the reactor stay stable without cooling?

originally posted by: Crumbles
a reply to: GreatWay
Uh oh cooling systems at fukashima have gone off line.

Who's on shift..Homer again..

Vasa Croe, thanks for the Live stream link, watching it now.

a reply to: opethPA

I meant on the television.

My phone doesn't do live stream. I checked all the MSM stations .

Please gang keep the updates coming for those of us that can't watch a feed !

Respectfully,
~meathead

a reply to: Natas0114

Cooling pool? Crap that's no better than the reactor.

originally posted by: ketsuko

originally posted by: Vasa Croe

originally posted by: ketsuko
So they've got around 3ft of wave as their high mark?

3m...9-10 ft is what they are predicting.

I know that was prediction, but in the livestream, they said what they had observed was 90cm as the high mark. That's about 3ft or 1m.

That was in one region. They are predicting at the highest point it will be 9-10 feet.

a reply to: Vasa Croe

It might also be what was observed leading up to the port too. If so, it can get higher as it runs up on shallower ground. So in that sense a 1m observation is not a good thing, but since they didn't exactly say where the observation was taken ... We don't have any way of knowing.

Tsunami can be observed on the open ocean; they just seem like big rollers.

The reactor coolant failing is VERY disturbing. Not sure how long that can be down before something really bad happens, but I don't think it can be very long at all.

Just when Tepco was so sure they had buried the disaster at Fukushima so deep that hardly anyone even cares anymore...

Mother Nature shows up and reminds everybody why there are three reactors in total meltdown....


scary.

Looks like they are expecting 3m? now.

a reply to: ketsuko

I think that's what vara was saying earlier.

Fukushima port 90cm observed

Looks like that boat is just going to hang in the mouth of the harbor.

ach, if it was going to be a bad one it would have hit by now.. Doom averted.

originally posted by: Vasa Croe

originally posted by: WeAre0ne
Thanks I also found this:

Yep....thats the live feed. Only one I could find too. Showing a lot of backwash moving out.

That went offlino for me

originally posted by: fatpastyhead
a reply to: ketsuko

I think that's what vara was saying earlier.

It's hard to tell from the way the people on the livestream are reporting since I am not familiar with the Japanese geography. They say it's only 1ft or 2. Then they show grpahics that seem to be predicting 3m which would be more like 9ft. So it gets confusing as to how they expect this to happen.

Can I just say looks like the Economist had a very predictive front cover

The Death Card with the Rising Sun of Japan and what looks like a Nuclear mushroom cloud indicating nuclear fallout and what looks like waves and cracked ground at the bottom of the card

Here's the thread in question with cover image

Did the Economist predict what we're seeing unfold right now ?

Same explanation on Russia times is there any media outlet NOT headlining this?

originally posted by: ketsuko

originally posted by: fatpastyhead
a reply to: ketsuko

I think that's what vara was saying earlier.

It's hard to tell from the way the people on the livestream are reporting since I am not familiar with the Japanese geography. They say it's only 1ft or 2. Then they show grpahics that seem to be predicting 3m which would be more like 9ft. So it gets confusing as to how they expect this to happen.

Yeah I know exactly what you're saying. It is vey confusing.