Published: January 31st, 2012 at 7:36 am ET
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Title: Tepco has been ignoring the risk of frozen pipes
Source: Fukushima Diary
Date: Jan 31, 2012
Tepco admitted that their employees suggested to cover the pipes or set heaters not to let the pipes get frozen but they kept ignoring it since last summer.
An employee sighs “The pipes are exposed to outside. It was predicted that the pipes would get frozen to cause water leakage. What are they doing..”
As the result of doing nothing for several months, at least 23 points were found leaking water by 1/30/2012. [...]
Tepco had been ignoring the risk because “it was hard to keep man power” [...]
Now the pipe is outside, runs for longer than 10km, water leakage will happen everyday.
They just can wrap the pipes with lagging material, but still parts to stick out can not be wrapped and end up causing water leakage. They need to put heaters and surround it with temporary walls.
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Published: January 31st, 2012 at 7:36 am ET
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Hmmmm…. water freezes at 32 degrees F. Pipes break when water freezes.
Duh.
Japan has a lot of earthquakes. Nuclear reactors are at risk when earthquakes occur.
Duh.
Tepco isn’t too bright, eh?
Hey, I have a great idea. Let’s give these morons some MOX.
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If they were smart they would return it to the US.
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As a bright enenewser suggested already yesterday: a heated cable can do the trick. Let’s hope tepcoclowns really read enenews for some inspiration!
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It’s hard to keep manpower? Why because it’s “dose and die”.
TEPCO ..the Mighty Widow Maker..
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Scientists warn of huge quake east of Japan Trench
“Japanese researchers say the March 11th disaster has increased the risk of a major quake and tsunami east of the Japan Trench off northeastern Japan.
The research was carried out by a group at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology.
The Japan Trench is where the Pacific Plate begins to sink under the tectonic plate extending from land.
The March 11th earthquake originated closer to land from the plate boundary.
The research group installed 20 seismometers on the seabed east of the Japan Trench to analyze aftershocks that occurred between late April and early July last year.
The data showed that the March quake apparently changed the dynamic force deep inside the Pacific Plate.
Before the disaster, many of the deeper quakes involved faults that form when the plate is being compressed.
But the research data showed that many of the post-March aftershocks involved a fault that forms when the plate is pulled apart.
This type of force is known to have caused a magnitude-8 earthquake about 80 years ago off northeastern Japan.
The research group concluded that the risk of the latter type of quake has risen in the region and warns that a tremor could again unleash a massive tsunami.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120131_09.html
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OT – watch it please.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3EiZI6CuHc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/evacuate_fukushima/
sign the petition to protect the children from fools who cant winterlag piping!!!
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“Tepco had been ignoring the risk because “it was hard to keep man power””. I’m inclined to believe this at some level, but if true it just reveals another layer of the onion.
Consider: every day they must face dozens of decisions about how to allocate whatever resources they have. Every day they must scramble to find people willing to work. In that environment, they must have continuously decided that the obvious pipe-freezing problem was less serious than whatever (undisclosed) crisis of the moment they were facing.
Put another way: the situation on the ground could be even more dire than we imagine, if their daily triage efforts always put pipe-freezing issues at the bottom of the list.
Their “lack of manpower” excuse is perhaps very revealing after all. What other “obvious” tasks are they forced to ignore because of lack of manpower? What (exactly) keeps them from putting more manpower on the job? When/where/how will they get the manpower they need?… if the whole thing blows, will their excuse be “lack of manpower”?
… and one other unpleasant thought… if they allow water to leak, then they don’t have to find places to store it. Oops, our bad.
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In another Enenews item, there was information regarding the manpower at FUKU. They started with 30 plus subcontractors providing labor, and now they are down to TWO.
Assuming this trend continues, soon there will be NONE under the present circumstance of little pay, no benefits, and high hazard of dying or getting sick for life.
Who is willing to work under that kind of condition if one is warned properly or knows what is going on there? So they may have to ‘spin’ and claim there is absolutely no hazard to working there, hand out no meters and keep repeating ‘cold shutdown’ over and over again.
This is going to keep going on for thirty or forty years. How can this keep going, given the present trend of less and less workers available?
Either they will have to drastically raise the pay, add lifetime health benefits or offer other inducements to get more workers, which is only fair.
This however runs into the spin being put out by the authorities that there is NO hazard from low doses of radiation, no health consequences exist and no protection is needed, other than smiling. There seems to be a complete clampdown on the medical side in Japan, which keeps medical doctors from even asking if radiation is the cause of any health problems, thus no radiation caused health problem will ever be discovered.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out.. Which side will win? The spin or reality? At TMI and Chernobyl, the spin won, but that was before the Internet, instant messaging, texting, cellphones, Youtube, etc…..
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but that was before the Internet, instant messaging, texting, cellphones, Youtube, etc…..
when most people tap in the search terms i use they get a totally different set of results to mine because of the algorithyms google etc use… added to that various censorship laws in japan and other western countries, the ownership of the front search terms by corporations, its no wonder we bloggers and website admins find it hard going..
the legal fight about the icrp model needs to be done but the universities around the world have been promised and have recieved some serious funding… no peer reviewed anti nuke articles!!
at least we have the peer reviewed stuff but as they manipulate the japanese figures the will supercede the older stuff.. its a waiting game for them.. a winning game!
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Twitter shutdown if requested by a “country”. Wonder if Japan was involved in this new rule. We all know TEPCO owns/owned the Japanese Internet company. Read about Lori, of Fukushima Diary, and his post being traced and harassed in Japan. And the tracebacks to TEPCO. So..if twitter is not allowed, is SMS? Facebook (who now tracks users) and other texting communications? Pretty soon will need to go to old fashioned DIAL-UP to a non-controled Internet site. Some had better start developing the concept to prevent shutdowns of communications. Especially if Japan claims a “flu” pandemic and closes all roads. Really dislike the thoughts when projecting a “worse case” for the internet, but there it is. And more..
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search “WPP ADK INTERNET” on the enenews search option!
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“but still parts to stick out can not be wrapped”
Spray foam !!
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But spray foam means re-doing the Material Acquisition Forms and revising the Procedure Manual and securing “appropriate” source Companies and…
Sorry, we’re too busy working on Press Releases!
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HIGHLY contaminated water comes from flitering systems. If pipe leaking includes this water, NO ONE can get near it. Well, they can but likely will collapse with a heart attack, similar to at least ONE worker. Or with other radiation diseases. it is a no win, but common sense says permanent pipes, and prevention of freezing would have been done. The pipes could have frozen, as announced, but they also were not meant to be permanent-they could have just corroded through. And only TWO workers –left..out of thirty. Has anyone TALKED to the workers who are gone. Or did something else happen to them besides no working at Fukushima?
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DUCT TAPE! Cure for the world.
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“Ever had a water pipe burst in the cold of winter? Especially in the middle of the night? If you have, you know what a mess and inconvenience it can be. There are some preventive steps you can take to keep this from happening again. Water pipes can be wrapped in insulation, kept warm enough that the water in the pipes will not freeze. There are basically two types of pipe insulation.
One style is a tape. The tape is wrapped around the pipe in a spiral pattern. You can wrap this tape around the pipe with space between each wrap or you can completely cover the pipe with tape. The colder your winters the less space you want to leave between each wrap.”
http://www.essortment.com/installing-pipe-insulation-11619.html
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jec, foam cam be sprayed from a distance, yep that duck tape kept use going in Vietnam waiting for all our acquisitions !
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Japans robot prowess must be huff and fluff.
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They’re out of manpower?
Send in the f**king executives.
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