Learning to Spin You, learning all about you....

You can't make this stuff up, but here, two months later the disaster is getting the "human error," treatment. Sound familiar?


Nuclear plant cooling system manually shut down

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says workers may have manually shut down the No.1 reactor's emergency cooling system in order to prevent damage to the reactor. It says pressure inside the reactor had dropped sharply after the earthquake struck the plant on March 11th.

Tokyo Electric Power Company on Monday disclosed records of its operations at the plant. They show that the reactor automatically halted operations after the earthquake.

The emergency cooling system was automatically activated but stopped about 10 minutes later and remained off for about 3 hours until after the tsunami arrived.

TEPCO says plant workers may have manually shut down the cooling system because pressure inside the reactor had dropped sharply from 70 to 45 atmospheres.

The system is designed to cool the reactor even if all external sources of power are lost, but the move to shut it down temporarily means that it did not fully function...

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 13:18 +0900 (JST)

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/17_22.html



Thanks in advance, I know where this one's going.



Just more Extreme Enviroweenie Biased Claptrap, I'm sure of it.



rdb

They can spin this all they want. The earthquake and tsunami preceeded ANY human intervention.

If the earthquake/tsunami never happened, that nuclear plant would still be running without
incident.

So, their point is moot--and obviously insane.

Therefore, their absurd marketeering and spinning is a failure.

US halts 24-hour Fukushima monitoring

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission says it has halted 24-hour monitoring of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as conditions are slowly stabilizing there.

The commission announced on Monday that it was adjusting its response as Japan continues to implement its shutdown plan. But it said the US team of experts in Japan will remain in place and it will continue to support them and coordinate response efforts with federal and industry partners.

Meanwhile, the State Department is continuing to recommend that US citizens avoid travel within a 50-mile, or 80-kilometer, radius of the Fukushima plant. But it said based on studies, it believes it is safe to use the railway and expressway to transit through the area.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 13:56 +0900 (JST)

Nuclear plant cooling system manually shut down
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/17_22.html

Back-up cooling systems at Fukushima failed
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/17_04.html

Generator trucks proved useless at Fukushima plant
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/17_11.html

Worker error may have led to meltdown
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110517x1.html

Rosy telling of nuke response, warnings headed for IAEA
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110517a4.html

Japan admits getting nuke updates via media
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/17/3219477.htm


Just Ducky



rdb

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