Japan Installs New Power Line at Fukushima Daiichi Plant

This sounds like good news…
Japanese officials have installed a new electric cable at the Fukushima Daiichi Plant. Officials hope the electricity will be able to help cool down the crippled reactors.
Nikkei reported:

Japanese officials have installed cables to supply electricity from Tohoku Electric Power Co.’s (9506) power grid to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a step they hope will help inject water more efficiently into the facility’s crippled reactors that are at the center of Japan’s nuclear crisis, the government’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said at a news conference Thursday night.

Officials will try to connect the cable to the plant’s No. 2 reactor on Friday, the agency said.

The No. 2 reactor’s containment vessel was partly damaged in its pressure suppression chamber. The reactor building is emitting vapor deemed to have originated from spent nuclear fuel’s storage pools into the air.

#1 March 17, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Andreas K. commented:

Meanwhile everyone ignores the plight of the displaced people. I hear reports of refugee shelters slowly running out of food, fuel and other material. In Watari, Miyagi prefecture, I hear of a shelter in the local elementary school with 600 people which is essentially out of food. Heavy snowfall continues with temperatures now reaching below freezing point.

Instead the irresponsible media, with their “experts” (who comments from thousands of miles away without having any data) and stupid politicians do nothing but fear mongering about Fukushima. This led to, for example, Geiger counters being SOLD OUT in GERMANY (maps and globes aren’t which explains a lot.)
#2 March 17, 2011 at 12:49 pm
Penny commented:

The Japanese plant workers that are risking their own lives while their families are suffering too are HEROS!!! My prayers are going to the success of their efforts and the relief of suffering of those affected by the earthquake and tsunami.
#3 March 17, 2011 at 1:05 pm
Jeff Bullen commented:

Getting adequate power to the cooling systems is one milestone. Getting it to work through the control and safety systems is another… all permissives have to be met unless they are over- ridden. I am sure the fatigue level must be high so it is up to us to pray for these techs well being and empowerment to make the correct decisions when completing their respective tasks.
#4 March 17, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Guy in Ohio commented:

There are some real heroes at work there. Many have voluntarily subjected themselves to radiation far outside the allowable limits in order to avert a catastrophe. They deserve our prayers and our gratitude …
#5 March 17, 2011 at 1:48 pm
P. Aaron commented:

Geez. And all done without Obama’s help! What else can these people do?
#6 March 17, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Joe College commented:

Growing up in the 50′s into the early 60′s I cannot imagine how much radiation I was exposed to by scores of above ground nuclear tests by US, Russia, China, GB, France and probably others. And believe me, the Russians exploded the biggest dirtiest bombs they could assemble just for propaganda purposes. The plumes circumvented the globe. It is inconceivable that this Japanese leak will spill that kind of dosage into the air. Certainly not by time it reaches us. Having said that, I extend my best wishes to the Japanese.
#7 March 17, 2011 at 2:21 pm
wow commented:

#1 March 17, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Andreas K. commented:

My friends in Japan expressed the same frustration. All attention is concentrated on the nuclear reactors while people are suffering without food, water, clothing in bitter weather. They seem to be an afterthought!
#8 March 17, 2011 at 3:17 pm
donh commented:

At some point the heat grows so intense this is like Apollo trying to fly to the sun and having his chariot melt. Notice how cameras of the plant are now set miles away, and video shows ripples in the air like photographing a hot desert air mirage.
#9 March 17, 2011 at 3:28 pm
dunce commented:

In the future there may be ships built as emergency generating stations for temporary use in shoreline disasters. They would be expensive and unused 99% of the time but natural disasters are not if but when.
#10 March 17, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Andreas K. commented:

#7 March 17, 2011 at 2:21 pm
wow commented:

Luckily Japanese celebrities and companies aren’t as dumb as the foreign media. The amount of help that has started to flow over there and is still being organised is amazing. The UNIQLO CEO, for example, donated 12 million USD from his own purse. Foodmaker Nissin is moving not only with hundreds of thousands of packages of noodles, but also with their fleet of mobile kitchens. Highly popular girl group AKB48 have donated 6 million USD. Sony has donated 3 million USD and 30,000 radios. And the list goes on.

Agencies behind famous actors and musicians have donated vast sums of money and they are organising transports and supplies. EXILE’s agency has donated an undisclosed sum of money and 50,000 500ml bottles of water. Johnny’s, the one agency with many big names among male actors/musicians, has not only donated a few thousand liters of diesel fuel, but is also moving the trucks they were using for a concert up north. It’s just amazing what is happening there.

And current rumor has it that j-pop queen Hamasaki Ayumi may hold a life charity performance, which, if it would happen (and going by her behavior in the wake of this disaster certainly supports that it will), could grow to something really big and never seen before. GACKT has fired up his own charity group and Fujiwara Norika’s “smile please” is running on full. I’ve heard of actors and musicians associated with these charity groups going out gathering donations.

It’s just amazing what is happening there.

And let’s not forget the three main helpers, outside of the US forces: China, South Korea and Russia.

While the rest of the world is hysterical about a nuclear death cloud that will never happen. As I said before, the radiation scare is so high that Geiger counters are sold out in Germany. Most early delivery of new ones: April 18. In GERMANY! A “few” thousand miles away from Japan. This is getting more stupid every minute.
#12 March 17, 2011 at 3:59 pm
Bill Mitchell commented:

Wait, lemme make a wild guess her. 9.0 earthquake, 25 foot high tsunami, 3 explosions that shot debris hundreds of feet in the air. My guess is THE PUMPS MAY BE BROKEN and not just without power.
#13 March 17, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Mike W commented:

Why haven`t we sent Mooshell da bell over there. As cold as she is no heat can withstand her. One of frozen glances would coat the reactor in glacier scale ice.
#15 March 17, 2011 at 5:57 pm
Aussie commented:

well Bill Mitchell, you might not be correct. The pumps were working when they had the back up battery generators working… but that was only for 8 hours.

There might, of course, be other damage since then. We are all hoping that once the electricity is restored that they can get the pumps working.

Until we hear news one way or the other, we do not need to speculate upon what is very likely inaccurate information.