Recent content by ernal_student

I am sorry that I have been unable to contribute in recent weeks, but I have been abroad and will have to go on another extended trip before long. By the way, if I may ask, I would like to ask whether anybody sees any major problems (data that have been shown to be invalid or invalid...

I think I understand what you have explained. So if the people who use the IAEO number clearly explain that it is only a minimum value because it does not account for the water pollution, I would find that acceptable - otherwise it would be cheating.

OK, I understand that part. (^^) But some contaminated water has been released by TEPCO into the ocean, some water has run into the ocean on its own, some has seeped into the ground and more is expected to seep into the ground. Is this not what the disucssion about building underground walls...

I am sorry that on account of having been away I have been unable to help with translation of news reports, etc., lately. I just caught up on the more recent posts and noticed the debate concerning water pollution. Below are excerpts from a recent post that I find particullarly noteworthy...

Indeed. Although Japanese 兆 is perfectly clear, the problem is English where anything larger than hundreds of millions should really be expressed using exponents to avoid this kind of confusion.

British (and European continental) billions, American trillions...

Maybe this one? It has an odd URL, though - not original TEPCO http://www.tepco.co.jp.cache.yimg.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/betu11_e/images/110506e2.pdf

The sentence where this appears could also mean something like "... TEPCO performed water leak countermeasures at a different building" - which, from what is written before that, could mean that the current facility is overburdened and they need to prepare another place. In any case, whether it...

I have noticed that sometimes discussion focuses on one word. Although that may be very important, I would like to suggest that in such cases you need to consult the original text! I am not a native speaker of English, but even to me it looks like the translations you find in our media are...

Insufficient decontamination of workers and lack of adherence to related rules is being described in this article: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110514p2a00m0na014000c.html

I have used this link to check the Japanese text. It is not a document from TEPCO (maybe nobody has ever claimed that it was, but I want to mention this just to make sure there are no misunderstandings). The text is a critical (no, condemning) description of how TEPCO, 40 years ago, after...

I tried to locate a Japanese page with the related information on the TEPCO website, but many pages have been replaced by a note concerning the emergency since the earthquake, and I have been unable to find such information in Japanese. I would not argue about the English text until you have...

There are two links in that post and both links lead to a page with garbled english, sorry.

At least it means nobody should be surprised if that is what they find next. I basically have the same view about TEPCO's approach to information control.

The matter of oil as a possible source of the explosion had been reported 5 days ago (on May 11) in this forum: https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=3295319&postcount=6580 And was one of the causes already being considered on a speculative basis a few weeks ago in this forum.