Recent content by Shinjukusam

Yeah, I only counted 8 items with a combined count over 100, and two of those were wild bear and monkey (not on the menu) meat, one was sesame (who eats a kg of sesame?) one was blueberry (grown wild?) one was pumpkin, and two were a type of shallot usually used as a garnish. I'm quite...

Okay...now you're just being paranoid.

But the symptoms of radiation poisoning don't include dropping dead in the manner of minutes, so, Occam's.

What would you even expect to see?

Well, the temperature has been hovering around the mid 30s for the last few weeks. Working in that, wearing protective gear, carrying heavy equipment, 57 years old...it's not that unlikely.

Doesn't seem to have anything about Nihonmatsu water table either, in English or Japanese... So...people in the city know something they can only find out from high tech analysis, but no one thought to tell anyone with access to a news outlet. Hmm...

Very big props for tsutsujisan. He's single-handedly keeping me from studying harder ;)

From NHK : The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has attributed abnormally high temperature readings at one of the facility's reactors to a malfunctioning thermometer. Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, reported the analysis of the problem at the Number 2...

They announced that three thermocouples were broken. Would that be one of them?

Got it. Either that's a failure or something really bad just happened. Going by the decrease in every other sensor, I sure hope it's the former.

If you're going to fail, fail big. Where was that announced?

Yeah, is there a simple to understand diagram showing where on the bottom of the vessel this sensor is located? might be nice to have a general idea of what is above/beside it.

Much obliged.

Where are you getting that from? NHK is only reporting the highest being 82 at 14:20 Japan time.

Oddly enough, I'm glad to see that. You can't point fingers in the midst of an ongoing critical situation, but when there's time to take a breath then you can get more political. (which should be discussed in the more political thread...)