Karnidge 2 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Looks very quiet... not much activity going on there? Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Things were actually pretty busy. There were heaps of trucks rolling in and out and plenty of backhoes sorting stuff and loading them up. There were linesmen everywhere running new power cables, and lots of activity with roads being re-built where thay had been completely washed away in the towns. Here's the Onagawa nuclear power plant. I could see no sign of any damage. I was snorkelling around the rocky headland in the right of the photo. Link to post Share on other sites
Queen of Chiba 0 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 That nuclear plant sure doesn't look to have much of a tsunami defence! Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 It's not just the sea wall that is important. What is behind it is more so. Standard reinforced concrete buildings withstood both the earthquake and the tsunami. If TEPCO had installed their generators and the fuel supply in appropriate buildings, their system would have been able to cope. Onagawa is much closer to the epicentre, and received a bigger tsunami than southern Fukushima. They (and we) were back on line within two days. Locals were using the power station visitor centre as an emergency shelter. Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Originally Posted By: soubriquet It's not just the sea wall that is important. Good job, looking at that! Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Onagawa is operated by Tohoku Power, not TEPCO. We have no power shortage in Tohoku. Everything is running normally. Tohoku Power's engineering and management decisions have withstood the test. TEPCO has failed. The issue is not nuclear safety. Nuclear power plants can be safe. The failure is at management level. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Originally Posted By: soubriquet Nuclear power plants can be safe. Phew, a relief! The mighty big problem is, though, they can provide a nightmare such as we are in now with Fukushima. Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Yes. That's the history of engineering. Steam boilers exploding. Railway bridges collapsing. Ships sinking. Aircraft falling from the sky. Thousands of dead. We continue to travel by rail, ship and aircraft, because the lessons have been (and continue to be) learned, and we do it better next time. Life (and progress) are not without risk. Link to post Share on other sites
tokabochi 9 Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Been a number of rumbles in north west Nagano, Omachi area - near Hakuba actually - since this morning which I hadn't noticed before. Hope thats not the next one to set off. Interesting to see the patterns that emerge. That one in Matsumoto the other week was preceeded by a run of small ones coming out of what seemed like nowhere. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Hey toka, how are you holding up? Link to post Share on other sites
tokabochi 9 Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Doing good, thanks. And yourself? Back to normal now? Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 And another shaker quaker - shindo 4 in Tokyo 23 ku. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 5.5 in ibaragi... Link to post Share on other sites
@tokyo 14 Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 shindo 5- in south Tochigi Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Yeah - was a shaker that one... Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 Just seen that on NHK. Seems to be saying shindo 3 in Niigata Chuetsu are but we didnt feel anything. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Damn, they don't get any better do they. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 Haha, no they don't. In fact, quite the opposite I think. Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Do you have electricity? Yes. Do you have water? Yes. Nothing to see here, move along. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 You move along if you don't care. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Or, put another way, sod off yourself. Who are you to dictate what people wish to discuss. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 bit of a shaker....1st one in a long time. I was upstairs and felt it but Mrs 2B-TB was downstairs and was oblivious! Link to post Share on other sites
SKI 15 Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Luckily I was quite drunk and only felt a bit of a wobble. So carried on drinking. Alcohol. Good for you! Link to post Share on other sites
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