|
Post by jeffolie on May 14, 2011 11:52:27 GMT -6
This piece tells a part of what happened...3 reactors shuttered for 2 or more years to build bigger seawall The lack of electricity from these 3 nuke energy generators will impact Toyota and its related suppliers badly. Toyota according to todays Wall Street Journal print edition declined from #1 to #3 in the world. Toyota did not outsource significant portions of its most crucial parts, high tech parts and kept their production in this very part of Japan that now lacks adequate electrical generation. ================================= All Reactors Halted at Hamaoka N-Plant Nagoya, May 14 (Jiji Press)--Chubu Electric Power Co. <9502> on Saturday stopped the operation of the last active reactor at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan. The No. 5 reactor, with an output capacity of 1.38 million kilowatts, stopped generating electricity at 10:15 a.m. (1:15 a.m. GMT). After that, the plant operator fully inserted control rods, which are used for controlling nuclear fission, and shut down the reactor. The No. 4 reactor, which stopped operating on Friday, reached cold shutdown at 11:45 p.m. on that day. Chubu Electric Power has decided to stop operating all reactors at the Hamaoka plant on the Pacific coast in the city of Omaezaki until safety measures are improved, after Prime Minister Naoto Kan requested the reactors' shutdown because of the risk of major damage from tsunami in the wake of a massive earthquake. jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2011051400199
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on May 14, 2011 16:00:52 GMT -6
I heard today on CNN that area has a 90% chance of tsunami like the recent one in the next 30 years. Those are heavy odds.
Saw today on a CNN banner that a worker has died at Fukushima.
GB
|
|
|
Post by waltc on May 15, 2011 13:07:40 GMT -6
They've lost some 20% of electricity production due to the shut downs and Fukushima.
And those vaunted NG plants are years away from being built as replacements.
As far as tsunami's go, the last one that was as massive as Sendai's happened over a thousand years ago. Unless earthquake research has taken massive leap in predictive accuracy over the last 60 days I call bullshit.
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on May 15, 2011 14:44:11 GMT -6
It's easy to call bullshit, from the gut. It's also pretty easy to get facts instead.
from Wiki: Hamaoka is built directly over the subduction zone near the junction of two tectonic plates, and a major Tokai earthquake is said to be overdue.[5] The possibility of such a shallow magnitude 8.0 earthquake in the Tokai region was pointed out by Kiyoo Mogi in 1969, 7 months before permission to construct the Hamaoka plant was sought, and by the Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction (CCEP) in 1970, prior to the permission being granted on December 10, 1970.[6] As a consequence, Professor Katsuhiko Ishibashi, a former member of a government panel on nuclear reactor safety, claimed in 2004 that Hamaoka was 'considered to be the most dangerous nuclear power plant in Japan'[5] with the potential to create a genpatsu-shinsai (domino-effect nuclear power plant earthquake disaster).[7] In 2007, following the 2007 Chûetsu offshore earthquake, Dr Mogi, by then chair of Japan's Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction, called for the immediate closure of the plant.[8][9]
On 6 May 2011, Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan asked Chubu Electric Power Company, which operates the Hamaoka plant, to halt reactors No. 4 and No. 5, and not to restart reactor No. 3 which was then offline for regular inspection. Kan said that a science ministry panel on earthquake research has projected an 87% possibility of a magnitude-8-class earthquake hitting the region within 30 years. He said that considering the unique location of the Hamaoka plant, the operator must draw up and implement mid-to-long-term plans to ensure the reactors can withstand the projected Tokai Earthquake and any triggered tsunami. Kan also said that until such plans are implemented, all the reactors should remain out of operation.[10] Chubu Electric has decided to comply with the government request on 9 May 2011.
The plant has been designed to withstand an earthquake of magnitude 8.5.[8] Sand hills of up to 15 metres (49 ft) height provide defence against a tsunami of up to 8 metres (26 ft) high, but Hamaoka currently lacks a concrete sea barrier.[11]
GB
|
|
|
Post by fredorbob on May 18, 2011 5:19:43 GMT -6
Japan is just going "green" and "conserving".
|
|